Fans of the 2014 film Chef will get another taste of the team of Jon Favreau and Roy Choi. That’s thanks to a new Netflix production, The Chef Show, that reunites them to explore culinary delights. Watch the first trailer above.
In the show, which launches June 7 on the streamer, the two friends experiment with their…
"I don't want my restaurant to be a place where you come and eat. I want people to sit at that table and be sick with longing.” Those words from Bradley Cooper’s chef Adam Jones in the The Weinstein Company’s upcoming film Burnt — originally titled Chef, then Adam Jones, and now Burnt. Jones had it all — and lost it…
Open Road Films had a critical hit on its hands when it released the Jon Favreau-directed Chef in May. Now, in an awards-season play, it will rerelease the pic nationally August 29 for a Labor Day weekend run that will shove its box office cume past $30M (it stands at $29.3M today). Eyeing a shot at a Golden Globes…
The latest dish on the John Wells-directed cooking project with Bradley Cooper once called Chef: Harvey Weinstein has sent the just-announced title Adam Jones back to the kitchen. They’ll call it Untitled John Wells project until they whip up something tastier. All this arose when they were beaten to the table by Jon…
EXCLUSIVE: The Weinstein Co.‘s culinary pic Chefis looking to add Sam Keeley to its kitchen. The Irish thesp, who’s also got a role in Ron Howard’s In The Heart Of The Sea, is in negotiations to join star Bradley Cooper, Omar Sy, and Sienna Miller in the story of a Paris chef whose career is tanked by a hard-partying…
Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly Sunday column, two old friends get together and grind their axes on the movie business.Fleming: The success that Elizabeth Gabler’s Fox 2000 had with The Fault In Our Stars has me entertaining the unthinkable. Is it…
OPENING:The Fault In Our Stars (FOX), beyond expectations with a solid $48M; Edge Of Tomorrow (WBros.), $28.7M and expected at No. 3. Noteworthy:Chef (OPRD) respectable in expansion.
5th UPDATE, MONDAY, 1:45 PM: Fox’s The Fault in Our Stars came in pretty much as we predicted on Friday night with $48M on a $12M…
A24‘s Obvious Child opened to solid numbers in a crowded weekend some other distributors likely would rather forget. The abortion comedy, based on a 2009 short by filmmaker Gillian Robespierre, bowed with $81K in three theaters in NYC and LA for a robust $27K per-theater average. A24, which has had a nice winning…
OPENING:The Fault In Our Stars (FOX), beyond expectations with around $48M after 52%Â Saturday slide; Edge Of Tomorrow (WBros.), won’t crack $30M and expected at No. 3. Noteworthy:Chef (OPRD) respectable in expansion.
4th UPDATE, SUNDAY: 7:18 AM: This morning looks much like it did late last night.The Fault In Our S…
This is one of those rare weekends, where two movies are opening and another is likely to play strong in its second frame so which might come out on top is a question mark. First off, Fox 2000’s highly-anticipated film based on the best-selling John Green book The Fault in Our Stars opens tonight at 9 p.m. plus it has…
OPENING: X-Men: Days Of Future Past (FOX) Fox’s estimates were $91.4M 3-day, $111M and it ended at $90.8M and $110.5 for the 4-day to become the No. 5 all-time Memorial Day opener; Blended (WB), we estimated $14M+ for the 3-day, $17M to $18M 4-day. WBros. had it at $18.1M and it ended at $14.2M and $17.7M. NOTEWORTHY…
OPENING: Godzilla (WB), monstrous hit with $93.1M; Million Dollar Arm (DIS), as expected with $10.5M; Chef (OPRD) expands to 72 theaters; The Immigrant (TWC) bows in 3 theaters.
5th UPDATE, MON. 2:26 PM: Final numbers are in and Godzillacame in at $93.1M in what was an incredible ride at the weekend box office for…
