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Bradley Whitford Joins ‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’
11 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Bradley Whitford is set to join the ensemble of Legendary’s “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” starring Millie Bobby Brown and Kyle Chandler.
Thomas Middleditch, Vera Farmiga, and O’Shea Jackson Jr. are also on board. “Krampus” helmer Michael Dougherty is directing the project from a script he penned with Zach Shields.
Alex Garcia will oversee the tentpole for Legendary. “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” hits theaters on March 22, 2019, with the monster mash-up “Godzilla vs. Kong” slated to bow the following year on May 22, 2020.
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Legendary and Warner Bros. announced in late 2015 that all future King Kong and Godzilla movies would be developed by Legendary and distributed by Warner Bros., starting with “Kong: Skull Island.” Legendary currently holds a distribution deal with Universal, but in order to re-team Godzilla and King Kong, »
- Justin Kroll
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Martin Short, Maya Rudolph Join Ricky Gervais in Animated Film ‘Willoughbys’
16 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Martin Short, Maya Rudolph, Jane Krakowski, Terry Crews, and Sean Cullen will voice Bron Animation’s movie “The Willoughbys.”
The project is based on the Lois Lowry children’s book of the same name. Rudolph will be the voice of Nanny, who looks after the Willoughby children. Crews is voicing candy mogul Commander Melanoff, and Short and Krakowski will voice Father and Mother Willoughby, parents so in love with each other that they forget they even have children. Cullen voices the twin boys Barnaby A and B.
Ricky Gervais was previously announced as the narrator of the film, which follows the four Willoughby children. When abandoned by their selfish parents, they embark on an adventure through the modern world, colliding with a cat, an orphan, a nanny, and a candy mogul, to reunite with the “family they were born into.”
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‘Outlander’ Star Sam Heughan in Talks to Join ‘The Spy Who Dumped Me’
1 June 2017 7:08 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“Outlander” star Sam Heughan is in negotiations to play the title role in the Lionsgate action-comedy “The Spy Who Dumped Me” opposite Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon.
Susanna Fogel, best known for her work on ABC Family’s “Chasing Life,” will direct the project from a script she’s co-writing with David Iserson. “The Spy Who Dumped Me” follows two best friends who become part of a conspiracy when one of them discovers that the boyfriend who dumped her was actually a spy.
Brian Grazer of Imagine Entertainment will produce the feature. Production is scheduled to start in the summer.
Should the deal go through, it would be first role for Heughan in a major Hollywood feature. The Scottish thespian was the first actor cast for the Starz time-travel series “Outlander,” which centers on a married World War II nurse who finds herself transported back to the Scotland of 1743, where »
- Dave McNary
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Hans Petter Moland to Direct ‘Out Stealing Horses’ With Stellan Skarsgård
2 June 2017 2:00 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Critically acclaimed Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland (“In Order of Disappearance”) is set to helm and write “Out Stealing Horses,” the big-screen adaptation of Per Petterson’s novel, with Stellan Skarsgård (“Nymphomaniac”) attached to star.
Norway’s 4½ Fiksjon is producing the film. TrustNordisk is on board to handle worldwide sales.
“Out Stealing Horses” was published in 2003 and has been translated into 60 languages. On top of winning the Independent Foreign Fiction prize and International Impac Dublin Literary Award, the novel also made it on to The New York Times’ list of Five Best Fiction Books 2007.
Set in 1999, “Out Stealing Horses” tells the story of Trond, a 67-year old man who has moved to a remote house in the forest where he can grieve the death of his wife. The countryside idyll is disturbed by a chance encounter with a neighbor whom he met during a fateful summer in 1948. That summer, his »
- Elsa Keslassy
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Weekend Box Office: 'Wonder Woman' Heading for $94M-Plus Debut
19 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Director Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman is impressing at the box office, according to early Friday returns.
The female-centric tentpole, from Warner Bros., is headed for a North American opening in the $94 million range, thanks to pent-up demand for a satisfying summer tentpole and rapturous reviews.
