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10 hours ago | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »

Lionsgate's Blair Witch arrives seventeen years after the original film and it's hoping to become the third horror film to top the weekend box office this year. Standing in its way is last weekend's champ, Sully, which has delivered record results over the past few days and is looking at a $20+ million second weekend. Other new wide releases include Universal's Bridget Jones's Baby, arriving twelve years after the last film, and Open Road's Snowden. Meanwhile, Pure Flix debuts the documentary Hillsong: Let Hope Rise in over 800 theaters and Freestyle releases Mr. Church starring Eddie Murphy into approximately 300 theaters. Overall, while there could be a fight at the top with a couple of $20+ million weekends, this weekend's top twelve looks like it will be down from last year by about 10-11% with the top twelve generating around $89 million compared to $98.6 million over the same weekend last year. 2016 has already seen 11 films »

- Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>

11 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

Actress and pop singer Cailee Spaeny has landed the female lead in Legendary’s “Pacific Rim: Maelstrom,” the sequel to the 2013 sci-fi hit.

John Boyega will play the male lead in “Maelstrom” and Scott Eastwood also stars. Steven S. DeKnight is directing.

Thomas Tull, Mary Parent, Jon Jashni, and Guillermo del Toro will produce the action adventure film along with Boyega and Femi Oguns under their Upper Room Productions shingle. Cale Boyter will serve as the film’s executive producer.

The first “Pacific Rim,” directed by del Toro, also starred Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Idris Elba, Charlie Day and Robert Kazinsky.

“Pacific Rim” was set in the near future with Earth at war with the Kaiju, monsters that emerged from an interdimensional portal at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The movie went on to gross more than $410 million at the worldwide box office.

Plot details are vague on this »

- Justin Kroll

17 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

Emmanuelle Seigner and Eva Green are set to star in Roman Polanski’s psychological thriller “Based on a True Story (“D’apres une histoire vraie”), which will be sold internationally by Lionsgate.

Olivier Assayas, who nabbed the best director prize at Cannes for supernatural drama “Personal Shopper” starring Kristen Stewart, is co-writing the film with Polanski. “True Story” tells the tale of a writer (Emmanuelle Seigner) whose life and mind are endangered by an obsessive woman (Eva Green).

Marking Polanski’s return to film-making since his 2013 drama “Venus in Fur,” the French-language “Based on a True Story” is an adaptation of Delphine de Vigan’s critically acclaimed novel of the same name. The book was published last year and won the Prix Renaudot and high school prize Goncourt des Lyceens.

“True Story” is Wassim Beji’s first collaboration with Assayas and Polanski. Beji is producing the film via his Parisian outfit Wy Productions, »

- Elsa Keslassy

27 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

San Sebastian — Jose Luis Lopez Linares’ “Bosch: The Garden of Dreams” will receive a theatrical release in 24 international territories, thanks to a pioneering agreement between production house LopezLi, Madrid-based sales agent Latido and foreign distributor Version Digital.

Territories in which “Bosch” will open in cinema theaters include the U.S., the U.K., Latin America, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.

Based out of Valencia, and positioning itself as Spain’s leading event cinema distributor, both for Spain and in international markets, Version Digital distributes and programs international ballet, opera – such as retransmissions from London’s Royal Opera House  and the Sydney Royal Opera House – as well as theater work and concert recordings, HD art exhibitions docs-features and heritage cinema. In Spain, it works with cinema chains, cheaters and cultural centres.

Capitalising on its contacts, Version Digital has also built up a network of national and international theatrical outlets for event cinema from Spain. »

- John Hopewell

29 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

Varsovia Films, the Buenos Aires-based outfit run by Argentine producer Diego Dubcovsky (“The Motorcycle Diaries,” “The Broken Embraces,” “Truman”) has boarded Carlos Ameglio’s project “Kiken,” which marks Uruguayan outfit Salado’s first foray into genre film production.

As a project, “Kiken” featured last year at both the San Sebastian’s Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum and Austin’s Fantastic Market. The entry of Mexican and German co-production partners in the project is currently under negotiations.

A first draft of the script has been penned by Salado founder Carlos Ameglio alongside Argentine film and TV writer Leonel D’Agostino (“Black Snow”).

Described as a visceral film, and conceived as a rollercoaster whose energy never wanes, “Kiken” follows a couple attempting to rekindle their relationship in a small fishing village, where a mysterious Japanese ship runs aground and releases a substance which mutates the hamlet’s inhabitants.

