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Mel Gibson, Frank Grillo Eye Action-Thriller ‘Boss Level’
3 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Mel Gibson and Frank Grillo are in negotiations to star in the independent action-thriller “Boss Level,” with Joe Carnahan attached to direct from his own script.
Grillo will play a retired special forces veteran trapped in a never-ending loop resulting in his death every day.
The film will be financed by Emmett/Furla/Oasis, and produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian, and Randall Emmett and George Furla. Production companies are Emmett/Furla/Oasis, Di Bonaventura Pictures, Carnahan and Grillo’s War Party, and Scott Free.
Gibson is currently starring as the father of Mark Wahlberg’s character in “Daddy’s Home 2” at Paramount. He received an Academy Award directing nomination this year for “Hacksaw Ridge” — his third Oscar nomination after winning for directing and producing “Braveheart” in 1995. He starred with Vince Vaughn in the police thriller “Dragged Across Concrete” and in the Irish historical drama “The Professor and the Madman,” portraying [link=nm »
- Dave McNary
Whitney Cummings Comedy ‘The Female Brain’ Sells to IFC (Exclusive)
14 November 2017 1:45 PM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
IFC Films has nabbed U.S. and Canadian distribution rights to Whitney Cummings’s “The Female Brain.” The ensemble comedy is based on a book of the same name by neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine — it’s a bestseller that made the controversial argument that women’s behavior differed from that of men because of hormonal differences.
“The Female Brain” is directed by Cummings, who also stars as Dr. Brizendine. The cast includes Toby Kebbell, Beanie Feldstein, Cecily Strong, Sofia Vergara, Deon Cole, Blake Griffin, Lucy Punch, and James Marsden. The project was financed by Black Bicycle Entertainment and produced by Erika Olde and Night and Day Pictures’ Michael Roiff. IFC will release the picture on Feb. 9, 2018. Along with directing and appearing in the movie, Cummings co-wrote it with Neal Brennan. »
- Brent Lang
‘Transparent’ Writers Considering Season 5 Without Jeffrey Tambor Following Sexual Harassment Allegations
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Netflix and Media Rights Capital are currently trying to figure out a way forward with “House Of Cards,” without including Kevin Spacey, who is facing serious allegations of sexual harassment and assault. Meanwhile, Louis C.K. has seen the entire industry take a strong step back after he admitted to sexual harassing women in light of allegations published in the New York Times.
Continue reading ‘Transparent’ Writers Considering Season 5 Without Jeffrey Tambor Following Sexual Harassment Allegations at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Jordan Peele Challenges Golden Globes Classifying ‘Get Out’ As a Comedy: ‘What Are You Laughing At?’
37 minutes ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Before he directed “Get Out,” Jordan Peele was best known as a comedy figure, one half of the famed “Key & Peele” duo. His first feature transformed Peele’s reputation: As “Get Out” grossed over $250 million worldwide, Peele became known first and foremost as a filmmaker, with his racially-tinged story about rich white people who keep black people under mind control striking audiences as both outrageous and eerily familiar. No matter the absurd premise, “Get Out” explores the paranoia and victimization of the African American experience with palpable suspense and ideas that go well beyond the realm of punchlines.
Nevertheless, as the movie careens through awards season, Golden Globes voters will be considering “Get Out” in the Best Musical or Comedy category, not for Best Drama. This outcome has prompted plenty of online backlash, and a tweet from Peele calling the movie a documentary, acknowledging the limitations of those categories.
‘Get Out’ is a documentary. »
- Eric Kohn
‘Robot Chicken’ Reveals Rejected ‘Titanic’ Sketch With a Much More Satisfying Ending
39 minutes ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
“Robot Chicken” always finds a way to make everything even more absurd than it already might be, and that includes playing off the beatdown “Titanic” joke about Jack’s tragic end. In a recent tweet, the “Robot Chicken” social media team revealed a rejected, “Titanic” sketch that provided fans of the classic film a much more satisfying ending.
