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'Suicide Squad' and 'Sausage Party' Look to Take Down Newcomers, 'Kubo', 'War Dogs' & 'Ben-Hur'
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Three new wide releases are hitting theaters this weekend with Focus Features' and Laika's stop-motion animated project Kubo and the Two Strings serving as the widest debut of the lot. Fellow openers include Warner Bros' War Dogs and Paramount's Ben-Hur, though none of this weekend's new releases are likely to find themselves atop the box office. The DC Comics adaptation Suicide Squad is looking to threepeat as the weekend's #1 film while Sony's R-rated animated feature Sausage Party hopes to hold off Kubo for a second weekend in the runner-up position. Overall this weekend should be yet another improvement over the same weekend last year with the top twelve pulling in around $120 million altogether. Before we get to the weekend's new releases we'll begin with a couple of carryovers, starting with Suicide Squad, which, along with 19 other wide release films in 2016, dropped over 60% in its second weekend. Of those 20 films, »
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Box Office: ‘Suicide Squad’ Battles to $500 Million Worldwide
5 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“Suicide Squad” has topped the $500 million mark at the worldwide box office after its first 13 days in theaters.
Warner Bros. announced Thursday that the DC Entertainment supervillain mashup, which has overcome mostly dismal reviews, has totaled $509 million and will help drive the overall August box office to a record high.
Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, president of worldwide distribution, said, “It is incredibly rewarding to see audiences around the world coming out in such a big way for ‘Suicide Squad.’ We have several major markets yet to open, and expect to continue seeing strong returns at the box office for the weeks to come.”
Sue Kroll, president of worldwide marketing and distribution, added, “We’re thrilled with the huge numbers on ‘Suicide Squad,’ and to be coming out of an already highly successful summer with such a big win for our slate. The film is in position for another terrific weekend as our overseas expansion continues. »
- Dave McNary
‘Big Lebowski’ Spinoff ‘Going Places’ Already Shooting, with John Turturro Directing and Starring as The Jesus
17 August 2016 12:55 PM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Remember how John Turturro has been wanting to make a spinoff to “The Big Lebowski” centered around his character The Jesus for years now? Well, it turns out he’s already a few weeks into production on the project, which once carried the working title of “100 Minutes with Jesus” but is now known as “Going Places.” Birth.Movies.Death. first reported the news.
Bobby Cannavale, Audrey Tautou and Susan Sarandon all feature in the film as well, with an off-color premise inspired by Bertrand Blier’s 1974 “Les valseuses.” Cannavale stars opposite Turturro as a fellow thief named Petey, with the two vying to give a woman (Tautou) her first orgasm; Sarandon completes the foursome as a criminal recently released from prison. That certainly sounds like something the Jesus would do, though Tautou might be a little old for him. »
- Michael Nordine
Jason Clarke in Talks to Join Keira Knightley in ‘The Aftermath’ (Exclusive)
6 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Jason Clarke is in talks to co-star with Keira Knightley and Alexander Skarsgard in the Scott Free production “The Aftermath.”
Sources say Fox Searchlight is in negotiations to land the pic with James Kent set to direct.
Based on the Rhidian Brook novel, the story is set in post-war Germany in 1946 where a woman, Rachael, arrives with her only remaining son in the ruins of Hamburg. There she is reunited with her husband, a British colonel named Lewis, who is charged with rebuilding the shattered city. But as they set off for their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that they will be sharing the house with its previous owners, a German widower and his troubled daughter.
Ridley Scott will produce through his Scott Free banner.
Clarke is coming off a busy 2015 with starring roles in “Everest” and “Terminator Genisys,” and can be seen next in the WWII thriller »
- Justin Kroll
‘Clue’ Remake From Hasbro Lands at Fox
17 August 2016 3:28 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Fox has come on board Hasbro Studios’ “Clue” movie, five years after the board game-based project was ditched at Universal.
Josh Feldman, the head of Hasbro’s TV and film division, is producing for Hasbro Studios. Daria Cercek is overseeing for Fox.
Hasbro launched development of a “Clue” movie in 2008 as part of a six-year partnership with Universal to produce at least four feature films based on branded properties: Clue, Monopoly, Candyland, Ouija, Battleship, Magic: The Gathering and Stretch Armstrong.
