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Sony Pictures Sued by 'Wild Oats' Financier
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Sony is being sued by one of the financiers of Wild Oats for failing to timely pay nearly $1 million, according to a complaint filed Wednesday in California federal court.
Impex Enterprises, a Bahamas-based financier on the film, is suing Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions for breach of contract.
According to the complaint, Sony was due to pay Impex $855,000 no later than ten days after the U.S. theatrical release. Wild Oats opened on Sept. 16, triggering a payment due by the end of that month. Impex also says Sony owes it an additional $95,000 payment, which was due at the same time. »
- Ashley Cullins
Twentieth Century Fox Promotes Emma Watts to Vice Chairman
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Longtime Fox executive Emma Watts has been named vice chairman of 20th Century Fox Film.
She'll also retain her title as president of production.
Watts’ promotion had been widely expected. She has a strong bond with 21st Century Fox chiefs James and Lachlan Murdoch, who installed Stacey Snider as the film studio’s chairman last year. Watts' elevation solidifies her standing in the new regime.
Watts will now oversee a restructured group that brings together all of the studio's filmmaking assets, adding physical production, postproduction, visual effects and music to her ongoing leadership of the studio’s production, story, creative affairs and »
- Borys Kit
‘Django’: Film Review | Berlin 2017
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The legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt remains one of the great jazzmen to emerge from Europe in the 20th century, recording hundreds of memorable tracks during his lifetime, playing with the likes of Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Coleman Hawkins, and influencing countless artists in the decades that followed his untimely death from a stroke at the age of 43. His music has also graced the soundtracks of dozens of movies, including a swath of Woody Allen films (Sweet and Lowdown is a playful hommage to him) and anything ranging from Lacombe Lucien to The Matrix.
But there’s much »
- Jordan Mintzer
'Logan' Clip Shows Wolverine in Unexpected Role: Bored, Sleepy Chauffeur
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Another teaser for next month's Logan has been released by 20th Century Fox, and if it's anything to go by, perhaps fans were too hasty in expecting the movie to be an emotional journey through a postapocalyptic landscape …
The clip, titled "Sunseeker," shows Logan (Hugh Jackman) as a bored, sleepy chauffeur to a number of different passengers unimpressed by having the most popular member of the X-Men driving them about, while a voiceover plays a message left by Logan (using his birth name, James Howlett) calling a "Mr. Esperanza," asking if he'd be willing to sell a yacht for »
- Graeme McMillan
Debra Messing Recalls 'Walk in the Clouds' Director Pressuring Her to Do Naked Sex Scene, Mocking Her Nose
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Debra Messing recently recalled being allegedly belittled and insulted by a director on the set of her first movie, 1995's A Walk in the Clouds.
Speaking at the 2017 Makers conference earlier this week, Messing said she had been told there would be no nude scenes in the film she starred opposite Keanu Reeves. But once she got on set, she heard that there would be one, and she spoke with director Alfonso Arau about it.
Messing said Arau was angered by her questioning his decision and alleges he told her, "Your job is to get naked and »
- THR Staff
Berlin: Lionsgate Takes U.S. Rights to Keanu Reeves NASCAR Movie 'Rally Car'
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On the first day of the Berlin Film Market, Lionsgate has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Keanu Reeves starrer Rally Car. The movie, which will be directed by Olivier Megaton (Taken 2, Taken 3, Colombiana) from a script by Jeremy Lott based on a treatment by Stephen Hamel, stars Reeves as an American NASCAR driver.
Rally Car will be produced by Hamel and Reeves of Company Films and Mark Gao and Gregory Ouanhon of Fundamental Films. Gary Glushon will executive produce.
The film tells the story of a self-centered American NASCAR driver who revitalizes his career by entering an international »
- Rebecca Ford
Berlin: Jai Courtney Joins Thomas Mann in 'Beef' (Exclusive)
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Suicide Squad star Jai Courtney has signed on to Beef, starring Timothy Olyphant and Thomas Mann.
