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‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ Will Be 5 Movies
11 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” will expand from a three-movie franchise to five movies, author and screenwriter J.K. Rowling announced Thursday at a fan event broadcast worldwide on the internet. The first film, due in theaters next month set in the same universe as “Harry Potter,” takes place in 1920s New York and stars Eddie Redmayne as a British magizoologist named Newt Scamander who travels across the pond to hunt for magical creatures. Producer David Heyman also teased that several characters from the Harry Potter films, including Aldus Dumbledore and Grendel, would play roles in “Fantastic Beasts” — and that. »
- Beatrice Verhoeven
Bella Thorne Romantic Drama ‘Midnight Sun’ Bought by Open Road
14 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Open Road has bought U.S. rights to Bella Thorne and Patrick Schwarzenegger’s romantic drama “Midnight Sun” and set a July 24 release date.
Thorne plays a 17-year-old who’s been sheltered since childhood with a life-threatening sensitivity to sunlight. Her world opens up after dark when she ventures out to play her guitar for travelers. One night, she meets an ex-high school athlete (played by Schwarzenegger) she’s secretly admired for years and embarks on a romance while hiding her condition from him.
Rob Riggle plays her father. The film also stars Quinn Shephard.
The movie is based on the Japanese film “Taiyō no Uta.” Scott Speer (“Step Up Revolution”) directs from the screenplay by Eric Kirsten.
John Rickard, Zack Schiller, and Jen Gatien are producers. David Boies, James McGough, Alan Ou, Hiroki Shirota, and Speer are the executive producers. Katie Silberman and Devin Andre are co-producers.
Boies and »
- Dave McNary
Is There Another Villain in ‘Wolverine 3: Logan’?
18 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
We’ve read a decent amount of information this week about Logan, Hugh Jackman‘s eighth and final outing as the Wolverine. The film comes out in less than five months, but because 20th Century Fox and all involved have done a fine job keeping details about James Mangold‘s sequel under wraps, we don’t know a whole […]
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- Jack Giroux
Quentin Tarantino Reveals He’s Researching 1970 For A New Project
18 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
If you asked Quentin Tarantino which decade he’d choose to live in permanently, the answer would likely be the 1970s. The director has always shown an immense passion for various movie movements of the era — Blaxploitation, the explosion of martial arts films, New American cinema — and recently shared that his preferred vision of Luke Cage would be from that time. And of course, his movies have always nodded heavily to those influences as well, so it’s not a big surprise that Tarantino is diving deep into the start of the decade for a new project.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
President Barack Obama Nerds Out, List His Must-Watch Sci-Fi Movies & TV Shows
18 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
With each new revelation this election cycle is bringing, you probably couldn’t blame President Barack Obama for wanting to ride out his remaining days in the White House watching movies, and letting everyone else sort out the current political nightmare. And while his schedule is no doubt busy until the New Year, when he’ll finally have to get his boxes packed and move, he’s taken some time to sit down to create an essential list of sci-fi viewing.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Director James Gunn: Sequel Will Have Strong Women
16 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
“Guardians of the Galaxy” director James Gunn is promising stronger story lines for women in the upcoming sequel because he is tired of female characters just being “the girl.” “I am sick of stories where there are a bunch of fully realized male characters and one female character, whose primary characteristic is simply being ‘the girl’ or the personality-less object of some man’s affections,” Gunn wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday. “I’m not sick of this because I’m politically correct — those of you who know me know I am far from that — but because it’s boring, »
- Beatrice Verhoeven
Did you catch that Huge reveal in the 'Rogue One' Star Wars trailer?
16 hours ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Don't tell anyone, but the new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer made me cry. Rogue One will be in theaters on December 16, 2016 and Disney/Lucasfilm have just released the second full trailer. You might want to sit down for this. Yesterday we got that brand new poster featuring a looming Darth Vader but in this latest trailer we really start to feel his presence. But holy Crap, there's a lot going on here, isn't there? Perhaps most shockingly, this image... "Our rebellion is all that remains to push back the Empire." I Have So Many Questions About This Huge Jedi Statue but mostly, this was a phenomenal trailer. Tell us what you thought overall and your favorite moments in the comments! »
- Jill Pantozzi
XLrator Media & J2 Partner On Slate Of Pop Culture-Themed Projects
3 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
XLrator Media has entered into a partnership with J2 Films to co-produce a slate of pop culture and music-focused projects for worldwide distribution through XLrator’s Lifeframe docu label. Documentaries and series are planned, with the docu-series Origins set as the partnership’s first project. Origins will examine the – wait for it – origins of some of the biggest comic book franchises from the point of view of the creators, fans, and industry legends. The… »
Busan: Festival Trio in Contention for Apsa Unesco Prize
4 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Three films premiering this week at the Busan Film Festival are among the five titles shortlisted by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards for the Unesco-sponsored Apsa Cultural Diversity Award.
The three are: “Knife in the Clear Water” (aka “Qingshui Li De Daozi”) in the New Currents section; “The Bonfire” (aka “Kostior na Vetru”) in the Flash Forward program; and “The Dark Wind” (aka “Reseba”,) which is set as the festival’s closing night gala presentation.