“Battleship” was a costly money-loser for the studio in 2012 while “Ouija” grossed $103 million on a $5 million budget and generated a sequel “Ouija: Origin of Evil” that’s due out Oct. 21. At the time that Universal dropped the “Clue” project, “Pirates of the Caribbean” director Gore Verbinski was attached to direct and produce, but is no longer part of the project at Fox.
Hasbro’s seen its greatest success in Hollywood with “Ouija, »
- Dave McNary
‘Batman’ Films Remain Top DVD, Blu-ray Disc Sellers
26 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
A dearth of new releases kept two Warner Bros. superhero films at the top of the national home video sales charts for the week ended Aug. 14.
Warner’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” remained at No. 1 on Npd VideoScan’s overall disc sales chart for the fourth consecutive week, with “Batman: The Killing Joke,” from Warner Bros. Animation, the 26th film in the DC Universe Animated Original Movies series, remaining at No. 2 for the second week.
The two films also finished in the same positions on the Blu-ray Disc-only chart, a reversal of the prior week, when “Batman: The Killing Joke” debuted at No. 1.
On both charts, Walt Disney Studios’ “Zootopia” came in at No. 3.
On the overall disc sales chart, 20th Century Fox’s “Deadpool” shot back up to No. 4 from No. 10 the previous week, while the No. 5 spot went to the newly issued cartoon “Scooby-Doo! and WWE: »
- Thomas K. Arnold
Viacom Board to Meet Thursday on Settlement That Could Oust CEO Philippe Dauman
54 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Viacom’s board of directors will meet Thursday night to discuss settling a series of lawsuits over control of the media conglomerate — deliberations that could lead to the departure of CEO Philippe Dauman.
Settlement talks between Viacom and controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone and other parties have intensified in recent days in anticipation of a Sept. 19 trial over control of the corporation.
Reuters reported that the Viacom board would meet to discuss a settlement ahead of the trial, though the news service also reported that the date of the board meeting was not firm. Those talking about the settlement talks have chosen to remain anonymous because the discussions are confidential.
Variety and other news outlets previously reported that Dauman could receive a severance package of $85 million. A likely replacement as interim CEO is the company’s chief operating officer, Thomas Dooley.
Viacom did not respond immediately to a request for comment. »
- James Rainey
San Francisco Film Society Announces Finalists For 2016 Documentary Film Fund
57 minutes ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Today, the San Francisco Film Society today announced the ten finalists for the 2016 Sffs Documentary Film Fund awards totaling $75,000. The Sffs Documentary Film Fund supports feature-length documentaries in postproduction and was created to support singular nonfiction film work. Finalists were selected from more than 200 applications, and winners will be announced in mid-September.
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Dff has an excellent track record for championing compelling films that have gone on to earn great acclaim. Previous winners include Zachary Heinzerling’s “Cutie and the Boxer,” which won Sundance’s Directing Award for documentary and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature; Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson’s “American Promise,”which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and won the festival’s Special Jury Prize in the documentary category; and Moby Longinotto’s “The Joneses,” which premiered at the 2016 San Francisco International Film Festival. »
- Vikram Murthi
‘Voyage of Time’: How Terrence Malick Made His Documentary About the Birth of the Stars and the Future of Mankind
1 hour ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
News of a new Terrence Malick movie inspires a fervor among cinephiles like few others, in part because they used to be so rare: Malick made just five films between 1973 and 2011. He’s about to release his third since then, and The Film Stage has quite the rundown of its origins. “Voyage of Time” will soon screen at both the Venice and Toronto film festivals before coming to IMAX in October, which means there’s still plenty of time to obsess over the making of this nonfiction companion to “The Tree of Life” about the birth of the stars and the future of mankind.
The film will screen in two different formats: “Life’s Journey” is 90 minutes long and narrated by Cate Blanchett, while “The IMAX Experience” clocks in at 40 minutes and will be accompanied by the dulcet tones of Brad Pitt. The former’s voiceover is said to be “more searching and poignant, »
- Michael Nordine
‘Jean-Claude Van Johnson’ Trailer Shows Jcvd’s Life As A Retired Action Star/Black Ops Agent
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What do you do when you’re a global martial arts and film sensation, the most dangerous undercover private contractor in the world and happen to be retired? For Jean-Claude van Damme, internationally recognizable actor and star of the new Amazon series “Jean-Claude Van Johnson,” he seems to spends his days relaxing in his lavish home.
