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Box Office: ‘Zootopia’ Still King, ‘10 Cloverfield Lane’ Debuts Strong
20 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“Zootopia” remains king of the box office jungle this weekend, having crossed $100 million in domestic receipts after taking in $12 million on Friday, according to studio estimates.
The animated animal romp with a message should generate a healthy three-day total around $50 million from 3,827 locations in its second frame. Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason Bateman star.
In second place is Paramount thriller 10 Cloverfield Lane, which took in $9 million on its opening day and ought to wrap up its first weekend with up to $23 million. Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Goodman star in the follow-up to 2008’s “Cloverfield,” which grossed $170 million worldwide. The film is benefiting from strong word of mouth; one Variety pundit suggests Goodman deserves Oscar attention for his turn.
Fox’s “Deadpool” and Focus/Gramercy’s “London Has Fallen” appear to be neck and neck for third place, with each expected to bring in about $10 million for the weekend after nabbing $3 million each on Friday. »
- Marianne Zumberge
‘Star Trek Beyond’ Reshoots Planned for Next Week with a New Cast Member Coming Aboard
17 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
With just four months until the film hits theaters on July 22nd, it appears Star Trek Beyond needs some adjustments before it hits the big screen. The sequel from director Justin Lin will be undergoing some reshoots, and along with that a new cast member is being added to the mix. Find out what’s going […]
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- Ethan Anderton
Half-Life and Portal Movies Are Still Happening, According To J.J. Abrams
16 hours ago | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Can you even think of a more dicey investment for a Hollywood studio than a video game adaptation? The genre has a long history of failures, and has remained more or less dormant over the last few years. That being said, adaptations of two of the most wildly popular modern video games may in fact become a reality very soon. Nerd emperor J.J. Abrams has just confirmed that adaptations of Half-Life and Portal are currently in development and will materialize at some point in the near future. Sitting down with IGN to promote 10 Cloverfield Lane, J.J. Abrams admitted that he’s currently taking part in the development of movies based upon Half-Life as well as Portal. However, when he was asked if he'd be filming soon he said: Not yet, but they're in development… And we've got writers, and we're working »
Why ‘The Brothers Grimsby’ Is Sacha Baron Cohen’s Grimmest Box Office Yet
16 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
The Brothers Grimsby, Sacha Baron Cohen’s fourth R-rated feature comedy vehicle stateside since 2008’s Borat, is looking at a grisly $3.1M debut this weekend at 2,235 theaters, marking a career box office low for the comedic actor. As the old saying goes, dying is easy and comedy is hard. Particularly with some of these raunchy comedies, they have a small target audience to hit and when they miss, they’re off by an enormous proportion. Although every comedy star has… »
‘Little Prince’ Director Mark Osborne Says Paramount Will No Longer Handle Film’s Us Release
15 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Paramount Pictures will no longer handle the U.S. release of “The Little Prince,” according to Mark Osborne, the animated film’s director. The film had been set for a March 18 release date. Osborne took to Twitter to announce the news, which was not confirmed by Paramount. “Many thanks to everyone for the outpouring of love and support in these strange times,” he wrote in a series of Tweets today. “As it turns out, the much anticipated U.S. release of this special and unique film will have to be anticipated just a little bit more. … All I can say is #thelittleprince will in fact. »
- Beatrice Verhoeven
SXSW Kicks Off with Mud Wrestling and Booze in Richard Linklater’s ‘Everybody Wants Some’
11 March 2016 9:45 PM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
SXSW Film opened with the world premiere of Everybody Wants Some on Friday night, complete with mud wrestling, booze and disco. That was just onscreen at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, but the antics inside the auditorium also got a little wild.
The audience was laughing and hooting throughout the Richard Linklater comedy, centered around a 1980 college baseball team, often over sips of beer (served at the laidback concession stand).
