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Bradley Cooper and Todd Phillips Developing Ghost Army at Warner Bros.
4 hours ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Back when The Monuments Men came out, Dave suggested that Hollywood turn The Ghost Army into a movie and a year later, it's happening! Deadline is reporting that Warner Bros. just scored the rights to Rick Beyer and Elizabeth Sayles' The Ghost Army Of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived The Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, And Other Audacious Fakery. [caption id="attachment_473607" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via PBS[/caption] Bradley Cooper and Todd Phillips are producing via 22 & Green and will be joined by American Sniper producer Andrew Lazar. The trio and the studio have locked Earth to Echo scribe Henry Gayden to pen the script about the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, an army unit of artists, architects, actors, set designers and engineers who were assigned to pose as Us Army soldiers and stage combat to deceive the enemy. Apparently the group's actions saved thousands of lives and there's currently a campaign underway »
- Perri Nemiroff
Watch: Charlie Brown Dreams Big In New Trailer For 'The Peanuts Movie'
2 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
While there are some people who are decidedly afraid of their childhoods being ruined by Hollywood taking on something they grew up with (see the divisive reaction to "Jurassic World" last weekend), only you can let a movie spoil your memories. And thus, you have two choices: roll with the CGI 3D "The Peanuts Movie" or....well, don't. But a new trailer is here for the new generation of kids ready to find out who Charlie Brown and his pals are. Read More: 10 Animation Directors Who Moved Into Live-Action Steve Martino directs the big screen adventure of the Charles Schulz created characters which features the elements older adults will recognize, and updated mostly tastefully for contemporary kid crowds. That said, the choice of The Who to power the trailer is a bit odd. Anyway, here's the official synopsis: Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and the rest of the beloved “Peanuts” gang make their big-screen debut, »
- Kevin Jagernauth
German Distributor SquareOne Picks Up Marlon Wayans Comedy ‘50 Shades of Black’
3 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
London — Distributor SquareOne Entertainment has acquired German-speaking rights to eight films coming out of the Cannes Market, including Marlon Wayans’ comedy “50 Shades of Black.”
Other acquisitions include dance film “High Strung,” post-apocalyptic sci-fi film “She Who Brings Gifts,” and Erik Van Looy’s thriller “De Premier.”
“We are delighted to have acquired such a strong group of films from this year’s Cannes Market,” said CEO Al Munteanu. “A comedy, a thriller, a sci-fi and a dance movie — our selection could not be more diverse.”
“50 Shades of Black,” which is a spoof of “Fifty Shades of Grey,” was acquired from Im Global. The film, which is in pre-production, stars Wayans (“The Heat”), and is directed by Michael Tiddes (“A Haunted House”). Producers are Stuart Ford, Wayans and Rick Alvarez. It was penned by Alvarez and Wayans.
“She Who Brings Gifts,” which stars Glenn Close, Gemma Arterton (“Quantum of Solace”), and »
- Leo Barraclough
Watch: Richard Gere Is Homeless In The First Trailer For Oren Moverman’s ‘Time Out Of Mind’
2 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
After an excellent screenwriting career Oren Moverman— he penned Todd Haynes’ prismic Bob Dylan drama, “I’m Not Here,” the criminally underrated drug addiction drama “Jesus’ Son” and many more— the writer took the leap behind the director’s chair and hasn’t really looked back. Moverman’s helmed three terrific indies so far and in his debut, “The Messenger,” lead Woody Harrelson to a kind of career comeback and a supporting Oscar nomination. His cop drama, “Rampart” landed in a weird time during 2012—a December Oscar qualifying run and a January release— and got a little lost in the shuffle, but it’s another harrowing performance by Harrelson and another top notch movie. Moverman hasn’t stopped writing either and this week’s Beach Boys/Brian Wilson drama “Love & Mercy” is another screenplay he recently wrote. For his latest effort, “Time Out Of Mind,” which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, »
- Edward Davis
First Trailer for IFC’s “Filmitization” of Eric Jonrosh’s The Spoils Before Dying Hits
2 hours ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
IFC has released the first trailer for Eric Jonrosh's long-delayed adaptation of his own Infinite Jest-sized novel, The Spoils Before Dying, set in the jazz scene of the 1950s and featuring Michael K. Williams' first major lead comedic performance as Rock Banyon. In a thoughtful touch, the trailer is made to look like the actual trailers for long-lost films, such as Orson Welles' Too Much Johnson, and includes snippets of Will Ferrell's Wellesian author-filmmaker-drunk Jonrosh introducing the film, much like he did in IFC's deliriously nonsensical The Spoils of Babylon. [caption id="attachment_473719" align="alignright" width="350"] Image via IFC[/caption] The trailer also gives us a first look at Haley Joel Osment, playing Banyon's confidant, Michael Sheen and Kate McKinnon in unspecified roles, and Maya Rudolph as Fox, whose murder Rock is framed for and must ultimately solve. The rest of the plot of this parody, which will have three episodes in total premiering on IFC, »
- Chris Cabin
Afm to launch China Conference
24 minutes ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Leaders from China’s film industry to attend new initiative at American Film Market.
