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'Hidden Figures' Poised to Top MLK Weekend Ahead of Several New & Expanding Releases
13 hours ago | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
It's shaping up to be a competitive Martin Luther King Jr. weekend with three new wide releases hitting theaters along with two major expansions and the moderate expansion of Martin Scorsese's Silence. Yet, even with that being the case, after narrowly edging out Rogue One: A Star Wars Story for the #1 spot last weekend, Hidden Figures is looking at a more decisive victory this weekend as the film adds more than 800 theaters. The new releases include STX's PG-13 horror The Bye Bye Man, Paramount is finally delivering Monster Trucks and Open Road will premiere the Jamie Foxx vehicle Sleepless into just over 1,800 theaters. In addition to new releases Lionsgate and CBS Films brings Patriots Day to audiences nationwide and Warner Bros. will do the same for Ben Affleck's Live by Night, but while the former is looking at a solid debut the latter has struggled in limited release. »
- Brad Brevet
Directors Guild Gives More Love to ‘La La Land,’ ‘Moonlight’ and ‘Manchester by the Sea’
18 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Damien Chazelle, Barry Jenkins, Kenneth Lonergan, Denis Villeneuve and Garth Davis have been nominated by the Directors Guild of America as the best film directors of 2016, the DGA announced on Thursday. Chazelle was nominated for “La La Land,” Jenkins for “Moonlight,” Lonergan for “Manchester by the Sea,” Villeneuve for “Arrival” and Davis for “Lion.” Davis also received a second nomination in the DGA category of best first-time director, along with the directors of “The Edge of Seventeen,” “Deadpool,” “The Birth of a Nation” and “10 Cloverfield Lane.” That nomination marked the first mainstream awards attention for “Birth of a Nation” director. »
- Steve Pond
Costume Designers Guild Puts ‘Jackie,’ ‘La La Land’ on Best-Dressed List
20 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
“Jackie,” “Florence Foster Jenkins,” “La La Land” and “Hail, Caesar!” are among the 15 films that were nominated by the Costume Designers Guild as the best of 2016, the Cdg announced on Thursday. “Jackie,” “Florence Foster Jenkins” and “Hail, Caesar!” were nominated in the Excellence in Period Film category, along with “The Dressmaker” and “Hidden Figures.” “La La Land” was nominated for Excellence in Contemporary Film, alongside “Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie,” “Captain Fantastic,” “Lion” and “Nocturnal Animals.” And the Excellence in Fantasy Film nominees are “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” “Doctor Strange,” “Kubo and. »
- Steve Pond
The usual suspects – and Nate Parker – up for Directors Guild of America awards
48 minutes ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The DGAs – a key predictor of the Oscars – has La La Land, Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight present and correct among its nominees, plus Parker for debut director
All three key Oscar contenders have been named in the five-strong shortlist for this year’s Directors Guild of America awards. The DGAs have diverged from the Academy Awards’ top prize only seven times since 1948, meaning the victor this year will be cemented as the Oscars frontrunner.
Related: La La Land, Moonlight and Manchester By the Sea up for PGA awards
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- Catherine Shoard
Altitude boards adaptation of Sempé's 'Raoul Taburin'
1 hour ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Exclusive: Wild Bunch is launching sales on Pan-Européenne-led production at Unifrance Rdv in Paris.
The UK’s Altitude Film Entertainment has boarded French director Pierre Godeau’s upcoming adaptation of Jean-Jacques Sempé’s heart-warming tale Raoul Taburin.
Set against the backdrop of a small French town, the film will star Benoît Poelvoorde as the endearingly comic figure of Raoul Taburin, a reputed bicycle shop owner desperate to hide the fact he cannot ride a bike himself.
Altitude has pre-bought UK rights with company chief Will Clarke taking an executive producer credit.
The deal builds on a growing relationship between Altitude and Nathalie Gastaldo-Godeau and Philippe Godeau’s Paris and London-based Pan-Européene which has developed since the couple moved to the UK in 2015.
Last year, the two companies entered a partnership for the UK release of Jérôme Salles’s Jacques Cousteau bio-pic The Odyssey, under which the film will hit UK screens this June.
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'La La Land' dances atop UK buzz chart
1 hour ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone musical swept aside all competitiors to dominate this week’s social media buzz.
