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Kiersey Clemons to Star in Marc Webb’s Next Film Opposite Callum Turner
2 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Kiersey Clemons is set to star opposite Callum Turner and Jeff Bridges in the Amazon Studios film “The Only Living Boy in New York.”
Variety first reported that Clemons had been offered to play the female lead and sources now say the deal is closed. Kate Beckinsale also stars with Marc Webb on board to direct the film.
Allan Loeb penned the script, which tells the tale of a young man who learns that his overbearing father is having an affair. The son tries to stop it, but ends up becoming involved with the woman as well. Details about Clemons’ role are unknown.
Amazon will finance and distribute movie. Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa are producing and John Fogel will exec produce.
Although Clemons is currently working on several projects, this is likely to be the next one released since production is expected to start this fall. She was recently »
- Justin Kroll
Viola Davis to Star in Steve McQueen Heist Thriller ‘Widows’ (Exclusive)
4 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Viola Davis will star in Steve McQueen’s upcoming heist thriller “Widows” for New Regency.
“Gone Girl” screenwriter and novelist Gillian Flynn is on board to pen the script with McQueen.
Based on the 2002 British miniseries about a caper gone wrong, the story follows four armed robbers who get killed in a failed heist attempt, leaving their widows to finish the job.
The film will be produced by McQueen, and Iain Canning and Emile Sherman of See-Saw Films, who teamed with McQueen on “Shame” and also produced the best picture Oscar winner “The Kings Speech.” Film 4 is co-financing with New Regency.
The movie marks McQueen’s first feature since winning the best picture Academy Award for “12 Years a Slave.” McQueen has since been working on the HBO limited series “Codes of Conduct,” also penned by Flynn.
HBO recently shelved “Codes of Conduct,” allowing McQueen to focus all his energy on “Widows. »
- Justin Kroll
Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange Will Report for ‘Avengers: Infinity War’
26 September 2016 2:30 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Avengers: Infinity War is shaping up to be a real all-hands-on-deck situation. Not only will the current Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy be reporting for duty, but characters we haven’t even met yet like Captain Marvel are expected to join the fray. And you can add Doctor Strange to that growing list of superheroes. […]
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- Angie Han
Jodie Foster to Receive Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award
26 September 2016 1:43 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Jodie Foster will be this year’s recipient of the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film at the October ceremony, it was announced on Monday.
“It seems fitting that in this 40th Anniversary year of both ‘Taxi Driver’ and ‘Bugsy Malone,’ we are honoring Jodie’s remarkable trail-blazing career at the Britannia Awards,” said Kieran Breen, chairman of BAFTA Los Angeles, in a statement. “It takes a rare and special talent to launch an international career with two amazingly different performances, and Jodie’s choices as an actor and director have continued to earn a deserved reputation as one of the most versatile professionals of our time.”
Foster’s 50-year career started at age three as “The Coppertone Girl” in the television commercial, but it was her role as Iris “Easy” Steensma in “Taxi Driver” (1976) that gained her world-wide recognition. Her most prominent roles in film have landed »
- Joshua Terry
Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan’s ‘Wildlife’ Adds ‘The Visit’ Star Ed Oxenbould (Exclusive)
23 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Ed Oxenbould has landed the role of Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan’s son in Paul Dano’s directorial debut, “Wildlife,” sources tell Variety.
Based on the Richard Ford novel, the film follows a boy who witnesses his parents’ marriage falling apart after his mom finds another man.
The movie is produced by Andrew Duncan and Alex Saks for June Pictures, and Gyllenhaal and Riva Marker for Nine Stories. Oren Moverman, Ann Ruark, and Dano will also produce, while Zoe Kazan and Eddie Vaisman are executive producing. Wme Global handles the domestic rights to the film.
The script was co-written by Dano and Kazan.