The 2015 American Film Market (Afm) (Nov 4-11) has unveiled several new initiatives ahead of this year’s event. These include the addition of two new conferences: The Afm China Conference and the Afm Festival Conference.
Adding a sixth conference to the series, the Afm China Conference on Nov 6 will present leaders from all sectors of China’s film industry as they explore and reveal how producing, marketing and distributing in China differs from the West. Everything from talent and crews to culture and restrictions to platforms and windows will be covered, according to Afm.
The Afm Festival Conference on Nov 9 will aim to provide an understanding of how to work with and position festivals in a film’s production and marketing strategy.
Discussions will include how to evaluate which festival works best for each specific film, submission tactics »
- michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
AMC Set to Invade Comic-Con with Walking Dead Shows, Into The Badlands
34 minutes ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Last week brought the news that Lionsgate will be hitting Comic-Con's famed Hall H with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 and Cannes hit Sicario, and now AMC has staked their claim at the San Diego media bonanza. The indomitable cable channel will also be in Hall H for panels devoted to The Walking Dead and it's upcoming, Kim Dickens-led spin-off Fear the Walking Dead. Not-unfounded suspicions suggest that new footage from the spin-off will premiere at the panel and, just maybe, the hugely anticipated casting of Walking Dead's most dangerous nemesis, Negan, the role which everyone from Jon Hamm to Stephen Dillane has been rumored to be circling. Oh, and probably more stuff about the Wolves. [caption id="attachment_472615" align="alignright" width="350"] Image via AMC[/caption] Along with the Walking Dead series, AMC will also devote a panel to the Daniel Wu-starring martial-arts action-drama Into The Badlands, a mini-series comprised of six hour-long episodes on AMC. »
- Chris Cabin
Starz Greenlights ‘American Gods’ TV Series From Bryan Fuller and Michael Green
38 minutes ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
The Neil Gaiman novel American Gods, about an ex-con named Shadow who, thanks to a powerful and mysterious old man, is drawn into a conflict between gods old and new, has been in development for TV for a long time. Now the American Gods TV series is really going to be a thing, as Starz has given […]
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- Russ Fischer
More Cameos Rumored For 'Batman v. Superman: Dawn Of Justice'
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Obviously, **spoilers ahead** but there are many that would argue we're in the time when everyone should just accept spoilers as a way of life. At any rate, we already know that it will be more than the Dark Knight and Man Of Steel appearing in "Batman v. Superman: Dawn Of Justice." Zack Snyder's superhero showdown is pretty much launching WB's DC-verse slate, and as such, they are cramming in as many characters as possible. Heroic Hollywood reports that Aquaman (played by Jason Momoa) and The Flash (played by Ezra Miller) will appear in the movie, albeit in brief cameos. Aquaman will be held prisoner in a "containment chamber" and audiences will see his hand slap the glass. Meanwhile, The Flash will stop a robbery. So basically, you'll see Aquaman's hand and The Flash as a blur of movement. Hooray. What other surprises will there be? At this rate, »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Woody Harrelson to Play Lyndon B. Johnson in Rob Reiner Political Drama
39 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Woody Harrelson will star as Lyndon Baines Johnson in Rob Reiner’s political drama “LBJ” with production set for the fall in Louisiana, Dallas and Washington, D.C.
