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‘The Revenant’ Leads Box Office Through Historic 2016 Snowstorm
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5th Update Monday, 2:49 Pm: As expected, football championship games Sunday prior to the big Superbowl playoff negatively impacted box office as did the continuing woes on the East Coast where theaters re-opened among several inches (and in some cases feet) of snow. The many hopeful estimates the studios made yesterday just didn’t come to pass. Box office was off across the board anywhere from 8% to 12% observors noted. The winter doldrums at the box office will be lifted… »
‘The Revenant’ Tops Offshore Weekend With $33.8M And Over $223M Global; ‘The Force Awakens’ At #2 – International Box Office Final
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6th Update and write-thruu, 2:46 Pm Monday with 5th Update, Writethru, 5:27 Pm Pt Sunday: Still waiting on some studios to report, but this weekend’s international weekend finals show a frame dominated by holdovers and expansions. And, for the first time since it released in mid-December, the No. 1 movie is not Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Rey, Finn, Poe and Bb-8 are instead settling for No. 2 after a record-breaking run around the international galaxy these last 40… »
Animal Planet & Lionsgate Nab Slamdance Pic ‘Million Dollar Duck’
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Animal Planet and Lionsgate have joined forces in an appropriate, animal-themed way, partnering on the acquisition of U.S. and Canadian rights to the Slamdance documentary Million Dollar Duck. Lionsgate will be distributing the film in limited theatrical release along with digital home entertainment and packaged media. All television rights go to Animal Planet which will air the film after its theatrical release. The announcement expands the partnership between Lionsgate… »
Woody Allen Amazon Series Sets Cast: He Stars With Elaine May & Miley Cyrus
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Exclusive: Back at the last Cannes, Woody Allen revealed to Deadline that the deal he made to create a TV series for Amazon was haunting his every step. He’s in a much better place now. In fact, Allen has set the principal cast for the six half-hour-episode series that will take place in the 1960s, and it certainly is unexpected. Allen, who wrote the scripts and will direct, has set Elaine May and Miley Cyrus to star alongside him. I don’t know a lot more than this, as… »
Werner Herzog Says We “Don’t Know Yet” What Vr Really Is – Sundance
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"Famously, the Prussian war theoretician Clausewitz said, ‘Sometimes war seems to dream of itself,'” said Werner Herzog at the Sundance Film Festival in our DeadlineNow studio. "Now does the Internet dream of itself?" asked the Oscar nominee and Cannes winner, going straight to one of the themes of his new documentary Lo And Behold: Reveries Of The Connected World. The nearly 100-minute film finds Herzog exploring the world and the ideas of our technologically entangled… »
Texas Court Orders Regal To Stop “Anticompetitive” Clearance Deals
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Regal Entertainment must stop “demanding or requesting exclusive film licenses” in the Houston area while the No. 1 chain defends itself in an unfair business practices case, a Texas District Court ruled today. A small exhibition company, iPic Entertainment, won the temporary injunction as it challenges Regal’s effort to secure local monopolies for showings of hit films. The Justice Department is also investigating the practice, common among all of the largest theater… »
Relativity Says It Has A Movie Co-Financing Deal With Lamf
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Looks like Relativity Media will be making a lot of announcements to convey a sense of optimism about its financial prospects in the week leading up to next week’s hearing to determine whether it’s ready to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The latest — following one this morning describing new financial backing: The studio says it has a five-year deal with the Los Angeles Media Fund (Lamf) co-finance and produce upcoming feature films. The announcement… »
Donna Langley: Approach To Universal’s Diverse Slate Comes From Quality, Not Quota – Sundance
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This morning, Universal chairman Donna Langley and Pitch Perfect 2 filmmaker Elizabeth Banks sat down at the annual Women at Sundance Brunch to talk about their breaking through in an industry dominated by men. Langley not only rallied Universal to an industry high of $6.7 billion in 2015, but she did it on the back of an inclusive slate including the femme-targeted Pitch Perfect 2 and Trainwreck, the multicultural franchise Furious 7 and the African American box office… »
‘A Dog’s Purpose’ Movie Based On Bestselling Book To Unleash In 2017
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Universal Pictures has set director Lasse Hallström’s A Dog’s Purpose, based on the bestselling book of the same name, for release on January 27, 2017, dropping it in a time where the date is pretty clear for new releases. The only other title on that date is a horror film, Resident Evil 6 from Sony. A Dog’s Purpose, from Amblin Entertainment and Walden Media, is the story (originally authored by W. Bruce Cameron) about a dog who realizes the meaning of his own existence… »
Deadline’s ‘Yoga Hosers’ Panel With Kevin Smith – Sundance Live Stream
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Deadline continues its Sundance Film Festival panel series today in an exclusive sit-down with Kevin Smith and the cast of his Midnight section horror comedy Yoga Hosers, which premiered last night in front of a jam-packed house at the Library Center Theatre. Stars Lily-Rose Depp, Harley Quinn Smith and Justin Long are among those also aboard for the discussion with Deadline’s Dominic Patten from our Samsung Studio on Park Avenue. Check out the live stream… »
‘Hooligan Sparrow’: Doc Filmmaker’s Crusade Against China’s Security State – Sundance Studio
