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Mike Myers to Play Improv Godfather Del Close
4 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Mike Myers has signed on to play legendary comedy coach Del Close in the movie “Del,” Covert Media announced Thursday. In the film, being directed by Betty Thomas (“28 Days”), an aspiring young comedian comes to Del for tutelage in the art of laughter, but soon finds that his infamous reputation for driving his students up the wall is well earned. Despite a disastrous start to their relationship, they soon a lot about their craft through each other. Also Read: 'Thank You Del' Stars Reflect on Their Demanding Comedy Mentor (Video) “Mike Myers is a comedy genius and the perfect actor to. »
- Jeremy Fuster
Berlin: Lionsgate Takes U.S. Rights to Keanu Reeves NASCAR Movie 'Rally Car'
4 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
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
Star Wars: ‘Fleabag’ Star Eyed for Key Role in ‘Han Solo’ Spinoff (Exclusive)
22 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Following her critically acclaimed turn in the Amazon series “Fleabag,” actress Pheobe Waller-Bridge is in talks for a key role in the upcoming “Star Wars” Han Solo spinoff starring Alden Ehrenreich.
The role would be a CGI-driven performance from Waller-Bridge but would still be a significant part of the ensemble, similarly to key Star Wars characters in the past like Chewbacca, C-3P0 and most recently, Alan Tudyk’s K-2So in “Rogue One.”
Donald Glover, Woody Harrelson and Emilia Clarke co-star star in the Disney-Lucasfilm film, with Phil Lord and Chris Miller directing.
The untitled Han Solo pic is set prior to “Star Wars: A New Hope,” like the other “Star Wars” standalone project, “Rogue One.”
Kathleen Kennedy and Allison Shearmur will produce with production slated to begin in January. The movie hits theaters on May 25, 2018.
The first “Star Wars Story,” “Rogue One,” has set the bar high. »
- Justin Kroll
Kerry Washington to Star in Movie Drama ‘The Perfect Mother’
23 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Kerry Washington is in final talks to star in and produce the movie drama “The Perfect Mother” for Sony’s TriStar division.
The studio has preemptively acquired movie rights to Aimee Molloy’s debut novel, which recently sold in a huge deal to HarperCollins for more than $1 million. Amy Pascal is also producing with Rachel O’Connor.
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Washington is expected to star and produce under her Simpson Street production banner. Hannah Minghella will oversee the project with Nicole Brown.
The story centers on members of a mommy-and-me group swinging into action to investigate the kidnapping of one of their babies — but things aren’t exactly what they seem. Through the process of discovering the truth, damaging secrets are revealed, marriages are tested, and friendships are created and destroyed.
Washington is in »
- Dave McNary
Lena Headey Joins Dwayne Johnson In ‘Fighting With My Family
23 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Game of Thrones‘ star Lena Headey will join Dwayne Johnson in Fighting With My Family. The comedy-drama is set to be written and directed by Stephen Merchant (The Office) and is based on the true story of WWE star Paige and her family of professional wrestlers. Pic is produced by Seven Bucks Productions, which he co-founded with Dany Garcia, is teaming with Misher Films, WWE Studios and Film4. Johnson just noted the news on his Twitter feed. Merchant will write, direct… »
Prevenge review – magnificently murderous mum-to-be
24 minutes ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Alice Lowe directs and stars in this cracking tale of a pregnant woman who turns killer on the instructions of her unborn child
Alice Lowe makes a cracking directorial debut with this macabre, grittily low-budget and explicitly violent movie about a murderous pregnancy. It is a little like Sightseers, the black comedy she co-wrote and acted in for Ben Wheatley – but with fainter tint of queasy humour. It reminded me more of John McNaughton’s Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, or indeed the “impregnation” scene from Ridley Scott’s Alien.
Prevenge provides a nightmarish satirical twist on post- and antenatal depression. On first seeing this film in Venice last year, maybe addled by lagoon vapours or the disorientating horror of the film itself, I aired my own bizarre theory that the title was a riff on pre-emptive revenge: prevenge, pretaliation etc. It was gently pointed out to me that »
- Peter Bradshaw
20th Century Women review – tiresomely smug coming-of-age yarn
39 minutes ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Annette Bening gives a fine central performance but this kooky comedy suffers badly from unfocused direction and an unmistakable air of self-indulgence
With tender, personal movies such as Thumbsucker (2005) and Beginners (2010), director Mike Mills has tested taboos and shed light on family, identity and masculinity. His quirkily intimate work has always needed a certain level of indulgence and in the past I’ve been happy to give it. But 20th Century Women tests this tolerance to breaking point. Annette Bening is well cast, and gives a well judged performance, a variation on her uptight and self-questioning mom from American Beauty. However, the film is exasperatingly supercilious and smug – unfocused, self-consciously cute, nostalgic and empathetic, but never properly funny. It feels like someone else’s long therapy session.
