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‘Guardians of the Galaxy 2’ Teaser Coming Soon, Original Movie’s Teaser Almost Got Scrapped
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This week saw the debut of the trailer for The Belko Experiment, a bloody action thriller written and produced by Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn. With the arrival of that trailer, James Gunn sat down for a quick interview about how crafting a trailer for a movie like the forthcoming Guardians of the […]
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- Ethan Anderton
Don Calfa Dies: ‘Return Of The Living Dead’ Actor Was 76
1 hour ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Don Calfa, who played Ernie the embalmer in 1985’s The Return of the Living Dead, has died at age 76, Deadline confirmed. The actor, whose credits also include Weekend at Bernie's, Nickelodeon, Bugsy and New York, New York, died at his home in Yucca Valley, California. The death, two days before his December 3 birthday, was confirmed to Deadline by his publicist Michael Perez. Other credits include Foul Play, The Rose and 1941. Calfa, born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens… »
'Moana' To Repeat at #1 Over Post-Thanksgiving Weekend
21 hours ago | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
Following the hustle and bustle of the extended, Thanksgiving weekend it makes sense this weekend would be a bit quieter. Set to repeat atop the weekend box office is Disney's Moana followed once again by WB's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them as the rest of the field settles in below. The weekend features one new wide release in Bh Tilt's Incarnate, offering horror fans a little something as the lone horror film currently in wide release, while Freestyle issues the moderate release of the faith-based feature Believe. At the top, Moana should drop somewhere around 54% from its $56.6 million three-day weekend for a second weekend around $26 million pushing its domestic cume a couple million shy of $120 million by the end of the weekend. For comparison, Frozen dipped 53% following its record-breaking three-day wide release and Tangled dipped 55.7% after its $48.7 million Thanksgiving weekend three-day debut. In the runner-up position, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them »
- Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
Warren Beatty Honored by Kirk Douglas, Don Cheadle at Santa Barbara Fete
11 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Goleta, Calif. — Kirk Douglas, “Rules Don't Apply” star Lily Collins and Don Cheadle turned out to salute Warren Beatty at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Kirk Douglas Award celebration of the Hollywood legend Thursday night.
The honor, annually presented at a fundraising dinner for the festival, has previously gone to stars like Jane Fonda, Jessica Lange, Forest Whitaker, Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Harrison Ford, Quentin Tarantino, Ed Harris and John Travolta.
“I learned more and more each day that Warren pushes you beyond what you knew you were capable of,” Collins said after reading a series of observations she jotted in her diary while shooting Beatty’s latest film. “He challenges and inspires you beyond your wildest dreams.”
The 27-year-old rising star thanked Beatty for encouraging her “to let go, to be present, and enjoy all the details along the way. If you taught me one »
- Kristopher Tapley
Natalie Portman Is First Lady in Oscar-Hopeful ‘Jackie’ – Specialty B.O. Preview
2 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Fox Searchlight's Jackie enters the Awards fray this weekend, with Oscar-winner Natalie Portman as Camelot matriarch Jacqueline Kennedy in the period surrounding the assassination of husband John F. Kennedy. The feature headlines a weekend that will have a fair number of Specialty releases vying for attention at the box office. Magnolia Pictures will open Nicolas Pesce's drama-horror The Eyes of My Mother in about a half-dozen cities theatrically in a day and date… »
Oscars: ‘Rogue One,’ ‘Suicide Squad,’ ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Advance in Visual Effects Race
9 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Suicide Squad,” “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” and “The Jungle Book” are among the movies that could compete in the Oscar visual effects category. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Friday the 20 films that will advance in the race.
Here are all the films that will compete in the VFX Oscar race:
“Alice Through the Looking Glass”
“Arrival”
“The Bfg”
“Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”
“Deadpool”
“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”
“Independence Day: Resurgence”
“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”
“Passengers”
“Rogue One”
“Sully”
“Warcraft”
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- Maane Khatchatourian
Film, TV Shoots Adopt Environmentally Friendly Practices
12 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
It ain’t easy being green, but Hollywood’s film and TV productions are moving more and more toward eco-friendly practices on sets that not only help the planet, but also can save money.
Not too long ago such titles as “sustainability director” did not exist at studios. What a difference a few years make.
Oct. 7 at the Vancouver Intl. Film Festival, four sustainability execs from major Hollywood studios gathered to participate in a packed forum on sustainable production, with keynote speaker and “The X-Files” creator Chris Carter opening the one-day event.
“Vancouver will become a model for green production in North America,” Carter said. “When word gets out, productions will flock here. You’re going to have to build a wall. It will be huge, made out of recycled materials. And yes, the Americans are going to pay for it.”
