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Spider-Man Spinoff ‘Venom’ Gets New Life at Sony With ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ Writer
14 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
The long-gestating Spider-Man spinoff “Venom” has gotten new life at Sony, which has hired Dante Harper to write the script, an individual familiar with the project has told TheWrap. Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach are producing the movie, which is expected to launch a franchise that exists separately from the upcoming Spider-Man movies starring Tom Holland. In the Spidey comics, Venom is a villainous alien symbiote who needs a human host to survive, and imbues that person with super powers. Topher Grace played the comic book character in “Spider-Man 3.” Harper worked on Tom Cruise‘s acclaimed action movie “Edge of Tomorrow” and. »
- Jeff Sneider
'Death Wish' Remake Finds Its Directors
19 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
The directing duo behind the Israeli revenge movie Big Bad Wolves have a Death Wish. Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado are in negotiations to direct Death Wish, MGM and Paramount's long-in-the-works remake of the 1974 vigilante movie that starred Charles Bronson. Bruce Willis is attached to star in the remake, which is being produced by Ridley Scott and Jules Daly. The original film was an adaptation of a novel by Brian Garfield and told of a man who goes on a revenge spree after his wife is killed and daughter sexually assaulted. The movie struck a
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- Borys Kit
'Once' & 'Sing Street' Director John Carney Eyes ‘Russ & Roger Go Beyond’ Starring Will Ferrell & Josh Gad
15 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
It's a project sounds too good not to be made. “Russ & Roger Go Beyond,” penned by Emmy-winner Christopher Cluess (“The Simpsons,” “SNL”), tells the true story of famed film critic Roger Ebert and schlock director Russ Meyer, who teamed up to make the out there "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls." It's as unlikely a filmmaking pairing as film history ever saw, for a movie that certainly can never be duplicated. 'Go Beyond' has been developing for a while now, never finding the right juice to get in front of cameras, but hopefully that will happen soon. Read More: Michael Winterbottom To Direct Will Ferrell In 'Russ & Roger Go Beyond' Deadline reports that "Once" director John Carney, who is coming in hot out of Sundance with his well-received "Sing Street," is now eyeballing the director's chair on the project, one that was previously occupied by Michael Winterbottom. Will Ferrell is slated to play Russ Meyer, »
- Kevin Jagernauth
We have exclusive details on that mysterious Rogen/Hader/Galifianakis comedy
18 hours ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Rodney Rothman is a spectacularly funny guy, and yet I'd wager that many of the audiences who have laughed their faces off at a joke he wrote have never heard his name. That will most likely change after the opening of what Universal is calling Untitled Zach Galifianakis/Bill Hader/Seth Rogen R-Rated Comedy, which Rothman is directing from his own original script. I've known Rothman for a while now. We first met on Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and right after that, I tracked down his book, Early Bird: A Memoir Of Premature Retirement. He was a writer for Late Night With David Letterman when he was 21 years old, and at 24, he was promoted to head writer. That's the job he left before writing Early Bird, but he didn't stay unemployed for long. He wrote some episodes of Undeclared and Committed. He tried to get an Early Bird TV show off the ground. »
- Drew McWeeny
Disney Developing ‘Nutcracker’ Pic; Lasse Hallstrom to Direct
16 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Disney is developing “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms” with Lasse Holstrom set to direct, continuing its model of developing classic fairy tales.
The project is based on “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” by E.T.A. Hoffmann, with Ashleigh Powell onboard to write the script.
The story, which has been adapted into a wildly popular ballet, follows young girl Clara, who receives a nutcracker doll from her godfather on Christmas Eve. When the girl goes to check on it later that night, the clock strikes 12 and she finds herself thrust into a fantastical world where she is in the middle of a war between gingerbread soldiers and an army of mice.
Mark Gordon is producing with Lindy Goldstein is executive producing. Sam Dickerman and Allison Erlikhman are overseeing the project for Disney with Sara Smith overseeing for the Mark Gordon Company.
