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‘Deadpool 2:’ David Leitch Confirmed to Direct
11 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
“John Wick” co-director David Leitch has been brought on board “Deadpool 2,” replacing director Tim Miller, TheWrap has learned. Leitch is best known for his stunt work, but turned in an impressive directorial debut with the 2014 Keanu Reeves action film, which he co-directed with Chad Stahelski. Leitch recently left “John Wick 2” in order to prep the Charlize Theron spy film “The Coldest City.” Leitch is represented by Wme. Also Read: Inside the 'Deadpool 2' Fight Over 'Two Totally Different Movies' (Exclusive) Miller, who directed the first “Deadpool,” left the project over creative differences with star Ryan Reynolds. »
- Umberto Gonzalez and Joe Otterson
‘Mortal Kombat’ Reboot Finds Director in Simon McQuoid (Exclusive)
12 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Simon McQuoid, best known for directing commercials, is in talks to helm the “Mortal Kombat” reboot for New Line.
James Wan is producing the movie, along with Michael Clear for Atomic Monster, and Todd Garner and Jeremy Stein through their Broken Road banner. Lawrence Kasanoff is executive producing. Greg Russo penned the most recent draft.
Based on the classic ’90s arcade game, “Mortal Kombat” has generated numerous pop culture properties, including the best-selling video game in its franchise, “Mortal Kombat X.” The “Mortal Kombat” games are currently developed by NetherRealm Studios, owned by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, with a team led by co-creator and creative director Ed Boon.
Paul W.S. Anderson’s 1995 movie revolved around some of the game’s classic characters, like Liu Kang and Johnny Cage, who were invited to a tournament on a mysterious island only to find out that the fate of the world hung in the balance. »
- Justin Kroll
Emilia Clarke Joins ‘Star Wars’ Han Solo Spinoff
12 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The galaxy far, far away is inching closer. The “Star Wars” Han Solo spinoff has tapped Emilia Clarke as its female lead.
The “Game of Thrones” actress will star opposite Alden Ehrenreich and Donald Glover, who play Solo and fellow smuggler Lando Calrissian, respectively.
“Selma” and “Creed” star Tessa Thompson, “Power Rangers” actress Naomi Scott, and Zoe Kravitz tested for the role in October. Another group, which included Clarke, Kiersey Clemons, and Jessica Henwick, tested in London with Clarke ultimately landing the role.
Execs and directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who are also penning the script, had tested another group in September, but settled on another round after struggling to make their choice.
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‘Star Wars’: Donald Glover to Play Young Lando Calrissian in Han Solo Movie
The movie will be set prior to “Star Wars: A New Hope,” like the other upcoming “Star Wars” standalone project, “Rogue One, »
- Justin Kroll
Marc Forster to Direct Live-Action Movie About Winnie the Pooh's Pal, 'Christopher Robin' (Exclusive)
17 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Marc Forster has come aboard to direct Christopher Robin, Disney’s live-action fantasy project centering on the human character in Winnie the Pooh.
Brigham Taylor, who produced Disney’s recent mega-hit The Jungle Book, is producing Robin, which has a script by Alex Ross Perry.
The story centers on Robin, the adult version of the boy who in the A.A. Milne books shares his adventures with the animals of the Hundred Acre Wood. Robin has grown out of the joyful imagination he had as a young boy and is now a businessman who prioritizes work over his wife and daughter. With his »
- Borys Kit
20 Facts You Didn’t Know About 1991’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ for 25th Anniversary (Photos)
18 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
November 22 marks the 25th anniversary of “Beauty and the Beast.” TheWrap teamed up with IMDb to give you these 15 facts you may not have known about the Oscar-winning film. Belle was the first brown-haired Disney princess. The smoke during the transformation of the beast is not animated — it was real smoke originally used in 1985’s “The Black Cauldron.” Although Angela Lansbury is famous for singing the “Beauty and the Beast” ballad, she originally thought another actor would be more suited. The director asked her to make at least one recording of her singing the song, which ended up in »
- Beatrice Verhoeven
‘Fantastic Beasts’ Hits $23.5 Million in Two Days at International Box Office
20 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Warner Bros.’ “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” has grossed an impressive $23.5 million at 47 international markets in its first two days of release.