The setting is Santa Monica, 1979, and Dorothea (Bening) is a fiftysomething single mother with bold progressive instincts. She is bringing up her teenage »
- Peter Bradshaw
‘Aladdin’ Remake Producer Promises to Not Whitewash the Cast
39 minutes ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
The internet has given millions of people a platform to complain about things that don’t matter in the entertainment world, but it has also given millions of people a platform to complain about things that really, really matter and should be carefully considered by everyone working in a creative field. The subject of Hollywood whitewashing, […]
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- Jacob Hall
‘The Son’: Pierce Brosnan Is Ready for War in New Teaser for the AMC Drama–Watch
41 minutes ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Father. Rancher. Oilman. Killer. The story of Eli McCullough and his quest to build a dynasty is sure to be a bloody one as shown by the brand new trailer to AMC’s “The Son.”
Read More: AMC Releases First Trailer for ‘The Son’
“Their fortune is forged in blood,” boasts the trailer to the epic Western series. Set in the Texas frontier, the action-heavy trailer depicts Pierce Brosnan as Eli McCullough, the patriarch of the McCullough dynasty (which was forged in the aforementioned blood), and his journey from innocent man to hardened killer, in his quest for power. As revealed by the many explosions, gunfire, and one possible scalping (can’t have a western with at least One scalping), the 10-episode hour-long drama aims to deliver on that tagline.
Starring alongside Brosnan are Jacob Lofland (“Justified), Henry Garrett (“Beauty and the Beast”), Paola Nunez, Carlos Bardem, Zahn McClarnon (“Fargo”), Jess Weixler, »
- Juan Diaz
‘Timeless’ Star Matt Lanter Joins ‘Pitch Perfect 3’ (Exclusive)
45 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Matt Lanter, one of the breakout stars of the new NBC drama “Timeless,” has joined the cast of Universal’s “Pitch Perfect 3.”
Trish Sie is taking over directing duties from Elizabeth Banks, who helmed “Pitch Perfect 2.” Banks will reprise her role as Gail — a commentator for the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella — and remain a producer, along with Max Handelman of Brownstone Productions and Paul Brooks of Gold Circle Entertainment.
Kay Cannon wrote the screenplay, with additional drafts from Mike White and Dana Fox.
Plot details and a description of Lanter’s character have yet to be unveiled.
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The film will hit theaters on Dec. 22. Vice President of Production Sara Scott will oversee the project for Universal.
Jason Moore directed the original film and helped launch the franchise when the movie, which cost $15 million to produce, went on »
- Justin Kroll
Viacom CEO Supports Paramount And Non-Core Networks – But For How Long?
1 hour ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
It’s a truism in business that planning is easy, but execution is hard. That’s the reality Viacom CEO Bob Bakish faces following the rollout this morning of his sweeping vision to focus the entertainment giant around six TV brands and tie them more closely to the Paramount studio, for example with co-productions. Perhaps the hardest, and most immediate, challenge is reviving the movie studio, which lost $445 million in the fiscal year that ended in September. “The overall… »
Berlin Film Festival Opens With ‘Django’ & Plenty Of Political Statements
1 hour ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Update with details of the opening-night ceremony: The Berlin Film Festival kicked off tonight with the world premiere screening of Django, French director Etienne Comar’s movie about guitarist and composer Django Reinhardt and his flight from Nazi-occupied Paris in 1943. It is a movie that is fitting for Berlin, a traditionally political-tinged festival. That was evident in the red carpet arrivals leading up to the screening at the Berlinale Palast in Potsdamer Platz… »
‘From Nowhere’ Exclusive Clip: 3 Undocumented Students Battle the Fear of Deportation — Watch
1 hour ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
After it bowed at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival, director Matthew Newton’s (“Three Blind Mice”) latest feature “From Nowhere” took home the Audience Award in the Narrative Spotlight section, and now the festival winner is due for its theatrical release.
The film will arrive in theaters on February 17 in both New York City (at the Village East) and in Los Angeles (at the Laemmle Music Hall). Its timing couldn’t be more appropriate, as the film reflects the fear of deportation that many people now have regarding the stance our current administration has on immigration.
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Set in The Bronx, the film centers around 3 undocumented teenagers on the brink of their high school graduation. Desperately wanting to live a life similar to their American classmates, Moussa (J. Mallory McCree), an African Muslim; Sophie (Octavia Chavez-Richmond), a troubled teen »
- Kerry Levielle
Berlinale: Tussle Over Unified Digital Market in Europe May Be Coming to a Head
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The final countdown appears to have begun.
For nearly two years, the industry in Hollywood and Europe has sparred with the European Commission over proposals for a single digital market across the continent, which industry execs say would destroy the territorial film and TV licensing system that forms the backbone of their business. Now, the commission’s centerpiece proposal – an overhaul of copyright laws that would allow broadcasters to offer online services outside their country of origin – sits in the hands of the European Union’s Council of Ministers.