Fairly new to the world of film, Oxenbould broke out as one the title character in Disney’s “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,” opposite Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner. He followed that up with another starring role in M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Visit. »
- Justin Kroll
‘Edge of Seventeen’ Named as Centerpiece Selection at Austin Film Festival
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The Austin Film Festival and Screenwriters Conference has announced that the Stx coming of age-comedy “Edge of Seventeen” will screen as the centerpiece selection on Oct. 17.
James L. Brooks will attend the screening of the pic, on which he is a producer.
Brooks, whose previous producing credits include “Jerry Maguire” and “The Simpsons Movie,” will present the film and take part in a Q&A afterwards.
“Edge of Seventeen” centers around lonely high school junior Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld) who forms an unlikely friendship with awkward admirer Erwin Kim (Hayden Szeto). The film also stars Woody Harrelson as Nadine’s history teacher.
Writer-director Ben Younger will also be present in Austin for a screening of his film “Bleed for This,” which stars Miles Teller as struggling boxer Vinny Paz and Aaron Eckhart as his coach. The film is based on the story of Paz, who went on to become world champion. »
- Will Thorne
Difficult Chapter, Tough Choices for Oscar Voters
4 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Another film awards season dawns. But before the early festivals in Venice, Telluride, and Toronto could even define the day, storm clouds had already gathered.
The controversy surrounding Fox Searchlight’s Sundance acquisition “The Birth of a Nation” — with director and star Nate Parker falling under heavy scrutiny in the wake of resurfaced rape allegations from a 1999 incident at Penn State University — has been a consistent point of discussion and deliberation for weeks. Everyone who covers this beat was immediately asked how the allegations might affect the film’s awards hopes. It’s a query at which one can only cringe.
A woman is dead. Who cares about a Hollywood bauble in the face of that?
But Oscar optics are noteworthy. Many outside the business view the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a monolith that makes singular decisions, not as a body whose nominations result from the views of a wide-ranging collective. »
- Kristopher Tapley
‘Before The Flood’ Trailer: Leonardo DiCaprio’s Documentary On Climate Change
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“We’ve known about this for decades … and the problem seems to be getting worse and worse and worse.” Here’s the trailer for Before the Flood, a documentary produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio that will have a theatrical run next month followed by a global TV airing a week-plus later. “I just want to know how far we’ve gone,” DiCaprio says, “and if there’s anything we can do anything to stop it.” There are mind-numbing and/or heart-wrenching scenes of glaciers… »
Documentary ‘The Dwarvenaut’ Celebrates The Healing & Escapist Power Of Art [Review]
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In a pop culture dominated world where superheroes and science fiction reign supreme, it’s easy to think of the term “nerd” as an oblique form of labeling. Nerd culture is everywhere, to the point where it now is, and has been for a while, cool to be a “nerd. ” Even “Warcraft” was made into a film, much to the delight and horror of fans everywhere who never thought they’d see the day and then, likely, wished they hadn’t.
Continue reading Documentary ‘The Dwarvenaut’ Celebrates The Healing & Escapist Power Of Art [Review] at The Playlist. »
- Ally Johnson
‘Dirty 30’ Star Mamrie Hart Is The Secret Weapon Of YouTube’s Holy Trinity
17 minutes ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
When aspiring actress Mamrie Hart started her YouTube show “You Deserve a Drink” out of her mother’s basement in 2011, she had no idea she would be making her first feature film just four years later. Back then, Hart’s friend Grace Helbig had a bit of a following on her own channel, and she decided to give it a whirl. One million subscribers later, and Hart found herself a bona fide YouTube star. Cue feature film deal.
Hart previously penned the script for 2014’s “Camp Takota,” also starring Helbig and “My Drunk Kitchen” creator Hannah Hart (no relation). According to industry insiders, “Camp Takota” saw big returns for producer Michael Goldfine, though exact numbers are unknown. Naturally, the trio fans have dubbed “The Holy Trinity” made a follow-up.
