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New Story & Character Details Emerge For ‘Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them’
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Yes, J.K Rowling is returning to the world of Harry Potter, indirectly, with a prequel/spinoff. She’s turned her creature encyclopedia “Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them” into a narrative feature film, and so far, most of the plot details have been held under wraps. All we really knew is that Eddie Redmayne (“The Theory of Everything”) stars as Newt Scamander, the wizarding world’s preeminent magizoologist, who stops in New York following his travels to find and document magical creatures. Read More: First Look At Eddie Redmayne And The Cast Of Harry Potter Spin-Off 'Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them' But as “Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them” is on the cover of Entertainment Weekly this week, new details are emerging, starting with a detailed and expanded synopsis: Eccentric magizoologist Newt Scamander comes to New York (for a reason we won’t »
- Edward Davis
Madalyn Horcher Joins Cast of ‘Jack Reacher: Never Go Back’
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Madalyn Horcher has joined the cast of Paramount and Skydance’s “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” starring Tom Cruise.
Cobie Smulders, Aldis Hodge and Danika Yarosh are also on board for the sequel, with Ed Zwick directing.
Zwick and and Marshall Herskovitz wrote the most recent draft of the script after Richard Wenk penned the original draft.
2012’s “Jack Reacher” grossed $218 million worldwide for Paramount. The film was directed by Christopher McQuarrie from his own script, based on the Lee Child series of novels. The sequel will be based on Child’s “Never Go Back,” in which Reacher travels from South Dakota to the Virginia headquarters of the U.S. Army Military Police Corps and finds that his new commanding officer has been arrested.
Details surrounding Hodge’s role are under wraps at this time, other than the character being described as “the hunter.”
Cruise and Don Granger are producing. »
- Justin Kroll
Julia Stiles-Anthony Hopkins Drama ‘Go With Me’ Sells to Key Markets
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Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment has sold key foreign territories for “Go With Me,” starring Anthony Hopkins, Ray Liotta and Julia Stiles, Variety has learned exclusively.
The film, co-financed by Electric and Enderby Entertainment, is based on the book by Castle Freeman Jr. and was directed by Daniel Alfredsson from a script by Joe Gangemi and Gregory Jacobs. Producers are Rick Dugdale for Enderby Entertainment, Lindsay Williams and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein for The Gotham Group, Jacobs and Hopkins.
The film was picked up for all Italian rights by Microcinema. Other newly sold territories include Central Park for Turkey, Cinemania in the former Yugoslavia, Cmc Content in Taiwan, Films4You in Portugal, Ipa in Thailand and Vietnam, Octo Arts in the Philippines, Shoval in Israel, Tanweer in Greece. Rights were previously sold in Spain, Latin America and Eastern Europe.
The film recently had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Electric »
- Dave McNary
Diane Lane Joins Liam Neeson’s Spy Thriller ‘Felt’
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Diane Lane has joined Liam Neeson in Peter Landesman’s spy thriller “Felt,” with shooting set for March.
Neeson came on board this week as special agent Mark Felt, who revealed himself as “Deep Throat” — the key source during the Washington Post’s investigation into the Watergate break-in by White House employees.
Lane will play Felt’s brilliant, ambitious and troubled wife, Audrey. She shoulders the burden of Felt’s isolated and dangerous struggle against the White House.
Landesman will direct from his own script and produce.
MadRiver Pictures will finance and produce, alongside Scott Free Productions, Playtone and Cara Films. Ridley Scott, Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks, Giannina Scott, Marc Butan, Christopher Woodrow and Jay Roach will produce. Steven Shareshian and Michael Schaefer will executive produce alongside Michael Bassick and Steven Marshall.
CAA arranged the financing and is currently selling the domestic rights at the American Film Market. Sierra/Affinity is handling the foreign rights. »
- Dave McNary
Brian Cox to play Winston Churchill in D-Day landings drama
13 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Biopic of wartime leader to be written by the Guardian’s Alex von Tunzelmann and will focus on Churchill’s relationship with his wife Clementine during 1944 crisis
Brian Cox is to star as the British second world war leader Winston Churchill in the story of the 48 hours leading up to the D-Day landings in 1944.
Titled Churchill, the new biopic is said to focus heavily on the prime minister’s relationship with his wife Clementine. It’s described as a “ticking-clock thriller”, set against the backdrop of the allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
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- Ben Child
Film Review: ‘They Call Me Jeeg’
14 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Italy finally has its very own superhero, and his capacity for mixing social critique with heroic feats is boundless. Gabriele Mainetti’s thoroughly enjoyable, surprisingly plangent and gritty “They Call Me Jeeg” features a two-bit criminal loser who stumbles upon his powers, Toxic Avenger-style (without the deformity), and learns to care about humanity thanks to a traumatized woman who’s convinced he’s the Japanese manga character Steel Jeeg. Mainetti may be a novice helmer but there’s no trace of the beginner here, with style and execution earning top marks along with modest yet well-handled f/x. The real standout, though, is how he combines superhero tropes with Italian social and political ills, making “Jeeg” a likely cross-generational sleeper hit following a projected February opening. Offshore chances look promising.
The 1970s cartoon series “Steel Jeeg,” created by Go Nagai, has long been popular in Italy, so it’s not »
- Jay Weissberg
Carice Van Houten Joins Aaron Paul’s ‘The Parts You Lose’
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“Game of Thrones” star Carice van Houten has joined the cast of drama “The Parts You Lose” opposite Aaron Paul, with plans for an early spring shoot in Manitoba., Canada.
The film is being produced by “Breaking Bad” producer Mark Johnson with Dutch director Paula van der Oest helming.
Myriad is handling international sales at the American Film Market. UTA Independent Film Group and Myriad Pictures are co-representing the film’s U.S. rights.
