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

The Fall movie season is upon us as last weekend brought the 2016 Summer movie season to a close, delivering a slight increase over 2015 with a calendar gross of nearly $4.5 billion led by Finding Dory's $482.9 million. Added to that, Summer 2016 concluded with only the second August to ever deliver calendar grosses eclipsing $1 billion, led by Suicide Squad's $286.4 million. All told, 2016 is currently showing a 4.9% increase over 2015, with a gross-to-date totaling $8.1 billion as of yesterday, compared to $7.7 billion at the same time last year. As for this weekend, it looks as if the top twelve should outperform the same weekend last year by a couple million with a pair of new releases doing the bulk of the heavy lifting. With the fall film festival season in full swing, one of this weekend's four new wide releases has already seen its share of festival love, that being Clint Eastwood's Sully, »

- Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>

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

Participant Media and Alfonso Cuarón (“Gravity”) will team up for a new untitled project, which will be directed and written by the Academy Award-winning filmmaker. Production is slated to begin in Mexico this fall. The project will chronicle a year in the life of a middle class family in Mexico City in the early 1970s. “This film is close to my heart and my first in Mexico since ‘Y Tu Mamá También.’ I am thrilled to be making it with the Participant team,” said Cuarón in a statement. Also Read: Alfonso Cuaron on 'Gravity': 'Awards Don't Make Your »

- Beatrice Verhoeven

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

The Lady Chablis, who was featured in John Berendt’s 1994 book “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” and the 1997 film adaptation, died Thursday.

Club One, the Savannah Georgia venue where Chablis performed her revue, posted the following message on their Facebook page:

“The Lady Chablis, who stole hearts – and the spotlight – in ‘Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil,’ passed this morning surrounded by friends and family. In his best-selling novel, known in Savannah as ‘The Book,’ John Berendt wrote that when he first met The Lady Chablis, ‘she had both hands on her hips and a sassy half-smile on her face,’ a pose that would grace many stages … Chablis always wanted to give the audience, be it 15 or 1500, the best that she had. With her declining health, she regretted that her body wouldn’t allow her to give more.”

Berendt wrote Chablis into his best-selling novel »

- Lawrence Yee

10 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »

Exclusive: Universal and Focus Features won a worldwide rights auction for an untitled film that Paul Thomas Anderson wrote and will direct, re-teaming him with There Will Be Blood star Daniel Day-Lewis. Focus won the deal after a ferocious bidding battle with Fox Searchlight. The deal puts the lie to press reports speculating that buyer appetite has vanished going into Toronto. I’m told that Focus will finance the film’s $35 million budget on a negative pickup deal, with… »

9 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »

NBC has bought a script for procedural drama “First Responders” from executive producer Vin Diesel, Variety has learned exclusively.

Diesel will produce hourlong series by way of his One Race Television shingle, which is under a first look deal with Universal Television, the studio behind “First Responders.” The project is currently in development.

“First Responders” is described as a dynamic, high-action procedural about young veterans struggling to reintegrate into society, while heroically saving civilian lives along the way. The elite team is the best Search and Rescue operation in the country, and is run by husband-and-wife duo, Doc and Lil Pierce, whose Southern California coastal base provides a sense of community and surrogate family for their ex-military staff. While Doc and Lil can save anyone else’s life in the darkest times, they have been unable to find their own son and will stop at nothing to solve the mystery of his disappearance and bring him back »

- Elizabeth Wagmeister

9 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »

Exclusive: Warner Bros Television is closing a deal for the fall literary sensation novel The Nix, and the elements are dazzling. Meryl Streep is going to star and produce with J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot. Abrams will likely direct at least some of the episodes. The first novel by Nathan Hill is a sprawling generational tale that focuses on a hippie-era mother who gets national press exposure for throwing rocks at a conservative governor on the presidential campaign… »

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John Hostetter, who recurred in dozens of Murphy Brown episodes starting in Year 1 and appeared in about 100 films and TV shows, has died. He was 69. His family said he died Friday of cancer complications in New Smyrna Beach, Fl. Hostetter was best known for playing John, the imperturbable stage manager of Fyi, the newsmag-within-a-show featured in Murphy Brown. Starring Candice Bergen as the titular investigative reporter and anchor, the CBS sitcom ran for 10 seasons… »

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German helmer Lexi Alexander has come on board to direct “Crossface,” a biopic about late wresting champ Chris Benoit.

Producers are Alex A. Ginzburg and Tony Lee of Let It Play. Ram Getz and Matthew Randazzo V are exec producing.

Alexander will direct from a script by Jake Goldberger and Sarah Coulter. The project is based on Randazzo’s book “Ring of Hell: The Story of Chris Benoit & the Fall of the Pro Wrestling Industry.” The movie’s title is taken from Benoit’s trademark “crippler crossface” wrestling hold.

Benoit was a respected wrestler who murdered his wife and son before taking his own life in 2007. He was posthumously diagnosed with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (Cte), a progressive degenerative disease caused by severe or repeated blows to the head.

Alexander, best known for directing “Punisher: War Zone,” received an Academy Award nomination for her short film “Johnny Flynton.” Her film “Green Street Hooligans, »

- Dave McNary

17 minutes ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

Hillary Clinton is trying to make some lemonade from NBC’s “Commander-in-Chief” lemon of a forum Wednesday night, using Matt Lauer’s universally-panned performance as a moderator to solicit donations. On Thursday, the Clinton campaign fired off an email calling out the “Today” show host for sitting quietly as Donald Trump claimed, once again, that he’s always opposed the Iraq War, despite evidence to the contrary. “Not only did the moderator, Matt Lauer, fail to fact-check Trump — he then kept the conversation moving,” the email read. “The worst part is, there’s nothing new about this happening.” Also Read: »

- Itay Hod

20 minutes ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

It’s been 15 years since the horrific terror attacks of September 11, 2001 — a tragedy that America will never forget, but Hollywood can’t quite decide how to remember. We have books and documentaries, and news footage that still feels too fresh. But we don’t have a definitive 9/11 movie — one feature film that’s held up as the most reliable source of cinematic art, accurately reflecting the scope of the attacks with emotional authenticity. The kind of film parents and teachers could show children to help them understand. “In a weird way, 9/11 is hands-off, where almost every other human tragedy is Ok, »

- Meriah Doty

27 minutes ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

Great balls of fire — there’s a family feud exploding among Jerry Lee Lewis’ clan, and it’s spilling into the legal system. Rock ‘n’ roll legend Lewis — along with his wife Judith, daughter Lori and son Jerry Lee Lewis III — have filed suit against Ezekiel Loftin, the husband of Lewis’ daughter Phoebe. Lewis and his relatives are suing over “untrue and outrageous” Facebook posts allegedly made by Loftin — and they want $1 million in damages. Also Read: Elvis Presley's Estate Wants His Lincoln Continental Back “Defendant uses his marriage to Phoebe Lewis to garner fame and notoriety as the son-in-law. »

- Tim Kenneally

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