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'American Made' and 'Flatliners' Target Spots in the Weekend Box Office Top Five
15 hours ago | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
As of the end of the day Wednesday, the month-to-date gross is less than $6 million shy of becoming the largest September ever. Much of the month's $620+ million is thanks to the record performance from It, which has grossed over $272 million domestically and $500 million globally. The month should become the largest September ever by the end of day today and this weekend offers one last chance to add to the total with new releases including Tom Cruise's American Made and Sony's Flatliners remake hitting theaters. Mojo's weekend forecast has the top twelve bringing in around $89 million, which would mean the month is likely to finish over $690 million, though just a bit shy of becoming the first September ever to hit $700 million. A pair of holdovers are likely to repeat atop the weekend box office beginning with Fox's Kingsman: The Golden Circle, which should pull in somewhere around $19.5 million, again finishing »
- Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
Box-Office Milestone: 'It' Crosses $500M in Global Ticket Sales
16 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Director Andy Muschietti's It has crossed the $500 million mark at the worldwide box office in yet another victory for New Line and Warner Bros.
The R-rated horror film achieved the milestone less than a month into its record-shattering run. It, adapted from Stephen King's 1986 novel about a group of kids battling bullies and the demonic Pennywise the Dancing Clown, is bound to be one of the most profitable titles of 2017 after costing a modest $35 million to produce (which doesn't include marketing costs).
"Crossing $500 million is rarified air for any film, but for a horror film »
- Pamela McClintock
‘Flight of the Navigator’ Reboot in Works With ‘Lucifer’ Showrunner
16 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Lionsgate and The Henson Company are rebooting the 1986 adventure movie “The Flight of the Navigator” and have hired “Lucifer” showrunner Joe Henderson to write the script.
The original film, directed by Randal Kleiser, starred Joey Cramer as a 12-year-old boy who falls into a ravine and is knocked unconscious when walking through the woods in 1978. He regains consciousness in 1986 without having aged and with no memories of the past eight years. He eventually discovers that he was abducted by an alien spaceship.
Veronica Cartwright and Sarah Jessica Parker also starred in the film, while Paul Reubens voiced the flying saucer’s pilot. Brad Copeland (“Arrested Development”) was hired by Disney to write the first draft of the remake in 2009. In 2012, Disney hired Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly to write the script for the project as a potential directing vehicle for Trevorrow.
At that point, David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman were producing the remake through their Mandeville banner »
- Dave McNary
‘Coming to America’ Sequel: Jonathan Levine and Kenya Barris Team Up to Direct, Write
18 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
“Warm Bodies” helmer Jonathan Levine will direct the “Coming to America” sequel, while “Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris will rewrite the script, an individual with knowledge told TheWrap.
A sequel to the 1988 film starring Eddie Murphy has long been discussed but Paramount made it official earlier this year when the studio hired Barry Blaustein and David Sheffield, who wrote the screenplay for the original film, to write the sequel.
Murphy is expected to return for the follow-up, although no formal deal is in place yet. Kevin Misher will produce.
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- Beatrice Verhoeven
Tiffany Dupont Joins Greg Kinnear in Brian Banks Drama (Exclusive)
22 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Tiffany Dupont has joined the cast of Brian Banks, the drama recounting the true story of the wrongful imprisonment and exoneration of the one-time high school football prodigy.
Tom Shadyac is directing the feature, making it his first directorial project since 2003’s Bruce Almighty and 2007’s Evan Almighty. Aldis Hodge and Greg Kinnear are also among the cast, and Doug Atchison wrote the script. The project was originally incubated through Amy Baer’s development fund Gidden Media, and Baer will produce alongside ShivHans Pictures’ Shivani Rawat and Monica Levinson. Banks, Justin Brooks and Neil Strum are executive producers.
Brian Banks centers on the titular »
- Ashley Lee
'Georgy Girl' Producer Robert A. Goldston Dies at 88
10 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Producer Robert A. Goldston, whose credits ranged from such American Film Theatre productions as The Iceman Cometh and A Delicate Balance in the 1970s to the 1987 HBO film Mandela, died Saturday at his home in New York from complications of Crohn’s disease. He was 88.
