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Weekend Report: 'Ant-Man' Raids Box Office
18 July 2015 10:18 PM, PDT | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
Ant-Man opened to $58M at the domestic box office, slightly under its projected $60-$65M opening, becoming the 12th film in Marvel's Cinematic Universe to open at #1. On 3,856 screens the film's per screen take was $15,051. It's a good thing that the Paul Rudd superhero film has an "A" CinemaScore as that's the lowest per-screen average of any of the 12 films. Coming in just slightly above Ant-Man is 2008's The Incredible Hulk ($15,810 per) Thor ($16,618) and Captain America: The First Avenger ($17,512). Disney/Marvel's marketing team must be given some kudos though. Even given the strong Marvel brand, the challenges of marketing a character unknown to the public at large, whose power is getting really tiny and controlling ants, was obvious. They wryly dealt with it head-on in their first trailer, where Paul Rudd's character asks if "it's too late to change the name," a scene that, though this can sometimes happen from trailer to screen, »
- Keith Simanton <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
Ghostbusters director Paul Feig reveals the names of the characters in all-female reboot
18 July 2015 6:42 PM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Paul Feig has been sharing more details of the upcoming Ghostbusters reboot, and this time he's naming names.
Introducing Erin Gilbert, Jillian Holtzmann, Abby Yates and Patty Tolan - the all-new Ghostbusters.
#whoyougonnacall pic.twitter.com/hnrSjhCqSl
— Paul Feig (@paulfeig) July 10, 2015
Everything we know so far about the all-female Ghostbusters
Responding to a question from a Ghostbusters fan account, Feig shared the names of the new Ghostbusters team on his Twitter page.
Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones will star in the new film, and while Feig didn't specify which actress is playing which character, we do know that it will be McKinnon in the role of Jillian Holtzmann thanks to a tweet sent by the director on Friday (July 17).
Okay, here you go. Erin Gilbert, Jillian Holtzmann, Abby Yates and Patty Tolan. Now you know even more. https://t.co/MsQVo5iStI
— Paul Feig (@paulfeig) July »
Eli Roth Producing Snapchat Murder Mystery
16 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Snapchat users will be able to figure out if the butler did it in real time.
In an intriguing, digital era twist, CryptTV, the digital network co-founded by “Hostel” maestro Eli Roth, will host a live murder mystery on the video messaging service this Sunday.
The evening will center on a number of social media influencers, all of whom boast extensive Facebook, Instagram and Twitter followings. As part of the event, they are invited to a party at a mansion, where they will be “killed off” one by one.
After the party ends and the bodies finish piling up, viewers will have 24 hours to scan through CryptTV’s Snapchat for clues to find the killer before the evidence vanishes. Snapchat has a time limit for how long recipients can view their messages, one of the reasons it is more commonly associated with sexting than detective work.
Roth is producing the »
- Brent Lang
Dave Chappelle: 'The Biggest Enemy of an Artist Is Apathy'
16 hours ago | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Saturday, at the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation’s Art for Life Benefit on Long Island, Dave Chappelle spoke about how his return to comedy is happening during such a racially turbulent moment in American history:"This is a very surprisingly emotionally charged time,” he said to the AP, “so people like me, I think, are very relevant and necessary in sorting through all this information and emotional content. And when we are at our best, hopefully we are doing a great service to many people." "The biggest enemy of an artist is apathy… A kid gets killed by the police and I buy a T-shirt and before I can wear that one, there's another kid (killed) and I'm running out of closet space." »
- Greg Cwik
How Go Set a Watchman Solves the Mystery of Harper Lee
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Tourists come to Monroeville, Alabama, for one reason: to visit the real-life model of To Kill a Mockingbird’s Maycomb and the birthplace and current residence of its author, Harper Lee. Invariably, they come to the well-preserved county courthouse, which looks a lot like the place where Atticus Finch defends a black man falsely accused of rape, and they visit a stone wall, next to a shake-and-burger shack, that used to separate the houses where Lee and her childhood friend Truman Capote (Mockingbird’s “Scout” Finch and Dill Harris) played and plotted.Mockingbird’s Maycomb was a throwback, a '30s backwater rendered by a New York transplant in the late '50s. On the other hand, the Maycomb of Go Set a Watchman, Mockingbird’s first draft, was contemporaneous, the sketch of a writer suspended between her racially stratified hometown and her adopted liberal refuge. For reasons as muddled »
- Boris Kachka
'Big Brother' recap: Did you correctly predict Week 4's nominees for eviction?'
