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‘Moana’ Shuts ‘Office Christmas Party’ Out Of No. 1, But Raunchy Comedy Louder With $17M+; ‘La La Land’ Hits Record Average – Sunday B.O. Update
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4th Writethru Sunday Am: Refresh for updates and chart We’re still waiting on studio-reported figures, but according to industry numbers at this minute, Disney’s Moana will rule her third weekend in a row with an estimated $18.8M after surging 108% yesterday thanks to Saturday matinees. Comparing the first 19 days of Moana to Frozen, the Oceania princess’ est. running cume of $144.9M is pacing 4% ahead of Disney’s ice sisters. And Paramount’s frosh entry Office Christmas P… »
Watch The ‘Rogue One’ World Premiere Livestream Here
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For those of you not strong in The Force, tonight sees the red carpet world premiere of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story on Hollywood blvd here in Los Angeles. I’m not there and you’re not there – Deadline is on the scene of course, and our coverage will be coming later – but together we can perhaps enjoy the almost-next best thing, as the official Star Wars site is livestreaming the premiere. Along with live red carpet stuff, there’s actual content promised, including behind… »
How ‘La La Land’ Director Damien Chazelle, His Team & Lionsgate Faced The Music & Resurrected The Original Hollywood Musical
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This following cover story appeared in the December 7th issues of Awardsline Try naming an original Hollywood musical in recent years that has worked at the box office. No, not Broadway adaptations like Les Miserables and Mamma Mia!. We can thank 2002 Oscar Best Picture winner Chicago for reigniting the then-dormant Great White Way genre on the big screen. Enchanted doesn't count because that's a title propped by the Walt Disney princess brand. And Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Ro… »
‘Toni Erdmann’ Sweeps European Film Awards; Makes History At Message-Heavy Ceremony – Full List
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Update, Writethru: Maren Ade's father-daughter relationship dramedy, Toni Erdmann, scored a clean sweep at the European Film Awards tonight in Wroclaw, Poland. The movie, which is also Germany's entry for the Foreign Language Film Oscar, won in each of its categories: Best European Film, Director, Actor (Peter Simonischek), Actress (Sandra Huller) and Screenplay. In accepting the Film award, Ade noted this is the first time in Efa history that a movie directed by a woman… »
Arrested ‘Silicon Valley’ Star T.J. Miller Keeps Critics’ Choice Hosting Gig
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Silicon Valley and Office Christmas Party star T.J. Miller, arrested in Los Angeles early Friday morning after an altercation with a hired driver, will keep his hosting gig at the Critics’ Choice Awards tomorrow night. The Broadcast Film Critics Association confirmed Miller’s continued participation to Deadline. “Absolutely,” said Joey Berlin, Bfca president and exec producer of the awards. “We can’t wait to see what Tj does tomorrow on the show.” Miller was arrested… »
Boston Online Film Critics Name ‘Moonlight’ Best Film Of 2016
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The Boston Online Film Critics Association have named Moonlight the best film of 2016, Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea) best actor and Isabelle Huppert (Elle) best actress. The fifth annual Bofca Awards were announced this morning. In addition to Affleck’s win, Manchester By The Sea won two other awards: best actress (Michelle Williams) and best screenplay (Kenneth Lonergan). The winners were tallied from online voting. Here’s the complete list: Best Picture Moonlight… »
Ida Awards: ‘O.J.: Made In America’ Runs Off With Best Feature Prize
9 December 2016 9:30 PM, PST
O.J.: Made in America continued its early awards run tonight, scoring the Best Feature prize at the 32nd annual IDA Documentary Awards. It picked up a total of four trophies including Best Limited Series (Making a Murder), Best Episodic Series (Last Chance U), Best Short (The White Helmet) and the ABC News VideoSource Award for Ava Duvernay’s 13th. The win was just the latest for Ezra Edleman’s 7 1/2-hour O.J.: Made in America, from Laylow Films and ESPN Films. It also has… »
Anna Kendrick, Laura Dern & Don Cheadle To Announce 2017 Golden Globes Nominees
9 December 2016 7:58 PM, PST
Don Cheadle, Laura Dern and Anna Kendrick have been tapped to announce nominees for the 74th annual Golden Globes. The announcement ceremony will be livestreamed exclusively on Facebook and on the official Golden Globes website beginning at 5:15 Am Pacific time on Monday, December 12. Joining Cheadle, Dern and Kendrick will be the previously-announced Miss Golden Globe trio of Sophia, Sistine and Scarlet Stallone, along with Hollywood Foreign Press Association President… »
‘Office Christmas Party’ Review: Dreaming Of A Raunchy Christmas? This Is The Movie For You
9 December 2016 5:40 PM, PST
Remember the days when Christmas movies warmed the heart and celebrated the season with sentiment and hope? This season’s offerings seem much more on the raunchy side if the upcoming Bryan Cranston-James Franco comedy Why Him? and Office Christmas Party are any indication. I will get into the former at a later date, but both movies are Christmas comedies that thoroughly land in harder R-rated territory, kind of like The Hangover with egg nog. The thing that matters in the… »
‘Spider-Man: Homecoming 2’ Shoots Web Around Independence Day 2019; ‘Bad Boys 4’ Moves To Memorial Day
9 December 2016 5:05 PM, PST
Exclusive: Based on the success of the global trailer launch yesterday for Sony’s Spider-Man: Homecoming, the Culver City studio has announced that its sequel Spider-Man: Homecoming 2 will open on Friday, July 5, 2019. Spidey essentially pushes Sony’s Bad Boys 4 off that Independence Day stretch. The Will Smith-Martin Lawrence fourquel, which was scheduled to open on July 3 of that year, isn’t falling back, rather zooming forward to Memorial Day weekend on May 24… »
