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Box Office: 'War for the Planet of the Apes' Beating 'Spider-Man' on Friday
15 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Director Matt Reeves' War for the Planet of the Apes is stomping past holdover Spider-Man: Homecoming at the Friday box office for a likely No. 1 finish in its North American debut, according to early returns.
Heading into the weekend, it was unclear whether the final installment in 20th Century Fox's refurbished trilogy would be able to beat Sony's Spider-Man, which swung to a stellar $117 million last weekend.
Apes is projected to gross $18 million or more from 4,022 theaters on Friday for a domestic opening in the $50 million-$55 million range. That would be behind the 2014 sequel »
- Pamela McClintock
'Wreck-it-Ralph 2' Casts Taraji P. Henson
11 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Ralph is officially going online.
Disney shared new plot details for Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 during Friday's animation panel at D23. And it turns out, the film sees Ralph (John C. O’Reilly) and Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) travel into the Internet to find a spare part to fix Sugar Rush after it breaks.
Along the way, they will meet series newcomer Yesss (Taraji P. Henson), an expert on the viral parts of the internet whom Ralph seeks out for help. The audience was treated to a clip, which shows Vanellope meeting with all of the Disney princesses.
Rich Moore returns to »
- Aaron Couch,Borys Kit
Disney Unveils 'Cars'/'Planes' Spinoff That Will Go to Space
11 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Disney is heading to space.
After an emotional ceremony honoring this year's Disney Legends, D23 continued in earnest Friday with the company's animation panel — where it announced the next chapter in its Cars universe.
John Lasseter came onstage, using a merch gun to whip the crowd into a frenzy, and he showed off footage from a new Disneytoon project he dubbed "the speed test."
The footage was something akin to Top Gun on steroids, with planes that go all the way into space. The planes had faces, like those seen in the two installments of Cars spinoff Planes, »
- Borys Kit ,Aaron Couch
'Downsizing,' Starring Matt Damon, to Open Venice Film Festival
10 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Alexander Payne's Downsizing has been selected to open the Venice Film Festival, which runs from Aug. 30 to Sept. 9.
The satire, written by Payne and his frequent collaborator Jim Taylor, stars Matt Damon as a man who decides to shrink himself in order to find a better life. The cast also includes Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz, Laura Dern and Jason Sudeikis.
The Venice berth is a first for Payne, whose films have played Cannes, Telluride, Toronto and Sundance, but not the Italian fest, where Downsizing's opening-night slot should position it for high-profile awards-season bid.
Paramount plans to »
- Gregg Kilday
Veteran Film Producer Evzen Kolar Dies at 67
13 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Veteran film producer Evzen Kolar died on Tuesday in Los Angeles after a brief illness. He was 67.
Born in the Czech Republic, Kolar began his film and television career as a child actor. He later became an assistant director, working throughout Europe on commercials, television projects, and features, and produced fringe theater in London before moving to the U.S. in 1979.
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In addition to his role as vice president of production at Fireline Productions and CEO at Crossover Films Ent., Kolar line-produced a number of features, including “Never Say Never Again” with Sean Connery as James Bond, “Street Smart” starring Morgan Freeman, “Bat 21” with Gene Hackman and Danny Glover, and “Storyville” starring James Spader and Jason Robards.
Kolar established his own production company, Kpi Entertainment, in 1993. There, he produced films such as “Surf Ninjas,” the cult comedy staring Rob Schneider and Leslie Nielsen; the Jean-Claude Van Damme actioner “Inferno”; and “Bride of the Wind »
- Rebecca Rubin
‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ Director Boards Sci-Fi Film ‘Punch Escrow’
16 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Lionsgate has hired “Alice Through the Looking Glass” director James Bobin to helm its science-fiction film “The Punch Escrow.”
The studio won the movie rights to Tal M. Klein’s upcoming debut novel in April. “The Punch Escrow” will be published on July 25 by Inkshares.
