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‘Batman v Superman’ Supersized Runtime Revealed
7 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Long run times can be Kryptonite to moviegoers, but chances are that won’t be a problem with “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.” According to the AMC Theaters website, the DC Comics movie will clock in at two hours and 31 minutes, or 151 minutes. That is slightly longer than “Man of Steel,” which came in at 143 minutes, but just shorter than the 2006 box office disappointment “Superman Returns,” which was 153 minutes. However, “Dark Knight Rises” remains one of the longest superhero movies to date, with its 164 minute run time. See video: 'Batman v Superman' Final Trailer Promises Epic Feud for »
- Joe Otterson
'Deadpool' Tops $490M Worldwide; 'Risen', 'Witch' & 'Mermaid' Open Strong
21 February 2016 8:52 AM, PST | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
Deadpool took #1 at the weekend box office once again in its second weekend of release, crossing $235 million domestically. But it wasn't a weekend all about the Merc with the Mouth as a pair of newcomers in Risen and The Witch had strong opening performances. Additionally, Focus' Race finished its debut sprint with a sixth place finish and Sony saw an impressive limited opening for Stephen Chow's Chinese box office behemoth The Mermaid. In first, Deadpool brought in an estimated $55 million in its second weekend, a 58.5% drop from last weekend, which is well within expectation as films that open over $100 million tend to drop, on average, 54.3%. Deadpool, as it turns out, had a similar drop to the previous R-rated opening weekend champion, The Matrix Reloaded, which dropped 59.8% in its second weekend back in 2003. The film's drop, however, is much better than last year's Valentine's and President's Day weekend champ, Fifty Shades of Grey, »
- Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
Dan Mazer’s Rock Star Comedy ‘Stiff’ in the Works as Movie
10 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Andras Hamori’s H2O Motion Pictures is launching development on the rock-star comedy “Stiff” and the thriller “American Solo,” Variety has learned exclusively.
“Stiff” is based on a script from Dan Mazer, the longtime writing and producing partner of Sacha Baron Cohen. The project centers on an ’80s rock star who falls into a 30-year coma and wakes to find the world and his family have moved on without him.
“Stiff” will be directed by Michael Dowse, whose most recent film was the Daniel Radcliffe-Zoe Kazan comedy-drama “What If.” Dowse will produce with Hamori and Jodi Cahn will exec produce.
“Stiff” will begin production in the summer/fall in London.
H2O has also optioned the film rights for the German novel “American Solo” by Katja Eichinger, prior to its English-language publication. The thriller follows the story of a famous musician who kidnaps his neighbor’s beautiful young »
- Dave McNary
‘Carol’ Named Best Picture by Intl. Cinephile Society
19 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Todd Haynes’ “Carol” won five awards on Sunday, including best picture and director, from the Intl. Cinephile Society, an online group consisting of about 100 journalists, film scholars, historians and other industry professionals.
Attesting to the group’s wide-ranging appreciation of the year’s achievements in American and international cinema, “Carol” beat out 10 other films for best picture, four of which are predominantly in a foreign language: “The Assassin,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Clouds of Sils Maria,” “45 Years,” “L’il Quinquin,” “Inside Out,” “The Duke of Burgundy,” “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence,” “Arabian Nights” and “Tangerine.”
“Carol” also drew the actress prize for Rooney Mara, besting her co-star, Cate Blanchett, in a field that also included Juliette Binoche (“Clouds of Sils Maria”), Nina Hoss (“Phoenix”) and Charlotte Rampling (“45 Years”), who was named the runner-up in that category. Haynes’ film also took honors for Carter Burwell’s score »
- Variety Staff
How Chicago Plans To Honor Ferris Bueller's Day Off Turning 30
8 hours ago | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
It’s been 30 years since Ferris Bueller took his iconic "Day Off" in the John Hughes movie that goes by that name. While this fact makes some of us feel really, really old, for everybody else it will be a time to celebrate, and that includes the Windy City. The city of Chicago will pull out all the stops for "Ferris Fest" this May, which will give fans an opportunity to relive all of the memorable moments from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Ferris Fest is set for the weekend of May 20-22, so you’ve got some time to make your plans if you’d like to attend. Attractions for the event will include a bus tour that retraces the steps that Ferris Bueller took on that fateful day, along with his best friend Cameron and girlfriend Sloane, played by Matthew »
Kristin Chenoweth’s Dramedy ‘Hard Sell’ Lands at Momentum
14 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Momentum Pictures has acquired the North American distribution rights to the coming of age drama-comedy “Hard Sell,” starring Kristin Chenoweth, Katrina Bowden and Skyler Gisondo.
Sean Nabloff directed from his own script in his feature debut. Producers are Nalaboff, Jimmy Seargeant and Jared Greenman through Yellow Cote Productions. The film will receive a day-and-date theatrical release in the spring.
