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'Suicide Squad' Threepeats at #1, While 'Ben-Hur' Becomes Latest Big Budget Flop
23 hours ago | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
It's a repeat at the top of the domestic box office as Suicide Squad and Sausage Party finished one and two respectively for a second weekend in a row and serving as the third straight weekend at number one for the DC Comics adaptation. The rest of the top five is made up of the weekend's three new wide releases*War Dogs, Kubo and the Two Strings and Ben-Hur*as this weekend's top twelve was down 25% from last weekend, though, compared to last year, the top twelve is up nearly 30% with a combined gross of just over $118 million. As already mentioned, with an estimated $20.7 million Suicide Squad took the number one spot at the weekend box office. The film's domestic cume is now up to $262.28 million, ranking fifth among all DC Comics adaptations. Internationally the film added another $38 million this weekend bringing its international total to $310.4 million for a worldwide cume totaling $572.68 million, »
- Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
‘American Horror Story’: FX Releases Yet Another Teaser for Season 6
20 August 2016 2:52 PM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
This time, with a spider.
Over the past month or so, FX has rolled out 14 promo videos for its sixth season. And still, no official theme has been announced.
The latest shows an eight-legged freak crawling out of a human mouth. It’s creepy, but before your mind goes running fantasizing about Sarah Paulson as Sônia Braga in “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” an arachnid-themed season may or may not be in our collective future.
FX CEO John Landgraf revealed at the Television Critics Association summer press tour on Aug. 9 that most of the “Ahs” teasers were misdirects, and only one of the final teasers is an accurate depiction of the Season 6 theme.
“We just thought it would be really fun to keep it a mystery this year. And we are,” Landgraf told reporters at TCA. “They went out and made many more trailers than you’ve actually seen for hypothetical seasons of ‘American Horror Story.’ One »
- Seth Kelley
‘Stranger Things’: Duffer Brothers Promise ‘Justice for Barb’ in Season 2
20 August 2016 9:22 AM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
[Spoiler alert: The following interview covers plot details from the entire eight-episode first season of Netflix’s “Stranger Things.” Do not read until you’ve finished the season.]
While the Netflix summer hit “Stranger Things” still hasn’t been officially renewed for Season 2, its creators, known as the Duffer brothers, are weighing in on what the future of the show could possibly hold.
Specifically, the future of one Barb who captured the internet’s heart as the sidekick who tragically dies and is essentially forgotten while the rest of the season focuses on saving
another character.
First things first, the bad news: Barb is almost definitely not coming back to the show. “I can’t see it happening” Matt Duffer told IGN in a recent interview.
But he acknowledged that they hear the weeping and gnashing of teeth surrounding the character’s unfortunate demise, and the general lack of emotional closure.
“Barb will not be forgotten,” he said. “We’ll make sure there’s some justice for Barb. People get very frustrated, understandably, that the town doesn’t seem to be really dealing with Barb »
- Seth Kelley
The Guardians of the Galaxy Will Be in ‘Avengers: Infinity War,’ Vin Diesel Confirms
19 August 2016 3:25 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
What Groot lacks in vocabulary, Vin Diesel made up for by spilling some Marvel news.
In a Facebook live video that aired on the actor’s personal page on Friday, Diesel confirmed that the Guardians of the Galaxy will appear in the upcoming Avengers movie “Infinity War.”
“Now, the Guardians will be included in ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ and that’s incredibly exciting,” he said addressing the live audience, “You were told before everybody.”
The real purpose of the video was not for Diesel to break news about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but to show off an award he received from Facebook for having over 100 million fans. Diesel spends most of the almost 30-minute-long video telling his audience how much he appreciates their support for his career, including joining the “Guardians” franchise.
“That whole concept started from you all saying, ‘When are you going to be in a Marvel movie?'” he said. »
- Seth Kelley
Boxing Movie ‘My Name Is Lenny’ Starts to Shoot in London (Exclusive)
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Boxing movie “My Name Is Lenny,” which stars “Mad Max: Fury Road” and “X-Men: Apocalypse” actor Josh Helman, has started filming in London.
