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Box Office: ‘Finding Dory’ Swims to Record $9.2 Million on Thursday Night
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“Finding Dory” has opened with a record-breaking $9.2 million on Thursday night.
The Disney/Pixar sequel had the biggest Thursday debut of all time for an animated film, easily topping “Minions” ($6.2 million) and “Despicable Me 2” ($4.7 million) as well as Diseny-Pixar hits “Toy Story 3” ($4 million) and “Inside Out” ($3.7 million). It also more than double the Thursday night launch of Disney’s “The Jungle Book” at $4.2 million.
Action-comedy “Central Intelligence,” teaming Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart, launched with a solid $1.8 million during Thursday previews.
“Dory,” the sequel to “Finding Nemo,” will easily top $100 million, and may debut with more than $115 million in 4,305 North American theaters this weekend. That would establish a new opening record for a Disney/Pixar release, topping “Toy Story 3’s” $110 million launch in 2010.
“Dory” may even challenge 2007’s “Shrek the Third,” which currently holds the record for the largest North American opening weekend for an animated movie with $121.6 million. »
- Dave McNary
‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Headed To Comic-Con
15 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
James Gunn and Chris Pratt took to Facebook Live today from the set of Disney/Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2, where the director officially wrapped Pratt’s portion of the 90-day shoot. The pic has a May 5, 2017 release date, which would make it a prime candidate to make an appearance at the annual San Diego Comic-Con this summer. Gunn confirmed the pic’s travel plans in the video. “We … are coming to San Diego Comic-Con this year — we’re gonna be there, I’m gonna… »
'Finding Dory' Set to Break the Animated Opening Weekend Record
21 hours ago | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
Six weeks into Summer 2016 and it has been over a month since the domestic box office last saw a $100+ million opener, but that trend stops this weekend. Disney and Pixar's Finding Dory is looking to not only put a little jolt into the 2016 summer box office, it's also targeting a new opening weekend record for an animated feature. Also looking to make an impact this weekend is the new Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart comedy Central Intelligence while last weekend's top film, The Conjuring 2, looks to deliver a solid second weekend after a strong, $40+ million opening. »
- Brad Brevet
Logan Marshall-Green Joins ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ In Villain Role, Martin Starr Boards Too
20 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Logan Marshall-Green has always seemed to be on the cusp of breaking out, alternating between blockbusters (“Prometheus“) and indie flicks (“Madame Bovary,” this year’s lean and mean thriller “The Invitation“) with nothing quite clicking. His time may come with upcoming Cinemax series “Quarry,” but whether or not that show connects, the folks at Sony and […]
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- Kevin Jagernauth
Lady Gaga Looking Like A Strong Match With Bradley Cooper In ‘A Star Is Born’
20 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Exclusive: Things are progressing toward Lady Gaga teaming with Bradley Cooper in the Warner Bros remake of A Star Is Born. Deadline revealed this pairing back on May 2, that this was the reason why paparazzi got pics of Cooper, taking a motorcycle ride to a restaurant for dinner, with none other than Lady Gaga hanging on to him for dear life. The update here is they tested and the studio loved the results. I can tell you reliably that she was the one actress he went to… »
Buckle Your Seat Belt: Dame Helen Mirren Joins the Cast of 'Fast 8'
15 June 2016 11:27 AM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
I am overjoyed to be writing this next sentence. Academy Award winner Dame Helen Mirren has just joined the cast of Fast 8. Yes. Really! My god. Helen Mirren and Charlize Theron together at last. How will one screen be able to handle such awesome woman power? Mirren, who recently joined the Winchester Mystery House thrilled, broke the news to Elle Magazine while promoting her next film. They wrote: Next up: Mirren will head into the Fast and Furious franchise, joining Vin Diesel and crew for the eighth film in the series, out in 2017. While both the actress and Diesel have teased her involvement, reportedly as the movie's villain, Mirren exclusively confirmed her casting to us as she discussed her career and what she learned from making Eye In The Sky. Eye in the Sky is a military-themed thriller focusing on drone strikes, but Mirren is no stranger to action. She starred in 2010's Red and its sequel Red 2. "I like [film] to be serious. Of course, having said that I'm about to do Fast and Furious 8. But that's for the fun of it," she told Elle. "So maybe that's what I want as well, some fun and some relevant, serious, important movies." Considering the role automobiles play in the franchise, Elle asked her if she was a fan of cars: Well, yes. I've always rather loved driving. I said, 'I'll be in it, but only if I'm allowed to drive if I do drive in it.' But we'll see. We'll see how it transpires. Film is a wonderful thing and it can be so many different things. I don't want to turn my back on any of the different ways movies can be. I love the movies. I love going to the films. I like very serious films, I love foreign films, and I love big, fun movies–as long as they're well made and they've got good scripts. That's the most important thing. Yes. Good. This time around the film is being directed by F. Gary Gray and set for an April 14, 2017 release. Scott Eastwood and Kristofer Hivju (aka Tormund from Game of Thrones) recently joined the cast which reportedly includes Vin Diesel, Kurt Russell, Michelle Rodriguez, Dwayne Johnson, Tyrese Gibson, Chris Bridges, Lucas Black, Ruby Rose, Jason Statham, Eva Mendes, Ronda Rousey, and Joanna J?drzejczyk. The ninth and tenth installments of the franchise have already been announced and given release dates. »
- Jill Pantozzi
Annecy: Tom McGrath Unveils Alec Baldwin-Starrer ‘Boss Baby’
21 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Annecy — For years, CG animation has driven to emulate reality. Technological standards are now so high, however, that animation can now begin to emulate art, even the squash and stretch comedy of hand-drawn classics.
