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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>
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
Broadway Actor John McMartin Dies at 86
10 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
John McMartin, the Broadway veteran who created roles in landmark musicals including “Sweet Charity” and “Follies,” had died. He was 86.
The death of the longtime actor, whose face was familiar to TV audiences from roles on “The Golden Girls,” “Murder, She Wrote” and, most recently, “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” was attributed to cancer in a paid obituary announcement in the New York Times. On Broadway, he’d been seen in “All the Way,” the Tony winning 2014 production that starred Bryan Cranston, as well as musicals “Anything Goes” (2011) and “Grey Gardens” (2006).
McMartin, who was nominated for five Tony Awards over the course of his career, made his Broadway debut in 1961 play “The Conquering Hero,” but his first signature role came in 1966 Neil Simon-Cy Coleman musical “Sweet Charity,” in which he played the nebbishy accountant Oscar, a Tony-nominated performance he reprised in the 1969 movie version opposite Shirley MacLaine.
His association with composer Stephen Sondheim began with the »
- Gordon Cox
'Walking Dead' Promotes 4 to Series Regular for Season 7 (Exclusive)
16 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
AMC's The Walking Dead is putting four key members of its cast on lockdown. The zombie drama has promoted Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Tom Payne, Austin Amelio and Xander Berkeley to series regular, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The quartet boarded the drama based on Robert Kirkman's comic series in season seven as recurring, with Morgan making his debut as famed villain Negan in the finale. All four play key characters from the comic books. Payne is hero Jesus, currently supporting Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and his band of survivors. Amelio is Dwight, a badly burned member of Negan's dastardly Saviors who
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- Lesley Goldberg
Netflix Taps Ritesh Batra To Direct Robert Redford-Jane Fonda Reteam ‘Our Souls At Night’
15 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Exclusive: Netflix has set Ritesh Batra to direct Robert Redford and Jane Fonda in Our Souls At Night, an adaptation of the Kent Haruf novel. Batra is best known for directing The Lunchbox, the BAFTA nominated 2013 pic that won the Grand Golden Rail award at Cannes. He most recently completed the Charlotte Rampling-Jim Broadbent-starrer The Sense of An Ending. Redford is producing Our Souls at Night, and the script is by by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, the… »
James Badge Dale to Star in Fox Thriller ‘The Empty Man’
15 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Fox has tapped James Badge Dale to star in its supernatural thriller “The Empty Man.”
David Britten Prior is directing from his own script, adapted from a Boom! Studios’ graphic novel, published in 2014. Boom!’s Ross Richie and Stephen Christy are producing the project under the company’s first-look deal at Fox.
Prior came on to the project in February when the studio acquired the movie rights. Fox is preparing to start shooting in South Africa this fall.
The story centers on a troubled ex-cop who battles to find a missing girl, but discovers a sinister presence all around him. The novel was written by Eisner Award-winner Cullen Bunn and illustrated by Vanesa R. Del Rey
Badge Dale starred in Michael Bay’s “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,” Robert Zemeckis’ “The Walk” and “The Departed.” TV credits include “Rubicon” and “The Pacific.”
He is repped by CAA, Mj Management and Jackoway Tyerman. »
- Dave McNary
‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Adds ‘Nice Guys’ Standout Angourie Rice to Its Already Impressive Young Cast
15 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Angourie Rice was rightly hailed by many as a highlight of Shane Black’s “The Nice Guys,” her performance more than holding its own alongside those of co-stars Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe. Marvel and Sony appear to have taken notice, as Rice was just announced as having joined the cast of “Spider-Man: Homecoming.”
Read More: ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Casts ‘Beasts Of No Nation’ Breakout Abraham Attah
Tom Holland is playing the eponymous web-slinger in Jon Watts’ new take on the comic-book franchise, its third different iteration in the last 15 years. Tobey Maguire starred in the trilogy that began with 2002’s “Spider-Man,” while Andrew Garfield portrayed the superhero in 2012’s “The Amazing Spider-Man” and its 2014 sequel. Holland debuted his version of the character in this year’s “Captain America: Civil War.”
