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‘Moonlight’ Shines At International Box Office As A24 Grows Offshore Biz Model
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Exclusive: As the overseas rollout of eight-time Oscar nominee Moonlight continues, it's proving to be a shining light at the international box office. With $3.6M to date, the $1.5M budgeted A24 drama is looking at a potential $40M worldwide with a split that could rise to 50-50 domestic vs foreign, a rare feat for a film with no major stars and a serious subject matter. This is the first picture produced by A24 which led international sales, selling out around the world… »
Peter Bart: Will Diversity Infusion Trip Up Highfalutin Frontrunners?
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Filling out my Academy ballot this week, I find myself indulging in an exercise in Oscar futility: re-living my list of Oscar "should-haves." Brokeback Mountain should have won over Crash in 2005, Apocalypse Now over Kramer Vs. Kramer in 1979 and Et over Gandhi in 1982. The Academy is, well, the Academy, but some 683 new members have been added to the rolls this year representing a wider swath of experience and taste. Will future lists of nominees and winners reflect this… »
Washington Post Assigns Storied Media Group To Broker Pic Deals
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Exclusive: The Washington Post has signed an exclusive deal with Storied Media Group to rep the newspaper and its trove of IP for feature films, TV and digital opportunities. It is the first time the paper has signed with an agency to rep its journalism in Hollywood. Smg will guide an emerging video strategy for the paper and will curate its daily stories and features, marketing them to studios, networks and producers. This comes as the Washington Post has been proving… »
‘The House’ Trailer: Will Ferrell & Amy Poehler Go All-In
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New Line Cinema has unveiled the trailer for its upcoming comedy The House starring Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler. It drops the same day as the Warner Bros label preps to launch its newest pic Fist Fight in theaters beginning tonight. In The House, directed and co-written by Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates and Neighbors scribe Andrew Jay Cohen, Ferrell and Poehler play parents who discover they can’t afford to send their daughter to the college she just got into, so a… »
‘Dean’ Trailer: Demetri Martin & Kevin Kline Deal With Death, Life & The Future
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“I want to stop talking about how I’m not grieving right.” Here is the first trailer for Dean, which scooped the top narrative award at Tribeca last year. Written, directed by and starring Demetri Martin, it follows a son and father as they come to terms with the recent loss of the family matriarch — in diametrically opposed fashion. Martin plays the title character, an illustrator whose unwillingness to deal with his mom’s death means escaping his hometown of New York… »
BAFTA Animated Winner ‘Kubo And The Two Strings’ Hoping To Finally Make It To The Oscar Stage For Laika (Watch)
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Exclusive: Focus Features and Laika’s great Oscar hope, Kubo And The Two Strings is coming off a high after a surprise win at BAFTA for Best Animated Feature. That is an award that has mirrored the eventual Oscar winner in the category in each of the past ten years with the exception of 2014 when BAFTA winner The Lego Movie was shockingly not even nominated . Kubo is also that very rare animated nominee for Best Special Visual Effects, a sign the Academy takes… »
YouTube Star Hannah Hart Inks Lionsgate Deal
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Hannah Hart, a YouTube star who has written books and produced and starred in the Lionsgate movie Dirty 30, has signed a first-look deal with the studio. Under the pact, she will star in and executive produce movies, with her first project in development an untitled Lgbtq romantic comedy. Hart is behind the YouTube series My Drunk Kitchen, and her books include My Drunk Kitchen: A Guide To Eating, Drinking, And Going With Your Gut (a New York Times bestseller) and Bufferin… »
‘Fist Fight’ Director Richie Keen To Direct New Line’s ‘Partners’
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Exclusive: Richie Keen, who made his feature film directorial debut with New Line Cinema’s Fist Fight which opens wide tomorrow, is sticking with the Warner Bros label for their next project. New Line has set him to direct Partners, its big action comedy. Evan Turner wrote the original screenplay, with Sam Pitman & Adam Cole-Kelly penning the most recent draft. The plot centers on an Lapd detective who falls for a beautiful woman after a one-night stand and then learns… »
Marjane Satrapi To Helm ‘Radioactive’ Marie Curie Story For Working Title & Studiocanal
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Exclusive: Oscar-nominated Persepolis director Marjane Satrapi is set to helm Radioactive, a Working Title production based on the 2010 graphic novel by Lauren Redniss, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout. Studiocanal is fully financing the picture, which is being adapted by hot scribe Jack Thorne. Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster are producing. Producers are out to cast the three major roles of the Curies and Paul Langevin, once a… »
Bond/360 Picks Up Chang-Yong Moon’s Doc ‘Becoming Who I Was’ — Berlin
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Bond/360 has picked up U.S. and Canadian rights to Chang-Yong Moon's documentary Becoming Who I Was out of Berlin. Bond/360 will premiere the doc in New York in the fall, followed by a nationwide release on its Karma Cinema label. A digital and DVD release is skedded for the year's end. The film follows Padma Angdu who, in a past life, was a venerated Buddhist master. His village treats him like a saint as a result while the village doctor, who has taken the boy under his… »
