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Disney Studios Promotes Tendo Nagenda To EVP Production

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Tendo Nagenda, a Walt Disney Studios live-action senior creative executive who oversaw Disney’s 2015 hit Cinderella, has been upped to EVP Production. In his former post since 2010, he shepherded a slate through development, production, physical production and post. Currently, Nagenda is the development exec on Queen Of Katwe, which stars Lupita Nyong'o and David Oyelowo and just dropped its first trailer last week. Cinderella grossed $543.5 million at the global box… Read

‘Captain America’ To Cross $300M Today As ‘Money Monster’ Cashes $14.7M & ‘The Darkness’ Finds $4.9M – Monday B.O. Final

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5TH UPDATE, MONDAY, 2:35 PM: The final tallies are in and Disney/Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War dropped 59% in its second weekend to gross $72.6 million, bringing it total domestic cume to $295.9.M. Today, it will become the third $300M+ film from Disney this quarter, along with its animated Zootopia and Jon Favreau’s live-action/CGI favorite The Jungle Book which climbed past the milestone this weekend. Worldwide, Civil War has grossed $943.2M. Sony’s Money Monster… Read

‘The Nice Guys’ Review: Russell Crowe & Ryan Gosling Are A Lethal (And Pretty Funny) Odd Couple – Cannes

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Editors note: Pete Hammond’s video review of The Nice Guys is not available. When I think of the Cannes Film Festival, The Nice Guys — a very commerical, somewhat amusing and brutally violent movie — is decidedly not your typical art house fodder that populates the Official Selection being showcased at the Grand Theatre at the Palais. Yet here it is, making its world premiere last night out of competition in front of a black-tie crowd. Score one for Warner Bros, which… Read

Warner Bros Sparks To Margot Robbie Idea For Female-Centered DC Pic

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Warner Bros is moving forward with plans for a stand-alone DC Universe pic that will feature all female super heroines. This is all early days, but the idea came from Margot Robbie, who plays anti-hero Harley Quinn in Warners’ upcoming Suicide Squad, which bows August 5. We’re hearing the studio flipped over her take on the project, and she will produce and star in it reprising as Quinn. Other characters in the ether include members of the super heroine Birds Of Prey… Read

‘Angry Birds Movie’ Takes Off With $43M; ‘Captain America: Civil War’ Hits $647M Offshore, $943M WW – Intl B.O. Final

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FINAL UPDATE, WRITETHRU, Monday, 12:12 PM: We are only awaiting on The Nice Guys grosses from Bloom (the movie is in previews right now), but all other tallies are in. Sony’s international debut of The Angry Birds Movie took off this weekend with $43M in 74 markets. In 37 of those, it grabbed the No. 1 perch. It also scored a record May opening for an original animated film. The inaugural flight topped The Lego Movie by 20% in the same grouping of markets and at current… Read

Safdie Brothers’ ‘Uncut Gems’ Scores Financing From RT Features & Scorsese’s Sikelia – Cannes

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RT Features and Martin Scorsese and Emma Tillinger Koskoff have come aboard to finance Uncut Gems, the latest film from Josh and Bennie Safdie. RT Features and Elara Pictures will produce, with Sikelia's Scorsese and Tillinger Koskoff  now executive producers. WME Global secured the financing and is repping worldwide rights at the Cannes film market. Plot details are under wraps, but the Safdie brothers are known for their gritty New York-set tales. The are directing and… Read

John Cusack Revs Up For Chase Thriller ‘Misfortune’ – Cannes

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John Cusack is in advanced negotiations to star in Misfortune, a chase thriller for which Radiant Films is handling overseas rights at Cannes. The pic will be directed by Lucky McGee with Lee Nelson and David Buelow of Envision Media Arts as producers. Cusack will play Miller, a sharp, quick-witted businessman who has left everything behind, including his family, to start a new life after embezzling a client's money. All had been going according to plan until he becomes… Read

‘Insidious: Chapter 4’ A Go; Blumhouse Pic Set For October 2017 Release

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Blumhouse has scared up a plan for Insidious: Chapter 4, a pic that will extend the supernatural thriller franchise at Universal. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions is financing and will handle international distribution. Newcomer Adam Robitel (The Taking of Deborah Logan) has come aboard to direct a pic that will be written by co-creator Leigh Whannell, who wrote the trilogy and directed 2015’s Insidious: Chapter 3. An October 20, 2017, release date has been set. Jason… Read

Kim Delaney, Jordin Sparks Join ‘God Bless The Broken Road’

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Actresses Lindsay Pulsipher, Kim Delaney and Jordin Sparks have just been cast in the latest film from God’s Not Dead director Harold Cronk. The faith-based film God Bless The Broken Road is about a grieving widow named Amber whose husband was killed during combat in Afghanistan and now faces financial and spiritual challenges while raising her young daughter, Bree. Lindsay Pulsipher (True Blood, The Hatfields & McCoys, and Justified) has signed on to the film in the… Read

Mountaineering Icon Reinhold Messner’s ‘White Out’ To Become Chockstone Pictures Pic

MANDATORY CREDIT: Wisthaler Harald/REX Shutterstock. Only for use in this story. Editorial Use Only. No stock, books, advertising or merchandising without photographer's permissionMessner giving at speech at the grand unveiling of the MMM Corones Museum Sleek Mountaineering Museum Opened by Everest Climber - Jul 2015 FULL BODY: http://www.rexfeatures.com/nanolink/qsjh A museum dedicated to mountaineering has been opened by famous climber Reinhold Messner. Located in the Italian mountain plateau of South Tyrol, it's Messner's sixth museum. Sat atop Mount Kronplatz, MMM Corones is museum described as the climber's "15th ascent over 8,000 metres". It tells stories of man's encounters with the mountains and also features photos, objects and tools from Messner's life as a climber. The museum's main appeal is its location and sleek design. Offering a 240 panoramic view of the Dolomites, it was a collaboration between Messner and Zaha Hadid, an Iraqi-British architect. (Rex Features via AP Images)

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EXCLUSIVE: Chockstone Pictures has optioned rights to White Out, a story by famed mountaineer Reinhold Messner that will be adapted by Sascha Arango. Chockstone and Arango are already teaming on Arango’s adaptation of his own 2015 bestseller The Truth And Other Lies, a black comedy that just nabbed Brian De Palma as director. The Italy-born Messner is the author of more than 60 books and has had plenty to write about: He made the first solo ascent of Mt Everest without… Read

Umedia To Finance ‘I Kill Giants’ Starring Zoe Saldana – Cannes

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EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of an August production start on I Kill Giants, Umedia, with backing from London-based Ingenious, has come on board to finance the picture. Anders Walter is making his feature debut on the adaptation of Joe Kelly’s graphic novel. Zoe Saldana and Madison Wolfe star. XYZ is handling world sales on the project in Cannes. Kelly adapted his novel for the screen. The story focuses on Barbara, a young misfit girl battling both real and imagined monsters. Saldana… Read

‘American Honey’ Breakout Sasha Lane Attached To ‘Hunting Lila’ – Cannes

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UK-based Pari Passu Films is prepping YA project Hunting Lila and has attached American Honey breakout Sasha Lane to the title role. Oscar winning VFX supervisor Paul J Franklin is attached to make his directorial debut on the picture that’s based on the first in the series of books written by Sarah Alderson. Alderson co-wrote the screenplay with Oscar nominated editor Jon Harris (127 Hours). Gersh is handling domestic rights and is financing and packaging the film.. The… Read

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