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Shyamalan's 'Split' and Diesel's 'xXx 3' Look to Deliver $20+ Million Openings
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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>
Dwayne Johnson's DC Villain Black Adam Getting His Own Movie
21 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
Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Sequel Gets Summer Release Date
23 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“An Inconvenient Sequel,” Al Gore’s follow-up to his hit documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” has secured a wide release date the day of its Sundance debut.
The film will be released by Paramount on July 28. “An Inconvenient Sequel” will open against Sony’s “The Dark Tower” adaptation and Focus Features’ thriller “The Coldest City.”
The sequel, directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, comes 11 years after “An Inconvenient Truth.” It follows Gore as he continues his decades-long fight to build a more sustainable future for our planet.
“An Inconvenient Truth,” directed by Davis Guggenheim, premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and won two Oscars — best documentary feature and best original song. The film grossed $49.8 million worldwide.
Richard Berge and Diane Weyermann will produce, while Participant chairman Jeff Skoll, Guggenheim, Lawrence Bender, Laurie David, Scott Z. Burns, and Lesley Chilcott serve as executive producers.
Gore and Skoll will also appear on »
- Dave McNary
Berlin Festival Rounds Out Lineup With Stanley Tucci, Catherine Deneuve Titles
8 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
The Berlin International Film Festival on Friday finalized its competition lineup of films that will compete for this year's Gold and Silver Bears.
The competition title added is Hao ji le (Have a Nice Day) by Liu Jian (Piercing I). Out of competition slots went to ythe world premieres of Stanley Tucci and Catherine Deneuve titles. Final Portrait, directed by Stanley Tucci and starring Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Clemence Poesy, Tony Shalhoub, James Faulkner and Sylvie Testud, and Sage femme (Midwife) by Martin Provost (Violette), starring Catherine Frot, Catherine Deneuve and Olivier Gourmet. »
- Scott Roxborough,Georg Szalai
Stephen Gaghan to Write and Direct Video Game Adaptation ‘The Division’
19 January 2017 9:24 AM, PST | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
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
Jesse Plemons Joins Jason Bateman in New Line Comedy ‘Game Night’ (Exclusive)
18 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“Fargo” star Jesse Plemons is in negotiations to join Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams in the New Line comedy “Game Night.”
Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley — the directing duo behind the 2015 comedy “Vacation” — will helm the movie with Bateman producing alongside James Garavente for Aggregate Films. John Davis and John Fox will produce for Davis Entertainment. Goldstein and Daley also wrote the latest draft of the screenplay.
“Game Night” follows several couples who gather for their regularly-planned game night when something goes terribly wrong. Max Perez wrote the original draft.
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Production is expected to start sometime in the first quarter.
Following his Emmy-nominated role in “Fargo,” Plemons has now set his sights on building up his film career starting with his critically acclaimed role in the Sundance darling “Other People.”
Plemons has “The Discovery” premiering at this »
- Justin Kroll
Lucy Walker’s Buena Vista Social Club Documentary Pulled From Sundance
1 hour ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
The Sundance Film Festival announced Friday morning that filmmaker Lucy Walker’s “Untitled Buena Vista Social Club Documentary” would not premiere at the 2017 fest as previously announced. The Sundance Institute only learned that the film would not play late on Thursday.
“We at Broad Green are disappointed that we will not be able to premiere this compelling documentary at this year’s Sundance Film Festival,” Broad Green Pictures said in a statement. “The film’s post production process has taken longer than expected and thus the decision was made to wait to introduce the film to audiences until it can be presented in its best possible iteration.”
