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Sarah Paulson In Talks To Join ‘Ocean’s Eight’ Crew
7 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Exclusive: Sarah Paulson, who is up for an Emmy for her turn as Marcia Clark in The People Vs O.J. Simpson, is in early talks to join the killer cast of Ocean’s Eight, Warner Bros’ female-driven caper spinoff directed by Gary Ross. If the deal makes she will join Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, Mindy Kaling and Awkwafina. The film will be produced by Ocean's Eleven director Steven Soderbergh, and Ross wrote the script with… »
Helen Mirren Joins Disney’s ‘The Nutcracker’
7 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Helen Mirren is in talks to join Keira Knightley in Disney’s new retelling of “The Nutcracker.”
Mackenzie Foy is on board to play Clara, with Misty Copeland and Morgan Freeman also attached to the movie.
The live-action film — based on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s 1816 story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” — is titled “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms.” In the pic, one of Clara’s Christmas toys — a Nutcracker doll — comes to life and battles the evil Mouse King with seven heads.
Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov turned Alexandre Dumas’ adaptation of the classic story into the “The Nutcracker” ballet in 1892.
Lasse Hallström will direct the upcoming film from Ashleigh Powell’s script. Mark Gordon is producing, while Lindy Goldstein is executive producing. Sam Dickerman and Allison Erlikhman are overseeing the project for Disney. Sara Smith is working on behalf of the Mark Gordon Company. »
- Justin Kroll
Denzel Washington Circling Dan Gilroy’s Legal Drama ‘Inner City’ (Exclusive)
11 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Denzel Washington is eyeing the lead role in “Inner City,” a legal drama written and to be directed by Dan Gilroy.
The project is being billed as a character study in the vein of Paul Newman’s 1982 classic “The Verdict,” and could land two-time Oscar winner Washington back in the awards race.
Washington will play a lawyer in an ambulance-chasing firm. When his boss falls ill, he steps in as the frontman, but manages to make a mess of things at every turn.
The movie takes place in Los Angeles, the familiar gritty setting of “Nightcrawler,” which was Gilroy’s directorial debut after three decades of screenwriting. That 2014 film, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a troubled crime paparazzo (who also chased ambulances), grossed $32 million domestically on a $8.5 million budget.
Jennifer Fox is producing “Inner City.”
The script is hot off the presses and hasn’t been shopped to distributors yet. However, »
- Ramin Setoodeh
Dwayne Johnson Named World’s Highest-Paid Actor
13 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Dwayne Johnson is rocking Forbes‘ highest-paid actor list.
Johnson commanded $64.5 million between June 2015 and June 2016, more than doubling his earnings from the previous year and bumping Robert Downey Jr. from the top of the list, where he was perched for three consecutive years. A bulk of Johnson’s earnings come from his roles in the “Fast & Furious” franchise, the disaster movie “San Andreas,” and the HBO series “Ballers,” as well as upfront fees for “Fast 8” and the “Baywatch” movie
Johnson ranked No. 11 last year with around $31 million.
“Want to say two things about this,” Johnson tweeted about the news. “I started w/$7 bucks. If I can overcome, so can you. Waffle House on me!”
Want to say two things about this.
I started w/ $7 bucks. If I can overcome, so can you.
Waffle House on me!! https://t.co/r3UeQYaLmT
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) August 25, 2016
Downey dropped down to eighth with $33 million, »
- Maane Khatchatourian
Neil Burger to Direct Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston in ‘Intouchables’ Remake
13 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“Divergent” director Neil Burger has been tapped to direct The Weinstein Company’s remake of “The Intouchables,” starring Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston.
TWC plans to start showing in January. Hart and Cranston, who have not worked together before, came on board the project in March.
The original French movie starred Francois Cluzet and Omar Sy in the story of the friendship that develops between a quadriplegic millionaire and his caregiver. “Intouchables” grossed close to $430 million worldwide in 2011 and TWC picked up remake rights that year as part of a deal to release the original domestically.
The original film was directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano.
John Hartmere has written the script for the remake. Burger worked with TWC on “The Illusionist” and also directed “Limitless.”
Burger has been writing the script for Universal’s “Bride of Frankenstein” remake. He’s repped by CAA. The news was first reported by Deadline Hollywood. »
- Dave McNary
‘Angry Birds Movie’ Sequel in the Works at Rovio
13 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
A sequel to “The Angry Birds Movie” is in the works at Finland-based Rovio Entertainment Ltd., maker of the “Angry Birds” mobile game.
“Angry Birds” grossed a solid $347 million worldwide, including $107 million domestically, since its release in May. Rovio CEO Kati Levoranta made the disclosure as part of the company’s earnings report.
“With the excellent performance of our games portfolio and the fantastic movie, the Angry Birds brand is flying high and we are seeing positive Ebit and cash flow development, while fulfilling our mission to create world class entertainment,” Levoranta said. “We currently have several exciting new games and other projects in development, including new IP, and we have started planning the sequel to ‘The Angry Birds Movie.’”