28 minutes ago | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
Did you correctly predict that the four J's -- Jason Roy, John McGuire, James Huling and Jackie Ibarra -- would be nominated for eviction on "Big Brother" Wednesday night? If so, you should be taking place in our weekly prediction contest. Hurry -- make your predictions for the rest of Week 4 and you could win our prize of a $100 Amazon gift certificate. It's fun and easy, so start now by scrolling down and predicting who will be eliminated next. -Break- Who will win 'Big Brother'? See exclusive predictions According to Week 4's exclusive Gold Derby odds that are derived from the predictions made by users like you, these four had the best odds of being put up on the block. James led our chart with 6/5 odds, followed by Jackie and Jason both at 6/1 odds and John in fourth place with 8/1 odds. The Battle of the Block competition saw »
China Box Office: 'Monster Hunt' Breaks Opening Weekend Record for Domestic Film
2 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Monster Hunt, the homegrown fantasy epic, has broken the opening weekend record for a domestic film at the Chinese box office, bringing in a massive $109 million (Rmb 669 million). The $40 million 3D film, which mixes live-action with CGI monsters, also set records for the biggest opening-day gross ($26.45 million) and biggest single-day gross ($29.84 million) for a Chinese film, vaulting the marks set by The Monkey King in 2014. Monster Hunt also grabbed $8.7 million from Imax screens, yet another record. Read More 'Monster Hunt': Film Review Set in a world where
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- Abid Rahman
Japan TV Networks to Launch TVer Online Video Platform
2 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Tokyo — Japan’s five Tokyo-based commercial TV networks will jointly launch a service to stream their new shows on the Internet, starting in October.
Called TVer, the service will offer the shows, including popular variety and drama programs, free of charge with commercials generating revenue. Each network will supply about ten shows weekly and each show will be streamed for about one week.
The service will be operated by Present Cast, a joint venture launched by the five networks and four ad agencies in 2006 to provide an online portal for video content, dubbed Dogatch.
The aim is to both attract younger viewers, who have been deserting terrestrial TV, and to thwart illicit online uploads of copyrighted material.
At least two other video platforms will launch in Japan this fall: Netflix and Bonobo, backed by 29 content owners and representatives known as Japan Contents Group.
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- Mark Schilling
Best Emmy nominations predictions: Meet our 3 top scorers
3 hours ago | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
Nearly 2,500 people entered our contest to predict the 2015 Emmy nominations, and three users reaped the highest scores on our Emmys leaderboard: GOZackielMarsh in the win position, Umur Tas in the place position and Jscott in the show position. They join Gold Derby's list of top scorers. So, how did they pull off such an impressive feat and what are they hoping will prevail on Emmy night? -Break- Emmys comedy showdown: 'Modern Family' vs. 'Veep' vs. 'Transparent' Screen name: GOZackielMarsh Real name: Zaimary Marsh Win position: 1st place in our predictions contest with 76% accuracy and 20,324 points Contest prize: $500 Amazon gift certificate City: Buckeye, Arizona Occupation: Secretary Prediction secrets and tips: "I did really well because me and my oldest son, who I named the account after, did the predictions together. We knew this would be a big year of change at the Emmys because of the influx of new, ..."' »
Korea Box Office: ‘Inside Out’ Becomes Pixar’s Biggest Hit
3 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“Inside Out” climbed to top position in the Korean box office with a rise of 41%. The Pixar film earned $6.55 million from 939,000 admissions between Friday and Sunday, extending its total to $14.2 million after two weekends. That makes it Pixar’s biggest film in South Korea.
In second was “Northern Limit Line.” With a week-on-week drop of 38%, the New-handled naval battle drama managed $3.57 million lifting it to $36.7 million since Jun 24.
Upi’s “Pixels” and “Insidious: Chapter 3” took third and fifth spots respectively. Opening on Thursday, “Pixels” earned $3.3 million in its opening four days. “Insidious” has earned $4.35 million after two weekends, making it the series’ highest grossing installment in Korea. Upi’s “Minions” will release on July 29.
“Terminator: Genisys,” the Lotte-distributed Paramount title, saw a slip of 62%, earning $1.8 million for a $22.07 million cumulative.
“Jurassic World” dropped to sixth place. After six weeks it stands at $41.3 million.
