17 articles
Kiefer Sutherland to Make ‘Flatliners’ Comeback in Big-Screen Remake
10 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
More than 25 years after the original movie thrilled audiences, Kiefer Sutherland is returning to “Flatliners,” TheWrap has learned. The Sony remake is set for the big screen and will star Ellen Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, James Norton and Kiersey Clemens. Sutherland has committed to a role as the deal is in the midst of being buttoned up. There is no word on whether Julia Roberts will join Sutherland in his journey back to the title, but fans can hope. More to come… »
- Meriah Doty
Animation Set to Reign Once Again as 'Secret Life of Pets' Eyes $80+ Million Opening
13 hours ago | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
So far, four of the top ten domestic releases of 2016 are animated films. Two of those four belong to Disney, which has seen Zootopia and Finding Dory combine for more than $737 million, the latter of which just finished three straight weekends atop the box office and will soon become the highest grossing domestic release of 2016. This weekend is looking great for animation once again as Dory will add another $20+ million to its bottom line and Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures deliver the heavily marketed The Secret Life of Pets, soon to become the latest animated contender to don the weekend box office crown. The Secret Life of Pets is the first of two animated films Illumination and Universal will be releasing this year. This is Illumination's fifth fully-animated feature length film and it will debut in a record-setting 4,369 theaters, the widest animated opening of all-time. At the beginning of the »
- Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
Something Smells: The Weinstein Company Push ‘Tulip Fever’ Starring Alicia Vikander & Christoph Waltz To 2017
15 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Few people in Hollywood are as transparent about their belief or lack of faith in a movie than Harvey Weinstein. He isn’t afraid to make bold statements about the pictures he thinks deserve attention (like promising an Oscar win for Jake Gyllenhaal for “Southpaw” last year), but when a movie doesn’t turn out to be […]
The post Something Smells: The Weinstein Company Push ‘Tulip Fever’ Starring Alicia Vikander & Christoph Waltz To 2017 appeared first on The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
‘Star Trek Beyond’: John Cho’s Character Sulu Is Openly Gay
15 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Mr. Hikaru Sulu is out and proud in “Star Trek Beyond.”
John Cho, who plays Sulu in the most recent “Star Trek” films, said that his character has a daughter and a partner, making him the first openly gay character in “Star Trek” franchise history.
Still, Cho said the filmmakers decided to take a low-key approach. “I liked the approach, which was not to make a big thing out [of] it,” Cho told Australia’s Herald Sun, “which is where I hope we are going as a species, to not politicize one’s personal orientations.”
Cho added that writer Simon Pegg and director Justin Lin made the decision as a nod to George Takei, who came out in 2005, and has been a notable LGBT activist. Takei played Sulu in the 1960s in “Star Trek: The Original Series.”
“Star Trek” has advocated certain social progress in the past — it featured in 1968 the »
- Seth Kelley
Justin Timberlake Joins Woody Allen’s New Movie
17 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Justin Timberlake and Juno Temple have joined Kate Winslet and Jim Belushi in Woody Allen’s untitled new movie.
The film, written and directed by Allen, is a drama set in New York City in the late 1950s. Allen is producing with Letty Aronson, Erika Aronson and Edward Walson. The pic marks Allen’s 48th feature and begins shooting in New York this fall.
Allen’s “Cafe Society,” which opened the Cannes Film Festival, will be released by Lionsgate and Amazon in the U.S. on July 15. The romantic drama stars Kristen Stewart, Jesse Eisenberg, Blake Lively, Steve Carell, Parker Posey, Corey Stoll, Jeannie Berlin and Ken Stott.
Allen is in post-production on his first-ever television show — an untitled six-episode series he wrote and directed for Amazon starring himself, Miley Cyrus and Elaine May. It will premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video later this year.
