Tina Fey and Ronda Rousey to Star in ‘Do Nothing Bitches’ for Universal
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Universal Pictures has acquired the Paula Pell pitch “Do Nothing Bitches” with Tina Fey and Ronda Rousey attached to star.
Story follows wealthy pampered wives who get a rude awakening at a camp where Rousey plays the no-nonsense instructor.
Pell, who most recently penned the Universal comedy “Sisters,” which also starred Tina Fey, will pen the script. Fey will produce “Do Nothing Bitches” via her Little Stranger Productions banner along with Pell, and Little Stranger’s Eric Gurian will executive produce. Evp Production Erik Baiers will oversee for the studio.
Though “Star Wars” demolished almost every film in its way during the holiday season, “Sisters” worked as solid counter-programing, bringing in $77 million at the domestic box office so far. Fey can be seen next in “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot,” which bows in March, opposite Margot Robbie.
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- Justin Kroll
Christian Bale Exits Michael Mann’s ‘Enzo Ferrari,’ Balks At Weight Gain
6 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Exclusive: Christian Bale is reluctantly getting out of the driver’s seat on Michael Mann’s long-gestating Enzo Ferrari. The shape-shifting actor is stepping aside after health concerns over the weight gain necessary to play the iconic carmaker. Bale, who has yo-yo’d throughout his career between extreme weight loss and gain – compare his emaciated turn in The Machinist to his button-busting fatso in American Hustle – appears to have finally bitten off more than even he… »
A Look at the 2015 Best Picture Nominees
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The 2015 Oscar nominations have been announced with The Revenant leading the way with 12 nominations followed by Mad Max: Fury Road with ten. After crunching some numbers we've taken a look at how this year's crop of Best Picture nominees stacks up to prior, pre-nomination box office totals. Have a look at what we found after comparing this year's eight Best Picture nominees to 190 previous Best Picture contenders, going back 33 years to 1982. Note: Before reading on, please be aware this article is specifically comparing pre-nomination grosses (not adjusted for inflation) unless otherwise noted. To begin, Room is the sixth lowest grossing Best Picture nominee (pre-nominations) in the last 33 years with $5.1 million. The five lower grossing films are American Sniper ($3.3M), Letters from Iwo Jima ($2.5M), My Left Foot ($2.1M), The Dresser ($562k) and Amour ($371k). In fact, Room will likely end up as one of the top ten lowest grossing Best »
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Dan Haggerty, ‘Grizzly Adams’ Star, Dies at 74
12 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Dan Haggerty, the famous ’70s actor who played Grizzly Adams in “The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams,” died Friday morning of cancer, a rep for Haggerty told TheWrap. He was 74. Doctors discovered the cancer after Haggerty had surgery for back pain. “All the awards pale in comparison to his huge laugh and wonderful sense of humor that made everyone laugh with him,” his manager Terry Bomar said in a statement to TheWrap. “He would light up any room he entered. He loved life, loved his family, loved his friends and fans. The last words I heard him say were. »
- Beatrice Verhoeven
10 Cloverfield Lane Trailer: Surprise! A Cloverfield Spin-off Is Coming for You
23 hours ago | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
You might not have seen or heard it coming, but just like that monster in the original movie, another Cloverfield film is coming for you. A mysterious teaser trailer for 10 Cloverfield Lane played before screenings of 13 Hours today, prompting fans to speculate that 2008's mysteriously marketed monster flick might be getting its long-rumored sequel. For once, fan speculation is on the mark. J.J. Abrams, who produced the first film, confirmed the news to Collider in a statement: "We wanted to make [10 Cloverfield Lane] a blood relative of Cloverfield. The idea was developed over time. We wanted to hold back the title for as long as possible."10 Cloverfield Lane is directed by Dan Trachtenberg and stars John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and John Gallagher, Jr. According to the trailer, Damien Chazelle (Whiplash) also lent a hand on the script. The project, from Abrams's production company Bad Robot, was originally referred to as a "post-apocalyptic thriller" called Valencia, »
- Jackson McHenry
Box Office: ‘Ride Along 2′ Racing Toward $40 Million, ‘13 Hours’ Targets $22 Million Over MLK Holiday Weekend
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New releases “Ride Along 2” and “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” are expected to hit the ground running over the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend at the box office, along with the continued success of holdovers “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and “The Revenant.”
