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'Miss Peregrine', 'Deepwater Horizon' and 'Masterminds' Close Out September
11 hours ago | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
When compared to last year, September 2016 has been a bit of a rough and tumble month. While there have been a pair of $30+ million openers, there have also been more than a fair share of disappointments. This weekend closes out the month with two new big budget releases in the form of Tim Burton's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Peter Berg's Deepwater Horizon, both hoping to make a case for their price tag while the long-delayed ensemble comedy Masterminds finally hits theaters after enduring six release date changes over the past 18 months. Overall, the weekend is once again looking to underperform compared to the same weekend last year, which saw The Martian top the box office with $54 million. At the top, Tim Burton returns to work at Fox for the first time since 2001's Planet of the Apes remake and he does so with Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, »
- Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
Johnny Depp, Daisy Ridley, Judi Dench Among Stars Boarding ‘Murder on the Orient Express’
12 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Johnny Depp, Daisy Ridley, Judi Dench, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Michael Pena have joined the ensemble for Fox’s adaptation of Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express.”
Lucy Boynton, Tom Bateman, Derek Jacobi, and “Hamilton” star Leslie Odom Jr. are also on board. Kenneth Branagh will direct and also star as detective Hercule Poirot. Angelina Jolie was in negotiations in June to join the cast, but has since passed on the remake.
“Christie’s ‘Murder’ is mysterious, compelling and unsettling,” Branagh said. “I’m honored to have this fantastic group of actors bring these dark materials to life for a new audience.”
Production begins this November.
Ridley Scott, Simon Kinberg, Mark Gordon, and Branagh will produce the film. Michael Schaefer, Aditya Sood, and Judy Hofflund will also produce.
Michael Green wrote the screenplay, with Steve Asbell overseeing the production for Fox.
Agatha Christie’s novel, published in 1934, revolves around »
- Variety Staff
Jay Z Signs TV and Film First-Look Deal With Weinstein Company
16 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The Weinstein Company has signed a two-year overall deal with Shawn “Jay Z” Carter to produce TV and film projects, the studio announced Thursday.
According to the announcement, there are already projects in the works that will be announced in the following weeks.
“I’m excited to tell stories from real life prophets, whom through their struggles have changed the world for the better, and others whose stories are filled with fantasy and delight,” Jay Z commented. “I’m already passionate about what we currently have in the pipeline and I’m looking forward to discovering others.”
Jay Z’s recent film involvement includes a producer credit on the 2014 “Annie” remake, Chris Rock’s “Top Five” and Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby.”
The deal was negotiated by David Glasser, and Sarah Sobel, exec VP of business and legal affairs, on behalf of TWC.
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- Seth Kelley
Shoot underway on Fox Searchlight's A. A. Milne biopic
17 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
First look at Domnhall Gleeson and Margot Robbie in biopic which has begun shoot in Oxfordshire.
Fox Searchlight has begun principal photography on its biopic of English author and Winnie-The-Pooh creator A. A. Milne.
Domnhall Gleeson (The Revenant) and Margot Robbie (The Wolf Of Wall Street) lead cast in the currently untitiled project, alongside Kelly Macdonald (Boardwalk Empire) and newcomer Will Tilston as Milne’s son Christopher Robin.
The shoot will take place on location in Oxfordshire, Surrey, East Sussex and London.
The film will follow the life of author A. A. Milne and his son, who was the inspiration for the world of Winnie the Pooh.
Additional cast members include former Screen Star of Tomorrow Alex Lawther, Stephen Campbell Moore, Richard McCabe, Nico Mirallegro, Geraldine Somerville and Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Simon Curtis (My Week With Marilyn) is directing from a script by Frank Cottrell Boyce (War And Peace), based on a screenplay by Simon Vaughan.
The Iron Lady producer »
- tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
Rachel Weisz to Produce and Star in Adaptation of Naomi Alderman Novel ‘Disobedience’ (Exclusive)
14 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Following the opening of her new drama “Denial,” Rachel Weisz is set to star and produce an adaptation of the Naomi Alderman novel “Disobedience.”
