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‘Fifty Shades Darker’ Valentine’s Day Climax At $10M+ – Box Office Update
12 hours ago
2nd Update, 6:01 Pm: Christian Grey isn’t as big as many expected, but he’s large enough: Universal’s Fifty Shades Darker per early evening estimates looks to rake in between $10M-$10.8M on Valentine’s Day, a midweek holiday haul that still fills rival distribution chiefs with envy. That figure is close to a 170% spike over yesterday’s $3.9M and reps 23% of Fifty Shades Darker‘s $46.6M first weekend on the high end. Total cume by end of today for the sequel will reside at… »
‘Hidden Figures’ Octavia Spencer: Diversity Among Oscar Season Movies ‘Is Not A Reaction To #OscarsSoWhite’
15 hours ago
As Dorothy Vaughan in Theodore Melfi's Hidden Figures, Octavia Spencer joins a cast of extraordinary characters working at Nasa in the 1960s during the height of segregation and the struggle for civil rights. Along with Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and an entire team of gifted black women mathematicians, Vaughan was instrumental in helping perform the complex calculations necessary to launch astronauts into the cosmos. And yet Hidden Figures is the first movie to tell… »
The Bart & Fleming Podcast #11: Culture Clash
16 hours ago
In Episode 11 of Deadline’s The Bart & Fleming Podcast, we discuss the war between President Donald Trump’s White House and the celebrity community — ironic since President Trump is a product of the celebrity culture. Also on the docket: examining the impact of the recent important studio executive changes, and whether the “Oscar bump” at the box office will be lesser this year compared with previous ones (spoiler alert: it will be). Listen… »
Behind The Scenes With Damien Chazelle On Two Of ‘La La Land’s’ Most Difficult & Impressive Musical Sequences (Watch)
16 hours ago
Deadline goes behind the camera. Exclusive: Mandy Moore did an extraordinary job as choreographer of La La Land. It is a shame there is no Oscar category for that; the last to Hermes Pan in 1937, when Academy Awards were given for Dance Direction. But since then, only occasionally has a choreographer gotten official Academy recognition in the form of Honorary Oscars, such as the one given to Jerome Robbins for West Side Story in 1961 and Onna White for Oliver in… »
Of Heffalumps And Proles: Where Do Oscar Upsets Come From?
16 hours ago
Where do surprises come from? If we knew, they wouldn't be surprises. But it's probably worth looking at the slightly less mysterious matter of Oscar upsets, as the 7,000 or so voters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences cast their ballots between now and next Tuesday. By and large, Academy members are a predictable bunch, especially when it comes to the Best Picture award. Almost everyone knew Slumdog Millionaire, The King's Speech and The Artist were… »
Harrison Ford’s Plane In Incident With 737 At O.C. Airport – Report
17 hours ago
Veteran pilot Harrison Ford appears to have had another close call in the skies over Southern California. Less than two years after the small plane he was piloting crash-landed on a Los Angeles golf course, NBC News reports that he was involved in an incident at Orange County’s John Wayne Airport on Monday. NBC said the actor was at the controls of a single-engine Husky when he was instructed to land on a particular runway. Ford mistakenly headed for a taxiway instead… »
‘Star Trek Beyond’ Makeup Artist Joel Harlow Discusses Designing Makeup For 56 Unique Alien Races
17 hours ago
A connoisseur of special makeup effects and an admitted Trekkie, makeup artist Joel Harlow signed on to return for Star Trek Beyond after working on the 2009 reboot, without any hesitation. Boasting a blockbuster resume of three decades, it's in the Star Trek films specifically that Harlow finds "the opportunity for creativity." Indeed, Harlow led a sprawling team in designing special makeup effects for 56 alien races represented in the film, all of which are rooted in… »
Mahershala Ali In Negotiations To Join Jc Chandor’s ‘Triple Frontier’
17 hours ago
Mahershala Ali is in negotiations to join the cast of Paramount Pictures’ Triple Frontier, the thriller which will be directed by Jc Chandor from a script by Mark Boal. Ali is in two Best Picture nominees this year — Moonlight, where he is also nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and the box office hit Hidden Figures which is up for three awards. We also hear that Tom Hardy’s deal to also star in the picture closed; he and Channing Tatum entered into talks on it last… »
Oscar-Winning ‘Feast’ Helmer Patrick Osborne On Returning To The Best Short Race With First Vr Nominee ‘Pearl’
18 hours ago
Patrick Osborne is no stranger to the Academy Awards: The animator-cum-helmer made his directorial debut with animated short Feast, a charming tale told from the point of view of an adorable dog, which earned him a Best Short Oscar in 2015. This year Osborne, who has worked as an animator on a host of Oscar-nominated titles such a Wreck-It Ralph and Tangled, is back in the director's chair and the awards race for the second time with his Best Short-nominated title <a href="http://deadline.com/tag/pearl/" id="auto-tag_pearl"… »
Awash With 6 Oscar Noms, How ‘Manchester By The Sea’ Navigated Storms But Didn’t Capsize
18 hours ago
The road to Best Picture for independent films is usually filled with uncertainty and adversity. Only in hindsight does it seem like some beneficent movie god plotted the course, and that calamities along the way would in retrospect seem like big breaks. Manchester by the Sea might be defined by its rapturous 2016 Sundance premiere, followed hours later by a $10 million Amazon Studios deal that christened its long voyage to the Oscars. But it was an exhausting journey to… »