Timberlake has won nine Grammys as a singer. »
- Dave McNary
‘Lego Movie Sequel’ Script to Get Rewrite From ‘BoJack Horseman’ Creator
10 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Warner Bros. has hired Raphael Bob-Waksberg, the creator of Netflix animated series “BoJack Horseman,” to rewrite the script for “The Lego Movie Sequel,” TheWrap has learned. The project marks his foray into writing for the big screen. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who directed the original, wrote the first draft to the sequel. The studio chose to get a new perspective on the screenplay. Also Read: 'Lego Movie 2' Release Date Pushed Back to 2019 Lord and Miller are currently busy getting ready to film Lucasfilm’s Han Solo “Star Wars” spinoff. Rob Schrab (“Community”) is directing the comedic fantasy film as Lord and Miller are. »
- Meriah Doty
Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch Reteam for ‘Lucky’
16 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Harry Dean Stanton and David Lynch are re-teaming at last, this time in front of the camera to co-star in actor-turned-director John Carroll Lynch‘s indie directorial debut, “Lucky.” The film, currently shooting in Los Angeles, also stars Ed Begley Jr., Ron Livingston, Tom Skerritt, Barry Shabaka Henley, Beth Grant, Yvonne Huff Lee, Hugo Armstrong, and James Darren. Logan Sparks and Drago Sumonja wrote the script specifically for Stanton, who plays a 90-year-old atheist living in an off-the-map desert town filled with quirky characters. Having out-lived and out-smoked all his contemporaries, the fiercely independent man finds himself at the precipice of life, »
- Thom Geier
Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Developing Alien Invasion Thriller ‘The Fall’
9 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners is developing alien-invasion thriller “The Fall,” based on a script by Australian writer Pete Bridges.
Madhouse Entertainment partner Adam Kolbrenner will produce with Madhouse’s Robyn Meisinger executive producing. Amblin closed the deal for the script this week.
The story is set amid an alien invasion and centers on a divorced couple who must travel on foot from downtown Atlanta to the suburbs, where their young children are home alone. No director or actors are on board yet.
Spielberg explored similar themes in 2005 sci-fier “War of the Worlds,” a contemporized version of the H.G. Wells novel. The film starred Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning, produced by his Amblin Entertainment and Cruise/Wagner, grossed nearly $600 million worldwide.
Kolbrenner was a producer on the 2013 thriller “Prisoners,” starring Jake Gylenhaal and Hugh Jackman.
Bridges’ adventure-survival script “Resurface,” set at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, made the Black »
- Dave McNary
Us briefs: Bella Thorne joins Gold Circle's 'Break My Heart'
7 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Bella Thorne (pictured) has been set to star in supernatural romantic thriller Break My Heart 1,000 Times, from Pitch Perfect production company Gold Circle Films.
Scott Speer is directing, from Jason Fuch’s adaptation of the young adult novel by Daniel Waters about a ghost-like figure who sends a threatening message to a young girl, propelling the girl on a mission that will change her life.
Thorne recently appeared in Speer’s Midnight Sun and in Awesomeness Films’ Shovel Buddies.
Break My Heart 1,000 Times will be produced by Paul Brooks, with Scott Niemeyer, Brad Kessell and Fuchs executive producing. Good Universe is handling international sales.
• Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, Nick Offerman, Krysten Ritter and Katharine Ross have been confirmed as the cast of Brett Haley’s The Hero, about a one-time Western film icon. The Northern Lights, Park Pictures and Houston King Productions project recently »
Lionsgate to Distribute Jesse Metcalfe’s ‘The Ninth Passenger’
8 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Lionsgate has come on board to distribute Jesse Metcalfe’s thriller “The Ninth Passenger,” which begins shooting next week in Vancouver, Variety has learned exclusively.
Alexia Fast (“Jack Reacher”) also stars with Tom Maden (“Scream: The TV Series”), Veronica Dunne (“K.C. Undercover”), Sabina Gadecki, Corey Large (“It Follows”), David Hennessey, Cinta Kiehl and Timothy V. Murphy.
Ian Pfaff is directing from a script by Large and Steve Albert. Large’s 308 Enterprises is producing with Gary Ousdahl of Advanced Management, with Isaac LeFevre and Felipe Dieppa serving as executive producers.
“The Ninth Passenger” follows a group of college students on a spontaneous midnight sea voyage that turns to horror when they drift to a dark island and are hunted by a mysterious ninth passenger.