Yesterday Amazon released the first official photos of Jcvd’s new pilot and today the first teaser trailer for the show has arrived. While the video doesn’t show much of the series’ plot, it does paint a satirical picture of what the retired movie star’s life looks like.
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The clip shows Van Damme spending his morning moisturizing with his personalized hygiene products, walking downstairs past his table filled with framed photos of dogs, »
- Liz Calvario
Tali Shalom Ezer Directing Ellen Page and Kate Mara in Romantic Drama ‘Mercy’
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Israeli filmmaker Tali Shalom Ezer will direct Ellen Page and Kate Mara in the romance-drama “Mercy” with shooting set to begin in Cincinnati in September.
Ezer, who made her feature debut with “Princess,” will direct from a script by Joe Barton. Amy Seimetz, Pablo Schreiber and Elias Koteas have also been cast in key roles.
Producers are Christine Vachon and David Hinojosa for Killer Films along with Page and Mara. Executive producers are Robert Halmi Jr. and Jim Reeve through their Great Point Media and Karri O’Reilly.
Page is portraying Lucy, the daughter of a man on death row falling in love with Mara’s Mercy character, a woman on the opposing side of her family’s political cause. As a result, Lucy’s value for truth is tested as her world begins to unravel.
Page first revealed the then-untitled project last year during a news conference at the Zurich Film Festival, »
- Dave McNary
So Is Max Landis Making an ‘American Werewolf in London’ Remake or What?
1 hour ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
It’s probably just a matter of time before someone tries to mount a remake of John Landis‘ An American Werewolf in London, and now there’s a rumor floating around that the story is keeping in the family. John Landis‘ son Max Landis, writer of Chronicle, American Ultra, and Victor Frankenstein, recently shared some cryptic tweets that led fans […]
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- Angie Han
Asterix: The Mansions of the Gods review – a funny-eccentric small triumph
1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The latest Asterix is a distinctive, energised 3D animation, redubbed by British comic talent including Matt Berry, Jim Broadbent, and Dick and Dom
The French rework Goscinny and Uderzo at the same rate we do Dickens and Shakespeare. This here is not one of those Depardieu-as-Obelix live-action pantos. Rather, a distinctive, energised 3D animation, redubbed by a smattering of British comic talent.
The Gauls’ resistance against a looming Roman housing development allows writer-director Alexandre Astier to mock the processes of gentrification, while razzing all those recent Euro toons trying so desperately to be American. Where others have plumped for generic action, Astier’s preference is for bathetic pauses and funny-eccentric jokes of scale. Even the English-language version’s vocal ensemble (Matt Berry, Dick and Dom, Jim Broadbent) proves a small triumph of out-of-the-box thinking, the sole quibble being with the casting of Jack Whitehall as the title character: apparently even »
- Mike McCahill
How Ali Asgari Manages to Show Iran’s True Face While Avoiding Censorship
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This article was produced as part of the Locarno Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring journalists at the Locarno Film Festival, a collaboration between the Locarno Film Festival, IndieWire and the Film Society of Lincoln Center with the support of Film Comment and the Swiss Alliance of Film Journalists. The following interview, conducted by a member of the Critics Academy, focuses on a participant in the affiliated Filmmakers Academy program at the festival.
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At age 26, Ali Asgari went to Europe to Italy to study filmmaking, but his stories are always rooted in his Iranian hometown of Tehran. Even when he’s had to shoot in Europe, he’s always found a way to bridge the two continents. With a long list of accolades and his first feature film on the way, Asgari is certainly a filmmaker to keep an eye on. »
- Elia Molo
Behemoth review – haunting descent into Mongolia's coal mines
1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The effects of China’s industrialisation on workers and the landscape are captured with an affecting lucidity in Zhao Liang’s documentary
Zhao Liang’s haunting documentary tessellates with Jia Zhangke’s recent films in studying the effects of China’s rapid industrialisation on the landscape. Words sourced from Dante float over images of everyday activity at one Inner Mongolian coal mine; as the camera descends into its depths, it becomes apparent we’re several fathoms beyond conventional health-and-safety regulation.
