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Juno Temple to Co-Star With Claire Foy in Steven Soderbergh’s Next Movie (Exclusive)
3 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Juno Temple is set to co-star with “The Crown’s” Claire Foy in Steven Soderbergh’s next movie, sources tell Variety.
The official title of the pic, which Soderbergh will direct, is currently unknown, but sources says it has a working title of “Unsane.”
Plot details are being kept under wraps, but insiders say Soderbergh shot the entire film on an iPhone, similar to the indie hit “Tangerine.” The movie is also without a distributor, though the auteur may decide to self-distribute through his production banner Fingerprint Releasing. »
- Justin Kroll
Ben Affleck Departs Thriller ‘Triple Frontier’
3 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Ben Affleck has departed thriller “Triple Frontier,” an individual with knowledge of the project tells TheWrap.
Paramount dropped out of the film that J.C. Chandor was supposed to start production on next month. Affleck’s exit also follows the departures of both Tom Hardy and Channing Tatum. Netflix picked up the project after Paramount bowed out.
Mark Boal wrote the script. Charles Roven and Alex Gartner of Atlas Entertainment are producing alongside Boal. »
- Umberto Gonzalez
Felicity Jones in Talks to Star as Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Biopic
7 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Felicity Jones is set to star as Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a biopic about the Supreme Court Justice's life.
On The Basis Of Sex will be directed by Mimi Leder (The Leftovers, Shameless) and follows Ginsburg as she fights for equal rights throughout her entire law career, which began at Harvard and Columbia Law and led to Washington.
At one time Natalie Portman was consider to play Ginsburg in the feature, which was written by Daniel Stiepleman and was placed on the 2014 Black List.
Robert W. Cort is producing, along with Participant Media. Focus Features will distribute the movie.
Jones, who received an Oscar nomination for »
- Mia Galuppo
Greta Gerwig’s ‘Lady Bird’ Lands A24 Awards Season Push
7 hours ago | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
With “Lady Bird,” brainy actress and screenwriter Greta Gerwig is finally making her solo directorial debut after her collaborations with Noah Baumbach on “Frances Ha” and “Mistress America” and co-directing “Nights and Weekends” with Joe Swanberg.
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The relationship comedy stars Saoirse Ronan as Christine McPherson (Lady Bird, no relationship with the wife of Lbj), a rebellious student at a conservative Catholic Sacramento high school who wants to escape her family and small town constraints to go to college in New York.
Co-stars include Laurie Metcalf, Lucas Hedges, Tracy Letts, Timothée Chalamet, and Beanie Feldstein.
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Gerwig is selling the movie to A24 to release worldwide. Producers are Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, and Evelyn O’Neill, and a planned fall berth suggests festival play and awards contention. »
- Anne Thompson
‘The Flash’ Actress Kiersey Clemons to Star in Drama ‘Hearts Beat Loud’ (Exclusive)
10 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“The Flash” actress Kiersey Clemons will star in the indie drama “Hearts Beat Loud.”
“The Hero” helmer Brett Haley will direct the film from a script he co-wrote with Marc Basch.
The movie follows a Brooklyn record store owner who struggles to accept change as he’s forced to let go of both his shop and his daughter (Clemons) during her last summer before college.
Production is expected to start this fall. Houston King, Sam Bisbee and Sam Slater will produce.
Clemons’ star has been rising fast following her breakout role in the indie hit “Dope.” She made such a big splash as Cassandra “Diggy” Andrews in Rick Famuyiwa’s coming-of-age film, that she soon landed the coveted role of Iris West in Warner Bros.’ “The Flash” starring Ezra Miller.
Since production has been pushed on “The Flash” as the studio continues to »
- Justin Kroll
Darren Aronofsky’s Next Movie is An Artificial Intelligence Courtroom Drama
14 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
We’re still three months away from the release of Darren Aronofsky’s psychological horror-thriller “mother!,” but the filmmaker isn’t wasting anytime in setting up his next project. Paramount has purchased an untitled script by Joe Epstein for Aronofsky to direct, according to The Tracking Board. Aronofsky has worked with the studio on previous efforts “mother!” and “Noah.”
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Details about the script are scarce, but both Tracking Board and Deadline confirm it’s a courtroom drama that involves artificial intelligence. Aronofsky will also produce under his Protozoa Pictures production banner. This is the second movie Aronofsky will have in development now. He’s a producer on the upcoming Yann Demange crime drama “White Boy Rick,” starring Matthew McConaughey. Protozoa was also behind last year’s Oscar nominee “Jackie.”
