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'Magnifcent Seven' and 'Storks' Look to Turn Around Box Office Fortunes
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On the heels of the worst weekend of the year so far (based on cumulative gross for all titles) this weekend should perk things up a bit as MGM and Sony's The Magnificent Seven remake and WB's animated feature Storks are looking at strong openings. Projecting just how well this weekend's newcomers will perform, however, is something that's raising a few eyebrows in the wake of recent weeks and last week's box office bloodbath where not one, but two of the week's three new wide releases came in well below expectations, and all three failed to open over $10 million. Industry expectations for Magnificent Seven and Storks have both films opening around $30+ million. For Storks this number appears to be about right on target, but for Magnificent Seven it seems grossly conservative. Sony is projecting a $30-32 million weekend, but if it doesn't top $40 million it would be a bit of a surprise. »
- Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
Disney Announces Plans for Third 'Star Wars' Anthology Film for 2020
12 hours ago | Rollingstone.com | See recent Rolling Stone news »
Disney announced that Lucasfilm will pump out a new anthology film set in George Lucas' galaxy far, far away by 2020, according to chief executive Bob Iger. Deadline reports that at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference, Iger said the scheduled film would form a trilogy with this December's Rogue One and the upcoming Han Solo spinoff film starring Alden Ehrenreich, all under the A Star Wars Story banner.
Iger also said he does not expect the box-office receipts from Rogue One to hit the same highs that The Force Awakens reached last winter. »
‘Aftermath’ Star Levi Meaden Joins ‘Pacific Rim’ Sequel (Exclusive)
6 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“Aftermath” star Levi Meaden has joined the cast of “Pacific Rim 2” opposite John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny and Jing Tian, Variety has learned.
The sequel is directed by Steven S. DeKnight with Guillermo del Toro, Jon Jashni, Femi Oguns, Mary Parent, and Thomas Tull producing.
Plot details are vague with Boyega playing the son of the character played by Idris Elba, whose character sacrificed his life in the original film. Meaden is joining the franchise as Ilya, an irreverent and offbeat cadet.
The first “Pacific Rim,” directed by del Toro, starred Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, and Robert Kazinsky. It was set in the near future with Earth at war with the Kaiju, monsters that emerged from an inter-dimensional portal at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, and grossed $411 million at the worldwide box office.
The film begins production this November in Australia and will also film a portion in China. »
- Dave McNary
Finnish Film Affair: 'Tom Of Finland', 'Punk Syndrome' split Best Pitch prize
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Talk at the event was dominated by the looming introduction of the Finnish tax incentive.
The works-in-progress jury at this year’s Finnish Film Affair (Sept 20-22) has split the $3,300 (€3000) Best Pitch prize between two films, Dome Karukoski’s Tom Of Finland, about the gay artist Touko Laaksonen, and documentary Post Punk Disorder, co-directors Jukka Kärkkäinen and J-p Passi’s sequel to their 2012 SXSW audience award winner The Punk Syndrome.
The event was dominated by discussions on two forthcoming landmarks - the films comprising part of the Finland 100 celebrations, marking the centenary since Finland declared itself independent, and the proposed film incentive, due to be rubber-stamped by parliament in December, which will deliver a 20-25% cash rebate to films in production in Finland.
The rebate would apply to productions with a budget of more than $2.2m (€2m) euros. The current average budget in Finland is close to $1.7m (€1.5m). It will apply to money spent on local »
Basque Cinema Energizes San Sebastian Fest
33 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
San Sebastian — Once, only a few years ago, ta question under discussion between the San Sebastian Festival and the Basque government, was how the festival, taking place at the Basque Country’s most elegant seaside resort, could help the Basque film industry.
Now, increasingly, the talk is how the Basque industry is energising the San Sebastian Festival.
Over the last week, as the 64th San Sebastian edition kicked into gear, a series of news announcements and events have underscored how the Basque industry has scaled in up budgets, ambition and international reach:
*”2 Guns” and “Everest” director Baltasar Kormakur has inked to co-produce “Red Fjords,” a large scale crime thriller, set in 1616 Iceland, originated and produced by Bilbao-based Eduardo Carneros and also produced by Tornosal Films, which backed Academy Award winner “The Secret in Their Eyes.”