“Hard Sell” is set on the Gold Coast of Long Island. It centers on Gisondo’s character, a senior at an elite private school who struggles to support his unstable mom, played by Chenoweth. Desperate to make some quick cash, he enlists the help of a beautiful runaway, played by Bowden. They devise an unconventional plan of profiting off of the wayward teens at Hardy’s school — which places them amid the lifestyles of the rich and dysfunctional.
“‘Hard Sell’ is a wonderful coming-of-age story that tackles some very real questions: »
- Dave McNary
‘The Witch’ Helmer Robert Eggers To Write, Direct Rasputin Miniseries For Mrc
15 minutes ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Exclusive: The team behind the 2015 Sundance sensation The Witch is bewitched with the idea of telling the story of the Russian “mad monk” Rasputin in long form. Media Rights Capital, the company behind Ted and the adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, has set The Witch writer/director Robert Eggers to write and direct six to eight episodes that will cover Rasputin’s origins in Siberia to his rise to power and his bloody death in St. Petersburg. Jay Van Hoy & Lars… »
Apparently Will Smith Was Not A Nice Human Being While Making Ali
35 minutes ago | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Over the course of his career, Will Smith is one of those actors who has carefully cultivated a very friendly, amiable public persona. He doesn.t swear in his music, he doesn.t stir up controversy in his personal life, and even when discussing hot button issues like race in Hollywood, he.s delicate, measured, and political. Basically, he comes across as a nice, solid dude, though allegedly, according to one costar, he was a huge dick on the set of the Muhammad Ali biopic Ali. Actor and comedian Paul Rodriguez played Dr. Ferdie Pacheco, Muhammad Ali.s corner man, in Michael Mann.s 2001 Ali. He and Will Smith had worked together before on Made in America and had a swell experience, but this time things did not go so well. In an interview with San Diego radio station Rock 105.3, Rodriguez calls Smith an "A-hole" and even claims that the »
‘Taken’ TV Series Sets ‘Vikings’ Star to Inherit Liam Neeson’s Bad Luck with Terrorists
43 minutes ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Not too long ago, we found out that the Taken TV series in development at NBC had rounded up TV director Alex Graves (Game of Thrones, The Newsroom, The West Wing) to be at the helm of the pilot for the prequel story that will show us how Bryan Mills (the character originated by Liam […]
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- Ethan Anderton
Grimsby review – Sacha Baron Cohen's gags fall flat in cod-Bond caper
47 minutes ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Ali G and Borat creator shows little of his anarchic brilliance in this tame comedy, which is just kept from flatlining by moments of high-impact grossout
Sacha Baron Cohen brings his B-game – or maybe even his C-game – to this moderate new comedy that basically defeated my attempts to like it.
The film features a lairy football fan from Grimsby with Gallagher-esque hair and attitude, called Nobby (Baron Cohen); he discovers that his brother Sebastian (Mark Strong, gamely playing it straight) long-lost in the foster care system, is now a sleek assassin for MI6. Of course the hapless Nobby, along with an entire barmy army of mates, is the only one who can help Strong out – after getting him into a terrible jam – and foil a sinister eugenicist plot to rid an overpopulated world of the working classes.
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- Peter Bradshaw
‘Wayne’s World 3’: One Man Is Desperate to Get His Sequel Script Read by Hollywood
1 hour ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
We’re living in the age of nostalgia and recycling when it comes to our entertainment. Over at Netflix, there are revivals of Full House and The Gilmore Girls while Fox is working on a TV series adaptation of Lethal Weapon. On the big screen, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic World and Mad Max: Fury […]
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- Ethan Anderton
Why More Lgbt-Rights Stories Need to Be Brought to the Screen (Guest Column)
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
In the 1950s, a stunningly-attractive upper middle-class married woman living in the suburbs of a large American city on the East Coast decided one day that she had to stop hiding the fact that she was a lesbian. Summoning up a degree of courage that seems almost unimaginable today, she effectively “came out” to her husband at a time when there was no such thing as “coming out” since almost all gay people lived in the closet and being gay was a crime in most states.
She told her husband that he “deserved better” — he deserved to be truly loved in the way a husband should be loved by his wife. This woman got a divorce, packed up her belongings, and moved to New York City like so many others (including myself three decades later) “in order to be gay.”
While this may sound like a description of the plot »
- Roberta Kaplan
Oscar Nominated For Colombian Pic ‘Serpent’, Ciro Guerra Makes First Hollywood Deal To Direct ‘The Detainee’
1 hour ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Exclusive: Ciro Guerra, whose Colombian film Embrace Of The Serpent is up for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, has signed to make his English-language directing debut on the dystopian adventure The Detainee, for Thunder Road Pictures and Film House Germany. The film is an adaptation of a trilogy by author-playwright Peter Liney. The Detainee is the first volume, and The Maze Runner‘s Grant Myers has signed to adapt it. Its aspiration is to be a Hunger Games for… »
Sacha Baron Cohen Drinks, Takes Aim and Cracks Oscar Diversity Jokes at ‘Brothers Grimsby’ Premiere
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Jaws dropped Monday evening, as writer and star Sacha Baron Cohen made his charmingly uncouth and scantily clad entrance into Leicester Square for the world bow of “The Brothers Grimsby.”
