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Shyamalan's 'Split' and Diesel's 'xXx 3' Look to Deliver $20+ Million Openings
8 hours ago | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
While last weekend's new releases failed to energize the box office, two of this week's new titles will top the weekend chart. M. Night Shyamalan's latest thriller, Split, and the return of Vin Diesel in the title role of xXx: Return of Xander Cage are both looking to score $20+ million openings while Hidden Figures and La La Land look to continue to capture audience attention amid their already-strong domestic runs. Additionally, this weekend features the release of The Founder into just over one thousand theaters and High Top releasing brings The Resurrection of Gavin Stone into 887 theaters as it hopes to attract the attention of the faith-based audience. At the top of the weekend box office expect to find M. Night Shyamalan's Split. Shyamalan's career has featured plenty of ups and downs, but following the performance of The Visit in 2015 and the solid early reviews for Split, we »
- Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
Miguel Ferrer Dies: ‘NCIS: Los Angeles’ & ‘Crossing Jordan’ Star Was 61
9 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Miguel Ferrer, who had played Owen Granger on NCIS: Los Angeles since 2012, co-starred with Jill Hennessy on NBC’s Crossing Jordan and had a memorable role in the original RoboCop, died today of cancer. He was 61. The son of Oscar-winning actor Jose Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney, and cousin of George Clooney, he was set to reprise his role as FBI Agent Albert Rosenfeld on David Lynch’s revival Twin Peaks, which premieres May 21 on Showtime. “Today, NCIS: Los Angeles lost a… »
Dwayne Johnson's DC Villain Black Adam Getting His Own Movie
10 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
New Line and DC Entertainment are doubling down on comic book hero Shazam!
New Line, which has been for over a decade developing a movie on the long-time DC character, will develop concurrently a movie centering on Black Adam, with Dwayne Johnson attached to star as Shazam’s arch-nemesis.
The move stems from last week’s high level meeting with Johnson and DC Films co-head and comics author Geoff Johns, after which Johnson took to social media to promise “hope, optimism & fun.”
But on a deeper level, the meeting led to a reconfiguring of the Shazam! movie. Johnson has been »
- Borys Kit
Neil Gaiman to Adapt Novel ‘Good Omens’ as Amazon Series
15 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Amazon Studios will adapt Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s novel “Good Omens” into a six-episode limited series, the studio announced on Thursday. The 2006 novel takes place in 2018 when the Apocalypse is near and Final Judgment is set to descend upon humanity. Set to debut in 2018 on Prime Video, “Good Omens” will consist of six one-hour episodes entirely written by Gaiman, who will also serve as showrunner. (Veteran fantasy writer Pratchett died in March 2015.) See video: Watch 'American Gods' First Trailer From Comic-Con This marks the latest Gaiman novel to get turned into a TV series. Starz will premiere its adaptation of the. »
- Joe Otterson
Sundance Film Festival 2017: The Ultimate Party Guide
18 January 2017 1:58 PM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The annual trek to Park City, Utah has already begun for the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, which runs Jan. 19 until Jan. 29. Peter Dinklage, Larry Wilmore, and Gael Garcia Bernal are among those named to the juries in this year’s competition. The awards will be handed out on Jan. 28 in a ceremony hosted by “The Daily Show” alum Jessica Williams.
In between all of the prizes and premieres, stars and film aficionados endure the cold temperatures with help from the city’s pop-up party scene, featuring swag, drinks and exclusive dinners.
Thursday, Jan. 19
Après Ski Festival Kick-off Rooftop Party – 4 to 8 p.m.
An Artist at the Table – 8 p.m.
The annual benefit kicks off the first day of the festival with director Jeff Orlowski set as keynote speaker. The private cocktail reception and dinner follows the premiere of “An Inconvenient Sequel” at the Eccles Theatre.