Weisz will produce alongside Ed Guiney, who will produce through his Element Films shingle, Frida Torresblanco, who will produce through her banner Braven Films and Film 4. Sebastian Lelio direct the film based on a script he co-wrote with Rebecca Lenkiewicz.
In the original book, the story follows young woman who returns to her Orthodox Jewish home after learning about the death of her estranged father. She causes an upheaval in the quiet community when she rekindles a repressed love with her best friend – a woman now married to her cousin.
Weisz has previously produced the pic “Radiator.”
Weisz has been very active in 2016 with starring roles in “The Light Between Oceans,” which opened last month, and “Denial” which also stars Timothy Spall.
The actress recently wrapped »
- Justin Kroll
Michael Shannon Joins Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘The Current War’
12 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Michael Shannon is in negotiations to play Thomas Westinghouse in the Weinstein Co.’s “The Current War.”
Benedict Cumberbatch is already on board to play Thomas Edison with “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon set to direct.
The movie takes place in the late 1880s and revolves around power titans Edison and Westinghouse’s battle over the supply of electricity. Edison championed the use of a direct current for electric power distribution over an alternating current, which was backed by several European companies and Westinghouse Electric.
The pic is one of two films centered on this rivalry with Black Bear Pictures developing “The Last Days of Night” starring Eddie Redmayne as the lawyer caught in the middle of the patent battle that ensued following Edison’s discovery of the electrical current.
TWC will finance and distribute the film.
Timur Bekmambetov, who was originally eyed to direct the movie, »
- Justin Kroll
The Eyeslicer: An Indie Filmmaker Variety Series (By Invitation Only)
2 hours ago | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
Producers Dan Schoenbrun and Vanessa McDonnell have launched a Kickstarter campaign for The Eyeslicer, a new variety series by and for indie filmmakers. Among the filmmakers set to contribute are David Lowery, the Zellner Brothers, Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, Yen Tan, Calvin Reeder, Shaka King, Ornana, John Wilson, Jennifer Reeder, Leah Shore, Colin Healey, Lauren Wolkstein, and Chris Radcliffe The campaign is aiming to raise $28,000 to fund season one and if all goes smoothly, the 10-episode, 10-hour first season will launch in January. Schoenbrun (a contributor to Filmmaker) and McDonnell recently collaborated to create collective : unconscious, an anthology feature film where they […] »
- Paula Bernstein
Viacom Hits Debt Market With $1.3B Offering
3 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Viacom has announced it will sell $1.3 billion in debt – $400 million in aggregate principal amount of 2.250% senior notes due in 2022 at a price equal to 99.692% of the principle amount, and $900 million in aggregate principal amount of 3.450% senior notes due in 2026 at a price equal to 99.481%. Subject to customary closing conditions, the sale of these Senior Notes is expected to close October 4. Viacom entered the debt market a week after receiving Moody’s lowest inves… »
‘Timeless’ Creators Eric Kripke and Shawn Ryan on Their Unique Partnership – IndieWire’s Turn It On Podcast
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Last Week’s Episode: Ted Danson, Kristen Bell, Mike Schur and Drew Goddard on Creating ‘The Good Place’ – IndieWire’s Turn It On Podcast
NBC’s new time-travel drama “Timeless” is in good hands.
Eric Kripke (“Revolution,” “Supernatural”) and Shawn Ryan (“The Shield”), successful showrunners in their own right, have teamed together to produce the new series, which launches on Monday in the plum 10 p.m. timeslot behind “The Voice.”