As simpleton spy Nobby, Baron Cohen stepped out of his battered white van onto the red carpet, takeaway dinner still in hand. Careful not to spill his treasured feast, he eyed up the harem of swimsuit clad beauties who stood awaiting his arrival.
Straight to business, Nobby was soon working the carpet in his underpants and skin-tight top, complete with this season’s must-have accessory, a contrasting gun holster. A spy ready to save the world: a beer in one hand, a gun in the other.
With Nobby’s beer-hand bandaged, he was duly asked the cause of his affliction. “Some violent person attacked me,” he exclaimed, quickly elaborating incredulously, “What happened was, I punched him in the face, and then he attacked me! »
- Helen Jackson
"I Feel Really Bad And Embarrassed To Be A Part Of That": Rooney Mara Talks Hollywood Whitewashing & Her Role In 'Pan'
1 hour ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Between the current #OscarsSoWhite issue which will be firmly in the conversation this weekend at the Oscars, and the release of "Gods Of Egypt" on Friday, which Lionsgate and director Alex Proyas have already apologized for when it comes to its lack of diverse casting, the issue of representation remains at the forefront of Hollywood. In fact, a recent study confirmed the galling numbers when it comes to diversity in Hollywood, while John Oliver recently reminded everyone on "Last Week Tonight" that the industry has a long way to go, particularly when it comes the practice of whitewashing casts. Read More: Review: Joe Wright's 'Pan' Starring Hugh Jackman And Rooney Mara Is A Cacophonous Assault On The Senses Last fall, among the many complaints leveled at Joe Wright's flop "Pan," was the casting of Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily, a key "native" character in the film. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
‘Be Here Now’ Trailer: The Inspirational Story Of ‘Spartacus’ Star Andy Whitfield
1 hour ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Tugg and Be Here Now Productions have released for trailer for Be Here Now (The Andy Whitfield Story) ahead of the film’s April bow. Be Here Now shares the moving story of Andy Whitfield, who rose to fame as the star of Starz series Spartacus. Shortly after finding huge success as an actor, Andy was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Be Here Now follows Andy, his wife Vashti, and their family as they deal with Andy's diagnosis and treatment, relying on each other for… »
Douglas Slocombe, Legendary Cinematographer of ‘Indiana Jones’, Dead at 103
1 hour ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Douglas Slocombe, the legendary cinematographer best known for shooting the Indiana Jones trilogy for director Steven Spielberg, has passed away at 103. Although his most well-known films came at the end of his career, Slocombe’s filmography is a masterclass in film craft, showcasing an artist and a technician who knew his way around all genres and […]
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- Jacob Hall
Watch: 'People v. O.J.' Scribe Larry Karaszewski on '80s Kung Fu Pinnacle 'The Last Dragon'
1 hour ago | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
Along with "The Apple" and "Can’t Stop the Music," "The Last Dragon" stands at the pinnacle of '80s Wtf moviemaking. Berry Gordy, the founder of Motown Records, co-produced this jaw-dropping mix of of martial arts and musical numbers that must be seen to be disbelieved. The bizarro plot revolves around a Bruce Lee acolyte who seeks the exalted station of “The Last Dragon,” which grants mystical powers to the recipient — including, apparently, the ability to break somebody’s neck and sing at the same time. »
- Trailers From Hell
Zombieland 2 Is Still In The Works, Here's What We Know
1 hour ago | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
With a relatively low budget and no huge stars.Woody Harrelson was the biggest name, though Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin have all gone on to lots of success.Zombieland was a nice sized hit back in 2009. And damn near ever since there.s been talk of a sequel. This has been going on sporadically over the last seven years, but apparently, at least according to one of the writers, Zombieland 2 is still in the works. With the massive success of Deadpool over the last few weeks, writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who penned both the foul-mouthed superhero adventure and Zombieland, have been all over the place. When they stopped by The Q & A podcast, the subject of Zombieland 2 came up, and Reese revealed: It.s actually still in development over at Sony, they.ve had a couple writers take a crack at it, we »
Rooney Mara Hated Sparking Whitewashing Debate as Tiger Lily in ‘Pan’
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Rooney Mara has opened up about the whitewashing debate that ignited when she was cast as Tiger Lily in 2015 film “Pan,” leading to thousands protesting the fact that a white actress was cast in the famous part.
In an interview with the Telegraph, Mara said she hated being at the center of the controversy and being on “that side” of the conversation.
“[It was a] tricky thing to deal with,” Mara said. “There were two different periods; right after I was initially cast, and the reaction to that, and then the reaction again when the film came out.
“I really hate, hate, hate that I am on that side of the whitewashing conversation,” she went on. “I really do. I don’t ever want to be on that side of it again. I can understand why people were upset and frustrated.”
Although she said she enjoyed her time working on the movie and »
- Jacob Bryant
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