They are joined by Egyptian documentary filmmaker Tamer El Said’s debut narrative feature “In The Last Days Of The City” (aka “Akher Ayam El Madina”) and Turkish director Mustafa Kara’s second feature film and Turkey’s official submission for the 89th Academy Awards “Cold of Kalandar” (aka “Kalandar Sogugu”) in the running for the prize. All five are the works of first, second or third feature filmmakers.
“This important and prestigious award is »
- Patrick Frater
The Gore-Gore Guy: Herschell Gordon Lewis, Rest in Pieces
4 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
You can’t always take a film director at his word. Herschell Gordon Lewis, the self-proclaimed “Wizard of Gore” who passed away, at the age of 90, on Sept. 26, was way far down on the totem pole of filmmaker respectability — in fact, he probably occupied its second-to-last rung, with Edward D. Wood Jr. on the very bottom. When it came to discussing the art of directing, Lewis made no claims for himself. At all. Next to him, even a low-budget exploitation mercenary like Roger Corman came off as a bohemian artiste. Lewis’ theory of filmmaking revolved around one thing and one thing only: He was in it for the money. He repeated this in countless interviews, like the one he gave to John Waters for Waters’ great first book, “Shock Value,” in 1981. Lewis, who invented the gore film, talked about movies in strictly utilitarian terms, and that became part of his legend. »
- Owen Gleiberman
‘Jackie’: Natalie Portman Explains How She Looked Past Her Own ‘Common Perceptions’ for Her Lauded Role
5 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
In Chilean director Pablo Larraín’s first English-language outing, the daring Jacqueline Kennedy biopic “Jackie,” Natalie Portman turns in some of her finest work yet as the beloved First Lady in the days just after the assassination of her husband. The film has already garnered significant buzz on the awards circuit, prompting Fox Searchlight to pick up the project out of Toronto, and it was with that momentum that Larraín and Portman brought the film to the New York Film Festival on Thursday night for the film’s U.S. premiere.
It’s Portman’s performance — one years in the making, as the film was produced by filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, who had long pictured his “Black Swan” leading lady in the title role — that has grabbed the most attention, and while it’s still early days, it’s hard to imagine an awards season that won’t feature her work front and center. »
- Kate Erbland
Ice Cube-Kevin Hart Comedy ‘Ride Along 3’ in Development
6 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Universal is in early development of a third installment of its police comedy franchise “Ride Along 3,” starring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart.
Screenwriters Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi are working on the script with director Tim Story. The trio has worked on the first two “Ride Along” movies. Ice Cube, Will Packer, Matt Alvarez and the late Larry Brezner produced the first two movies.
The first “Ride Along” opened in 2014 with Hart as a security guard trying to prove to his girlfriend’s police officer brother, played by Cube, that he is a worthy brother-in-law by going on a police ride-along. The film, set in Atlanta with a $25 million budget, grossed $153 million worldwide.
“Ride Along 2,” which opened in January, was set in Miami with Hart’s character having graduated from the police academy and the duo dealing with crime lords. The sequel grossed $124 million worldwide.
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- Dave McNary
‘X-Men,’ ‘Purge’ Sequels Debut in Top Two Spots on DVD, Blu-ray Disc Sales Charts
6 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“X-Men: Apocalypse,” the latest entry in the successful superhero franchise, earned 20th Century Fox the top spot on both national home video sales charts for the week ended Oct.9.
The horror film “The Purge: Election Year,” the third film in the franchise from Universal Pictures, debuted at a distant No. 2 on the Npd VideoScan overall disc sales chart, which tracks combined Blu-ray Disc and DVD sales. The film – at $79 million a bigger commercial success than its two predecessors – sold about 16% as many units as “X-Men,” which generated $155.4 million in domestic box office receipts.
“Election Year” could only muster a No. 4 debut on Npd’s dedicated Blu-ray Disc sales chart, even though 51% of total unit sales came from the high-definition format, according to Npd data.
Universal Pictures’ “Warcraft” slipped to No. 4 on the overall disc sales charts and No. 2 on the Blu-ray Disc sales chart. The fantasy actioner, based on the »
- Thomas K. Arnold
30 Scariest Horror Movies Streaming in Time for Halloween
7 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
With Halloween approaching, there’s never been a better time to stream some scary movies. To help plan a fiendish film festival, here are enough bewitching recommendations available on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu to provide enough creepy thrills for the whole month. To make things easier, titles are organized in three distinct categories: Date night, extreme horror, and family friendly. Choose wisely … or suffer the consequences!
Here’s a sampling of the date night, extreme horror, and family friendly movies, respectively.
“The New Daughter” (2009)
Service: Hulu
Don’t let the generic title fool you. There are some unexpected terrors waiting to be unleashed in this eerie tale of a divorced novelist (nicely played by Kevin Costner) who moves his two children to an isolated farm in rural South Carolina. Fans of Stephen King and M. Night Shyamalan will find much to enjoy here, from the ancient Indian burial mounds »
- Matthew Chernov
Superhero Bits: Doctor Strange Box Office, Black Panther Hat Trouble, Logan Storyboards & More
8 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
How will the rest of the DC TV superheroes react to the arrival of Supergirl? How did a Black Panther hat result in a woman getting kicked off a flight? How much could Doctor Strange make in its opening weekend at the box office? Why does Marvel feel it’s necessary for Captain Marvel to have […]
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- Ethan Anderton
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