The industry must be aware, Carter added, that what »
- Katherine Brodsky
Al Brodax Dead: ‘Yellow Submarine’ Producer Was 90
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Al Brodax, the TV cartoon producer who failed to impress The Beatles with his small-screen animated take on the band but won them over with the classic feature Yellow Submarine, died November 24 in Danbury, Conn. at age 90. Brodax’s death was announced on Facebook by his friend, the Beatle cartoon expert Mitchell Axelrod, and later confirmed by daughter Jessica Harris. Brodax had been an executive producer at King Features Syndicate in the early 1960s, churning out… »
Amy Adams’ ‘Arrival’ Tops $100 Million at Worldwide Box Office
16 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Paramount’s sci-fi thriller “Arrival” has topped $100 million in worldwide box office in less than a month.
The film has grossed $65.8 million in the U.S. and Canada and $35.1 million internationally through Thursday. Paramount Pictures handled distribution in North America with FilmNation Entertainment as the international sales agent for all territories.
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“Arrival” received 10 nominations on Thursday from the Critics’ Choice Awards, including for best picture, director, actress and adapted screenplay. Adams received the best actress award from the National Board of Review, which named the movie as one of its 10 best films of 2016.
“Arrival” has grossed $9.6 million in the U.K., making it the top grosser in that market for director Denis Villeneuve. It’s also achieved that distinction in Spain with a $2.5 million total and in Australia with $4.4 million to top Villeneuve’s “Sicario” in that market.
“Arrival” premiered at the Venice Film Festival and »
- Dave McNary
Women in Animation’s Initiatives Aim to Boost Female Creative Talent in the Biz
19 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Animation is often seen as a part of the industry friendly to families and women because the longer production cycles for each feature – typically three to five years – mean more steady employment and opportunity to attend to life’s demands outside of filmmaking. But women still have a long way to go before they’re equally represented in animated features and television shows.
Statistics from the animation guild, Iatse 839, paint the picture for animators. Right now about 3,800 artists, writers and technicians work under the guild’s jurisdiction in and around Los Angeles and slightly more than 23% of this number are women. Roughly 18 months ago, around 21% were female, so the number is climbing a bit.
That’s still not fast enough for Women in Animation co-chair Marge Dean, who is working with the organization on a 50-50 by 2025 initiative that aims to see an equal split of jobs for men and »
- Karen Idelson
Disney Animation Veterans Ride the CG Tide With ‘Moana’
25 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Ron Clements and John Musker have just about seen it all in their 30-some years at Disney. They are largely credited — as the creative powers behind 1989’s “The Little Mermaid” — with launching Disney’s animation renaissance following a period of less-than-successful films for the studio. Today, their seventh animated collaboration, “Moana,” is the writer-directors’ first CG-animated project; Jared Bush wrote the screenplay.
“Moana” tells the tale of a head-strong teen who defies her village’s ban on sailing the ocean in order to save them from destruction. The movie has been a learning experience for the seasoned veterans.
“We had to learn a whole new pipeline,” Musker says. “The way to get from script to storyboard is the same, but once you get into the production process, it is a different thing. It’s less linear.”
In hand-drawn animation, artists go from storyboards to drawing the sets and figuring out »
- Terry Flores
‘Escape from New York’ Remake Rumored to Be a Prequel, New Story Details Revealed
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We’re coming up on 10 years of development on the Escape from New York remake that originated at New Line Cinema but now finds itself at 20th Century Fox. Over the years, we’ve seen various talents attached such as writers like Gary Whitta (Book of Eli) and Ken Nolan (Black Hawk Down) involved, directors such […]
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- Ethan Anderton
Noah Oppenheim On ‘Bizarre’ Back And Forth Of Making ‘Jackie’ And Covering The Election
32 minutes ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Noah Oppenheim has waited a long time for this moment. Today, his first spec script, “Jackie,” is finally hitting theaters. As you’ll soon learn there were moments when Oppenheim thought it might never happen.
The acclaimed drama went down a long development road when he first sent it out over for consideration five years ago. Darren Aronofsky was going going to direct it at one point but after deciding not to direct himself he never stopped looking for the right person to do it.
Continue reading Noah Oppenheim On ‘Bizarre’ Back And Forth Of Making ‘Jackie’ And Covering The Election at The Playlist. »
- Gregory Ellwood
‘Captain Fantastic’ Star Viggo Mortensen Recalls Early Acting Role in CBS Miniseries
45 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Viggo Mortensen’s choice of roles demonstrates his broad range, eclectic point of view, and love of complex characters. In David Cronenberg films alone, he has played a hardened Russian gangster in London (2007’s “Eastern Promises”), Sigmund Freud (2011’s “A Dangerous Method”), and a quiet family man thrust into an unusual situation (2005’s “A History of Violence”). But perhaps Mortensen’s most famous role is that of the reluctant king, Aragorn, in “The Lord of the Rings.”
