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Welcome to Death Row being shopped as a sequel to Straight Outta Compton
16 hours ago | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Given the box office success of Straight Outta Compton, it’s no surprise that Hollywood is looking to capitalise on the hip-hop market, and according to THR, agency Apa has put together a package based upon S. Leigh Savidge’s book and documentary Welcome to Death Row, which it is shopping around as a sequel to Compton.
Welcome to Death Row charts “one of the most explosive and controversial periods in music history, when rappers like Dre, Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur forged mega-solo careers and Death Row Records’ Suge Knight reigned as the most powerful and feared hip-hop executive in the business.”
The $28 million-budgeted Straight Outta Compton has pulled in $145 million since its release in August, and is still to open in many international markets.
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- Gary Collinson
‘The Transporter Refueled’ Revs Up $365,000 at Thursday Night Box Office
14 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
“The Transporter Refueled” revved up a modest $365,000 at the Thursday night previews on 2,200 screens. The action thriller is expected to make between $8 and $9 million over the four-day Labor Day weekend. In the fourth film in the “Transporter” franchise, newcomer Ed Skrein takes over for Jason Statham as a European deliveryman with highly specialized action-hero skills. The film also stars Ray Stevenson, Yuri Kolokolnikov and Loan Chabanol. Also Read: Newbie 2-Punch vs. 'Compton': Can 'Transporter' Reboot, Redford Drama Break N.W.A Biopic's Streak? The $22 million production is the first wide release from Relativity EuropaCorp Distribution, a joint venture between the French company. »
- Beatrice Verhoeven
Johnny Depp Holds Court as ‘Black Mass’ Lights Up Venice Film Festival
16 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Venice – Johnny Depp starrer “Black Mass” world-preemed to positive response Friday at the Venice Film Festival where a relaxed Depp held court musing on the challenges of playing Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger in a natural fashion. Talking about his dramatically receding hairline, he said he feels risky physical transformations are part of his duty to give audiences “something new each time.”
Director Scott Cooper’s biopic of Bulger, who became an FBI informant and used this status to eliminate criminal competition during the 1970s, ’80s and early ’90s, was greeted with applause at the Venice press screening and the press conference was packed to the rafters.
Depp downplayed the purely criminal component of Bulger, whom he described as a man of “very proud Irish immigrant stock, who was loyal to his neighborhood. He would help a little old old lady groceries into her home and then a few minutes »
- Nick Vivarelli
Sequel Bits: ‘Mad Max,’ ‘Maze Runner,’ ‘Wolverine,’ James Bond
16 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
We’ll lead off this edition of Sequel Bits with a clip from a Mad Max: Fury Road special feature that focuses on the creation of one of the most attention-getting aspects of the film: the Doof Wagon and its accompanying rider/musician/standard bearer, Coma the Doof Warrior. In addition to that footage, we’ve got the following: […]
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- Russ Fischer
11 Craziest Things That Have Happened During the Making of Werner Herzog's Films
15 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Read More: Watch: Nicole Kidman is the 'Queen of the Desert' in Trailer for Werner Herzog Epic German filmmaker Werner Herzog has always nurtured an affection for lunacy. His continual recasting of the outrageous actor Klaus Kinski serves as an obvious example of this, as does Herzog's on-foot trek across Europe (from Munich to Paris, in the middle of winter) to see film critic Lotte Eisner when she was dying. He has long displayed an aggressive rejection of bourgeois, behavioral norms. You might consider him deranged, potentially detrimental to himself and those around him; the cold, deliberate German accent in which he says many a sadistic thing does not always reveal his sardonic sense of humor. Herzog famously allows his actors and crew to attempt certain chancy stunts only after he himself has tried them. He doesn't like to work in studios, something he feels kills spontaneity. Studio-filming »
- Anya Jaremko-Greenwold
Telluride: Carey Mulligan Is the Main Asset in ‘Suffragette’
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“Suffragette” has two key assets in its awards push: Carey Mulligan and plenty of goodwill. Focus Features should push those elements to bring attention to the film.
The period drama is a rarity for major studios because it is directed, written and produced by women. In any year, that would be notable, but the combo gains importance this year, due to renewed scrutiny of the industry’s gender imbalance. Some people will love this movie, but even the naysayers can’t help rooting for it, given the subject matter and the filmmaking team.
