Louis Leterrier (Fast X) will direct and produce 11817, a sci-fi horror film scripted by Matthew Robinson (The Invention of Lying) that is being presented to buyers at Cannes by Rocket Science.
The film watches as inexplicable forces trap a family of four inside their house indefinitely. As both modern luxuries and life or death essentials begin to run out, the family must learn how to be resourceful to survive and outsmart who — or what — is keeping them trapped…
Casting is currently underway on the pic to be produced by Leterrier’s Carrousel Studios, Rocket Science, Thank You Studios, Chernin Entertainment (A North Road Company) and 3 Arts Entertainment. Producers include Leterrier, Thomas Benski and Omar Sy for Carrousel Studios, Lars Sylvest for Thank You Studios, Kori Adelson for Chernin Entertainment, Oly Obst of 3 Arts Entertainment, Thorsten Schumacher for Rocket Science, and Joe Neurauter. Cecile Gaget is exec producing for Carrousel Studios.
The film watches as inexplicable forces trap a family of four inside their house indefinitely. As both modern luxuries and life or death essentials begin to run out, the family must learn how to be resourceful to survive and outsmart who — or what — is keeping them trapped…
Casting is currently underway on the pic to be produced by Leterrier’s Carrousel Studios, Rocket Science, Thank You Studios, Chernin Entertainment (A North Road Company) and 3 Arts Entertainment. Producers include Leterrier, Thomas Benski and Omar Sy for Carrousel Studios, Lars Sylvest for Thank You Studios, Kori Adelson for Chernin Entertainment, Oly Obst of 3 Arts Entertainment, Thorsten Schumacher for Rocket Science, and Joe Neurauter. Cecile Gaget is exec producing for Carrousel Studios.
- 5/2/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The Supreme Court on Monday will hear oral arguments in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, a case that could essentially determine whether homelessness can be criminalized.
The case stems from the city of Grants Pass, a town of roughly 40,000 in southwest Oregon, which began enforcing ordinances in 2013 that made it illegal to sleep on public property using bedding — which could mean anyone using a tent, sleeping bag, or blanket to make it through the night.
The city was sued by a group of homeless residents and a federal court ruled in their favor,...
The case stems from the city of Grants Pass, a town of roughly 40,000 in southwest Oregon, which began enforcing ordinances in 2013 that made it illegal to sleep on public property using bedding — which could mean anyone using a tent, sleeping bag, or blanket to make it through the night.
The city was sued by a group of homeless residents and a federal court ruled in their favor,...
- 4/21/2024
- by Jeremy Childs
- Rollingstone.com
Morgan Wallen addressed his arrest earlier this month for reckless endangerment in Nashville after he allegedly threw a chair off of the roof of Chief’s, a six-story bar owned by fellow country artist Eric Church.
The musician took to X (formerly Twitter) on Friday night to make his first public statement after being taken into custody on April 7.
“I didn’t feel right publicly checking in until I made amends with some folks,” he wrote. “I’ve touched base with Nashville law enforcement, my family, and the good people at Chief’s. I’m not proud of my behavior, and I accept responsibility.”
He continued, “I have the utmost respect for the officers working every day to keep us all safe. Regarding my tour, there will be no change.”
According to Nashville news station Wsmv-tv, Wallen’s arrest affidavit noted that around 10:45 p.m. local time, witnesses watched...
The musician took to X (formerly Twitter) on Friday night to make his first public statement after being taken into custody on April 7.
“I didn’t feel right publicly checking in until I made amends with some folks,” he wrote. “I’ve touched base with Nashville law enforcement, my family, and the good people at Chief’s. I’m not proud of my behavior, and I accept responsibility.”
He continued, “I have the utmost respect for the officers working every day to keep us all safe. Regarding my tour, there will be no change.”
According to Nashville news station Wsmv-tv, Wallen’s arrest affidavit noted that around 10:45 p.m. local time, witnesses watched...
- 4/20/2024
- by Christy Piña
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
HBO has given a pilot order to the comedy “The Chair Company” from Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin, Variety has confirmed.
Both Robinson and Kanin serve as writers and executive producers on the pilot, with Robinson also set to star. Adam McKay and Todd Schulman will also executive produce via Hyperobject Industries, which is under an overall deal at HBO.
The logline for the series states, “After an embarrassing incident at work, a man (Robinson) finds himself investigating a far-reaching conspiracy.”
Kanin and Robinson are frequent collaborators, beginning with their time together on the writing staff of “Saturday Night Live.” They then went on to co-create the popular Comedy Central series “Detroiters” with Sam Richardson and Joe Kelly (with Robinson and Richardson starring) and the Netflix sketch comedy series “I Think You Should Leave” (with Robinson also starring). The latter show won the Emmy Award for best short form series...
Both Robinson and Kanin serve as writers and executive producers on the pilot, with Robinson also set to star. Adam McKay and Todd Schulman will also executive produce via Hyperobject Industries, which is under an overall deal at HBO.
The logline for the series states, “After an embarrassing incident at work, a man (Robinson) finds himself investigating a far-reaching conspiracy.”
Kanin and Robinson are frequent collaborators, beginning with their time together on the writing staff of “Saturday Night Live.” They then went on to co-create the popular Comedy Central series “Detroiters” with Sam Richardson and Joe Kelly (with Robinson and Richardson starring) and the Netflix sketch comedy series “I Think You Should Leave” (with Robinson also starring). The latter show won the Emmy Award for best short form series...
- 4/2/2024
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Jason Momoa returned as guest host for the latest episode of "Saturday Night Live" this weekend. The actor first hosted back in December 2018 ahead of the release of "Aquaman," and now returns a few weeks before audiences can see Arthur Curry on the big screen again in "Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom."
For one of the sketches featuring Momoa, "SNL" chose to parody a different kind of story about a man and the sea: Robert Zemeckis' "Cast Away," starring Tom Hanks as everyman Chuck Noland, who spends four years stranded on a desert island after a plane crash. After he's rescued, he finds the world has moved on without him — even his girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt) has married someone else. Chuck and Kelly share a tender moment in the rain, but decide they can't be together again.
It's a simple enough premise, evoking "Robinson Crusoe," and you don't need to...
For one of the sketches featuring Momoa, "SNL" chose to parody a different kind of story about a man and the sea: Robert Zemeckis' "Cast Away," starring Tom Hanks as everyman Chuck Noland, who spends four years stranded on a desert island after a plane crash. After he's rescued, he finds the world has moved on without him — even his girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt) has married someone else. Chuck and Kelly share a tender moment in the rain, but decide they can't be together again.
It's a simple enough premise, evoking "Robinson Crusoe," and you don't need to...
- 11/19/2023
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
Judging from talk in restaurants and on the Telluride gondola, one of the films provoking the strongest reaction at the festival this year is The Mission. The National Geographic documentary, directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, tells the story of missionary John Chau whose shocking demise in 2018 made headlines around the world (and elicited insensitive memes).
The world premiere and subsequent screenings here have triggered debate over the ethics of Christian missionary work, particularly when it involves attempts to convert Indigenous people who have had little or no previous contact with outsiders, as was the case in Chau’s endeavor. He took it upon himself to try to bring the Gospel to the North Sentinelese, a group living on a remote island in the Andaman Sea. After initially being repelled by a warning shot from an arrow, Chau returned the next day and was felled on the beach. His body was never recovered.