Seána Kerslake Inks With Paradigm & Untitled; Van Johnson Company Signs Jason Stuart
9 December 2016 5:04 PM, PST
Seána Kerslake (Dollhouse) has signed with Paradigm and Untitled Entertainment. The Irish actress starred in the indie feature A Date for Mad Mary and plays Aisling in the UK series Can't Cope, Won’t Cope. She made her debut starring in the 2012 pic Dollhouse, and other credits include The Legend of Longwood and Life’s a Breeze. Kerslake also won the Bingham Ray New Talent Award at the Galway Film Fleadh 2016 and earned a spot on The Independent's "Ireland's 40 under 40″… »
Paramount Sets ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Sequel To Open Sundance Film Festival
9 December 2016 4:32 PM, PST
Ten years after the success of the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Paramount today announced it will release a sequel. Directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, the Participant Media film will follow former Vice President Al Gore in his efforts to fight climate change. Ahead of a theatrical release, the film is set to premiere opening night at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Unlike the original An Inconvenient Truth, which mixed documentary footage… »
Earth Will Feel The Power Of The Force Again: Disney’s ‘Rogue One’ On Course For $280M-$350M Global Opening – Preview
9 December 2016 4:06 PM, PST
Exclusive: Three years. At the bare minimum, that’s the shortest amount of time moviegoers have had to wait for a new Star Wars movie, and that’s during a trilogy cycle. Then, after 1983’s Return Of The Jedi, fans sat on their hands for 16 years waiting for George Lucas to awaken the franchise again with The Phantom Menace, which kicked off the early trio of early-aught episodes. Finally, a decade after 2005’s Revenge Of The Sith, moviegoers finally got to see the… »
Terry George’s ‘The Promise’ Lands At Open Road, Gets April Release Date
9 December 2016 12:17 PM, PST
Exclusive: Open Road Films has acquired U.S. rights to The Promise, the new film from Terry George about the Armenian genocide that had its world premiere in the fall at Toronto. Open Road, which acquired and distributed last year’s Best Picture Oscar winner Spotlight, has set an April 28 wide release date for the pic. Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Le Bon and Christian Bale star alongside Shohreh Aghdashloo, Angela Sarafyan, Jean Reno, James Cromwell, Daniel Giminez Cacho and… »
Peter Bart: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Taking Aim At Hollywood
9 December 2016 12:17 PM, PST
Jeff Bezos was holding court last weekend and there could have been a sign on his sprawling Beverly Hills mansion that announced "new mogul in town." The formidable chief of Amazon hosted a large, star-laden party promoting his company's slate of awards contenders and the billionaire was working the room with fervor. Bezos had appeared at previous Hollywood events, of course, but standing side by side with his friend and co-host Matt Damon his intent this weekend was… »
Gravitas Ventures Takes Swing With Bronson Pinchot Comedy ‘The Strike’
9 December 2016 11:03 AM, PST
Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has acquired worldwide rights to The Strike, a female-driven comedy-drama starring Erin Fogel and Bronson Pinchot. The film will be released worldwide on all major digital platforms December 13. Pinchot is working himself back into acting after a hiatus, recently inking with Bohemia Group and Stone Manners Salners Agency. “The Strike has a multi-cultural and eclectic cast which carries all the humor and funnies of a great comedy film,” said… »
‘Sicario’ Sequel ‘Soldado’ Adds Isabela Moner
9 December 2016 10:51 AM, PST
Exclusive: Isabela Moner has joined Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, and Catherine Keener in Soldado, the Stefano Sollima-directed sequel to the 2015 film Sicario. Taylor Sheridan penned the screenplay for both installments. The follow-up focuses on Alejandro Gillick (Del Toro), the shadowy, Man on Fire-like protagonist and CIA agent Matt Graver (Brolin), who in the first film established themselves as hellbent on hunting down cartel kingpins, no matter what. Moner plays… »
‘Big Short’ Scribe Charles Randolph Sets Sex Harassment Pic; Roger Ailes Figures In The Plot
9 December 2016 10:45 AM, PST
The Big Short scribe Charles Randolph has set up a movie at Annapurna Pictures that is a fact-based drama on the hot-button subject of sexual harassment in the workplace, specifically at Fox News. He has been pitching the project around town for the past two weeks, and sources say recently deposed Fox News chief Roger Ailes is a substantial character in the film, along with the newswomen who lobbed accusations at him, which he has denied. The controversy began when… »
How Denzel Washington Took Tony & Pulitzer Winner ‘Fences’ To The Altar Of Oscar Race – The Contenders Video
9 December 2016 10:35 AM, PST
Director-star Denzel Washington along with Viola Davis and the entire key cast of the new film version of Fences lit up the Paramount Pictures panel at last month’s big awards-season event, our sixth annual The Contenders Presented By Deadline. The all-day event at the DGA theater saw Oscar and key guild voters give a standing ovation to the cast when I introduced them after an extended eight-minute clip from the film was shown. Washington, who is also one of the… »
‘La La Land’ Review: A Gorgeous Musical Romance For This Age – And The Ages
9 December 2016 9:59 AM, PST
Editors note: This review originally was published August 31 after La La Land‘s Venice premiere. It opens in theaters today. Coming off the promise of the Oscar-winning Whiplash, it will be no surprise that writer-director Damien Chazelle is a talented filmmaker, but that movie did not prepare me for the experience of seeing La La Land, his homage to the great screen musicals of French director Jacques Demy as well as MGM’s golden era. But this is too smart a movie maker… »
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