Festival director Janet Pierson introduced the film, reminding the crowd of the director’s Texas roots. Linklater set the evening’s screwball tone by pretending that the president (who had given a SXSW keynote speech earlier on Friday afternoon) had planned on attending. Then, on a projector screen, he showed a handwritten note that was supposedly from Obama, with scribbling in red ink: “I had a blast in college in 1980! Rock on – Barry.”
At the film’s after-party at the swanky South Congress Hotel, »
- Ramin Setoodeh
‘Scream Queens’ Season 2: Plot, Characters Revealed at PaleyFest
7 minutes ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
“According to the boss, we’re all going to be back,” Jamie Lee Curtis announced Saturday night at PaleyFest.
Curtis confirmed that among those joining her in the second season of Fox’s “Scream Queens” will be Billie Lourd, Abigail Breslin, Emma Roberts, Keke Palmer, Lea Michele and Niecy Nash. Curtis and others talked up the show during a lively discussion at the Dolby Theatre, moderated by Variety‘s Debra Birnbaum.
The serialized horror-comedy hails from the hyphenate trio behind “Glee”: Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan. Season one of “Scream Queens” proved to be a social media juggernaut if not a ratings monster for the network.
Falchuk revealed that season two’s previously announced hospital setting will draw inspiration from the classic horror franchise “Halloween,” which was partially set in a hospital and starred Curtis in four installments. Season two of the series will be filmed in Los Angeles, »
- Alyssa Sage
Saturday Night Live Review: Ariana Grande Hosts
1 hour ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Ariana Grande is shiny haired and beautiful and also fully believes in ghosts and one time licked a donut in a display case, and honestly, I’m kind of a fan of her whole weird vibe. Additionally, I enjoy how she has a tiny speaking voice and a huge singing voice, like Sister Mary Robert from Sister Act. And although tonight’s sketches were a little hit or miss, Ariana handled her hosting/musical guest double duty fairly well. Let’s dig in! Cold Open: CNN reporter Jake Tapper cuts between coverage of Donald Trump’s rally with Ben Carson and an interview with Bernie Sanders. Listen, I was going to miss Jay Pharaoh’s Dr. Ben Carson impersonation as much as the next SNL reviewer, but I would have rather never seen him again than watch another former Republican candidate throw his support behind this orange monster who won’t go away. »
- Emilie Sowers
SXSW Film Review: ‘Keanu’
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
A two-hour online cat-video binge would yield as many “awws” and probably far more laughs than “Keanu,” an initially amusing but fatally overstretched action-comedy that marks a lamer-than-expected big-screen outing for Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele following the conclusion last year of their frequently brilliant cable series. Enjoyable for a good 15 minutes or so, mostly due to the scene-stealing powers of the adorable, much-coveted kitty whose name gives the movie its title, this is otherwise a stale, repetitive effort whose one-joke premise — two suburban buddies forced to pass themselves off as gangsters in a grimy underworld where they clearly don’t belong — never achieves comic liftoff, much less the richly subversive dimensions typical of Key and Peele’s best work.
The Warner Bros./New Line release debuted as a “work-in-progress” at SXSW ahead of its planned April 29 release, though it would take more than a few technical tweaks to significantly improve what feels, »
- Justin Chang
SXSW: Key and Peele’s ‘Keanu’ Draws Mixed Reception at Midnight Screening
3 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
On Saturday night, South by Southwest unveiled a work-in-progress midnight showing of New Line’s “Keanu,” starring the Comedy Central duo Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele. But while the movie was at first met with hearty laughter in Austin, audience response was more mixed by the time the end credits rolled.
Some diehard fans waited as long as three hours for a seat inside the Paramount Theatre, but at least they had a chance to take home a keepsake. Jut as the movie began at 12:40 a.m., Key and Peele took the stage and tossed out cat stuffed animals into the crowd.