The world premiere and subsequent screenings here have triggered debate over the ethics of Christian missionary work, particularly when it involves attempts to convert Indigenous people who have had little or no previous contact with outsiders, as was the case in Chau’s endeavor. He took it upon himself to try to bring the Gospel to the North Sentinelese, a group living on a remote island in the Andaman Sea. After initially being repelled by a warning shot from an arrow, Chau returned the next day and was felled on the beach. His body was never recovered.
- 9/4/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Director Jacques Rozier, who was regarded as the last surviving member of the French New Wave, has died. He was 96.
French media reported that a close acquaintance of the filmmaker had confirmed his death on June 2 in his native city of Paris, after a short spell in hospital.
Rozier never achieved the renown of Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Jacques Demy, Claude Chabrol or Eric Rohmer, but his work had its place in the French New Wave and pushed boundaries in ways that laid a path for filmmakers today.
After studying at the early French cinema school Idhec, Rozier cut his directing teeth as a TV assistant, while making his own shorts including Rentrée des Classes (1956) and Blue Jeans (1958).
The latter work played at a short film festival in the city of Tours, where it caught the attention of then-film critic Godard, who highlighted it as one of the...
French media reported that a close acquaintance of the filmmaker had confirmed his death on June 2 in his native city of Paris, after a short spell in hospital.
Rozier never achieved the renown of Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Jacques Demy, Claude Chabrol or Eric Rohmer, but his work had its place in the French New Wave and pushed boundaries in ways that laid a path for filmmakers today.
After studying at the early French cinema school Idhec, Rozier cut his directing teeth as a TV assistant, while making his own shorts including Rentrée des Classes (1956) and Blue Jeans (1958).
The latter work played at a short film festival in the city of Tours, where it caught the attention of then-film critic Godard, who highlighted it as one of the...
- 6/5/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
There really isn’t an easy way to describe the humor of Netflix’s hit sketch comedy series, “I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson.” The humor ranges from absurd to silly to absolutely ludicrous. The situations typically start as mundane, but they quickly escalate to something completely out of left field. But for fans of the show, every second is pure comedy gold.
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And do you know what’s even more difficult than explaining the comedy of ‘Itysl?’ Trying to make a trailer out of moments that are taken out of context.
Continue reading ‘I Think You Should Leave’ Season 3 Trailer: Tim Robinson & His Crew Return With More Absurdity On May 30 at The Playlist.
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And do you know what’s even more difficult than explaining the comedy of ‘Itysl?’ Trying to make a trailer out of moments that are taken out of context.
Continue reading ‘I Think You Should Leave’ Season 3 Trailer: Tim Robinson & His Crew Return With More Absurdity On May 30 at The Playlist.
- 5/24/2023
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Avatar Entertainment is in Cannes launching The House on Tifton Lake, a horror starring Vadhir Derbez.
The film, based on a true story, follow four friends spending a weekend at a mysterious mansion in rural Georgia who find their host as a twin brother or alter ego who does not like guests. Mexican-u.S. actor Derbez stars playing the easy going Brandon and his murderous twin/alter ego Carlos.
London- and LA-based talent management and production company Avatar is also producing, with owner Larry Robinson a producer alongside Matt Stein, an exec producer on titles such as Halloween and Scream 4.
The writers are Sandra Becerril, who has published 34 horror novels and has won the Arial Award for Best Screenplay, and Henry Bedwell, who is also attached to direct. Becerril is currently writing a feature script for Fabula, the Chilean...
The film, based on a true story, follow four friends spending a weekend at a mysterious mansion in rural Georgia who find their host as a twin brother or alter ego who does not like guests. Mexican-u.S. actor Derbez stars playing the easy going Brandon and his murderous twin/alter ego Carlos.
London- and LA-based talent management and production company Avatar is also producing, with owner Larry Robinson a producer alongside Matt Stein, an exec producer on titles such as Halloween and Scream 4.
The writers are Sandra Becerril, who has published 34 horror novels and has won the Arial Award for Best Screenplay, and Henry Bedwell, who is also attached to direct. Becerril is currently writing a feature script for Fabula, the Chilean...
- 5/23/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Get ready for your next cringe-watch: The third season of Netflix’s I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson is coming back this spring, qualifying for the 2023 Emmy Awards with just one day to spare. Netflix says the sketch comedy show will return on May 30, a day before the eligibility cutoff for this year’s Emmys. At last year’s Emmys, Robinson won the Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series category for his work on I Think You Should Leave, and the show itself was nominated for Outstanding Short Form Comedy, Drama or Variety Series. The Season 3 premiere date also comes almost two years since the release of Season 2, which, in turn, came more than two years after Season 1 debuted. Netflix In Season 3, I Think You Should Leave co-creators and writers Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin “bring their distinct comedy style and observational humor to the forefront,...
- 3/11/2023
- TV Insider
Harrison Ford will probably be remembered foremost as Han Solo — but not if he can help it. While Ford may well be the greatest movie star of the latter 20th century, it feels like he would've preferred to be a character actor, one that would sink into part after different part, not play the same archetype over and over.
In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Ford mentioned that he "likes to change genres" from film to film. Not all of these genres have been successful for him, though he maintains that even his flops, "were entered with the best of intentions." Still, when Ford stars in an unsuccessful film like "Morning Glory" or "Cowboys & Aliens," he tries not to dwell on it:
"The first job of a movie is to make its money back. God knows why something doesn't work. It doesn't usually make that much difference...
In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Ford mentioned that he "likes to change genres" from film to film. Not all of these genres have been successful for him, though he maintains that even his flops, "were entered with the best of intentions." Still, when Ford stars in an unsuccessful film like "Morning Glory" or "Cowboys & Aliens," he tries not to dwell on it:
"The first job of a movie is to make its money back. God knows why something doesn't work. It doesn't usually make that much difference...
- 2/11/2023
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
“Don’t you want to share your solitude with me?” asks this film’s version of Robinson Crusoe. Directing this question to the film’s prospective audience would surely bring varying answers. Alienated by the project’s inherent surrealism and fragmentation, a number of viewers could potentially decline to partake. Anca Damian’s animated feature, however, will reward with visual splendor those willing to immerse themselves in its world.
Robinson’s island is nothing like its literary counterpart. The waters surrounding it appear tainted and the island itself plays host to a very different cast of characters than the original, featuring refugees, border guards, and garbage dumps. A number of these visitors echo global issues plentifully woven into the fabric of this otherwise whimsical spectacle. Damian’s visual treat of a film offers contemplation on ecological disaster, capitalism, and solitude, all within a story that could be described as a surreal anthology of images.
Robinson’s island is nothing like its literary counterpart. The waters surrounding it appear tainted and the island itself plays host to a very different cast of characters than the original, featuring refugees, border guards, and garbage dumps. A number of these visitors echo global issues plentifully woven into the fabric of this otherwise whimsical spectacle. Damian’s visual treat of a film offers contemplation on ecological disaster, capitalism, and solitude, all within a story that could be described as a surreal anthology of images.
