5th Weekend Writethru, Sunday AM: Studios don’t enjoy playing into a Disney/Marvel movie, nor do they enjoy playing in the wake of one, and with Captain Marvel staying strong with a $69.3M second weekend, -55%, per Disney, most of the wide entries —Wonder Park, Captive State, and Five Feet Apart –are essentially…

After a dry winter, it’s nice to see a double-digit-grossing weekday, which is exactly what Disney’s Captain Marvel did Monday, grossing an estimated $11M+ in early morning reports. That’s the third-best Monday ever in March, after 2016’s Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice ($15M) and 2017’s Beauty and the Beast…

Focus Features and Participant Media have take the wraps off the first teaser trailer for Captive State, the new film from The Rise of the Planet of the Apes helmer Rupert Wyatt. The dystopian pic that’s set not so far off in the future is set to hit theaters March 29, 2019. Written by The Battle of Shaker Heights…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed KiKi Layne, the newbie star of Barry Jenkins’ upcoming If Beale Street Could Talk. WME will represent Layne in all areas. In addition to starring in November’s Beale Street, Layne’s slate is filled with high profile projects. Layne will star in A24’s Native Son directed by Rashid Johnson. She…

EXCLUSIVE: Madeline Brewer, in her studio film debut, is attached to co-star in the Participant Media film Captive State from director Rupert Wyatt, said to begin filming later this month. Co-written by Wyatt and Erica Beeney, the pic is a sci-fi thriller set in Chicago decades after the inhabitancy of alien forces…

Kevin Dunn, series regular on HBO’s Veep, is set to join John Goodman, Vera Farmiga, and Ashton Sanders in Participant Media’s Captive State. Rupert Wyatt is at the helm on the pic, which will begin filming in Chicago next month. Dunn plays Police Chief Igoe in the sci-fi thriller that examines the lives of two sides…

EXCLUSIVE: Bates Motel star Vera Farmiga, Jonathan Majors and rapper Colson Baker (a.k.a Machine Gun Kelly) have been cast in the Rupert Wyatt-directed sci-fi film Captive State from Participant Media. They join John Goodman and Ashton Sanders in the film, which Wyatt also co-wrote with Erica Beeney. Production is…

EXCLUSIVE: In competitive bidding, Participant Media has acquired worldwide rights to Captive State, a package for a big-scale film that Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes helmer Rupert Wyatt will direct from a script he wrote with Erica Beeney. The project will be produced by David Crockett and Wyatt. Jeff Skoll and…