One result: DreamWorks Animation’s “The Boss Baby,” starring Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Jimmy Kimmel and Lisa Kudrow, set for a March 2017 release via 20th Century Fox. Directed by Tom McGrath, helmer of the “Madagascar” movies and “Mastermind,” “Boss Baby” had an Annecy audience in stitches at a June 16 sneak preview which unveiled a clutch of never-seen-before sequences to a privileged audience including Guillermo del Toro.
McGrath’s peformance-led comedy style goes with his territory. He watched “Bugs Bunny” with his dad on Saturday mornings. “I laughed at the slapstick, my father at the dialogue,” he recalled, presenting “The Boss Baby” to an Annecy Fest audience. He graduated from the character animation program at Cal Arts. At the time, the old Disney animators, such as Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, as well as Chuck Jones, were still teaching there.
“Now we’re kind of going back to our roots in animation and looking to the past to move forward,” McGrath said. “‘Boss Baby’ is very much a cartoony sensibility. There’s a lot of squash and stretch. In “Madagascar,” while many animators on other films were emulating live action, pushing for realistic lighting and textures, “we really wanted to do something cartoony, but the technology wasn’t quite there. Rigs broke if squished too much.
“But as we progressed the technology got better, and what was a lost art became hip again, McGrath added, citing Genndy “Hotel Transylvania” and Doug Sweetland’s “Presto.
”’Boss Baby’ is the first film where I could capture things that 2D was able to capture sixty years ago,” he enthused.
That was seen in the sequences McGrath unveiled at Annecy. Written by Michael McCullers, “Boss Baby” is narrated from the Pov and imagination of a seven-year-old kid, Tim, who gets a baby brother.
In a first sequence shown at Annecy, which McGrath screened to whoops of applause, Tim happens upon baby brother in his cradle, in a executive suit, talking by phone. “I know how important this mission is. You’ve got the right man on the job,” the baby is saying by phone, telling Tim straight off when he realises he’s been outed that he’s the boss, not Tim, and there’s only so much love to go round.
Boss Baby has been sent by Baby Corp. to investigate an evil plot of PuppyCo., to put babies out of business in favour of pets. He spouts businessese: “Think outside the box,” “If you think you can, or if you think you can’t — you’re right,” a Henry Ford dictum. When their parents are captured, however, the siblings finally pull together.
“The theme of the movie, and I don’t think it’s a spoiler, is that there’s plenty of love to go round and it’s not about getting love but giving love,” McGrath said in Annecy.
Looking back to “The Lady and the Tramp” and “Peter Pan,” backgrounds are more “impressionistic,” in “Boss Baby,” McGrath said. “That means you can focus your eye on where to look.
One example: In one climax sequence, as the young brothers escape from the villain’s brother, Eugene, disguised as a nanny. they do so cycling through a white picket suburb, set against a broad stretch of blue sky and green grass.
One pudgy baby friend, Jimbo, has the body of as mini sumo wrestler. As boss baby and elder bro escape to get to Vegas to save their parents, Eugene running after the babies in frantic pursuit attempting to grab a firetruck with Jimbo in it. But it runs away from him down the road, Eugene’s body stretching in desperation as he tries to hold on.
For McGrath, current animation is rapidly widening its gamut. “As Guillermo del Toro put it in his masterclass yesterday at Annecy, animation is not a genre but a medium. There are a lot of different works: Drama, horror, adult-oriented stuff,” McGrath said.
And there are a lot different looks, he added: “‘Madagascar’ is very different from ‘Dragons’ which is very different from ‘Voltron’ which is very different from ‘Trollhunters.’
