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Lawsuit claims Seth MacFarlane stole the idea for 'Ted'
4 hours ago | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
It appears that Ted might not be the only foul-mouthed teddy bear on the planet.
In a new lawsuit, Bengal Mangle Productions claims that Seth MacFarlane stole the idea behind Ted. The Hollywood Reporter got a copy of the complaint, which also names Fuzzy Door Productions, Media Rights Capital, and Universal Studios, and says the character of Ted was taken from a screenplay titled Acting School Academy, which came out in 2008 and featured another foul-mouthed teddy bear named Charlie. In the screenplay, Charlie lives in an adult world with his human friends and “has a penchant for drinking, smoking, prostitutes. »
- Samantha Highfill
Christian Bale May Play Travis McGee in 'The Deep Blue Good-By'
22 hours ago | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
After spending years in development, it seems the adaptation of The Deep Blue Good-By, featuring John D. MacDonald's recurring character Travis McGee, is finally making progress. The Wolverine director James Mangold boarded the film this past spring, after directors like Paul Greengrass and Oliver Stone flirted with the project and Leonardo DiCaprio wanted to star. But now a new name might end up with the lead role as Variety reports Out of the Furnace and American Hustle star Christian Bale is in early talks to play the self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game who appears in 21 books. Read on! Bale doesn't have an official offer, but apparently the actor has agreed to star and is currently working out a deal as we speak. Mangold is officially signed to direct for Chernin Entertainment and Leonardo DiCaprio will still produce through his Appian Way banner along with Jennifer Davison-Killoran. »
- Ethan Anderton
Chloe Grace Moretz leads English voice cast of 'The Tale of Princess Kaguya'
23 hours ago | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
Japanese animation powerhouse Studio Ghibli has had a long history of nabbing big-name actors for its films in U.S. distribution—from Christian Bale in Howl’s Moving Castle to Tina Fey and Matt Damon in Ponyo—and its latest release is no different.
U.S. distributor Gkids announced in a release today that Chloë Grace Moretz (Kick-Ass, Carrie) will voice the title role in The Tale of Princess Kaguya. James Caan, Mary Steenburgen, Darren Criss, Lucy Liu, James Marsden, and John Cho also lend their voices.
The Tale of Princess Kaguya is based on Japan’s oldest recorded narrative, »
- Jackson McHenry
"Power Rangers" Film Gets "X-Men" Scribes
15 July 2014 2:20 PM, PDT | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
"X-Men: First Class" and "Thor" writers Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz have come onboard to pen the upcoming film reboot of the "Power Rangers" franchise at Lionsgate.
At the same time, "Star Trek" and "Transformers" scribe Roberto Orci is hopping onboard as executive producer. The trio will will develop the movie’s story, with Miller and Stentz then going on to pen the script.
The story follows a group of high school kids who are infused with super powers that must work together to save the world. It began life in the 1990s and has sported both a devoted worldwide fan base and a deep and detailed mythology.
Source: Heat Vision »
- Garth Franklin
Distribution: Corpus Christi, River find Us homes
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Breaking Glass Pictures has picked up the documentary Corpus Christi: Playing Wnith Redemption.
The film is about Terrence McNally’s Off-Broadway play Corpus Christi and will be released on DVD and VOD on October 14.
The distributor has also acquired Jason Buxton’s thriller Blackbird and releases it on the same platforms on October 7.
Richard Abramowitz’s Abramorama has launched a joint venture with Social Capital Films as the partners acquired Us theatrical rights to Martin Shore’s award-winning music documentary Take Me To The River.
The film follows multiple generations of award-winning Memphis and Mississippi Delta musicians including Frayser Boy and The North Mississippi All-Stars, Otis Clay, Charlie Musselwhite and Snoop Dogg as they collaborate on a new album.
Take Me To The River will open on September 12 and premiered at SXSW, where it won the 24 Beats Per Second Audience Award. Abramowitz brokered the deal with ICM Partners for the film-makers. »
- jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
Dogfish launches second accelerator
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Us producer Dogfish has launched the second cycle of Dogfish Accelerator offering networking support and $10,000 in financing and business development to film-makers and all content creators.
