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Three finalists have been selected for a screenplay competition run by fledgling Sydney and LA-based production outfit Truant Pictures. The trio will be read and noted by Stuart Beattie (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Collateral), Zak Hilditch (Rattlesnake) or Yolanda Ramke (Cargo). Launched in 2018, Truant is a subsidiary of
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In the wake of Terminator: Dark Fate’s failure at the B.O., and Paramount’s recent decision to make Beverly Cops 4 for Netflix, we have the further breakdown of cinema IP in Sony’s Charlie’s Angels reboot which is tanking with a God-awful $8.2M opening, 3 Stars on Screen Engine-Comscore’s PostTrak and a B+ Cinemascore. The Elizabeth Banks-directed-written and
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EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Television has closed an agreement with Frank Miller to turn his seminal Sin City franchise into a television series. A deal is close with Robert Rodriguez, which would reteam the duo that co-directed the stylish and memorable 2005 film. Miller and Rodriguez are expected to be executive producers with Legendary Television. Also to
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EXCLUSIVE: Valparaiso Pictures has wrapped shooting on documentary The Toxic Pigs of Fukushima, directed by BAFTA nominee Otto Bell (The Eagle Huntress), with Emmy winner Joe Bini (You Were Never Really Here) on board to edit. The 40-minute doc charts the destruction wrought by the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 which triggered a tsunami,
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It has been 20 years since Edward Norton last directed a movie, and that was the comedy Keeping The Faith. It has also been 20 years since Norton discovered Jonathan Lethem’s novel Motherless Brooklyn and has had it in his head ever since, with the idea that someday it would make a great film. That day is
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James Mangold’s Ford v Ferrari from 20th Century Fox/Chernin Entertainment put $2.1 million in the tank from Thursday box office previews that began at 6 PM. Projections expect the pic being released by Disney to exceed $20M this weekend, maybe even as high as $30M. Great exits for the Christian Bale-Matt Damon movie last night: 4 1/2
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Refresh for updates Disney has just unloaded a few release date changes to Fox pics and RSVPed a ton of dates for untitled stuff all the way into 23. The list is below. We’re still digesting this. Let’s break this down by years. 2020 –Matthew Vaugn’s The King’s Man, which is already being promoted in
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Breaking News TMZ.com Mo’Nique is finally taking her accusations against Netflix for discrimination to a court of law … she’s filed a lawsuit. In the suit, the Oscar-winning actress and comedian accuses Netflix of race-based discrimination for how it negotiated a comedy special with her. She says Netflix offered Amy Schumer $11 million for an
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EXCLUSIVE: Miramax has concluded a raft of seven-figure dollar deals on Guy Ritchie’s untitled Jason Statham action-thriller which was launched by the firm and CAA Media Finance at the American Film Market earlier this month. Deals have now closed with Studiocanal for Germany and Australia/NZ, Metropolitan for France, Tripictures & DeAPlaneta for Spain, Leone for Italy
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The New Line movie, Black Adam, based on the DC comics property will hit cinemas on Wednesday Dec. 22, 2021, five days after Fox’s Avatar sequel on Dec. 17. Pic is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, who recently directed Johnson in Disney’s upcoming Jungle Cruise. Black Adam will open up against Sony’s Hotel Transylvania 4, Universal’s feature adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked, and —
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UPDATE: Netflix is re-editing its doc series The Devil Next Door to update a map that was cited as inaccurate earlier this week by Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki. On Tuesday, Morawiecki took the step of penning a letter to Netflix chief Reed Hastings in which he complained about the depiction of Nazi concentration camps inside modern-day Polish
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Warning: This article contains spoilers for X-Men #2. Marvel’s X-Men relaunch may finally be answering one of its strangest questions; just what’s going on with Apocalypse? A lot of prominent X-Men characters have felt a little out-of-character in Hickman’s relaunch; but none more so than Apocalypse. One of the X-Men’s greatest villains, Apocalypse has always championed an
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Paramount is putting its Rugrats movie in timeout. The studio said today that it has pulled the Nick TV adaptation from its schedule after originally setting a January 29, 2021, release date. Taking over that weekend slot is Rumble, the toon from Paramount Animation and WWE Studios that is set in a world where monster wrestling is a global
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