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‘Battlestar Galactica’ Movie Gets New Life at Universal (Exclusive)
22 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Universal is ramping up a movie version of the sci-fi franchise “Battlestar Galactica,” aiming to develop the film as a complete reimagining of the story.
“Transcendence” writer Jack Paglen has signed on to write the screenplay. Paglen has also committed to Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus” sequel for Fox that will start production this fall.
Original series creator Glen Larson will produce the “Battlestar Galactica” film.
“Galactica” generated two TV series. The first, starring Lorne Greene and Richard Hatch, ran during 1978-79 season and was centered on humans engaged in a lengthy war against a cybernetic race known as the Cylons while searcing for Earth.
In 2003, a reimagined “Battlestar Galactica” miniseries aired on Sci Fi Channel. The second series, starring Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell, went on to run for four seasons.
In 2009, speculation emerged that Bryan Singer was attached to direct a “Battlestar Galactica” movie.
Universal’s exec VP »
- Dave McNary
Sheila Nevins, Anton Yelchin, Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Wesley Among Jurors at 2014 Tribeca Film Festival
3 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Organizers of the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival have tapped a roster of industry types including Sheila Nevins, Anton Yelchin, Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Wesley, Catherine Hardwicke, Toni Collette and Natasha Lyonne, among others, to serve as jurors for the fest’s seven competitive categories.
Hardwicke will judge the world narrative competish with a jury that includes Lake Bell and Steven Conrad (“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”), while the world doc winner will be selected by a team that includes New York magazine’s David Edelstein and BBC journo Nick Fraser.
Thesps Jeff Goldblum and Adepero Oduyo are part of the jury to pick the award winner for new narrative director, while Heather Graham and Michael Stuhlbarg are among those selecting the recipient of the new doc helmer laurel.
Wesley, Goldberg and Nevins, along with Christine Lahti and Alfonso Arau, will crown the winner of the narrative short film competish and Collette »
- Gordon Cox
‘Karate Kid 2′ Locks Breck Eisner To Helm Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan
7 April 2014 12:09 PM, PDT | Deadline New York | See recent Deadline New York news »
Exclusive: Sony Pictures has locked Breck Eisner to direct Karate Kid 2, the sequel that will bring back Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan. Harald Zwart directed the 2010 original, which grossed $56 million on its opening weekend and ended with $343 million worldwide. Eisner, repped by CAA and Management 360, most recently directed the gritty horror film The Crazies. It is an important film for the studio that has placed a premium in the care and feeding of franchises with global appeal. The original 1984 Karate Kid is a beloved film, but let’s face it, that crane deal at the end would never have worked, and this kid is way more believable as a martial artist. »
- MIKE FLEMING JR
Lisa Cholodenko named Laff guest director
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The filmmaker behind hit The Kids Are All Right will be in situ at the Los Angeles Film Festival, set to run from June 11-19.
Previous guest directors include David O Russell, Kathryn Bigelow, William Friedkin, Guillermo Del Toro and recent Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón.
Spc chiefs Tom Bernard and Michael Barker will receive The Spirit Of Independence Award and present a film from their library and discuss their work with festival artistic director David Ansen.
Laff will present a series of Master Classes, kicking off with composer Atticus Ross, who will perform an original electronic soundscape created for the festival and discuss his creative process scoring films such as The Social Network and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
The festival’s annual celebration of women’s achievements in film will focus on Women Who Call the Shots: Women Directors and Showrunners. A panel will feature Nicole Holofcener, Marta Kauffman and Gina Prince-Bythewood.
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- jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
eOne Us takes You’re Not You
1 minute ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
The distributor has acquired North American rights to George C Wolfe’s drama starring Hilary Swank, Emmy Rossum and Josh Duhamel. Myriad Pictures handles international sales. Separately, Arc has picked up Louder Than Words.
eOne Films Us plans a theatrical release later this year for the story of a self-absorbed young woman whose life is changed when she becomes a caregiver to a woman with Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Dpp produced in association with Alison Greenspan’s Di Novi Pictures and Molly Smith and Swank’s 2S Films.
The cast includes Loretta Devine, Ernie Hudson, Frances Fisher, Marcia Gay Harden, Ali Larter, Jason Ritter, Julian McMahon and Andrea Savage.
Jordan Roberts and Shana Feste co-adapted the screenplay from the book of the same name by Michelle Wildgen. CA represented the filmmakers in the deal.