Read More: James Cameron Defends ‘Titanic’ Ending, Says The ‘MythBusters’ Guys Are ‘Full of S**t’
Although the Times New Roman font and bullet points are jarring, the content is pretty hysterical. The sketch is timely, given that “Titanic” is returning to theaters for its 20th anniversary this December, and also timeless, considering parkour jokes are just that. Read the outline for the sketch below:
In honor of Titanic returning to theaters for its 20th anniversary here is a rejected Rc sketch pic.twitter.com/Od2oM8YLTO
— Robot Chicken (@cyborgturkey) November »
- Raelyn Giansanti
‘Night Of The Living Dead’ Haunts The Criterion Collection, ‘Silence Of The Lambs’ Returns
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Halloween may be behind us, but the folks at The Criterion Collection are ready to send a chill up your spine, as they prepare another excellent slate of films, for February.
Leading the pack is George A. Romero‘s “Night Of The Living Dead.” So, why do you need the Criterion edition, when this has been released countless times? Well, aside from the new 4K restoration, the package will the include previously unreleased 16mm dailies, as well as the unseen “Night Of Anubis” workprint edit of the movie.
Continue reading ‘Night Of The Living Dead’ Haunts The Criterion Collection, ‘Silence Of The Lambs’ Returns at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
‘Silence of the Lambs,’ ‘Night of the Living Dead,’ and More Join Criterion Collection in February 2018
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The Criterion Collection will be paying its respects to the late Jonathan Demme and George A. Romero in February 2018 by finally making “The Silence of the Lambs” and “Night of the Living Dead” members of its prestigious library. The two horror classics are joining famous titles from Kon Ichikawa, Satyajit Ray, and Tony Richardson as February additions to the Criterion Collection.
Read More:The Criterion Collection Announces January 2018 Titles, Including ‘The Breakfast Club’ and ‘I, Daniel Blake’
Criterion will release a new 4K digital restoration of “The Silence of the Lambs,” which has been approved by the movie’s cinematographer Tak Fujimoto. Included on the DVD and Blu-ray sets are 35 minutes of deleted scenes and audio commentary from 1994 featuring Demme, Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, screenwriter Ted Tally, and former FBI agent John Douglas. “Night of the Living Dead” will also be released in 4K, with never-before-seen 16mm dailies included as a bonus feature. »
- Zack Sharf
Todd Haynes & Dan Gilroy Discuss the Parallel Universe Of ‘Wonderstruck’
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Todd Haynes and Dan Gilroy sit down to discuss the creative process behind “Wonderstruck,” their influences and taking on projects that resonate on “The Directors Cut” podcast. Dan Gilroy is presently hard at work himself, promoting his newest film “Roman J. Israel, Esq.“ starring Denzel Washington and Colin Farrell.
The mystery of “Wonderstruck” is palpable, carefully intertwined within the parallel journeys the two children, Ben and Rose take.
Continue reading Todd Haynes & Dan Gilroy Discuss the Parallel Universe Of ‘Wonderstruck’ at The Playlist. »
- Martine Olivier
Exclusive Clip: Chanelle Aponte Pearson and Rae Leone Allen’s 195 Lewis
1 hour ago | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
195 Lewis, a web series directed by Chanelle Aponte Pearson and created by Rae Leone Allen, premieres tomorrow night at 8:00 Pm at the show’s website. Last year, when the series was in production, we interviewed Pearson, and she discussed her own motivation for joining the project: At the time of joining the project as director, I used to watch The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl and The Couple, so I largely understood the format to work best for comedies with episodes ranging from two to five minutes. Despite knowing this, I still entered the writing process not focusing on […] »
- Scott Macaulay
Oscars 2017: The Best Supporting Actor Race Is All About Being a Great Father
2 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
This hasn’t exactly been a great year for men. The male brand has seen better days. The product is still the same as it’s been for the last few millennia — the patriarchy is one hell of a preservative — but its iron hold on the marketplace is slipping. Society as a whole is finally coming to grips with a grim fact that so many people had already learned the hard way, that so many people had been silenced and shamed into keeping like a secret: Men are defective.
