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'Finding Dory' #1 Again, Topping All Four of the Weekend's New Wide Releases Combined
19 hours ago | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
Twenty six weeks into 2016 and Disney's year continues to impress as the studio has the #1 film at the weekend box office for the twelfth time. Finding Dory topped the weekend chart with one of the ten best second weekends of all-time as the animated feature has now grossed over $286 million domestically and nearly $400 million worldwide. As for the weekend's new wide releases, the results weren't quite as pretty as three out of the four struggled in a competitive marketplace. Independence Day: Resurgence was unable to match the opening weekend of its 20-year-old predecessor, Free State of Jones didn't capture the attention of its target audience and The Neon Demon wasn't able to come close to expectations. The only bright spot among the weekend's new wide releases was the "terror in the water" thriller The Shallows, which scored well with audiences and critics, all on a meager budget. Taking the number »
- Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
John Boyega Hints at Upcoming Collaboration with ‘Attack the Block’ Director Joe Cornish
14 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
John Boyega has awakened. After his breakthrough performance in the latest “Star Wars” film, everyone’s favorite stormtrooper-turned-Resistance fighter was recently cast in both the upcoming sequel to “Pacific Rim” and Kathryn Bigelow’s untitled film about the Detroit riots of 1967. In a semi-cryptic tweet, Boyega has hinted at another collaboration with “Attack the Block” director Joe Cornish.
Read More: John Boyega To Star In Kathryn Bigelow’s Untitled Detroit Crime Drama
“Saw Joe Cornish the other day. Yes. We are brainstorming. #somethingnew,” the actor wrote yesterday. A cult favorite from 2011 that put Boyega on the map and saw him nominated for several first-time-performer awards, the sci-fi horror/comedy project wasn’t financially successful upon its initial release but amassed favorable reviews — and, not long later, a substantial following online.
Read More: John Boyega Will Play Lead Role In ‘Pacific Rim 2’
No details on the potential project are officially available, »
- Michael Nordine
Warner Bros. Wants Justin Lin to Direct the Live-Action ‘Akira’ Adaptation
17 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
For years, Warner Bros. has desperately been trying to figure out how to make a live-action adaptation of the iconic cyberpunk manga Akira. There have been various iterations of the project over the years, but the most recent attempt may finally get some traction. A report surfaced a year ago this month that Warner Bros. […]
The post Warner Bros. Wants Justin Lin to Direct the Live-Action ‘Akira’ Adaptation appeared first on /Film. »
- Ethan Anderton
50 Cent Arrested For Cursing in the Caribbean
17 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Don’t swear in Saint Kitts. 50 Cent learned that lesson after getting arrested for saying motherf—– during a performance of “P.I.M.P” on the Caribbean island Saturday night. TMZ reports that the rapper was warned not to use profanity before taking the stage at the St. Kitts Music Festival, but he disregarded the warnings. 50 Cent and a member of his entourage were arrested following the concert. Also Read: Fox News Suspends Contributors for Anti-Obama Profanity (Video) The Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force released the following statement on the arrest: “Curtis Jackson (50 cent) an American Rap artist who performed at the St. »
- Lawrence Yee
European Animation Awards To Launch In 2017
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Brexit notwithstanding, Europe looks set to have a new prize event, the European Animation Awards (Eaa), which are inspired by America’s Annie Awards and backed by many of the preeminent figures in Europe’s animation industry.
The new plaudits come after a period of “massive growth” of Europe’s animation industry, which merits broader kudos recognition, said Jean-Paul Commin, Eaa secretary general, who added that the United Kingdom “is and will remain, despite Brexit, an active player in our project.”
“There has been a huge improvement not only in the quantity but quality of animation in Europe. We have some of the best animation schools and European animated features are travelling better,” he said.