Friday, Jan. 20
Village at the Lift
AtTT takes over this year’s village that runs from Jan. 20-22, showcasing DirecTV in the Cabin, Audience in the Café and Jeff Vespa’s WireImage Studio. This year’s winter escape from the cold features beverages and light fare from notable Japanese restaurant Nobu, along with high-speed internet. »
- Mannie Holmes
Announcing the 2017 People's Choice Awards Winners!
18 January 2017 8:17 PM, PST | POPSUGAR | See recent BuzzSugar news »
As award season rolls on, the 2017 People's Choice Awards have also wrapped and rewarded TV, movies, and stars that you, aka the people, chose. Of the nominees, we saw Tom Hanks, Dwayne Johnson, Blake Lively, and record-breaker Ellen DeGeneres take home awards and have a good time. There are a ton of awards, so check out the full list below. Movies Favorite Movie Finding Dory Favorite Movie Actor Ryan Reynolds Favorite Movie Actress Jennifer Lawrence Favorite Action Movie Deadpool Favorite Action Movie Actor Robert Downey Jr. Favorite Action Movie Actress Margot Robbie Favorite Animated Movie Voice Ellen DeGeneres Favorite Comedic Movie Bad Moms Favorite Comedic Movie Actor Kevin Hart Favorite Comedic Movie Actress Melissa McCarthy Favorite Dramatic Movie Me Before You Favorite Dramatic Movie Actor Tom Hanks Favorite Dramatic Movie Actress Blake Lively Favorite Family Movie Finding Dory Favorite Thriller Movie The Girl on the Train Favorite Movie Icon Johnny Depp »
- Maggie Pehanick
Stephen Gaghan to Write and Direct Video Game Adaptation ‘The Division’
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Stephen Gaghan, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind “Traffic” and “Syriana,” will write and direct video game adaptation “The Division,” Ubisoft Motion Pictures announced Thursday. The film will star Jake Gyllenhaal, who is also producing, and Jessica Chastain. Based on Ubisoft’s hit game “Tom Clancy‘s The Division,” the film is set in the aftermath of a small pox pandemic in dystopian New York. In the game, which set the Ubisoft record for highest first-day sales in company history, players attempt to rebuild, investigate and fight crime in the city. Plot details of the big-screen adaptation have been kept under wraps. »
- Greg Gilman
Excellent ‘Split’ Twist Gives Off Vibe of Early Marvel Cinematic Universe Movies (Commentary)
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(It probably should be expected that there will be major spoiler for “Split” and other M. Night Shyamalan movies below. So here’s your spoiler alert.) M. Night Shyamalan movies have it tough. Almost all of them feature an attempt at a hard-hitting twist, and with the massive success of “The Sixth Sense” right out of the gate, the bar for those twists has been set pretty high. When a movie’s twist fails to clear that bar, viewers and critics aren’t too kind about it. Several Shyamalan movies, such as “The Village” or “Lady in the Water,” are met with disdain for their. »
- Phil Hornshaw
Artios Awards Give Top Casting Honors to ‘La La Land,’ ‘Hidden Figures’
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The casting directors of “La La Land,” “Hidden Figures,” “Hell or High Water,” “Manchester by the Sea,” “Moonlight” and “Moana” have won awards at the 32nd Annual Artios Awards, the Casting Society of America announced on Thursday night in a ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Those films were singled out in the six Artios Awards feature-film categories, which honored the casting directors in a variety of genres and budget levels. Television awards went to “Transparent,” “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” “Mr. Robot,” “Bloodline” and the miniseries “The People v. O.J. Simpson,” among others. In the theatrical categories, winners included “Hamilton,” “The Humans” and. »
- Steve Pond
On ‘The Good Place’ Twist and a Strong Finish to a Fine First Season
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Don’t read on unless you’ve seen “Michael’s Gambit,” the Season One finale of “The Good Place.”
Who knew we were going to get two versions of “Westworld” — one comedic, the other dramatic — in the past five months? Peak TV, you secretive minx, you.
