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Hannibal Buress Joins ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ (Exclusive)
46 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Hannibal Buress is joining the cast of Sony and Marvel’s “Spider-Man: Homecoming.”
Tom Holland will play Peter Parker in the reboot with Marisa Tomei taking on Aunt May. Michael Keaton is also on board for the role of a villain. Other actors who have joined the cast over the last several weeks include Logan Marshall-Green, Donald Glover, Zendaya and Tony Revolori.
Sony and Marvel had no comment.
Jon Watts is on board to direct with Amy Pascal and Kevin Feige producing. Plot details are still being heavily guarded as is Buress’ character. “Vacation” directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein penned the script.
Production is expected to start this summer with the film hitting theaters on July 7, 2017.
Buress, a stand-up comedian, has recently shifted gears to film, with upcoming roles in some of next year’s more anticipated comedies. First he has “The Masterpiece,” opposite Dave and James Franco, »
- Justin Kroll
Eli Roth To Make Studio Debut With ‘Death Wish’ Remake Starring Bruce Willis
4 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Revenge is one of drama’s great motivators. From “Hamlet” to “Captain America: Civil War,” it’s often the main driver of a plot in films of all kinds, but the 1970s saw the development of a particular sub-strain of Revenge Movie, films that reflected the anger drawn from a society haunted by Vietnam and Watergate and […]
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- Oliver Lyttelton
Aron Coleite Tapped By Fox To Adapt Iconic Japanese Graphic Novel ‘Amulet’
5 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Exclusive: Aron Coleite has been tapped by 20th Century Fox to adapt iconic Japanese graphic novel Amulet. Temple Hill Entertainment is producing at Fox with Ryan Jones and Mark Roybal the overseeing execs for Fox. Amulet is a graphic novel series illustrated and written by Kazu Kibuishi. The series follows the adventures of Emily Hayes, who after moving to their great-grandfather’s house in the town of Norlen, discovers and wears the magical amulet that uses magical… »
Back fur more: Paddington films set for third instalment
6 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
StudioCanal reveals it is ‘committed’ to a second sequel to the hit 2014 animation even though the second chapter not due for release until next year
Crack open a celebratory jar of marmalade: Paddington Bear is likely to be tottering to the big screen for a third time, according to Variety.
The intellectual property rights for the orphan ursidae have been adopted by StudioCanal. According to its chairman-ceo Didier Lupfer, the company is “committed” to pawing a third Paddington film out of Michael Bond’s books. There are also plans – still fuzzy – to launch a new animated TV series.
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- Henry Barnes and agencies
Magnolia’s ‘Tickled’ Snickers To Top Debut in Slow Weekend: Specialty Box Office
19 June 2016 9:59 AM, PDT | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Once again, a doc topped the Specialty box office, as Magnolia's Sundance pic Tickled tied up a decent debut in two theaters on both coasts, grossing $24K. Tickled showed some luster in an otherwise slow weekend for the limited release slate. TWC/Dimension opened thriller Clown in 100 theaters without much fanfare, while Wonder Films gave Seoul Searching a bow in a single location, grossing $6,780. The Orchard's doc The Music Of Strangers had a solid expansion in its… »
Catherine Deneuve to Receive the 2016 Lumière Award
12 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Paris — Legendary French actress Catherine Deneuve will receive the 8th Lumière Award at France’s 2016 Lumière Grand Lyon Film Festival, a unique event which focuses near totally on film classics.
Clint Eastwood, Quentin Tarantino, Pedro Almodovar and Martin Scorsese figure among past recipients of the Lumière Award. They all travelled to Lyon to pick up the award, granted by Lyon’s Institut Lumière, run by French director Bertrand Tavernier and Cannes head Thierry Fremaux.
“This year’s Lumière Award goes to Catherine Deneuve for what she is, has done, says, acts, sings and delights from time immemorial and forever,” the Institut Lumière said Monday in a press statement.
“The face of French cinema,” according to Scorsese, Deneuve’s career is remarkable for its longevity, great films, the directors she has worked with, and the contrasting facets of a figure which confounds easy categorisation.
Deneuve began making films before France’s Nouvelle Vague, »
- John Hopewell and Elsa Keslassy
‘Straight Outta Compton’ Writer Andrea Berloff Heads to ‘The Kitchen’
5 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
New Line has hired “Straight Outta Compton” screenwriter Andrea Berloff to adapt the Vertigo comic “The Kitchen,” Variety has learned exclusively.
