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‘John Wick’ Director David Leitch Confirmed To Helm ‘Deadpool 2’
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Just weeks after news of Fox’s interest in the John Wick director first surfaced, today it became official: Deadline has confirmed that David Leitch has signed on to direct Deadpool 2. Leitch beat out a host of competitors that included the likes of Drew Goddard and Magnus Martens, to take the job on the superhero sequel after Deadpool director Tim Miller departed over creative differences in… »
‘Moonlight’ Star Mahershala Ali On Responsibility To The Material And Encouraging Steps Forward In Hollywood
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By any measure, Mahershala Ali is having a banner year. As Remy Danton on House of Cards, Ali went toe-to-toe with the likes of Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright. But he moved on in a big way this year, delivering a menacing turn as Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes on Netflix’s Luke Cage, before jumping into the press circuit for Oscar contenders Moonlight and Hidden Figures. Speaking to Deadline, Ali touches on the process of working with breakout Moonlight director Barry Jenkins… »
‘Zootopia’ Scribes Jared Bush And Phil Johnston Talk Animal Puns And Film’s Political Resonance
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Distinguished as one of the highest-grossing films of the year, coming in at over $1 billion worldwide, Disney’s Zootopia is also unique in what it has to say. Bowing in March, amidst constant election chatter, the film couldn’t be more resonant today, using talking animals to convey an allegory about discrimination, stereotyping and prejudice of all kinds—the central conflict of the film hinges on young bunny Judy Hopps, who faces discrimination in her journey to… »
Elle Fanning Circling Lead Role In Film Adaptation of Teresa Toten’s Novel ‘Beware That Girl’
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Exclusive: Elle Fanning is in talks to take the lead role in Awesomeness Films’ adaptation of Beware That Girl, a film based on the Ya book by Teresa Toten. Brian Robbins, Matt Kaplan, Brian Duffield and Nicki Cortese are producing. Said to be in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl On The Train, the psychological thriller is set against the backdrop of an elite Manhattan private school where two girls befriend, use, and manipulate each other in a game of cat and… »
Emilia Clarke Joins Cast Of Han Solo Stand-Alone Film
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Breaking: Emilia Clarke, known for her portrayal of Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones, has joined the upcoming untitled Han Solo Star Wars movie helmed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Starring Alden Ehrenreich as Solo and Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian, the highly anticipated stand-alone film is set, like this December’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, before the events of the original Star Wars trilogy. It’s set to hit theaters in 2018. No plot details have… »
‘The Edge Of Seventeen’ Review: Hailee Steinfeld Soars In Smart Comedy That Transcends The Teen Genre
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I must admit I am an aficionado of teen movies, whether they are good, bad or stupid (so sue me), so I looked forward to seeing The Edge of Seventeen for a number of reasons. But, as I say in my video review above, what I thought would fit nicely into the teen film genre isn’t that at all. This is a movie about a young woman, Nadine, played splendidly by Hailee Steinfeld, who just happens to be a high school teen but really is a complicated, funny, sad, troubled… »
The Hits And Misses Of The Fall Festivals On The Road To Oscar
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There’s no question that the march to Oscar fully begins at the start of September each year, with the arrival of the much-ballyhooed fall festival trifecta of Venice, Telluride and Toronto. Awards prospects can soar on the strength of one of these all-important festival debuts, or simply deflate them like a Tom Brady football if a screening doesn't play right in front of an audience of critics, awards bloggers and industry voters, as well as the general public. Prospects… »
Spencer Baumgarten Lands At ICM Partners, As Partner In Lit Department
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Exclusive: ICM Partners has just sent out the internal announcement that makes it official: Spencer Baumgarten has joined the agency as a partner, bringing the agent and his clients to the lit department. This follows his exit today from CAA, where he spent 12 years. It isn’t clear yet which clients Baumgarten will be bringing with him, and there will be the inevitable scrum as CAA tries to keep them in the fold, while rivals including Wme and UTA try to entice… »
Jason Sudeikis Charms The Boys Of Welton Academy In Live ‘Dead Poets Society’ – Review
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Jason Sudeikis has enough mischief in his eyes to make John Keating a credible non-conformist hero in Dead Poets Society. You’ve heard of this secret club of pubescent prep-school pishers, who meet in a cave near “the finest preparatory school in the United States,” according to its headmaster. That was the club and this the fictional setting of the 1989 film starring an atypically sedate Robin Williams as Keating, the prodigal alumnus who has returned to snooty Welton to… »
Fake ‘Kung Fu Panda’ Creator Found Guilty Of Fraud & Perjury; Faces 25 Years In Jail
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Nearly a year after he was indicted for fraud and perjury in his claims that DreamWorks Animation stole his idea for Kung Fu Panda, a federal jury today found Jayme Gordon guilty. With sentencing to come, the result could find the amateur cartoonist behind bars for up to 25 years and paying fines of more than $500,000 plus restitution to Dwa after his attempt to defraud them. It took the Massachusetts jury just three hours to come back with its determination that Gordon… »
Justin Timberlake & Alexandre Desplat Among Winners At Hollywood Music In Media Awards