- 1/28/2022
- by Antoni Konieczny
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Exclusive: ABC is developing a multi-camera sitcom set in a barbershop and beauty salon from 2 Dope Queens co-creator Phoebe Robinson and The Amber Ruffin Show writer Dewayne Perkins.
The network has put Chopped & Screwed in the works with the pair with Perkins, who was also a co-producer on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, attached to star as well.
The series is centered on a Black barbershop and beauty salon that, due to unavoidable circumstances, must come together as one entity to continue servicing the superficial and therapeutic needs of their customers and community.
Robinson and Perkins will write and exec produce. ABC Signature, where Robinson has an overall deal, is producing in association with Robinson’s Tiny Reparations and LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s SpringHill Company.
It is Robinson’s latest project for a Disney-owned network; she recently scored a series order at Freeform for Everything’s Trash, an adaptation of her memoir.
The network has put Chopped & Screwed in the works with the pair with Perkins, who was also a co-producer on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, attached to star as well.
The series is centered on a Black barbershop and beauty salon that, due to unavoidable circumstances, must come together as one entity to continue servicing the superficial and therapeutic needs of their customers and community.
Robinson and Perkins will write and exec produce. ABC Signature, where Robinson has an overall deal, is producing in association with Robinson’s Tiny Reparations and LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s SpringHill Company.
It is Robinson’s latest project for a Disney-owned network; she recently scored a series order at Freeform for Everything’s Trash, an adaptation of her memoir.
- 11/2/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
MLB Network is unspooling a rare Chadwick Boseman interview this week as part of its annual Jackie Robinson Day celebration.
The interview footage, which will air as part of MLB Network’s studio programming, is part of a sit-down the cable network did with Boseman just before the Jackie Robinson biopic 42 was released in 2013. In the interview, Boseman speaks about the commitment and importance he felt in portraying Robinson, who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.
“[C]hildren would know who Jackie Robinson [was] from my ...
The interview footage, which will air as part of MLB Network’s studio programming, is part of a sit-down the cable network did with Boseman just before the Jackie Robinson biopic 42 was released in 2013. In the interview, Boseman speaks about the commitment and importance he felt in portraying Robinson, who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.
“[C]hildren would know who Jackie Robinson [was] from my ...
- 4/13/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
MLB Network is unspooling a rare Chadwick Boseman interview this week as part of its annual Jackie Robinson Day celebration.
The interview footage, which will air as part of MLB Network’s studio programming, is part of a sit-down interview the cable network did with Boseman just before the Jackie Robinson biopic 42 was released in 2013. In the interview, Boseman speaks about the commitment and importance he felt in portraying Robinson, who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.
“[C]hildren would know who Jackie Robinson [was] from ...
The interview footage, which will air as part of MLB Network’s studio programming, is part of a sit-down interview the cable network did with Boseman just before the Jackie Robinson biopic 42 was released in 2013. In the interview, Boseman speaks about the commitment and importance he felt in portraying Robinson, who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.
“[C]hildren would know who Jackie Robinson [was] from ...
- 4/13/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As Disney quietly disappears huge swathes of film history into its vaults, I'm going to spend 2020 celebrating Twentieth Century Fox and the Fox Film Corporation's films, what one might call their output if only someone were putting it out.And now they've quietly disappeared William Fox's name from the company: guilty by association with Rupert Murdoch, even though he never associated with him.***Joseph L. Mankiewicz, former producer at MGM, where Louis B. Mayer called him Joe Monkeybitch, became a top director at Fox, and his films there are spectacularly well-represented on streaming services today, along with Ford and Preminger, but one exception seems to be House of Strangers, his 1949 noir saga starring Richard Conte, Susan Hayward, and Edward G. Robinson.It's an unusual genre to find the urbane Mankiewicz dirtying his hands with. Robinson's presence is a throwback to the pre-Code gangland epics of Warner Bros., while the...
- 7/8/2020
- MUBI
In this corner is the current holder of the Emmy title of Best Comedy Guest Actor, Luke Kirby, who isn’t a stand-up but plays one quite convincingly on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” — namely, the controversial comic and free speech advocate Lenny Bruce, who died in 1966. Opposite him is real-life joke-meister Eddie Murphy, the “Saturday Night Live” cast member who took to the big screen in two must-see stand-up specials in the ’80s, HBO’s “Delirious” and the concert film “Raw.”
SEELuke Kirby (‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’): Was Midge wrong to walk away from Lenny Bruce’s motel room? ‘I have to plead the fifth’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
Kirby reprises his role as Bruce as he performs at the Gaslight in Season 3’s first episode. While scandalously exposing a “Playboy” centerfold as a prop, he runs into Abe (Tony Shalhoub), the dad of his pal Midge (Rachel Brosnahan), who stands up for him.
SEELuke Kirby (‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’): Was Midge wrong to walk away from Lenny Bruce’s motel room? ‘I have to plead the fifth’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
Kirby reprises his role as Bruce as he performs at the Gaslight in Season 3’s first episode. While scandalously exposing a “Playboy” centerfold as a prop, he runs into Abe (Tony Shalhoub), the dad of his pal Midge (Rachel Brosnahan), who stands up for him.
- 6/25/2020
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
Celebrities are doing just about everything they can to remain relevant and in the public eye during the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. That means you have some people hosting talk shows via webcam, singing songs in their bedrooms, and in the case of Spike Lee, sharing full scripts for projects that will never be made.
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Recently, Spike Lee went on social media to provide a bit of entertainment for his fans by sharing the script for an unproduced biopic about the legendary baseball player, Jackie Robinson.
Continue reading Spike Lee Releases Unproduced Jackie Robinson Script Meant To Star Denzel Washington at The Playlist.
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Recently, Spike Lee went on social media to provide a bit of entertainment for his fans by sharing the script for an unproduced biopic about the legendary baseball player, Jackie Robinson.
Continue reading Spike Lee Releases Unproduced Jackie Robinson Script Meant To Star Denzel Washington at The Playlist.
- 3/30/2020
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Hello everyone, hope you are safe at home,” said Spike Lee today with an out of the park surprise for an America mainly behind closed door due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Hunkered down in his own Republic of Brooklyn pad, the Oscar winner Sunday went online to gift film and baseball fans with the treat of the script of his unmade Jackie Robinson film – and you can read all 159 pages of this fifth draft of the known but never actualized project right here, right now.
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Described by Lee as a “dream project” in the video below, the plan back around 1996 was for the Malcolm X director to re-team with Denzel Washington for their take on the life and legacy...
Hunkered down in his own Republic of Brooklyn pad, the Oscar winner Sunday went online to gift film and baseball fans with the treat of the script of his unmade Jackie Robinson film – and you can read all 159 pages of this fifth draft of the known but never actualized project right here, right now.
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Described by Lee as a “dream project” in the video below, the plan back around 1996 was for the Malcolm X director to re-team with Denzel Washington for their take on the life and legacy...
- 3/29/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Lionsgate U.K. has acquired “The Queen’s Corgi,” a 3D animated adventure tale written by Rob Sprackling and Johnny Smith, the pair behind “Gnomeo and Juliet.”
“The Queen’s Corgi,” which is budgeted in the $20 million range and was directed by European animation pioneer Ben Stassen and Vincent Kesteloot (“Sammy 2”), has also sold to Eagle in Italy and TriPictures in Spain.