Cj Entertainment’s summer horror “The »
- Sonia Kil
Van Alexander, Big-Band Leader and Film-tv Composer, Dies at 100
3 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Van Alexander, the 1940s bandleader who co-wrote “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” with Ella Fitzgerald and went on to score dozens of films and TV shows in the 1950s and ’60s, died of heart failure Sunday afternoon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 100.
A three-time Emmy nominee for composition and music direction in the early 1970s, Alexander was head arranger for the entire run of NBC”s “Dean Martin Show” (1965-74) and wrote scores for many 1960s sitcoms including “Hazel,” “The Donna Reed Show,” “Dennis the Menace,” “The Farmer’s Daughter,” “Bewitched” and “I Dream of Jeannie.”
He was also the composer of more than a dozen 1950s and ’60s film scores including “The Atomic Kid,” “Baby Face Nelson,” “Andy Hardy Comes Home,” “Girls Town” and a trio of William Castle films that have become cult favorites: “13 Frightened Girls,” “Strait-Jacket” and “I Saw What You Did.”
Alexander was the author of “First Arrangement, »
- Jon Burlingame
Van Alexander, Big-Band Leader and Film-tv Composer, Dies at 100
3 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Van Alexander, the 1940s bandleader who co-wrote “A-Tisket, A-Tasket” with Ella Fitzgerald and went on to score dozens of films and TV shows in the 1950s and ’60s, died of heart failure Sunday afternoon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 100.
A three-time Emmy nominee for composition and music direction in the early 1970s, Alexander was head arranger for the entire run of NBC”s “Dean Martin Show” (1965-74) and wrote scores for many 1960s sitcoms including “Hazel,” “The Donna Reed Show,” “Dennis the Menace,” “The Farmer’s Daughter,” “Bewitched” and “I Dream of Jeannie.”
He was also the composer of more than a dozen 1950s and ’60s film scores including “The Atomic Kid,” “Baby Face Nelson,” “Andy Hardy Comes Home,” “Girls Town” and a trio of William Castle films that have become cult favorites: “13 Frightened Girls,” “Strait-Jacket” and “I Saw What You Did.”
Alexander was the author of “First Arrangement, »
- Jon Burlingame
'True Detective' Hits the Restart Button in Episode 5
4 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
In the wake of what went down in Sunday's True Detective, it's tempting to think of this season like a video game. True, none of the principals were killed in the massive shootout that ended episode four last week (unless you count Colin Farrell's mustache). Nonetheless, episode five felt a bit like a restart in Grand Theft Auto: After spending a lot of time tooling around California, things went sideways in a major way, but "Other Lives" brings viewers back into the game at more or less the same place they started. Circumstances have changed in the two months since
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- Rick Porter
Alexia Meyer, Eddie 'Neptune' Eskridge predicted to be eliminated on 'So You Think You Can Dance'
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Live performances began last Monday night on "So You Think You Can Dance," which means it's time for the season's first eliminations. Our users have been predicting these results since the top 20 were announced, and whoever has the best predictions score will win our $100 weekly prize (if they qualify according to our contest rules). So who do they think will be sent home? -Break- This season, "Sytycd" has split the competition into the top 10 stage dancers and the top 10 street dancers. One member from each group will be ousted each week until one contestant emerges at the end of the season as the ultimate winner. According to our racetrack odds, Alexia Meyer (Team Stage) and Eddie "Neptune" Eskridge (Team Street) will be the unlucky first two on the chopping block. Related: Meet the Top 10 Street dancers | Meet the Top 10 Stage dancers Neptune was the first out of the gate last Monday, »
‘Girlfriend’ L.A. Theater Review: Matthew Sweet Album Reimagined as Bittersweet Stage Musical
4 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
“Girlfriend,” a new two-man musical playing through August 9 at L.A.’s Kirk Douglas Theatre, is not your father’s jukebox musical. Unless, of course your father happens to be a fan of veteran alternative rocker Matthew Sweet. In which case, Dad may well be surprised to see how Sweet’s classic 1991 album has become the basis for a bittersweet and winsome love story between two Midwestern boys who’ve just graduated from high school. The witty and well-observed book, by Todd Almond, depicts with heartfelt poignancy the tentative, shuffle-step nature of gay teen romance circa-1990. Will (Ryder Bach) is the obvious outcast of. »
- Thom Geier
‘True Detective’ Recap: ’Other Lives’
4 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
With only a few more episodes to go in “True Detective” season two, here’s where “Other Lives” — which fast forwards through time after last week’s big shootout — leaves the four main characters:
Ray Velcoro (Colin Farrell)
The man who raped Ray’s ex-wife, Alicia (Abigail Spencer), wasn’t actually killed like Ray had been led to believe. Da Davis (Michael Hyatt) informs Ray they picked up someone whose DNA can be linked to the assault on Alicia (and on several others), and now he’s in jail.