“I am excited to be back in my hometown of Vancouver,” said Large. “This is the first of several productions we (308 Entertainment) plan on bringing here. With this first-rate cast, »
- Dave McNary
Canadian director-producer launches UK film fund
10 minutes ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Exclusive: Alchemy Fund aimed at supporting films in the £1-10m range.
London and Vancouver-based director and producer Ryan Bonder is launching Alchemy Film Fund, which will look to invest in projects in the £1-10m budget-range.
Backed by “a small stable of private investors” who have previously backed Bonder’s own slate of films, the fund will look to invest in film and TV projects via Eis schemes.
According to Border, whose sophomore feature The Brother (2016) was backed by the same private investors and Telefilm Canada, Alchemy will offer debt, tax credit and equity finance.
Bonder said: “The focus will be on unique director-led projects we believe have strong cross-over appeal.”
The fund will also look to back event-cinema projects: “While independent films struggles to find space in the theatrical market, filmmakers must become more creative in how their films are marketed and viewed,” he said.
“You have to offer something different and unique to reach »
- andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
Will we ever see a black Iron Man, Asian Hulk or female Thor on the big screen?
2 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Expect more diverse superheroes not only in Marvel’s comic but also in cinemas. It’s about time
The comic book writer Mark Millar tells a nice story about his part in transforming spymaster and all-around badass Nick Fury from a white cigar-chomping second world war veteran to the African-American version portrayed by Samuel L Jackson in the movies. While working on the 2002 miniseries The Ultimates, Millar and artist Bryan Hitch co-opted Jackson’s appearance without asking for permission, only to discover later that the Pulp Fiction star took the swiping of his image rights as a giant compliment.
“Sam is famously the coolest man alive, and artist Bryan Hitch and I liberally used him without asking any kind of permission,” Millar said in an interview last year. “This was 2001 when we were putting it together. The idea that it might become a movie seemed preposterous, as Marvel was just »
- Ben Child
Israel film industry faces diversity challenge
3 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Only 10% of working film directors are women, but one lobbying organisation is fighting for change.
The Israeli film industry continues to face a diversity challenge, with women making up only around 10% of working film directors.
One person battling to improve the situation is Lior Elefant, head of lobbying organisation Women in Film and Television Israel Forum.
Established in 2012, the forum works across Israel to promote the activities of female film professionals through networking events, conferences, screenings and dialogues with the five national film funds.
One of the organisation’s major endeavours has been lobbying the film funds to include an equal balance of women and men on their selection committees.
“Before, the people who picked the films were only men, and so all the films they picked were films made by men about men,” says Elefant. Since the forum argued its case for equal representation in 2012, all of the funds have agreed to instigate the practice.
One »
Eran Kolirin to adapt Kashua’s 'Let It Be Morning'
3 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Exclusive: Director of The Band’s Visit to explore dilemma of being a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship.
Eran Kolirin is gearing up to shoot an adaptation of Palestinian writer Sayed Kashua’s 2006 tragi-comic novel Let It Be Morning in early 2017.
The work explores the trademark themes of Kashua, who rose to fame in Israel and internationally for his Hebrew-language newspaper columns, novels and TV dramas about the complexity of being a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship.
Kolirin’s adaptation revolves around Sami, an urbane Palestinian accountant (rather than a journalist as per the novel) with Israeli citizenship who left his Arab home village years ago to take up a post in Jerusalem.
He is forced to re-assess his Palestinian roots and Israeli citizenship after he is trapped in his Arab home village when an Israeli army blockade is unexpectedly set up while he is attending a family wedding with his wife and young son.
Yoni Paran, CEO of »
Keren Yedaya to revive Israeli anti-war musical 'Mami'
3 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Exclusive: Production to start rolling in November.
Israeli director Keren Yedaya is gearing up to shoot a big-screen version of cult 1980s Israeli anti-war rock opera Mami, which she has provisionally entitled Red Fields.
The 1986 original created political waves for its exploration of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories, discrimination against residents of southern Israel and the country’s military aggression.