Produced by Stassen’s Belgian studio nWave, “The Queen’s Corgi” follows the adventure of Rex, the British monarch’s most beloved dog, who loses track of his mistress and stumbles across a fight club with dogs of all kinds confronting each other. During his epic journey to find the Queen again, Rex falls in love and discovers his true self.
One of the most ambitious animated features slated for next year from continental Europe, “The Queen’s Corgi” has managed to sell to mainstream distributors in most territories.
“The Queen’s Corgi,” which is budgeted in the $20 million range and was directed by European animation pioneer Ben Stassen and Vincent Kesteloot (“Sammy 2”), has also sold to Eagle in Italy and TriPictures in Spain.
Produced by Stassen’s Belgian studio nWave, “The Queen’s Corgi” follows the adventure of Rex, the British monarch’s most beloved dog, who loses track of his mistress and stumbles across a fight club with dogs of all kinds confronting each other. During his epic journey to find the Queen again, Rex falls in love and discovers his true self.
One of the most ambitious animated features slated for next year from continental Europe, “The Queen’s Corgi” has managed to sell to mainstream distributors in most territories.
- 6/12/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Back to the Future, Monster Trucks, and more headline our July Family Favourites!Back to the Future, Monster Trucks, and more headline our July Family Favourites!Jenny Bullough6/28/2017 10:06:00 Am
Summer's here and while we are overjoyed to finally welcome longer days and more sunshine, sometimes it's harder than pulling teeth to get the kids off the couch and away from their phones. One way to entice them out is with a movie on the big screen, whether it's a timeless classic, or a recent first-run movie. With the lineup of Family Favourites this month, there’s plenty to choose from!
If you have a free Saturday morning, check out one of this month’s Family Favourites! At only 2.99 per ticket, it’s a great deal and a fun way to spend some quality family time at the movies.
July 1 - Back to the Future
In this 1980s blockbuster...
Summer's here and while we are overjoyed to finally welcome longer days and more sunshine, sometimes it's harder than pulling teeth to get the kids off the couch and away from their phones. One way to entice them out is with a movie on the big screen, whether it's a timeless classic, or a recent first-run movie. With the lineup of Family Favourites this month, there’s plenty to choose from!
If you have a free Saturday morning, check out one of this month’s Family Favourites! At only 2.99 per ticket, it’s a great deal and a fun way to spend some quality family time at the movies.
July 1 - Back to the Future
In this 1980s blockbuster...
- 6/28/2017
- by Jenny Bullough
- Cineplex
David Lynch must be kicking himself right now, because his attempt to induce a mass meditative state by making viewers watch a guy sweep the floor on Twin Peaks just got one-upped by a Washington woman’s dad. As Willamette Week explains, Kellie Rogers took some old tapes from her dad’s VHS camcorder to be transferred to DVD, only to discover that one tape contained a 26-minute chunk from the camcorder’s former life as a floor model in the electronics department at a Washington State Fred Meyer store.
Intrigued by the camera’s unblinking look into the everyday life of a ’90s superstore, Rogers took the tape to Reddit, whose detectives were able to determine that the footage was shot in the spring of 1992, thanks to the presence of Garth Brooks’ Ropin’ The Wind, the Wayne’s World soundtrack, Slaughter’s The Wild Life, and Pantera’s ...
Intrigued by the camera’s unblinking look into the everyday life of a ’90s superstore, Rogers took the tape to Reddit, whose detectives were able to determine that the footage was shot in the spring of 1992, thanks to the presence of Garth Brooks’ Ropin’ The Wind, the Wayne’s World soundtrack, Slaughter’s The Wild Life, and Pantera’s ...
- 6/23/2017
- by Katie Rife
- avclub.com
Companies part ways after seven-year partnership.
Belgian 3D animation studio nWave Pictures has ended its seven-year relationship with Studiocanal.
It was announced during the Cannes Film Festival that nWave would buy back Studiocanal’s shares in the company. This agreement is now complete, nWave has confirmed.
The transaction was jointly negotiated between Studiocanal and nWave, ending the partnership formed in 2010 for the development, co-financing and distribution of nWave Studios’ feature films.
These included A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures (2010), The House Of Magic (2013) and The Wild Life (2016).
The statement adds that nWave Studios will explore new long-term partnership opportunities to expand its development, production and distribution efforts.
A source told Screen in May that Studiocanal has been slow to give the go-ahead to nWave’s projects.
“It just became impossible to work together and so we decided to part ways,” nWave CEO Ben Stassen told Screen
The final collaboration between nWave and Studiocanal is the upcoming...
Belgian 3D animation studio nWave Pictures has ended its seven-year relationship with Studiocanal.
It was announced during the Cannes Film Festival that nWave would buy back Studiocanal’s shares in the company. This agreement is now complete, nWave has confirmed.
The transaction was jointly negotiated between Studiocanal and nWave, ending the partnership formed in 2010 for the development, co-financing and distribution of nWave Studios’ feature films.
These included A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures (2010), The House Of Magic (2013) and The Wild Life (2016).
The statement adds that nWave Studios will explore new long-term partnership opportunities to expand its development, production and distribution efforts.
A source told Screen in May that Studiocanal has been slow to give the go-ahead to nWave’s projects.
“It just became impossible to work together and so we decided to part ways,” nWave CEO Ben Stassen told Screen
The final collaboration between nWave and Studiocanal is the upcoming...
- 6/8/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
This Studio Ghibli co-production with its zen-like minimalism offers a magical, meditative take on Robinson Crusoe
Less is a whole lot more with this palate-cleansing animation, which sets itself apart from its caffeinated Hollywood counterparts with a minimalist, meditative approach. Jointly made by Japan’s Studio Ghibli and European backers, it is like a zen variation on Robinson Crusoe. A man is washed up on an archetypal desert island. Repeated attempts to sail away bring him into contact with a mysterious giant turtle, out of which a surprising companionship magically develops. The story operates at the level of a universal myth, free of dialogue or specifics, subtly alluding to more essential, existential matters. The simple, uncluttered images do the rest. This is a movie to bask in, and we’re given the space to do so. Characters are often dwarfed in lush expanses of sea, sky or forest, and there...
Less is a whole lot more with this palate-cleansing animation, which sets itself apart from its caffeinated Hollywood counterparts with a minimalist, meditative approach. Jointly made by Japan’s Studio Ghibli and European backers, it is like a zen variation on Robinson Crusoe. A man is washed up on an archetypal desert island. Repeated attempts to sail away bring him into contact with a mysterious giant turtle, out of which a surprising companionship magically develops. The story operates at the level of a universal myth, free of dialogue or specifics, subtly alluding to more essential, existential matters. The simple, uncluttered images do the rest. This is a movie to bask in, and we’re given the space to do so. Characters are often dwarfed in lush expanses of sea, sky or forest, and there...
- 5/25/2017
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
04.27.17: This list is now final. While I may in the future see additional films that were released in the awards year of 2016, no more films will be added to this list. (I may add links to reviews of films listed here.)