The accelerator will run over nine-weeks from September 22-November 19 at the company’s headquarters in New York.
At the end of the programme, Dogfish will host an investor Demo Day where each venture will be showcased to potential investors.
Last year’s inaugural cycle selected eight teams of content creators out of nearly 500 applications from around the world.
Selected candidates from the first intake developed a digital comedy brand, a 3D transmedia children’s film and tablet video game and a feature that will incorporate an event tour, live music, shareable GIFs and experimental media.
“Content is content, no matter what form it takes,” said Dogfish CEO James Belfer (pictured). “We’re looking for the next generation of creators who want to make an explosion with their art.”
In addition »
- jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
Hot Trailer: ‘Laggies’ with Keira Knightley, Sam Rockwell
24 minutes ago | Deadline New York | See recent Deadline New York news »
The trailer for ‘Laggies‘ has dropped, sloooowwwwly, of course. The Sundance selection from A24 stars Keira Knightley as a overeducated, underachieving woman lagging well behind her demographic cohort in life as she dodges responsibility and grown-up things like serious jobs and a marriage proposal. Chloë Grace Moretz plays the high schooler she befriends, then hides out with while dodging said marriage proposal, and Sam Rockwell plays Moretz’s initially bemused and then increasingly intrigued father. The film debuts Oct. 24, unless it lags a bit more, of course. Here it is. Let us know what you think. »
'Avengers: Age of Ultron': Who is Marvel's angry, metal madman -- and why does he Hate you?
26 minutes ago | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
“Who’s Ultron?” This was what Captain America himself, Chris Evans, said at Comic-Con last year after finishing his Hall H Winter Soldier presentation and heading backstage to do some press.
He had missed the finale of the Marvel Studios showcase, which revealed the Avengers sequel would be subtitled Age of Ultron, with a plot centered on that fearsome artificial-intelligence whose robotic face looks like a grinning metallic vampire skull.
Given the studio’s intense devotion to secrecy … both he and Scarlett Johansson had no idea who they’d be battling the next time the Avengers reunited.
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- Anthony Breznican
Kate Mara's Publicist: Kate Mara's Claims About Fantastic Four Are Bs
29 minutes ago | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Yesterday, Fantastic Four starlet Kate Mara told a journalist the upcoming superhero adaptation wasn.t going to pull any subject matter from the comic books. The franchise.s always colorful fans, not surprisingly, didn.t respond too positively to that, and now, one day later, we.re in backtrack city. Kate Mara.s publicist reached out to Entertainment Weekly this afternoon to let the outlet know the House Of Cards star was misquoted. Instead, she allegedly told Esquiare Latin America that Fantastic Four would be based on many Fantastic Four-related comics. That obviously sounds a whole lot better to diehard fans, but there.s some question as to which one of the takes is really more true. Here.s a look at the actual original quote. "I.ve never been a fan of comics, I.ve never actually read one. I was going to for this movie but the director »
Duncan Jones Says He May Try To Make His Passion Project ‘Mute’ After ‘Warcraft’
36 minutes ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Kubrick had his “Napoleon” opus, Jodorowsky couldn’t conquer "Dune," Orson Welles couldn’t venture into “Heart of Darkness” and Terry Gilliam is still tilting at windmills in his hopes to mount “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” (which he may or may not make next year). Almost every filmmaker of repute has a passion project he couldn’t get off the ground (here’s a recent feature The 25 Greatest Movies Never Made). Duncan Jones, the filmmaker behind the underrated sci-fi pic “Moon,” “Source Code,” and the upcoming adaptation of the “World Of Warcraft” video game (now just titled “Warcraft”), has one too. Following the Sundance success of “Moon,” Jones tried to mount a “Blade Runner”-ish sci-fi project set in Berlin called “Mute.” But the movie, at the end of the day, was really more of a thriller and mystery in a Hitchock-ian vein with a futuristic milieu to »
- Edward Davis
Mowgli Cast, Focus Acquires Jesse Owens Biopic and 'X-Men' Scribes Tackle 'Power Rangers'
36 minutes ago | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