“mother!” marks Aronofsky’s return to the big »
- Zack Sharf
‘Dunkirk’: Why Christopher Nolan’s War Epic Is a Certain Oscar Contender
13 hours ago | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
Christopher Nolan and the Oscars have a love-hate relationship. He’s been nominated for only three Oscars, two for Original Screenplay: “Memento” in 2000 and big-scale epic “Inception” in 2010. That year, he was also nominated as a producer of “Inception,” which followed the surprising omission of “The Dark Knight” for Best Picture contention in 2009. That pushed the Academy to change its rules to allow more Best Picture slots, which might encourage more people around the world to watch the Oscars.
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Nolan’s films have mostly cleaned up in the technical realm. Cinematographer Wally Pfister was nominated for “Batman Begins,” “The Prestige,” and “Inception,” which landed eight nominations and four wins (for Pfister, sound editing and mixing, and VFX) . The Academy voters punished sequel “The Dark Knight Rises” with no nominations at all. And »
- Anne Thompson
Rob Cohen’s ‘Hurricane Heist’ Lands at Entertainment Studios
12 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures has acquired Rob Cohen’s action feature “The Hurricane Heist” for North American theatrical distribution and plans a first-quarter release.
The movie, formerly titled “Category 5,” follows a team of tech hackers embarking on a $600 million robbery from a coastal U.S. Mint facility at the same time a Category 5 hurricane is set to strike. The remaining people left in the deserted beach town are a meteorologist (played by Tony Kebbel), a treasury agent (Maggie Grace), and the meteorologist’s ex-Marine brother (Ryan Kwanten).
Cohen’s credits include “The Fast and the Furious,” which launched the franchise in 2001; 2006’s “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor”; 2012’s “Alex Cross,” starring Tyler Perry; and 2015’s “The Boy Next Door” with Jennifer Lopez.
Entertainment Studios has recently seen a solid performance with Mandy Moore’s shark adventure “47 Meters Down,” which has grossed more than $41 million domestically.
Cohen directed from a script he wrote with »
- Dave McNary
Parrot Analytics – Netflix rules digital summer in South Korea
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Exclusive: 13 Reasons Why leads chart of in-demand shows.
Netflix accounted for nine out of the 10 most in-demand digital original shows in South Korea over the period June 16-July 15, a Parrot Analytics study has revealed.
According to the Los Angeles-based data science firm’s Demand Expressions metric that gauges total audience demand for a show within a particular country, 13 Reasons Why was the most popular show that originated exclusively online.
The mystery series scored 447,624 Demand Expressions, which reflect the online desire, engagement and consumption of content. The score is weighted by importance so that a stream or download represents a higher expression of demand than a ‘like’ or a comment.
Some way behind in second place was Stranger Things with 299,407 Demand Expressions, followed by Black Mirror on 293,004, Glow on 285,616, and Marvel’s Iron Fist on 256,663.
Amazon Studios’ The Grand Tour – the only non-Netflix show in the top 10 – ranked eighth on 228,794.
When the same period of observation was applied »
- jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
Japan Box Office: 20th ‘Pocket Monsters’ Movie Wins Weekend
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Leading the box office charge for the start of the Japanese school summer holiday season was the 20th installment in the Pocket Monsters anime series. Titled “Gekijoban Pocket Monsters: Kimi ni Kimeta!,” the film opened atop the chart for the July 15-16 weekend with $4.6 million on 436,000 admissions from 368 screens, with Toho distributing. This was nearly 60% better than the previous series entry, which finished with $19 million in 2016.
Highest ranking among the new foreign chart entries at number four was “Cars 3.” Distributed by Disney, the film made $2.86 million in its opening frame. This was almost 30% less than “Cars 2,” which recorded a total of $27 million in 2011. The film is forecast to finish its first run near the $20 million milestone.
Last weekend’s number one, Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,” fell to number three with a 17-day cumulative total of $37 million.
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- Mark Schilling
Keegan-Michael Key Resurrects Obama’s Anger Translator Luther to Rant About Trumpcare
1 hour ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
We miss the Comedy Central sketch series “Key and Peele” for no shortage of reasons, but high up on the list was Luther, as the “Obama’s Anger Translator” sketches might have been one of pop culture’s most coherent and wise takes on President Obama during his years in office.