Principal photography on the film, which is produced by Salon Pictures and will be released in the U.K. by Lionsgate, takes place over four weeks in North London’s Hoxton and Islington.
The pic is based on the true life story of bare-knuckle fighter Lenny McLean, also known as “The Guv’nor.” Helman stars as the boxer, with Chanel Cresswell, a BAFTA winner with “This Is England: 90,” as his wife, Val McLean. Ufc middleweight champion Michael Bisping (“Twin Peaks,” “xXx: Return of Xander Cage”) plays his arch rival, Roy “Pretty Boy” Shaw.
The supporting cast features Michael Gambon (“Harry Potter” series, “Hail, Caesar!”), Nick Moran (“Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1&2”), Jennifer Brooke (“Astral”), Charley Palmer Rothwell (“Legend,” “Ripper Street »
- Leo Barraclough
San Sebastian Completes Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Line-Up
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Barcelona — Jeff Nichols’ “Midnight Special,” Todd Solondz’s “Wiener Dog,” João Pedro Rodrigues’ “The Ornithologist” and Paz Encina’s “Memory Exercises” are some of the newest titles that will round up San Sebastian’s overhauled Zabaltegi-Tabakalera sidebar.
Winner of a Cannes’ Fipresci Prize with “Paraguayan Hammock,” Paz Encina’s awaited second feature, “Memory Exercises” turns on Agustín Goiburú, who made a valiant attempt to organise opposition to Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner.
Premiered at the 2016 Berlinale, Nichols’ FilmNation-sold fourth feature won glowing reviews – Variety called it “limitlessly imaginative” – for a supernatural thriller mixed with sci-fi and road movie elements.
Portuguese João Pedro Rodrigues’ fifth picture, the playful “The Ornithologist, in which a solitary bird watcher embarks on a journey of self discovery, won best director at early August’s Locarno Festival. Films Boutique sells; Portugal’s Blackmaria produces.
“A wandering short story compendium, bound by deadpan musings on mortality and the presence of one winsome Dachshund, »
- Emilio Mayorga
Virginie Devesa On Female Filmmakers, Ukraine, Moving Into Production
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
For five years Virginie Devesa, has successfully been running Paris-based sales company Alpha Violet together with colleague Keiko Funato. Alpha Violet is primarily dedicated to making visible promising talents. It has a special interest in female voices. While Alpha points to transparency and professionalism, Violet symbolizes overlooked, hidden or marginalized contents. Devesa and Funato carefully hand-pick their films by asking: “Does this material need us?” Variety talked to Devesa at the Locarno Festival, as she gears up for late-Summer festival.
What’s the history of Alpha Violet?
It’s a Paris-based sales company I founded five years ago with my good Japanese friend Keiko Funato. I worked with her in a sales company prior to our deciding to become independent and to create our own female label. We later brought on board Jean-Baptiste Bailly-Maitre who helped us building up the project and financing it.
What are your mission and values? »
- Lili Hering and Franziska Meierhofer
Korea Box Office: ‘Tunnel’ Stays on Top, ‘Star Trek’ Lands Second Place
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Disaster drama, “Tunnel” remained on top of the Korean box office for the second consecutive week. The Showbox release earned $8.43 million from 1.12 million admissions between Friday and Sunday for a total of $37.0 million from 5.08 million admissions after two weekends.
Opening on Wednesday, Lotte-distributed “Star Trek Beyond” earned $5.46 million. It is the “Star Trek” franchise’s biggest opening in Korea. (“Star Trek into Darkness” sold more tickets than “Beyond” in its 2013 debut, but earned less revenue.)
“The Last Princess” took third place, earning $3.71 million between Friday and Sunday. The historical melodrama has accumulated $34.4 million after three weekends on release.
Upi’s “The Secret Life of Pets” remained in fourth. It earned $1.59 million between Friday and Sunday for a total of $15.4 million after three weekends.