Read More: ’Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Director Jon Watts Reveals Why a Diverse Cast was Key for His Vision
Watts’ first two »
- Michael Nordine
French Watchdog Sparks Vivendi Hopes For Canal Plus Sports Biz Revival
1 hour ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Having struck down plans hatched by Vivendi’s Canal Plus to control sports broadcasting rights in France, the country’s competition authority confirmed Thursday it would consider easing the Canal Plus anti-trust regs in a yearlong regulatory review.
Though it did not go into detail, the announcement will at least spark a glimmer of hope at Vivendi that it can improve the performance of its premium pay TV service in France, Canal Plus, six of whose channels currently bleed collective red ink.
That marks something of a volte-face. On June 9, Bruno Lasserre, president of France’s antitrust board, blocked a five-year deal between Vivendi’s Canal Plus and Qatar-controlled BeIN Sports giving Canal Plus distribution rights to BeIN’s sports rights in a deal initially said to be worth €1.7 billion ($1.8 billion).
Coming back to Canal Plus’ case on Thursday, Lasserre re-confirmed remarks made when he blocked the BeIN deal last month that he would take a long »
- John Hopewell and Elsa Keslassy
Dallas Police Release Armed Protestor, Misidentified as Suspect in Sniper Attack
1 hour ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
A rifle-wielding man identified as a “suspect” in the deadly sniper assault on Dallas police officers has been released from custody, Dallas CBS station Dfw reported early Friday. Mark Hughes was seen wearing a camouflage T-shirt and carrying a rifle at Thursday night’s protest of recent police killings of African-American men when at least four snipers opened fire on officers, killing five of them and injuring six others and one civilian. Shortly after the shootings, Dallas Police sent out a tweet of Hughes, the brother of protest organizer Cory Hughes, identifying him as a suspect. Also Read: Snipers Kill 4 Police During. »
- Thom Geier
Is This War? When #BlackLivesMatter Veers Into Violence
1 hour ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Is this war? That was my first thought upon leaving a screening of “Ghostbusters” and learning that four — oh wait, horrors, it’s now five — police officers had been shot dead by snipers at a Dallas rally against police shootings in other cities. Snipers aiming at police officers, killing five, wounding another six officers and one civilian. One of the snipers got into a shootout with Swat officers. Dallas police said they had three in custody besides the guy in the shootout — “adding that the fourth individual has told negotiators he hopes to hurt more cops.” This is starting »
- Sharon Waxman
Former Congressman Joe Walsh Warns ‘Cop Hater’ Obama to ‘Watch Out': ‘This Is Now War’
3 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Former Illinois Congressman turned conservative radio host Joe Walsh went on a twitter rant following the deadly sniper attack on Dallas police officers Thursday, including a now-deleted message that read: “This is now war. Watch out Obama.” Walsh, a Republican who represented Illinois’ 8th district from 2011 to 2013 before becoming a syndicated radio host, delivered a series of tweets that criticized President Barack Obama and suggested that the president was a “cop hater” no different from “the thugs on the street.” In another tweet, Walsh suggested that the president’s rhetoric about recent police shootings of unarmed African American men might. »
- Thom Geier
Dallas Shootings: Hollywood Reacts With Shock and Grief
3 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Tragedy struck Dallas on Thursday night as snipers opened fire following a protest march, claiming the lives of five police officers and injuring several others. Media outlets reported several shots were fired at a protest in Dallas in response to recent fatal police shootings of black men. The gunmen were reportedly targeting police. Hollywood reacted with grief and shock as the tragic news unfolded, with many taking to Twitter to express their feelings. Peace is the Message....."An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind" — Kevin Hart (@KevinHart4real) July 8, 2016 And now cops have been shot in #Dallas.
