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Michael Keaton, J.K. Simmons Leave ‘Kong: Skull Island’
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Michael Keaton and J.K. Simmons have exited Legendary-Universal’s “Kong: Skull Island” due to scheduling conflicts.
The King Kong origins movie is set to open on March 10, 2017, and will be released in 3D. The studio and Legendary unveiled “Skull Island” during last year’s Comic-Con. They announced in September that Tom Hiddleston was on board to star, with Jordan Vogt-Roberts directing.
Production is expected to start later this year.
John Gatins (“Flight”) and Max Borenstein (“Godzilla”) wrote the script, about a team of explorers who venture deep inside the primordial island that is King Kong’s home. Legendary has said the story honors the foundations of the King Kong lore created in the iconic 1933 film.
Legendary’s Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni will produce, while Alex Garcia will executive produce.
The news was first reported by Deadline.
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Box Office: 'Magic Mike XXL' Narrowly Outstrips 'Terminator: Genisys' Tuesday Night
21 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Let the fireworks begin — or that's the hope.
Terminator: Genisys and R-rated comedy Magic Mike XXL
both began rolling out in North America Tuesday night before opening
everywhere Wednesday in advance of the Fourth of July weekend.
Magic Mike XXL, the sequel to Steven Soderbergh's sleeper hit, narrowly danced past Genisys with $2.4 million for Warner Bros, ahead of the $2.1 million earned by the first Magic Mike in late-night runs. Genisys took in $2.3 million for Paramount and Skydance Productions.
Both films will have to battle holdover titans Jurassic World and Inside
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Watch: Unsettling Trailer for Xavier Dolan's Psychological Thriller 'Tom at the Farm'
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Read More: 'Mommy' Director Xavier Dolan Doesn't Want You to Label His Films
Internationally acclaimed, Xavier Dolan is a director to keep your eye on. With a handful of promising features at such a young age, he follows up the Cannes-winning "Mommy" with a new psychological thriller, "Tom at the Farm."
The movie premiered at the 2013 Venice Film Festival and finally found
U.S distribution earlier this year. Amplify will release the
French-language film in theaters and on demand in August.
The official synopsis reads: "After the sudden death of his lover,
Guillaume (Caleb Landry Jones), Tom (Xavier Dolan)
travels from his home in the city to a remote country farm for the
funeral. Upon arriving, he's shocked to find that Guillaume's family
knows nothing about him and was expecting a woman in his place. Torn
between his own grief and that of the family, Tom keeps his
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Ant-Man Could Lead To A Hank Pym Prequel
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Paul Rudd will soon be suiting up and shrinking down for his Marvel debut in Ant-Man as thief-turned-hero Scott Lang. However, questions have arisen regarding the role of Lang.s mentor, Dr. Hank Pym (played by Michael Douglas), who developed the film.s shrinkable heroic technology. With Pym being the comic book canon.s original Ant-Man, a hint has been dropped that we could see a Pym-centric prequel.
In an interview with ComicBook.com, Ant-Man director Peyton Reed
discusses the idea of tackling follow-up films. While he by no means
confirms anything, he does express his willingness to tackle a
prospective prequel project following the exploits of a younger Hank Pym
and the development of his signature protean equipment. According to
Reed:
Listen, if we were lucky enough to be able to do a sequel or even a
prequel, I'd be way into it. I've really fallen in love with
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Watch: Go Driving At Night With This 'Nightcrawler' And 'Drive' Mashup
20 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Ryan Gosling’s
Driver and Jake Gylenhaal’s Lou Bloom. Both loners. Outsiders. Men who
abide by a very strict and unwavering code. One a stoic, the other a
chatty, ambitious lunatic. And, as this new supercut, titled “Driving at
Night,” points out, both are men who navigate the neon-ensconced
nighttime streets of Los Angeles for their own strange, and often
violent, purposes. That’s right folks: “Drive” and “Nightcrawler”
are the new breed of L.A. neo-noirs, suffused with a lingering sense of
dread and mordant comedy, and punctuated by isolated moments that are
as electric as they are sickening.