Yedaya is joining forces with Israeli rock star Dudu Tassa, his musical partner Nir Maimon and rising singer Neta Elkayam, best known for her fusion of traditional Moroccan-Jewish music with a modern vibe, to update the work to fit contemporary Israel.
Elkayam is set to play the titular Mami, a downtrodden young woman from southern Israel who moves to Tel Aviv with her war-damaged husband and is propelled to a position of power after an eccentric inventor rewires her brain.
The surreal story sees Mami, after she is elected to power, advocating for one »
Paz brothers reveal 'Jeruzalem 2' details
3 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Exclusive: Horror sequel will be set 10 years after the events of the first film and will not be found-footage.
Following their breakout found-footage horror Jeruzalem, which premiered as a work-in-progress at last year’s Jerusalem Film Festival and went on to play at more than 20 international festivals and sell into all major markets, fraternal film-making duo Doron and Yoav Paz have had a sequel greenlit by financier Epic Pictures Group.
Jeruzalem 2 will pick up on events 10 years later, when the Israeli army has managed to contain the apocalyptic gate to hell discovered in the first film by placing a concrete dome over Jerusalem’s Old City.
The sequel sees a man trying to find his daughter, who has joined a religious cult that exists inside the dome, as doomsday descends once again.
The film-making duo will return to Israel to shoot, and also film some scenes abroad. The cast will be split between international and Israeli actors »
Israel film inudstry faces diversity challenge
3 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Only 10% of working film directors are women, but one lobbying organisation is fighting for change.
The Israeli film industry continues to face a diversity challenge, with women making up only around 10% of working film directors.
One person battling to improve the situation is Lior Elefant, head of lobbying organisation Women in Film and Television Israel Forum.
Established in 2012, the forum works across Israel to promote the activities of female film professionals through networking events, conferences, screenings and dialogues with the five national film funds.
One of the organisation’s major endeavours has been lobbying the film funds to include an equal balance of women and men on their selection committees.
“Before, the people who picked the films were only men, and so all the films they picked were films made by men about men,” says Elefant. Since the forum argued its case for equal representation in 2012, all of the funds have agreed to instigate the practice.
One »
Wanda’s ‘Bullets’ is Dolby’s First Shot in Chinese
3 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Wanda’s upcoming “For A Few Bullets” will be the first Chinese-language movie mastered and released in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. The film, a comedy Western, releases in Chinese cinemas on July 15, 2016.
Budgeted at $14 million and directed by Pan Anzi, “Bullets” stars Kenny Lin and Zhang Jingchu as a professional con man and a woman cop who embark on a quest to recover a national treasure.
Dolby Vision uses laser projection systems to deliver high dynamic range and contrast ratios. Dolby Atmos sound technology moves audio around the theater, even overhead.
“Dolby Cinema has helped us bring this overall experience to the next level. We believe moviegoers will find themselves completely captivated in the story when they watch ‘For a Few Bullets’ in Wanda’s Dolby Cinema locations,” said John Zeng, VP of Wanda Cultural Industry Group and president of Wanda Cinema Line Corporation, in a prepared statement. “Wanda »
- Patrick Frater
Zane Holtz Comes Aboard ‘Hunter Killer’; Marcus Vanco Joins ‘Day Of The Dead’ Remake
6 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Millennium Films’ submarine action-thriller has added another member to its crew, drafting Zane Holtz for a key role in the story about an untested sub captain teamed with an elite military unit to rescue the Russian president from an ongoing military coup. Joining Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman, Billy Bob Thornton, Common, and Taylor John Smith, Holtz is playing “Martinelli,” a courageous, skilled member of the elite unit that is part of 21st century American military power… »
‘The Hurt Business’ Trailer: The Art And Brutal Cost Of Mixed Martial Arts
7 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Mixed Martial Arts has exploded in popularity over the last decade, turning athletes who in an earlier time would be, at best, obscure and scary, into bona fide celebrities and in some cases, outright movie stars. But the journey to that fame and newfound cultural acceptance comes with a high price for the fighters who punish their bodies regularly. The documentary The Hurt Business, written and directed by Vlad Yudin (Generation Iron) and executive produced by Yudin and… »
17 articles
« Prev | Next »