Arc Entertainment has acquired all North American rights from Preferred Content to family drama Louder Than Words. Anthony Fabian directed »
- jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
Imax sells 20pc stake in China business
11 minutes ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
The $80m sale of the stake in Imax Corporation’s Greater China business to investment fund Cmc Capital Partners (Cmc) and private equity firm FountainVest Partners (FountainVest) values the company at $400m in the eyes of the investors.
The investors will pay the $80m in two equal instalments, the first of which was expected to close on April 8 and the second in early 2015.
IMAX China will continue to be a consolidated subsidiary of IMAX Corporation.
The transaction is expected to lead to an eventual initial public offering of IMAX China and pave the way for ongoing expansion of IMAX’s theatre network and overall presence in China.
“China is an enormously complex market in which we have accomplished quite a bit over the last 15 years,” said IMAX Corporation CEO Richard L Gelfond.
“At this juncture, it makes sense to bring in Chinese investors to help us better address local market dynamics and further optimise our business in China »
- jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
First Official 'Borgman' Trailer and Poster
16 minutes ago | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Drafthouse Films will release Alex Van Warmerdam's Borgman on June 6 and today I have the first trailer and poster for the dark and twisted story, of which I regrettably missed at last year's Cannes and Toronto Film Festival. The film features Jan Bijvoet in the title role as Camiel Borgman whose arrival in a residential area disrupts the life of the carefully constructed fa?ade of an arrogant, wealthy couple, their three children and the nanny. In fact, Borgman may actually be the Devil. I've heard good things about this one with comparisons to the work of Giorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth) and Michael Haneke (Amour) having been made. I'm looking forward to finally seeing it for myself. sb id="911009" height="259" width="610" »
- Brad Brevet
Review: Why 'Joe' Is a Comeback for Nicolas Cage and David Gorden Green
27 minutes ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
A dozen years ago, Nicolas Cage was still considered a serious actor and David Gordon Green was considered a promising new filmmaker. A few years later, both of their reputations shifted dramatically: Cage became the butt of countless jokes about his overacting in subpar genre efforts and Green took a curious detour into largely derided studio comedies. Green started crawling back to the understated narrative style that put him on the map with his strange twist on the buddy movie formula "Prince Avalanche" earlier this year, while Cage hasn't done much worth talking about since 2009's "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans." But both men finally get the chance to hit their sweet spots with the moody Southern gothic drama "Joe," the very definition of a return to form. For Green, "Joe" echoes his 2004 thriller "Undertow," another Southern-fried crime drama, although by contrast the new movie favors tone and character over plot. »
- Eric Kohn
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Posters Show Off Our Heroes' Deadly Weapons
28 minutes ago | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Yep, that looks like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle holding a weapon. The character one sheets for Jonathan Liebesman.s Tmnt movie have dropped (via the movie.s official Tumblr site), focusing on the chosen weaponry of our four main heroes. Above, we have Raphael wielding his sai. Below, you can get an up-close look at Donatello.s bo staff, Michelangelo.s nunchakus, and Leonardo.s razor-sharp katanas. Cowabunga! It.s a cool concept, but you.d think that Paramount would like to give suspicious fans a better look at the actual Turtles. That.s the lingering concern for anyone on the fence regarding Liebesman.s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. How will the heroes look? How will they move? How is the CGI being used to bring them to life? Their weapons are a factor, for sure. But we still want solid, unobstructed visuals of the actual Turtles. Maybe in »
Jonathan Glazer Talks The Detached & Alien Point Of View In The Elusive ‘Under The Skin’
31 minutes ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
More than 10 years in the making from stem to stern, Jonathan Glazer’s enigmatic, genuinely unnerving sci-fi drama “Under The Skin” starring Scarlett Johansson was unleashed last week at BAMcinématek with the director on hand along with producer James Wilson. It’s a visionary, deeply-engrossing piece of filmmaking, with minor echoes of Stanley Kubrick and louder reverberations of Nicolas Roeg, but still a wholly unique and hauntingly distinct piece of cinema. Featuring little dialogue, a fierce and immersive sound design and a mind-disquieting score by Mica Levi, “Under The Skin” is all sensory sound and vision, as close as we get these days to pure cinema. Ostensibly about the female that fell to earth – an alien predator on the loose in the cold, wet fringes of Scotland – the movie is about as far as possible from “Species” (the superficially similar sounding sci-fi '90s film) as can possibly be and »
- Rodrigo Perez
Production begins on Marco Polo
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The Weinstein Company hierarchy announced (8) that production is underway on the Netflix original series based on the epic adventures of the legendary explorer.