The Harry Potter spinoff, starring Eddie Redmayne, generated $6.9 million in nine markets on Wednesday, the added $16.6 million in 38 markets on Thursday.
South Korea is the biggest territory so far with $3.5 million in two days with a 68% share of the top five, followed by France with a two-day total of $2.4 million. Australia took in $2.1 million in its first day Thursday with an 81% share followed by Russia’s $1.7 million and a 77% share.
“Fantastic Beasts” opened in Germany with $1 million on Thursday, matching the $1 million from Wednesday’s sneak previews. Brazil generated $1.3 million on Thursday for an 84% share followed by Italy with $915,000.
“Fantastic Beasts” will open in another 16 markets Friday, »
- Dave McNary
Chloe Grace Moretz, Sasha Lane Starring in ‘Miseducation of Cameron Post’
18 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Chloe Grace Moretz and Sasha Lane are starring in the independent drama “The Miseducation of Cameron Post[/link].”
Desiree Akhavan, the writer, director, and star of “Appropriate Behavior,” is directing “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” from a script she co-wrote with Cecilia Frugiuele. The story is based on Emily Danforth’s coming-of-age novel of the same name with the film is set in 1993 and centered on a girl forced into a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with the prom queen.
Moretz is cast as the lead, an orphan who’s taken in by her ultra-conservative aunt. Lane plays her friend and fellow “disciple” at the conversion therapy clinic to which they are sent.
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The cast includes John Gallagher Jr., Forrest Goodluck (“The Revenant”) and Jennifer Ehle.
“The Miseducation of Cameron Post” is being »
- Dave McNary
MGM’s Musical Adaptation Of ‘Valley Girl’ Taps 'A Deadly Adoption' Director
17 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
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… »
James Franco Directing Josh Boone-Scripted ‘The Pretenders’
17 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Before Josh Boone‘s The Fault in Our Stars conquered the box office, one of the projects the busy writer-director wanted to make to was The Pretenders. Boone once described his script as “Carnal Knowledge meets Unbearable Lightness of Being or The Dreamers,” which doesn’t sound emotionally draining at all. In 2013, the director put together an impressive cast for […]
The post James Franco Directing Josh Boone-Scripted ‘The Pretenders’ appeared first on /Film. »
- Jack Giroux
'Fantastic Beasts' Eyes Fantastic Opening that Could Top $90 Million
17 November 2016 1:40 PM, PST | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
Fifteen years ago J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series made the leap from its place in literary history to its place in film history. Since then, the eight-film franchise has generated nearly $2.4 billion domestically and over $7.7 billion worldwide with the last of the Harry Potter films being released five years ago. This weekend a new adventure within J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World begins in the form of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a prequel to the Harry Potter franchise, debuting in over 4,000 theaters and looking at a #1 opening that could top $90 million. Meanwhile, fellow new releases this weekend include the coming-of-age dramedy The Edge of Seventeen starring Hailee Steinfeld and Bleed for This starring Miles Teller. Additionally, Sony's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk expands into over 1,100 theaters and limited release standout Moonlight gets a moderate nationwide release into 650 theaters. As already mentioned, it has been five years since the last Harry Potter film, »
- Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
Matthew McConaughey in Talks to Join 'White Boy Rick'
12 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Matthew McConaughey is in talks to join White Boy Rick, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Yann Demange is directing the indie drug trade drama from a script by Logan Miller and Noah Miller. It is based on the true story of Richard Wershe Jr., the white teenager who became a drug kingpin of the African American-dominated Detroit in the 1980s. At age 17, he received a mandatory life sentence upon being caught with 17 pounds. Studio 8 bought the script last year.