The first European Animation Awards gala ceremony will take place in 2017. Peter Lord, creative director of Aardman Animations and producer of many of Europe’s most-watched animated movies – such as the stop-motion “Chicken Run” and »
- Emilio Mayorga
‘Game of Thrones’ Finale: The Wall Is Magic But Not Invulnerable
1 hour ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
(Hey! Some spoilers for the “Game of Thrones” season 6 finale and maybe the future of the series are in this post. So tread lightly.) Sometimes, an episode of “Game of Thrones” can be so eventful that hugely important details about the world are easily missed. The finale of season 6 is one of those. This episode, dubbed “Winds of Winter,” had a million things going on as it wrapped up most of the major plot threads from the season and set the Grand Game on a new course for season 7. And in the middle of all that, a single »
- Phil Owen
Las Vegas Magic Show Duo ‘Siegfried and Roy’ to Get Biopic Treatment
2 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Rome — The German-American duo known as Siegfried and Roy, whose magic show with its trademark white tigers was one of the oldest and most popular in Las Vegas for more than two decades, will be getting the biopic treatment.
Ufa Group, which is FremantleMedia’s German production arm, has secured film rights for the biopic, to be directed by Philipp Stoelzl and scripted by Jan Berger, who both worked on Ufa’s epic “The Physician.”
The rights deal was brokered by Ufa producer and co-ceo Nico Hofmann. FremantleMedia International will handle international distribution.
The “Siegfried & Roy Show” was a major money-maker for MGM Mirage, the company that owns the Mirage Casino and Resort, where it was based between 1990 and 2003. The show was shut down after a white Bengal tiger called Mantecore grabbed Roy Horn by the neck and dragged him offstage during a performance. Roy survived the attack but was partially paralyzed by it. »
- Nick Vivarelli
‘Game of Thrones': Winter Is Here, and What That Means for Westeros
2 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
(Spoiler alert. Herein lies major plot details for the season 6 finale of “Game of Thrones.”) The “Game of Thrones” season finale had everything: death, destruction, reorganization. The pieces were shuffled all across the board, and the Grand Game moved forward in a major way. It began with chaos — Cersei and Qyburn blowing up the Sept of Baelor and taking the High Sparrow and Queen Margaery with it. That chaos, oddly, created a new order. King Tommen killed himself, Cersei became queen, and Olenna Tyrell went to Dorne to discuss revenge — and now both Dorne and the Tyrells have joined »
- Phil Owen
In Season 3, ‘Silicon Valley’ Finds its Heart and its Groove
3 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
In HBO’s “Silicon Valley,” Zach Woods plays Jared, a drone at a tech megacorporation who leaves his job to be the CFO for his friend’s startup — a little company named, ridiculously, Pied Piper. Jared’s real name is Donald, but when his former boss Gavin Belson (Matt Ross), a power-obsessed narcissist, calls him by the wrong name at work, the new name sticks with his mostly mean-spirited coworkers. The indignity of it doesn’t quite get Jared down, though there is a pained exchange late in season two when it appears that another Jared may join the company. Instead of reverting to his original name, his coworkers declare that he will be named “Other Jared,” or “O.J.” for short. “You should be flattered,” says Gilfoyle (Martin Starr). “O.J. Simpson is one of the most recognizable people on the face of the planet.”
In the penultimate episode of the season, “Daily »
- Sonia Saraiya
AMC to air ‘The Terror’ Exclusively in Europe, Latin America
3 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Rome — AMC Global has announced the acquisition for exclusive distribution across Europe and Latin America of its new scripted anthology series “The Terror,” which it plans to air in 2017.
The series, which AMC had announced in March, is written by David Kaiganich (“True Story,” “A Bigger Splash”) and set in 1847, when a Royal Naval expedition crew searching for the Northwest Passage is attacked by a mysterious predator that stalks the ships and their crew in a suspenseful and desperate game of survival.
AMC in March said they ordered 10 hourlong episodes for premiere in 2017. The have now picked it up for Europe and Latin America, besides the U.S. All original series from the domestic group do not automatically air on AMC Global, which acquires projects on a case by case regional basis.