Set to partially shoot in »

- Emiliano De Pablos

2 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is making a last-minute switch. Michael Giacchino has just been set to score the movie, replacing the previously announced Alexandre Desplat. The reason for the change? Blame those much-talked-about reshoots.  Last year, we heard that Desplat would be scoring Rogue One, making him the first composer besides John Williams to do a Star Wars […]

The post ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’: Michael Giacchino Replaces Alexandre Desplat as Composer appeared first on /Film. »

- Angie Han

3 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »

John McAfee isn’t fooling anyone. In a documentary profile filled with damning evidence, there’s something self-incriminating in McAfee’s “You probably read about me” response to being arrested by police, all caught on squad car dashcams.

It’s the opening scene of Nanette Burstein’s “Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee,” a detailed look at the trail left behind by a millionaire untethered from social and legal norms. From his time as progenitor of the once-ubiquitous McAfee antivirus software, through his business ventures overseas in Belize and his recent bid for the Libertarian presidential nomination, Burstein looks at the consequences of empowering an individual to trade on his name and not his abilities. In a media landscape that hasn’t fully realized how to cover business mogul presidential candidates, “Gringo” shows what it takes to truly examine the past of a volatile public figure.

“Gringo” is light on McAfee’s pre-Belize exploits, »

- Steve Greene

5 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

Ed Helms and Owen Wilson think former NFL quarterback Terry Bradshaw may be their father in the first trailer for Alcon Entertainment’s comedy “Bastards.”

Helms and Wilson play brothers whose mother Helen Baxter (portrayed Glenn Close) admits at her wedding that she stretched the truth about their father dying when they were young. “I’m not sure who your father was,” she adds.

The duo take off on a road trip to find their real father with evidence pointing to Bradshaw (playing himself) and J.K. Simmons. Ving Rhames, June Squibb and Katt Williams also star.

“Talk about a blast from the past,” Bradshaw responds. “She damn near cost us the Super Bowl.”

Rhames says of the name Helen Baxter, “It does more than ring a bell.”

The film is rated R for language and sexual references throughout.

Lawrence Sher, who shot the “Hangover” films, directs from a screenplay by Justin Malen. »

- Dave McNary

5 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »

Here’s a question that I think is worth some consideration: is “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” Disney and Lucasfilm‘s “Suicide Squad“? Let’s face it, both films have been through pretty much the same thing, but one has received (so far) a pass from too much scrutiny, thanks for a carefully orchestrated PR counter-attack. But none […]

The post Composer Michael Giacchino Replaces Alexandre Desplat On ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ appeared first on The Playlist. »

- Kevin Jagernauth

5 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »

Incumbents had a field day in the WGA East's latest council election, winning all six seats they were running for. Female candidates also fared well, picking up half of the 10 seats up for grabs. Incumbents re-elected include freelance writers John Auerbach, Kyle Bradstreet, Christopher Kyle and Beau Willimon, and staff writers Gail Lee and Kathy McGee. Newcomers elected include freelancers Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, A.M. Homes and Therese Rebeck, and staffer Matt… »

6 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »

Exclusive: Another splashy Toronto deal near: Sony Pictures Classics is close to landing The Leisure Seeker, the Paolo Virzi-directed film that stars Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland. The deal is mid-seven figures for U.S. rights and some other territories. Mirren and Sutherland play a long-married couple who fear they are nearing the end of the road. So the couple decides to stretch that road by hopping aboard a vintage Winnebago Leisure Seeker to visit the Key West… »

6 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

“House of Cards” creator Beau Willimon and five other incumbents won re-election to two-year terms for council seats for the Writers Guild of America East.

Voting opened on Aug. 24, with about 4,000 members eligible to cast ballots. The WGA East announced the results on Thursday.

Willimon was one of 16 candidates vying for seven open freelance seats. Three other incumbents — John Auerbach, Kyle Bradstreet, and Christopher Kyle — also won, along with newcomers Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, A.M. Homes, and Theresa Rebeck.

Gail Lee and Kathy McGee were re-elected to open staff seats, along with Matt Nelko, from six available candidates.

The WGA East negotiates jointly with the WGA West on the master contract with production companies. That deal expires on May 1 with no negotiations set yet.

Willimon promised in his candidate statement that he would be active in negotiations.

“Should I be re-elected to Council, I plan to be very involved in the negotiating process, »

- Dave McNary

6 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »

“I’ve always been interested in comedies with a little bit more on the bone than a lot of laughs and something that speaks with some emotional truth,” Lawrence Sher, a longtime cinematographer turned directors told USA Today. “Particularly as we reach middle age, we often look to our parents and our family as to what […]

The post Owen Wilson And Ed Helms Look For Their Long Lost Dad In First Trailer For ‘Bastards’ appeared first on The Playlist. »

- The Playlist

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