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'The Dark Tower' Tops Lowest Weekend of Summer 2017 Yet
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Sony's The Dark Tower topped the softest weekend at the domestic box office since early April, opening with less than $20 million. Among other new releases, Aviron's Kidnap had a modest showing, squeaking above $10 million, while Annapurna's Detroit was unable to take off in its nationwide expansion. Overall, with the top twelve films grossing $111.5 million makes this the lowest grossing weekend of the summer season and sixth lowest of the year as the 2017 summer movie season is currently down ~10% compared to 2016. At #1, Sony's release of The Dark Tower, a long-awaited adaptation of the Stephen King sci-fi/fantasy series, delivered an estimated $19.5 million from 3,451 locations. It's a disappointing debut for the $60 million production, which is expected to kick-off a multi-platform franchise with co-financier Mrc currently developing a television series. That being said, this is the second largest opening weekend ever for a King adaptation, behind the $20.6 million debut for 2007's 1408, which went »
- Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
Chris Pratt and Anna Faris Announce Separation
9 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Chris Pratt and Anna Faris are separating.
The couple, who were married in 2009, announced the news on Pratt's Facebook page and Faris' Instagram on Sunday night.
"We are sad to announce we are legally separating," they wrote. "We tried hard for a long time, and we’re really disappointed. Our son has two parents who love him very much and for his sake we want to keep this situation as private as possible moving forward. We still have love for each other, will always cherish our time together and continue to have the deepest respect for »
- Kimberly Nordyke
'The Grand Tour' Host Jeremy Clarkson Hospitalized in Spain With Pneumonia
9 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - TV News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - TV News news »
Jeremy Clarkson has been hospitalized with pneumonia while vacationing on the island of Mallorca.
Clarkson, host of Amazon's The Grand Tour motoring show, was hospitalized Friday while on a break in Spain. Clarkson posted an image on social media Saturday showing his arm with a hospital identity badge.
The 57-year-old joked: “not the sort of bangles I usually choose on holiday.”
Clarkson had been on vacation with his family after shooting the Amazon Prime show with co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May.
The trio are the former hosts of the BBC program Top Gear. They signed with Amazon for The Grand »
- the Associated Press
Alec Baldwin Sets First Look Deal with ABC Studios, to Return as ‘Match Game’ Host for Season 3
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“Match Game” has been renewed for Season 3 at ABC, with host Alec Baldwin inking a two year first look deal with ABC Studios, the network announced Sunday at the TCA summer press tour.
Under the new deal, Baldwin’s El Dorado Pictures will develop scripted and unscripted projects under the ABC Studios banner. The production company’s development executive, Mallory Schwartz, will oversee the slate which Baldwin will executive produce.
“Alec’s quick wit, charm and star power set the stage for an unadulterated and can’t-miss hour of television each week on ‘Match Game,’” said Channing Dungey, president of ABC Entertainment. “The series is an integral part of ABC ‘Fun & Games,’ and I’m glad to have it and Alec back.”
Match Game is produced by FremantleMedia North America (Fmna) with Baldwin, Fmna’s Jennifer Mullin, Scott St. John and Mallory Schwartz as executive producers. The game show garnered Baldwin a 2017 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Host »
- Joe Otterson
'Handmaid's Tale' Wins Top Honor at 2017 TCA Awards
5 August 2017 8:00 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter - TV News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - TV News news »
Coming into the 33rd annual Television Critics Association Awards with a leading four victories, Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale scored two key victories — including program of the year — at Saturday's ceremony.
The streamer, which scored its first-ever nominations this year, also saw its breakout dystopian tale score a win for best drama. NBC's This Is Us was recognized as best new program. FX's Atlanta took home the trophy for best comedy and star Donald Glover was the winner for achievement in comedy.
The non-televised event, hosted by American Gods' Kristin Chenoweth, was held at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, »
- Lesley Goldberg
James Gunn on 'Guardians 3' and Marvel's Cosmic Plans
5 August 2017 9:00 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
There's no rest for the captain of one of Marvel's biggest franchises.
Just months after the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, writer-director James Gunn is hard at work penning Guardians Vol. 3, while also helping Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige plot out the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's cosmic properties.