Now, he’s getting the best reviews of his career in “Captain Fantastic,” as a father raising six children off the grid who realizes that holding on too tightly to principles doesn’t always work.
Mortensen got his first mention — his name is misspelled in the credits! — in Variety on April 6, 1984, in a review of the CBS miniseries “George Washington.”
You arrived at acting later than most, as an adult.
I was 22, 23, 24, living in New York, »
- Carole Horst
Dev Patel and Octavia Spencer on the Power of ‘Positive Energy and Hope’ in Movies
46 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Dev Patel and Octavia Spencer sat down for a chat for Variety’s “Actors on Actors.” For more, tune in when “Actors on Actors” debuts its fifth season on PBS SoCal on Jan. 3.
Dev Patel: Every time I do an interview, everyone’s talking about, “How do you avoid being typecast?” And it makes me cringe. You’ve done such an amazing job of navigating and breathing life into so many roles. How do you do it?
Octavia Spencer: I’ve got to tell you, it isn’t easy. Because, as you know, there aren’t that many great roles that are going to come your way.
Patel: And it’s a feeding frenzy when there are, right? There’s blood in the water!
Spencer: Honey, you can’t even get to the trough! I’m a specific type. And the archetypes that they really want to see »
- Variety Staff
‘The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses’ Clip: Sally Hawkins Gets Arrested for Summoning Spirits
48 minutes ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Beginning on Sunday, December 11, PBS will be airing the first episode of “The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses,” a lavish three-part television series of Shakespeare’s “Henry VI (Part 1)”, “Henry VI (Part 2)” and “Richard III.”
Ahead of its debut, IndieWire has an exclusive new clip from the first part, which stars Tom Sturridge, Hugh Bonneville, Sophie Okonedo and Sally Hawkins.
The clip, titled “The Arrest of The Duchess,” shows Gloucester’s wife, the Duchess (Hawkins), who believes that she has the right to the throne, arrested after hiring a witch to summon spirits to ask about the future of Henry VI’s reign. Gloucester grieves for her, but asserts that he cannot control the law.
Read More: Benedict Cumberbatch Becomes King Richard III in the New ‘The Hollow Crown’ Trailer — Watch
The series is the second season of “The Hollow Crown” franchise and is directed by Dominic Cooke. »
- Liz Calvario
Disney’s Bob Iger Lone Media Boss On Donald Trump’s New Policy Forum Team
50 minutes ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
President-elect Donald Trump said today he is establishing the President's Strategic and Policy Forum, which is composed of some of the country’s most respected and successful business leaders. The Forum will be chaired by Blackstone chairman, CEO and co-founder Stephen A. Schwarzman, and it will be called upon to meet with Trump frequently. The first meeting is set for February at the White House. The lone figure from Trump’s so-called “dishonest media” on the list is Dis… »
Supernatural Mayhem Unleashed In First Trailer For Sci-Fi ‘Spectral’
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While it’s going straight to Netflix instead of to your local multiplex as a big 3D spectacle as it was originally planned, the question remaining about “Spectral” is: Was it a movie that Universal and Legendary just didn’t think was commercially viable, or a dud they wanted to get off their hands?
Read More: How ‘The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story’ Became A Triumphant TV Highlight Of 2016
Certainly, Joe Moviegoer isn’t going to buy a ticket to a movie based on these names alone — James Badge Dale, Max Martini, Emily Mortimer and Bruce Greenwood (and no knock on them, they’re just not huge A-listers) — but you also have to wonder about how much heart Universal had in a movie that they didn’t release any poster for, despite having an initial release date pegged for this summer.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
Don Calfa, Character Actor Known for ‘Return of the Living Dead,’ Dies at 76
56 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Don Calfa, who played the role of the Ernie Kaltenbrunner the mortician in “The Return of the Living Dead,” has died. He was 76.
Calfa’s death comes just two days before what would have been his 77th birthday on Dec. 3. The actor’s death was confirmed on his Facebook page. “Don passed away today – please keep him and his family in your prayers Rip,” the post said.
Calfa was born in Brooklyn, New York, and began his acting career when he was in high school, dropping out to join the Actors’ Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild. Before acting in films, he started out working in theater, appearing in multiple Broadway productions including “Mating Dance” in 1965.
Calfa was best known for his role in the 1985 cult classic “The Return of the Living Dead,” in which he played the anomalous mortician Ernie. In 1989, Calfa portrayed Paulie the Hitman in the »
- Sarah Ahern
You Probably Shouldn’t Watch This Trailer For ‘The Autopsy of Jane Doe’
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André Øvredal‘s The Autopsy of Jane Doe was one of my favorite movies at Fantastic Fest 2016 and one of the best horror films I’ve seen in a year that has been very kind to the genre. It will be released on VOD platforms on December 20, 2016 and in select theaters on December 21, […]
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- Jacob Hall
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