Read More: ‘Dirty 30’ Q&A: Grace Helbig, Hannah Hart and Mamrie Hart Share Set Secrets (Watch)
“Dirty 30,” a party »
- Jude Dry
John Malkovich Plays Agent Dale Cooper of ‘Twin Peaks’ in First ‘Playing Lynch’ Video — Watch
19 minutes ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
We’ve yet to see any footage of next year’s “Twin Peaks” revival. In the meantime, you can whet your appetite for damn fine coffee with a new project sponsored by the David Lynch Foundation: Playing Lynch, a series of vignettes in which John Malkovich reenacts scenes from the singular filmmaker’s outré body of work. The scenes can be downloaded one by one, with proceeds going to Lynch’s transcendental meditation–inclined foundation. Watch a trailer for the series — as well as the first vignette — below.
Read More: David Lynch on ‘Twin Peaks’ Return: ‘Cable Television Is the New Art-House’
Malkovich plays Agent Dale Cooper of “Twin Peaks” in it, providing a new take on the character made famous by Kyle Buchanan; he’s also set to reinterpret the same show’s Log Lady in addition to John Merrick (John Hurt) of “Elephant Man,” the Mystery Man (Robert Blake) from “Lost Highway, »
- Michael Nordine
‘Milton’s Secret’ Sneak Peek: First Film Based On An Eckhart Tolle Book Challenges The Young Mind
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Exclusive: Here is a clip from the coming-of-age drama Milton’s Secret, a film based on the Ya novel from bestselling author and spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle and Robert Friedman. This marks the first book-to-film adaptation for a Tolle book. The man the New York Times calls “the most popular spiritual author in the United States” also has a strong following among Hollywood execs, so it might not be the last. Barnet Bain directed the pic, which he penned with Donald… »
‘ClownTown’ Clip: A Killer Clown Terrorizes Victims in Small Town
44 minutes ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
For those who suffer from fear of clowns, you might want to turn away now because this exclusive clip from the horror film “ClownTown” will give you nightmares for the rest of your life.
Directed by Tom Nagel, making his feature film directorial debut, and written by Jeff Miller, the movie is loosely inspired by the costumed men who terrorized Bakersfield, CA in 2014. Starring Brian Nagel, Lauren Elise, Andrew Staton, Katie Keene and Jeff Denton, “ClownTown” centers around a group of friends who get stranded in a seemingly abandoned town and find themselves being stalked by a gang of violent psychopaths dressed as clowns.
Read More: Creepy Clowns Roaming South Carolina: Are They Viral Marketing for Rob Zombie’s New Movie ’31’?
Clown films have become increasingly popular this year; Eli Roth produced the horror flick “Clown,” Rob Zombie directed “31” and there’s currently a remake of Stephen King’s “It” on the way. »
- Liz Calvario
David Rubin Picked to Produce Governors Awards
50 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has found a producer for this year’s Governors Awards.
David Rubin, a veteran casting director and producer, will produce the event, to be held Nov. 12 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center.
This year’s awards will be presented to action star Jackie Chan, documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, editor Anne V. Coates, and casting director Lynn Stalmaster.
Rubin represents the casting directors’ branch on the Academy’s Board of Governors. He won an Emmy for casting the HBO movie “Game Change,” and has five Emmy nominations. He has cast numerous feature films, including “Trumbo,” “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” “The English Patient,” “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” and “Men in Black.” He also cast Warren Beatty’s upcoming Howard Hughes film, “Rules Don’t Apply.”