This was meant as a shout-out to the film’s star, an adorable feline who arrives on the doorstep of Peele’s recently single character. But after Keanu is kidnapped, the picture turns into a traditional police caper with dangerous drug lords, undercover cops and a cameo from Anna Faris, »
- Ramin Setoodeh
Keanu Review: Key & Peele deliver the kitten goods
5 hours ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
In some respects, Keanu shouldn’t work. Not as a feature film, in any event. One’s immediate, natural response to the trailer very well may be: “That can’t be real, can it?” It can. It is. And it is magical. The final film -- almost shockingly -- delivers on every promise that trailer makes -- and then some. The basic premise is that newly-dumped Rell [Jordan Peele] is brought back to life via the healing power of Keanu the kitten, only to lose him. He calls upon his cousin Clarence [Keegan-Michael Key] to get his puss back at all costs. Written by Peele and Alex Rubens and directed by Peter Atencio, Keanu is in many respects the extension of the extraordinary work this team does on the Comedy Central sketch series Key & Peele. Yet it never treads into the uncomfortable wasteland of a joke gone on too long. This is a tight script. »
- Roth Cornet
SXSW Film Review: ‘Hush’
6 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Silence is golden in “Hush,” one of the more inspired concoctions to emerge from the busy Blumhouse horror-thriller assembly line in recent years. Reuniting producer Jason Blum with his “Oculus” director Mike Flanagan, this simple cat-and-mouse game gets a big boost from a novel premise — the heroine is deaf — only to lose ground with a familiar follow-through and downright pedestrian third act. It would be a challenge to sell the pic’s admirably modest virtues to multiplex auds, making Netflix (who nabbed rights prior to the SXSW fest bow) an ideal venue to connect with genre fans able to appreciate the effort despite the flaws.
Maddie (Kate Siegel) lives a quiet life in a secluded house in the woods, with only a feline friend (lovingly dubbed Bitch) and the occasional drop-in from a chummy local (Samantha Sloyan) for company. That isolation provides the perfect environment to finish her next novel »
- Geoff Berkshire
Ariana Grande Drops Unexpected Profanity Into ‘SNL’ Monologue
6 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Singer and actress Ariana Grande surprised the “Saturday Night Live” audience and crew with an unexpected profanity during her monologue on the program, a slip that in the past has sparked controversy on the late-night program.
Grande used her opening moments on the NBC program to poke fun at her past as a child star on Nickelodeon, then transitioned into a musical number in which she pondered what sort of scandal she might eventually encounter. She appeared to flub a line, and in reaction, uttered the phrase “Oh, s–t” while continuing with the song.
Grande’s mistake was unscripted, according to a person familiar with the program, and was expected to be cleaned up for the show’s broadcast on the West Coast.
The celebrity’s stint on the show was otherwise winning. She seemed to really grab the audience during a sketch in which she did impressions of »
- Brian Steinberg
‘SNL': Hillary Clinton Morphs Into Bernie Sanders as Ariana Grande Says ‘S#!t’ (Video)
7 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
This will be remembered as the “Saturday Night Live” in which Kate McKinnon‘s Hillary Clinton was so eager to please, she morphed into Bernie Sanders — after Larry David turned up again as Bernie Sanders, too. Meanwhile Jay Pharaoh’s Ben Carson took a beating while trying to endorse Donald Trump (Darrell Hammond). Additionally, host/musical guest Ariana Grande accidentally said “shit” during a song about what scandal she would someday commit. Welcome to our recap. (Here’s Grande saying the offending word, as captured by the New York Times’ Dave Itzkoff:) The worst part about when the host of »
- Pat Healy
SXSW Film Review: ‘In a Valley of Violence’
7 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Walking a fine line between charming lark and smirking goof, Ti West’s “In a Valley of Violence” is a Western homage that has its heart in the genre, but not so much in the story. Stripping its gunslinger plot down to the most essential pillars, the film has plenty of incidental pleasures to offer: a few chuckles, some typically Westian explosions of violence, a deliriously fun score, and a pair of perfectly solid performances from Ethan Hawke and John Travolta. (The real standout performance, however, comes courtesy of Jumpy, the magnificent collie who stars as Hawke’s dog.) But there’s a nagging emptiness where its center ought to be, a feeling that what we’re watching isn’t a finished film so much a proof of concept, a skilled, slightly warped cover version of a familiar tune. West’s grasp of the rhythms and the grace notes of the Western idiom is undeniable, »
