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As 'Guardians 2' Repeats at #1 'King Arthur' & 'Snatched' Will Duel Over Mother's Day Weekend
8 hours ago | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
The 2017 summer movie season kicked off last weekend with the strong opening for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, which enters its sophomore session this weekend and will once again find itself atop the box office as the week's new wide releases*King Arthur: Legend of the Sword and Snatched*aren't looking to offer much competition. Question is, with the Guardians sequel outperforming the opening weekend of the original by more than 55% (the best opening performance for a first sequel among all Marvel Cinematic Universe films), will the second weekend for the galactic superheroes also outperform the norm? In our showdown featuring Marvel First Sequels you can see the average second weekend drop for the four other films on the list is 57.4%, an average that would have Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 delivering over $62 million this weekend. The best hold among those comparisons belonged to Captain America: Winter »
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Anya Taylor-Joy, Maisie Williams Set to Star in 'X-Men' Spinoff 'New Mutants' (Exclusive)
10 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Fox’s long-awaited X-Men spinoff New Mutants is finally casting up.
Anya Taylor-Joy, the star of The Witch and Split, and Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams have signed on to star in the ensemble young adult superhero movie being directed by Josh Boone.
The movie is headed towards an early July start with a script by Boone and his writing partner, Knate Lee. Simon Kinberg and Karen Rosenfelt are producing.
New Mutants, created by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod, was the first X-Men comic spinoff, launched in the early 1980s as the franchise began two decades of dominating the comic book »
- Borys Kit
Christina Hendricks, Bailee Madison, Lewis Pullman Join ‘Strangers 2’
9 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“The Strangers 2” finally found its cast nine years after the first film. Bloom and the Fyzz Facility Pictures announced Thursday that Christina Hendricks, Bailee Madison, and Lewis Pullman will be starring in the follow-up to 2008’s “The Strangers.”
Picking up where Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman’s original left off, “Strangers 2” will see Hendricks, Madison, and Pullman as one family terrorized by three masked figures at an abandoned trailer park during a cross-country road trip gone wrong. Johannes Roberts (“47 Meters Down”) will direct based on a script by “Strangers” scribe Bryan Bertino and Ben Ketai.
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Intrepid Pictures’ Trevor Macy returns to executive produce while the Fyzz Facility Pictures’ Wayne Marc Godfrey, Robert Jones, Mark Lane, and James Harris will produce, in association with Relativity Media. The Fyzz Facility is also serving as financier. Aviron will »
- JD Knapp
Hugh Bonneville to star as Roald Dahl in biopic
18 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Untitled project will chronicle the author’s marriage to actress Patricia Neal.
Hugh Bonneville will play Roald Dahl in a new film exploring the novelist’s marriage to Oscar-winning actress Patricia Neal.
London-based outfit Goldcrest Films are financing and will introduce the project to the market at Cannes.
Set at the beginning of the 1960s, the film explores Dahl’s struggles to write some of his most famous works and Neal’s return to acting with Hud (for which she won an Oscar).
An acclaimed British children’s author, Dahl’s works included James And The Giant Peach, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory and Matilda.
John Hay will direct from his own screenplay which he co-wrote with David Logan. The pair previously collaborated on the Emmy-winning TV drama Lost Christmas.
Currently untitled, their new project is based on Stephen Michael Shearer’s novel An Unquiet Life.
Elliot Jenkins is producing for Atticus Pictures and Pascal Degove will produce »
- tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
Jesse Eisenberg, Pierce Brosnan, Vanessa Redgrave to star in 'The Medusa'
15 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Exclusive: Fortitude International to launch sales in Cannes.
Fortitude International will introduce international buyers in Cannes to The Medusa starring Jesse Eisenberg, Pierce Brosnan and Vanessa Redgrave.
Peter Webber will direct his second film based on a renowned work of art after 2003’s Girl With A Pearl Earring, named after the painting by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer.
The Medusa stars Eisenberg as Theodore Gericault, the early 19th century pioneer of the French Romantic movement whose masterpiece The Raft Of The Medusa was inspired by the sinking of a French frigate.
Survivors of the wreck spoke of incompetence and cannibalism and the painting stirred anti-royalist sentiment at the time of King Louis Xviii’s rule.
Brosnan will portray Gericault’s uncle Caruel, the artist’s nemesis who is hell-bent on ruining him, while Redgrave plays the painter’s anti-royalist innkeeper.
Sophia Al-Maria adapted the screenplay from Jonathan Miles’s book The Wreck Of The Medusa.
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- jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
Geoffrey Rush, Jai Courtney cast in 'Storm Boy'
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Exclusive: KMI to sell international rights to family film remake.
Geoffrey Rush and Jai Courtney will star in Ambience Entertainment’s family drama Storm Boy, which Kathy Morgan of Kmi will introduce to buyers on the Croisette.
Production is scheduled to begin in July in South Australia on the contemporary remake of the 1976 film of the same name based on the novel by Colin Thiele.
Rush will play Mike ‘Storm Boy’ Kingley, who recounts his childhood escapades to his troubled teenage granddaughter in the hopes of stopping her from making the same mistakes he did.
Courtney stars in an earlier segment of the story as Hideaway Tom, the protective father to a young boy who following the death of his wife and daughter relocates with his child to a remote coastline.
Shawn Seet will direct Storm Boy from Justin Monjo’s screenplay using cutting-edge CGI technology, 3D animation and live footage.
Ambience Entertainment’s [link »
- jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
‘Wonder Woman’ on Track to Lasso $105 Million-Plus Debut – Will It Be Enough to Lift DC Films?