This ranking includes only new theatrical releases viewed for the awards year of 2016 (for eligibility for the Academy Awards and the Ofcs and Awfj awards); some films released in the UK without Us releases (and so ineligible for those awards this year) may also be included, for my own bookkeeping purposes. Links go to my review. Numbers after each entry are Date First Viewed/NYC Release Date/London Release Date; year is 2016 unless otherwise noted.
worth paying multiplex prices for
[5 stars]
Arrival (10.10/11.11/11.10)
La La Land (10.07/12.09/01.13.17)
A Monster Calls (10.06/12.23/01.01.17)
The Lobster (07.16.15/05.13/10.16.15)
Zootropolis (aka Zootopia) (02.22/03.04/03.25)
A Bigger Splash (10.08.15/05.04/02.12)
Miss Sloane (11.20/11.25/05.12.17)
London Road (06.03.15/09.09/06.12.15)
The Girl with All the Gifts (07.26/02.24.17/09.23)
I, Daniel Blake...
This ranking includes only new theatrical releases viewed for the awards year of 2016 (for eligibility for the Academy Awards and the Ofcs and Awfj awards); some films released in the UK without Us releases (and so ineligible for those awards this year) may also be included, for my own bookkeeping purposes. Links go to my review. Numbers after each entry are Date First Viewed/NYC Release Date/London Release Date; year is 2016 unless otherwise noted.
worth paying multiplex prices for
[5 stars]
Arrival (10.10/11.11/11.10)
La La Land (10.07/12.09/01.13.17)
A Monster Calls (10.06/12.23/01.01.17)
The Lobster (07.16.15/05.13/10.16.15)
Zootropolis (aka Zootopia) (02.22/03.04/03.25)
A Bigger Splash (10.08.15/05.04/02.12)
Miss Sloane (11.20/11.25/05.12.17)
London Road (06.03.15/09.09/06.12.15)
The Girl with All the Gifts (07.26/02.24.17/09.23)
I, Daniel Blake...
- 4/27/2017
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Our resident VOD expert tells you what's new to rent and/or own this week via various Digital HD providers such as cable Movies On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Google Play and, of course, Netflix. Cable Movies On Demand: Same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pretheatrical Don’t Breathe (horror-thriller; Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Stephen Lang; rated R) Pete’s Dragon (family adventure; Bryce Dallas Howard, Oakes Fegley; rated PG) The Bfg (family adventure directed by Steven Spielberg; Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill; rated PG) Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (comedy; Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley; rated R) The Wild Life (animated; voices: Matthias Schweighofer, Kaya Yanar; rated PG) The Eyes of My Mother (horror; Diana Agostini, Olivia Bond...
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- 11/29/2016
- by Robert B. DeSalvo
- Movies.com
A brand new animated, fun-filled family adventure called The Wild Life arrives on Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital HD), DVD (plus Digital) and On Demand November 29 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
From the producers that brought audiences Shaun the Sheep Movie, Paddington and A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures, The Wild Life arrives on Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital HD), DVD (plus Digital), and On Demand November 29 from nWave Pictures, Studiocanal and Summit Entertainment, a Lionsgate company. The Wild Life will also be available on Digital HD on November 22. The perfect film for families to watch together over the holidays, this wildly adventurous animated comedy begins as Mak the parrot and his friends discover a mysterious visitor washed up on their island’s shore.
Embark on a tropical misadventure with a group of quirky animals and their human castaway, Robinson Crusoe. When savage cats invade their paradise,...
From the producers that brought audiences Shaun the Sheep Movie, Paddington and A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures, The Wild Life arrives on Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital HD), DVD (plus Digital), and On Demand November 29 from nWave Pictures, Studiocanal and Summit Entertainment, a Lionsgate company. The Wild Life will also be available on Digital HD on November 22. The perfect film for families to watch together over the holidays, this wildly adventurous animated comedy begins as Mak the parrot and his friends discover a mysterious visitor washed up on their island’s shore.
Embark on a tropical misadventure with a group of quirky animals and their human castaway, Robinson Crusoe. When savage cats invade their paradise,...
- 11/9/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
A lackluster October 2016 at the box office saw calendar grosses down ~8% compared to last year, contributing to a disappointing Fall movie season that finished down 9.3% compared to 2015. As a result, only one new release in the Fall 2016 timeframe (Sully) has managed to gross over $100 million domestically so far and it would appear it's going to remain that way. Overall, October saw a record 293 films (+32 compared to 2015) generate $657.4 million compared to the $715.3 million from 261 films last year, resulting in the second worst per film average over the last 35 years. For both, 2016's October timeframe and the Fall movie season, this was the second year in a row that saw a decline in grosses, which could be chalked up to the fact 2014 delivered a record Fall movie season, driven by a record October. That said, while October 2015 was down just 5.6% compared to 2014, October 2016 is down 13.27% compared to 2014.October 2016's largest grossing calendar...
- 11/8/2016
- by Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
A simple listing, duplicated from the homepage, of new releases and other stuff currently available, for the benefit of those playing along by RSS or keeping up via the Daily Digest emails (sign up here).
new dvd+vod Us/Can Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie Don’t Breathe Fire Song Hell or High Water Kubo and the Two Strings War Dogs Mechanic: Resurrection I’m planning to watch… Indignation Morris from America Spaghettiman new dvd+vod UK Before the Flood Ghostbusters Little Men Zoom I’m planning to watch… Keanu Things to Come
recent releases Us/Can Bad Moms Before the Flood Blood Father Captain Fantastic The Divide Ghostbusters The Great Gilly Hopkins Into the Inferno Michael Moore in TrumpLand Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates Miss Sharon Jones! The Purge: Election Year Sausage Party Sherpa Star Trek Beyond 13th Time to Choose Under the Shadow Anthropoid Cafe Society Microbe & Gasoline...
new dvd+vod Us/Can Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie Don’t Breathe Fire Song Hell or High Water Kubo and the Two Strings War Dogs Mechanic: Resurrection I’m planning to watch… Indignation Morris from America Spaghettiman new dvd+vod UK Before the Flood Ghostbusters Little Men Zoom I’m planning to watch… Keanu Things to Come
recent releases Us/Can Bad Moms Before the Flood Blood Father Captain Fantastic The Divide Ghostbusters The Great Gilly Hopkins Into the Inferno Michael Moore in TrumpLand Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates Miss Sharon Jones! The Purge: Election Year Sausage Party Sherpa Star Trek Beyond 13th Time to Choose Under the Shadow Anthropoid Cafe Society Microbe & Gasoline...
- 11/8/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
It’s a great time for Chinese cinema with homegrown productions dominating the local box office.
Action thriller “Operation Mekong” won the box office charts with $77 million in sales during the national weeklong holiday, according to the film industry-consulting firm Artisan Gateway.
In the second spot was Yibai Zhang’s romantic comedy “I Belonged to You”. Stop motion film “L.O.R.D.: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties” by Jingming Guo placed Number 3 in the box office. Jing Wong’s action comedy “Mission Milano” followed in fourth place. “The Wild Life” is the only non-Chinese movie that made the top five.
Operation Mekong conquered all these films thanks to its nationalistic theme and its action guru director Dante Lam of “Beast Stalker” and “That Demon Within” fame.
La Times praised the filmmaker saying “(Dante) Lam packs the movie with white-knuckle action sequences, set in eye-catching locations, teeming with extras.”