Powell is currently developing The New York Times best-selling »
- Justin Kroll
Ghostbusters reboot: who you gonna call for slimy sex with a spectre?
1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The new trailer amps up the slime and reveals the sexual dimensions to demonic possession – where female souls can inhabit male bodies and vice versa
Ghosts don’t have bodies. So it seems ironic that most discussions around the new all-female Ghostbusters reboot has been so focused on gender. Whether it’s men fighting ghosts, as in the 1984 original, or women, as in the upcoming remake, why should it matter to the incorporeal?
The answer, at least based on filmed ghost stories, is that it matters a lot. Taking bodies away doesn’t make gendered anxiety disappear; instead, it seems to amp it up. Without bodies of their own, ghosts make humans, onscreen and off, hyper-aware of their own sweaty, heavy, oozing flesh, in all its sexy and repulsive vulnerability.
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- Noah Berlatsky
Team Negative One: the Star Wars George Lucas doesn’t want you to see
3 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Defying the wishes of its creator, fans are going to great lengths to recreate the iconic space opera in all its former glory
Earlier this year, one of the most ambitious film restoration projects ever attempted was finally unveiled to the public. After acquiring a well-preserved 35mm print of Star Wars in 2008, a fan known only as Mr Black recruited a number of collaborators and began the painstaking process of digitally restoring the film, frame by frame. After years of work, their unauthorised transfer is at last complete, and in January it went online, giving enthusiasts an opportunity to see the film as it looked and sounded when Luke Skywalker and friends first took the world by storm in 1977.
In other words, it undid all of the bad work done by George Lucas in the intervening four decades, during which he’s championed his ever-evolving Special Edition of the movie »
- Charlie Lyne
Film Review: ‘Time Was Endless’
5 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
A terrific idea is unevenly realized in Sergio Andrade and Fabio Baldo’s disappointing “Time Was Endless,” an attempt to explore the limbo of a young Amazonian native caught between tribal life and the modernity of Manaus. Striving for, but unable to approach, the lyricism of Andrade’s 2012 feature debut, “Jonathas’ Forest” (which was edited by Baldo), the pic needs a tighter script to tie together the awkwardly assembled elements of metafiction, drama and magical realism. Notwithstanding strong scenes, especially at the start, “Time” won’t be stopping long on the fest merry-go-round, though a gay component assures some rotation on the Lgbt circuit.
There’s much promise in the opening sequences, in which tribesmen sedate fire ants and then insert the insects into a specially woven mitt used in an initiation ritual on 11-year-old Anderson (Thiago Almeida). Shot like a documentary, yet without the usual exoticizing elements that so »
- Jay Weissberg
Pat Conroy Dies: ‘Prince Of Tides’ Author Was 70
6 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Pat Conroy, whose novels of family dysfunction were turned into the Oscar-nominated films Conrack, The Great Santini and Prince of Tides, has died of pancreatic cancer. He was 70. Doubleday, Conroy’s publisher According to his publisher, Conroy died today at home in Beaufort, South Carolina with his family present. A leading figure in Southern Literature, Conroy was born to a military family in Atlanta in 1945, his family moving constantly throughout his youth but… »
Pat Conroy, Author of ‘The Prince of Tides,’ ‘The Great Santini,’ Dies at 70
7 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Pat Conroy, the South Carolina author of bestsellers including “The Prince of Tides,” “The Great Santini” and “The Lords of Discipline,” died Friday in Beaufort, S.C. He was 70 and had been battling pancreatic cancer.
Conroy was known for his family novels and memoirs that were often based on his life and featured a lush, florid writing style.
Conroy’s wife, novelist Cassandra Conroy, said in a statement, “The water is wide and he has now passed over.”
“The Prince of Tides” was adapted as a 1986 film starring Nick Nolte and Barbra Streisand. “The Great Santini,” which was made into a film starring Robert Duvall, was drawn from Conroy’s experiences as the oldest of seven children of an abusive Marine Corps colonel.