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“Beside what you know about China and its economy, there are stories you don’t usually see, and this is that story,” said Hooligan Sparrow director Nanfu Wang at the Sundance Film Festival. Check out our video interview above. Wang’s original intention for her documentary was to follow sex workers rights activist Ye Haiyan aka Hooligan Sparrow, in her crusade against a sexually abusive elementary school principal. But just as Sparrow becomes a target of the state, so does… »
Sony Lands International Rights To Alcon’s ‘Blade Runner’ Sequel
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Breaking: Sony Pictures has made a deal with Alcon Entertainment for overseas distribution rights to the Blade Runner sequel that Denis Villenueve will direct. The Big Short's Ryan Gosling stars alongside Harrison Ford, who's returning to one of his most iconic roles, as Richard Deckard. Warner Bros has North American distribution rights through its output agreement with Alcon's Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, and Sony has the rest of the world. Production begins in… »
Carol Burnett Finally Gets Those Unclaimed SAG Residuals
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Carol Burnett has been paid the unclaimed SAG residuals she's been owed for years, just in time for her to hit the stage to receive her SAG Lifetime Achievement Award this weekend. As reported by Deadline, Burnett was among the many actors who will be on hand Saturday for the 22nd annual SAG Awards who were owed unclaimed residuals. Burnett subsequently has been paid, as have fellow nominees Johnny Depp, Ty Burrell, Suraj Sharma and Vincent Kartheiser. Among this… »
Michael Bay’s ’13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi’ Gets Thumbs Down From Libyan Filmmakers
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Michael Bay’s 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi is drawing the ire of filmmakers in Libya, for whom simply getting through a film shoot without getting shot is an achievement in itself. Bay’s film, about a group of U.S. special forces caught in the middle of the chaos surrounding the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. Diplomatic compound in Benghazi that took the lives of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, has not screened in… »
James Schamus Directorial Debut ‘Indignation’ Acquired By Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment – Sundance
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Exclusive: In another big Sundance deal, Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment paid upward of $2.5 million for North American rights to Indignation, the directorial debut of former Focus Features head James Schamus. The film, which Schamus adapted from a novel by Philip Roth, premiered Sunday night at Eccles. It received a warm reaction and strong reviews as the bargaining got underway immediately. The deal closed about three hours after the premiere concluded. CAA brokered… »
‘The Hateful Eight’s Demian Bichir On Oscar Diversity Uproar: “Art Is Art”
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Hailing from an acting family, Demian Bichir became a top star in Mexico and established himself in Hollywood with a milestone performance in A Better Life that led him to be the first Mexican since Anthony Quinn to be Oscar nominated for Best Actor. Bichir, currently on the screen in Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, has written a guest column for Deadline on the Oscar diversity issue. Art is art and it should not be divided into colors. Yes, there should be… »
‘Eddie The Eagle’ To Soar In Sundance Surprise Screening
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Exclusive: I’m hearing that Eddie The Eagle will be the top secret screening tomorrow at the Library Theater. The Dexter Fletcher-directed film stars Kingsman: The Secret Service‘s Taron Egerton as Eddie Edwards in the story of Great Britain’s first ski jumper to compete in the Winter Olympics. Hugh Jackman co-stars as his coach Bronson Peary, and Matthew Vaughn’s Marv Films produced. Sean Macauley wrote the script that made the Black List. Fox will release the film… »
Russian And Chinese Media Giants Team Up To Make Multi-Platform Content Pact
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Russia’s Gazprom-Media and China’s Shanghai Media Group, two of the biggest media players in the two countries, have inked a pact that covers collaboration on the production and distribution of content across film, TV and digital. Gazprom-Media, fuelled by the Russian energy giant Gazprom, includes the media assets Ntv and TNT TV channels as well as leading film company Central Partnership. The state-owned Shanghai Media Group controls over a dozen radio stations, TV… »
‘Norm Of The North’ Gets China Release; Reliance To Produce ‘nOmber One’ – Global Briefs
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Family feature animation Norm Of The North has been set for an April debut in China. Under a deal between producer Splash Entertainment and Shanghai-based Yang Yang Pictures Corp, the latter will serve as a major investor for the release, which will be handled by Chinawood Media Corp on the mainland as well as in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The story of a fun-loving polar bear and his three ragtag lemming pals in their bid to save their Arctic home had its domestic bow via… »
‘Morris From America’ & ‘Weiner’, ‘Life, Animated’ Producers Win Sundance Institute Producer’s Awards
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The Sundance Institute has today announced that Morris From America producers Sara Murphy and Adele Romanski, and Julie Goldman, executive producer of the documentary Weiner and producer of Life, Animated, have received the 2016 Amazon Studios Sundance Institute Producer's Award. Through the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program, the award recognizes “bold vision and a commitment to continuing work as a creative producer in the independent space,” and offers grant money… »
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