Executive producers are Ridley Scott (“The Good Wife,” “The Man in the High Castle”) and David W. Zucker (“The Good Wife,” “The Man in the High Castle »
- Nick Vivarelli
WestEnd Launches Female-Focused WeLove with Agnieszka Holland, Alexis Zegerman Movies (Exclusive)
4 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
International movie sales and finance house WestEnd Films has launched a brand aimed at female audiences called WeLove, with new projects from Agnieszka Holland and Alexis Zegerman forming part of its launch slate.
By launching WeLove, WestEnd aims to meet demand from what it sees as an under-served female audience for high-quality commercial projects in a variety of formats, including feature films, TV and web series, and documentaries.
“It’s an endeavor that answers a real need. The ‘Bridesmaids’ and ‘Trainwrecks’ of this world are too few and far between,” WestEnd managing director Eve Schoukroun said.
WestEnd points out that the majority of moviegoers are female — 52% in the U.S — and that since 2006 in the U.S., movies about men have made an average of $80.6 million, while movies about women have made an average of $121.6 million. Female-led movies have made more on average than male-led ones for nearly every year in the past decade, »
- Leo Barraclough
‘Tunnel,’ ‘Boy Missing,’ ‘Chosen’ Screen at Madrid de Cine
5 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Madrid — Three much-anticipated Spanish titles — “At The End of the Tunnel,” “Boy Missing” and “The Chosen” — will play at the 10th Spanish Screenings-Madrid de Cine, Spanish cinema’s annual international market. “Boy Missing” and “At the End of the Tunnel” are Hollywood studio releases in Spain.
Unspooling June 27-29, the Spanish Screenings are Spain’s equivalent of UniFrance’s mid-January Rendez-Vous with French Cinema and the U.K.’s London Screenings. They also serve to debate the state of the industry and underscore its key trends.
One seems obvious at this year’s meet: an appetite for thrillers. From the turn of the century, Spain carved out a reputation for horror movies, such as [“Rec”] or “The Orphanage,” which broke out to substantial box office in Spain and abroad. This year, it is thrillers, not chillers or gore, which predominate on the slates of Spain’s top international sales houses.
The move into thrillers is due, »
- John Hopewell
Film Factory Acquires International on Sony-Distributed ‘Boy Missing’ (Exclusive)
5 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Madrid — Sony Pictures Releasing has set an Aug. 19 release date in Spain for “Boy Missing” (“Secuestro”), the latest suspense thriller from Barcelona-based Rodar y Rodar, producers of “The Orphanage,” “Julia’s Eyes” and “The Body,” three of Spain’s highest-profile psychological thrillers of the last decade.
The sales agent of “Wild Tales” and “The Clan,” Vicente Canales’ Film Factory has acquired internationals sales rights to “Boy Missing,” reflecting a common practice in Spain, where a Hollywood studio handles domestic distribution in the country and a sales agent handles international sales.
Public broadcaster Rtve, pay TV operator Movistar Plus, regional TV network Televisio de Catalunya and cable net Cosmopolitan TV share TV rights in Spain in a strong show of local TV interest in the title.