A graduate of Harvard Law, Goldston practiced law briefly before entering show business, working first at Screen Gems/Columbia and then joining New York’s WNTA, the forerunner to public television station WNET. There, as president of NTA Productions, he was involved in the Play of the Week series, which ran from 1959-1961, broadcasting 67 Broadway-style »
- Gregg Kilday
Stephen King's It scares off The Exorcist to become highest-grossing horror ever
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The adaptation of King’s demonic clown story crosses $500m mark at the global box office as studio fast-tracks sequel
Stephen King’s It has broken the 44-year record set by The Exorcist to become the highest-grossing horror film of all time.
Warner Bros announced Thursday that the film, an adaptation of King’s novel about a child-devouring clown, had crossed the $500m (£399m) mark at the global box office, besting the $441m total made by The Exorcist. It had already set the record for a horror film in 17 territories, including the Us, the UK and Australia.
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- Gwilym Mumford
Film Review: ‘The Great Buddha+’
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Two small-town nobodies who get cheap thrills from car dash-cam videos lay eyes on more than they can handle in “The Great Buddha+,” a mordant black comedy that’s a digital-era homage to “Rear Window.” Sporting an ingeniously cinematic concept that’s nimbly executed by writer-director Huang Hsin-yao and producer-dp Chung Mong-hong, this ballad of sad losers mixed with satire on parochial politics is convulsively funny yet uncompromisingly bleak, bridging art with entertainment. Arguably the best film to emerge from a year of exciting resurgence in Taiwan, which hasn’t produced an independent film that addresses themes both local and global in some time, “Buddha” swept the board at the Taipei Film Awards, and should be blessed with numerous festival invitations.
A documentary filmmaker with several awards under his belt, Huang caught the eye of auteur Chung Mong-hong (“Godspeed,” “Soul”) with his first fiction short, after which Chung offered to produce as well as shoot a feature-length »
- Maggie Lee
The Exception review – ridiculous, raunchy story of the Kaiser in exile
1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Lily James, Eddie Marsan and a bewhiskered Christopher Plummer star in the tale of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland, 1940 – when the Nazis come to dinner
This resembles the crazed love child of ’Allo ’Allo! and Suite Française; it’s actually adapted from the 2003 novel The Kaiser’s Last Kiss by Alan Judd. We are in occupied Holland in 1940, where the abdicated German Kaiser is now living – played with much bewhiskered grumpiness by Christopher Plummer. Janet McTeer plays the prickly empress. With the Nazis now in charge, a decent Wehrmacht officer is put in charge of the Kaiser’s security, and this is Captain Stefan Brandt, played by Jai Courtney, who soon cops a couple of super-raunchy love scenes with the Kaiser’s comely Dutch maidservant Mieke, in which role Lily James talks about “sherving the Kaissher” in a Steve McClaren Dutch accent.
It all comes to a head when Heinrich Himmler (Eddie Marsan) comes to dinner, »
- Peter Bradshaw
You're hired! How TV carried Reagan and Trump to the White House
1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The Reagan Show, a new archive-based documentary, offers compelling fly-on-the-wall insights into the staging of President Reagan’s performances on screen – and reveals the origins of Trumpism
So large does Donald Trump now loom that any examination of the Us presidency – even one that’s supposedly historical or fictional – is viewed through the shadow he casts. Audiences can’t help themselves. No matter what point the director or novelist might be making, the viewer or reader is running a silent mental comparison with the current occupant of the White House.