“Ride Along 2” should finish the four-day weekend in first place with a haul close to $40 million, according to early studio projections. The sequel, starring Kevin Hart and Ice Cube, follows the 2014 original, which grossed $135 million at the domestic box office. “Ride Along 2,” a Universal release, cruised to $1.26 million at 2,381 U.S. theaters in Thursday night showings. It expanded to more than 3,175 sites on Friday.
Michael Bay’s “13 Hours” is expected to take in up to $20 million over the holiday. The wartime drama took in a respectable $900,000 at 1,995 locations on Thursday night. It expanded to more than 2,400 locations on Friday. The Benghazi thriller »
- Marianne Zumberge
Connie Nielsen Cast as Gal Gadot’s Mother in ‘Wonder Woman’
7 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Danish actress Connie Nielsen, best known for her portrayal of the Roman queen in “Gladiator,” has been cast to play Gal Gadot‘s mom in Warner Bros.’ “Wonder Woman.” In the film that also stars Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Danny Huston, David Thewlis and Ewen Bremner, Gadot is playing an Amazonian princess. Nielsen will play Hippoyta, the queen of the Amazons. Also Read: 'Wonder Woman' Star Gal Gadot Shares First Look at DC Hero (Photo) “Wonder Woman” has already begun shooting in the United Kingdom and Italy and is slated for a June 23, 2017 release. »
- Beatrice Verhoeven
Fox Orders Pilot For 24: Legacy With New Hero To Replace Jack Bauer
10 hours ago | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
Fox is pushing forward with a soft reboot of its real-time action series "24," which plans to adopt the same structure and style of the earlier show but with a brand new cast. Details were announced by the network at the Television Critics Association press tour, where Fox brass confirmed that series stalwart Kiefer Sutherland will not be a part of the cast. That may come as a surprise considering the 2014 event series "24: Live Another Day" scored rave reviews.
24: Legacy will instead “revolve around a military hero’s return to the U.S. and the trouble that follows him back – compelling him to ask CTU for help in saving his life, and stopping what potentially could be one of the largest-scale terror attacks on American soil.”
The hero is a twenty-something named Eric Carter, who is described in the pilot script as an African American, but according to Deadline »
- Gem Seddon
Oscar predictions update by Pete Hammond and Tom O'Neil - Who's ahead to win?
27 minutes ago | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
"This has been a wide open Oscar race all year!" Pete Hammond (Deadline) roars in our webcam chat. "But it just got even more wide open now that the nominations are out – and even after the Golden Globes threw everybody for a surprise." I remind Pete that none of the 25 "experts" at Gold Derby predicted that Globes victory by "The Revenant" as Best Drama Picture and now he adds that we may have more surprises ahead. -Break- See latest predictions by top Oscar experts "The movie with the most nominations usually wins Best Picture at the Oscars," he says – so that means "The Revenant" is in good shape, right? Yes, but … "You have these two little movies with six and five nominations – 'Spotlight' and 'The Big Short' and they seem to me to be the frontrunners of the frontrunners because they have nominations for picture, directing, writing and acting. T. »
'Mercy Street': TV Review
2 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
With its first originally produced scripted series since 2002, PBS invites viewers to debate which scenario is more precarious, seeking emergency medical treatment in the technological dark ages of the Civil War or attempting to make an accent-heavy period drama with a cast of American TV stars. Fortunately, the answer is the former. Premiering on Sunday (January 17), Mercy Street milks ample drama from the terrifying prospect of facing even the most minor of procedures in an era in which anesthesia was considered unnecessary and the most scientific testing involved sniffing. While unable to push to quite the surgical
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- Daniel Fienberg
‘Straight Outta Compton’ Producer on Lack of Oscar Diversity: ‘It’s Embarrassing’
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“Straight Outta Compton” producer Will Packer has weighed in on the 2016 Oscar nominations’ lack of diversity.
