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EXCLUSIVE: Matt Sand, the screenwriter best known for his contributions to the 2016 Mark Wahlberg thriller Deepwater Horizon, has signed with WME for representation. The film from director Peter Berg, co-written by Matthew Michael Carnahan, dramatizes a disaster in April 2010 that saw an offshore drilling rig called…

Sound editor and designer extraordinaire Harry Cohen has been named recipient of the Motion Picture Sound Editors' 2017 Career Achievement Award. An 18-time MPSE Golden Reel Award nominee, Cohen has been a frequent collaborator with director Quentin Tarantino on such films as The Hateful Eight, Django Unchained, Inglor…

FINAL UPDATE, Monday, 2:29 PM: Tim Burton’s latest fantasy entry Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children ruled the roost this weekend after a better than expected Sunday. The film catapulted over two other newcomers — Deepwater Horizon from Lionsgate/Summit and Participant Media and Relativity’s misfire Masterminds…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU: The international box office got a boost this weekend, jumping 110% from last frame across the Top 10 titles, and dipping just 6% versus the similar session last year. There were two major overseas openings for Hollywood, with a raft of hot local movies in the mix around the globe — many with savvy…

So far at the fall domestic box office we’ve seen a slew of misfires out of the gate including Blair Witch, Bridget Jones’s Baby, Snowden, The Light Between Oceans, Morgan, The Disappointments Room and The Wild Life. Even though some wide product has moved off the fall schedule, it’s still a vicious…

On April 20, 2010 the worst oil rig crisis and spill in American history happened in Louisiana on the Deepwater Horizon. Eleven workers died. 115 people on that rig struggled to survive. For the next 87 days, oil flowed uncontrollably into the Gulf Of Mexico. Since it was ruled to be responsible in 2014, BP has paid…

Forget about this summer’s talk of sequelitis slowing down box office: This fall could wind up being a bloodbath with as many as 34 wide releases battling for marquee space before Warner Bros.’ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them propels us into the holiday play period. By the time four expected wide expansions…

As the federal government and myriad charities hunt dollars to help Louisiana with its latest disaster, a Biblical flood, Louisiana is getting ready to help Hollywood with $37.7 million in state aid for a disaster movie, Lionsgate's Deepwater Horizon. Such are the breaks of the film incentives game, which sometimes…

A Tyler Perry sizzle reeled just played followed by the multi-hyphenate stepping on stage. He regaled the crowd how the idea was cracked for his Oct. 21 screening, Boo! A Madea Halloween. “In Chris Rock’s movie Top Five, he jokes about a Madea Halloween movie selling out with a line down the block. So I got a call…

Here’s the first teaser trailer from Lionsgate for Deepwater Horizon, coming in September. Based on the events of April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon recounts the world's largest man-made disaster that occurred on the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. Directed by Peter Berg (Lone Survivor), this story “honors the…

Juston Street has been cast in the Peter Berg-directed Deepwater Horizon. He joins an all-star cast including Mark Walberg, Kurt Russel, Kate Hudson, and Dylan O' Brian. The feature, based on the New York Times article, highlights the courage of those who worked on the oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico when it blew up in…

Kate Hudson, Kurt Russell, and John Malkovich have joined the BP Oil Spill project Deepwater Horizon for Summit Entertainment and Participant Media. Hudson will play the wife of the oil rig engineer (Mark Wahlberg). This also marks the first time that Hudson and her adopted dad Russell have starred in a feature…