16 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Early tracking numbers have come in for one of the most anticipated titles of the summer: Warner Bros. and DC Films’ “Wonder Woman,” due in theaters on June 2. Following poor reviews and suboptimal box office results for “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and “Suicide Squad” last year, fans and WB studio execs alike are hoping that the Patty Jenkins’ film will serve as a course correction for the DC Extended Universe, and first signs look positive as independent trackers expect an opening between $105-115 million. Though an opening in that range would be less than the $166 million opening »
- Jeremy Fuster
Tomcat review – too much pussyfooting around
52 minutes ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The harrowing death of a pet cat marks the turning point in this psychological drama, but it’s hard to care about the bereaved owners
Dangerously flirting with stereotypes perpetuated by the media and Austrian arthouse cinema itself, this Vienna-set film explores how brutal, inexplicable violence may lurk beneath the surface of even the most idyllic, hyper-bourgeois lifestyle.
Orchestral administrator Andreas (Philipp Hochmair) and his partner, French-horn player Stefan (Lukas Turtur), live and work together in seemingly perfect harmony. In their beautiful, light-filled home, they regularly entertain friends with delicious meals, make tender, playful love to jazz music, and caper about naked, occasionally pausing to caress and cuddle their handsome tabby cat Moses, who chose to live with them some time ago. More fool, Moses.
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- Leslie Felperin
40 years of Stars Wars – why the blockbuster saga is a galactic soap opera
1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
With an evil father, a love triangle and a servant class, the George Lucas universe is full of melodramatic tropes – and there’s no sign that the storylines are running out
How far has Star Wars penetrated our culture, our language, our frames of reference? The president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, reportedly dismissed Theresa May as someone who is “on a different galaxy” when it comes to Brexit negotiations. Well, yes, although exactly how far, far away remains to be seen. That was an easy pop-culture trope to reach for – and I like to think that Jean-Claude had in the back of his mind the free trade and tax dispute that begins The Phantom Menace – although Theresa and Jean-Claude each see their adversaries as Darth Vader, presiding over an evil and superannuated empire, always likely to strike back against righteous resistance.
As fans celebrate the 40th anniversary of »
- Peter Bradshaw
Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone Team For Scott Waugh-Directed ‘Ex-Baghdad’
4 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Exclusive: Jackie Chan and Sylvester Stallone are teamed to star in Ex-Baghdad, a timely action thriller that Scott Waugh has been set to direct. It is an $80 million budget action film that becomes one of the biggest budget films to come out of China. Chan will serve as a producer through his company Sr Media, with Qi Jianhong and Talent International's Esmond Ren. Sr Media and Talent International will also finance the film. Hans Canosa is also producing. The film is a… »
Tang Wei to star in Bi Gan’s 'Long Day’s Journey Into Night'
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Exclusive: Wild Bunch to handle sales on ‘Kaili Blues’ director’s second feature
Chinese director Bi Gan has attracted a top-flight cast for his second feature, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, including Tang Wei (Lust, Caution), Sylvia Chang (Mountains May Depart) and Huang Jue (The Final Master).
In addition, Wild Bunch has come on board to handle international sales on the detective drama, which also stars Taiwanese actor Lee Hong-chi (Thanatos, Drunk) and reunites the director with Chen Yongzhong, the lead actor of his award-winning debut, Kaili Blues.
Shanghai-based Dangmai Films, established by Bi and producer Shan Zuolong, is producing with Huace Group and Han Han’s Pmf Pictures, while Charles Gillibert’s Paris-based CG Cinema will co-produce. Wild Bunch, which will commence sales on the film in Cannes next week, is handling all territories outside China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The story follows a man who returns to his hometown to find a mysterious »
- lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
Sterling K. Brown, Charlie Day, Jenny Slate Join Jodie Foster’s ‘Hotel Artemis’ (Exclusive)
5 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Sterling K. Brown, Charlie Day, Jenny Slate have joined Jodie Foster in Drew Pearce’s “Hotel Artemis.”
Jeff Goldblum has also joined the cast. Simon and Stephen Cornwell are producing for The Ink Factory, which will also finance. Pearce, whose writing credits include “Iron Man 3” and “Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation,” will direct from his own script. The logline is under wraps.
Adam Siegel and Marc Platt are producing for Marc Platt Productions. Pearce will executive produce through his Point of No Return production banner.
Wme Global is handling U.S. rights. Lionsgate launched international sales on The Ink Factory-financed and produced action thriller in Berlin in February.
Brown won an Emmy for his performance in “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” and has also received critical acclaim for the NBC drama hit, “This Is Us.” He recently wrapped production on Marvel Studios’ much-anticipated “Black Panther” and can »
- Justin Kroll
Peter Loehr To Exit As Legendary East CEO
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Peter Loehr, the CEO of Legendary Pictures’ China subsidary Legendary East since May 2012, is departing the company at month’s end. Wanda’s Jack Gao, Legendary’s interim CEO, just made the announcement. Wanda acquired Legendary in 2006 for $3.5 billion last year, among a slew of mega-deals to position itself in the entertainment industry that included acquired exhibitor AMC Entertainment. Legendary founder and CEO Thomas Tull exited the company in January. Legendary East… »
Superhero Bits: Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Deleted Scenes, Spider-Man Sequel Hopes & More
5 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Which character would Tom Holland like to see face off against Spider-Man in the Homecoming sequel? Will there be any deleted scenes on the home video release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2? What did Diane Lane say when she was asked if Justice League will be better than The Avengers? Has Gotham been […]
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