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11 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

Paramount’s “The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water” is dominating the U.S. box office, hitting $15.2 million Friday as it heads for an impressive $52 million opening weekend at 3,641 U.S. locations.

That’s nearly triple the take for Warner Bros.’ expensive  “Jupiter Ascending,” which opened with $6.4 million Friday and will finish its first weekend at around $18 million from 3,181 theaters, according to Saturday estimates. Legendary’s action fantasy “Seventh Son” also opened weakly with $2.3 million Friday for a mild $6.5 million weekend for Universal.

Warner Bros.’ “American Sniper,” now in its fourth weekend of wide release, will finish the frame ahead of “Jupiter Ascending” with about $23 million following a $6.3 million Friday. Clint Eastwood’s Iraq war drama, which was released on Christmas, has now topped $264 million domestically — surpassing “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” as the third-highest 2014 grosser in the U.S., behind only “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1″ and “Guardians of the Galaxy. »

- Dave McNary

9 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

Berlin – In the biggest buy to date on a high-profile film at the Berlin Festival, Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North American and Latin American rights to “13 Minutes,’” directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (“The Downfall”), and a chronicle of the attempted assassination of Hitler.

Sold by Beta Cinema, “13 Minutes” plays out of competition at this year’s Berlinale.

“13 Minutes” stars Christian Friedel (“The White Ribbon”), Katharina Schuettler (“Generation War”) and Burghart Klaussner (“The White Ribbon”). The film centers on Georg Elser’s failed bomb attack on Hitler on Nov. 8, 1939, in the Munich Buergerbraukeller, where the Nazi dictator left the scene only 13 minutes before the explosion. The story follows Elser from his early years in the Swabian Alps to his last days at the Dachau concentration camp, where he was killed shortly before the end of the war.

Georg Elser, the film argues, was a man who could have changed world history »

- John Hopewell

6 February 2015 6:43 PM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

Samuel L. Jackson is in talks with Fox to come on board Tim Burton’s “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” alongside Eva Green and Asa Butterfield.

Chernin Entertainment is producing “Peculiar Children” and has slotted the fantasy-actioner for release on March 4, 2016.

Burton will direct from a script by Jane Goldman, who adapted the Ransom Rigg novel about a teenager who finds himself on an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures out to destroy them.

Jackson has been filming Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight.” He’s repped by ICM Partners and Anonymous Content.

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- Dave McNary

10 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »

Mia Wasikowska's Madame Bovary has found a home in numerous foreign markets, including France and Italy. Radiant Films International president-ceo Mimi Steinbauer revealed the deals at Berlin's European Film Market. Read more Berlin: Women Directors Grab the Spotlight Directed by Sophie Barthes, Madame Bovary made its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival and quickly landed a U.S. home with Alchemy, formerly known as Millennium Entertainment. Felipe Marino adapted the screenplay from Gustave Flaubert's classic novel of the same name with Barthes. Paul Giamatti, Rhys Ifans and Ezra Miller also star. Radiant has sold Madame Bovary to

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- Pamela McClintock

9 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

“Bang Bang Baby,” directed by Jeffrey St. Jules, won the Santa Barbara Film Festival’s Spirit Award for Independent Cinema at Saturday’s prize ceremony.

New Zealand’s “Hip Hop-eration,” directed by Bryn Evans, won the Audience Choice Award. The film follows a group of senior citizens on mission to perform at the World Hip Hop Championships in Las Vegas.

Belgium’s “All Cats Are Grey,” directed by Savina Dellicour, won the International Film Award, while the Documentary Award went to “Children of the Arctic,” directed by Nick Brandestini.

Other awards at the 30th edition of the festival went to “Happy Times” with the Nueva Vision Award, “Monument” for best Eastern European Film and “Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey” with the Santa Barbara Features award.

Additional awards include live action short film under 30 Minutes to “The Answers,” animation short film to “Load,” documentary short to “Life After Pi” and the »

- Variety Staff

1 hour ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »

Starting at 8:15am Est / 5:10am Pst on Sunday, February 7 you can watch a live stream of the Berlinale press conference for Terrence Malick's "Knight of Cups." Natalie Portman and Christian Bale are expected to take part in the talk. Here's the film's official synopsis: "Rick is a slave to the Hollywood system. He is addicted to success but simultaneously despairs at the emptiness of his life. He is at home in a world of illusions but seeks real life. Like the tarot card of the title, Rick is easily bored and needs outside stimulation. But the Knight of Cups is also an artist, a romantic and an adventurer. In Terrence Malick's seventh film a gliding camera once again accompanies a tormented hero on his search for meaning. Once again a voiceover is laid over images which also seek their own authenticity. And once again Malick seems »

- Nigel M Smith

1 hour ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »

Yesterday Werner Herzog premiered his latest, "Queen of the Desert," at the 65th International Film Festival. It marked a wonderful occasion to see the legendary German filmmaker in the flesh and on his home turf. Read More: Berlin: The Best Things Werner Herzog, Nicole Kidman and James Franco Said About 'Queen of the Desert'"Queen of the Desert," Herzog's first narrative film since the 2009 drama "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?," stars Nicole Kidman as a Gertrude Bell, a brilliant woman who, along with T.E. Lawrence (of "Lawrence of Arabia"), was a highly influential figure in English foreign policy, and most known for assisting in the creation of today's Iraq. James Franco, Robert Pattinson and Damian Lewis also star in the biographical epic. In honor of the film's world premiere, Indiewire sat down with the iconic filmmaker to talk about his interest in the project, working »

- Eric Eidelstein

2 hours ago | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »

The annual Directors Guild Symposium with the five feature-nominated directors every year is always a treat. As moderator Jeremy Kagan digs into their process, gems are revealed. In this case, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Morten Tyldum both admitted that they dramatically changed their film's endings. Tyldum admitted that the original "The Imitation Game" bookends were supposed to start with the police interrogation and end with Alan Turing having committed suicide, which simply didn't work, and he cut it out. While Gonzalez Inarritu was going "150 kilometers per hour" two weeks into production the filmmaker realized his ending was terrible and needed to be changed--with a 28 day shoot and anxious financiers. The hospital room set was added, was all he was willing to say. The pivotal scene where Michael Keaton's character shoots himself onstage was always a challenge, he said--at the beginning in extensive rehearsals Keaton struggled and then nailed it, »

- Anne Thompson

3 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »

Funny Balloons has secured sales of the Berlin Competition contender from the Oscar-nominated director of No.

Pablo Larrain’s The Club has been sold to the UK (Network Releasing) and France (Wild Bunch) on the eve of its world premiere in Competition at the Berlin Film Festival (Feb 5-15).

The deals were secured by Paris-based sales company Funny Balloons.

At its world premiere in Berlin tomorrow (Feb 9), Larrain will be joined by regular collaborator Alfredo Castro, plus actor Roberto Farias, and producer Juan de Dios Larrain.

The Club centres on four priests who live in seclusion in a small seaside town, each one of them paying penance for their past crimes.

But their routine is disrupted by the arrival of a fifth ‘inmate’, a newly disgraced companion who brings with him the past they thought they had left behind. »

- michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)

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