Neon has nabbed North American rights to Memoria, the Tilda Swinton-starring Colombian drama from Palme d’Or-winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The secretive project stars Swinton, Jeanne Balibar, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Juan Pablo Urrego and Elkin Diaz. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but it is set in Colombia and reports have said it follows an
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Aleisha Allen was only 14 years old when she was cast as the mischievous and clever daughter, Lindsey Kingston — who snapped a flash photo that caused a deer to go wild — in the 2005 family comedy movie, “Are We There Yet?” Allen starred in this hilarious adventure film alongside Ice Cube, as the
Just days before Disney+ launches with the Star Wars series The Mandalorian and more, the Walt Disney Co today finds itself again on the receiving end of a potential pay-equity class action lawsuit that could make digital dreams disappear in a fog of legal smoke. “Well-supported claims must be investigated, not dismissed,” declares the opposition
Luke Evans’ Owen Shaw didn’t appear in Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, but longtime franchise writer Chris Morgan teases that he will return. Evans made his Fast & Furious debut in the sixth installment of the series as the main villain of the feature. Unfortunately for him, he was left in a coma following those events
Last weekend didn’t start the fire at the November box office after Paramount/Skydance Media/Fox’s mechanical breakdown with Terminator: Dark Fate, which is set to lose $130 million off an estimated combined $325M production and global P&A cost and $29M stateside opening. This weekend, Warner Bros in a rare move for its genre product opens Doctor
EXCLUSIVE Spring Awakening, the 2006 emotionally powerful, sexually frank and Tony-winning musical by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, has been staged around the world, and now for the first time is heading to China. Yes, the South Park-hating, frequently censoring and much in the news China. Set for a limited 13-performance Shanghai engagement in January
10 minutes ago Warning: SPOILERS for Terminator: Dark Fate are in play. If you want to remain unspoiled and haven’t seen the film yet, please back out of this story and come back once you’re current. Throughout the history of the Terminator franchise, John Connor has been a key figure to the survival of humanity,
Writer-director Noah Baumbach has mined his own life for some sort of inspiration in many past movies including his college days in Kicking and Screaming, his parents’ divorce in The Squid and the Whale and turning 40 in While We’re Young. But now I have to use the “M-word” to describe his latest, and that would be,
John Witherspoon was a magnetic figure … so it’s no surprise most of Hollywood showed up to bid him one last goodbye. The late comedian’s open-casket celebration of life went down Tuesday in L.A. in front of a huge gathering of friends, family and celebs alike. David Letterman commenced the celebration. He and John used
EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is negotiating with Colin Farrell to play The Penguin in the Matt Reeves-directed The Batman. If the deal closes, he will round out the trio of villains going against Rob Pattinson’s Caped Crusader, with Paul Dano as The Riddler and Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman. The Irish-born actor has turned in an array
Director Tim Miller claims that the Kitty Pryde movie will never happen. After a few short films in the early 2000s, Miller made his directing debut in 2016 with Deadpool. David Leitch replaced Miller for Deadpool 2, but last year it looked like Miller might be returning to the mutant universe. Two years after the release of Deadpool, it was reported
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson, and Maggie Q are set to star in The Asset, an action-thriller from The Foreigner and Casino Royale director Martin Campbell and The Expendables outfit Millennium Media. It’s a package to warm the hearts of AFM action aficionados. Arthur Sarkissian of the Rush Hour franchise will produce, along with Moshe Diamant (The Hurricane
Fox Searchlight has announced that its pre-TIFF acquisition, Armando Ianucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield, will be opening on May 8. Pic reps Iannucci’s third outing as director, after directing the Oscar-nominated In The Loop and The Death of Stalin, and also created the award-winning HBO series Veep. Iannucci adapted the film with frequent collaborator Simon Blackwell from the Charles
An Oscar nominee and BAFTA winner known for animated shorts including The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom, Max Lang joined forces with Daniel Snaddon on his latest short, Zog, based on a children’s book by Julia Donaldson. Coming to the project, neither director was a stranger to the works of Donaldson. While Lang had
1 hour ago Warning: SPOILERS for Terminator: Dark Fate are ahead! John Connor has been an integral character in the Terminator franchise since the beginning, but Terminator: Dark Fate opted to take the character down an unexpected path. Rather than keep John around, the latest Terminator entry began by showing him being killed by a