‘Everything, Everything’ Trailer: Amandla Stenberg & Nick Robinson Star In Ya Romance Pic
19 hours ago
Here’s the new trailer for the Warner Bros./MGM upcoming Ya romantic drama Everything, Everything, from director Stella Meghie and starring Amandla Stenberg (The Hunger Games), Nick Robinson (Jurassic World), Ana de la Reguera and Anika Noni Rose. Based on Nicola Yoon’s bestselling book of the same name, the pic follows Maddy, a smart and imaginative teen who is confined to the walls her hermetically-sealed environment house due to a potentially fatal illness. Desperate… »
‘La La Land’ Twirls Past $300M At Global Box Office; Takes $12.5M China Bow
20 hours ago
Fresh off of five BAFTA wins, including Best Film, Lionsgate’s La La Land has danced its way past $300M at global turnstiles. The domestic cume through Monday is $126M, with $181M at the international box office, for a total $307M and growing. That pushes it past Chicago‘s worldwide total of $306.8M. The international and global figures on La La also include an estimated $12.5M start in China today (including previews). The Middle Kingdom has its own Valentine’s Day… »
Fox 2000 Catches ‘The Fox Hunt’ For ‘La La Land’ Producer; ‘Spotlight” Screenwriter Adapting
20 hours ago
Exclusive: Mohammed Al Samawi’s non-fiction book The Fox Hunt was just picked up by Fox 2000 for La La Land producer Marc Platt with Josh Singer, the Oscar winning screenwriter for Spotlight aboard to adapt. The book follows the story of a young Muslim in Yemen whose discovery of the Bible led him to become a peace activist and whose life, in the ensuing civil war, was threatened and then saved as four American activists he barely knew came together via Facebook and used… »
‘The Master And Margarita,’ Influential Russian Novel About The Devil In Moscow, Optioned For Feature Film
20 hours ago
Exclusive: It’s a book that has inspired other iconic works. Many lines in the Rolling Stones’ song Sympathy for the Devil are from its pages. Comparisons have been made between it and Salmon Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, even by the author himself. It’s been tapped for material by artist H.R. Giger, the band Pearl Jam, in movies such as My Dinner with Andre, and even in Star Trek. And now, this book about the devil visiting 1930s Moscow right after Christ’s crucifixion… »
Vince Vaughn Joins Dwayne Johnson’s ‘Fighting With My Family’
20 hours ago
Hot off his turn in Best Picture nominee Hacksaw Ridge, Vince Vaughn will next co-star with Dwayne Johnson, Game of Thrones' Lena Headey and Nick Frost in Fighting With My Family. This comes days after the whopping Berlin market deal where MGM agreed to pay as high as $17.5 million for world rights. Johnson developed it with Kevin Misher and Film4, and he'll produce under his Seven Bucks Productions banner, as well as play a role. The comedy-drama, which will begin… »
Lea Thompson & Alan Ruck Join Black Label’s ‘Sierra Burgess Is A Loser’
21 hours ago
Exclusive: Lea Thompson and Alan Ruck have been cast as the parents of Shannon Purser’s title character in the Ian Samuels-directed comedy Sierra Burgess Is A Loser. Described as a contemporary retelling of the Cyrano de Bergerac tale, the film is being produced by Black Label Media’s Molly Smith, Rachel Smith, Trent Luckinbill and Thad Luckinbill. Lindsey Beer wrote the screenplay for the movie, which centers on Sierra, an intelligent teen who does not fall into the… »
Asghar Farhadi’s ‘The Salesman’ Set For Oscar Night UK Premiere In Trafalgar Square
21 hours ago
As part of its #LondonIsOpen campaign, the City of London will transform Trafalgar Square into a massive cinema on February 26 to host the UK premiere of Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-nominated The Salesman. The date is not insignificant as the screening will be held just a few hours before the Academy Awards are handed out in Los Angeles. The city says the free event is intended to “celebrate the capital's diversity and demonstrates that London is open to creative talent as… »
‘Robin Hood: Origins’ Finds Its Friar Tuck In Tim Minchin
21 hours ago
Tim Minchin has joined the cast of Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment's Robin Hood: Origins. He will play Friar Tuck in the pic, which has a March 23, 2018 release date. Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, Jamie Dornan, Eve Hewson, Ben Mendelsohn and Paul Anderson star. Peaky Blinders' Otto Bathurst is directin Joby Harold’s script for the action-adventure film about the war-hardened Crusader and a Moorish commander who mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English… »
Foreign Disservice: How The Policies Of President Donald Trump Have Weighed On The Foreign Language Oscar Race
21 hours ago
The Best Foreign Language Film Oscar race has its share of passionate supporters each year, and certainly also has had its fair share of controversy. The one-two punch of 2007's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days not making the shortlist easily springs to mind, as does the disqualification of The Band's Visit that year over its use of English. This year, we got off to a rollicking start as Paul Verhoeven's Elle was snubbed by the folks who select the shortlist. That furor… »
Momentum Acquires U.S. Rights To ‘6 Below’ Starring Josh Hartnett – Berlin
22 hours ago
Entertainment One’s Momentum Pictures has taken U.S. distribution rights to Tooley Productions’ thriller 6 Below. A fact-based modern prodigal son survival story, it’s directed by Scott Waugh with Josh Hartnett playing former Olympic hockey player Eric LeMarque. A release is planned in late 2017. Momentum focuses on distributing multiplatform film, television and special interest content in the U.S. and globally. It will additionally release 6 Below in all Barco Escape… »
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