10-year-old Neel Sethi will play the part of Mowgli in Disney's The Jungle Book for director Jon Favreau. As Mowgli, Neel will be the only actor onscreen in the film, which is a combination of live-action and animation already featuring the talents of Idris Elba as Shere Khan, Lupita Nyong'o as Rakcha, Scarlett Johansson as Kaa and Ben Kingsley as Rakcha. The film will be released in 3D on October 9, 2015. Focus Features has acquired the Jesse Owens biopic Race for distribution. The film will feature Stephan James (Selma) in the lead role as the record-breaking winner of four Olympic gold medals in 1936 with Jason Sudeikis starring as Owens' coach and mentor Larry Snyder and Jeremy Irons as Avery Brundage, the head of the American Olympic committee who fought to have the 1936 Olympics take place in Berlin. Stephen Hopkins (Predator 2, "House of Lies") is directing with filming to take place »
- Brad Brevet
Screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Chris Morgan to Create Crossover Universe for Universal Monsters Starting with The Mummy
39 minutes ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Last year, we reported that Universal had hired Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman to create a crossover universe employing the studios famous monsters such as Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula, The Mummy, et al. But a few months ago, Orci and Kurtzman dissolved their long partnership, and have gone their separate ways. However, Universal still wants their Avengers-style crossover world featuring the studio's treasured creatures, and has now brought on Chris Morgan to team up with Kurtzman on the project. Morgan is a favorite at the studio having written the scripts for every Fast & Furious movie since Tokyo Drift, which is good because when I go to a Fast & Furious movie, it's because of the screenwriting. Hit the jump for more on what Kurtzman, Morgan, and Universal have planned for the classic monsters. According to Deadline, Universal wants to create a unified world for their monsters. Presumably, this includes the monsters that »
- Matt Goldberg
‘Purge: Anarchy,’ ‘Sex Tape,’ ‘Planes: Fire & Rescue’ Carving Up Box Office Pie
42 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
A cloud-based bedroom comedy, an anarchic splatter-pic, and an aviation-themed spin-off to a venerable animated franchise.
Three new films — “Sex Tape,” “The Purge: Anarchy” and “Planes: Fire & Rescue” — each of them targeting radically different segments of the moviegoing population, collide at the multiplexes this weekend. They will compete with the second weekend of “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” the well-received science fiction adventure that shattered projections when it debuted to $72.6 million last weekend.
“It’s a full slate of movies,” said Phil Contrino, vice president and chief analyst at BoxOffice.com. “This summer there hasn’t been enough diversity, but we certainly have that this weekend.”
It’s difficult to discern which film will land on top when the dust settles, but the big winner promises to be Universal’s “The Purge: Anarchy.” The horror film was shot for a meager $9 million, but is on track to scare »
- Brent Lang
Spike Jonze Cancels Jersualem Fest Masterclass
45 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
A group of Israel’s most prominent young filmmakers have publicly called upon the government of Israel to declare a ceasefire in its current conflict with Gaza, while Spike Jonze, who despite the conflict traveled as planned to the Jerusalem Film Festival, scrapped a scheduled masterclass meant to coincide with a screening of “Being John Malkovich.”
“Dear filmmakers and filmgoers, I apologize for not being there with you tonight. It felt like the wrong time for me to be talking about movies with everything going on,” Jonze said in a statement. “I hope you understand. I will come back and screen movies and talk film when the time is right. My heart is with you and everyone who is suffering right now.”
Meanwhile, the directors Efrat Corem, Shira Geffen, Ronit Elkabetz, Keren Yedaya, Tali Shlaom Ezer, Nadav Lapid, Shlomi Elkabetz and Bozi Gete held a news conference and together read »
- Debra Kamin
Film Review: ‘Meet the Patels’
47 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“Meet the Patels,” a documentary directed by first-generation Indian-American siblings Geeta V. Patel and Ravi V. Patel about the latter’s attempt to find a wife through traditional Indian means, is often riotously funny. It’s also, in its own modest way, an often sharp microcosmic treatment of the conflicts and compromises that all culturally nebulous families must navigate, even if it sometimes wrings them for all they’re worth. Shot through with a breezy sort of intimacy and enlivened by sporadic animated sequences (and the filmmakers’ equally animated parents), “Meet the Patels” should be a natural fit for fests — it won an audience award at the Los Angeles Film Festival — and it wouldn’t be out of the question to see indie distribs come courting.