“The Parts You Lose” centers on a young hearing impaired boy who encounters an injured and potentially dangerous fugitive in his small North Dakota town. The two form an unlikely friendship.
Johnson is producing with Tom Williams through their company Gran Via Productions along with Netherlands-based Nl Film, with Nl’s Alain de Levita and Joris van Wijk producing. Paul will also produce through his company Lucid Road Productions.
Buffalo Gal Pictures will handle the Canadian production aspects, »
- Dave McNary
Lotus boards sales on Amy Winehouse biopic
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Director aims for “innovative, emotional and life affirming approach” to icon’s life.
Lotus Entertainment has boarded finance, production and international sales on Kirsten Sheridan’s Amy Winehouse biopic, revealed by Screen this morning.
Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) is currently in talks to star in the biopic, which according to the production will “celebrate” the life of the iconic singer.
CAA and UTA arranged financing and will be co-representing the domestic rights.
Joshua Maurer and Alixandre Witlin of City Entertainment and Tristan Orpen Lynch will produce, with Lotus Entertainment’s Jim Seibel, Bill Johnson, Ara Keshishian and Angus Sutherland on board as executive producers.
Lotus Entertainment’s Angus Sutherland said: “We are honored to be bringing Amy’s heart-breaking life story to the screen and to be working with such a gifted filmmaker as Kirsten Sheridan.
“After the huge success of documentary Amy this year, audiences worldwide have been left with a compelling »
- andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
Amy Winehouse Biopic Starring Noomi Rapace Backed By Lotus – Afm
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Lotus Entertainment has come aboard to finance, executive produce and handle international sales on Kirsten Sheridan's Amy Winehouse biopic that has Noomi Rapace (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) in talks to star as the tragic singer. Sheridan, daughter of Jim and an Academy Award nominee for In America, has penned the project and is attached to direct. CAA and UTA arranged financing and will co-rep domestic rights. Maurer and Alixandre Witlin of City Entertainment (The Ho… »
Noomi Rapace Starring in Amy Winehouse Biopic
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Noomi Rapace is in talks to star in an Amy Winehouse biopic with Kirsten Sheridan directing.
Lotus Entertainment will finance, produce and handle international sales at the American Film Market.
Sheridan will direct from her own script. She received an Academy Award nomination along with her sister Naomi Sheridan and father Jim Sheridan for 2002’s “In America.”
CAA and UTA arranged financing and will be co-representing the domestic rights. Maurer and Alixandre Witlin of City Entertainment and Tristan Orpen Lynch of Subotica will produce, with Lotus Entertainment’s Jim Seibel, Bill Johnson, Ara Keshishian and Angus Sutherland on board as executive producers.
Winehouse died of alcohol poisoning in 2011, five years after rising to international fame with her “Back to Black” album.
Kirsten Sheridan said: “Amy’s music is felt so deeply by the audience because it was deeply personal. Her vulnerability was her strength. She was called many things — a diva, »
- Dave McNary
Review: Catherine Hardwicke's Overly Familiar Weepie 'Miss You Already' Starring Drew Barrymore And Toni Collette
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On a certain level, one wants to fully embrace a film like "Miss You Already.” Yes, it’s essentially another disease-movie-of-the-week, with the film following Milly (Toni Collette) as she deals with the physical and emotional effects of her breast cancer on not only her family — including her husband, Kit (Dominic Cooper), and her mother, Miranda (Jacqueline Bisset) — but on Jess (Drew Barrymore), with whom she has been inseparable best friends since childhood. But instead of dwelling in the expected misery, Catherine Hardwicke’s film focuses on the bond between the two female friends, and to some degree, their palpable chemistry together drives the narrative, infusing the weepie material with the kind of warmth and humor that some might consider “life-affirming.” Read More: Watch The First Trailer For Catherine Hardwicke's 'Miss You Already' Starring Drew Barrymore And Toni Collette In this case, though, such high spirits can »
- Kenji Fujishima
Film Review: ‘The Automatic Hate’
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The family you never knew you had turns out to be the family you may wish you never met in Justin Lerner’s “The Automatic Hate.” This arresting seriocomedy deftly walks a tightrope between droll and tense, over a gaping pit of crazy. It will require very careful handling to access appreciative audiences, not least because broadcasting some of its more marketable aspects would amount to major plot spoilage. Film Movement currently plans a limited theatrical release early next year.
Domestic life is already bumpy enough for mild-mannered Bostonian Davis (Joseph Cross): We meet him just as he’s returning from the bathroom to find himself locked out of his own bedroom because (for reasons that are only made clear much later) his professional-dancer girlfriend, Cassie (Deborah Ann Woll), abruptly needs some “alone time.” He’s a successful chef, yet his emotionally distant parents, both academics (Richard Schiff and »
- Dennis Harvey
Superhero Bits: Agent Carter, Wonder Woman, Ant-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
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How does Benedict Cumberbatch look as Doctor Strange? Which Wet Hot American Summer cast member just joined the cast of Agent Carter? Who might the villain in the new Wonder Woman be? Why do Yellowjacket‘s lasers sound familiar in Ant-Man? How will Batman succeed in fighting Superman? All that and more in this edition of […]
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- Ethan Anderton
‘Inside Out’, ‘Anomalisa’ and 14 More Eligible For Best Animated Feature Category at This Year’s Oscars
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A good portion of Oscar wins aren’t exactly unpredictable. When Meryl Steep is up for an Academy Award, even for a movie as banal as The Iron Lady, odds are she’ll leave the Dolby Theatre holding another gold statue. The same can be said for Pixar in the Best Animated Feature category, and they have two serious contenders in […]
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- Jack Giroux
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