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'A Dog's Purpose' Box Office: Controversy Clouds Movie's Prospects
11 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
The controversy over the treatment of a German shepherd on the set of Lasse Hallstrom's A Dog's Purpose could ding the movie's box-office prospects this weekend.
On Monday, tracking services lowered their projections for the film's opening by several million dollars. A week ago, industry leader NRG had put the movie's debut at $24 million. Now, NRG is forecasting $21 million, according to sources with access to the survey. Box-office analysts are divided as to whether the controversy will hurt the movie.
Any opening north of $20 million should be enough to beat the weekend's other two new »
- Pamela McClintock
Universal Nabs Rights to Michael Bay’s Post-Trump Dystopian Thriller ‘Little America’
7 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Universal has won the bidding war for Michael Bay’s “Little America,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap. Rowan Athale wrote the spec and is attached to direct. Bay is a producer on the project along with partners Andrew Form and Brad Fuller. The film is reminiscent of “Escape from New York.” It’s set in a time where America has been so bankrupt that China must call all the shots. Also Read: Here's Why Michael Bay Doesn't Want to Direct a Superhero Movie This won’t be the first dystopian-like movie from Bay, who along with »
- Beatrice Verhoeven
Coppola-Backed ‘Apocalypse Now’ Video Game Looks for Funding on Kickstarter
7 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
American Zoetrope is working with video game industry veterans to create a game adaptation of the 1979 film “Apocalypse Now,” the privately run film studio announced on Wednesday. The game, set for release in 2020, is starting with a Kickstarter campaign that’s asking gamers to pledge some $900,000. The announcement describes the “Apocalypse Now” adaptation as a “psychological horror RPG,” or “role-playing game,” that “accurately captures the tone, themes, and characters of the original motion picture.” It’s an intriguing choice for a game — and one that almost seems at odds with the medium. Most games put players in the roles »
- Phil Hornshaw
Sundance: Netflix Buys Global Rights for ‘To The Bone’
19 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
As the first week of the Sundance Film Festival comes to a close,Netflix continued its buying spree, picking up worldwide rights to the drama “To The Bone,” starring Keanu Reeves and Lily Collins, Variety has confirmed.
The movie, directed and written by Marti Noxon, follows a 20-year-old anorexic girl (Collins) who tries to get the medical help she needs at a group home. Reeves plays her doctor. The rest of the cast includes Carrie Preston, Lili Taylor and Alex Sharp.
The deal, estimated to be around $8 million, will allow the streaming giant to show the movie in regions around the world.
“To the Bone,” which debuted in the festival’s U.S. dramatic competition, was produced by Julie Lynn, Bonnie Curtis, Karina Miller, Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi. It was executive produced by Talal Al Abbar, Matthew J. Malek and Anita Gou.
Netflix has had a very active Sundance, »
- Ramin Setoodeh
IFC Midnight to Acquire Sundance Movie ‘The Killing Ground’ (Exclusive)
6 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
IFC Midnight has acquired North American rights to Sundance survival thriller film ‘The Killing Ground,” TheWrap has exclusively learned. “The Killing Ground” from first-time writer and director Damien Power is a taut thriller reminiscent of the ’70s survival thrillers such as “Deliverance” and “Straw Dogs” and more recent chillers “The Vanishing” and “Funny Games.” The film stars Aaron Pedersen, Ian Meadows, Harriet Dyer, Aaron Glenane. Also Read: Fox Searchlight Acquires Sundance Doc 'Step' The story takes place in Australia, Ian (Meadows) and Samantha (Dyer) head to a national park, hoping that nature will give them space for some quiet time together. »
- Umberto Gonzalez
Armie Hammer’s ‘Call Me by Your Name’ Joins Berlinale’s Panorama Lineup
11 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama section has completed its lineup with the addition of 24 feature films, including “Call Me by Your Name,” an extremely well-reviewed gay love story featuring actor Armie Hammer.
The full Panorama program includes 36 world, six international and nine European premieres. Thirteen European films have been added. Among those is “Call Me by Your Name,” directed by Luca Guadagnino (“A Bigger Splash”) from an adaptation, co-written with James Ivory, of a novel by Andr Aciman.
There are five films from Brazil, including “Como Nossos Pais” (Just Like Our Parents), directed by Lais Bodanzky, who depicts the everyday lives of three generations in Sao Paulo as “a pyrotechnic display of individual passions and existential delusions staged with a sublime naturalness,” according to the festival.