Production companies are Acacia Entertainment, Savvy Media Holdings, Reiner’s Castle Rock Entertainment and Star Thrower Entertainment. Producers are Matthew George, Reiner, Liz Glotzer, Michael R. Williams and Tim and Trevor White.
Executive producers are Martin Shafer, Elizabeth A. Bell, Susan Lanot, Danny Roth, Damiano Tucci, Michael Tadross Jr. and Julie May. Voltage Pictures is handling international sales and CAA is handling U.S. rights.
Reiner will direct from a script by Joey Hartstone, which follows Johnson’s ascension from the poor hill country of West Texas to the corridors of power in Washington, being thrust into the Presidency by the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy and the passage of civil rights legislation.
Harrelson and Reiner are repped by CAA.
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- Dave McNary
Deutschland 83 Review: Portrait of a Spy As a Young Man
42 minutes ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
In many ways, Deutschland 83 is the perfect coda to The Americans’ third season. For one, the eight episode Sundance TV series (the first German-language series to ever be broadcast in the U.S.) picks up right where FX’s spy drama left off with Ronald Reagan’s “Evil Empire” speech. Two, it features a young East German man, Martin (Jonas Nay), who is recruited on a spy mission to West Germany largely against his will. Like the Jennings in The Americans, Martin is living in enemy territory in order to serve the people back home, while also being immersed — for better or worse — in an entirely different cultural experience. [caption id="attachment_473807" align="alignright" width="350"] Image via SundanceTV[/caption] Deutschland 83, created by Anna and Joerg Winger, focuses on a time during the Cold War when Germany was caught in the eye of the storm between the U.S.S.R. and the United States. »
- Allison Keene
Gkids acquires 'Extraordinary Tales'
49 minutes ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Animation features a voice performance from the late Christopher Lee.
Gkids has acquired North American rights to Extraordinary Tales, an animated film anthology of five of Edgar Allen Poe’s best-known stories.
The film, which features the voices of Sir Christopher Lee (in one of his final film performances), Bela Lugosi, Julian Sands, Roger Corman, and Guillermo Del Toro, screens throughout this week at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.
Gkids plans a day-and-date release on October 30, in theaters and on video-on-demand platforms.
The deal was negotiated between Stephan Roelants for Melusine Productions and Eric Beckman for Gkids.
The film, directed by Raúl García, features new takes on The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar, and The Masque of the Red Death.
The animation is inspired by sources from classic Hollywood black-and-white monster films to the pulp feel of EC Comics »
- michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
Details Emerge about The Flash and Aquaman in 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice'
49 minutes ago | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
After last week's plot synopsis, many fans have been wondering how much of the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice running time will be devoted to the title characters' conflict and how much will cover the "Dawn of Justice" (the formation of the Justice League). Rumors have been floating around for awhile now about which future Justice League members will get their debut in the film. Other than Batman (Ben Affleck), Superman (Henry Cavill), and Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), it became rather obvious Aquaman (Jason Momoa) would have some introduction considering we have official artwork as seen above, but what about The Flash (Ezra Miller) and just how much of them will we seec If you believe the good folks at Heroic Hollywood, we now know how big the roles of both will be. According to the article, the characters will be featured in quick cameos. In the film, Batman »
- Charles Dean
TWC signs first look with Alik Sakharov
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Sakharov has directed episodes of Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones and Marco Polo.
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has closed a first look deal with director Alik Sakharov. Under the first look agreement Sakharov will develop original ideas for television to both direct and produce.
He will also continue to be involved in The Weinstein Company and Netflix series Marco Polo, returning to direct additional episodes in the second season.
Sakharov has most recently directed episodes of Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones and Marco Polo. He was also the co-executive producer on Black Sails for Starz.
“I spent a great deal of time with Alik on the set of Marco Polo and watched him work closely with the actors,” said Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman The Weinstein Company.
“He is incredibly talented, has a unique vision and we are thrilled to keep him in the TWC family for both our television division and potentially for feature films.”