Rovio gave no further details about the sequel. It noted that “The Angry Birds Movie” was released digitally in selected Asian markets and North America on July 29 and went to No. »
- Dave McNary
‘Black-ish’ Actress Cast as Lead on Amazon Live-Action ‘American Girl’ Special
14 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
“Black-ish” actress Marsai Martin must be a real doll — the ABC star has been cast in the title role on Amazon’s upcoming American Girl live-action special, “Melody, 1963: Love Has to Win, an American Girl Story.” Based in 1963 Detroit during the civil rights movement, “Melody” centers around a 10-year-old girl whose eyes are opened to the racial inequality surrounding her, including the 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing, according to Amazon. As a result, Melody’s belief in the indivisible promise of our country’s Pledge of Allegiance comes into question as she challenges her teacher on the validity of this given the horrific. »
- Tony Maglio
Nate Parker’s Former Penn State Classmates: We Believe He Is Innocent of Rape
1 hour ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
While the controversy over a revived rape case mares the opening of “The Birth of a Nation,” four of Nate Parker’s former Penn State classmates are vehemently backing the director. Lakeisha Wolf, Assata Richards, Lurie Daniel Favors and Brian Favors were student when Parker and his then-roommate Jean Celestin were charged with raping a woman in 1999, and have now written a lengthy statement to The Root. “We are both dismayed and disappointed at the gross and blatant misinformation campaign regarding the events that took place during that time period,” the foursome, who were students, staff and alumni during the subsequent trial, »
- Debbie Emery
Film Review: ‘Mechanic: Resurrection’
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“You’re different!” So says an old colleague (Michelle Yeoh) who hasn’t seen Arthur Bishop, the mission-improbable hitman in “Mechanic: Resurrection,” for a long time. “Older,” he replies, coming out and stating the obvious. In fact, Jason Statham doesn’t merely look older than he did when he last played Arthur Bishop, in the 2011 thriller “The Mechanic.” He looks leaner and meaner, more squinty with resolve, more brutally and methodically sociopathic. With his hair cropped closer than usual, Statham has become a total bullet-head, a human ice pick — a machine of death.
For a while now, Jason Statham has been the thinking man’s smart/dumb B-movie action star. His films, or at least a lot of them, swim around in the grindhouse muck of bloodsport and revenge, a genre that has spawned such brooding blocks of wood as Steven Seagal and Chuck Norris. But Statham, unlike most action-pulp icons, »
- Owen Gleiberman
Weinstein Co Hit With $4.8 Million Fraud Lawsuit From ‘One Chance’ Director
2 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
David Frankel had “One Chance” to win over audiences with his movie, and he claims that The Weinstein Company ruined it for him. The director and his Luge Club Productions Inc. has amended a lawsuit against the New York-based studio, alleging fraud and negligent representation as well as breach of contract over the size and scope of the October 2014 release in North America. Frankel, whose credits include “The Devil Wears Prada” and “Marley and Me,” claims that he signed a written agreement with The Weinstein Co. in December 2010 for “One Chance” and at the time his fixed fee for directing. »
- Debbie Emery
Patricia Arquette Condemns ‘Widespread’ Rape Culture Amid Nate Parker Controversy
3 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
As part of her ongoing campaign for gender equality, Patricia Arquette is shining a spotlight on “widespread” rape in American society that, in her opinion, exposes a broken system. “Why are states spending money to prosecute kids spray-painting a wall or a gram of weed, over catching a rapist?” the Oscar-winning actress told TheWrap. “There’s a real deep bias and it goes on throughout our whole judicial system.” When it comes to “The Birth of a Nation” director Nate Parker, who was acquitted of rape charges 17 years ago when he was a student at Penn State but who has. »
- Meriah Doty
An Ex-kkk Grand Wizard Tells Us How Donald Trump Dog-Whistles to Closet Racists
3 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Former Klux Klux Klan Grand Wizard Tom Metzger says Donald Trump’s recent decision to tap Breitbart Media’s Steve Bannon as his campaign CEO amounts to dog whistling that most people won’t hear, but that will appeal to “closeted racists.” “There aren’t that many white separatists out there but there are a lot of people who are closeted racists,” Metzger told TheWrap. “They don’t like to call themselves racist but they wouldn’t want their daughter to marry a black man.” Metzger, who has been described as “one of the most notorious living white supremacists in »
- Itay Hod
Does anyone want to go into 'The Disappointments Room?'