The 1980 adaptation of “The Lords of Discipline” was also inspired by his life, as a cadet at the Citadel military academy.
His other books included “My Losing Season, »
- Pat Saperstein
Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s ‘Sandman’ Advances With ‘Conjuring 2’ Writer
10 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Eric Heisserer has been hired to write the script for New Line’s “The Sandman,” with Joseph Gordon-Levitt directing and starring.
The project was set up at Warner Bros. in 2013 with Gordon-Levitt coming aboard to produce with “The Dark Knight” screenwriter David Goyer for an adaptation of the DC Comics title. At the time, Gordon-Levitt had made his feature directorial debut on “Don Jon” and was eyeing the project as a possible directing and starring vehicle.
“The Sandman” was published by DC Comics for 75 issues between 1989 and 1996. It centers on the character Dream, also known as the Lord of Dreams, Morpheus, Oneiros, the Shaper, the Shaper of Form, Lord of the Dreaming, the Dream King, Dream-Sneak, Dream Cat, Murphy, Kai’ckul and Lord L’Zoril.
At the start of the series, the Morpheus character was captured and held prisoner for 70 years before escaping into the modern day and rebuilding his kingdom, »
- Dave McNary
Sony Flush With 2017 Franchises With ‘The Dark Tower’, ‘Bad Boys 3’, Barbie & Maybe ‘MIB23’ Slotted
10 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Sony’s The Dark Tower is now really real. Days after Stephen King tweeted his blessing and a confirmation that Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey are firmed to square off in the leads, Sony Pictures just staked the 2017 Presidents Day weekend for a global launch of the first installment of the Nikolaj Arcel-directed epic fantasy. The studio has also set Bad Boys 3, with Joe Carnahan directing a reteam of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, for June 2, 2017, and it has set Barb… »
Free Latin American VOD Platform Retina Latina Launches
11 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
In an unprecedented bid, six film institutes from Mexico and Central America have pooled their resources to jointly launch Retina Latina, a free-of-charge VOD streaming platform of feature films, shorts and docus from their respective countries. The new initiative addresses the paltry exchange and distribution of Latino pics within the region. The film institutes of Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay have banded together for the initiative, with Colombia’s Proimagenes handling its administration and Banco Interamericano de Desarollo (Bid) providing support.
Retina Latina launches at the Cartagena Intl. Film Festival on March 4 and at its Mexican counterpart, Guadalajara, on March 8. The new streaming platform will include news and information on audiovisual projects across the region.
The Retina Latina slate offers a range of films, shorts and docus dating ranging from the late ’80s to as recent as three years ago, said Yenny Alexandra Chaverra from the film office »
- Anna Marie de la Fuente
Qumra's class of 2015 see boost for their films
11 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
As Qumra kicks off its second edition with 33 new projects selected (see the full list here), here are updates from several projects selected for the inaugural edition in 2015.Degrade, Arab and Tarzan Abunasser’s story of 12 women in a Gaza hair salon, was selected for C
As Qumra kicks off its second edition with 33 new projects selected (see the full list here), here are updates from several projects selected for the inaugural edition in 2015.
Degrade, Arab and Tarzan Abunasser’s story of 12 women in a Gaza hair salon, was selected for Cannes’ Critics Week soon after its presentation in Qumra, and went on to screen at other festivals including Toronto, London and Dubai. Elle Driver handles sales.
Mountain (pictured), João Salaviza’s Portugal-set coming-of-age story, was a world premiere in Venice Critics’ Week and went on to screen in San Sebastian and Rotterdam.
Frenzy, Emin Alper’s drama about two brothers in upheaval in Istanbul, had its world »
- wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
Mandalay Bolsters Slate Following ‘Birth of a Nation’ Sale (Exclusive)
11 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Mandalay Pictures has unveiled a trio of new projects shepherded by VP Jason Michael Berman following the Sundance sale of Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation,” Variety has learned exclusively.
