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Cathy Schulman Heads To Stx Entertainment As Top Production Exec
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Cathy Schulman, who has worked at Mandalay Entertainment for the past eight years overseeing the company’s slate, has exited her post and will be named as the top production exec at upstart studio Stx Entertainment, effective immediately. She is expected to oversee production of the 12 to 15 films planned for the Stx slate as well as its feature development. She arrived at the offices today. Schulman, who was one of the producers on the Academy Award winning Best Picture C… »
Christopher Nolan: “‘Snow White’ Absolutely Terrified Me” – Tribeca Film Fest
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Director Bennett Miller went mano-a-mano with director Christopher Nolan Monday evening before a packed, film-crazy crowd at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. Actually, it was more bromance than smackdown, as Miller (Foxcatcher, Moneyball, Capote) played admiring interlocutor to the amiable Nolan (Interstellar, Inception, Memento). Their only prior work together had been in the area of keeping film stock alive. After running through… »
‘The Overnight’ Trailer: SoCal Swingers, Social Awkwardness
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After several years spent playing the most wholesome man in Indiana on NBC’s Parks and Recreation, it makes sense that Adam Scott’s resume is filling up with roles that go a full 180 from Ben Wyatt. His latest, The Overnight, a very well-received sex comedy that provoked a minor bidding war this year at Sundance, finally has a trailer. And it’s hilarious. The film follows a married couple (Scott, and Orange Is The New Black star Taylor Schilling) just moved to La… »
‘Chicago Fire’s Taylor Kinney Lights Up ‘The Forest’
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Exclusive: Chicago Fire‘s Taylor Kinney will spend his series hiatus starring in The Forest, the Jason Zada-directed thriller for Focus Features and Lava Bear. He’ll star alongside Game Of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer in a film that is based on an original idea by David Goyer, and incorporates the mythology of Japan’s Aokigahara Forest. Scripted by Sarah Cronwell and Nick Antosca, the film shoots in Serbia in May. Dormer plays an American woman who ventures into Japan's… »
Tribeca Sale: The Orchard Acquires N.A. Rights To Docu ‘Crocodile Gennadiy’
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Exclusive: Following its premiere at Tribeca, the Animal Media Group documentary Crocodile Gennadiy has been acquired by The Orchard, which picked up North American rights to the Steve Hoover-directed film. Pic is about Gennadiy Mokhnenko, a controversial pastor who made a name for himself by forcibly removing homeless drug-addicted kids from the streets of Mariupol, Ukraine and housing them in his own self-styled rehab facility. Pic is produced by Danny Yourd, and… »
Hugh Jackman’s ‘Pan’ Pushed To October
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Here’s yet another juggle of Warner Bros’ release schedule — the third one today. Pan, the live-action film about Peter Pan that stars Hugh Jackman and Rooney Mara, won’t make its July 24 release date, so the studio is moving the 2D-and-3D picture to the fall. Now it will bow October 9 in theaters, including Imax. In making the announcement, the studio said it is “giving both the film and the filmmakers some extra breathing room.” Director Joe Wright expressed his… »
The Ink Factory Options David Vann’s Novel ‘Aquarium’
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Exclusive– The Ink Factory, the London- and La-based production and finance company that goes into production shortly on Ang Lee's Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, has optioned David Vann’s critically acclaimed new novel Aquarium and plans to adapt it as a feature film. Set in Seattle, the book tells the story of Caitlin, a 12-year-old girl who lives alone with her mother, Sheri. When an estranged family member re-enters their lives looking for forgiveness, he offers… »
‘Furious 7′ Wins Again, ‘Mall Cop 2′ Bags $23.7M, ‘Unfriended’ Logs In $15.8M
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Updated, Monday, 2:24 Pm: Furious 7‘s tank is no where near empty. The racing machine came in this morning with a total of $29.1M in its third week of release to push its total domestic cume to $294.5M. And nothing should stop from taking the box office crown again it next weekend. Segwaying into the No. 2 spot is Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 from Sony, which grabbed a nicely done $23.7M for its amicable star Kevin James. Behind that comedy came Universal’s other film in the… »
‘The Water Diviner’ Review: Russell Crowe Finds New Direction In Epic Triumph
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With about 40 films under his belt as an actor, an Oscar and several nominations, Russell Crowe now adds film director to his resume with The Water Diviner, a sweeping, humane and riveting tale that reminds you of the big and bold movies of the past that we loved. Or at least I loved before Hollywood discovered gold in them thar comic books. As I say in my video review above, Crowe has delivered a real crowd pleaser that I think for him is a triumph in every way… »
‘Black-ish,’ ‘Goldbergs’ EPs Sell Pitch To MGM/New Line; Ice Cube Looms Large In Comedy Deal
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Exclusive: MGM and New Line have teamed up to acquire a comedy pitch that Black-ish creator/Ep Kenya Barris and The Goldbergs exec producer Alex Barnow hatched and will write together. A big part of this deal was the participation of Ice Cube, who’ll provide a pivotal voice in the comedy and will produce through his Cube Vision banner alongside Prospect Park’s Jeff Kwatinetz and Principato Young. Barris will be exec producer. A hapless white guy, perennially disrespected… »