Read More: Watch: 10-Minute Mashup Of Nicolas Winding Refn & Ryan Gosling's 'Drive' & 'Only God Forgives'
“Nightcrawler" is a much-lauded career high for leading man Jake Gyllenhaal and
also a savagely entertaining black comedy about a young social climber
without a conscience who stakes a grim fortune in a business.
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- Nicholas Laskin
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3 Mills Studios expands team
just now | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »Two senior appointments made at London-based studios.
3 Mills Studios has announced two senior appointments at its London-based film and television studios.
Tom Avison has been named head of studios, with responsibility for overall management and a lead on strategic direction for the facility.
Avison, who was recently promoted into the role from head of sales, has been at 3 Mills Studios for more than three years and has 12 years’ experience in the industry from production, with UK independent features and TV dramas, to marketing and events within the exhibition sector.
Paul de Carvalho, an international marketing, communications and management executive, joins 3 Mills as the new head of sales and marketing. He will take responsibility for generating sales and new business opportunities across the company as a whole, as well as overseeing marketing, client and industry relationships and developing sales strategies for the business.
De Carvalho previously held roles with 20th Century Fox and Screen New South Wales.
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Molinare acquires Hackenbacker
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Audio facility recently worked on Richard Ayoade’s The Double.UK post production house Molinare has acquired audio facility Hackenbacker from e-Post Media Limited, the owners of Halo Post Production. The purchase was concluded yesterday (July 1).
Molinare recently provided picture and sound on Simon Pegg romantic comedy Man Up and an upcoming TV adaptation of Beowulf for UK broadcaster ITV.
Hackenbacker’s portfolio includes Downton Abbey, recent reboot Thunderbirds Are Go, and The Double from Richard Ayoade.
Hackenbacker’s founder, Nigel Heath, will remain a director of the audio facility and will join the group management team alongside Julie Parmenter and Steve Milne of Molinare, and private equity firms Next Wave Partners and Saphir Capital.
The acquisition will have no impact on the day-to-day operation of either facility or sound department.
Molinare managing director Parmenter said: “We have collaborated on many drama projects over the past three years, including The Musketeers and The 7.39, and with a combination »
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The Magnet: watch an exclusive clip of the rarely-seen Ealing comedy – video
28 minutes ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »An 11-year-old James Fox – later, of course, to make his name in the likes of The Servant and Performance – was given his first starring role in this Ealing comedy set largely in Liverpool and the Wirral. Fox (still acting under his actual first name, William) plays a schoolboy who tricks another kid out of a fancy-looking magnet, and then becomes an inadvertent hero after it ends up in an iron lung.
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Jake Gyllenhaal & Taran Killam Serenade Ellen Greene In ‘Little Shop Of Horrors’ -Review
48 minutes ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Update Thursday morning with more performance information: Judy Garland at the Palace had nothing on the crowd that roared when Ellen Greene
made her entrance Wednesday night on stage at New York’s City Center
for the first of just three performances in a staged concert of Little Shop Of Horrors (Thursday’s
matinee and evening shows are nearly sold out). It felt like
Homecoming, Sunday church in Harlem and the Governor’s Ball all rolled
into two joyfully cathartic hours…
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Amy Winehouse's father may make film 'to correct omissions' in documentary
1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »Mitch Winehouse and Reg Traviss are reportedly working on a documentary to address ‘misleading’ details in Asif Kapadia’s new film Amy
Related: Asif Kapadia on Amy: ‘The drinking, the bulimia, the drugs – nobody stopped it’
Asif Kapadia’s Amy Winehouse documentary arrives in cinemas this weekend, but it might not be the only film about the late star on the way.
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- Benjamin Lee
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How Orson Welles shattered the Hollywood image
1 hour ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »Big, grizzled, with spit and stubble, Orson Welles dismantled the notion of what a movie star should look like. As it returns to cinemas, Michael Newton celebrates his Touch of Evil, the last great film noir of Hollywood’s golden age
In Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver finds himself in the kingdom of Brobdingnag, where the people are 60ft tall. Scale is everything; blown up to gigantic proportions the human face becomes rough, pitted, the seemingly immaculate skin unmasked as imperfect. In the 20th century, Brobdingnag transformed into the picture house, a place for the pygmy public to stare up at the great stars. However, far from seeming less perfect, the enlarged human face seemed more wonderful, smoothed-out by celluloid, unattainable. Yet still strangeness clung to these super-sized persons, those colossal faces.