That’s not to say that all men are broken, but rather that all men are capable of the abuses for which the worst of us are now being ex-communicated, that all men are culpable for allowing those abuses to continue, and that all men are corruptible when endowed with the power that we have always assumed as a natural right. »
- David Ehrlich
Mel Gibson, Frank Grillo & Joe Carnahan Making A Movie That Sounds Like ‘Edge Of Tomorrow’
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While two movies don’t make a trend….does three? Films with characters caught in a loop don’t come around very often, but in recent memory, the gimmick has been given a sci-fi touch with “Source Code” and “Edge Of Tomorrow.” Now, audiences will circle back to another movie using that storytelling device.
Mel Gibson and Frank Grillo make the unlikely leading duo of Joe Carnahan‘s “Boss Level.” The video game-esque title seems appropriate, with the story retired special forces veteran who keeps living the day of his death over and over again, and has to figure out how to break the cycle, and whose behind nefarious scheme (my guess?
Continue reading Mel Gibson, Frank Grillo & Joe Carnahan Making A Movie That Sounds Like ‘Edge Of Tomorrow’ at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Revisiting History at the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival
2 hours ago | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
Sante Fe has archeological sites that date back 13,000 years. As we drove to my hotel from the Albuquerque airport, almost an hour-long trek at midnight, my driver told me about the history of the city, rooted in Native American culture, that I had no idea dated that far back. “History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes,” Mark Twain supposedly said. After spending a weekend at the Sante Fe Independent Film Festival, the thought felt applicable — the lineup of films demonstrated the cynical nature of oppression, struggle and minority battles that indeed continue in familiar patterns. Set on […] »
- Meredith Alloway
‘Galaxy Quest’: Paul Scheer Plans to Blend Original and New Casts For Amazon Series
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By Grabthar’s Hammer, the criminally overlooked “Galaxy Quest” will be avenged. Based on some new comments from writer/producer Paul Scheer, there’s reason to be excited about the still-in-the-works sci-fi comedy.
Amazon first announced it was developing the 1999 film as an episodic series in 2015, but things escalated last August when Scheer came on board to work on the show. In a new interview with SlashFilm, he revealed that he’s not only turned in his first script for the series, but has some big ideas on how to honor the original film while also updating the premise for the modern age of television.
“It’s going to be so long before people get to see it, I don’t want people to get too burnt out on me telling you what it’s about before it gets to that point,” he said. “But for me, it was really »
- Liz Shannon Miller
‘Paddington 2’ Goes To Warner Bros., But The Weinstein Company Will Still Profit
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While many around the industry are eager to drop any association with the now tarnished brand of The Weinstein Company, it’s not as easy as just scrubbing off a name. There are contracts and legal formalities and more that mean the house that Harvey Weinstein built won’t so quickly disappear. Case in point: “Paddington 2.”
The highly anticipated sequel, which is already doing strong business in the U.K., was slated to be The Weinstein Company’s first big release of 2018, something touted by Bob Weinstein in the early days of his brother’s scandal.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
20th Century Fox VP Is Leaving the Studio to Launch a Startup Combating Sexual Assault
2 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
As Hollywood reels from the deluge of sexual assault allegations, one studio executive may be a sign of change to come. Claire Schmidt is leaving her position 20th Century Fox to launch AllVoices, which will allow victims to anonymously report incidents of sexual assault, discrimination, and bias witnessed in the workplace. Schmidt, who joined the studio just eight months ago as VP of technology and innovation, is also a survivor of sexual assault. “[W]ith all of these stories coming to the forefront, I realized I had to do more,” she wrote on Medium, announcing the new venture.
“The recent onslaught of courageous women and men coming forward to tell their stories about assault and harassment has been incredibly inspiring to me,” wrote Schmidt. “But…as I read news article after news article, I kept thinking: Have we done enough? Have I done enough?”