The parallels between “The Good Place” and the HBO show were strong even before the arrival of the episode that ended the season. The train that serviced Eleanor and Chidi’s town was an old-timey engine that could have had a walk-on (rail-on?) role in “Westworld,” and in Thursday’s other episode, “Mindy St. Claire,” the train chugged through a dusty desert only to pull up at a station framed by wide open spaces. Whenever Eleanor was sitting on those wooden benches inside the train, I half-expected Teddy to amble up to her and say “Howdy, ma’am.” (And speaking of HBO Westerns, true TV nerds will remember that Kristen Bell had »
- Maureen Ryan
Stephen Colbert Brings Back Conservative Alter Ego to Bid Farewell to Obama, Usher in Trump (Video)
1 hour ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
The real Stephen Colbert struggled to find a way to talk about the “scope of Barack Obama’s legacy” on Thursday night, hours before Donald Trump’s inauguration — so he turned to an old friend to help him out. Yep — that old “conservative gasbag” and “delusional egomaniac” Stephen Colbert was back for one night only to usher in the dawn of a new political era. Claiming to be reporting in by satellite to CBS’s “Late Show” from his cabin getaway in the “Mountains of Justice” (which he shares with Jon Stewart), the Comedy Central Colbert suddenly and miraculously appeared in the studio — armed with. »
- Debbie Emery
Sundance Film Review: ‘An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power’
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
It might be the understatement of the millennium to say that Donald Trump is not about to do the issue of climate change (or those who care about it) any great favors. Yet Trump’s ascendance could wind up doing a very big favor for “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,” Al Gore’s winning and impassioned, stirring and proudly wonkish follow-up to “An Inconvenient Truth.” If Hillary Clinton were about to be inaugurated as president, then “An Inconvenient Sequel” would still be highly worth seeing, but the movie, which premiered tonight at Sundance to a justly enthusiastic audience, has now been given the kind of shot in the arm that only a seething enemy can provide.
A decade ago, when “An Inconvenient Truth” made its own splash at Sundance (and was picked up by Paramount, a deal that proved instrumental in turning it into a phenomenon), the film »
- Owen Gleiberman
'An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power': Film Review | Sundance 2017
2 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
There are two things wrong with the title of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk's follow-up to the 2006 Al Gore climate-change doc. One, the moniker's silly first half lacks the original's gravitas — though this fine film is a match for the first — and will inspire eye-rolling among the unconverted. More important, its second half suggests the doc will address a question that surely keeps Gore, and millions of people worldwide, up at night: What happens when the powerful — for instance, the man who will be America's president hours from this »
- John DeFore
Al Gore Takes Center Stage on Sundance’s Opening Night – and So Does Donald Trump
2 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Donald Trump was thousands of miles away getting ready for a big party, but his presence hung heavy over the Eccles Theatre on opening night of the Sundance Film Festival on Thursday evening in Park City, Utah. Sure, the man of the night was Al Gore, the former vice president turned climate-change crusader who was unveiling “An Inconvenient Truth: Truth to Power,” the sequel to Davis Guggenheim’s 2006 Oscar-winning film about Gore’s crusade, “An Inconvenient Truth.” The new film, directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, is focused on the efforts Gore has made in the last decade »
- Steve Pond
NBC Gives Pilot Order to Military Hero Drama ‘For God and Country’
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NBC has ordered a pilot for the drama “For God and Country,” Variety has learned.
The drama is described as “a heart-pounding look” into the complex world of the bravest military heroes who make personal sacrifices, while executing challenging and dangerous missions behind enemy lines.
The project hails from Keshet, which is partnering with Universal Television to produce the pilot. Keshet CEO Avi Nir will serve as executive producer on the drama, along with Peter Traugott, Rachel Kaplan and “Tomb Raider” screenwriter Dean Georgaris, who is penning the pilot.