Play video content BACKGRID Jennifer Hudson is ready for her close-up as the Queen of Soul herself — ’cause she’s already in character and filming — as is her onscreen husband, Marlon Wayans. The Oscar-winning actress and Grammy-winning singer was spotted on set Sunday in NYC, where she was in costume as a young Aretha
EXCLUSIVE: New Pictures co-founder and chief operating officer Richard Nelson is leaving the Catherine The Great producer after more than five years. Nelson joined New Pictures in 2014 and is listed as the company’s co-founder alongside Charlie Pattinson, Elaine Pyke, and Willow Grylls. He played an important role in New Pictures’ sale to All3Media in
Apple TV+’s For All Mankind cast includes a strong ensemble of notable actors and actress, though there are some people viewers may not recognize. Inspired by historical events, the drama explores an alternate history and what might’ve happened if the real-life “space race” had gone differently. For All Mankind mostly takes place during 1969 and 1970. The Apollo 11 mission
At today’s The Contenders L.A. panel on STX Entertainment’s Hustlers, writer director Lorene Scafaria said Jennifer Lopez was the first choice to portray stripper Ramona in the film, based on a 2015 New York magazine story about a group of strippers who turned the tables on their corrupt Wall Street customers by drugging them and
All was fairly quiet on the specialty box office front for the first weekend of November when it came to new releases, which gave the opportunity for Neon’s critically-acclaimed Parasite to flourish even more and the Fox Searchlight’s World War II satire Jojo Rabbit to shine brighter. However, things didn’t turn out so well for this weekend’s
The second trailer for the hotly anticipated Disney+ series The Mandalorian doubles down on the Old-West-in-space ethos of the first trailer and confirms the spreading suspicion that the Disney+ streaming service will be the unlikely home of the grittiest screen experience in the Jedi universe (at least outside the video game sector). Fans sentiment spreading across
6 seconds ago Two of the year’s most acclaimed films feature same-sex relationships between their protagonists. Booksmart and Rocketman have been commended for their positive, nuanced portrayal of these characters. So fans were disappointed to learn that romantic scenes in both films had been edited out of the versions shown on Delta flights. The airline
Refresh for latest…: Paramount/Skydance/Fox’s Terminator: Dark Fate found little salvation in its wider offshore rollout this weekend. Handled overseas by Disney, it came in below pre-weekend projections, grossing $72.9M in 48 material markets (including a soft $28M from China where Tencent Pictures is handling). Along with the early releases and holds from last session, the
Exclusive TMZ.com “Spy Kids” star Daryl Sabara has just been hit with 2 misdemeanor charges after allegedly flexing some serious muscle and going to town on somebody’s car with his bare hands!!! Law enforcement sources tell TMZ … the actor was walking by a parked car near the UCLA campus when he stopped and started
Apple TV Plus only launched yesterday, but the tech giant’s new streaming service is already home to some awards-contending films. Hala, from writer-director Minhal Baig, tells the story of a Pakistani-American girl named Hala (Geraldine Viswanathan), who struggles to forge her own identity and explore her sexuality while growing up in a traditional Muslim family
Robert Pattinson has begun training for his role as the Caped Crusader in Matt Reeves’ The Batman. Pattinson was named as the newest Batman back in May, taking over for Justice League star Ben Affleck, and fan reaction was mixed to the say the least (but that’s of course nothing new when it comes to
The one-two punch from Martin Scorsese and Francis Coppola about how superhero movies aren’t cinema did not reflect what Coppola meant to say when he was quoted in Lyon, France, while being awarded the country’s Prix Lumière honor for career achievement. That is how Coppola now feels about it, after watching his comments fuel so
Paramount/Skydance Media/Fox’s Terminator: Dark Fate drew $2.35M from 7 p.m. shows on Halloween night. Last night we were hearing early estimates between $1.5M-$1.7M, so this definitely is an improvement on that. That’s on par with the Tuesday night previews of its previous chapter, Terminator: Genisys which made $2.3M back on June 30, 2015. In fact it is pretty
EXCLUSIVE: Rocketman actor Jamie Bell and Ruby Rose, who plays Batwoman in the CW’s DC series, are set to voice animated feature Cranston Academy: Monster Zone. Now in post-production, pic is the story of Danny and Liz, two rival geniuses attending a secret school for child prodigies. When one of them accidentally opens a portal
6 minutes ago Not too long ago, we gave you an update regarding actor and all-around good guy Tom Holland, and how he’d shaved his head for a role in the upcoming crime drama Cherry. Naturally, the internet went absolutely nuts about it, and in some corners, we’re sure people haven’t recovered over the Spider-Man