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- THR Staff
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
Jay Z Releases Song About Police Brutality After Philando Castile and Alton Sterling Shootings
4 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Jay Z released a new song addressing police shootings against black Americans on Thursday, following the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. The song — the first new material from Jay as a lead artist since 2013's Magna Carta...Holy Grail — was released via Tidal and is available to subscribers and non-subscribers alike. Listen to it on Tidal here and below. Earlier on Thursday, Jay Z's wife Beyonce addressed the police brutality by posting a call to action on her website and asking for a moment of silence at her Glasgow show, while projecting dozens of victims'
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- Billboard Staff
Read Gretchen Carlson’s Pleas for Airtime in Handwritten Letters to Roger Ailes (Photos)
5 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Fox News says Gretchen Carlson sent handwritten letters to Fox News boss Roger Ailes pleading for more airtime in the days and weeks after the date she claims he sexually propositioned her. The letters, which the network provided to TheWrap, could aid Fox’s legal defense by raising the question of why she would want to work for someone she accuses of repeatedly harassing her. Carlson did not respond to a request for comment late Thursday, and her representatives said no one was available to comment. Carlson, the 50-year-old former co-host of “Fox & Friends,” sued Ailes on Wednesday, claiming “severe and pervasive. »
- Scott Collins
Snipers Kill 5 Police During Dallas Rally to Protest Police Shootings, 6 Officers Injured
6 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Snipers in Dallas shot 11 police officers and one civilian during a rally Thursday night to protest police shootings, killing five of them, Dallas police said. Three suspects were in custody and a fourth was exchanging gunfire with police officers, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said early Friday morning, adding that the fourth individual has told negotiators he hopes to hurt more cops. None of the suspects have been identified as of this writing. Also Read: Former Congressman Joe Walsh Warns 'Cop Hater' Obama to 'Watch Out': 'This Is Now War' Mark Hughes, the brother of one of the protest organizers, »
- Tim Molloy
Justin Baldoni’s Inspirational Docuseries ‘My Last Days’ Gets Premiere Date, Trailer at CW (Video)
6 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
The CW has announced the premiere date and released a new trailer for the inspirational docuseries “My Last Days,” from “Jane the Virgin” star Justin Baldoni. The three-night series tells the stories of six “real-life superheroes” who live on despite severe medical diagnoses, such as cystic fibrosis and leukemia. “My Last Days” will premiere on Wednesday, August 17, and conclude on Friday, August 19 at 9 p.m. on the CW. The premiere will coincide with the launch of Cwgood, which is described by the network as its new “digital vertical dedicated to giving back.” Extended episodes of “My Last Days” will be. »
- Reid Nakamura
News Networks Break in After Shots Fired at Dallas Protest
6 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Media outlets Thursday night reported shots fired at a protest in Dallas over the week's fatal police shootings of black men. During the protest, local news outlets showed video of protesters scattering after gunfire broke out. Police and security officers already on the scene began a search for what were believed to have been at least two shooters. News networks reported that several, as many as 11, police officers were shot, with five of them reported dead as of midnight L.A. time. Three suspects were in custody at that time, with a fourth holed up in a parking
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- Jennifer Konerman
Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro Rips Gretchen Carlson’s ‘Absurd’ Lawsuit
6 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Fox News host Jeanine Pirro says her former colleague Gretchen Carlson’s sexual harassment lawsuit against the network’s chairman and CEO, Roger Ailes, is “absurd.” Asked by TheWrap if Ailes ever subjected her to the kind of sexual advances Carlson says her boss made toward her in September, Pirro replied: “Are you kidding? That is so absurd.” “When I read what was clearly absurdities, in this complaint, I said to myself, ‘How sad that you’ve got this woman who is making these complaints when there are real victims out there,'” Pirro told TheWrap. Also Read: Was Roger Ailes »
- Brian Flood
11 Cable News Shows With Lower Ratings Than Gretchen Carlson’s (Photos)
7 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
“Real Story” host Gretchen Carlson has filed a lawsuit accusing Fox News CEO Roger Ailes of sexual harassment. Ailes says in a statement that the allegations are “offensive” and false, and that she’s retaliating because her show was canceled due to low ratings and her contract wasn’t renewed. So how low were the ratings? It depends on whether you go by Fox News’ standards, or those of the networks Fox aims to beat: MSNBC and CNN. Between March 28 and June 26, “Real Story With Gretchen Carlson” averaged 183,000 viewers per episode in the 25-54 demographic. These 11 shows did worse over the same period. »
- Reid Nakamura
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