Read More:Feuding Harvey Weinstein and The Weinstein Company »
- Jude Dry
‘MythBusters’: This Friendlier, Science-Loving Reboot is Perfect 2017 Counterprogramming
3 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
It doesn’t take long for the newly revamped version of “MythBusters” to take part in some mythmaking of its own. For anyone who might stumble on the title in a program guide and wonder why former hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman aren’t the lead scientists on this unscripted TV mainstay anymore, there’s a handy introduction of new faces Jon Lung and Brian Louden. Specifically chosen as part of the “MythBusters: The Search” competition series from earlier this year, the quick intro to the newest “MythBusters” season (premiering Wednesday night on Science Channel) feeds into the idea that these two were destined to take the reigns and shepherd the series forward.
The result is Lung and Louden now heading up a show that’s a slightly revamped, but still true to its predecessor, a thoroughly enjoyable romp through surface-level scientific inquiry that’s still a valuable part of the TV world. »
- Steve Greene
‘Super Mario Bros.’ Booting Up A New Big Screen Adventure
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Movies based on video games have been notoriously horrible. In the last couple decades, there have been many valiant efforts to turn massively famous video games into brand new film franchises, but they all almost all failed to capture an audience. You can pretty much trace this curse back to one film, 1993’s “Super Mario Bros.” That film was abysmal, to say the least, and pretty much killed the careers of many involved.
Continue reading ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Booting Up A New Big Screen Adventure at The Playlist. »
- Charles Dean
Netflix’s ‘Godless’ Is The Best Western Of 2017 [Bingeworthy™ Breakdown]
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After “The Punisher,” and “Stranger Things” “Alias Grace,” and “Mindhunter,” Netflix is on a serious roll of quality programming and therefore the Bingeworthy™ Breakdown is back and busier than ever.
This week, we’re looking at Scott Frank’s western “Godless.” Scott Frank is known for writing “Minority Report,” “Logan,” ‘Get Shorty” and for directing “The Lookout” and “A Walk Among The Tombstones.” The self-contained, seven episode mini-series stars Jeff Daniels, Jack O’Connell (“Starred Up”), Michelle Dockery (“Downton Abbey”) and Scoot McNairy (“Halt And Catch Fire”).
Continue reading Netflix’s ‘Godless’ Is The Best Western Of 2017 [Bingeworthy™ Breakdown] at The Playlist. »
- Rodrigo Perez
Feuding Harvey Weinstein and The Weinstein Company Named Co-Defendants in Lawsuits Filed by Two Actresses
3 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
The Weinstein Company and its fired co-chairman, Harvey Weinstein, have been served two new California civil lawsuits in the past 24 hours. Each plaintiff is an actress listed as Jane Doe, but the second case is a class action suit that could amass many more accusers.
On November 14, TMZ first reported a lawsuit in which a woman claims Weinstein raped her at the Montage Beverly Hills hotel in 2016 after she was falsely told that she’d been cast in the now-cancelled Netflix series “Marco Polo,” which he executive produced. She said that the assault began with Weinstein performing unwanted oral sex on her, then penetrating her without a condom as she attempted to fight him off. At the same hotel in 2015, she was allegedly forced to watch the studio chief masturbate while he clutched her wrists with his free hand.
Read More:Harvey Weinstein’s Firing: What Happens to TWC, the Movies, »
- Jenna Marotta
Tom Sizemore Dropped From New Film After Being Accused of Groping 11-Year-Old Actress
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Production company Global Genesis Group has announced it is removing actor Tom Sizemore from its upcoming horror-thriller “The Door” following an allegation against the actor that claims he groped an 11-year-old actress in 2003. Sizemore was cast in the 1950s-set film in August in the role of Scott, one half of a married couple who discovers his house may be haunted. The screenplay was written by Charles Morris and Harel Goldstein.
Read More:Christopher Plummer on Replacing Kevin Spacey After Sexual Assault Allegations: ‘It’s A Shame’
Sizemore has been accused of groping an 11-year-old actress during the making of “Born Killers.” According to the police report, Sizemore allegedly placed his hand underneath the actress while they were taking cast photos so that she would sit on it. When she nudged away from him, Sizemore allegedly followed her with his hand and touched her genitals.
Earlier in the day, the actor »
- Zack Sharf
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