3 hours ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Clip It: Each day, Jon Davis looks at the world of trailers, featurettes, and clips and puts it all in perspective. My mother says that every room I walk into is The Disappointments Room. I know, I know sorry. But the title is begging for those kinds of jokes. Maybe it's all part of an insane marketing scheme. The filmmakers know that critics aren't going to want to take the bait and call The Disappointment Room a disappointment. It's just too obvious. No one wants to be a hack. So if the filmmakers reference a "disappointment" in the title, maybe reviewers will go a little easy. I don't know, guys, there are a lot of typical horror tropes here. An attractive blonde woman (Kate Beckinsale) and her son arrive at a new house for a new beginning. But something's wrong. There's a room in the house that "isn't in the floor plan. »
- Jon Davis
Lena Dunham, Jemima Kirke Strip Down for Body Positive Lingerie Campaign
3 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Lena Dunham and Jemima Kirke are being applauded for stripping down to their underwear for a lingerie company’s Lonely Girls Project campaign. The “Girls” stars bared all in un-Photoshopped images of them wearing the Lonely brand in lace lingerie, hanging around in a bathroom. No big deal. The Lonely Label is a New Zealand-based clothing company whose mission is to promote positive body images through an “ongoing journal series featuring candid portraits of inspiring women in their own spaces wearing Lonely, their way,” according to their website. Also Read: Lena Dunham on Acting for a Male Director: 'It Sounds »
- Rasha Ali
Watch First Gripping 11 Minutes of 'Narcos' Season Two
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Netflix's Narcos premiered an exclusive look at the show's first episode of Season Two via a Facebook live broadcast on Thursday.
In a meta move, the clever clip appears as if it's shot as "live-to-tape" as DEA agents find Pablo Escobar's (played by Wagner Moura) hidden Season Two videotapes. The agents put the tape in a Vcr, which then broadcasts the first 11 minutes of the first episode.
Like its first trailer, the scene opens with DEA agent Steve Murphy (portrayed by Boyd Holbrook) marveling at the Columbian cocaine kingpin's escape from prison, »
Review: 'Southside With You' turns the Obamas' first date into something larger
3 hours ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
First dates aren’t easy. There are so many variables that go into determining whether or not something is a “good” date that it’s impossible to control. If I’ve learned anything about dating during my 46 years on Earth (and that is debatable), I have learned that you have to give yourself up to it if it’s going to work at all. You cannot force a good date. You can only go into it open to whatever experience you’re going to have, and to whoever the person is that you’re spending that time with. On the surface, Southside With You is simply a film about a first date, opening with both people getting ready and ending as they say goodnight and head their own ways again. In this particular case, the first date is noteworthy because it’s between Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson, the future »
- Drew McWeeny
Delta was right to jettison Chris Rock's deeply-offensive 'Kill the Messenger'
4 hours ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Delta, the same airline that received blowback after deeming Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara's tasteful love scenes in Carol too risqué for your delicate sensibilities, has now banished the 2008 Chris Rock comedy special Kill the Messenger from its planes, owing to the comedian's use of an anti-gay slur. The removal followed a complaint by Jeremy Foreshew, an employee of the gay "dating app" Grindr, who -- while watching the film on a Delta flight -- was appalled by a prolonged routine in which Rock explains how the relative offensiveness of the gay slur "faggot" depends on the "context" in which the word is used. In addition to alerting a flight attendant, who subsequently referred him to a Delta Human Resources manager to lodge a formal grievance, Foreshaw tweeted the following at the airline and Rock: Dear @Delta and @chrisrock: here's a list of when Faggots deserve to be called Faggots. »
- Chris Eggertsen
Revolt CEO Keith Clinkscales Departs Company After Three Years
4 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Revolt CEO Keith Clinkscales has stepped down from his role at the company, TheWrap has learned. In a memo sent to staffers on Thursday, Clinkscales announced his departure from the music-themed network that was founded by Sean “Puffy” Combs, thanking his team and assuring them that the company remains on “exceptional footing.” Chief Operating Officer Derek Ferguson will temporarily take the reins while Revolt searches for Clinkscales’ replacement. Also Read: Sean 'Diddy' Combs' Revolt TV Names Derek Ferguson COO Clinkscales has served as CEO at Revolt since 2013, when he was appointed to the position by Combs, who is the company’s chairman. »
- Reid Nakamura
Toronto: Covert Media Launches Lexica as Foreign Sales Label
4 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
In a pre-Toronto Film Festival move, year-old Covert Media has launched Lexica Films as an international sales label for foreign-language feature film titles for the worldwide marketplace.
Covert is aiming to launch five-ten films per year through Lexica and will also be handling English-language remake rights, in many cases. Covert’s president of international, Liz Kim Schwan, will lead the division.
“Broadening our reach into foreign language films is a natural step for Covert Media and we are proud to announce the Lexica label,” said CEO Paul Hanson. “The quality and commercial appeal of these films from some of the most talented filmmakers from all corners of the world enables us to expand the range of the distinctive projects we can offer to the worldwide marketplace.”
The first title announced under the new label is disaster film “Earthquake,” which will be presented to buyers in Toronto. Covert is handling all international sales outside of Russia, »
- Dave McNary
Fans: Mike Tirico Sidelining Is an ‘Absolute Crime’
4 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Enjoy Mike Tirico while you can, football fans, because once the regular season starts on Sept. 9 he’ll be sidelined. The Espn veteran commentator, who moved over to NBC earlier this year, is calling the “Thursday Night Football” preseason matchup tonight between the Atlanta Falcons and the Miami Dolphins. But he won’t be joining Cris Collinsworth in the analyst booth during the regular season because he wasn’t named in the network’s initial bid. That has sparked an outcry among fans who grew to love Tirico’s distinctive and enlightening play-calling when he shared duties with Jon Gruden »
- Debbie Emery
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