Film Factory will host a private screening of “Boy Missing” at this week’s 10th Spanish Screenings-Madrid de Cine, an arrangement used by sales agents »
- John Hopewell
‘Game of Thrones': Cersei’s Prophecy Is Not Finished Yet
5 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
(Warning: Contains spoilers for the “Game of Thrones” season 6 finale) When Cersei Lannister’s firstborn son, Joffrey, died of poison, she was beside herself with grief. When she discovered from Jaime that her daughter, Myrcella, also died of poison, she sat in tearful silence. But when her final child, Tommen, committed suicide after realizing that Margaery was killed by her mother in the explosion of the Great Sept, Cersei’s reaction was truly chilling. After seeing her child’s body, she coldly ordered Qyburn to burn it and to spread the ashes over the remains of the Sept. It seems that Cersei has stopped. »
- Jeremy Fuster
‘Game of Thrones': The State of the World After Season 6
5 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
(This post is 100 percent spoilers for the “Game of Thrones” season finale. So watch out.) It’s over. After ten long and very violent episodes, the sixth season of “Game of Thrones” has sadly come to a close. Now we have nearly a year to ponder what could be next for the huge ensemble cast and the rest of the people of that world, as the stakes continue to grow for those who have survived. So let’s get to it. It’s time to pull back and look at the big picture. So much has changed in ten weeks — some have solidified. »
- Phil Owen
Review: 'Game of Thrones' paints its masterpiece with 'The Winds of Winter'
7 hours ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
A review of tonight's Game of Thrones season finale coming up just as soon as I examine the contents of this delicious meat pie... "But sometimes, before we can usher in the new, the old must be put to rest." -Qyburn Earlier today, a friend texted to ask for my final predictions on who would die in this episode. I quickly realized that I hadn't given the matter much thought at all in the past week, not only because the only death I particularly cared about at this stage was Ramsay's (and that was only to eliminate that character from the show), but because the combination of all the major deaths in previous years and Jon Snow's resurrection earlier this season had fundamentally devalued death as dramatic currency for the show. (It hasn't helped that so many other series have decided that this is the most important thing they can copy from GoT, »
- Alan Sepinwall
‘Game of Thrones’ Finale: How Many Ships Were in Daenerys’ Fleet?
7 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
(Spoiler alert for the “Game of Thrones” season 6 finale. You have been warned.) There were a number of scenes in the season 6 finale of “Game of Thrones” that could have served as the final shot, but only one could have that honor. The winner was Daenerys, Tyrion, Missandei, Yara, Theon and Varys on the deck of a ship sailing toward Westeros. The shot pulls back and shows the full fleet of ships, and it’s a doozy. This is the fleet, and the army, that will attempt to take Westeros for Daenerys in the upcoming season. The full shot shows just an. »
- Phil Owen
Bet Awards Review: Prince Tributes Mark Spirited, Topical Show
7 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
In a year crowded with triumph, controversy and loss, the 2016 edition of the Bet Awards took it all in Sunday night at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, with a program that poignantly marked the joy and pain since last year’s telecast, even as the awards event kept faith with its own history as a forum for social commentary. With the passing of Prince on April 21, and other singular talents of black music before and since — Funkadelic-Parliament co-founder Bernie Worrell died on Friday — the mood could have been justifiably more introspective than in previous years. But the ceremony veered from the. »
- Michael E. Ross
Review: After that 'Veep' finale, what happens next?
7 hours ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
A review of tonight's Veep coming up just as soon as I'm selling a young adult fiction novel about an alternate timeline... Well, that was not what I was expecting. At all. To the point where I briefly wondered if HBO had played us all for suckers and aired the Veep series finale without telling anyone in advance. They haven't, by the way. Not only was the show renewed back in April, but I've confirmed with someone at HBO that the renewal (which came with similar orders for Game of Thrones and Silicon Valley) wasn't an elaborate ruse to keep people from realizing the show was about to end. Veep will be back next year, but with a huge difference: Selina won't be the president anymore. Nor will she go back to being the vice-president. She will be an ex-potus, for however long the series runs past next season. I »
- Alan Sepinwall
‘Game of Thrones': Who Will Be Daenerys’ Husband? (Photos)
8 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
The super-sized “Game of Thrones” Season 6 finale confirmed That fan theory! But first… Cersei (Lena Headey) prepares for her trial at the Sept of Balor. Without the chance for a trial by combat, she looks more uncertain than we’ve ever seen her before. Nevertheless, she looks better than Loras Tyrell (Finn Jones), who remains utterly broken due to his time in prison under the High Sparrow (Jonathan Pryce). Loras’ trial is first. He decides to admit to every charge that the High Sparrow has »
- Joe Otterson
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