In 2013 and 2014, Gail Mancuso did something rarely accomplished by female directors, winning back-to-back Emmys for Outstanding Direction of a Comedy Series for her work on the long-running Modern Family. The veteran TV sitcom helmer did something even men, who have dominated the profession, rarely achieved, and now…
UPDATE, writethru: Lionsgate's John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum took out a hit on its predecessors at the international box office, opening to $35.2M in 66 markets. In each of those, the starts were higher than John Wick and John Wick: Chapter 2. Coupled with the terrific domestic launch, the global cume through…
UPDATED WRITETHRU, SUNDAY AM after Saturday 10:41 am and 2:13AM post: With chart: At a time when talk is percolating that CBS is kicking the tires of Lionsgate’s Starz unit, the mini-major is making a comeback at the box office with its R-rated Keanu Reeves action pic, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum,which whipped…
When it comes to dog stories, author W. Bruce Cameron is prolific in writing them and then getting them made into movies. Universal released his A Dog’s Purpose in 2017, and now has followed it up with a sequel, A Dog’s Journey. The latter is not to be confused with Columbia’s Cameron opus A Dog’s Way Home, which was…
Universal has given release dates for three Amblin Partners pics: Dreamworks Pictures' The Turning on Feb. 22 next year, Amblin’s A Dog’s Journey on Friday, May 17, 2019 and the Tom Hanks movie Bios on Friday, Oct. 2, 2020.
The Turning is a haunted house thriller inspired by the Henry James novella and follows a nanny…