Berloff and Jonathan Herman were nominated for an Academy Award and Writer’s Guild Award for their “Straight Outta Compton” screenplay earlier in 2016.
“The Kitchen” is based on the comic book series by Ollie Masters and Ming Doyle for Vertigo from DC Entertainment. It’s a classic gangster story with fresh point of view with a group of Irish mobsters sent to prison and their wives take over their jailed spouses’ organized crime operations to become the most ruthless and powerful gangsters in 1970’s Hell’s Kitchen.
Specifics of the plot are being held under wraps, but the adaptation will be faithful to the comic.
In 2006, Berloff made her feature debut and wrote the screenplay for the film “World Trade Center,” directed by Oliver Stone.
Berloff is represented by CAA, »
- Dave McNary
Paul Cox Dies: Australian Indie Film Legend Passes Away at Age 76
19 June 2016 9:53 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Australian filmmaker Paul Cox has died at 76. Regarded as an icon of Aussie cinema — an especially impressive feat considering he was born in the Netherlands and didn’t make his way Down Under until he was 25 — Cox directed a total of 31 feature films: 12 documentaries and 19 narratives. “Innocence,” “Man of Flowers” and “A Woman’s Tale” were among his best-known works. No cause of death has been given, though Cox did survive cancer in 2009 after receiving a liver transplant.
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As noted in a comprehensive RogerEbert.com tribute, Cox once said in an interview that “to also realize we’re going to die one day, to ask questions about death is very important because that makes you more alive and it makes you more of a decent human being.” Full name Paulus Henrique Benedictus Cox, he was born on April 16, 1940 in Venlo and had a »
- Michael Nordine
Jeffrey Katzenberg On How 3D Became A Gimmick, Large Format’s Future & Why It’s All Baseball
12 minutes ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Jeffrey Katzenberg may be exiting the traditional movie business after 40 years, but the exec still has something to say about what's to come for the film industry. During an executive roundtable on the future of cinema at CineEurope today, he said, "I don't think there has been a time with a greater opportunity for innovation to take a legacy business and be able to transform it." Katzenberg was addressing an audience made up largely of European exhibitors at the… »
Film Review: ‘The Death of Louis Xiv’
19 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
If Robert Rossellini gave us “The Taking of Power by Louis Xiv,” then Catalan director Albert Serra offers a bookend of sorts by watching as power is taken from the Sun King — literally, in “The Death of Louis Xiv,” a claustrophobic and often grimly funny procedural that stays largely confined to the bedside of the debilitated monarch (played by Jean-Pierre Léaud) as he deteriorates during his final days, endlessly poked and prodded by the big medical brains of his court.
Closer to the waggish spirit of Serra’s first two features — the “Don Quixote” riff “Honor of the Knights” (2006) and “Birdsong” (2008), a deadpan take on the Three Wise Men — than it is to his arthritic 2013 Locarno winner, “The Story of My Death” (which incorporated elements of the Casanova and Dracula legends), “The Death of Louis Xiv” continues the director’s overall project of bringing larger-than-life figures down to human scale, »
- Ben Kenigsberg
‘The Lovers and the Despot’ Trailer: One of the Most Unbelievable True Stories in Cinema History
36 minutes ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
The story chronicled in the new documentary The Lovers and the Despot sounds like a joke, which only makes the truth of it feel all the weirder and all the more horrifying. In 1978, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il abducted South Korean director Shin Sang-ok and actress Choi Eun-hee (who were estranged lovers) and forced them to help […]
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- Jacob Hall
Noomi Rapace Joins ‘Alien: Covenant’
39 minutes ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Exclusive: Even though Noomi Rapace emerged from Prometheus as one of the few survivors and the one who seemed to most want to follow the adventure forward with Michael Fassbender’s character, it was long reported she would not be back to reprise her role as Elizabeth Shaw in Ridley Scott’s next installment Alien: Covenant. Maybe that has changed. Sources say Rapace is in Australia and on the set to shoot weeks worth of scenes in Scott’s film, which brings back Fassbender… »
Oscar Winner Ellen Burstyn Inks With ICM Partners
46 minutes ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Exclusive: Ellen Burstyn, the Oscar, Tony and Emmy winner who has been on a great TV role roll of late on the likes of Netflix’s House Of Cards and as Allison Janney’s mom on CBS’ Mom, has signed with ICM Partners. Burstyn became only the third woman in history to win the Tony Award and the Academy Award in the same year, for her work in Bernard Slade's Same Time, Next Year on Broadway and in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, which earned her the Best… »