Mandalay recently bought David M. Crabtree’s script “Phasic,” which follows a young woman who is pursued by a group of supernatural hitmen after she gains the power to transform physical objects with her imagination. Crabtree, a Clio Award-winning commercial director, also wrote “For All Time” for Lionsgate.
Mandalay has also purchased “Apex” from Black List writers Dan Frey and Russell Sommer, centering on an up-and-coming female Mma fighter sidelined by a devastating injury. When a cutting-edge genetic research company offers her a unique chance to step back into the ring, she has to fight to keep her humanity alive.
Frey and Sommer developed “Apex” with visual effects expert Steven Ilous, who will direct. Ilous worked on “The »
- Dave McNary
How Mark Rylance Got An Oscar For ‘Bridge Of Spies’ Without Ever Stepping Onto The Campaign Circuit
11 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Final Notes On The Season column of 2015-16: The postmortems are winding down on the just-finished awards season as winning campaigns pat themselves on the back, while losing campaigns hold meetings to figure out what went wrong. There was one Oscar handed out Sunday night, however, that was about as pure as you can get in this era of hand-shaking lunches, brunches, dinners, receptions and Q&As, in which campaigning for Oscars is virtually indistinguishable from running… »
Hulu strikes for streaming rights to 'Malala'
11 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
The digital platform has announced its second deal in a week as it ramps up its acquisition activity.
Following an agreement with National Geographic Channels, the Los Angeles-based company has acquired exclusive streaming rights to Davis Guggenheim’s He Named Me Malala.
The documentary presents a portrait of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Pakistani teenager and female education advocate Malala Yousafzai before and after she was shot by the Taliban as she returned from school.
Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald and Guggenheim produced, while executive producers are Mohamed Al Mubarak and Michael Garin from Image Nation Abu Dhabi, Jeff Skoll from Participant Media and Shannon Dill.
He Named Me Malala received its global television premiere on National Geographic Channel and Nat Geo Mundo this week. Hulu will stream the film to subscribers this summer.
Fox Searchlight distributed the film theatrically last autumn in association with Image Nation Abu Dhabi and Participant Media, with [link=co »
- jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
Superhero Bits: Superman Cameo in Wonder Woman, Lori Petty’s Gotham Role & More
11 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Who is Lori Petty playing on Gotham and why does she look like a female Joker? How does Batman v Superman‘s new Batman feel about metahumans? Will Henry Cavill have a cameo in Wonder Woman? How can you try to get a third season for Young Justice? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits. […]
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- Ethan Anderton
Film Review: ‘The Prison in Twelve Landscapes’
11 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
More than 2.2 million people are incarcerated in the United States, up from 300,000 people 40 years ago, but not only are stats like those absent from Brett Story’s inspired documentary, “The Prison in Twelve Landscapes,” the actual prisons are missing as well. Rather than examine the prison-industrial complex from the inside, Story crisscrosses the country and attacks the issue from varied and surprising angles — some as direct as a Kentucky mining town kept afloat by a federal pen, others as roundabout as a Los Angeles playground designed to ward off registered sex offenders. While the doc eventually tilts into righteous anger, its ingenious conceit subtly and artfully registers how mass incarceration affects society in ways the public can’t always see. The conceptual hook may confine its appeal, but “The Prison in Twelve Landscapes” is poised to tunnel into more adventurous festivals and outlets after its True/False premiere.
Composed of 12 vignettes, »
- Scott Tobias
‘Sing Street’ Clip: Hear the First Single from Your New Favorite ’80s Rock Band
12 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
One of our favorite movies at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival back in January was Sing Street from director John Carney. In my review from the festival, yours truly called the movie “marvelous, delightful and just plain great.” You’ve probably already seen the trailer for this flick that comes straight from the heart of the […]
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- Ethan Anderton
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