McConaughey would play Werhse’s father, a salesman. Producers are planning to begin production in March in Michigan and »
- Ashley Lee
Paul Verhoeven, Isabelle Adjani, Shinya Tsukamoto, Abderrahim Tounsi To Receive Career Tributes at Marrakech
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The 16th Marrakech Film Festival, which runs Dec. 2-10, will include career tributes to helmers Paul Verhoeven and Shinya Tsukamoto and thesps Isabelle Adjani and Abderrahim Tounsi.
Since its inception in 2001, one of the main objectives of the Marrakech fest has been to serve as a crossroads of world cinema, which is once again reflected in this year’s choice of homages, complemented by a country tribute to Russian cinema.
In addition to his tribute, Dutch director Verhoeven will also give a master class during the event, in which he will talk about his extensive career between Europe and the U.S, including his Isabelle Huppert-starrer “Elle”, which is France’s foreign-language Oscar entry. Huppert served as jury president at the 2014 Marrakech Fest.
A radical and innovative Japanese director and actor, Tsukamoto recently starred in Martin Scorsese’s “Silence” and is one of Quentin Tarantino’s favorite helmers.
Adjani »
- Martin Dale
Warner Bros. Grabs Worldwide Rights to Spanish Film ‘Toc Toc’ (Exclusive)
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Warner Bros. Pictures Intl. has grabbed worldwide rights, including Spain, to Vicente Villanueva comedy “Toc Toc,” one of the highlights in the 2017 movie slate by Atresmedia Cine, the film production arm of Spanish TV giant Atresmedia Group.
“Toc Toc” adapts the same-title stage play, written by French author Laurent Baffie, which has been successfully released in more than 20 countries. It turns on several patients suffering obsessive-compulsive disorder who interact while waiting at a doctor’s for the arrival of their therapist.
Co-produced by Atresmedia Cine and Lazona, “Toc Toc” has just terminated a seven-week shoot in Madrid, and is scheduled for a summer release in Spanish theaters via Warner Bros..
Villanueva, who helmed “The Opposite to Love,” a 2011 romantic comedy backed by Atresmedia, Zeta and Sony Pictures, has directed in “Toc Toc” a high-profile Spanish cast led by helmer-actor Paco Leon, Rossy de Palma, Adrian Lastra and Alexandra Jimenez, along with Argentine star Oscar Martinez, »
- Emiliano De Pablos
French resistance: can Netflix win over its harshest critics?
2 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
As the streaming platform struggles across the Channel, a new Cannes haul could provide an opportunity to seduce a very sceptical audience
Related: Divines review – exhilarating urban thriller froths with joie de vivre
Despite the seemingly limitless resources at its disposal, Netflix has shown little interest in forging a brand identity. Instead, with its burgeoning parade of Netflix Originals, the platform has attempted to simultaneously appeal to everyone, from nostalgic thirtysomethings (Stranger Things) to excitable tweens (Haters Back Off) via the terminally masochistic (high-octane Kevin James romp True Memoirs Of An International Assassin, now streaming!).
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- Charlie Lyne
Emma Watson’s Beauty and the Beast is a good start – we need more feminist fairytales
2 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Meryl Streep called Disney’s vision of passive princesses and envious stepmothers ‘gender bigotry’. Here we give five classic fairytales a reboot
For the duration of this article, we are going be using “feminist” as a transitive verb. You have to just not let it bother you.
Related: Beauty and the Beast trailer beats Fifty Shades as most viewed in 24 hours
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- Zoe Williams
Home-grown movies set to shine at Tallinn Black Nights
7 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
An increased cash rebate and co-production boom has resulted in a strong Estonian line-up for this year’s Tallinn Black Nights.
The Estonian film industry is picking up momentum, seeing an increase in domestic film admissions as well as a selection of awards around the festival circuit.
In Berlin earlier this year, the Estonian Film Institute (Efi) announced a cash rebate for foreign productions including full length features, documentaries and television series, which has in turn prompted a spike in the number of co-productions.