Beef follows a general manager (Mann) at a Midwestern branch of fast food restaurant Beefy’s who makes a $10,000 bet that was supposed to be a sure thing. When he loses, it puts him in the crosshairs of a comically brutal crime syndicate, led by Brian Gill (Olyphant) and his second in command, Dipper (Courtney), leaving him just 24 hours to outwit a rogue's gallery of thugs. He decides his only way out is to rob the place he knows best: Beefy’s. But of »
- Rebecca Ford
Berlin: Mike Myers to Star in Film as Comedy Coach Del Close (Exclusive)
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In a new film called Del, Mike Myers will portray one of his own mentors, Del Close, an early influencer of improv comedy who also was known for training many notable comic actors.
Betty Thomas (Private Parts, 28 Days) will direct the comedy, in which Myers plays the legendary teacher notorious for pushing his students to their limit. Close takes an aspiring comedian under his wing, and the relationship, which is first disastrous, eventually transforms each of them.
in the 1970s, Close coached many aspiring comedians at the Chicago improv powerhouse Second City, and in the early 1980s he served »
- Rebecca Ford
'Birdman,' 'The Revenant' Headed to Amazon's Prime Video in New Regency Streaming Deal
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Amazon's Prime Video is adding several prestigious movies to its streaming library.
The e-commerce giant has struck a multiyear, international licensing agreement for the entire film library from New Regency, including such Academy Award winners as The Revenant, Birdman and 12 Years a Slave. New Regency has a library of more than 130 films, including Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and L.A. Confidential, which will become available to Prime members next year.
"Amazon is known for offering high-quality content on Prime Video, and we are delighted to work with them to bring New Regency's prestigious library of films to new audiences around »
- Natalie Jarvey
'Fifty Shades Darker': What the Critics Are Saying
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The reviews for the sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey are in.
Directed by veteran director but franchise newcomer James Foley, Fifty Shades Darker features Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan reprising their roles as Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey. Marcia Gay Harden also returns as Christian's adoptive mother, as does Rita Ora, as Christian's sister, while Kim Basinger joins the cast as Elena Lincoln, Christian's business partner and former lover.
The movie — adapted from the second book in El James' best-selling Bdsm trilogy — isn't exactly connecting with critics, with only a 9 percent fresh rating on <a »
- Kara Haar
Ryan Gosling Signs With CAA
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Ryan Gosling has signed with CAA, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The La La Land star, an Oscar nominee for best actor, had been without an agent since his rep Ilene Feldman shuttered her Ifa Talent to become a manager at Lbi in 2013. He continues to be managed by Feldman, as well as by Carolyn Govers at Anonymous Content.
Gosling, also an Oscar best actor nominee in 2006 for Half Nelson, next stars in Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049. He will reunite with La La Land director Damien Chazelle in First Man, playing astronaut Neil Armstrong.
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- Rebecca Sun
Ruth Negga to Be Honored at the Oscar Wilde Awards (Exclusive)
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First, Ruth Negga was nominated for a best actress Oscar. Now, the Loving star is getting an Oscar Wilde Award.
The Irish-Ethiopian actress will be honored Feb. 23 at the 12th annual Oscar Wilde Awards, the casual shindig that takes place three days before the Academy Awards at J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot production company in Santa Monica.
The filmmaker also emcees the event, and it was just announced that Chris Pine and Catherine O'Hara will serve as presenters.
Also being feted this year: Zachary Quinto, Martin Short, Outlander star Caitriona Balfe and Oscar-winning singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, who will perform as »
- Mike Barnes
Berlin: Blake Jenner, Barry Keoghan, Jared Abrahamson Join 'American Animals'
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Blake Jenner, Barry Keoghan, Jared Abrahamson, Ann Dowd and Udo Kier have joined Bart Layton's heist crime-drama American Animals. The group joins Evan Peters, who was previously announced to star.
The story is based on the true story of four men who under the delusion that they are characters in a movie, commit one of the boldest heists in American history.
The film is co-financed by AI Film and Film4, while Layton's production company Raw is producing. Sierra/Affinity is in charge of international sales at the Berlin Film Festival this week.
Layton, who wrote and will direct the film, is most well known for 2012 »
- Katherine Sanderson
Lee Daniels, Jessica Chastain, Zhang Yimou Set for Lmu Filmmaker Interview Series
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Empire creator Lee Daniels, Jessica Chastain and director Zhang Yimou are set to take part in the seventh installment of the Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television's interview series The Hollywood Masters, which again will be moderated by The Hollywood Reporter's Stephen Galloway.