Korean quartet “Operation Chromite,” “Train to Busan,” “Seoul Station” and “Run Off” took fifth to eighth places. Cj’s “Chromite” earned $1.41 million for a total of $47.3 million after four weekends. »
- Sonia Kil
At&T’s DirecTV Latin America Acquires Sky, Canal Plus series ‘The Last Panthers’
3 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Madrid — At&T-owned DirecTV Latin America, the region’s biggest satellite TV multi-channel operator, has acquired rights to European heist thriller “The Last Panthers,” a flagship television-series co-production of Europe’s biggest two pay-tv groups, Sky and Vivendi’s Canal Plus.
“The Last Panthers’” joint distribution worldwide is handled by Vivendi-owned Studiocanal and Sky Vision. Dtvla will broadcast “The Last Panthers,” an intricate Europe-wide crime saga, from Aug. 22.
With 19 million clients in Latin America, thanks in large part to partnerships with Globo at Sky Brasil and Televisa at Sky Mexico, DirecTV will add a score or more territories to “The Last Panther” sales markets, which now reach 122 territories in total, a mark of just how widely select Euro TV series are licensing these days.
Canal Plus aired “The Last Panthers” in France, which Sky rolled it out Nov. 22 across all five European territories where it operates, reaching 21 million subscribers in Britain, Germany »
- John Hopewell
China Box Office: 'Line Walker' Stays on Top as Weekend Total Hits Summer Low
3 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
China's sagging theatrical box office dipped to a new summer low over the weekend, as Hong Kong crime thriller Line Walker had the dubious honor of winning the frame with just $16.8 million. Total box office from Friday to Sunday amounted to $61.8 million (411.8 million Rmb), the weakest weekend total of summer 2016 so far, according to data from Beijing-based box office tracker Ent Group. Line Walker has earned $72.2 million after 11 days, a respectable haul for a mid-budget local police picture, but not the kind of big gross analysts have
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- Patrick Brzeski
Live Streaming Services Are All the Rage – But Are There Too Many?
5 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
The bundle is dying. Long live the new bundle? With Dish Network’s Sling TV, Sony’s PlayStation Vue and the forthcoming offerings from At&T’s DirecTV and Hulu, over-the-top streaming live-tv replacement services are popping up from seemingly every major media company. However, customers are unlikely to subscribe to all of them — and growth has been slow even in a less crowded field. That could result in consolidation of the type we’ve seen with cable companies and content producers. “We’ll see a wave of consolidation, and it’s not too far away,” Hale Boggs, the chairman of Manatt Digital Media, »
- Matt Pressberg
Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony Review: Finally, an End to These Weird Rio Games
6 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
The closing ceremonies for the 31st Summer Olympics in Rio on NBC were an indication of just how exhausted everyone has become from the last 16 days. A mere two weeks have passed since Matt Lauer, Hoda Kotb, and Meredith Vieira set the stage for what would ultimately become a global demonstration of the Ugly American trope. In lieu of those three heavy-hitters, the closing ceremonies were hosted by Mary Carillo, Ryan Seacrest, and Mike Tirico finishing things the way they began–by complaining that Brazil thinks Alberto Santos-Dumont is the true father of aviation. “They’re not letting this go, »
- Mark Peikert
Film Review: ‘The Forest’
8 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Real and imaginary worlds commingle in “The Forest,” an elegantly composed fantasy-drama about an idealistic schoolteacher whose posting to a remote Thai village upsets the local status quo. Intertwining the teacher’s story with that of a mute student who lives in a nearby forest that’s said to be haunted, Bangkok-based British helmer Paul Spurrier crafts an intriguing and visually beautiful tale that taps into universal childhood experiences while painting a realistic picture of life in a community suffering severe economic and environmental hardships. Festival programmers should take a look. After winning the Netpac prize at BiFan, “The Forest” is scheduled for limited local release in late 2016.