*Entertainment One’s Seville Intl. has acquired world sales rights to Basque Aritz Moreno’s »
- John Hopewell and Emilio Mayorga
’The Art of Flight’s’ Travis Rice Talks About ‘The Fourth Phase’
57 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
San Sebastian Starring ace snowboarder Travis Rice, whose “The Art of Flight” was a milestone in the action sports movie genre, “The Fourth Phase” has an eco-context, the rain-ice-moisture hydrological circle which Rice and a posse of friends follow for 15,000 miles of North Pacific Rim from Japan to Alaska via the Kuril Islands, running big mountain lines. “While keeping everything good from ‘The Art of Flight,’ ‘The Fourth Phase’ clearly steps up the game in terms of storytelling and Travis’ willingness to open up,” commented Philipp Manderla,
“The Art of Flight” was an overall No. 1 iTunes movie in the U.S. That said, “The Fourth Phase” is certainly not jut more of the same. Sure, there are sone extraordinary action sequences, in Wyoming in an early medley, then great runs down 50% slopes from mountain tops in Japan’s Alps, and others swerving and leaping through their deep-snow lower wooded flanks. »
- John Hopewell
‘Pacific Rim 2’ Casts Levi Meaden As A New Cadet
2 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Aftermath star Levi Meaden has joined the cast of Steven S. DeKnight’s Pacific Rim 2. He will star alongside John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny and Jing Tian. Variety broke the news of the Levi Meaden Pacific Rim 2 casting, revealing that Meaden will be playing “an irreverent and offbeat cadet” named Ilya. Plot details are being kept […]
The post ‘Pacific Rim 2’ Casts Levi Meaden As A New Cadet appeared first on /Film. »
- Peter Sciretta
My Ifp Film Week Experience, Part 2: The Pitch Perfect(ed)
2 hours ago | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
Read Part One of Isabel Sandoval’s Ifp Film Week Diary, “The Female Gaze, Anyone?”, here. Forget Project Greenlight. If anyone wants to do a reality series based on the No Borders pitch meetings, it would be a more grizzled Swingers meets The Hunger Games — but with lookbooks subbing for bows and arrows. The thing is, I’m sure somebody actually used that logline for their own project. The proceedings have a jovially survivalist element to them. While my No Borders project Lingua Franca is my third feature, it’s my first U.S. production so Film Week doubles as Indie Film Financing […] »
- Isabel Sandoval
Deluxe Technicolor Digital Cinema Employees Vote To Join Iatse
3 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Exclusive: By a vote of 43-20, employees of Deluxe Technicolor Digital Cinema tonight voted to join Iatse and its postproduction local the Motion Picture Editors Guild. This comes a year after postproduction technicians and artists at Deluxe's Culver City unit on the Sony lot overwhelmingly jumped into the union game. The election was overseen by the National Labor Relations Board. This particular further unionization of Deluxe employees comes after what sources tell me… »
Golfing Origins Movie ‘Tommy’s Honour’ Lands at Roadside Attractions
3 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Roadside Attractions has acquired the U.S. rights to golfing origins movie “Tommy’s Honour” from Gutta Percha Productions.
The drama, which was the opening night film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, is directed by Jason Connery. Pamela Marin and Kevin Cook wrote the screenplay, an adaptation from Cook’s acclaimed book of the same name.
Keith Bank of Kb Partners, who negotiated the deal, serves as producer along with Bob Last of Holdings Ecosse, Jim Kreutzer of Wind Chill Media Group, and Tim Moore of Top Dawg Productions, with Kenneth Whitney executive producing. The movie will be released theatrically on March 24.
Roadside’s deal covers theatrical, DVD, VOD, and pay rights, with Golf Channel securing basic cable rights. International sales are being handled by Timeless Films.
The story centers on Scottish golfer Tom Morris’ relationship with his son Tommy, who matched his father’s achievement with four British »
- Dave McNary
Ben Sherwood: ABC is ‘Very Hopeful’ That Jimmy Kimmel Will Host Oscars
4 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Disney/ABC Television Group chief Ben Sherwood has given a big endorsement to Jimmy Kimmel serving as the host of the next Academy Awards telecast.