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Action thriller “Operation Mekong” won the box office charts with $77 million in sales during the national weeklong holiday, according to the film industry-consulting firm Artisan Gateway.
In the second spot was Yibai Zhang’s romantic comedy “I Belonged to You”. Stop motion film “L.O.R.D.: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties” by Jingming Guo placed Number 3 in the box office. Jing Wong’s action comedy “Mission Milano” followed in fourth place. “The Wild Life” is the only non-Chinese movie that made the top five.
Operation Mekong conquered all these films thanks to its nationalistic theme and its action guru director Dante Lam of “Beast Stalker” and “That Demon Within” fame.
La Times praised the filmmaker saying “(Dante) Lam packs the movie with white-knuckle action sequences, set in eye-catching locations, teeming with extras.”
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- 10/15/2016
- by Ella Palileo
- AsianMoviePulse
So far at the fall domestic box office we’ve seen a slew of misfires out of the gate including Blair Witch, Bridget Jones’s Baby, Snowden, The Light Between Oceans, Morgan, The Disappointments Room and The Wild Life. Even though some wide product has moved off the fall schedule, it’s still a vicious marketplace particularly since it’s a sleepy time at multiplexes. This weekend alone, there’s only 4% of K-12 schools out, and 1% of colleges according to ComScore. Let’s hope…...
- 9/28/2016
- Deadline
The King Baggot Tribute will take place Wednesday September 28th at 7pm at Lee Auditorium inside the Missouri History Museum (Lindell and DeBaliviere in Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri). The 1913 silent film Ivanhoe will be accompanied by The Rats and People Motion Picture Orchestra and there will be a 40-minute illustrated lecture on the life and career of King Baggot by We Are Movie Geeks’ Tom Stockman. A Facebook invite for the event can be found Here
Hollywood Cinematographer Stephen King Baggot, also known as King Baggot III, is a retired cinematographer and news cameraman born in 1943. Like his father and grandfather before him, he was always billed onscreen as simply ‘King Baggot’. The first King Baggot (1879-1948) was at one time Hollywood’s most popular star, known in his heyday as ‘King of the Movies’ ,’The Most Photographed Man in the World’ and “More Famous Than the Man in...
Hollywood Cinematographer Stephen King Baggot, also known as King Baggot III, is a retired cinematographer and news cameraman born in 1943. Like his father and grandfather before him, he was always billed onscreen as simply ‘King Baggot’. The first King Baggot (1879-1948) was at one time Hollywood’s most popular star, known in his heyday as ‘King of the Movies’ ,’The Most Photographed Man in the World’ and “More Famous Than the Man in...
- 9/22/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Here's your estimated 3-day box office returns (new releases bolded): 1. Sully - $22.0 million ($70.5 million total) 2. Blair Witch - $9.6 million ($9.6 million total) 3. Bridget Jones’s Baby - $8.2 million ($8.2 million total) 4. Snowden - $8.0 million ($8.0 million total) 5. Don't Breathe - $5.6 million ($75.3 million total) 6. When the Bough Breaks - $5.5 million ($22.6 million total) 7. Suicide Squad - $4.7 million ($313.7 million total) 8. The Wild Life - $2.6 million ($6.6 million total) 9. Kubo and the Two Strings - $2.5 million ($44.2 million total) 10. Pete's Dragon - $2.0 million ($72.8 million total) The Big Stories It seems everywhere I’ve gone in the past two weeks everyone wants to either know about Clint...
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- 9/19/2016
- by Erik Childress
- Movies.com
Sully not only held up well in its second week with a small drop in revenue (an estimated $22 million), but held onto first place with ease…the second-place finisher, Blair Witch, did not even break $10 million, with an estimated $9.7 million. Still, the latest horror entry in the long dormant franchise managed to nearly double its $5 million costs in a single weekend, even if it’s critical reviews are less than spectacular. Praise was much better for Bridget Jones’s Baby, another entry for a dormant franchise, though the wait may have been a little too long as its estimated $8.2 million is on par with the previous films domestically, but at a $35 million cost, it will most likely have to rely on overseas dollars to keep it in good standing.
In fourth, the thriller Snowden, based on the real-life CIA intelligence leaker, delivered only lukewarm critical reception and mild box office to match,...
In fourth, the thriller Snowden, based on the real-life CIA intelligence leaker, delivered only lukewarm critical reception and mild box office to match,...
- 9/19/2016
- by Seth Paul
- CinemaNerdz
It was a horrible weekend at the box-office. According to Deadline, at $89M, the weekend of 9/16-18 was the worst this year. Prior to that, the weekend of 2/5-7 was the lowest with $95M.
But, Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks made Warner Bros. happy with .Sully. dominating the competition with $22 million. So far, the biopic has made $70.5M at the box-office.
Lionsgate.s .Blair Witch. on the other hand, failed miserably. Projected to make between $15-$20M this weekend, the threequel managed to eke out a mere $9.7M at the box-office landing at Number 2. And with a horrible CinemaScore of D+, we can say the film is dead on arrival. What happened? I thought the movie, which was over-buzzed beginning with its secret Comic-Con screening and ending at the Toronto International Film Festival, was good enough, certainly better than the sequel .The Book of Shadows.. But alas, audiences seemed to not care.
But, Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks made Warner Bros. happy with .Sully. dominating the competition with $22 million. So far, the biopic has made $70.5M at the box-office.
Lionsgate.s .Blair Witch. on the other hand, failed miserably. Projected to make between $15-$20M this weekend, the threequel managed to eke out a mere $9.7M at the box-office landing at Number 2. And with a horrible CinemaScore of D+, we can say the film is dead on arrival. What happened? I thought the movie, which was over-buzzed beginning with its secret Comic-Con screening and ending at the Toronto International Film Festival, was good enough, certainly better than the sequel .The Book of Shadows.. But alas, audiences seemed to not care.
- 9/19/2016
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
What did you see at the movies this weekend? Or were you too busy bingewatching Emmy nominees before the ceremony tonight? Here's what was hottest at the box office. Other than Sully and the new Beatles Documentary Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (which won the highest per screen average of the weekend on its 85 screens), "lukewarm" might be a better description for the new releases, none of which cracked 8 figures. Sorry Bridget! You've been gone too long.
Top Ten
01 Sully $22 (cum. $70.5) Review
02 Blair Witch $9.6 New Review & Remembering Blair Witch (1999)
03 Bridget Jones's Baby $8.2 New Review
04 Snowden $8 New
05 Don't Breathe $5.6 (cum. $75.3)
06 When the Bough Breaks $5.5 (cum $22.6)
07 Suicide Squad $4.7 (cum. $313.7) Review & Worst of Year
08 The Wild Life $2.6 (cum. $6.6)
09 Kubo and the Two Strings $2.5 (cum. $44.2) Review
10 Pete's Dragon $2 (cum $72.8) Review
Next week Sully will surely be overthrown when Denzel and six other magnificents arrive in that shoot-em-up western.