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Some big names were in the winner’s circle for the seventh annual Hollywood Music in Media Awards last night. Among the composers taking home the hardware were Oscar winners Alexandre Desplat and Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross along with Justin Timberlake, John Debney and Nicholas Britell. Britell took the Original Score – Dramatic Feature prize for Moonlight, Debney scooped the Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film award for The Jungle Book, and Desplat drew the Animated Film trophy for The… »
Writer David Gleeson Joins Paradigm; UTA Signs ‘Moonlight’ Actor Ashton Sanders
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Paradigm has signed writer David Gleeson, moving him from CAA. Gleeson is currently writing and execu producing Paramount’s 'Twas the Night Before Christmas with Karen Rosenfelt producing. In addition to that, he is adapting the video game Metro 2033 for De Luca Productions and producer Stephen L’Heureux. His other works include Down To A Sunless Sea for Focus Features with Morgan Freeman to produce and star, End Of History for Sony with Neal Moritz producing, and Dry Ear… »
Matthew McConaughey In Negotiations To Star In ‘White Boy Rick’ For Helmer Yann Demange
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Exclusive: Matthew McConaughey is in negotiations to star in White Boy Rick for director Yann Demange, who is readying the drama to go before cameras in the first quarter of next year. White Boy Rick is about Richard Wershe Jr., who in the mid-1980s at the age of only 14 became an undercover informant for local and federal law enforcement agencies and then established himself as a major drug dealer. The dual life he led eventually put him into the cross-hairs of the feds… »
Marc Forster To Helm Live-Action ‘Christopher Robin’ Based On ‘Winnie The Pooh’ Character
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Disney’s Christopher Robin now has a director. The studio has tapped World War Z and Quantum of Solace helmer Marc Forster to direct the upcoming live-action fantasy film focused on the further adventures of human child from the Winnie the Pooh stories. The story catches up with Christopher Robin – the character based on author A. A. Milne’s son, Christopher Robin Milne – as an adult who has grown out of the joyful imagination he had as a child. Now a businessman, he… »
Pete Hammond’s Notes On The Season: Oscar Host Search Intensifies, Another Affleck Joins The Race, Q&As Flourish
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A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit Live By Night producer Jennifer Todd stopped by the pre-screening reception Warner Bros threw Wednesday night in the DGA Atrium and not only was she talking about the period gangster movie her production partner Ben Affleck directed and stars in, but also her other new gig announced last week. That would be the one where she is producing the 89th Annual Academy Awards telecast with Michael DeLuca… »
‘Arrival’ Sound Editor Sylvain Bellemare On First Sci-Fi Experience & Working With Denis Villeneuve To Craft An Alien Sound
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How do aliens sound in an emotional, psychological, science fiction universe? This was one of many questions faced by French-Canadian sound editor Sylvain Bellemare in overseeing the development of a soundscape for Denis Villeneuve's out-of-the-box alien invasion picture, Arrival. In working with Villeneuve, a director Bellemare describes as demanding, and specific in his vision, the reference points for the film were films like Interstellar and the Jodie Foster-starring C… »
MGM’s Musical Adaptation Of ‘Valley Girl’ Taps 'A Deadly Adoption' Director
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Exclusive: Rachel Goldenberg has been attached to direct MGM's musical adaptation of the 1983 romantic comedy Valley Girl, about a teenage valley girl who begins to question the life she's always known when she falls in love with a punk rocker from Hollywood. Goldenberg most recently helmed A Deadly Adoption for Lifetime starring Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig. The remake of the old Martha Coolidge-directed film that starred and helped launch the career of Nicholas Cage… »
‘Manchester By The Sea’ With Casey Affleck & Venice Prize-Winner ’Nocturnal Animals’ Debut – Specialty B.O. Preview
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Ten months after its debut at the Sundance Film Festival, Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester by the Sea will roll out in theaters this weekend. Starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams and Lucas Hedges, the feature, opening via Amazon Studios and Roadside Attractions, is up for three Gothams and enjoying strong Oscar contention. It will make its initial run in New York and L.A. Meanwhile, Tom Ford, seven years after making his first film, A Single Man, returns this weekend… »
Paramount Pictures’ Megan Colligan Expands Marketing Team
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Megan Colligan, Paramount Pictures’ worldwide president of marketing and distribution, has just named key executives in the marketing division in creative advertising, licensing and digital as she gathers together a new and expanded team. Mo Rhim has been named Svp International Digital Marketing along with Kath Skerry, who gets the VP Digital Marketing title. Rhim reports to Nic Crawley, President international marketing and distribution while Skerry reports into the… »
‘Patriots Day’ Provides Emotional Close To AFI Fest – Will It Disrupt The Oscar Race?
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CBS Films, which already has one bona fide Oscar contender in this year’s mix with its August release Hell Or High Water, just may have a second with Patriots Day, which provided a rousing close to the AFI Fest last night in Hollywood. The film, which marks the second collaboration this fall alone between director Peter Berg and star-producer Mark Wahlberg (their Deepwater Horizon opened in late September), will get a qualifying run at the end of December before going… »
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