The first westerner to direct a Thai-language feature, Spurrier has stepped up impressively from his debut, “P” (2005), a supernatural drama set in the Bangkok go-go bar scene. Working in close collaboration with his wife, Jiriya, Spurrier’s second feature combines fantasy and »
- Richard Kuipers
‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Midseason Premiere Recap: ‘Grotesque’
8 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Spoiler Alert: Do not read on unless you’ve seen season 2, episode 8 of “Fear the Walking Dead,” titled “Grotesque.”
After four months, AMC’s “Fear the Walking Dead” is back to continue the story of the Clark, Manawa and Salazar family’s post-apocalyptic vacation through Mexico. After a season and a half of everyone spending their time together, the midseason finale shook up the status quo by splitting the group into three (Madison, Alicia, Strand and Ofelia in one, Travis and his trouble son Chris in another and Nick all by himself). If this episode is a blueprint for the second half of the season than the move to split everyone up was a great one. Rather than each character wrestling for screen time, the midseason premiere, called “Grotesque,” focuses on one group for its entirety. Nick is the first character we catch up with after the events at Abigail’s compound.
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- Jacob Bryant
What should we expect — or want — from 'The Night Of' finale?
8 hours ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Some thoughts on tonight's The Night Of — and on my hopes for next week's finale — coming up just as soon as this is for Law & Order... "Did I raise an animal?" -Mrs. Khan The first installment of The Night Of was among the most vivid, engrossing episodes of television I've seen in a long time. It's not that the larger story was all that new, but Price and Zaillian's attention to detail and ability to inject enormous amounts of dread into seemingly innocuous moments made it feel fresh and alive and different. The series has had no choice but to become a bit more conventional with each ensuing hour. There are still peculiarities unique to it and its characters (though Stone's eczema remains under control, the scene where he visits one of Don Taylor's former sugar mamas makes sure to dwell on the woman's manicured bare feet) and each »
- Alan Sepinwall
Leonardo DiCaprio, Nina Agdal in Hamptons Car Accident
8 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
While Hollywood insiders were buzzing Saturday about Leonardo DiCaprio missing out on the planned Hillary Clinton fundraiser in Los Angeles, the Academy Award-winner and his Danish girlfriend Nina Agdal, were involved in minor accident on the East coast. The duo’s Ranger Rover was rear-ended by a Mini Cooper while traveling in New York’s Hamptons. According to the New York Post, neither DiCaprio nor Agdal were hurt, but the female driver of the small car was pretty shaken up. “Leo was nice about it,” the unnamed witness told The Post. “He motioned for her to come with him, and he helped her. »
- Rosemary Rossi
Bette Midler Apologizes For Caitlyn Jenner Tweet Deemed ‘Transphobic’
9 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Bette Midler‘s quick wit and sharp tongue have gotten her into a trouble with Caitlyn Jenner fans after tweeting a rather controversial comment about the transgender icon. “Now that @IAmCait has been cancelled, will she go back to being Bruce?” Midler wrote, referring to Jenner’s former life as Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner. Midler then double-dipped, hitting a nerve about the reality star’s ex-wife Kris Jenner, and the Kardashian empire. “Will Kris take him back? Do I smell a re-wedding?!” Midler asked. Also Read: 'I Am Cait' Not Renewed for Season 3 Realizing the error of her ways, »
- Rosemary Rossi
Rio Olympics Closing Ceremony: City Throws Final Party to End Games
9 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Rio De Janeiro (AP) — Brazil and the world bid farewell Sunday to the first Olympic Games in South America, a 16-day spectacle that combined numerous highlight reel moments with ugly and even bizarre episodes that sometimes overshadowed the competitions. Olympic athletes were smiling, dancing and taking selfies as they proceeded into Rio de Janeiro's iconic Maracana Stadium for the closing ceremony of the 2016 Summer Games. Thousands of fans braved strong winds and sporadic rains to watch the closing ceremony, a finale meant to be both one last bash and to take care of some business — namely
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- the Associated Press
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