Amblin Wins Female Action Spec ‘Ruthless’ For Helmer Brad Peyton
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Exclusive: Amblin Partners just won an auction for Ruthless, a female-driven action spec script by John Swetnam that had producers and studios going all week. San Andreas helmer Brad Peyton is attached to direct, and Weimaraner Republic Pictures partners and The Shallows producers Matti Leshem and Lynn Harris are attached to produce along with Tripp Vinson and Jeff Fierson, who’s Peyton’s partner in Asap Entertainment. Vinson Films’ Tara Farney will be exec producer. The… »
Jared Leto To Direct James Ellroy Thriller ‘77’ For Paramount
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Jared Leto has signed on to direct Wolf Films’ period thriller 77 for Paramount Pictures. The film marks his feature-length scripted directorial debut. David Matthews (Narcos, Boardwalk Empire) writes from an original screenplay by L.A. Confidential author James Ellroy. Set in politically charged 1974 Los Angeles, the story revolves around two police officers who team up to recover kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst, while simultaneously investigating the brutal murder of a… »
‘La La Land’ Dp Linus Sandgren On The Challenges Of Capturing The Poetic La Musical In Long, Fluid Takes
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Undoubtedly, award-winning Swedish cinematographer Linus Sandgren has worked with the best. With a resume comprised of collaborations with David O. Russell (American Hustle, Joy) Lasse Hallström (The Hundred-Foot Journey) and other auteurs, Sandgren found an exciting energy in wunderkind writer/director Damien Chazelle that inspired him to shoot a musical. The recipient of a record-breaking seven Golden Globes, Chazelle’s La La Land also recently received 11 BAFTA… »
Michael Ironside & Arnold Vosloo Board ‘The Harrowing’; Carolyn Hennesy Joins Horror Indie ‘St. Agatha’
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Michael Ironside (Total Recall) and Arnold Vosloo (The Mummy) are joining Matthew Tompkins (Sicario) and John Hickman in The Harrowing, a horror film written and directed by Jon Keeyes. Said to be in the vein of genre films Jacobs Ladder and Angel Heart, the thriller follows Vice Detective Calhoun (Tompkins), who is accused of the ritualistic murder of his best friend. Bent on finding the truth, he is plunged into Hell when he goes undercover and discovers that demons… »
Universal Lands ‘City Of Saints & Thieves’; Will Packer, Kerry Washington Produce
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Exclusive: Universal Pictures has optioned City Of Saints & Thieves, the bestselling debut novel by Natalie C. Anderson. Will Packer's Will Packer Productions and Kerry Washington's Simpson Street production company are in negotiations to produce. James Lopez, Packer’s Head of Motion Pictures, will also produce. They are moving quickly on this project: Melina Matsoukas, exec producer and director of the HBO series Insecure is being sought as director. The protagonist is… »
Tom Brady Book & Movie Coming From ‘The Finest Hours’ Writing Team
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Exclusive: A new book and feature film project about Tom Brady, who has won more Super Bowls than any quarterback in NFL history, is on its way. Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson, the writers behind Disney’s The Finest Hours who were nominated for an Oscar for The Fighter, and New York Times bestselling author Casey Sherman are reteaming. Joining up with them is Boston journalist Dave Wedge, who was Sherman’s co-author on Boston Strong. Tamasy and Johnson used the book as part… »
‘The Raid’ Redux: Joe Carnahan & Frank Grillo To Reimagine Martial Arts Pic
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Joe Carnahan has come aboard to write and direct and Frank Grillo has been set to star in The Raid, a new take on the martial arts film franchise launched by Gareth Evans in 2012. It got a sequel in 2014. The pic will be produced by Carnahan and Grillo’s nascent production outfit WarParty and Xyz Films, the latter of which co-produced the originals with Pt Merantau Films. Evans will executive produce the new take. The Indonesian martial arts movie, which hit U.S. theaters… »
Oscars: Pete Hammond Handicaps The Best Actor And Best Supporting Actor Races
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The Best Actor Oscar category is, usually, impossibly crowded. In recent years we have seen contests where a couple of actors who very well might have won didn't even manage to get nominated. This year, for whatever reason, the field is not nearly as crowded as the Best Actress race, an odd switch of fortune. That is not to say there weren't a lot of great performances dotting the landscape for actors this year; it is just that fewer managed to break through. In the… »
Mel Gibson Closes ‘Daddy’s Home;’ First Studio Film, Sequel In A Long Time
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Update: Another trade has just picked up Deadline’s reporting that Mel Gibson is being courted by Warner Bros to direct the Suicide Squad sequel. If you’ve seen Gibson’s Apocalypto, it’s easy to see how he might add some inspiration to the DC collection of misfit superheroes. You can find the source of their information in the write-up below. It was written that way because it’s less than a sure thing. Exclusive: Deadline revealed last month that Mel Gibson and John Lithgo… »
‘xXx: Return Of Xander Cage’ China Box Office Muscles Past $100M In First 6 Days
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Vin Diesel is gunning for it in the Middle Kingdom. Fueled up after a $51.5 million start during its January 20 frame rollout elsewhere, xXx: Return Of Xander Cage has shot past $100M in China in just its first six days, hitting $102M through Wednesday. The Paramount Pictures and Revolution Studios title was at $170.3M through Tuesday in all other released markets with a worldwide total of $272.3M. The resurrection of the eponymous government operative, directed by DJ… »
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