Related: Lovers, haters and dead dictators: the must-see movies of autumn 2017
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- Jonathan Freedland
Movistar + : Telefonica’s High-End Drama Slate: A Rundown
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Madrid — Telefonica’s Movistar + bows two of its first series, “The Plague” and “Spanish Shame” at San Sebastián. That is one of the highlights of this year’s festival. But there are more series to come. Here’s a rundown of Movistar +’s original series plans, taking in seven greenlit series:
“Velvet Collection”
Sold by Beta Film, a sequel to “Velvet,” a milestone in modern TV romantic melodrama, the series jumps from Madrid to Barcelona, exchanging the “Mad Men-ish” world of cinched waists for the Swinging ‘60s. Created by Ramón Campos and Gema R. Neira, produced by Teresa Fernández-Valdés, all at the Studiocanal co-owned Bambú, the 10-episode, 50-minute series world premiered Sept. 5 at Spain’s Vitoria FesTVal, then bowed on Movistar + on Sept. 22.
“The Zone”
Also on Beta Film’s books, and one of Mipcom’s featured International Screenings, a road movie-Western-crime thriller set in a no go zone after a nuclear accident trailing a cop (Eduard Fernández »
- Emiliano De Pablos
What are your favourite films from the 90s?
2 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
From Clueless to Tarantino, the 1990s was Hollywood’s fairytale decade. Now we want to hear about your best picks from the time
Ahh, the unsullied joy of the 1990s - when no one had heard of Netflix, Twitter or Facebook: what a time to be alive! The cinema was pretty good too - with the Us indie charge leading the way, low-budget, smart-mouthed movies emerged from their ghetto, and changed the way Hollywood did things.
Related: Pulp Fiction to Magnolia: the best films of the 90s – as chosen by critics
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- Guardian readers
Lynda Carter attacks 'thuggish' James Cameron over Wonder Woman jibes
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Actor who played the character on TV in the 70s condemns Avatar director’s criticisms of the Patty Jenkins big-screen adaptation
Lynda Carter, who portrayed Wonder Woman in the 70s TV series, has condemned James Cameron as “thuggish” for his continued criticism of Patty Jenkins’ big-screen adaptation of the comic-book character.
Related: James Cameron repeats Wonder Woman criticism: 'That’s not breaking ground'
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- Gwilym Mumford
Film Review: ‘Wheelman’
2 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
It’s difficult to avoid catchphrases like “stripped for speed” and “pedal to the metal” while appraising “Wheelman,” writer-director Jeremy Rush’s cunningly conceived and skillfully executed thriller about a getaway driver who is driven to extremes when someone carjacks the heist for which he’s been hired. It’s a grade-a B-movie that gets maximum mileage from a carefully calibrated mix of hardboiled neo-noir melodrama and high-velocity minimalism. Just as important, Rush’s more-than-promising debut feature — which clocks in at just 82 minutes, with nary a wasted second — is a perfect-fit star vehicle for Frank Grillo, the sinewy tough customer whose previous credits include TV’s “Kingdom,” the Chinese-produced smash hit “Wolf Warrior II” and appearances in the “Captain America” and “Purge” franchises.
The set-up may sound like something on the order of Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive” (or Walter Hill’s “The Driver”), but “Wheelman” actually has a bit more in common with “Locke,” Steven Knight »
- Joe Leydon
Daphne and Zoology: this week’s best films in the UK
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Modern London is the backdrop for a British debut about a complex young woman, while Kafka and folklore combine in a tale about a zoo worker
This British debut homes in on a complex, intelligent, spiky, often self-destructive young woman, adrift in atomised modern-day London. It’s a drama of small moments (many of them drunken), but it’s above all a calling card for Emily Beecham, who’s never less than compelling.
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- Steve Rose
Gerald's Game review – suspense-packed Stephen King adaptation is worth playing
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Hush director Mike Flanagan brings a Hitchcockian sensibility to this Netflix thriller about a woman battling for survival after a sex game goes wrong
It’s been one heck of a year for Stephen King adaptations, at least in terms of sheer quantity rather than consistent quality. A mixed reception met the small-screen redo of The Mist, critics and audiences were uninterested in the failed franchise starter The Dark Tower, no one really got to see Mr Mercedes and then, saving the day, It is now set to become the biggest horror film of all time. But while the latter remains a trending topic, there’s a Netflix thriller quietly launching this weekend that also deserves some fanfare.
Related: Will the success of Stephen King's It result in a Hollywood Kingaissance?