Welles understood this, and so returned us to the Swiftian vision. In his movies, the human »
- Michael Newton
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M-Appeal Acquires ‘Hortensia’ (Exclusive)
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »Madrid – Firming up relations with key creative talent, Berlin-based M-Appeal has acquired international sales rights to “Hortensia,” co-helmed by Argentina’s Diego Lublinsky and Alvaro Urtizberea, a co-producer on Lucrecia Martel’s “The Holy Girl.”
A cooky rites-of-passage comedy, “Hortensia” is the second Lublinsky feature M-Appeal has handled after representing his debut, “Three Minutes,” which screened at Sitges in 2007.
A producer-turned-director, Urtizberea’s producer credits at Buenos Aires’ Vista Sur also take in “Three Minutes,” Natalia Smirnoff’s “Puzzle,” Daniela Seggiaro’s “Beauty” and co-production of an enterprising Peruvian toon feature, “Rodencia and the Princess’ Tooth.”
Written by Alicia Gimenez Guspi, “Hortensia” turns on a 22-year-old girl, the Hortensia of the title, whose father dies electrocuted while opening the kitchen fridge. She also discovers her boyfriend is cheating on her with her best friend. Alone, apart from her dog, whose days on this earth are numbered, she finds a memo »
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Creative Europe's 'level playing field' plans under fire
2 hours ago | ScreenDaily | See recent ScreenDaily news »Exclusive: Plans by the European Commission (EC) to create a level playing field between high and low production capacity countries in its Creative Europe Media sub-programme have come increasingly under fire from film distributors in the larger EU Member States.
There is a growing concern about the proposed changes to Media’s automatic distribution scheme which would see a change in the parameters used for the calculation of a potential fund that would be available to distributors for further investments in recent non-national European films.
Under the existing guidelines, the amount of the potential fund is calculated by multiplying the number of eligible admissions by a fixed amount per admission.
For example, for distributors in Germany, Spain, France and Italy, this has meant 40 cents per eligible admission for films coming from France and the UK, 50 cents per admission for films from Germany, Spain and Italy, and 70 cents per admission for other eligible low production capacity countries.
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Paul Rudd gets put to the test in exciting first clips from Marvel's Ant-Man
3 hours ago | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Paul Rudd is putting his Ant-Man super-powers to the test in a set of exciting new clips from Marvel's Ant-Man.Three news excerpts from the upcoming Marvel Studios epic shows petty thief Scott Lang trying out his incredible shrinking super-suit and attempting to learn how to fight.
In the first clip (viewable above), Scott tumbles down into a bathtub and faces a surge of bath water before hearing some words of wisdom from the suit's inventor Hank Pym (Michael Douglas).
Further promos catch up with Scott as he's trying to shrink, leap through a key hold then return to normal size, and learn to fight with help from Evangeline Lilly's Hope Van Dyne.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe's latest movie follows Scott as he struggles to control his newfound shrinking powers while battling the evil Yellowjacket (Corey Stoll).
While Ant-Man is still a few weeks away from release, talk has »
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London Has Fallen attacked for 'insensitivity' by 7/7 victims' trust
3 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »Twitter users also question timing of first look at disaster movie sequel days before the 10th anniversary of terrorist attack and in the wake of massacre in Tunisia
The chairman of an organisation set up to honour the memories of the victims of the 7/7 terrorist strike on London has labelled a new trailer for the Hollywood disaster movie London Has Fallen “extremely insensitive”.
Babak Najafi’s film, a big budget sequel to 2013 action thriller Olympus Has Fallen, stars Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman in the story of an attack on the capital. Chair of the Tavistock Square Memorial Trust, Philip Nelson, said the timing of the trailer’s release was wrong just a few days before the 10th anniversary of Britain’s worst terrorist strike of recent times.