As the council considers the draft legislation, there is growing fear that the industry’s objections are being ignored. “Despite a totally united industry effort for many months, the concerns of the creative industries in Europe have not been heard or even taken into account,” said Martin Moszkowicz, at Germany’s Constantin, one of the country’s biggest film-tv companies.
The »
- John Hopewell
First Look at the New Jaegers in ‘Pacific Rim: Uprising’
1 hour ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
John Boyega recently offered our first look at Jake, who represents the next generation of badass kaiju-fighting Pentecosts. Naturally, he and the rest of this new wave of warriors will need some new tech to work with. So today, prepare to feast your eyes upon the next evolution in giant freakin’ robots. We’ve got a peek […]
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- Angie Han
The Space Between Us review – cosmically mawkish teen romance
1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
This tale of interplanetary young love falls apart upon take-off with a storyline that offers no surprises and fetishises its protagonist’s debilitating illness
Here is a love story that quickly turns into an insufferable display of sucrose interplanetary Ya ickiness with the most guessable final twist of all time. It features a near-future space travel plot with an awful lot of corporate promotional branding from Nasa – like Ridley Scott’s The Martian but without that movie’s occasional sense of humour. There’s a persistent emo-fetishisation of illness, in the person of a teen visitor from Mars and his romantic infirmity. But it’s not so much The Man Who Fell to Earth as The Fault in Our Stars. Asa Butterfield steps up to his first adult lead as Gardner, whose astronaut mom died giving birth to him 16 years ago, en route to Mars. Since then, he’s been »
- Peter Bradshaw
Taxi Driver review – Scorsese's sleaze is still the bee's knees
1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The rereleased 1976 shocker in which Robert De Niro roams night-time New York is fixed firmly in the past – but its visceral horror remains undimmed
Martin Scorsese’s 1976 neon-lit ordeal shocker Taxi Driver is back once again to deliver another punch to the solar plexus, with screenplay by Paul Schrader, superlative jazz score by Bernard Herrmann, cinematography by Michael Chapman – revived in UK cinemas as part of the Scorsese retrospective at London’s BFI Southbank. It was last rereleased here six years ago for its 35th anniversary and five years before that for the 30th.
It has become a critical tradition to muse on how much has changed in New York since Travis Bickle, unforgettably played by the livewire Robert De Niro, roamed the night-time streets in his checker cab. He’s the insomniac ex-marine, traumatised by Vietnam, so hardened he doesn’t mind going to scary rough places such as … Brooklyn. »
- Peter Bradshaw
“Drops of Jupiter,” Cancer and Blockbuster Video: Chris Kelly on Other People
1 hour ago | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
In the opening shot of Other People, a family gathers around the body of its matriarch seconds after she’s passed from cancer. This moment of grief – accompanied by no score, just sobbing — is punctured when the phone rings and a well wisher leaves a message that is interrupted when the caller pauses to place an order at Del Taco. It’s an appropriate introduction to the film – which is sometimes sad, sometimes funny, but always raw, truthful, and uncannily specific. That specificity comes from writer/director Chris Kelly’s own experiences during his mother’s final months, during which Kelly — […] »
- Matt Mulcahey
Berlinale: Italy’s True Colours Takes Sales on Brazil’s ‘Two Irenes’ (Exclusive)
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
One year after making it’s Efm debut, Italian sales company True Colours is venturing into non-Italian movies by taking global sales on Brazilian helmer Fabio Meira’s “Two Irenes,” which world premieres in the Berlin Film Festival’s Generation program.
True Colours was launched last year by prominent companies Indigo Film and Lucky Red to boost the Italian film and TV industries and put the country back on the global content market map. It’s now dipping its toes in international waters with this first feature set during a sweltering Brazilian summer during which a 13-year-old named Irene discovers that her father has another family, and even another daughter with the same name.
Other True Colours Efm market premieres include Italian hit comedy “It’s The Law!,” by popular Sicilian duo Ficarra & Picone, that currently tops Italy’s box office chart, having grossed more than $9 million in four »
- Nick Vivarelli
‘Mary Shelley’ First Look: Elle Fanning Makes Her Debut as the ‘Frankenstein’ Author
1 hour ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Elle Fanning has been commanding attention with films like “The Neon Demon,” “20th Century Women” and “The Beguiled” (which debuted its first trailer this week). Now, the 18-year-old is taking center stage in the biopic “Mary Shelley,” about the esteemed “Frankenstein” author.
The Hollywood Reporter shared the first photo from the upcoming film directed by Saudi filmmaker Haifaa al-Mansour. The image shows the actress sitting in a graveyard next to her mother Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin’s tombstone, with a book and pencil in hand. See the image here.
Previously titled “Storm in the Stars,” the drama follows the author’s early relationship with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and the work of writing her masterpiece. It also co-stars Douglas Booth, Bel Powley, Maisie Williams, Joanne Froggatt and Tom Sturridge.
Read More: ‘The Beguiled’ Trailer: Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning Turn on Each Other in Sofia Coppola’s Remake
Al-Mansour is best »
- Liz Calvario
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