The 1912-set “Suffragette” had its world premiere at the Herzog Theater in Telluride Friday night. In her introductory remarks, director Sarah Gavron said it has taken 100 years for the story to reach the screen, and she’d been wanting to do it for a decade. She introduced scripter Abi Morgan, producers Alison Owen and Faye Ward, and Meryl Streep. »
- Tim Gray
Telluride Film Review: ‘Taj Mahal’
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Imagine “Die Hard” as told from the point of view of one of the terrified office workers huddled under her desk while angry Germans hold Nakatomi Plaza hostage. That fundamental shift of perspective, which redirects the audience’s focus from a gung-ho action hero trying to save the day to a relatively unexceptional victim on the sidelines, drives “(Spy)ies” helmer Nicolas Saada’s sophomore feature, “Taj Mahal,” a genre-upending non-thriller inspired by the 2008 Mumbai attacks in which we spend the entire movie trapped in a hotel room with a panic-stricken teenager. Neither as psychological nor as cinematic as its ambitious concept suggests, the film could nevertheless stir up some reasonable arthouse interest following its Venice and Telluride festival launches.
Whether or not the exercise succeeds essentially boils down to how interesting audiences find 18-year-old Louise, a privileged Franco-English photography student played by “Nymphomaniac” star Stacy Martin. The actress, who »
- Peter Debruge
Vaca Films, Atresmedia Cine Develop Next Dani de la Torre Title (Exclusive)
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Spain’s Vaca Films, and Atresmedia Cine, producers of Venice Days’ opener “Retribution” (El Desconocido) from director Dani de la Torre, are developing his potential followup picture, a true-event inspired thriller.
De la Torre is reteaming with “Retribution” writer Alberto Marini on the yet-to-be titled project’s screenplay, a character-driven thriller, with the aim of shooting in 2016, producer Emma Lustres told Variety.
The Spanish director’s second feature would very possibly be made in international co-production. Warner Bros. Pictures will release “Retribution” in Spain.
De la Torre’s project marks the latest cooperation between Vaca, whose credits include some of the country’s biggest hits of recent years such as Daniel Monzon’s “Cell 211” and “El Nino,” and Miguel Angel Vivas’ “Extinction,” with Matthew Fox and Jason Donovan.
The film arm of broadcast group Atresmedia, Atresmedia Cine has backed Woody Allen’s “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” Clive Owen-starrer “Intruders” and 2015 Goya winner “Marshland. »
- John Hopewell
Latido Adds Ripstein, Recha to Slate (Exclusive)
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Positioning itself as one of the main vendors of Latino cinemas in general and Mexican and Spanish cinema in particular, Madrid-based Latido Films has acquired world sales rights to Arturo Ripstein’s “La calle de la amargura” (Bleak Street), which plays out of competition at the Venice Festival.
Latido has also swooped in on Marc Recha’s “A Perfect Day to Fly,” which world premieres in competition at the San Sebastian film fest.
Ripstein, one of the world’s most resilient auteurs, will be honored at the Venice festival with a Biennale Award to celebrate his career.
“Bleak Street” re-creates a real-life crime that occurred in 2009, when two prostitutes accidentally killed two wrestlers on the Mini Estrella circuit. Shot in black and white, “Bleak Street” is a “heartrending crime story, written with stark tenderness by Alicia Paz Garciadiego,” said Antonio Saura, Latido Films CEO.
“A beautiful fable,” Saura said, “Perfect Day »
- John Hopewell
Kristen Stewart-Nicholas Hoult Drama ‘Equals’ Clinches Major Sales (Exclusive)
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“Equals” has run up key major territory sales before it world premieres in competition Sept. 5 at the Venice Film Festival. Pic is being sold by Mister Smith Entertainment, and is directed by Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Drake Doremus (“Like Crazy”) and stars Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult.
Stewart and Hoult will be attendance for the pic’s bow Sept. 5 in what will be one of the Lido’s highest-wattage bows.
Produced by Ridley Scott’s Scott Free and New York’s Route One Films, “Equals” has closed U.K. with Icon Film Distribution, Svensk Filmindustri in Scandinavia, Selective Films/Orange in France and Italy’s Adler Entertainment. Lucky Red will handle distribution for Adler. Brought onto the international market at 2014’s Cannes, the forbidden love story was reported to have racked up 35 territory deals off a first flurry of pre-sales.