Abigail Spencer, Matt Lanter and Malcolm Barrett play the history professor, soldier and scientist who are tasked to go back in time in order to chase a fugitive (Goran Visnjic) bent on changing history. For this edition of IndieWire’s “Turn It On,” we sat down with Kripke and Ryan to learn more about their powerful partnership, and the rules of the show. Also in this edition: Liz Shannon Miller on Comedy Central’s 2011 Roast of Donald Trump, and Ben Travers »
- Michael Schneider
Ava DuVernay’s ‘The 13th’ Is A Searing Indictment Of The Pervasive Nature Of American Racism & Oppression [Review]
4 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States,” it is written in the The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, meant to declare the abolition of slavery. And in Ava DuVernay’s arresting new documentary, “The 13th”— shot somewhat in secret and announced suddenly as the opening night film of the New York Film Festival — the director takes on the fallacy of the amendment and the myth of American freedom for all, specifically zeroing in on the except clause that the United States as a whole has leveraged to uphold enduring forms of slavery ever since.
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New York Film Festival Review: ‘13th’
5 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Ava DuVernay’s “13th” is the first documentary ever to be selected as the opening-night film of The New York Film Festival. (It premieres at Lincoln Center on Sept. 30.) That lends a momentous aura to what is already, each year, a momentous event. In this case, the precedent feels spiritually right. Movies, as both a business and an entertainment form, are struggling to define themselves in the 21st century, but there’s no doubt that we’re in the high renaissance era of documentary. Each week, every day, in theaters and on VOD, on cable channels and networks and streaming services, you can see movies that dive into topical issues with the kind of investigative fervor we once expected from newspapers. You can see movies that conjure (as maybe only movies can) the ghosts and artifacts and living semiotics of history. And you can see movies that hold you in »
- Owen Gleiberman
The 13th review: Ava DuVernay doc shows prisons are the new plantations
5 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
DuVernay’s incendiary film, which world premieres at the New York film festival, is a wakeup call that steers clear of broad brush Michael Moorisms to offer a brutal analysis of race and the law in the Us
Like most middle-class white liberals, I am concerned with the issue of racial inequality, but tend to assuage my feelings of anger, guilt and impotence with the sentiment that things are getting better. I mean, we have a two-term black president, right? Ava DuVernay’s documentary 13th is an articulate, no-nonsense cup of iced water splashed in my face telling me to wake the fuck up.
“Prisons are the new plantations!” may seem like sloganeering from a far-left protestor, but DuVernay’s effective film draws a strong, straight line from the abolition of slavery to today’s mass incarceration epidemic, explaining its root cause: money. Cheap prison labour is knotted up in »
- Jordan Hoffman
‘Down Under’ Is the Skin-Crawling, Bleakly Hilarious Race Riot Comedy That 2016 Deserves [Fantastic Fest Review]
6 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
It’s a shame that Down Under exists in the first place, but because we live in this particular world at this particular time, it can’t help but feel necessary. It’s not a movie we want as much as it is a movie we need, an angry howl of pain and confusion that goes down like a […]
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- Jacob Hall
‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ House on Sale for $4.5 Million
7 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
If you’re seeking a new home in the San Francisco area, you can officially make an offer on the house “Mrs. Doubtfire” was filmed in.
The iconic Victorian dwelling, cherished by fans of “Mrs. Doubtfire” and the late Robin Williams, is now for sale for $4.45 million. It served as the set of the the 1993 classic in which Williams played a British nanny impostor to gain access to his children following the divorce from his wife (Sally Field).
The current owner of the home, Douglas Ousterhout, purchased the building in 1997 for $1.395 million and has been said to be welcoming of fans who want to admire the home.
There have been changes made to update the house — including the outside being painted yellow — but the rest of the home is almost identical to the movie. The large four bedroom, two-story building was designed in 1893 by architect Joachim B. Mathison, who also designed the Burlingame Railroad Depot. »
- Joshua Terry
Superhero Bits: Differences Between Marvel & DC Fans, Everything Wrong with Civil War & More
7 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
How much did the Batpod from The Dark Knight sell for at auction? What differences did FourSquare find that exists between Marvel and DC fans? Which Marvel Studios movie just got knocked out of the Top 50 Highest Grossing Domestic Films of All Time? How many things did CinemaSins find “wrong” with Captain America: Civil […]
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- Ethan Anderton
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