Also in the program are Spanish debut feature “Pieles” (Skins) by Eduardo Casanova, “Rekvijem za gospodju J.” (Requiem for Mrs. J.) by Serbia’s Bojan Vuletić, »
- Leo Barraclough
“I Became Like Furniture”: Director/Dp Jonathan Olshefski on Quest
24 minutes ago | Filmmaker Magazine - Blog | See recent Filmmaker Magazine news »
Jonathan Olshefski spent a decade filmingthe Raineyfamily. He’dvisit the family’s home often without a camera, simply to spend timewith Quest, his wife and their children. As he notes in his interview with Filmmaker, this longterm commitment allowed him to “fade into the background and record natural scenes where the camera was not intrusive.”His documentary feature debut, Quest offers an intimate,vrit-like portrait of a black family in Philadelphia. Below,Olshefski speaks aboutthe genesis of the project, his documentary influences and serving as his own Dp. Quest made its world premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Filmmaker: How and why did you […] »
- Filmmaker Staff
Cedric the Entertainer Joins Paul Schrader’s ‘First Reformed’ (Exclusive)
28 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Cedric the Entertainer has been cast in Paul Schrader’s upcoming religious drama “First Reformed” opposite Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried.
Cedric will portray a pastor at a mega-church and a rival to Hawke’s character, an ex-military chaplain wracked by grief over the death of his son. Seyfried plays a member of his church whose husband, a radical environmentalist, commits suicide and sets the plot in motion.
Killer Films is the production company. Producers are Gary Hamilton, David Hinojosa, Victoria Hill, Frank Murray and Christine Vachon.
Schrader is directing “First Reformed” from his own script. His writing credits include the Martin Scorsese films “Taxi Driver,” “Raging Bull,” “The Last Temptation of Christ” and “Raging Bull.” His directing credits include “Hardcore,” “American Gigolo,” “Affliction,” “Cat People,” “Auto Focus,” “The Canyons,” “Patty Hearst,” and most recently “Dog Eat Dog.”
The project was unveiled with the Hawke and Seyfried castings in September »
- Dave McNary
‘Donnie Darko’ Sequel: Richard Kelly Says He Has Something ‘Bigger and More Ambitious’ in Mind
34 minutes ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Richard Kelly isn’t done with “Donnie Darko.” 15 years after his cult classic first arrived in theaters, the writer/director says he thinks there’s “something much bigger and more ambitious to do in that universe” — not that anything isofficial at this point. His comments, which come from an interview with HMV, are occasioned by a 4K restoration of the film that was just released on Blu-ray by Arrow Video.
Read More: ‘Donnie Darko’ Turns 15: Richard Kelly On Making a Cult Film and Taking a Seven-Year Break
“It’s big and expensive and I think there’s time to get to that,” Kelly says of what he has in mind. “I want to make sure we’ve got the budget to do it justice and not to compromise anything. Another story in this world needs resources and we need to have that in place. I need to get »
- Michael Nordine
‘My Cousin Rachel’ Trailer: Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin Navigate Romance, Revenge, Period Costumes
54 minutes ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
I’d be lying if I said I was familiar with the work of Daphne du Maurier, the English author and playwright who wrote the book upon which director Roger Michell‘s new filmMy Cousin Rachel is based. However, I am familiar with several film adaptations of her work and it’s quite the track record – her […]
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- Jacob Hall
Joby Harold to Do Page-One Rewrite of ‘The Flash’ Script (Exclusive)
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
While “The Flash” waits to find its new director, Warner Bros. has tapped Joby Harold to do a page-one rewrite to the script, sources tell Variety.
The pic has been on hold since losing director Rick Famuyiwa and while it waits to find his replacement, the studiohas decided to take script in different direction.
WB had no comment.
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‘The Flash’ Movie Loses Director Rick Famuyiwa
Executives have been taking their time in finding his replacement. With Ezra Miller, who will play the speedy superhero, getting ready to shoot “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2,”they decidedwork on a new script in the meantime.
Famuyiwa had written the latest draft. Sources say the original reason for his departure had to do with executives disagreeing with where he had taken the script. Seth Grahame-Smith had also written a previous draft.
Kiersey Clemons is attached to play Iris West, »
- Justin Kroll
‘Sadako vs. Kayako’ Clip Teases The Ring vs. The Grudge
1 hour ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
I saw Sadako vs. Kayako at Fantastic Fest last year under the best possible circumstances: in a movie theater packed with horror fans after midnight while I was just weary enough for every jump scare to jolt life back into me. The film itself is pretty funand a goodtime if you have any investment at […]
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- Jacob Hall
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