Sakharov said: “Having »
- michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
Frank Marshall Talks Jurassic World and Sequels, Plus Assassin’S Creed, Bourne 5, and More
56 minutes ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
With Jurassic World now in theaters, I recently landed an exclusive interview with producer Frank Marshall. During our wide-ranging conversation, we talked about making the sequel, why they wanted Colin Trevorrow to direct, the long development process, future sequel plans, and what they learned from friends and family screenings. In addition, Marshall also talked about trying to finish Orson Welles’s last film (The Other Side of the Wind) by raising funds on Indiegogo, the status of Bourne 5 with Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon, the Assassin’s Creed movie with Justin Kurzel, and the Sully Sullenberger story being directed by Clint Eastwood. If you didn’t know, executive producer Steven Spielberg personally oversaw the Jurassic World story development, as Trevorrow and his writing partner Derek Connolly fine-tuned the existing screenplay penned by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planet of the Apes), which for the first time takes »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Exclusive: Tense Trailer For Texas Thriller 'Two Step'
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For those of you who like to dance, maybe you've got the two-step down cold. It requires your right and left feet to be in sync, or when it comes to writer/director Alex R. Johnson's "Two Step," it amounts to a balance between genre thrills and emotional impact, and today we have an exclusive new trailer for the film. Starring Beth Broderick, James Landry Hébert, Skyy Moore, Jason Douglas and Ashley Rae Spillers, the film tracks the intersection of directionless college dropout James and career criminal Webb. Kicked out of college, James visits Grams, his only remaining family member who dies shortly after his arrival. While settling Grams' affairs, James learns she's been the victim of the 'Grandparent Scam', in which someone posing as James has been slowly bilking her out of thousands of dollars. But before James can go looking for the culprit, he shows up at the front door, »
- Kevin Jagernauth
‘The Peanuts’ Movie Trailer: The Story of an Underdog and His Dog
1 hour ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
A brand new Peanuts Movie trailer has been released and it goes for “epic.” The Who’s ‘Baba O’Riley’ plays, every member of the cast is introduced, and Charlie Brown is his usual, lovable, unlucky self on a bigger scale than ever. A new girl has moved in next door and Charlie Brown hopes this is […]
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- Germain Lussier
‘Jurassic World’ Bites Off Record Breaking $25.6 Million Monday
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“Jurassic World” is showing few signs of slowing down after demolishing opening weekend records with a smashing $524.4 million debut.
The blockbuster sequel ripped into $25.6 million at the North American box office on Monday — a huge sum that ranks as the biggest non-holiday Monday in history. The previous record holder was “The Dark Knight,” which picked up $24.5 million in 2008.
“Jurassic World” continues what has been a monster year for Universal, which has also fielded “Pitch Perfect 2,” “Fifty Shades of Grey,” and “Furious 7.” Analysts predict the picture could end its global run with more than $1 billion in receipts. Along with “Furious 7,” it will mark the second Universal release this year to cross that benchmark.
Legendary co-financed the $150 million production, which Colin Trevorrow directed. Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard co-star in the picture.
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- Brent Lang
Marvel Studios Congratulates Jurassic World on Their Historic Opening Weekend
1 hour ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Jurassic World reigns supreme, and even the mighty Marvel Studios has acknowledged the film's historic box office achievements. Once the numbers were well and truly tallied, the Colin Trevorrow film starring Chris Pratt was found to be victorious, surpassing Marvel's The Avengers' domestic weekend opening record. Granted, the film only held that top spot for about three years, and yes, the presence of Pratt in both Universal's dino dystopia and Marvel's cinematic universe softened the blow, but that box office performance still has to sting. But just to show that there were no hard feelings, Marvel reached out to congratulate the folks at Universal on social media today. Check out what Marvel Studios' good sport Kevin Feige Tweeted earlier today: Congrats Mr. Spielberg @UniversalPics @Legendary @LeDoctor @colintrevorrow and especially @prattprattpratt pic.twitter.com/5DxlDM8pgK — Kevin Feige (@Kevfeige) June 16, 2015 And if you liked this example of Good Guy Feige extending a professional courtesy, »
- Dave Trumbore
Check This Out: How Marvel Congratulated ‘Jurassic World’ For Beating ‘Avengers’ Box Office Record
1 hour ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
So you’ve probably heard by now, Jurassic World beat The Avengers U.S. box office opening record. Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic Park sequel grossed $208,806,270 in the opening weekend, just enough to overtake Joss Whedon’s The Avengers‘ $207.4 million record from 2012. Marvel Studios has published an image online to congratulate the “new box office king.” Check […]
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- Peter Sciretta
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