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Timothy Spall to play Ian Paisley in Troubles drama The Journey
4 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »Drama will document the Protestant leader’s unlikely road towards friendship with his longterm political enemy, Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness
Timothy Spall looks set to play the Reverend Ian Paisley in Northern Ireland Troubles drama The Journey, which will document the firebrand politician’s unlikely friendship with Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness.
Deadline reports Spall is in advanced discussions to portray the late Democratic Unionist Party leader in a role with significant awards season potential. Belfast-born Nick Hamm, best known for 2001’s The Hole and 2011’s Killing Bono, is set to direct from a screenplay by Divorcing Jack’s Colin Bateman.
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Rupert Everett Receives CineMerit Award at Munich Film Festival
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Munich — Rupert Everett
was lauded at the Munich Film Festival on Wednesday, when he received
the CineMerit Award for outstanding contribution to cinema.Glenn O’Brien, a former member of Andy Warhol’s Factory and the first editor-in-chief of Interview magazine, which featured Everett on its cover when he was a teenager, acted as laudator. O’Brien said: “(Everett) redefined what it is to be a leading man. Part of that is he proved that you don’t need to be straight to be emotionally unavailable, and that it is important to do the roles that formulate your idea of yourself and do them in your own way.”
After he received his award, Everett said: “I feel terribly proud to be here tonight, but also I feel very unworthy, because even though in some ways one deserves an award just for surviving 35 years in show business, I really don’t »
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Rip Spaghetti Western Director Sergio Sollima
7 hours ago | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »When he spoke these words, Italian film director Sergio Sollima, who died this week at age 94, was referring to his love of travel, of the ability to visit far-flung parts of the world, observing and absorbing varied and unfamiliar cultures afforded to him by his career. But he always seemed to translate that love of observation and experience to even his grimiest, most disreputable thrillers, infusing his films with vitality and a distinct political thrust that often separated them from the more routine product of the Italian film and television industry of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Sollima was born in Rome in 1921 and as a young man graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, the Italian national film school established in 1935. He started out writing film criticism but soon moved toward crafting plays and screenplays. The first of them to be produced, "Behind Closed Doors" (1951), on which he was one of four writers, »
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Magic Mike Xxl: Greg Jacobs Talks Cut Scenes, Steven Soderbergh, and More
8 hours ago | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »In Magic Mike Xxl, the sequel to the surprise worldwide hit Magic Mike, it’s been three years since Mike (Channing Tatum) bowed out of the stripper life. But after reuniting with the remaining Kings of Tampa – including Ken (Matt Bomer), Big Dick Richie (Joe Manganiello), Tito (Adam Rodriguez) and Tarzan (Kevin Nash) – who are headed to Myrtle Beach for one last blow-out performance at the annual stripper convention, he convinces them to learn some new moves and go out bigger and better than ever. At the film’s press day, director/producer Greg Jacobs spoke to Collider for this exclusive interview about why he wanted to be a part of telling this story, having worked with Steven Soderbergh for 24 years, his first cut being about 20 minutes longer, the handful of deleted scenes he’d like to include on the DVD/Blu-ray, the most challenging scene to shoot, and making »
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Nadav Lapid’s ‘Kindergarten Teacher’ Wins Taipei New Talent Competition
8 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »Taipei — Israeli director Nadav Lapid’s second feature, “The Kindergarten Teacher,” won the Grand Prize and $20,000 at the new talent competition of the Taipei Film Festival.
Portraying a special relationship built upon poetry between a precocious child and his teacher, “Kindergarten” was lauded by the festival jury as “mysterious, emotional, and compassionate.” The film earlier showcased at 2014 Cannes Critics’ Week.
A special jury prize and $10,000 were awarded to Korean-Canadian director Albert Shin’s “In Her Place,” a psychodrama about adoption stigma in Korea.
Local filmmaker Chiang Hsui-chiung’s “The Furthest End Awaits” won the Audience Choice Award.
Jury members included festival programmer Chen Mi-jiuan, Taiwanese director Hou Chi-jan, Christian Jeune from Cannes, Thai filmmaker Pen-ek Ratanaruang and Korean director E J-yong.
The 18th Taipei Film Festival runs through July 17.
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