The pickup marks the second pilot to be ordered at NBC, following the drama “Good Girls” from Shondaland alum Jenna Bans. The network still has yet to pickup a comedy pilot, though pilot season is still in the very early stages of ramping up. Earlier today, ABC picked up two drama pilots. So far, ABC has ordered the most pilots for the 2017-2018 television season with a total »
- Elizabeth Wagmeister
NBC Orders Military Drama Pilot From ‘Homeland’ Producer
2 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
NBC has ordered a pilot for a new drama series executive produced by “Homeland” executive producer and Keshet Media Group CEO Avi Nir. The series, currently titled “For God and Country,” would explore the complex world of our military heroes who make personal sacrifices while executing the most challenging and dangerous missions behind enemy lines. It will be produced by Universal Television and Keshet. Nir will executive produce along with Keshet Studios head of scripted content Peter Traugott and executive vice president Rachel Kaplan. Also Read: Why 'Will & Grace' Is Returning: NBC Has Nearly 15 Million Reasons Dean Georgaris, the screenwriter of films such. »
- Joe Otterson
'Moonlight,' 'Love & Friendship' Lead London Critics' Circle Film Awards Nominations
2 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Outside of costume design, Love & Friendship may not be considered to be among the Academy Awards hopefuls. But Whit Stillman's period comedy has emerged as a leader of the pack for London Critics' Circle Film Awards, for which nominations were announced Tuesday.
The film tied with Moonlight — which is considered in the running for a few Oscars come February — with seven nominations and is up for film of the year as well as several acting honors.
Maren Ade's German comedy Toni Erdmann was close behind with six nominations, while La La Land, Manchester by the Sea and »
- Alex Ritman
Jim Gianopulos in Early Talks With Wanda for Legendary Post
3 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Former Fox Film chief Jim Gianopulos is in preliminary talks with China’s Dalian Wanda Group to run and expand its Legendary Pictures, according to two sources close to the executive.
The discussions with Wanda honcho Jack Gao, whom Gianopulos has known for years, are in the very early stages, the sources said. Many key issues have not even been discussed at this point, including Gianopulos’ compensation, an actual business plan, and how much Wanda is willing to invest in building Legendary into a full-fledged studio. Wanda has said in the past that it plans to invest billions of dollars into Hollywood assets.
Legendary is in search of a new leader to succeed Thomas Tull, who two days ago announced his departure as chairman and CEO from the company he founded in 2005, then sold it to Wanda last year for $3.5 billion. Legendary disclosed in a regulatory filing last May that »
- Dave McNary
‘Black-ish’ Spinoff in the Works at ABC
3 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
The Johnson family may soon be taking up more airtime on ABC.
The network is considering a spin-off of its hit comedy “Black-ish,” Variety has confirmed. The spin-off, which would star Yara Shahidi, would focus on her character, oldest daughter Zoey Johnson, in college. The spinoff, which is in very early stages, would be introduced as a backdoor pilot this spring. Sources stress that this is early development and nothing has been officially ordered yet.
The series is being developed by “Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris. For Barris, the development marks yet another project on the mega-producer’s resume. The “Black-ish” creator is looking toward a fruitful 2017-2018 television season, as he has two more hot projects in the works at ABC. Aside from this spinoff, he’s already nabbed an early pilot order for a new comedy, “Libby & Malcolm,” starring Felicity Huffman and Courtney B. Vance, plus has an action dramedy starring Toni Collete in contention at »
- Variety Staff
'Wayne's World' Returning to Cinemas for 25th Anniversary
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Wayne's World, the 1992 Saturday Night Live spinoff film starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey, will return to select cinemas on February 7th and 8th for 25th anniversary screenings. The wacky comedy will feature a pre-recorded, post-film roundtable discussion with director Penelope Spheeris, Rolling Stone movie critic Peter Travers and select cast members.
The Wayne's World 25 website offers a searchable theater guide for the screenings. Also marking the anniversary, Paramount Home Media Distribution will release a Wayne's World double feature via DVD and digital HD on February 14th, Pitchfork reports. The »
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