“Those scripts are already in the works. Kevin and I talk about it all the time, we just had a meeting today. Discussing what is the next iteration of cosmic characters and where are the characters that’ve we’ve already created going to go in the next »
- Byron Burton
Emmys: 'House of Cards' Receives Nom in Wake of 'This Is Us' Disqualification (Exclusive)
4 August 2017 7:23 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter - TV News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - TV News news »
The Netflix drama series House of Cards is picking up an unexpected seventh 2017 Emmy nomination, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
On Friday, more than three weeks after the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced its annual nominations, the TV Academy rescinded This Is Us' nomination for the Emmy for outstanding contemporary costumes for a series, limited series or movie because — as first reported by THR — the majority of the episode did not take place in the required contemporary time period. That opened up a slot in the category alongside HBO's Big Little Lies, Fox's Empire, Netflix's »
- Scott Feinberg
Jay-Z Drops Star-Studded, ‘Friends’-Themed ‘Moonlight’ Video
4 August 2017 2:57 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Rapper Jay-Z just dropped the music video for his song “Moonlight,” off his latest album, 4:44 –and there’s some familiar-looking characters in it. The video, directed by “Master of None” alum Alan Yang, reimagines the classic sitcom “Friends” with an entirely black cast. The cast features Issa Rae (“Insecure”) as Rachel, Tiffany Haddish (“Girls Trip”) as Phoebe, Tessa Thompson (“Dear White People”) as Monica, Lil Rel Howery (“Get Out”) as Joey, Lakeith Stanfield (“Atlanta”) as Chandler and Jerrod Carmichael (“The Carmichael Show”) as Ross. Also Read: Can Beyonce and Jay-z Trademark Names of New Twins Sir and Rumi? As to be expected, »
- Ashley Eady
Marvel’s Jeph Loeb Counters ‘Inhumans’ Criticism
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Marvel head of television Jeph Loeb defended the studio’s upcoming series “Inhumans” Sunday at the Television Critics Association press tour against assertions that the show’s premiere episode does not match the quality of previous Marvel efforts.
“I can tell you that it was written on the material that you were given that the show that you have seen is not the finished product,” Loeb said when asked whether the series had turned out as he had hoped it. “If you’re asking me whether or not it was done, it’s not. So to be perfectly honest, I don’t understand your question.”
Trailers for the forthcoming action-adventure series — whose first two episodes will premiere as a 75-minute movie in IMAX theaters — and three scenes screened last month at Comic-Con have drawn negative reactions on social media. The first episode of the show was made available for TCA members to screen prior to Sunday’s »
- Daniel Holloway
ITV’s Shiver Poaches Carter From Warner Bros.’ Twenty Twenty
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ITV has named Tim Carter managing director of Shiver, with the factual production company’s new boss joining from Warner Bros.’ Twenty Twenty where he is CEO.
Shiver is part of the ITV Studio’s division and has bases in London, Manchester, and Leeds. It produces shows including “Come Dine With Me.” Carter will replace Alex Gardiner, whose departure was announced in April.
Carter will not join the program-maker until 2018 and once a new boss is in situ at Twenty Twenty, which makes popular British series “The Choir,” and “First Dates.” The previous executive producer of the latter show, Nicola Lloyd, moved to ITV Studios last year.
Julian Bellamy, managing director, ITV Studios said: “I couldn’t be more delighted that Tim will be joining Shiver – he’s doing a brilliant job at Twenty Twenty, is a fantastically talented creative and business leader and I can’t wait to start working with him..”
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- Stewart Clarke
'Detroit' to Screen at Rome Film Fest
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Kathryn Bigelow's Detroit will screen at the Italian capital’s biggest film festival later this year, organizers of the Rome Film Fest said Monday.
"It is an extraordinary new film from a great director,” said fest director Antonio Monda. “It is a great honor to present a film of this quality."
The film details the Algiers Motel incident in July of 1967 during the 12th Street Riot in Detroit, resulting in the murder of three black men. Written by Academy Award winner Mark Boal, Detroit stars John Boyega, Will Poulter, Jacob Latimore, Jack Reynor and Hannah Murray.