If McGrath is right, as in live-action, a future animated movie’s success is likely to depend more and more not on its being the latest offering from a big Hollywood studio but on that movie’s originality.
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- John Hopewell and Emilio Mayorga
Lionsgate, Anil Kapoor plot 'Red' remake for India
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The studio announced on Friday morning it is moving ahead with a Hindi-language version of the hit action comedy.
Kapoor will collaborate through his production vehicle Akfc Network and said the property contained key elements that appealed to the Indian market.
Red will mark Lionsgate’s second remake in India after Brothers. The film is based on a graphic novel and opened in 2010 via Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment label starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren.
It grossed $90.4m in North America and $108.6m internationally for just shy of $200m worldwide. A sequel in 2013 managed $53.3m in North America but still performed well internationally on $98.8m.
Akfc Network and Lionsgate are finalising the cast for the film, which is scheduled to begin production in August.
“We’re delighted to partner with our friend Anil Kapoor, a huge brand name with Indian audiences, in the remake of our box office blockbuster Red,” said Lionsgate »
- jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
Paramount Acquires Black List Script ‘Do No Harm’ By Julia Cox
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Exclusive: Paramount Pictures has acquired Do No Harm, a script by Julia Cox that made the Black List. Joel Silver produces with Ethan Erwin and Sarah Meyer overseeing for Silver Pictures. Script is an erotic thriller in the vein of Unfaithful and Fatal Attraction, and it's drawing interest from talent. Cox is separately developing an untitled feature with The Firm and The Pursuit of Happyness director Gabriele Muccino and her other Black List script, The Takeaway, is set… »
Dean Devlin on ‘Stargate’ Reboot: ‘It’s to Let Us Finish Telling Our Story’
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Two years before “Independence Day” blasted the doors off the box office, Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin were already exploring alien life with “Stargate.”
The film went on to gross almost $200 million worldwide and spawned three live-action spinoff series, which ran for a cumulative 354 episodes.
“At the time that we made it, every single studio in Hollywood had told me that science fiction was dead,” Devlin recalls. “And Roland and I really love science fiction, so I think that’s partly why it worked and resonated. It wasn’t a cynical attempt to try and make something that was crowd-pleasing.”
Despite “Resurgence” being Emmerich’s first official sequel, “Stargate” was initially conceived as part of a trilogy, Devlin says, “and because of what happened with the rights and changes at the studio and all kinds of strange things, we never got to do parts two and three.”
Now the duo »
- Laura Prudom
‘Finding Dory’ Gets A Twisted Review From ‘The Onion,’ Analyzing Dory’s Crippling Amnesia — Watch
32 minutes ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
“Finding Dory” is already breaking records at the box office on its first day out. The Disney/Pixar film has taken in a massive $9.2 million in Thursday night showings in Us showings, a record total for a Pixar movie.
Critics have praised the sequel to “Finding Nemo” and overall has garnered positive reviews with journalist saying it will be a fun adventure for the whole family. Though, in an interesting twist, The Onion’s movie critic Peter K. Rosenthal is looking at “Finding Dory” from a different perspective.
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In his review, the journalist points out that the sequel is a “powerful indictment of how our societies failure to adequately care for the mentally disabled places an unbearable burden on the family and friends of those afflicted.” Talking about the plot, Rosenthal notes that those »
- Liz Calvario
‘Barry Lyndon’ New Trailer: Stanley Kubrick’s Classic Film Gets Update Treatment From the BFI – Watch
34 minutes ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Just as vibrant and urgent as it was when it debuted in 1975, Stanley Kubrick’s “Barry Lyndon” is perhaps the perfect historical epic to be re-introduced to a brand new audience. Masterfully crafted and featuring a slew of all-time performances (you’ve scarcely seen the full depth of Ryan O’Neal’s talents if you haven’t seen the feature), the Oscar- and BAFTA-winning film really does hold up (and it was overlooked during its own time), and the BFI is banking on that appeal to help send a new re-release over the top.