Top Ten
01 Sully $22 (cum. $70.5) Review
02 Blair Witch $9.6 New Review & Remembering Blair Witch (1999)
03 Bridget Jones's Baby $8.2 New Review
04 Snowden $8 New
05 Don't Breathe $5.6 (cum. $75.3)
06 When the Bough Breaks $5.5 (cum $22.6)
07 Suicide Squad $4.7 (cum. $313.7) Review & Worst of Year
08 The Wild Life $2.6 (cum. $6.6)
09 Kubo and the Two Strings $2.5 (cum. $44.2) Review
10 Pete's Dragon $2 (cum $72.8) Review
Next week Sully will surely be overthrown when Denzel and six other magnificents arrive in that shoot-em-up western.
- 9/18/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Lionsgate's Blair Witch arrives seventeen years after the original film and it's hoping to become the third horror film to top the weekend box office this year. Standing in its way is last weekend's champ, Sully, which has delivered record results over the past few days and is looking at a $20+ million second weekend. Other new wide releases include Universal's Bridget Jones's Baby, arriving twelve years after the last film, and Open Road's Snowden. Meanwhile, Pure Flix debuts the documentary Hillsong: Let Hope Rise in over 800 theaters and Freestyle releases Mr. Church starring Eddie Murphy into approximately 300 theaters. Overall, while there could be a fight at the top with a couple of $20+ million weekends, this weekend's top twelve looks like it will be down from last year by about 10-11% with the top twelve generating around $89 million compared to $98.6 million over the same weekend last year. 2016 has already seen 11 films...
- 9/15/2016
- by Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.
This Past Weekend:
Tom Hanks and Clint Eastwood’s real-life drama about airline pilot Sully (Warner Bros.) far surpassed all expectations, making nearly $10 million more than my prediction with an opening weekend of $35 million in 3,525 theaters, also making it one of the biggest openings for a movie opening the weekend after Labor Day. The Screen Gems thriller When the Bough Breaks disappointed compared to some of their similar releases, taking second place with around where we predicted with around $14 million. The lower profile animated film The Wild Life (Summit/Lionsgate) did end up in fifth place behind Don’t Breathe and Suicide Squad, but with a measly $3.3 million in 2,493 theaters. As expected, Relativity’s theatrical return with its own horror/thriller The Disappointments Room...
This Past Weekend:
Tom Hanks and Clint Eastwood’s real-life drama about airline pilot Sully (Warner Bros.) far surpassed all expectations, making nearly $10 million more than my prediction with an opening weekend of $35 million in 3,525 theaters, also making it one of the biggest openings for a movie opening the weekend after Labor Day. The Screen Gems thriller When the Bough Breaks disappointed compared to some of their similar releases, taking second place with around where we predicted with around $14 million. The lower profile animated film The Wild Life (Summit/Lionsgate) did end up in fifth place behind Don’t Breathe and Suicide Squad, but with a measly $3.3 million in 2,493 theaters. As expected, Relativity’s theatrical return with its own horror/thriller The Disappointments Room...
- 9/14/2016
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
7th Update, 2:12 Pm: Director Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks’ Sully landed with a smooth $35 million this past weekend for Warner Bros and Village Roadshow. Another newcomer, When The Bough Breaks from Sony, wasn’t as lucky, dipping to $14.2M off of industry estimates of $14.8M-$15M after suffering a bigger than expected Sunday fall. In addition, Lionsgate’s animated family film The Wild Life barely scraped by, while Relativity’s The Disappointment’s Room failed…...
- 9/12/2016
- Deadline
Here's your estimated 3-day box office returns (new releases bolded): 1. Sully - $35.5 million ($35.5 million total) 2. When the Bough Breaks - $15.0 million ($15.0 million total) 3. Don't Breathe - $8.2 million ($66.8 million total) 4. Suicide Squad - $5.6 million ($307.4 million total) 5. The Wild Life - $3.4 million ($3.4 million total) 6. Kubo and the Two Strings - $3.2 million ($40.8 million total) 7. Pete's Dragon - $2.9 million ($70.0 million total) 8. Bad Moms - $2.8 million ($107.5 million total) 9. Hell or High Water - $2.6 million ($19.8 million total) 10. Sausage Party - $2.3 million ($93.1 million total) The Big Stories With the Summer box office now behind us, our attention turns to festivals and awards. September and October...
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- 9/12/2016
- by Peter Hall
- Movies.com
Critics and audiences again made Captain Sullenberger a star. With Tom Hanks in the lead role, Sully, the story of the 2009 “Landing on the Hudson,” brought in the crowds with an estimated $35.5 million – though – though it has a $60 million budget to cover. With only $10 million to cover, When the Bough Breaks, the thriller of a husband, a wife, and an unstable surrogate mother, did well on its own terms with an estimated $15 million. Don’t Breathe, in the meantime, fell from its first-place perch to third, but with an estimated $8.2 million and $66.8 million put away against a $9.9 million budget, the critically acclaimed horror entry does not appear too worried.
Suicide Squad raked in an estimated $5.7 million, and worldwide is a smash with $699.4 million pulled in. But below it, surprise entry The Wild Life debuted with an estimated $3.4 million. The animated film, a Belgian import, is not winning over the hearts of critics,...
Suicide Squad raked in an estimated $5.7 million, and worldwide is a smash with $699.4 million pulled in. But below it, surprise entry The Wild Life debuted with an estimated $3.4 million. The animated film, a Belgian import, is not winning over the hearts of critics,...
- 9/12/2016
- by Seth Paul
- CinemaNerdz
2016-09-11T14:32:01-07:00Weekend Box Office: 'Sully' Tops for the Week
The based-on-a-true-story drama Sully won the weekend box-office race, and another of the week's new movies placed a strong second. The other two of the week's new movies, however, had trouble finding audiences during this first true weekend of the fall movie season.
The winner of the week, Sully, had an especially strong showing, earning $35.5 million.That's one of the top five September opening weekends of all time, and it's the first time star Tom Hanks has had a number-one film since 2009. More importantly, the film is getting good reviews and positive word of mouth, so it's likely to perform well in the weeks to come.
Second place for the weekend goes to the thriller When the Bough Breaks. It's a distant second, though, with a total estimated take of about $15 million. Unlike Sully,...
The based-on-a-true-story drama Sully won the weekend box-office race, and another of the week's new movies placed a strong second. The other two of the week's new movies, however, had trouble finding audiences during this first true weekend of the fall movie season.
The winner of the week, Sully, had an especially strong showing, earning $35.5 million.That's one of the top five September opening weekends of all time, and it's the first time star Tom Hanks has had a number-one film since 2009. More importantly, the film is getting good reviews and positive word of mouth, so it's likely to perform well in the weeks to come.
Second place for the weekend goes to the thriller When the Bough Breaks. It's a distant second, though, with a total estimated take of about $15 million. Unlike Sully,...
- 9/11/2016
- by Evan Gillespie
- Yidio
Clint Eastwood’s “Sully” and its $35 million opening weekend isn’t as miraculous as the event it portrayed, but it dovetails nicely with the film’s story about the value of professionalism and the experience of long-term veterans in their fields. Sony’s child-surrogate thriller “When the Bough Breaks” came in a distant second, but together the films helped create a strong weekend at a time that’s accustomed to modest grosses.
Two other new openers – the European animated acquisition “The Wild Life” (Lionsgate) and Relativity’s attempted comeback, “The Disappointments Room,” were afterthoughts. The autumn looks to be as brutal as this summer, and timing – an asset to “Sully” — should play a key role in the performance of many upcoming films.