‘Behind The Glass’ Thriller Set With Director Assaf Bernstein
48 minutes ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Exclusive: Assaf Bernstein, who wrote and directed the Mossad spy thriller The Debt and helmed the Israeli TV series Fauda, will make his U.S. directorial debut with Behind the Glass. The psychological thriller hails from Ace in the Hole Productions, Primary Wave Entertainment and Dana Lustig Productions. Behind the Glass centers on Maria, a shy and reclusive 18-year-old alienated by her parents and known as an outcast by her high school peers. Her only confidant is her… »
‘Spider-Man’ Animated Movie Gets Director
1 hour ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
As shooting gets underway on Spider-Man: Homecoming, Sony is taking a big step forward with its other upcoming feature about the webslinger. Sony Pictures Animation announced today that Bob Persichetti will direct the Spider-Man animated movie first announced last year. The project has been developing with producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller; Lord also wrote the screenplay. Avi Arad and Amy […]
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- Angie Han
‘Ghostbusters: Ecto Force’ Animated Series in the Works; Fan Backlash Imminent
1 hour ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
If you just can’t with this female-led “Ghostbusters” reboot, then perhaps today’s news that Sony Pictures Animation is creating a new animated installment in the franchise will be more to your liking. The studio has made its plans for 2017-18, with the animated series “Ghostbusters: Ecto Force” among its forthcoming offerings.
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“We are meaningfully stepping up our level of production, while creating an environment that fosters the best talent,” said Kristine Belson, President of Sony Pictures Animation. “Our goal is to enlarge our presence in the animation landscape with a uniquely diverse slate, and our strategy to get there is to let artists drive the movies creatively.” Spa also has “Hotel Transylvania” and “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” TV shows in the works.
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- Michael Nordine
Horror Fan Favorite ‘JeruZalem’ Gets Sequel With Virtual Reality Element
1 hour ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Exclusive: Writer/directors Doron and Yoav Paz are moving forward on a sequel for the horror fan favorite JeruZalem — with a twist. This time around, the filmmakers are incorporating an extensive virtual reality component in which viewers can immerse themselves in the film. Financier and distributor Epic Pictures Group, headed by CEO Patrick Ewald and Co-Founder Shaked Berenson, greenlighted the film with those elements in place. This comes as other filmmakers and… »
‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ Exclusive Special Feature Clip: See a Bonus Scene Not In The Movie
1 hour ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Richard Linklater’s latest film “Everybody Wants Some!!” follows a group of college baseball players over the course of one weekend in 1980. Our audience surrogate is Jake (Blake Jenner), a hotshot high school pitcher, who soon meets his rambunctious teammates, who include the smooth-talker Finnegan (Glen Powell), cocky star pitcher Glen McReynolds (Tyler Hoechlin), stoner transfer student Willoughby (Wyatt Russell), and more. During his introduction to the campus lifestyle, Jake eventually meets Beverley (Zoey Deutch), an outgoing performing arts major, who shows him the ways of the artsy side of college life. Amidst all the drinking and competition, Jake witnesses how a malleable environment can beget individual adaptation, and how the mix-and-match qualities of college all but beg a student to embrace their own fluidity of self. Watch an exclusive clip from the “Everybody Wants Some!! More Stuff That’s Not In The Movie” special feature off the upcoming Blu-ray »
- Vikram Murthi
‘Ghostbusters’ Animated TV Series Coming in 2018
1 hour ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
It’ll be a few more weeks before we see how Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters has turned out, but Sony isn’t waiting to double down on that property. Sony Pictures Animation has just announced a new Ghostbusters animated TV series to hit in 2018, titled Ghostbusters: Ecto Force. The biggest twist? This new show will be set in the year 2050 […]
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- Angie Han
‘Warcraft’ Is the Most Successful Video Game Movie of All Time
1 hour ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
If you live in the U.S., you might reasonably have assumed that Duncan Jones‘ Warcraft was an epic flop. After all, it’s scraped together a paltry $37 million in its first two weekends playing at home — a mere fraction of the $160 million it cost to make. But you’d be wrong. In truth, not only is Warcraft […]
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- Angie Han
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