Roger Corman, who has produced more than 400 films, including Death Race and Little Shop of Horrors, and Sherry Lansing, the former chairman of Paramount Pictures and producer of Fatal Attraction, also will take part in the series this season.
Lansing also is the subject of Galloway’s new biography, Leading Lady, due out April 25. This will »
- THR Staff
Oscars: Why 'La La Land' and 'Hidden Figures' Could Benefit From Trump
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Hollywood movies often seem to exist in a netherworld, removed from the political goings-on of the day and the great social and economic forces roiling the nation.
Unlike television, whose lower budgets and relatively quick production schedules allow it to respond on a dime to contemporary events, film lumbers like a locomotive, traveling vast distances from conception to completion, only slowly gathering steam and hardly ever shifting course. The fevered subjects that make a writer's blood boil and lead to issue-driven scripts hardly ever are the ones that hold sway when those scripts reach the finish line in theaters. »
- Stephen Galloway
Berlin: 'Toni Erdmann' Producer, Director Will Not Work on Remake
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Toni Erdmann director Maren Ade and the film's producers have distanced themselves from reports of an upcoming U.S. remake of the Oscar-nominated German hit.
Komplizen Film, the Berlin-based company that produced the original film, said they "were in negotiations" over a possible remake of Toni Erdmann but that no deal had been signed. Furthermore, the company said in a German statement (translated by THR), “if there is ever a remake of Toni Erdmann, neither Maren Ade nor Komplizen Film will play an active role (in the new movie).”
That appears to contradict media reports from earlier this »
- Scott Roxborough
Box-Office Preview: 'Lego Batman' Set to Slay 'Fifty Shades Darker'
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Holy sweetheart, Batman!
In a sequel showdown, director Chris McKay's The Lego Batman Movie is widely expected to rule the pre-Valentine's Day box office when opening Friday opposite Fifty Shades Darker and John Wick 2.
Tracking suggests Lego Batman will take in north of $60 million for Warner Bros. Animation and producer Dan Lin. More bullish box-office observers believe the spin-off will even approach or clear $70 million, considering The Lego Movie, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, debuted to $69.1 million over the Feb. 7-9 weekend in 2014.
In Lego Batman, Will Arnett voices the role »
- Pamela McClintock
Berlin: 'Django' Director Says Film Has "Parallels" With Refugee Crisis, Trump Travel Ban
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While the Berlinale opening film, a biopic of famed jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, might not sound like something with any overtly political tones, its director said Thursday that there are strong connections between the story and some of the most contentious topics in the current political debate.
Those include the refugee crisis and U.S. President Donald Trump's travel ban.
"There are a number of parallels with our contemporary period," said Etienne Comar, who is making his feature debut with Django, chronicling the life of Reinhardt as a gypsy musician during the Nazi occupation of France.
"I wanted to show a »
- Alex Ritman
Berlin: Beta Film Takes Stake in Tom Tykwer's X Filme
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German sales and production group Beta Film (Babylon Berlin) will take a strategic stake in X Filme, the German production and distribution company behind Run Lola Run, Cloud Atlas and Good Bye Lenin!
X Filme, founded in 1994 by producer Stefan Arndt and directors Tom Tykwer, Wolfgang Becker and Dani Levy, will be restructured to merge all production, distribution and sales operations under a single entity, X Filme Holding. Beta will become a strategic partner in X Filme Holding.
Beta teamed with X Filme on Tom Tykwer's upcoming TV series Babylon Berlin, with Beta co-financing and handling international sales on »
- Scott Roxborough
'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' Showrunner on Fabled Season 8 and the Show's Hidden History
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Deep Space Nine is getting a next act.
The Star Trek series, which ran for seven seasons from 1993-99, broke ground for the franchise by featuring morally ambiguous characters, dark themes and serialized storytelling, with its Dominion War spanning years. The show ultimately concluded with its leading man, Captain Sisko (Avery Brooks) leaving his quadrant of the galaxy all together to fulfill his destiny as a prophet. There would be no movie to continue his crew's adventures, like Kirk or Picard's officers before them.
But not long ago, members of DS9 writer's room reunited to tell the story of what would come next — »
- Aaron Couch
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