The news disturbs Alicia, not because she’s upset that Ray didn’t avenge her attack, but because he told her he did, and in the process destroyed their relationship. The news also sends Ray straight to Frank (Vince Vaughn), looking for answers and packing heat.
Paul Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch)
He informs his trailer-trash mother (Lolita Davidovich) that he’s marrying his pregnant girlfriend. »
- Variety Staff
Film Review: ‘Safelight’
4 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
A sensitive teenager with cerebral palsy, a hooker with a heart of gold, and various other sentient cliches collide in “Safelight,” a bland and unremarkable tale of sad souls and dead-end circumstances from first-time feature director Tony Aloupis. A handful of solid performances and some subtle ’70s period detailing are hardly enough to recommend this flat, predictable drama, which will rely on its few cast names (including Juno Temple and Christine Lahti) to draw a few eyeballs in simultaneous limited/VOD release; like most of its characters, it looks to be headed nowhere fast.
You wouldn’t necessarily know exactly when “Safelight” is taking place, aside from a brief mention of Vietnam and the old-school black-and-white camera used by the lead character. Photography represents one of the few bright spots in the life of shy 17-year-old Charles (Evan Peters, taking an indie breather between “X-Men” movies), who works behind the »
- Justin Chang
‘The Assassin,’ ‘Irrational Man’ To Bookend Hk Summer Festival
5 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Hou Hsiao-hsien’s “The Assassin” will play as the opening of next month’s Cine Fan Summer International Film Festival (Siff), a popular spin off event of the Hong Kong International Film Festival. Woody Allen’s “Irrational Man” will close the festival that runs Aug 11-25.
In between, the Siff will play a further 30 films, including “Wild City,” the return to Hong Kong of top local director Ringo lam, who has not made a Hong Kong film for over 10 years.
Contemporary Japanese films screening include “Love & Peace,” by Sono Sion, “Yakuza Apocalypse,” by Miike Takashi, “Prophecy,” by Nikamura Yoshihiro and “Flying Colors,” directed by Doi Nobuhiro.
Classics include a restored version of “A Touch of Zen,” by King Hu, “The Double Life of Veronique,” directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski, and “Love Letter,” by Iwai Shunji.
The festival is also screening a six title Hollywood 1930s retrospective: “Trouble in Paradise,” “It Happened One Night, »
- Patrick Frater
Trainwreck: Celebs See Amy Schumer's New Hit Comedy, Fill Twitter With Rave Reviews
5 hours ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Happy friggin' opening weekend, Amy Schumer! The funny lady's raunchy comedy Trainwreck killed it at the box office. And now Twitter is full of love and rave reviews from fellow celebs. Girls creator and star Lena Dunham tweeted this morning, "I love you Amy. Or should I call you Box Office Gold." Seth McFarlane got the ball rolling on Friday night with, "Everybody get off your asses and go see 'Trainwreck' this weekend starring my pal the hilarious and brilliant @amyschumer!" And how lucky was Selena Gomez that she got to see the movie ahead of its release. She posted a photo of herself in a screening room with the caption, "When you Have to see »
'True Detective' hits the reset button, but is it too late to matter?
5 hours ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
A review of tonight's "True Detective" coming up just as soon as I take a micronap... In trying to convince Ray to join the new, covert incarnation of the Caspere task force, Ani tells him that it's never too late to start over again. It may not be too late for Ray Velcoro and doing the right thing, but I fear it may be for me and "True Detective." "Other Lives" is as close to a clean slate as you can get midway through an eight-episode season. The time jump isn't anywhere near as drastic as the two from Rust and Marty's case last year, but those 66 days since the shootout has upended the status quo for all four main characters — Paul now a hero and a detective, Ray now working security for Frank, Frank now living in a much smaller house in Glendale, and Ani getting the Lt. Daniels »
- Alan Sepinwall
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