Set in a futuristic utopia where emotions have been eradicated, »
- John Hopewell
Telluride Film Review: ‘Room’
2 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The cramped 11-by-11-foot interior of a sealed, sound-proof garden shed isn’t the only thing keeping a boy and his mother prisoner in “Room,” a suspenseful and heartrending drama that finds perhaps the most extreme possible metaphor for how time, regret and the end of childhood can make unknowing captives of us all. It’s a testament to the story’s underlying integrity that, even when deprived of some of the elements that made Emma Donoghue’s 2010 book so gripping, director Lenny Abrahamson’s inevitably telescoped but beautifully handled adaptation retains considerable emotional impact as it morphs from a taut survival thriller into a hauntingly conflicted drama of loss, mourning and gradual reawakening. With enough critical favor (especially for Brie Larson’s superb lead performance), plus a savvy marketing campaign that emphasizes the story’s killer hook, A24 might just have the call-your-mom-sobbing-afterward movie of 2015 on its hands.
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- Justin Chang
Meryl Streep Intros 'Suffragette' at Telluride
2 hours ago | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
Opening night at Telluride featured dueling world premieres as A24's "Room" (Iw review here) and Focus Features' "Suffragette" were programmed opposite each other. Meryl Streep and Rooney Mara ("Carol") both attended the first showings of Fox Searchlight's documentary "He Named Me Malala" (review here) and "Suffragette," in which Streep delivers a brief but potent cameo as wealthy Emmeline Pankhurst, who led scores of turn-of-the-century British women to fight for the right to vote. "We have been ridiculed and ignored," Pankhurst cries. "Deeds and sacrifice must be the order of the day." Carey Mulligan carries this movie as ably as she did "Far from the Madding Crowd." She plays Maud, a 24-year-old workhorse laundry drudge who is drawn into the suffragette cause by a co-worker (the excellent Anne-Marie Duff) and local pharmacist (Helena Bonham Carter). The harshness of Maud's daily work life (her »
- Anne Thompson
Telluride Film Review: ‘Heart of a Dog’
3 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Dogs have clearly become an avant-gardist’s best friend. First Jean-Luc Godard delivered a funny 3D valentine to a pooch named Roxy Mieville in “Goodbye to Language,” and now the New York-based musician/performance artist Laurie Anderson has woven a tide of personal stories, insights and visual-musical riffs into a more accessible but no less singular consideration of the species in “Heart of a Dog.” While this alternately goofy, serious, lyrical and beguiling cine-essay serves primarily as a loving tribute to the memory of Anderson’s rat terrier, Lolabelle, its roving, free-associative structure brings together all manner of richly eccentric musings on the evasions of memory, the limitations of language and storytelling, the strangeness of life in a post-9/11 surveillance state, and the difficulty and necessity of coming to terms with death.
Wielding a darkly playful sense of humor that cuts through any poetic preciosity, Anderson’s unexpected but entirely »
- Justin Chang
Venice Review: Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult Make Love in a Dystopian Future in 'Equals'
4 hours ago | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
Drake Doremus is clearly turned on by untenable attraction, whether it’s the long-distance relationship (“Like Crazy”), the adulterous (“Breathe In”) and, now, love in a dystopian future where people aren’t allowed to feel any emotion at all. And there you have a key problem with “Equals” – it feels as though the director is stretching for his theme. We’ve had so many science fiction films in which society is controlled in one fascist way or another, whether “Logan’s Run," where people are killed when they reach 30, “Gattaca” (eugenics) or “Divergent” (extreme stereotyping), to name but three, that the premise of “Equals” feels terribly old hat. That said, it’s one of the most beautifully designed films I’ve seen in ages, with a very effective romantic pairing. After the granddaddy of all wars, it’s been decided that the only way to avoid another one is to »
- Demetrios Matheou
Summer Camp Horror Comedy Cropsey Wants To Be The Next Goonies Or Gremlins
4 hours ago | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
When the description of a movie involves summer camps and horror, you usually imagine a bunch of horny teens being hacked to bits and otherwise dismembered by a hulking brute with a machete. However, the new film Cropsey is going to take some of those elements and work them into the same mold as movies like The Goonies and Gremlins. According to Variety, DreamWorks and super producer Frank Marshall are getting together to develop Cropsey. Their goal is to take horror and thriller elements, and work them into what the report calls an "Amblin-esque" mold. They are currently in talks to pick up a pitch crafted by Richard Naing and Ian Goldberg. The movies that are directly referenced here, The Goonies and Gremlins, typify the approach Amblin did all throughout the decade of the 1980s. The company, founded by Marshall, his wife, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, and guy named Steven »
IMAX to launch new dual 4K laser projection system at Empire Leicester Square
4 hours ago | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
IMAX Corporation has confirmed the launch of its exciting new laser projection system at the Empire Leicester Square.