Wonder Woman is a defining moment for Hollywood's much-debated gender gap and could land the biggest three-day domestic opening ever for a female director, supplanting Sam Taylor-Johnson's Fifty Shades of Grey. That film debuted to $93 million over the four-day Valentine's Day/Presidents Day weekend in 2015, including a three-day haul of »
- Pamela McClintock
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MGM’s ‘Valley Girl’ Remake Adds Peyton List
13 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Exclusive: Disney channel star Peyton List has joined the chorus of MGM’s musical film Valley Girl. The Bunk’d actress joins Jessica Rothe, Josh Whitehouse, Mae Whitman, Logan Paul, Jessie Ennis, Ashleigh Murray and Chloe Bennett in the Rachel Lee Goldenberg-helmed remake adaptation to the 1983 romantic comedy. The pic, which is currently shooting in La, follows a Fernando Valley girl whose world and values are rocked when she falls hard for a rock musician. The script is… »
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Film Review: ‘Letters from Baghdad’
23 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
After the misfire of biopic “Queen of the Desert,” it was clear that intrepid traveler and influential Arabist Gertrude Bell, reductively known as “the female T.E. Lawrence,” needed her reputation rescued from Werner Herzog’s ill-advised effort. In stepped directors Zeva Oelbaum and Sabine Krayenbühl with “Letters From Baghdad,” a carefully researched documentary that uses an extraordinary wealth of appealing archival footage accompanied by Tilda Swinton’s voiceover as Bell. The directors’ backgrounds as editor (Krayenbühl) and photographer (Oelbaum), together with their appreciation for the lands Bell felt most attached to, are clearly on display in the largely sensitive way they handle the material on visual and historical levels.
Getting Swinton on board doing double duty as voiceover actor and executive producer was a wise marketing decision, while the involvement of Thelma Schoonmaker and Kevin Brownlow assured appropriate attention would be given to the artistic and archival sides. The film »
- Jay Weissberg
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‘Wonder Woman’ Breaks Glass Ceiling For Female Directors With $98M+ Debut; Earns ‘A’ CinemaScore – Late Night B.O.
2 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
4th Update, 11:40Pm: After weathering lackluster critical scores and Ok fan responses with last year’s Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad, all is well and correct in the Warner Bros./DC universe as Wonder Woman is both a hit with critics (94% Certified Fresh Rotten Tomatoes) and audiences alike earning an A CinemaScore on top of her current $98M opening. Out of all the titles in the WB/DC canon, Wonder Woman owns one of five rare A grades along with B… »
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Netflix Lands Misha Green Female Empowerment Action Spec ‘Mother’ In Heavy Bidding
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Exclusive: Netflix outbid several suitors for Mother, an action thriller by Underground co-creator Misha Green that Deadline tipped yesterday as a hot spec sent to buyers on the eve of the historical opening of Wonder Woman. Several bidders chased this script that has a female protagonist in a scenario reminiscent of The Professional and La Femme Nikita that has franchise potential. The Lego Batman Movie producer Roy Lee will produce the film. The deal just closed. Studio… »
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Movie Talk: ‘New Mutants’ Cast Cannonball and Sunspot; Thomas Middleditch Joins ‘Godzilla’ Sequel
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Christopher Plummer & Lily James Are ‘The Exception’; Zoe Lister-Jones Directs ‘Band Aid’: Specialty Preview
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A24 heads out with period drama The Exception starring Lily James, Jai Courtney, Janet McTeer and Christopher Plummer this weekend. There are a fair number of new specialties opening Friday, including Zoe Lister-Jones’ directorial debut Band Aid, in which she also stars alongside Adam Pally. IFC Films is opening the title in New York before heading to additional theaters as well as on-demand next week. Demetri Martin directs and also stars in Dean, rolling out via CBS Film… »
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The Weekend Read: A Week of ‘Wonder Woman,’ Critics vs. ‘Pirates,’ & the Future of Theme Parks
8 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
The Weekend Read compiles all of the /Film original features published in the past week. In this week’s line-up of reviews, lists, editorials and more, find a week’s worth of Wonder Woman articles from female writers, reviews of this week’s biggest TV shows (including American Gods, Twin Peaks, Fargo, Bloodline, and Silicon Valley), a rant about […]
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Cannes Film Review: ‘Promised Land’
8 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Documentaries about the current state of America, as good as some of them are, often have the effect of news headlines: They come and go, leaving a slight blur. But “Promised Land” isn’t like other politically and socially inflamed documentaries. Written and directed by Eugene Jarecki (“The House I Live In,” “Why We Fight”), it’s a meditation on the current American crisis (and if you don’t think we’re in one, you should probably stop reading now) that’s built around a revisionist portrait of Elvis Presley. The two elements — America and Elvis — come together in ticklish, surprising ways that expand and delight your perceptions.