- Andrew Barker
Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards: Complete Winners List
7 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
There will be slime. Blake Shelton, a judge of NBC’s “The Voice” and the host of Saturday’s Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, was among those doused in green ooze for the annual show. John Stamos, Favorite Musical Group winners Fifth Harmony and Vine star Cameron Dallas also got their slime on during the ceremony. The show, broadcast from The Forum in Inglewood, Calif., featured musical performances by Charlie Puth, Wiz Khalifa, Silento and Dnce. Also Read: NFL Star Rob Gronkowski Set to Host Nickelodeon Series 'Crashletes' Here’s the complete list of winners. Favorite TV Show “The Thundermans” Favorite »
- Thom Geier
'Scream Queens': Main Cast to Return for Season 2
8 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Jamie Lee Curtis will be back! Scream Queens co-creator Brad Falchuk joined series stars Curtis, Emma Roberts, Lea Michele, Niecy Nash, Keke Palmer, Abigail Breslin and Billie Lourd at day two of PaleyFest. Panel moderator Debra Birnbaum jumped right in to revelations of season two for the cast, asking, "Who here is coming back?" As each cast member raised their hands, Curtis, who will reprise her role as Dean Cathy Munsch in season two, laid out the facts. "This is the first we’re revealing this much of the cast. We’re all coming back." The continuing story of the
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- Evan Slead
Cruz Wins Wyoming Caucuses, Rubio Takes Washington, DC
8 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Sen. Ted Cruz won nearly two-thirds of the vote in the Wyoming caucuses on Saturday, adding nine delegates in his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, the Associated Press reported. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio earned 19.5 percent of the vote, while Donald Trump claimed 7.2 percent — each picked up a single delegate. Meanwhile, Rubio narrowly edged out John Kasich in the Gop primary in Washington, D.C., taking 37.3 percent of the votes to the Ohio governor’s 35.5 percent. Rubio will pick up 10 delegates, while Kasich adds nine. Also Read: Charles Barkley, Kasich Backer, Bashes Gop: 'I'm Gonna Vote Democrat' If Kasich »
- Brian Flood
SXSW Film Review: ‘Donald Cried’
8 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Waterworks are sparse in “Donald Cried,” but there’s plenty of anxious, cringe-inducing humor to be found in writer-director-star Kris Avedisian’s comedy of discomfort. A return trip to his working-class Rhode Island birthplace produces only stress, guilt and regret for Peter (Jesse Wakeman), a Manhattan banker whose job settling the estate of his recently deceased grandmother is complicated first by the loss of his wallet, and then by a run-in with neighbor and former best friend Donald (Avedisian), who refuses to leaves him alone. Rife with awkward exchanges, absurd encounters, and an underlying sense of bitterness and shame, their ensuing saga — premiering at SXSW, and then showing in New Directors/New Films — is an amusingly squirm-inducing indie that, with the right marketing, should find its niche among connoisseurs of mortifying oddball ordeals.
Revisiting his old snow-covered stomping grounds for the first time in 20 years, Peter winds up in dire »
- Nick Schager
'In a Valley of Violence': SXSW Review
9 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
A bloody Western about a deadly man who's sworn off violence until his beloved dog is threatened, Ti West's In a Valley of Violence plays like a grim, Eastwood-style genre revival before some conspicuous Tarantino-influenced humor infects its climactic showdown. Ethan Hawke is excellent as the gunslinger in question, a cavalryman hoping to escape his shameful past in Mexico; the actor should draw attention to a picture whose appeal is similar to that of Bone Tomahawk, which bowed here at October's Fantastic Fest. Hawke's Paul is en route to Mexico when he stops in tiny Denton to get water
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- John DeFore
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