The Fall Season Starts Off On Even Footing
The Top Ten totals this weekend, around $82 million, are a near duplication of 2015. That leaves the year to date totals about 5% ahead.
Two other new openers – the European animated acquisition “The Wild Life” (Lionsgate) and Relativity’s attempted comeback, “The Disappointments Room,” were afterthoughts. The autumn looks to be as brutal as this summer, and timing – an asset to “Sully” — should play a key role in the performance of many upcoming films.
The Fall Season Starts Off On Even Footing
The Top Ten totals this weekend, around $82 million, are a near duplication of 2015. That leaves the year to date totals about 5% ahead.
- 9/11/2016
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
It has been seven years since Tom Hanks starred in a live action film that opened atop the weekend box office, but Sully changes all that as the true life feature delivered one of the five best September openings of all-time. Finishing in second was another one of the weekend's new wide releases, Sony and Screen Gems' When the Bough Breaks, while Lionsgate's The Wild Life and Relativity's The Disappointments Room failed to make much of an impression. Overall, this weekend's top twelve delivered nearly $86 million, a small uptick from the same weekend last year with nearly 60% of the top twelve cumulative gross coming from the top two new releases. Directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Tom Hanks as Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, Sully opened at #1 with an estimated $35.5 million, the fifth largest September opening of all-time, largest September opening for Warner Bros. by nearly $12 million (The Town / $23.8m...
- 9/11/2016
- by Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
Sully, the first major film release of the fall, is also looking like the season's first major hit. Starring Tom Hanks as Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the Us Airways pilot who famously landed a commercial airliner in New York's Hudson River after a flock of geese struck the plane and caused both engines to fail, the Clint Eastwood-directed film made $1.35 million in Thursday night previews at 2,900 locations, putting it on track for an opening weekend gross in the low $30 million range. As Variety notes, that's several million more than analysts had predicted. Sully was made for $60 million, so in order to reach profitability, it will likely need to gross well north of $100 million. Hanks' last few films — last year's Bridge of Spies and 2013's Saving Mr. Banks and Captain Phillips — all demonstrated excellent legs, so if Sully can continue in that tradition it should easily top out in that range.
- 9/9/2016
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
Nothing feels remotely fresh, let alone savage or zany in “The Wild Life.” It’s a dull, uninspired and frantically tedious animated retelling of the Robinson Crusoe story, complete with a menagerie of ditzy, caterwauling beasts. Consequently, this cacophonous misfire feels a good deal longer than its 91 minute running time. Think “Cast Away” meets “Pirates of the Caribbean” meets “Rio” meets pretty much any mediocre animated movie with talking animals. Then take away the appeal of any of those. It’s the kind of artless, irksome film that would have gone straight to video a few years back but for some.
- 9/8/2016
- by Claudia Puig
- The Wrap
The English-language title of a new animated film from Belgium is a play on words that is only accurate in the most literal terms possible. Gentle and good-hearted as it is, The Wild Life is clearly targeted at patient young children; it quickly becomes tedious for adults to endure. The pace is slow and everything is repeated at least once, if not twice or thrice. The lighthearted tone occasionally inspires a clever quip to emerge, but The Wild Life is mostly a pleasantly arid version of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, first published in 1719. The film begins with a flashback framing device that also establishes animals can talk, as long as humans aren't within hearing distance. The flashback picks up at that point in the...
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- 9/8/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Adding to what is already an extremely crowded animation season— at least 26 entries are vying for the five Oscar slots— a few strong indie contenders will arrive this fall.
Ever since Cannes, leading the indie pack is Studio Ghibli’s “The Red Turtle” (November 18, Sony Pictures Classics), the exquisite and compelling 2D castaway drama from Michael Dudok De Wit, director of the Oscar-winning “Father and Daughter” short. It starts screening September 8 at the Toronto Film Festival.
A man shipwrecked on a lush tropical island inhabited by crabs, turtles and birds tries to escape by building and rebuilding a raft, continually wrecked by a mysterious red turtle, which transforms into a beautiful red-headed woman who becomes his companion and soul mate. The two have a son and live happily together as a family.
“The film tells the story in a both linear and circular manner,” De Wit said in an interview with “Positif’s” Bernard Genin.
Ever since Cannes, leading the indie pack is Studio Ghibli’s “The Red Turtle” (November 18, Sony Pictures Classics), the exquisite and compelling 2D castaway drama from Michael Dudok De Wit, director of the Oscar-winning “Father and Daughter” short. It starts screening September 8 at the Toronto Film Festival.
A man shipwrecked on a lush tropical island inhabited by crabs, turtles and birds tries to escape by building and rebuilding a raft, continually wrecked by a mysterious red turtle, which transforms into a beautiful red-headed woman who becomes his companion and soul mate. The two have a son and live happily together as a family.
“The film tells the story in a both linear and circular manner,” De Wit said in an interview with “Positif’s” Bernard Genin.
- 9/8/2016
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Saturday Am Update: With an estimated $12.2 million on Friday, Sully is off to a great start, looking at a three-day opening that could top $34 million. The film also took home an "A" CinemaScore from opening day audiences and with an opening this big we're looking at the third best live-action opener for Tom Hanks and possibly the fifth largest September opening ever. Pulling in second with an estimated $5.28 million is Screen Gems' thriller When the Bough Breaks, which is looking at a three-day opening around $14.5 million if not a little higher. Lionsgate's animated feature The Wild Life could only manage an estimated $700,000 from 2,493 theaters, headed toward an opening around $2.6 million. And the last of the weekend's new wide releases is Relativity's The Disappointments Room, which managed a mere $475,000 from 1,554 theaters, anticipating an overall opening around $1.1 million. You can check out our chart of Friday estimates here and we'll be...
- 9/8/2016
- by Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
With this Friday’s release of Clint Eastwood’s “Sully” — an awards contender, starring Tom Hanks as the pilot who made an emergency landing in the Hudson River — the remainder of 2016 box office will proceed at a breakneck pace. However, it may be tough to match this weekend against last year when “The Perfect Guy” and “The Visit” each crossed $25 million.
“Sully” looks to lead the weekend with over $20 million; it could be considerably higher. The Telluride premiere led to positive critical reaction, and its heroic story — along with Eastwood’s box-office draw after the mammoth “American Sniper” ($350 million domestic) — should give it heft.
In the 12 years since his last Oscar Best Picture winner, “Million Dollar Baby,” Eastwood made nine films. Two of them — “American Sniper” and “Gran Torino” — domestically grossed a half billion dollars combined. His other seven movies made less than $250 million total, mostly in the range of $30 million-$50 million each.
“Sully” looks to lead the weekend with over $20 million; it could be considerably higher. The Telluride premiere led to positive critical reaction, and its heroic story — along with Eastwood’s box-office draw after the mammoth “American Sniper” ($350 million domestic) — should give it heft.
In the 12 years since his last Oscar Best Picture winner, “Million Dollar Baby,” Eastwood made nine films. Two of them — “American Sniper” and “Gran Torino” — domestically grossed a half billion dollars combined. His other seven movies made less than $250 million total, mostly in the range of $30 million-$50 million each.
- 9/8/2016
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
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