Damien Chazelle’s musical La La Land, starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, dominated this week’s UK social media buzz, according to analysis outfit Way To Blue.
The film amassed 14,617 comments across social media, news, forums and blogs over the last seven days, with 1,602 of those registering an intent to view.
Further down the chart, Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester By The Sea, J.A. Bayona’s A Monster Calls, and Justin Kurzel’s Assassin’s Creed all garnered decent buzz but were unable to make a significant dent into La La Land’s total.
Titles on the near horizon include XXX: Return Of Xander Cage, Lion, Split and Jackie.
For an explanation of the Way to Blue chart and its methodology, which tracks ‘overall buzz’ and important ‘intent to view’ buzz, click here. »
- [email protected] (Tom Grater)
Disney reported to be negotiating with Carrie Fisher's estate for rights to her digital image
1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The actor had completed filming on Star Wars: Episode VIII, but Princess Leia is also supposed to have a significant role in Episode IX
Disney is reportedly negotiating with Carrie Fisher’s estate for the rights to use the actor’s digital image in future Star Wars film. According to the BBC’s Newsnight programme, “with what might be regarded as unseemly haste, Disney is negotiating with the actor’s estate over her continued appearance in the franchise.”
Fisher’s likeness as the young Princess Leia in the original 1977 Star Wars was digitally rendered and appeared in the final frames of prequel Rogue One – along with Peter Cushing’s. As filming occurred prior to Fisher’s death, her permission was presumably obtained. However, reports have emerged of discussions between the makers of Episodes VIII and IX, as Leia had been expected to play a significant part in both films. Apart from the technical challenge, »
- Andrew Pulver
Sky Arts cancels Michael Jackson comedy after backlash
1 hour ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Jackson’s daughter had voiced a complaint about the casting of white actor Joseph Fiennes as the pop star.
Sky has pulled a half-hour comedy starring Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson after protests from the popstar’s daughter.
Sky Arts will not air Elizabeth, Michael And Marlon, a one-off produced by Ralf Little’s Little Rock as part of the Urban Myths strand.
Jackson’s daughter Paris used social media to complain and urged her followers to sign a petition against the show.
“I’m so incredibly offended by it, as I’m sure plenty of people are as well, and it honestly makes me want to vomit,” she tweeted.
The show immortalised an outlandish roadtrip the singer took with Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando.
Jackson had invited Taylor and Brando to attend his concert at Madison Square Garden in September 2011, but after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, the trio hired a rental car and drove »
WestEnd Films appoints head of acquisitions and development
1 hour ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »
Former Studiocanal and See Pictures exec Sophie Green has joined the UK sales outfit.
London-based sales and finance outfit WestEnd Films has appointed Sophie Green as head of acquisitions and development.
Green’s previous experience includes stints at Studiocanal in the legal and business affairs team, and recently in Australia with Jamie Hilton’s production outfit See Pictures, where she worked as acquisitions and business development manager.
Throughout her career, she has worked on titles including Todd Haynes’ Carol, Lenny Abrahamson’s Room, Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire and Terrence Malik’s Knight Of Cups.
In her new role, she will work across WestEnd’s current slate and will also develop the company’s recently launched female audience brand WeLove, which is developing female-specific content including projects from Agnieszka Holland and Alexis Zegerman.
WestEnd’s Efm line-up includes: animated feature The Breadwinner, which is produced in association with Angelina Jolie; Film4 and BFI-backed UK comedy Old Boys; [link »
- [email protected] (Tom Grater)
Genre, Thrillers Stage A Comeback in France
3 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Paris – Daouda Coulibaly’s Mali-set “Wulu,” Sebastian Marnier’s “Faultless”and Thomas Kruithof’s “The Eavesdropper” form part of a gaggle of crime thrillers and sci-fi/fantasy movies unspooling at the 19th UniFrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, France’s annual national film showcase.
In volume, they do not represent the most numerous film type at that market; that crown belongs to comedies, accounting for 32 of the 76 movies screening there. But some of the crime thrillers are among the best-reviewed films at Rendez-Vous.
“Who doesn’t love a good sociopath? In novelist-director Sébastien Marnier’s feature debut “Faultless,” he conjures up a doozy,” Variety wrote, calling “The Eavesdropper” (aka “Scribe”) “a timely political thriller told with flair” and “Wulu” “an auspicious debut.”