Ravi, 29 when the film starts, is an actor living in Los Angeles with older sister Geeta (frequently heard from behind the camera, but rarely »
- Andrew Barker
SXSW Winner ‘Take Me to the River’ Gets U.S. Distribution
51 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Abramorama and Social Capital Films have teamed to acquired the U.S. theatrical rights to Martin Shore’s music documentary “Take Me to the River” for a Sept. 12 release.
The film celebrates the inter-generational and inter-racial musical influence of Memphis in the face of discrimination. It premiered at the 2014 South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) where it won the 24 Beats Per Second Audience Award.
Geoff Berkshire said in his Variety review that the film “compensates for a lack of originality and depth with no shortage of joyful celebration.”
Narrated by Terrence Howard, the film features William Bell, Snoop Dogg, Mavis Staples, Otis Clay, Lil P-Nut, Charlie Musselwhite, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Yo Gotti, Bobby Rush, Frayser Boy and The North Mississippi All-Stars. Stax Records/Concord Music Group will release an album that includes tracks heard in the film, along with additional music from the film’s artists.
Shore and Cody Dickinson »
- Dave McNary
Dueling J.R.R. Tolkien Biopics Are in Development
52 minutes ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
This winter brings us the final installment of Peter Jackson‘s The Hobbit trilogy, which means we’re done with trips to Middle-earth for the time being. (Well, at least until Warner Bros. figures out how to adapt The Silmarillion or deems it time to remake the Lord of the Rings series.) It does not, however, mean […]
The post Dueling J.R.R. Tolkien Biopics Are in Development appeared first on /Film. »
- Angie Han
Watch: First Trailer For '12 Monkeys' TV Series, Creators Say “It’s A Complete Reimagining”
53 minutes ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Because anything can become a TV show these days, Terry Gilliam's "12 Monkeys" is going to be a weekly thing on SyFy. And while our inner cynic would be the first to harumph, one only has to look at FX's "Fargo" to see that shows spun off acclaimed (or otherwise) movies don't have to be bad (though they often are). And while Gilliam has nothing to do with this, the show's creators insist they are taking the premise of his future world flick about viruses and paranoia, into a different direction. “It’s a complete reimagining,” co-executive producer Terry Matalas said (via THR). “We were all big fans of the original film and had a deep love and respect for the material. We didn’t want to just redo what the movie does. We wanted it to be grounded and closer to a thriller but that’s not to say we won't play with tone. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Man meets muck: See a poster for the new horror film 'Septic Man'
55 minutes ago | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
It might seem unfair to suggest the new horror movie Septic Man is going to stink, especially without having seen it—but the filmmakers probably won’t object on this occasion. Written by Tony Burgess (Pontypool) and directed by Jesse Thomas Cook (Monster Brawl) the movie stars Jason David Brown as a man who undergoes a hideous transformation after he is trapped in a septic tank.
Find out just how hideous when Septic Man is released to VOD on August 12 or when the film arrives in cinemas three days later. Meanwhile, see the movie’s new poster above. »
- Clark Collis
The 12 Monkeys Series Trailer Time Travels Forward From 1995
57 minutes ago | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
Syfy has just released the first trailer for their upcoming adaptation of Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys. The new series appears to be following the same story that film did rather than some sort of spin-off or continuation of the film. However, this is the first trailer that may only represent the pilot for the series. The show’s executive producer Richard Suckle has stated that they aren’t bringing the show to Sdcc this year as it “coincides with when we start shooting. We wanted to put the show first as we’re set to premiere in January.” So if they are just about to start shooting for a January premiere, they probably don’t have much footage to work with.
Have a look. What do you think?
Based on the 1995 film directed by Terry Gilliam, "12 Monkeys" follows the journey of a time traveler from the post-apocalyptic future who is »
- Chris Connors
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