The film, which at one point carried the title “The Flowers of Life: Social Club Buena Vista,” revisited the Cuban band Buena Vista Social Club, also the subject of filmmaker Wim Wenders’ eponymous doc from 1999. Here’s the official synopsis released previously by »
- Graham Winfrey
Open Road Promotes Alexa Platt To CFO As Steven Andriuzzo Exits
1 hour ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Open Road Films has promoted Alexa Platt to Chief Financial Officer as Steven Andriuzzo leaves the company to pursue other opportunities. Platt is being promoted from Senior VP of Strategic Planning and Business Development, and will report directly to CEO Tom Ortenberg. The company will replace Platt in Strategic Planning shortly. Said Ortenberg: “Alexa is a top-notch strategist with the relationships, savvy and discipline to navigate complicated fast-paced business… »
‘Split’ Scares In Solid $2M; ‘Xander Cage’ Takes $1.2M In Previews – Friday Am Box Office
1 hour ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
M. Night Shyamalan’s Split is off to an incredibly strong start, grabbing $2M in Thursday night previews in 2,295 theaters. Paramount Pictures/Revolution Studios’ xXx: Return of Xander Cage just logged in with $1.2M in 2,536 locales. It’s been a long time coming for fans of the xXx franchise — the last film in bowed in 2005 and did not star Diesel. This brings the actor back to the franchise after 14 years. One of xXx‘s comps is the 2012 film Looper which grossed $6.8M on… »
Rooney Mara-Ben Mendelsohn Pic ‘Una’ Lands At Swen As Company Launches U.S. Arm
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Exclusive: Swen, already an established distributor in Latin America, is launching its U.S. arm in a big way, snagging rights to Una, the drama that stars Rooney Mara, Ben Mendelsohn and Riz Ahmed based on David Harrower’s provocative Olivier-winning play Blackbird. As part of the deal, Swen has partnered with Eammon Films to handle the theatrical release and Vision Films to distribute ancillary platforms, marking the first in a slate of planned theatrical releases for… »
Kumail Nanjiani on Creating Sundance’s Buzziest Comedy ‘The Big Sick
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Kumail Nanjiani, the Pakistani-American comic best know for “Silicon Vally,” revisits one of the most painful chapters of his personal life in “The Big Sick.” The comedy has its premiere Friday night at Sundance, and sight unseen, the buzz is so loud that it is expected to inspire one of the biggest bidding wars of the festival.
“The Big Sick” was written by Nanjiani and his wife, Emily V. Gordon. It recounts their romance and the challenges it faced when Gordon suffered a medical crisis. It also deals with the cultural differences between the pair, as Nanjiani’s conservative Muslim family expected him to enter into an arranged marriage.
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Nanjiani was mentored throughout the process by Judd Apatow, the “Knocked Up” director who produces alongside Barry Mendel. It marks his first leading role, one that forced the standup comic to take acting classes. »
- Brent Lang
‘Stephen Colbert’ From ‘The Colbert Report’ Says Goodbye To Barack Obama
2 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Last night on “The Late Show,” host Stephen Colbert brought out a very special guest to say goodbye to President Barack Obama on his last full day in office: his old persona “Stephen Colbert” from his previous Comedy Central show “The Colbert Report.” Residing in the Mountains of Justice, Colbert informed the Late Show host that he was not, in fact, his old persona but rather his twin (for the benefit of the lawyers), but soon he jumped behind the desk, complete with sword and shield, to bring us another edition of his famous segment The Word (on CBS, it’s The Werd). Watch the video below.
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In the segment, Colbert admitted that Obama made a few good choices — expanding the drone program, spying on American citizens, never »
- Vikram Murthi
‘House Of Cards’ Drops Inauguration Day Teaser For Season 5
2 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Who would’ve thought the White House would be occupied by someone more oily than Francis Underwood? As America prepares for a Trump presidency, Netflix is using Inauguration Day to remind everyone that “House Of Cards” is returning.
Season five will be the first without longtime showrunner Beau Willimon, so it’ll be interesting to see if the tone of the show leans more toward its button pushing, pulpy tendencies or steers into more political intrigue.
Continue reading ‘House Of Cards’ Drops Inauguration Day Teaser For Season 5 at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
‘Pop Aye’ Is An Engaging, Charming Road Trip With A Man And His Elephant [Sundance Review]
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When Thana (Thaneth Warakulnukroh) suddenly decides to walk with an elephant through the countryside to his childhood home, nobody seems to notice, or much care. His wife Bo (Penpak Sirikul) is frankly glad he’s out of the house, while the younger staff at the office mostly just want to know where his files are. Writer/director Kirsten Tan doesn’t fuss or overexplain these details, and quickly gets to what everyone wants to see: a man and his elephant on an unlikely journey.
Continue reading ‘Pop Aye’ Is An Engaging, Charming Road Trip With A Man And His Elephant [Sundance Review] at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Huahua, Shanghai Film Co Deal With Paramount Expands China-Hollywood Axis
2 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The names of China’s Huahua Media and Shanghai Film Co. are set to become far more visible to film-goers worldwide. Their names and logos will be seen on substantially all of the movies flowing from Paramount Pictures – underlining the growing prominence and permanence of the Chinese position in Hollywood.
After several years of testing each other out the China-Hollywood relationship, Chinese companies began seeking ownership positions in indie studios (Stx and Studio 8) and equity stakes in individual movies. Increasingly now they are becoming slate financiers.