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- Benjamin Lee
San Sebastián: Women’s Docs Top 13th Lau Haizetara Forum
2 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
San Sebastian — Social-themed projects focused on women proved highlights Thursday at the 13th Lau Haizetara Documentary Co-Production Forum, part of the San Sebastián Festival.
One of the objetives of the forum is to reflect changes in society through the documentary projects it selects. Gender identity has become a key global social issue.
Directed by Spanish filmmaker Chus Gutiérrez (“Return to Hansala”) and produced by Turanga and Revolution Films, “Rol&Rol” analyzes the roles portrayed in the media by women, asking prominent Spanish and international people about what happened in the last three decades regarding the gender policies.
In “Get Settled!,” a Story Farm production in Sweden, director-producer Karin Wegsjö shows four women in China with different ways of handling the conflict between their own dreams and ambitions and their family pressures.
Addressing the desperate situation of women from Asia and Africa, exploited as domestic servants in Beirut, Madrid-based AlemDoc, run by Fátima Subeh and Edu Martín, presented »
- Emiliano De Pablos
San Sebastian: Mutante Cine Launches Fully-Fledged Distribution Arm (Exclusive)
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Uruguay’s Mutante Cine, one of the key arthouse producers in Latin America, is launching a full-on distribution operation as it tests the waters with international sales.
Founded in 2011 by Agustina Chiarino and Fernando Epstein, the producers behind such notable pics as “25 Watts,” “Whisky,” “La Perrera,” “Acné,” “Tanta Agua” and Adrian Biniez’s 2009 Berlinale Jury Grand Prix winner “Gigante,” Mutante Cine is launching a distribution arm with up to six films this year, Chiarino said in San Sebastián.
“We’ll kickstart our sales operations with Biniez’s ‘Las Olas’ and a documentary we’re producing,” said Chiarino. The surreal “Las Olas” pivots on Alfonso, a Montevideo messenger in his mid-thirties who is transported to memories of past summers of his youth when he dives into the sea.
The high-concept drama participated in San Sebastian’s Films in Progress program in 2016, and is competing at the festival’s Horizontes Latinos sidebar this year.
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- Anna Marie de la Fuente
They'll be back: are reissues of familiar favourites crowding out hard-to-find classics?
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Terminator 2, Dirty Dancing and The Silence of the Lambs are all set for cinema runs – but are brilliant older films in danger of permanent eclipse?
The Terminator dies. Baby pulls off a perfect 10 lift. Hannibal Lecter escapes (albeit wearing a giveaway wig that screams psychopath-on-the-lam). No spoiler alerts are necessary for the endings of Terminator 2, Dirty Dancing or The Silence of the Lambs. You’ve either seen them umpteen times already or you know them by osmosis, from the memes and the YouTube clips. I’m sure even Jacob Rees-Mogg can do a fair to middling “Hasta la vista, baby”. So why is this trio of old faves getting cinema comebacks in 2017?
Rereleases have always been a fixture on the calendar. They give audiences the chance to see gold-plated masterpieces back on the big screen where they belong. As a teenager, I watched my dad’s VHS tape of The Shining »
- Cath Clarke
San Sebastian Film Review: ‘A Fish Out of Water’
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It’s one thing for your Uncle Boonmee to recall his past lives; when your kindergarten-age child starts doing it, however, it’s cause for active concern. Yet a serene, zen-like aversion to explanation is ultimately the making of “A Fish Out of Water,” a beguiling domestic fable in which real-world family strife is further complicated — but potentially healed — by the suggestion of a more tranquil parallel universe, as the young son of a separating couple embarks on a stubbornly enigmatic quest to locate his “past parents.” A loosely woven brain-teaser with a creepingly intense emotional undertow, this marks a confident, collected first foray into features directing for Taiwanese commercials veteran Lai Kuo-An.
Having premiered in Toronto’s Discovery program before landing a slot in San Sebastian’s New Directors competition, Lai’s elegantly teasing debut can expect to place in various other international showcases for fresh talent in the months to come. Modest »
- Guy Lodge
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