During a Q&A Thursday night at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, Sherwood also broached the subject of considering different Emmy categories for TV series based on the number of episodes produced per season. And he spoke about the challenges that ABC News and other news organizations face in trying to cover politics at a time when the electorate is so polarized that there are “no commonly agreed upon set of facts” up for discussion.
In his hourlong conversation with ABC News correspondent Nick Watt, Sherwood said ABC execs felt Kimmel, host of the Alphabet’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” late-night franchise, did a great job on Sunday’s Emmy Awards telecast and that he has demonstrated that he has the chops to »
- Cynthia Littleton
Taiwan Takes out ‘Kids!’ for Oscar Run
4 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Taiwan has selected “Hang In There Kids!” (aka “Lokah Laqi!”) as its contender in the Academy Awards foreign-language category. The announcement was made by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture.
The film, directed by Laha Mebow, is the story of a group of indigenous rural children who discover that their teacher (Albee Huang) has a fantastic singing voice. They decide to travel to Taipei to kickstart the teacher’s music career.
The film played at the Taipei Film Festival earlier this year and collected five awards including best narrative feature, the grand prize and best director. It had it commercial release in Taiwan in March.
Laha Mebow is from one of Taiwan’s 16 officially recognized tribes. Her first feature, 2011’s “Finding Sayun” was a period drama about a schoolgirl who was killed during Japan’s occupation of the island.
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- Patrick Frater
‘Pitch’ Review: The First Female Professional Baseball Player Is Nearly Undone By Her Emotions
5 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
We are approaching a milestone in America: Hillary Clinton is on pace to become the first female President of the United States. It’s a landmark achievement thats weight has somehow been trumped by our need to avoid the end of the world (pun intended), but the far-reaching impact of a woman holding our nation’s highest office will be felt long beyond the lives of anyone reading these words. Not only is it historic — it’s significant.
Now, comparing that achievement with America’s first female professional baseball player may seem like a stretch. Even more so considering this ballplayer only exists on television, within the fictional world of “Pitch” created by Dan Fogelman and Rick Singer. Yet the connection is made within the series itself, as one of the first images we see is a vase of flowers delivered to freshly called-up San Diego Padres pitcher Ginny Baker (Kylie Bunbury, »
- Ben Travers
Environmental Media Association Awards to Honor Shailene Woodley
5 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“Snowden” star Shailene Woodley will be feted next month by the Environmental Media Association for her activism on climate change and other issues.
The 26th annual Environmental Media Association Awards will honor Woodley with the Female Ema Futures Award for her involvement in social and environmental issues, including the recent protests over the Dakota Pipeline Access project in North Dakota.
“A strong proponent of climate change and individual responsibility, we couldn’t be more proud to honor and share this young woman’s authentic commitment and ‘boots on the ground’ rallying for social and environmental justice issues,” said Debbie Levin, CEO of Ema.
“We must stand in solidarity and acknowledge our responsibility for not only those alive now, but for all generations to come,” said Woodley. “Protecting our Earth and its creatures is protecting humanity and its children. This Ema Futures Award shows me that there are millions of us »
- Joshua Terry
‘The Ring’ Threequel Delayed for the Third Time By Paramount
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Paramount has pushed back horror threequel “Rings” three months from Oct. 28 to Feb. 3.
It’s the fourth date for the third movie in “The Ring” series. It was originally set for Nov. 13, 2015. It was then moved to April 1, 2016, and then to Oct. 28.
The studio is also delaying another horror franchise “Friday the 13th” by nine months from Jan. 13 to Oct. 13, 2017. Paramount gave no reason for the delays.
Paramount debuted the first trailer for “Rings” in August, painting a portrait of death and destruction with a malevolent spirit causing a jet airplane crash. The plot centers on a videotape that will result in the viewer being killed seven days later.
F. Javier Gutierrez is directing “Rings,” and Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald are producing. Matilda Lutz plays the protagonist.