These suspense titles are joined at the Rendez-Vous by “Seuls” (“Alone”), a bold departure for French cinema, a fantasy teen survival thriller from “It Boy” director David Moreau, and “Toril, »
- John Hopewell
Trump v Hollywood? Don't expect to see the culture war play out on screen
4 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Industry figures might march in protests or give critical speeches, but waging a crusade against the White House is not in the job description
Meryl Streep used her Golden Globes acceptance speech to fire what appeared to be an opening salvo in America’s latest culture war: Hollywood v Donald Trump.
The actor excoriated him as a xenophobic bully in a podium address that turned her Cecil B DeMille award into a rallying cry against the president-elect.
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- Rory Carroll in Los Angeles
UniFrance Rendez-Vous: Studiocanal Takes International on ‘Big Bad Fox,’ ‘L’Ecole Buissonnière’ (Exclusive)
4 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Paris – Studiocanal, one of Europe’s biggest film-tv companies, has acquired international rights to Benjamin Renner’s animated movie “Big Bad Fox and Other Tales,” from Didier Brunner’s Folivari, as well as live-action period drama “L’Ecole buissonnière,” the latest film from “Belle et Sebastien” director Nicolas Vanier.
The two titles join Studiocanal’s biggest French movie slate in recent years, which is to be presented to buyers Friday at the 2017 UniFrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in Paris.
“The Rendez-Vous is a must-attend event for buyers of French films. We want to take advantage of that,” said Anna Marsh, Studiocanal head of international film sales.
Also on Studiocanal’s lineup are Vincent Cassel-starrer “Gauguin”; French vineyard-set “Back To Burgundy,” from Cedric Klapisch (“L’Auberge espagnole”); “Elementary,” toplining Sara Forestier (“The Name of Love”); and teen fantasy survival thriller “Alone,” from “It Boy’s” David Moreau, which will screen at the Rendez-Vous. »
- John Hopewell
Luxbox Boards Vanessa Paradis-Starrer ‘Frost,’ The Next Feature From Sharunas Bartas (Exclusive)
5 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Paris — Paris-based production-sales house Luxbox has boarded Vanessa Paradis-starrer “Frost,” the next feature from Lithuania’s Sharunas Bartas, one of Eastern Europe’s classic auteurs whose “Peace to Us in Our Dreams” was selected for Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2015.
Launched in late 2015 by Fiorella Moretti and Hedi Zardi, Luxbox will represent international sales on “Frost.” The pick-up comes as Bartas is gaining greater recognition with a career retrospective at the Pompidou Centre last year and a film, “Peace to Us in Our Dreams,” which saw him travel the world as it hit the fest circuit.
While “Peace” was a work of introspection, “Frost” looks, on paper at least, to be more expansive, packing a larger narrative thrust and the highest-profile star in Bartas’ career. Co-produced by France’s KinoElektron and Reborn Production, Lithuania’s Studija Kinema, Insight Media/Tato Film in the Ukraine and Poland’s Donten & Lacroix, ‘Frost” turns on Rokas, »
- John Hopewell
Here’s The ‘Deadpool’ “For Your Consideration” Oscars Pitch
6 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Deadpool wasn’t just a surprise hit – $750 million + on a $50 million budget – it was also a surprise critical hit, a rare genre film, and superhero genre at that, that people fell over themselves to praise. Deadpool turns out to be the comic book movie even squares like, to the point that it was nominated for best picture, comedy or musical at the Globes (losing, unsurprisingly, to La La Land), and this week was nominated for the PGA’s equivalent of Best Picture… »
Film Review: Jamie Foxx in ‘Sleepless’
7 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
In “Sleepless,” a stylishly hollow crime thriller set in Las Vegas, Jamie Foxx plays an undercover cop named Vincent Downs who is up to his goatee in Big Problems. He and his partner (played by the rapper T.I.) just killed two crooks they shouldn’t have, and they also ripped off a more dangerous drug dealer than the one they thought they were working. Vincent is now carrying 25 kilos of cocaine (street value: $7 million) that could get him killed. To secure and retrieve the drugs, Stanley Rubino (Dermot Mulroney), a natty weasel of a casino owner, has kidnapped Vincent’s 16-year-old son, Thomas (Octavius J. Johnson). But since Vincent is supposed to be delivering the kid to a high-school football game, he has to keep lying to his ex-wife (Gabrielle Union) about the son’s whereabouts (it beats saying, “Uh, sorry, he’s tied up in a kitchen closet somewhere »
- Owen Gleiberman
Film Review: ‘Claire in Motion’
9 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The sudden disappearance of a family member is usually a springboard for thriller conventions in film. But writing-directing duo Lisa Robinson and Annie J. Howell’s sophomore feature “Claire in Motion” takes that premise down another path — à la Antonioni’s “L’Avventura,” albeit with a rather different style and sensibility, the inexplicable vanishing of a loved one here uneasily forces those left behind to examine their own lives, and to ponder just how well they really knew the missing person. Breaking Glass is releasing this quiet, intriguing drama to U.S. theaters and on demand Jan. 13 after a successful fest run.