Zhao’s closeups of faces – bathed in sweat, caked with carbons – are as expressive and dynamic as his long shots of fiery smelting yards and mountains being blasted into oblivion: here is a labour that cannot possibly be rebranded. Sporadic digital manipulations, sculpting this region’s exteriors into jagged cubist mosaics, might be interpreted as cheats, striking though they are.
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- Mike McCahill
‘Transpecos’ Exclusive Clip: Three Border Agents Embark On A Dangerous Journey Through The Desert
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In the tense border drama “Transpecos,” the line between right and wrong blurs as the heat rises in the desert. The film follows three border patrol agents — the rookie Benjamin Davis (Johnny Simmons), the seasoned pro Lance Flores (Gabriel Luna), and the callous veteran Lou Hobbs (Clifton Collins Jr.) — who man a check point on a remote highway. One day on a routine stop, Hobbs examines a suspicious vehicle, but when the car tries to take off Hobbs shoots the passenger as they discover a trunk filled with cocaine. Before they can call it in, Davis pulls a gun on the two agents and claims that he must smuggle the drugs to a drop-off point or else his family will die. Drawn into a violent journey, all three must contend with dark secrets, malleable morality, and a potentially terrible fate. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below.
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- Vikram Murthi
‘When Two Worlds Collide’ Review: Greed Is Global In This Compelling Documentary About A Peruvian Tragedy
1 hour ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
On July 28, 2006, Alan García was sworn in to office for his second term as the President of Peru, 16 years since his first stint ended with social unrest and severe hyperinflation. In 2007, he delivered a nationally televised address in which he invited (or pleaded with) American entrepreneurs to invest in Peru and harvest the country’s finite natural resources. “We don’t have any political conflicts!” he boasted in a proto-Trumpian moment of goading the gods.
And then, on June 5, 2009, García ordered Peruvian police and military personnel to forcibly prevent protestors from blocking the major road that is used for accessing the country’s fertile Bagua region. Dozens of indigenous people and government troops were killed in the ensuing riot, and many more would die in the violence that resulted from that initial clash. No political conflicts, indeed.
All of this — and much more — is captured in Heidi Brandenburg and Matthew »
- David Ehrlich
Cosmos review – absurdism without the laughs
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The last film by Andrzej Żuławski is a characteristically eccentric outing that descends into impenetrable gibberish
The final film of the director Andrzej Żuławski – who died in February, best remembered for 1981’s Isabelle Adjani freakout Possession – proves a characteristically eccentric undertaking, adapted from Witold Gombrowicz’s novel set within a mildewing B&B. One half-funny gag: that our writer hero (Jonathan Genet, resistible) is only as dotty as his fellow guests. Yet with all the actors operating some distance off the leash, even the sharper scenes soon clot into an impenetrable layer of gibberish tics. Cultists can claim it as proof Żuławski was doing his own thing until the end, but the film didn’t need releasing so much as sectioning for public safety.
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- Mike McCahill
‘Black Mirror’ Goes Retro in First Season 3 Images
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Netflix announced last year that it was picking up Black Mirror for a third season, and last month revealed that the new episodes would premiere this fall. But as we say in the age of Instagram and Facebook, pics or it didn’t happen. So showrunner Charlie Brooker has now shared the first Black Mirror season 3 images for us […]
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- Angie Han
‘Do Not Resist’ Trailer: Award-Winning Doc Opens Your Eyes to the Complicated World of Police Militarization
1 hour ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
“Do Not Resist” is the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival best documentary award-winner that reveals a rare and surprising look into the increasingly disturbing realities of American police culture.
Directed by Craig Atkinson, the film hopes to change perspectives on police militarization by showing protests in Ferguson to disagreements on Capitol Hill and dissecting the current state of policing in America. After premiering at Tribeca to rave reviews, the doc is now arriving to theaters courtesy of Vanish Films.
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The new trailer for the Atkinson’s directorial debut captures emotional and brutal exchanges between officers and young men and women. In one scene a young Ferguson protestor and a policeman who know each other shout at one another; “I’ve known you a long time,” the uniformed man says, with the protestor responding, “And y’all still killin’ us. »
- Liz Calvario
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