Read More: Watch: 19-Minute Look Back At Stanley Kubrick’s Overlooked Masterpiece ‘Barry Lyndon’
In advance of the new UK re-release of the film, the BFI and Warner Bros. commissioned Ignition Creative London to craft a new trailer for the film, one that builds in a contemporary feel without sacrificing the film’s authenticity (and includes »
- Kate Erbland
Vera Farmiga Follows ‘Conjuring 2’ By Boarding ‘The Commuter’ With Liam Neeson
35 minutes ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Exclusive: Vera Farmiga will star alongside Liam Neeson in The Commuter, the Studiocanal-backed thriller that will be directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and will start production this summer. Byron Willinger and Phil de Blasi wrote the script and Lionsgate is distributing in the U.S. The film is being produced by The Picture Company’s Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman. Farmiga will play a mysterious woman who boards a commuter train and proposes an enticing opportunity to… »
Tyler Hoechlin Is The New Small Screen Superman
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We learned earlier this month that Superman would finally be making an appearance in the second season of “Supergirl.” He had been teased through the first season, and was in touch at least digitally with his cousin Kara Danvers (Melissa Benoist), but now he’ll be getting an arc of sorts in the series, and the […]
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- Kevin Jagernauth
‘The Secret Life of Pets’ Review Roundup: Critics (Mostly) Go Wild for Animal Romp
38 minutes ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Pets! What do they do all day? Universal’s animation arm, Illumination Entertainment, has bravely tackled this exact question with its newest offering, “The Secret Life of Pets.” Directed by Chris Renaud and Yarrow Cheney, the film features an all-star cast of very funny voice talent, from Louis C.K. to Kevin Hart, Jenny Slate to Hannibal Burress, Lake Bell to Ellie Kemper and many, many more to tell the story of some house pets who go decidedly off the leash on a frisky adventure that pits them against a wily pack of unhappy animals. Here’s hoping for a happy ending.
Read More: ‘The Secret Life Of Pets’ Review: Talking Animals Are Fun, But Don’t Expect the Pixar Touch
The film recently bowed at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, where a bevy of outlets were chomping at the bit to get a first look at pets, being secret, »
- Kate Erbland
Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Edward Snowden Collaborate On Tech Video, Ask Fans To Help Create Art Project — Watch
44 minutes ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s production company HitRecord started a project called “Are You There, Democracy? It’s Me, The Internet,” which examines the power and influence technology can have over day-to-day democracy in modern society. HitRecord recently solicited answers from the public regarding the question, “Is technology good or bad for democracy?” Many have provided their own video responses to the question, but one special person provided his own thoughts that required a bit more attention. Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who leaked classified information from the Nsa that revealed the true nature of their global surveillance program, gave his answer to the question in which he ultimately expressed optimism about technology’s effect on democracy.
Inspired by Snowden’s response, Levitt and HitRecord are seeking help from fans, artists, and media collaborators alike to make a short film based off Snowden’s response. The idea is to visualize and »
- Vikram Murthi
How This Indie Filmmaker Explored the World of Fan Fiction to Find His Story of an Outsider
47 minutes ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Editor’s Note: Texas filmmaker and Dp Clay Liford has been on multi-year journey into the world of fan fiction to make his new film “Slash,” which premiered at SXSW and is screening Sunday night as part of the BAMcinemaFest. We asked Liford to reflect on his experience of finding his story. What we got was this wonderful essay about the joys of research and exploring a sub-culture in creating a unique cinematic world.
Read More: 12 Must-See Films at BAMCinemaFest 2016
I’ve always been attracted to characters who lived on the margins. Not necessarily outsiders with a capital “O.” Not your James Dean types. More just really passionate people heavily invested in things the general population may not really “get.” As a comic book convention kid who was pretty secretive about his nerdy interests all the way through high school, I felt the insular fandom community was the perfect conduit »
- Chris O'Falt
Long Way North review – mesmerising Arctic-set ripping yarn
48 minutes ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
In this moving and deftly realised animation, a feisty Russian girl goes in search of her missing grandfather
This girl’s own adventure would make the perfect entertainment for that niche, largely metropolitan market of parents who are keen on strong female role models and the kids who prefer Studio Ghibli movies to cartoons with Happy Meal merchandising.
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- Leslie Felperin
Exclusive: Clip From Crime Saga ‘Department Q: A Conspiracy Of Faith’ Finds The Light
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If you’re looking for something to add to your binge-watching schedule, or for a meaty crime saga to help pass the upcoming July 4th weekend, IFC Films has just the thing with their “Department Q” trilogy. They are bringing the Danish films stateside, and for anyone looking to dive into some intense thrillers, this will […]
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- Edward Davis
Action Comedy ‘Red’ Set For Indian Remake From Lionsgate, Anil Kapoor’s Akfc
1 hour ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
In its second adaptation for the Indian market, Lionsgate is teaming with Anil Kapoor's Akfc production banner on a Hindi version of Summit’s action comedy Red. Veteran Indian actor and producer Kapoor, whose screen credits include Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Slumdog Millionaire and Fox's 24, is a big brand at home where he also produces and stars in the local version of 24. Cast is being finalized for the Red redo with production beginning in August. There's no… »
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