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival is reaping the benefits with a strong line-up of Estonian films across several of their programme sections
Estonian Film Competition
Seven films are in contention for the Estonian Film Award, which grants a winning feature €3,200 in prize money to be shared between the director and the producer:
Triin Ruumet’s The Days That Confused (above), a coming-of-age story set in late 1990s Estonia, is already »
Tallinn: New Europe closes 'Zoology' deals in Baltics
7 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Exclusive: Sales outfit also inks deal with HBO Europe for TV rights.
Warsaw-based sales outfit New Europe Film Sales has closed further deals on Ivan Tverdovsky’s supernatural drama Zoology.
The film has sold to Estonia (Estinfilm) and Latvia (Kino Bize), while HBO Europe has picked up TV rights for the Central Europe region.
Zoology played at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in July this year, where it won the Special Jury Prize. It has gone on to have festival berths in Toronto, Zurich and London, and also scooped the top prize at the recent Cottbus industry forum in Germany.
New Europe previously struck a deal with Arrow Films for North American and UK rights.
The film follows a middle-aged zoo worker whose quiet life in a small coastal town seems to be going nowhere until one day she undergoes a supernatural transformation.
Read: Q&A: Ivan Tverdovsky, ‘Zoology’
It was produced by New People Film Company »
- tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
Korean delegation cancels Black Nights visit due to political unrest
7 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Exclusive: A sizeable group from the country had planned to attend the festival this year to celebrate signing a film co-operation agreement.
A South Korean delegation led by Seoul mayor Won-soon Park [pictured] has cancelled a planned visit to this week’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival due to ongoing political unrest in Korea.
A letter sent to the festival by the Seoul Metropolitan Government describes a “political scandal that has plagued the nation” and explains that the “country and its people are at a loss and deeply troubled” by recent political events.
The decision to cancel the trip was taken by the mayor “to calm our citizens, to keep himself closely informed of the ongoing situation and to ensure business continuity as usual in a turbulent time”, the letter explains.
South Korea has faced a turbulent year with incumbent president Geun-hye Park embroiled in a scandal involving allegations of corruption which have prompted protests and widespread calls for »
- tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
Storytek development forum launches at Tallinn Black Nights
7 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
The 20th edition of the Tallinn Black Nights festival rolls out its digital red carpet with the inaugaral edition of Storytek, a one-day financing and business development forum for alternative storytellers.
Co-hosted by Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, the all-day event takes place on Saturday November 19 and will host panels on topics ranging from intellectual property (IP) and product development to crowdfunding and marketing and distribution for new multi-platform businesses.
Informal brainstorming discussions will also be on the agenda, with international film and technology experts revealing their trade tips across the gaming, merchandising, mobile content, publishing and Vr and Ar industries
A raft of film and technology speakers will be in attendance, including: Pam Rodi, PR & Marketing executive of Sony Pictures Entertainment; Keith Arem, Call of Duty talent director & Vr visionary; Tero Kaukomaa, crowdfunding pioneer of the Iron Sky franchise; Laura-Anne Edwards, digital brand & startup strategist, Ted resident and open data expert; Mitch Mallon, digital content »
‘Speechless’ Big Winner as Media Access Awards Salute People With Disabilities
8 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
People with disabilities — aka the world’s invisible minority — were saluted Friday at the annual Media Access Awards, with producer John Murray reminding that their presence onscreen is not just appropriate, “it’s also good business.”
Murray (“The Real World,” “Keeping Up With the Kardashians”) was given the PGA George Sunga Award, one of seven prizes handed out at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. Murray said that people with disabilities, or Pwd, “have been placed on the margins and sidelines of TV.” He pointed out that his A&E reality-show “Born This Way,” about seven individuals with Down syndrome, increased viewership more than 80% during its first season, so depiction “is not only the right thing to do, it’s also good business.”
Scott Silveri, creator-writer of ABC’s “Speechless,” was a double winner. He and fellow producers Melvin Mar and Jake Kasdan were honored for series with the SAG-aftra Disability Awareness Award, »
- Tim Gray
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