We meet 40-ish mathematician Claire Hunger (Betsy Brandt from “Breaking Bad”) as she sleepily bids goodbye to fellow-academic spouse Paul (Chris Beetem). An ornithologist, he’s taken lately to going off into wilderness areas near their home in Athens, Ohio, taking minimal supplies and living off the land »
- Dennis Harvey
Nickel City Gets Investment From Olive Tree Capital
9 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Nickel City Pictures has received an investment from Hamza Talhouni’s Olive Tree Capital and hired veteran executive Mark Fasano as partner and president of production.
Nickel City did not disclose the amount of the investment, which was announced Thursday with the European Film Market due to open in Berlin in less than a month. Nickel City announced in November at the American Film Market that it was partnering with Thunder Road Pictures and Entertainment 360 on “Naja,” a big-screen adaptation of the French graphic novel centering on a beautiful assassin, who is all the more deadly because she is unable to register pain.
Fasano will be responsible for overseeing the production of the company’s slate, which is focused on commercial film and television content across all genres. Fasano previously held the same position at PalmStar Media, where he was involved in the development and production of “American Ultra,” starring »
- Dave McNary
‘Fargo’ Chapter 3: Ewan McGregor and Carrie Coon on Dual Roles, the Accent and Those Character Names
10 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
While “Fargo” Chapter 3 will blow “kisses” to past installments, expect a totally new story when Noah Hawley’s Coen-inspired series returns in April.
Stars Ewan McGregor, Carrie Coon, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, David Thewlis and Michael Stuhlbarg have only been shooting the third installment of FX’s Emmy-winning limited series for a week, but they, along with executive producer Warren Littlefield, still took the time to come by the TCA Winter Press Tour and reveal a little bit of information about what we can expect from this newest iteration.
Set in 2010, the show promises to take on issues like social media in the modern world, as Littlefield explained. (Hawley was scheduled to appear on the panel, but bowed out due to illness.) “Carrie has a scene where she’s on a plane and she looks around and everyone has their heads down,” he said. “No one’s talking, no one’s communicating. »
- Liz Shannon Miller
‘Hacksaw Ridge’ Crosses $150 Million at Worldwide Box Office
10 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Mel Gibson’s World War II drama “Hacksaw Ridge” has crossed $150 million at the worldwide box office after two months in release.
The film, which is being distributed by Lionsgate’s Summit in the U.S. and Im Global internationally, has grossed approximately $62 million at the U.S. box office and $96 million at the international box office. Im Global said it will top the $100 million international mark this weekend.
“We’re delighted, but not surprised, to see that the film is working everywhere in the world and it’s encouraging to have reached the $100 million overseas benchmark already,” said Im Global CEO Stuart Ford. “With openings in major markets like the U.K., Germany, Italy, Brazil, and Japan still to follow, it looks as if we are on track for a really outstanding final international gross for an independently-financed film.”
China has produced the largest international gross through Bliss Media, »
- Dave McNary
Superhero Bits: DC Rebirth’s Watchmen Mystery, Logan Trailer Frames, Gotham Hiatus & More
11 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Are you ready to find out about the mystery of Watchmen in the DC Rebirth storyline? How long will Gotham‘s second hiatus be after coming back for a few episodes this month? Want to see two of the frames from the upcoming Logan trailer? What are the best superhero costumes on film and television? Who […]
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- Ethan Anderton
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