Marvel Sets Scribes For ‘Captain Marvel’
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Rumors have been circulating about who would pen Captain Marvel and now Marvel themselves have made it official. Guardians Of The Galaxy co-writer Nicole Perlman and Meg LeFauve will write the screenplay for the superhero pic slated to hit theaters on November 2, 2018, the Disney-owned superhero giant announced online today. LeFauve most recently co-wrote Disney-Pixar’s upcoming film Inside Out. The animated film set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month… »
‘Storks’ Toon With Andy Samberg & Kelsey Grammer Gets 2016 Release Date
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Warner Bros is busy today. Minutes after announcing dates for the next three pics in the Lego Movie franchise, it set its 3D animated Storks, led by the voice work of Andy Samberg and Kelsey Grammer, to bow on September 23, 2016. That’s the date just vacated by the Lego Movie spinoff Ninjago. More voice cast will be announced shortly for Storks, which the studio says will be a funny and fresh look at the fable behind storks — so I guess about the fable behind how they… »
‘The Lego Movie Sequel’ Get Release Date Along With Batman & ‘Ninjago’ Spinoffs
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Warner Bros has confirmed the release dates for two Lego Movie spinoff pics and the sequel to its 2014 hit. The Lego Batman feature has been moved up to the February 10 slot, which the studio had set aside for an untitled film. The Lego Ninjago spinoff has been moved back to September 22, 2017, domestically, with international dates to follow. The Lego Movie Sequel will open May 18, 2018, a week earlier than originally slated. If that February date sounds familiar, that’s… »
Top VFX Specialist Richard Kidd Joins Artemple-Hollywood Along With Scott McCullough
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Veteran visual-effects specialist Richard Kidd – who has worked on films such as Titanic, Twilight, The Matrix, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Hancock and What Lies Beneath – has joined Artemple-Hollywood as creative director and senior VFX supervisor, company principal Wei Zheng announced. The company also has hired award-winning commercial director Scott McCullough as in-house director and director of photography. "This is an exciting time," said Zheng. "We're… »
Game, Set Match? Searchlight Serves Up ‘Battle Of The Sexes;’ Dayton & Faris Direct Emma Stone As Billie Jean King, Steve Carell As Bobby Riggs
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Exclusive: A surprise entry in the race to mount the seminal film about the gender battle tennis match that scored the highest TV ratings since the Moon Landing: Fox Searchlight has set a fall start for Battle Of The Sexes, with Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris directing Emma Stone as Billie Jean King and Steve Carell as Bobby Riggs. Simon Beaufoy wrote the script and the film’s being produced by Danny Boyle through his Decibel Films and Christian Colson through his Cloud… »
Film Arcade Acquires Sundance Pic ‘James White’
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The Film Arcade acquired U.S. distribution rights to the Josh Mond-directed James White. It’s a coming-of-age story about a young New Yorker struggling to take control of his self-destructive behavior in the face of momentous family changes. Christopher Abbott, Cynthia Nixon and Scott "Kid Cudi’ Mescudi. Pic premiered at 2015 Sundance and won the Best of Next Audience Award. UTA Independent repped the… »
Warner Bros Extends Imax Deal To 2020
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Don’t be surprised if you see a bunch of announcements like this one over the next few days as theater owners and Hollywood execs gather in Las Vegas for CinemaCon. About two weeks after Imax renewed its slate deal with Disney, the large screen theater company says today that it has done the same with Warner Bros. Pictures. Imax will show up to 30 WB films through 2020. The list will include The Man From U.N.C.L.E. , In The Heart Of The Sea, Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Jus… »
‘Eye In The Sky’ Spec Bought By Millennium Films
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Exclusive: Millennium Films just bought the action spec Eye In the Sky, about an Lapd helicopter squad that tries to nab a Mexican drug lord who has come to Los Angeles to celebrate his niece’s quinceanera. A cat-and-mouse pursuit ensues from the sky as law enforcement tries to capture him. Mark Gill brought the project into Millennium, and he and Cindy Cowan will produce. Eye In the Sky was written by Richard D’Ovidio, who wrote The Call and just scripted this great… »
Dcdc Unveils Live-Event Streaming Technology For Theaters – CinemaCon
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The Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition announced a new live-streaming technology that will make it possible for theater owners to simultaneously book video from four different programs, two of them live streams, to an unlimited number of screens in their facilities. The coalition – which was founded by Warner Bros., Universal, Regal Entertainment, Cinemark and AMC Theaters – will unveil the new capabilities of the KenCast ‘catch server’ at CinemaCon this week in Las… »
‘Jurassic World’ Trailer: Let The Dino-Feasting Begin
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Here are a couple of chilling and telling lines from the first full trailer for Jurassic World that pretty much sum up the movie — and the franchise. “These animals are thinkin’, 'I gotta eat, I gotta hunt." That’s one from Chris Pratt’s Owen, a park staffer who specializes in behavioral research. This one is from Bryce Dallas Howard’s Claire, the operations manager, who shouts it to colleagues on her car’s radio, “We have an asset out of containment.” Suppose we add one… »
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