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Sunday AM Update: Paramount’s A Quiet Place is headed past $50M, according to industry estimates this morning ($50.4M), after a Saturday of $19.2M, which is $200K higher than Friday’s take. Note Friday included $4.3M Thursday previews, so what this means is that A Quiet Place isn’t front-loaded like your standard…

There's a powerful scene in the newly released film Chappaquiddick in which an exasperated, wheelchair-bound Joe Kennedy fiercely slaps his son, Ted. The monomaniacal old man is in a rage that Senator Ted, groomed to be the next Kennedy president, now faces ruin for driving his car off a bridge, thus drowning a young…

At one point in Chappaquiddick, the new film telling of the 1969 tragedy that took the life of a young campaign worker and sent Sen. Ted Kennedy’s life and career into a temporary tailspin, Kennedy says, “We are going to tell the truth, at least our version of it.” That’s a line that clearly resonates in the new era…

In the battle between SXSW world premieres, Paramount’s silent horror thriller A Quiet Place is set to open in the top spot with a mid-$20M start, a debut that’s in line with the studio’s 10 Cloverfield Lane ($24.7M) two years ago. The film directed by and starring John Krasinski alongside wife Emily Blunt follows a…

EXCLUSIVE: While the nearly 50-year-old drowning death of Mary Jo Kopechne that dashed Sen. Ted Kennedy’s White House aspirations would seem like strong subject matter for the cable talk shows that chew endlessly on political scandal, Chappaquiddick has proved to be a tricky sell for the filmmakers, who say they are be…

“Nobody was asking for it but we thought it would be a great story,” said Chappaquiddick‘s screenwriter Taylor Allen who, along with the film’s co-scribe Andrew Logan, stopped by the Deadline Studio at SXSW in Austin, TX. Directed by John Curran and starring Jason Clarke as Ted Kennedy and Kate Mara as Mary Jo…

“Tragedy has a way of defining people” are the first words we hear in the new trailer for Entertainment Studios’ Chappaquiddick, the film based on the true story of the Ted Kennedy headline-making political scandal that involved a car accident and the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. The trailer for the John Curran-directed…

Update, Oct. 21: After moving Chappaquiddick into the Thanksgiving space 16 days ago, Entertainment Studios has had second thoughts and is pushing the John Curran-directed movie to April 6 for awards consideration next year. The independent distributor acquired the Ted Kennedy scandal movie out of TIFF for a $20M…

The Austin Film Festival has announced the Ted Kennedy drama Chappaquiddick as their closing night film and has added the Armie Hammer romance Call Me By Your Name, Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, the WWII drama Darkest Hour and The Upside starring Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart to the…

EXCLUSIVE: Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios has closed a huge North American rights deal for Chappaquiddick, the John Curran-directed drama about the night Ted Kennedy drove his car off a bridge, ending the life of Mary Jo Kopechne and his chance at the White House. Allen has been all over this film: sources said…

The Toronto Film Festival continues to round out its slate for next month. Today the fest named six more gala premieres and 32 special presentations, bringing the roster to 48 world premieres, 10 international premieres, 19 North American premieres and 10 Canadian premieres to run September 7-17. Here are the…

Jim Gaffigan and Olivia Thirlby have joined the cast of Chappaquiddick, the indie drama being directed by John Curran from Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan’s Black List script. The Gaffigan and Thirlby join Jason Clarke, who plays Ted Kennedy, and Kate Mara, who plays Mary Jo Kopechne, in the based-on-real-life tragedy…