The story — set in the year 2147 — centers on a man who trains artificial-intelligence engines to act more human-like, and is accidentally duplicated while teleporting. He’s forced to deal with the dubious organization that controls teleportation in a world that now has two of him.
Inkshares is based in Oakland, Calif., and publishes books based on reader interest. Once a book crosses one of the publishing thresholds (250 pre-orders for the light publishing tier or 750 pre-orders for the full funding tier), it then moves into production. The fully-funded tier gets editing, design, printing, distribution, and marketing of the book.
Bobin was one of the creators of the TV series “Flight of the Conchords” and »
- Dave McNary
Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio Developing True-Crime Thriller ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ (Exclusive)
17 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Rome – Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are developing a film adaptation of true-crime thriller “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI” as the director’s next project after “The Irishman.”
Scorsese’s longtime production designer, Dante Ferretti, told Variety that Scorsese hoped to start shooting “Flower Moon” in the spring of next year. The project is based on the bestselling book by David Grann, a staff writer for the New Yorker and author of “The Lost City of Z.”
Rights to “Flower Moon” were snapped up by Imperative last year for a reported $5 million, and a script has reportedly been drafted by veteran Oscar-winning scribe Eric Roth (“Forrest Gump,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”).
Ferretti, who has worked with Scorsese on nine movies from “The Age of Innocence” through “Silence,” said he was going to “go to Oklahoma” to do preliminary location scouting for “Flower Moon.” The »
- Nick Vivarelli
Tyler Perry Inks Overall Deal With Viacom for Both TV and Film
18 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Tyler Perry has signed a multiyear content deal with Viacom, which will (eventually) encompass TV shows, movies and short-form video. The big-screen collaboration begins right away, but Perry’s still under contract with Oprah Winfrey’s Own for television projects. Under the terms of the agreement, beginning in May 2019, Perry will produce approximately 90 episodes annually of original drama and comedy series for Bet and other Viacom networks, the publicly-traded corporation said Friday in a media release. Viacom will hold the licensing rights. The home to Comedy Central and Nickelodeon will also get the exclusive distribution rights to Perry’s short-form video content. »
- Tony Maglio
Karlovy Vary Film Review: ‘The Nothing Factory’
52 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
In times of crisis, suggests a character in “The Nothing Factory,” there are various possible responses: You can shoot a gun or form a community garden. Or in Portuguese documentary director Pedro Pinho’s case, you can make your narrative debut, an occasionally inspired, but often trying three-hour-long, genre-hopping patchwork of social-realist cinema. While such a span feels like a respectful reflection of the complexity of the issues it explores, it also allows the film to come into and out of focus so often that it dulls engagement long before an unexpected musical number in the last half-hour briefly perks it up again.
Loosely inspired by an actual experiment in self-management by the employees of Portuguese elevator manufacturer Otis, the film borrows a lot of its textural details from real life. Here the factory also makes elevators, and is similarly threatened by a combination of mechanization and economic instability. Pinho populates his cast with non-professional actors, many »
- Jessica Kiang
Venice Gap-Financing Market Unveils Selected Projects, Including Vr Works
53 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Rome – The Venice Film Festival’s Gap-Financing Market, which helps indie European and international producers secure the final portion of financing for their projects, has announced the 47 feature films, documentaries, TV series, and virtual-reality projects that have made the cut.
They comprise 25 feature films and documentaries, many of which have been making the rounds of co-production forums on the festival circuit. What distinguishes the Venice market is that submissions must have at least 70% of financing in place, meaning that these projects have a better chance of actually reaching completion.
Last year the Venice Film Market — which besides the gap-financing component, also includes the Final Cut in Venice platform for films in post from countries with struggling film industries and a book rights’ mart — was re-branded as Venice Production Bridge.