Kon-Tiki and the upcoming Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales directors Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg direct the season’s first two episodes of the 10-part first season.
Shoot locations include Italy, Kazakhstan and the new Pinewood Studios in Malaysia.
Netflix plans to premiere the series in late 2014. The cast includes Lorenzo Richelmy as Polo, Benedict Wong, Zhu Zhu, Tom Wu, Remy Hii and Rick Yune.
Creator John Fusco and Harvey Weinstein will serve as executive producers with Dan Minahan, who will direct two episodes. Collin Creighton will produce on behalf of The Weinstein Company.
The Weinstein Company has acquired rights from Beta Film to the crime drama series Gomorra after starting negotiations at Mipcom 2013. Stefano Sollima, Claudio Cupellini and Francesca Comencini direct and Marco D’Amore, Fortunato Cerlino, [link »
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Chile’s Alejandro Fernandez Almendras, Jirafa Films Ink Two-Pic Production Alliance (Exclusive)
32 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Panama City – Fresh off a Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for “To Kill a Man,” Chilean writer-director Alejandro Fernandez Almendras has signed a two-pic deal with top Chilean production house Jirafa Films.
Jirafa’s Augusto Matte will produce both pics. The alliance between one of Chile’s highest-profile directors and one of its foremost production forces – “To Kill” also won Locarno’s Carte Blanche, has sealed multiple sales for Film Factory; Jirafa’s credits include Alicia Scherson’s “The Future,” Marcela Said’s “The Summer of Flying Fish” – looks like one of Chile’s signature deals of 2014.
The partnership also looks set to accelerate the already robust diversification of Chile’s movie industry, as Almendras and Jirafa broaden their output from arthouse into what Jirafa’s Augusto Matte terms Latino indie production, and could well spell Almendras’ English-language debut. Also, as the financing Chilean films can pull down at home hits a ceiling, »
- John Hopewell
Brendan Gleeson: sins of the fathers
41 minutes ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Brendan Gleeson, master of the flawed figure of power, is preparing for shockwaves with his new film Calvary about penance and paedophile priests. The ex-maths teacher talks to Catherine Shoard about faith, impending doom and beautiful deaths
There's apocalypse in the air the day I go to Dublin. In the driving wind and rain, traffic seizes up, umbrellas crumble, and my map turns to pulp. Later, planes won't land and lights won't work. Thank heavens, then, for Brendan Gleeson, holed up in the basement of a hotel near parliament. He grips my hand and grins, massive and unflappable, as the courtyard outside the window seems to explode.
For all his smiling, though, it seems Gleeson isn't in the most reassuring mood: the apocalypse, it seems, isn't just swirling around Dublin. "The whole world is in cataclysmic disillusionment," he says, pouring his fizzy water. "There's a sense of grieving going on »
- Catherine Shoard
Los Angeles' Hyaena Gallery Pays Tribute to John Carpenter
41 minutes ago | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
Last month, our own Rob Galluzzo took you inside of Burbank, California's Hyaena Gallery, where the walls were lined with art pieces paying tribute to Wes Craven, whose most iconic film - A Nightmare on Elm Street - celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. If you missed Rob's recap of the gallery's 'Legacy of Wes Craven' event, be sure to check it out, as the art on display was quite impressive.
This month, Hyaena Gallery turns their attention to another master of horror, as they're playing host to a John Carpenter art tribute, dubbed 'All Outta Bubblegum.' The group art exhibit is not only on display over at their Burbank location but it's also available for virtual viewing on their website, and today we wanted to show off some of our personal favorite pieces from the show.
So check 'em out below, and see many more over on the Hyaena Gallery website. »
- John Squires
First 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Posters Hide the Turtles' Faces
43 minutes ago | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Perhaps the main reason these first four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Paramount; 8/8) posters is because of the pathetic fan outcry over the appearance of the turtles in the film's first teaser trailer. I say pathetic because if the filmmakers actually did something to change the turtles' appearance in the final film it would be a sign of exactly what we don't want to have happen with our movies. We don't want fans that haven't seen the film, read the screenplay or had anything to do with the film affecting its final outcome. I don't care if they look or don't look how you pictured them or how they looked in the cartoons, video games, comics or whatever the hell else you remember them from your childhood or your days spent in front of Nickelodeon. Yes, sometimes we all have an image of what things will look like when it comes »
- Brad Brevet
Hilary Swank-Emmy Rossum Drama ‘You’re Not You’ Gets U.S. Distribution
45 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Entertainment One Films Us has acquired the North American distribution rights to indie drama “You’re Not You,” starring Hilary Swank, Emmy Rossum and Josh Duhamel.