If “Promised Land” has a thesis, the short version of it — it’s declared in the opening 15 minutes — is that America has entered its Fat Elvis period. We’re bloated, addicted, going through the motions, coasting on our legend, courting self-destruction. Yet »
- Owen Gleiberman
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Roman Polanski Attacks “Dishonest” U.S. Courts; Seeks Interpol Aid In Rape Case
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Exclusive: He has repeatedly accused them of duplicity, he has compared them to the Nazis, and today Roman Polanski is claiming that there may be "another secret judicial plan to violate his rights" in the American courts. This latest volley came Friday from the Oscar winner's lawyer in a filing seeking to have the 2010 testimony of former deputy L.A. County D.A. Roger Gunson unsealed and handed over to Interpol in Polanski's 40-year old case of raping a 13-year old girl… »
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‘Black Prince’ to Open London Indian Film Festival
8 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
For its eighth edition, the London Indian Film Festival will present award-winning pics from Cannes, Berlin, and Venice. This year, the fest puts the focus on Lgbtq and Brexit themes.
Opening June 22 with “The Black Prince,” by Kavi Raz and starring Shabana Azmi and Jason Flemyng, the event runs until June 29 with films unspooling at 11 theaters around London. The closing night film is Sanal Kumar Sasidharan’s “Sexy Durga,” which has been winning acclaim on the fest circuit.
“We are delighted to bring London audiences a carefully curated selection of the very best new Indian and South Asian independent cinema; all films are English subtitled, offering a rare window into over a billion South Asian lives,” said fest director Cary Rajinder Sawhney. “This year’s selection includes premieres of new comedies, gripping thrillers, shocking horror and insightful true life documentaries as well as bringing together UK previews of major award-winning »
- Shalini Dore
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‘Wonder Woman’ – What Did You Think?
8 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Her time has come. Wonder Woman has finally been given her own movie on the big screen. After making her debut in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, actress Gal Gadot has takes the lead in Patty Jenkins’ superhero blockbuster. With the weight of what some see as the missteps of the DC Extended Universe […]
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- Ethan Anderton
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Cannes Film Review: ‘Plot 35’
8 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Small is rather beautiful, and also deceptively deep, in Eric Caravaca’s family-history documentary “Plot 35.” Across its slender 65-minute running time it packs the emotional resonance of many a longer feature, if only because, as much as it does describe an arc of change (by its close, there is a photograph on a gravestone where previously there was a gaping absence), it also understands that not all questions have satisfactory answers, and no matter how directly we confront our loved ones, they are their own people, and their secrets belong to them. “Plot 35” doesn’t just explore a family tragedy — it explores the tragedy of family, the way that loving our parents is not the same as understanding them, just as for them, loving their children does not always mean telling them the truth.
It’s noteworthy that Caravaca is an established French actor (he also heads up Philippe Garrel »
- Jessica Kiang
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Movie Trivia Schmoedown: Scott Mantz vs. Hal Rudnick
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Elizabeth McGovern, Patrick Fugit, Chris Parnell Starring in ‘A Name Without a Place’ (Exclusive)
8 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Elizabeth McGovern, Patrick Fugit, Chris Parnell, Bryan Burton, and Charlotte Best are starring in Kenny Riches’ just-wrapped drama “A Name Without a Place,” Variety has learned exclusively.
Principal photography began in mid-April at the Sydonie Mansion in Mt. Dora, Fla., and included shooting in Miami and the Florida Keys. The production migrated to Los Angeles on May 12 and wrapped principal photography at the end of May in Marina Del Rey. UTA is repping the film for sales.
Producers are Anthony Pedone, Jesse Brown, and Ian Peterson. The film also stars Siddharth Dhananjay (“Patty Cake$”) and David Sullivan (“Flaked”).
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‘Downton Abbey’ Star Hugh Bonneville to Play Roald Dahl in Biopic (Exclusive)
The story is set in Miami Beach with Burton portraying a sheltered young man in a relationship with an aging movie star, played by McGovern. He lacks the drive to discover the world beyond until he suffers the loss »
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Superhero Bits: Everything Wrong with Logan, The Flash Season 4 Villain, James Gunn Dances & More
9 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Who will be the villain in the fourth season of The Flash? Would Wonder Woman beat Superman in a fight? How many dumb things did CinemaSins find “wrong” with Logan? Which other villain is debuting in next week’s season finale of Gotham? Want to see James Gunn dancing as a frame of reference for Baby […]
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- Ethan Anderton
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