That is exactly the progression at Huahua and Sfc. Until recently Huahua had been content to invest on a case by case basis in the Hollywood films that it calculated to be the likeliest blockbusters in China. Partially state-owned, Shanghai Film Co. has been allied with Disney on a handful of pictures.
So the $1 billion pact announced this week by Paramount, Huahua and Sfc »
- Patrick Frater
‘Dina’: Sundance Documentary From ‘Mala Mala’ Team Follows Unfolding Romance Between Two Unique People — Watch
2 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Documentarian Dan Sickles’ road to his new documentary, the Sundance premiere “Dina,” was a strange one. While he and co-director Antonio Santini were completing their first film together, “Mala Mala,” both of Sickles’ parents passed away. In order for the pair to juggle both the editing of the film and Sickles’ new familial responsibilities, they picked up and moved — plus editor Sofia Subercaseaux — to suburban Philadelphia, the home of the Sickles’ family.
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Sickles’ father had been a friend and a mentor to Dina since he taught her at the local high school, eventually helping to co-found the Abington Aktion Club, a social/community service organization for developmentally disabled adults, of which Dina is a long-time and dedicated member. Sickles had known Dina his entire life, and was pleased to introduce her to Santini and Subercaseaux. While the group was »
- Kate Erbland
‘The Little Hours’ With Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie & More Is Like A Laid-Back, Stretched-Out Monty Python Sketch [Sundance Review]
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It’s clear what kind of comedy “The Little Hours” is going to be in its first five minutes, when a mid-14th century Italian nun named Fernanda (played by Aubrey Plaza) returns to her convent from a long trek through the woods with the community’s donkey. A fellow nun, Genevra (Kate Micucci), peppers her with questions: Where’s she been? Why’s the donkey with her? Why is she wearing her black habit instead of her white habit?
Continue reading ‘The Little Hours’ With Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie & More Is Like A Laid-Back, Stretched-Out Monty Python Sketch [Sundance Review] at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Berlinale Adds New Films Starring Catherine Deneuve, Geoffrey Rush
2 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
New films from Stanley Tucci, Martin Provost and China’s Liu Jian complete the Berlinale’s competition lineup and will see their world premieres at the next month’s festival.
Only Liu’s film, the animated “Have a Nice Day,” will actually compete for the Golden Bear. “Final Portrait” (pictured), Tucci’s biopic of Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti with actor Geoffrey Rush, and “Midwife,” starring Catherine Frot and Catherine Deneuve, are part of the official competition section but will not actually vie for the main awards.
In all, the competition lineup features 24 films, all but two of which will have their world premieres at the festival and 18 of which will compete for the prestigious Golden and Silver Bears.
The festival also announced the Berlinale Special, which will once again present a selection of television series as part of the official program. It marks the third time TV programming has featured at Berlin, »
- Robert Mitchell
‘Wind River’ Partners Riverstone Pictures & Thunder Road Make Overall Deal – Sundance
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Exclusive: As their first collaboration Wind River premieres at the Sundance Film Festival tomorrow, Riverstone Pictures and Basil Iwanyk's Thunder Road Pictures have made a multi-year financing, production and development deal to generate an annual output of three to five films. In the two-year pact, Riverstone will fully fund Thunder Road-developed films and provide a seven-figure development fund. Riverstone Pictures is the Reliance Entertainment company founded by Deep… »
Film Review: ‘Parents’
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A “be careful what you wish for” tale, “Parents” recalls Charlie McDowell and Justin Lader’s “The One I Love” in its similarly matter-of-fact yet fantastical portrait of a couple trying to revive their stagnant marriage. Danish thesp-turned-writer/director Christian Tafdrup’s first feature eventually enters darker terrain than that U.S. indie comedy, with not entirely satisfying, yet consistently intriguing, results. An odder, twistier spin on “suddenly young again” comedies — this is no “Freaky Friday” — “Parents” looks likely to get just spotty exposure beyond the festival circuit, but its strong premise could invite remakes custom-tooled to fit different cultures’ takes on aging.
Pleasant, unremarkable suburbanites Vibeke (Bodil Jorgensen) and Kjeld (Soren Malling) are still working, if nearing retirement. When their blandly self-absorbed only-child Esben (Anton Honik) moves into his own place, he promptly loses all interest in mom and dad, who suffer classic empty-nest syndrome; Vibeke, especially, feels depressed and useless. »
- Dennis Harvey
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