In a lengthy Facebook post, Packer applauded performances by performers of color and called his fellow Academy members to action, pleading with them to focus on hiring minorities in the future. He also mentions that the all-white acting nominees and the resulting #OscarsSoWhite Twitter trend cast a shadow on the entire ceremony.
“But who I really want to applaud are some other actors, directors and producers who were at the top of their game this year,” Packer wrote. “A list that includes, but is not limited to, Idris Elba, Michael B. Jordan, Will Smith, John Boyega, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tessa Thompson, Audra McDonald, Adepero Oduye, Samuel L.Jackson, Oshea Jackson Jr, Jason Mitchell, Corey Hawkins, F. Gary Gray and Ryan Coogler. Yes, they made us laugh. Yes, they made us cry. Yes, they made us angry. »
- Variety Staff
‘Big Short’ Director Adam McKay Mulls Global Warming, Gun Control Movies (Videos)
3 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
You won’t be getting any “Anchorman” sequels for a while. Oscar-nominated director Adam McKay told TheWrap that he can’t envision making more “absurdist” comedies after he took on the housing market crisis in “The Big Short.” “I don’t know that I’ll ever make a broad, absurdist comedy that way that I have done in the past,” McKay told TheWrap founder and CEO Sharon Waxman during a recent sit-down about his star-studded dramedy. Also Read: Adam McKay Explains Shift From Comedy to Direct 'The Big Short' (Video) “Suddenly those subjects where you’re showing up »
- Matt Donnelly
TV News Roundup: Neil Patrick Harris in Talks to Star in Netflix’s Lemony Snicket Series & More
3 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Neil Patrick Harris has a big new gig, “Code Black” has a new cast member, “Live with Kelly and Michael” score in ratings, and Disney Channel has a new series premiering, in today’s TV news roundup . . .
Casting News:
Neil Patrick Harris is reportedly in talks to star in Netflix’s adaptation of Lemony Snicket’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events.”
The “How I Met Your Mother” alum would play the evil uncle Count Olaf. The Lemony Snicket tale follows three orphans, Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire, who face trials and tribulations at the hands of the Count Olaf, as they seek to discover the secret of their parents’ death. In the 2004 Paramount film, which starred Meryl Streep, Jim Carrey played the role of the uncle, which would be played by Harris.
In other Lemony Snicket news, The Hollywood Reporter also reports that showrunner Mark Hudis has exited the straight-to-series drama, »
- Jacob Bryant
'Grease: Live' Team Promises to Pay "Respect" to Film, Adds Stars Didi Conn and Barry Pearl
3 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
The lively cast and executive producers behind Fox's upcoming Grease: Live brought a much-needed dose of summer lovin' to the dog days of the Television Critics Association winter press tour. Appearing in Pasadena to plug their live musical production of the beloved play and film, the cast, led by Aaron Tveit as Danny and Julianne Hough as Sandy, broke out into song – "We Go Together," natch – and also brought new details on the ambitious production. Grease stars Didi Conn and Barry Pearl, who played Frenchy and Doody, respectively, in the 1978 film have joined the ensemble.
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- Kate Stanhope
'Angie Tribeca': TV Review
3 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
I fully endorse the weird promotional tactic that TBS is employing on Sunday with its newest comedy, Angie Tribeca: 25 (yes, 25) hours of non-stop, commercial-free showings of the 10-episode first season. Why? Because when you have a show this silly, you need to be all-in. And even though you can figure out the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink, non-stop joking of Angie Tribeca pretty quickly, immersing yourself in it utterly is really the way to go. If you have even the slightest resistance to things that are “ridonkulous” then you might as well avoid. The
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- Tim Goodman
‘Grease Live’ Cast Talks New Song, ‘Joy and Exuberance’ of Ambitious Live Event
3 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Joy is the word for the producer and cast of Fox’s “Grease Live.”