The film will be released theatrically later this year.
“You’re Not You” is produced by Dpp in association with Di Novi Pictures (Alison Greenspan) and 2S Films (Molly Smith and Swank).
Cast also includes Loretta Devine, Ernie Hudson, Frances Fisher, Marcia Gay Harden, Ali Larter, Jason Ritter, Julian McMahon and Andrea Savage.
George C. Wolfe directed from a screenplay by Jordan Roberts and Shana Feste. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Michelle Wildgen.
Swank portrays a woman who has been immobilized by Als and Rossum plays an aimless and self-absorbed college student hired to be her caregiver in spite of her husband’s objections.
The deal was negotiated for eOne Films by Sejin Croninger and for the filmmakers by CAA. »
- Dave McNary
Lisa Cholodenko Set as Guest Director for L.A. Film Festival
46 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The Los Angeles Film Festival has tapped filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko (“The Kids Are All Right,” “High Art”) as guest director.
The festival, now in its 20th anniversary, takes place June 11-19 in downtown Los Angeles.
Past guest directors include David O. Russell, Kathryn Bigelow, William Friedkin, Guillermo Del Toro and Alfonso Cuaron. Cholodenko’s “The Kids Are All Right” opened the 2010 festival.
Cholodenko will attend the 13th annual Filmmaker Retreat in Palm Springs.
Cholodenko’s debut film “High Art” was nominated for both Best First Feature and First Screenplay at the Film Independent Spirit Awards in 1999. Other credits include “Laurel Canyon,” “Six Feet Under,” “Hung” and “The L-Word.”
Film Independent also announced that its Spirit of Independence Award will be given to Tom Bernard and Michael Barker for their over 20-year tenure as co-heads of Sony Pictures Classics, during which they have released more than 350 independent films, which have won 32 Academy Awards. »
- Dave McNary
Toh! Ranks the Films of Jim Jarmusch (Trailers)
51 minutes ago | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
When Ohio-born New Yorker Jim Jarmusch is good, he's very very good, but some of his work can feel indulgent and thin (see "Limits of Control")--and often sparks heated debate. But even this indie pioneer, who was among the first to raise backing for his idiosyncratic projects overseas, says that raising that financing hasn't gotten any easier. "It’s getting more and more difficult for films that are maybe a little unusual or maybe not predictable or not satisfying people’s expectations of something," he says, "which is the beauty of cinema: discovering new things of all forms." To coincide with the release of the indie auteur's eleventh feature, "Only Lovers Left Alive" (April 11), we at Toh! have ranked his films from bottom to top. 11. "Night on Earth," 1991 (**1/2). Five cities, five taxis, lives intersecting for moments on the meter and sometimes missing the connection – such was the conceit of »
- TOH!
'Game Of Thrones' Renewed For Fifth And Sixth Seasons
53 minutes ago | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
The fourth season of "Game of Thrones" just kicked off on Sunday, and now — two days later — HBO has announced that viewers can count on at least two more season in Westeros. The premium cable channel has officially announced that "Game of Thrones" will be back for a fifth and sixth season. The news shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who saw the numbers from Sunday's season four premiere. The season opener ...
By Kevin P. Sullivan »
'Game of Thrones' Renewed for Fifth and Sixth Seasons
53 minutes ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
The season four premiere episode of "Game of Thrones" on Sunday was the most watched episode in the show's history with a record-breaking 6.6 million viewers -- an increase of 52% over the 4.4 million who tuned in for the Season 3 debut last year. So it should come of no surprise to anyone that HBO has renewed the Golden Globe winning series for its fifth and sixth seasons. Just don't expect the new seasons to start lining up with George R.R. Martin's books afresh, as the on-screen and book-version story alignment has seen a steady separation as the seasons progress. "Game of Thrones is a phenomenon like no other" said Michael Lombardo, president of HBO programming. "David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, along with their talented collaborators, continue to surpass themselves, and we look forward to more of their dazzling storytelling." Read More: "Game of Thrones" Returns for More Bloodshed in Season 4 Premiere »
- Taylor Lindsay
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