The cinema will be the first IMAX cinema in Europe to launch the new technology on October 2 with the premiere of Robert Zemeckis's The Walk, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
"We are raising the benchmark once again with the launch of IMAX with laser at Empire Leicester Square - providing film fans in the West End a cinema-going experience unlike anything they've ever seen or heard before," commented Andrew Cripps, president of IMAX Emea.
IMAX's dual 4K laser projection system will allow filmmakers to present more vivid and exotic colours on-screen than ever before, while IMAX's next-generation sound technology delivers greater power and precision for ultimate audio immersion.
Other IMAX releases to benefit from the new technology later this year include Crimson Peak, Spectre and the eagerly awaited Star Wars: The Force Awakens. »
We Dare You To Watch The Entire Loopy Tease For Tim Burton's Latest Film
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Over the years, director Tim Burton has delivered his share of unusual motion pictures. You know that you.re not going to get a straightforward movie from the filmmaker, there is going to be all manner of quirkiness to be found. Now a teaser for his upcoming Miss Peregrine.s Home for Peculiar Children has arrived and, well, it.s peculiar. If you don.t believe me, just take a look at the video below, that is if you can make it through without going a bit strange yourself. With that jaunty old-timey song . "Run Rabbit Run" by Flanagan and Allen if you were wondering . playing over the top of this trailer, it.s easy to mistakenly think that this might be a bit of promotion for Alice Through the Looking Glass, the follow up to Tim Burton.s 2010 adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. Burton isn.t directing that picture, »
Malala Yousafzai Beams into Telluride After World Premiere of 'He Named Me Malala' (Video)
5 hours ago | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
Davis Guggenheim, who joined Al Gore in his fight against global warming with the Oscar-winning "An Inconvenient Truth" and championed education with "Waiting for Superman," is now taking social action documentaries to a new level with "He Named Me Malala." The movie is a father-daughter documentary that jumps between teenager Malala, who celebrates her 16th birthday in Birmingham, England in the film--something the Taliban in her Pakistan village sought to prevent when they shot the 11-year-old in the head, rendering her comatose until doctors brought her back to consciousness--and the story of a shared outspoken activism about education for all, especially women. Her father Ziaauddin Yousafzai attended Telluride and participated in a press conference with Guggenheim moderated by Ken Burns, who eventually connected via live stream to Malala in Birmingham. See video below. Producers Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald acquired the rights to Malala's »
- Anne Thompson
Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens Soundtrack gets a release date
5 hours ago | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
The soundtrack for Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens has been handed a release date - just don't expect it before the movie comes out.
Walt Disney Records has announced that the score - produced by five-time Academy Award-winning composer John Williams - will be released wherever music is sold on the same day the film hits cinemas: December 18.
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It isn't known if any tracks will be released leading up to the movie, but the music will contain all-new songs and some familiar themes.
As well as the Star Wars series, Williams has composed soundtracks for the likes of the Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park and Harry Potter franchises.
As one of film's most esteemed music composers, his last Oscar win came for his work in 1993's Schindler's List.
Everything we know about Star Wars: The Force Awakens, including trailers, »
Telluride Offers Surprises as ‘Malala’ Kicks Off Fest
6 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The Telluride Festival got off to a buzzy start Friday, with a screening of the documentary “He Named Me Malala,” the unexpected yanking of the Aretha Franklin docu and, for a nice theatrical touch, a vivid double rainbow over the town.
Fox Searchlight execs were accepting congrats for “Malala,” which received a vote of confidence when fest toppers placed it in the high-profile “surprise” slot, an afternoon screening for fest patrons, press and industry that marks the unofficial start of the four-day fest.
There were audible sniffles at the end of the film, which seems a definite awards contender. However, the road won’t be easy: There’s plenty of competition in a great year for documentaries, and Searchlight’s bigger challenge is getting voters to see the film. Many people may feel that they already know the tale of Malala Yousafzai, her recovery from Taliban bullets to the head, »
- Tim Gray
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