Cast members and producer Marc Platt were bubbly and as they discussed the ambitious live staging of the beloved musical, which will unfold on several locations, indoor and outdoor, on the Warner Bros. lot on Jan. 31. Julianne Hough, Aaron Tveit, Carly Rae Jepsen, Vanessa Hudgens and Carlos Penavega limn the key roles of Sandy, Danny, Frenchy, Rizzo and Kenickie in the 1950s-set high school romancer.
“We all feel so lucky,” Platt said. “There is such joy and exuberance every day. We feel lucky for the opportunity. There is such a joyous esprit de corp” among the group.
Director Thomas Kail, fresh from Broadway’s smash hit “Hamilton,” is promising a re-imaging of musical and dance numbers for a new generation. That includes a new song for Frenchy, “All I Need Is an Angel,” penned by “If »
- Cynthia Littleton
‘Grease Live’ Cast Recording to Release on Night of Premiere
3 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Fox’s “Grease Live” will feature the best of both the stage musical and the film version, according to cast and creators, and in the spirit of musical adaptations, will feature a brand new original song. The song was written by Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt, the team behind Broadway musical “Next to Normal,” and will be sung during the live event by Carly Rae Jepsen, who plays Frenchie. Though the event is live, the cast is recording an album beforehand, which will be available for download on the night of the premiere. Also Read: 'Grease Is the Word' in New Teaser for. »
- Linda Ge
Rupert Murdoch Calls "Bullshit" on Report of Diminished Role for Fox News' Roger Ailes
3 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Rupert Murdoch is refuting a published report that he has upped his presence at Fox News as Roger Ailes has become "a diminished force" at cable's top-rated news network. "He seems detached and removed," an anonymous Fox source told New York magazine's Gabriel Sherman, a frequent chronicler of Fox News. Sherman's piece, published Wednesday night, relies on "four high-placed Fox sources," according to the article. Murdoch responded by praising Ailes in a tweet before the Thursday Republican debate on Fox Business Network, and he addressed the article directly in an interview Friday with Fortune magazine. "He's got
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- Paul Bond
‘Grease Is the Word’ in New Teaser for Fox’s ‘Grease: Live’ (Video)
4 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
The stars of “Grease: Live” give a glimpse of their behind-the-scenes preparations in a new teaser for the upcoming Fox musical. In the clip, the cast — led by Julianne Hough, who plays the angelic Sandy, and Aaron Tveit, who plays bad boy Danny Zuko — show off some of their dance moves during rehearsals for the live show, set to air Jan. 31. The teaser also gives a short preview of Jessie J’s rendition of “Grease Is the Word.” Also read: Fox's 'Grease: Live' Adds Boyz II Men to Cast (Video) The duo is joined by Vanessa Hudgens as Rizzo, »
- Reid Nakamura
CeeLo Green Kicks Off New Audience Network Music Series in Grand Style
4 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
As public launches go, the At&T Audience Network’s new series, simply referred to as “Audience Music” (at least for now), couldn’t have set the bar higher than Thursday night’s performance by CeeLo Green and Friends at the Theater At Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
The larger-than-life multi-talent, who most people know from his judging stint on NBC’s “The Voice” and his trademark kaftans, astounded with the depth and breadth of his set, performing a range of recent and classic material from his oeuvre, as well covering everyone from Frank Zappa to Lou Reed to Supertramp. But it was the format that was especially refreshing, with the singer/songwriter-rapper-producer powered by a world-class nine-piece, jazz-oriented band — including three backup singers — that would have done the late singer-provocateur Gil Scott-Heron proud. The prevailing fashion statement was robes.
The affair was dubbed the “Open Heart Acoustic Show, »
- Steve Chagollan
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