The idea is that Venice, which cannot compete with Toronto in terms of bona-fide market heft, is pioneering an informal new-concept market dedicated to original works-in-progress and open »
- Nick Vivarelli
Naomi Watts: ‘My soul was being destroyed’
1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
At 32, she was unhireable. At 48, she is unmissable. The Gypsy star talks lucky breaks, bad reviews and being in therapy
“Armchair or sofa?” Naomi Watts wonders aloud, trying to decide where to put us both in her London hotel room. The 48-year-old actor has spent a lot of this year and last portraying a therapist for the 10-hour TV serial Gypsy, and did a good deal of sitting in armchairs for that. She takes the sofa. “This works.”
The day Watts was born, her mother once recalled, the midwife took one look and declared the baby would grow up to be famous. “How many newborns did she say that about?” Watts smiles. In her case, it took a while – the actor did not get her break until she was 32 – but the maternity-ward prediction came to pass and Watts has been established as a Hollywood reliable for years now. Long enough »
- Tom Lamont
Disney Pixar Animation Showcases ‘Coco’, ‘Frozen 2’, ‘Ralph Breaks The Internet’ & More – D23
7 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
It was another rip-roaring ride through Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios’ D23 session this year. On Day 1 of the biannual fan convention, the animation department went big with its reveal of as-yet-untitled projects, some enticing sequels (Frozen 2, Toy Story 4, Incredibles 2, Wreck-It Ralph 2: Ralph Breaks The Internet) and plenty of celebrity appearances including Josh Gad belting out the audio for Frozen spinoff featurette Olaf’s Frozen Adventure, which will hit… »
Marvel Confirms ‘Spider-Man’ Cast, Release Date and ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Season 3
7 hours ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
As part of Disney's ongoing D23 2017 expo, Marvel's animated TV division announced some casting and release date news for a pair of high-profile projects. First up is Marvel's Spider-Man, a new animated series centering on Peter Parker and his wall-crawling alter ego. The reveal of the cast, which includes quite a few notable names alongside their heroic and villainous counterparts, clues viewers in to just the sort of battle the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is in for. Also announced, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy will get a third season, and the Guardians … »
- Dave Trumbore
10 Things You Didn’t See at Disney’s D23 Animation Panel
7 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
No photos. No videos. No recording. Those were the ground-rules for Disney’s animation panel during D23 on Friday.
But for good reason. Over the course of the two-hour-long panel, hosted primarily by Pixar Cco John Lasseter, those inside the hall got a first look at rough footage, sometimes for films that have yet to even be named.
“Today we’re going to show you things that no one has seen outside the walls of our studio,” he said before the presentation.
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If, by chance, you were not one of the several thousand people inside the room where it happened, here are ten things you missed.
1. A glimpse of “Mary Poppins Returns”
Several seconds as part of a reel were enough to make the audience roar. “It’s a good thing you came along when you did, ‘Mary Poppins,’” Lin-Manuel Miranda »
- Seth Kelley
‘Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets’ Review: Luc Besson’s Dazzling Visual Creation Overcomes Some Wooden Acting
8 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Director Luc Besson has long wanted to make the 1967 French graphic serial Valerian and Laureline into a movie since the 70’s. This was even before Star Wars became such a sensation, and in fact many think the Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mezeires creation perhaps inspired that landmark 1977 film. As I say in my video review (click the link above to watch), it certainly inspired Besson, and now — with a reputed budget upward of $200 million — he finally has brought his… »
‘Toy Story 4’ Director Shakeup: Josh Cooley Takes Over for John Lasseter
9 hours ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
There's been a bit of a creative shakeup on Pixar's Toy Story 4, as was announced today at D23. John Lasseter, who directed Toy Story and Toy Story 2 (Lee Unkrich took over for the third installment) was originally slated to return to the helm for the new sequel, but now, originally announced co-director Josh Cooley (Riley's First Date) has taken over as director. Lasseter will remain on board as an executive producer. During the panel, the duo showed off some footage of a day in the life of director at Pixar's Northern California animation … »
- Haleigh Foutch
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