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The sketch concept didn’t officially retire after the end of the series in 2015, but it’s only reappeared irregularly — like, say, during a talk show appearance Keegan-Michael Key (who, as Luther, voiced the more angry side of Obama) made during this interview on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.”
Colbert cues Key up with one of Obama’s rare public comments regarding the health care debate, made via Facebook, and he only needs a few moments to sink into the role. »
- Liz Shannon Miller
Iatse Convention Opens With Congressman’s Speech About Piracy Threat
1 hour ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Delegates to the opening day of Iatse's 68th Convention in Hollywood, Fl, heard a local U.S. congressman blast President Donald Trump and Congress for failing to address one of the industry's major concerns, and a serious threat to the nation's creative wellspring: the theft of intellectual property. "Every day Americans spend an average of 10 hours, 39 minutes in front of one screen or another," Rep. Ted Deutch of Boca Raton told the delegates. "You build much of the… »
The Robotech Movie Has Found Its Director
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If you're a fan of the '80s anime Robotech, you're gonna love who Sony has landed for the director's chair. Read on to find out who's bringing the bots back! »
Pablo Schreiber Comedy ‘Big Bear’ Lands September Release
2 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Blue Fox Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights for the comedy “Big Bear” and will be releasing it in theaters and on VOD on Sept. 22.
“Big Bear” marks the directorial debut of actor Joey Kern, who stars along with Pablo Schreiber (“Orange Is the New Black”), Adam Brody, Tyler Labine, Zachary Knighton, and Toby Huss. The film was financed by Maybe This Year Productions and produced by Mty Productions in association with Fortress Features.
The story centers Kern’s character getting dumped by his cheating fiancée for Schreiber’s character and going ahead with his bachelor party up at Big Bear Lake thanks to the urging of his three best friends (Brody, Labine, and Knighton). Things take a turn for the worse the next morning when he discovers Schreiber’s character has been kidnapped by his friends and tied up in the basement.
Kern also wrote the script and produced with Luke Edwards, Mty Productions »
- Dave McNary
Movie Trivia Schmoedown: Critically Acclaimed vs. Only Stupid Answers
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- Collider Video
51 Entertainment to launch with Brie Larson's 'Unicorn Store'
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Lynette Howell Taylor’s newly formed 51 Entertainment aims for gender parity and greater diversity in its projects.
Producer Lynette Howell Taylor has announced the formation of a new production banner called 51 Entertainment that focuses on filmmaker driven content, and will utilise multiple platorms.
Independent producer Samantha Housman has been hired to join the company, serving alongside Taylor and creative executive Derek Iger.
Unicorn Store, directed by Brie Larson from a script by Samantha McIntyre, will be the first film produced under the new banner. Larson also stars in the film alongside Samuel L Jackson.
The story centres on a woman who moves back in with her parents and receives an invitation to a store that will test her ideas of what it really means to grow up.
Howell Taylor most recently wrapped the Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga film A Star Is Born. She produced Matt Ross’ 28 Hotel Rooms and Captain Fantastic, and is developing »
‘Family Guy’s’ Adam West Tribute Is a Hilarious and Heartfelt Farewell — Watch
2 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Adam West’s passing last month at the age of 88 led to a tremendous outpouring of love and affection for the treasured actor, and TV’s “Family Guy” is keeping his spirit alive with a hilarious highlight reel from West’s 17 years on the animated series.
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The clips of West’s fictional version of himself feature the enthusiastic lunatic mayor of Quahog behaving in his unique and utterly unpredictable way, chasing a pizza delivery man with a “cat launcher,” playing 20 questions with himself, and pardoning a supermarket turkey. There’s even one animated clip of West dressed up in his costume from the “Batman” ABC television series that made him famous in the late 1960s.
West voiced the character of Mayor Adam West in 111 “Family Guy” episodes. On June 15, after West succumbed to leukemia, Los Angeles shone the bat-signal on City Hall, »
- Graham Winfrey
New Han Solo Set Photo Drops First Look Of Donald Glover’s Lando Calrissian
3 hours ago | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
New Han Solo movie director Ron Howard has given us our first taste of Donald Glover's Lando Calrissian on the set of next year's Star Wars installment. »
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