Bigelow is the first and only woman to win an Academy Award for best director for her »
- Ariston Anderson
‘Doctor Who’s’ Jodie Whittaker Says Stars ‘Don’t Always Have To Tick The Same Box’
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In her first broadcast interview since landing the lead role in “Doctor Who,” Jodie Whitaker has said she has been given advice by some of the previous actors to have played the Doctor, and added that new head writer and executive producer Chris Chibnall will take the sci-fi series in an amazing direction.
Speaking on BBC radio station 6 Music, Whittaker addressed the reaction to her being the first woman to take the lead role in the show on a permanent basis. “The people that are in these roles that we are excited by, are passionate about, or look up to, don’t always have to tick the same box, and that’s what’s really incredible about it,” she said.
Whittaker was unveiled as the new lead in “Doctor Who” last month. Outgoing showrunner Steven Moffat has since reacted angrily to the negative reaction, in some quarters, to casting a woman in the role, a »
- Stewart Clarke
Venice Film Festival Adds John Woo's 'Manhunt' to Lineup
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Three world premieres have been added to the lineup of the 74th Venice International Film Festival to complete the program.
John Woo returns to the crime thriller genre where he started his career with his latest film, Manhunt, set to premiere in Venice in an out-of-competition slot.
In the remake of a 1976 Japanese classic, a Chinese man is framed for murder in Japan and hunted by the authorities and a group of mystery killers. Woo (A Better Tomorrow, Face/Off) is a Lido favorite and was feted at the festival in 2010 with a Golden Lion for Career Achievement.
- Ariston Anderson
John Woo’s ‘Manhunt’ to World Premiere at Venice Film Festival
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Top Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo’s hotly anticipated thriller “Manhunt” will world premiere out-of-competition at the upcoming 74th Venice Film Festival.
The film is about a prosecutor, played by award-winning Chinese actor Zhang Hanyu, who is framed for robbery, rape and multiple murders and sets out on a difficult solo mission to clear his name. Japanese heartthrob actor and singer Masaharu Fukuyama plays the detective chasing Zhang’s character.
The film, which is a remake of a 1976 Japanese classic action movie, is produced by Hong Kong’s Media Asia.
“Manhunt” marks Woo’s return to the the police thriller genre that made him famous in Hong Kong with “The Killer” and “Hardboiled” before he relocated to Hollywood in the 1990s, where he shot studio blockbusters such as “Mission: Impossible II,” “Face/Off” and “Windtalkers.” Woo recently returned to Asia, directing epics including “Red Cliff” and “The Crossing” and also executive producing a remake of cult hit »
- Nick Vivarelli
Locarno: Todd Haynes to Direct Velvet Underground Documentary (Exclusive)
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Locarno, Switzerland — From “Velvet Goldmine” to the Velvet Underground.
Todd Haynes, director of acclaimed U.S. independent milestones – “Far From Heaven,” “Carol” are just two – is teaming with Christine Vachon at Killer Films, the producer of all his films, as well as David Blackman and Universal Music Group to direct his first documentary, on the Velvet Underground, one of the most seminal rock groups in history.
Haynes also remarked that he is preparing a limited TV series with Amazon about “an intensely important figure of immense historical and cultural influence.”
The American director-screenwriter and producer confirmed the Velvet Underground docu feature at the Locarno Festival, where he will receive the Pardo d’onore Manor for career achievement, 26 years after the Swiss festival selected his debut feature, “Poison,” in competition, helping to launch the career of one of the U.S.’s most laureled indie filmmakers.
The confirmation of the documentary comes 50 years after the release of “Velvet Underground »
- John Hopewell
Controversial Princess Diana Documentary is Channel 4’s Best Performer of 2017
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“Diana: In Her Own Words” was Channel 4’s best-performing show of 2017, and the U.K. broadcaster’s highest rating documentary since 2014.
The film had stoked controversy, with friends and supporters of the Princess suggesting it would cause upset to her sons, William and Harry, and other family. It was based upon video recordings of the princess, made by her voice coach Peter Settelen, as she prepared to tell the world her side of her story.
