Amazon took last year’s festival market by storm with eight-figure deals for ‘Late Night,’ ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ and ‘The Report,’ and $5 million for ‘Honey Boy.’ Although the collective box office of those buys raised strategy questions, the Amazon Prime boss says not only is there no regret over last year’s spree, it plans to be as competitive in the bidding as anyone again this year.
“Democrats are getting their asses kicked,” bemoans Steve Carell’s character in the trailer for Irresistible, the political comedy from long-time Daily Show host Jon Stewart.
The film stars a Democrat political consultant (Carell) who helps a retired ex-Marine colonel (Chris Cooper) run for mayor in a small Wisconsin…
Despite older guys indulging greatly in Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s reteam Bad Boy for Life last weekend, STX and Miramax are hoping that there’s a little bit of spillover from that into Guy Ritchie’s R-rated all-star ensemble The Gentlemen.Â
STX took U.S. rights from Miramax for $7M, and the hope is that the pic…
Nicolas Cage is certainly building on his resume of genre-driven films with the new sci-fi horror pic Color Out of Space, which opens in limited release January 24. The film marks the first feature from celebrated cult filmmaker Richard Stanley since Hardware.Â
Based on the short story by H.P. Lovecraft, the film…
EXCLUSIVE: “The film talks about an end of days…in a way, it's a companion piece to The Irishman,” Luca Guadagnino says about Sundance documentary The Truffle Hunters, on which he is an executive producer.
Martin Scorsese’s $150m mob epic wasn’t the first movie that came to mind after watching the intimate documentary…
EXCLUSIVE:Sean Durkin is back with his second feature after a nine-year gap since the critically-acclaimed Martha Marcy May Marlene, which starred Elizabeth Olsen as a cult escapee and debuted at Sundance in 2011.
His new movie, The Nest, is a drama with Jude Law and Carrie Coon playing a couple who relocate their…
The BBC and PBS are coming together to co-produce a wildlife show in which they build a waterhole in Tanzania’s Mwiba Wildlife Reserve and capture the creatures that drink from it in intimate detail.
The drinking pool will be the first in the world to be specially rigged with television cameras, as presenters Chris…
The Berlinale Special Gala of My Salinger Year by writer-director Philippe Falardeau will open the 70th Berlin Film Festival on February 20, 2020 at the Berlinale Palast.
Three-time Oscar nominee Sigourney Weaver, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood actress Margaret Qualley and Mary Shelley actor Douglas Booth star in the…
EXCLUSIVE: The National Youth Film Academy (NYFA) has named its advisory board for 2020 ahead of the Emerging Brits Industry Showcase, which highlights rising UK talent.
Joining are actor and filmmaker Simon Bird, known for his starring role in hit TV series The Inbetweeners and for directing his first feature Days Of…
As China rushes to lockdown the deadly coronavirus epidemic, which has claimed at least 25 lives and infected more than 800 people, thousands of the country's cinemas have been forced to close their doors.
Yesterday, all local film releases scheduled for the highly lucrative Chinese New Year holiday were pulled by dist…
Before the world premiere of BadHair at Sundance, Justin Simien stepped out on in front of a packed house at the Ray Theater and gushed about his love for films like Carrie and Rosemary’s Baby. That said, his latest feature can be described as many things: a psychological thriller, a satire and a horror, but he…
Disney is temporarily closing its theme park in Shanghai as efforts continue to contain the coronavirus outbreak in China.
“In response to the prevention and control of the disease outbreak and in order to ensure the health and safety of our guests and Cast, Shanghai Disney Resort is temporarily closing Shanghai Disney…
Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie and an all-star ensemble take a powerful deep-dive into the downfall of Roger Ailes, with director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph.