“Friday the 13th” is the 13th title in the franchise. It’s the second time in a year that Paramount has delayed »
- Dave McNary
Paramount Pictures Moves ‘Rings’ (Again) From Fall 2016 To February 2017
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Fall 2016 will be less crowded by at least one: Paramount Picture’s Rings, previously scheduled for October 28, has been bumped to a February 3, 2017 wide release. The move give Universal’s Ouija: Origin of Evil, opening October 21, a good stake on the Halloween market. This marks the second time this year that Rings has gotten a push-back from Paramount: the studio had already bumped the picture from its April 1, 2016 date to October 28. The film had originally been set… »
Ted Danson, Kristen Bell, Mike Schur and Drew Goddard on Creating ‘The Good Place’ – IndieWire’s Turn It On Podcast
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Last Week’S Episode: ‘This Is Us’ Creator Dan Fogelman on Surprise Reveals and Emotional Drama in Cynical Times
NBC’s “The Good Place” is in a good place.
The freshman sitcom premiered on Monday to solid ratings, attracting the best ratings for a new Peacock comedy since 2012, and has now settled into its regular Thursday night timeslot.
Earlier this summer, we moderated the San Diego Comic-Con panel for the show, which featured a lively discussion with stars Ted Danson and Kristen Bell, as well as creator Mike Schur and director Drew Goddard. Listen to that interview below, as part of this week’s episode of IndieWire’s tune-in TV podcast, “Turn It On.”
Also in the Sept. 22, 2016 episode: A roundup of the week’s premieres; IndieWire senior editor Hanh Nguyen’s thoughts on why “Game of Thrones'” new Emmy record may hold; and IndieWire TV critic Ben Travers »
- Michael Schneider
Arnon Milchan to Receive Industry Tribute at 2016 Gotham Independent Film Awards
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Ifp, Filmmaker‘s parent organization, announced today that Founder and Chairman of New Regency, Producer Arnon Milchan will receive the Industry Tribute at the 2016 Ifp Gotham Awards, joining previously announced tribute honorees Amy Adams, Ethan Hawke, and Oliver Stone for the ceremony on November 28, 2016, in New York City. “Arnon Milchan exemplifies the passion, drive, and innovative thinking essential to independent film,” said Joana Vicente, Executive Director of Ifp and the Made in NY Media Center. “We can think of few others who have so consistently supported the best in auteur-driven filmmaking, working with such talent as Oliver Stone, David Fincher, and Alejandro G. Iñárritu. We’re […] »
- Filmmaker Staff
'Lion' team reveal journey behind emotional true story
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Harvey Weinstein, Iain Canning and Garth Davis discuss Toronto hit which got its European premiere in Zurich on Thursday [23] night.
Following Lion’s well-received Toronto world premiere, executive producer and Us distributor Harvey Weinstein, producer Iain Canning and director Garth Davis discussed the film’s journey ahead of the film’s European premiere at the Zurich Film Festival.
Weinstein told a press conference that he felt a personal connection to the material when he first read the script:
“I was moved by the piece. Twelve years ago I started seeing Georgina [Chapman, now his wife]. She’s involved in fashion, and her inspiration has always been India. Her family had lived there and we named our now 6-year-old daughter India, and Georgina started a school in Delhi to take kids off the street, the Rose Home Shelter. This story was very appealing because of these kids and what happens to them, for me on a personal note,” the executive »
- wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
'Lion' team reveal journey behind emotional awards hopeful
6 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Harvey Weinstein, Iain Canning and Garth Davis discuss Toronto hit which got its European premiere in Zurich on Thursday [23] night.
Following Lion’s well-received Toronto world premiere, executive producer and Us distributor Harvey Weinstein, producer Iain Canning and director Garth Davis discussed the film’s journey ahead of the film’s European premiere at the Zurich Film Festival.
Weinstein told a press conference that he felt a personal connection to the material when he first read the script:
“I was moved by the piece. Twelve years ago I started seeing Georgina [Chapman, now his wife]. She’s involved in fashion, and her inspiration has always been India. Her family had lived there and we named our now 6-year-old daughter India, and Georgina started a school in Delhi to take kids off the street, the Rose Home Shelter. This story was very appealing because of these kids and what happens to them, for me on a personal note,” the executive »
- wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
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