“I am delighted and truly honored by this opportunity to help my fellow Academy governors »
- Gene Maddaus
‘Doctor Strange’ IMAX Trailer + Get Free Tickets To A 15-Minute Theatrical Sneak Preview
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It sounds like Marvel Studios feels the need to build the early buzz on Doctor Strange a little more, because they’ve just announced a special IMAX sneak preview of 15 minutes of footage from the movie. Find out when and where you can catch this Doctor Strange sneak preview after the jump. Fans interested in […]
The post ‘Doctor Strange’ IMAX Trailer + Get Free Tickets To A 15-Minute Theatrical Sneak Preview appeared first on /Film. »
- Ethan Anderton
Contest: Win Taika Waititi’s Hilarious ‘Hunt For The Wilderpeople’ On DVD
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It’s not a secret around here — we’re big fans of Taika Waititi‘s latest “Hunt For The Wilderpeople.” And while the world will know the director after he helms the upcoming “Thor: Ragnarok,” get in on the ground floor and discover why Marvel hired him, and why so many people have been talking about the filmmaker for a while now, and enter for your chance to win ‘Wilderpeople’ on DVD.
Continue reading Contest: Win Taika Waititi’s Hilarious ‘Hunt For The Wilderpeople’ On DVD at The Playlist. »
- Edward Davis
‘Swat’ Getting a TV Series Reboot at CBS From Justin Lin & Shawn Ryan
1 hour ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
This fall, CBS revived MacGyver with a TV series reboot starring Lucas Till, and before that they successfully brought back Hawaii Five-o and The Odd Couple. Now they’re reaching back into the 1970s for another series reboot. Swat ran on CBS for just two seasons totaling 37 episodes from February 1975 to April 1976 and […]
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- Ethan Anderton
Discover The Mystic Arts Of ‘Doctor Strange’ In New Teaser For Special 3D IMAX Preview
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For a moment there, it seemed like things had gone quiet around Marvel‘s “Doctor Strange.” But never doubt the Marvel marketing machine as it’s starting to gear up in a big way to start pushing their next film, one that sees a new character enter the McU.
On October 10th at 7 Pm (so Canadians, you might need to tear yourself away from Thanksgiving dinner), in 115 theaters across North America, Marvel will unveil a special 3D IMAX preview of “Doctor Strange” featuring never-before-seen footage.
Continue reading Discover The Mystic Arts Of ‘Doctor Strange’ In New Teaser For Special 3D IMAX Preview at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Napa Valley Film Festival Announces 2016 Lineup With ‘Lion’ Set for Opening Night
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The Napa Valley Film Festival has released it’s official line-up including opening and closing night screenings, honorees and celebrity tributes. It will take place Nov. 9 – 13.
The Weinstein Company’s “Lion,” starring Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara and Dev Patel, will screen on opening night. The independent documentary “Pisco Punch: A Cocktail Comeback Story” will be served on closing night.
Honorees will include Zoey Deutch and Glen Powell who will each receive a rising star tribute. Chloe Grace Moretz and Dev Patel will each receive trailblazer tributes. This year’s spotlight tribute recipient is Viggo Mortensen. The festival’s filmmaker and actor tributes will be presented to filmmaker Lee Daniels and actor Kurt Russell, respectively.
“We’re excited to welcome everyone back to Napa Valley for another year of outstanding cinematic storytelling,” said Marc Lhormer, the film festival’s co-founder and artistic director. “On top of another great batch of films, »
- Joshua Terry
Poll: Who Should Host the Oscars?
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It’s that time of year again: awards season is in full swing, and with that, the 2017 Oscars should soon start to take shape.
Though the Academy has yet to even announce producers yet, falling behind the usual timeline, speculation has already begun about who will host the year’s biggest night in movies. After doing, by most reviews, a bang-up job hosting the recent Emmys, Jimmy Kimmel seems like an obvious choice.
But there are other options, too. Might the Academy bring back tried-and-true bets like Ellen DeGeneres or Chris Rock? Or could former Golden Globes mainstays Amy Poehler and Tina Fey take to the Oscars stage? There’s also a possibly that the Academy could bring in new hosts, like Kevin Hart or Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele.
Weigh in below. We couldn’t fit all the potential candidates in our poll, so if there’s someone you »
- Variety Staff
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