The show went out last night, Sunday, in a primetime slot on Channel 4. It had an average of 3.5 million viewers and 16.4% audience share, up 142% on average. The U.K. audience peaked at 4.1 million and a 19% share.
The results make “Diana: In Her Own Words” the biggest show on Channel 4 since an episode of “Gogglebox” last April, and the best performing documentary on the channel since “Benefits Street” in early 2014.
A one-hour version of the show entitled “Diana – Her Story,” will »
- Stewart Clarke
Italy’s Alice Rohrwacher Shooting ‘Lazzaro Felice,’ Match Factory Takes World Sales (Exclusive)
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Locarno, Switzerland – Italian director Alice Rohrwacher (“The Wonders”) has started principal photography on “Lazzaro Felice,” about a man living on the margins of society who travels through time. The film’s European A-list ensemble cast comprises Sergi Lopez (“Pan’s Labyrinth”) of Spain and Alba Rohrwacher (“I Am Love”) and Nicoletta Braschi (“Life Is Beautiful”) of Italy.
Germany’s The Match Factory will be selling “Lazzaro” internationally outside Italy.
Cameras started rolling Monday in the central Italian countryside near Civita di Bagnoregio, a scenic ancient village perched on an eroding tufa rock plateau.
Rohrwacher is collaborating with her regular director of photography, Helene Louvart, who is also known for work with auteurs such as Wim Wenders, Agnes Varda and Claire Denis.
The director wrote the screenplay last year while she was the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Jaeger-LeCoultre’s filmmaker in residence. Details of the story are being kept under wraps beyond the fact that it »
- Nick Vivarelli
‘The Grand Tour’s’ Jeremy Clarkson ‘Out of Action For Some Time’ With Pneumonia
3 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Jeremy Clarkson is being treated for pneumonia and has said he will be “out of action for some time.” The British presenter was taking a break from filming the second season of “The Grand Tour,” which is Amazon Prime’s biggest show globally, and was on vacation in Majorca when he was taken ill.
On the DriveTribe website Clarkson updated fans with a post that read: “Thanks for all the good wishes. And to keep you up to date, I’ll be out of action for quite some time apparently. It’s really really annoying because I’ve never had one day off work since I started in 1978.”
The former “Top Gear” host has also posted a picture on Instagram of his bandaged arm, with tubes in, and the accompanying comment: “Not the sort of bangles I usually choose on holiday.”
“The Grand Tour” is filmed and released episodically, as opposed to the binge-release model used for »
- Stewart Clarke
Korea Box Office: ‘Taxi Driver’ Revs up Third Biggest Opening of All Time
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Opening on Wednesday, “A Taxi Driver” debuted on top of the South Korean box office. With top Korean actor Song Kang-ho and German star Thomas Kretschmann, the Showbox release earned $30.7 million from 4.36 million admissions over five days. That is the third highest opening score of all time, behind “Roaring Currents” and “Train to Busan” in admissions terms.
Based on real events, “Taxi Driver” is the story of a Korean taxi driver who becomes involved in a German journalist’s reporting of the Gwangju Pro-Democracy Movement in 1980. The film is directed by Jang Hun.
Previous winner, Cj Entertainment’s “The Battleship Island” slipped to second with a 73% weekly decline. The Ryoo Seung-wan-directed movie earned $5.08 million between Friday and Sunday for a total of $41.4 million after two weekends. Upi’s “Despicable Me 3” slipped to third, earning $3.68 million between Friday and Sunday. The animated feature has earned a cumulative $17.0 million since its Jul. 26 release. »
- Sonia Kil
‘Twin Peaks:’ Why a Certain Callback Delivered the Most Beautiful Performance of So Far
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Major spoilers below for “Twin Peaks: The Return” up to Part 13. Part 13 of “Twin Peaks: The Return” was filled with memorable moments — like when Evil Cooper toyed with a man at arm wrestling before killing him — but one of the most memorable was one of the most understated. David Lynch has made a habit out of ending each part with a musical performance. Most so far have been guest spots for artists such as Trent Reznor, so when James Hurley (James Marshall) took the stage, viewers knew they were in for something different. Also Read: 'Twin Peaks': All. »
- Carli Velocci
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