By the time March 4 arrives when Oscars are handed out, those lauded pics still in play at the box office are projected to amass close to $150M, that is from the time since nominations were announced last Tuesday. Of that figure, 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight combined with five titles —The Shape of Water (13…

Who would have thought the saga of disgraced Olympic figure-skating star Tonya Harding would have made for anything but a sleazy exploitative tale of scandal that someone like Lifetime might want to make? But in the hands of smart screenwriter Steven Rogers and equally sharp director Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real…

Unlike many festivals, which morph into very different shapes as they grow, the Hamptons Film Festival, which kicks off its 25th edition today, has remained nearly as consistent as Atlantic Ocean waves crashing on the sand. Its approach has been shaped by its seasonal timing—early autumn, when days are sunny and crisp…

One of the more refreshing pieces of cinema here at the Toronto Film Festival among the gravitas, and one of the more intriguing titles up for sale is I, Tonya, the comedy-drama that Margot Robbie produced and stars in as fallen Olympian figure skater Tonya Harding. Last night’s premiere drew great laughs and applause…

“I called it the nine-headed beast,” said Cannes Film Festival jury president George Miller about the thorough-going group that sorted through so many potential winners during the last 10 days. “It was a collective experience, a hard one over many hours. It was incredibly vigorous and rigorous.” Miller, director of Mad…

EXCLUSIVE: Hyde Park International has boarded offshore sales on So B. It.  Based on the New York Times bestseller by Sarah Weeks, the film is directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal and written by Garry Williams. The YA title will have its world premiere at the LA Film Festival on June 7. Jay Cohen at Gersh is repping…

While Tamil stars and films are perhaps not as well known outside of India as their Bollywood counterparts, they nevertheless have a huge fanbase within India (especially the south) and across the diaspora. Also known as Kollywood, the Tamil industry produces hundreds of feature films per year. The latest high-profile…

EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter-director Stuart Beattie has signed with Resolution. He follows his longtime agent Martin Spencer, who moved from CAA to join Jeff Berg’s agency start-up. Beattie’s credits include Collateral, Pirates Of The Caribbean, 30 Days Of Night, and G.I. Joe: Rise Of Cobra. He just directed his script I, …

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has acquired the feature film rights to the Mickey Spillane series of mystery novels featuring private investigator Mike Hammer. The deal is a co-production between Film 360 and Thunder Road. The producers are Guymon Casady and Ben Forkner for Film 360, Basil Iwanyk for Thunder Road and Ken…

JVC KENWOOD and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment announced today that I, Robot, the successful science-fiction action, will be the first title in a series of legacy movies being converted to Blu-ray 3D for the home.  JVC KENWOOD has developed a new 2D3D conversion process that will convert movies to Blu-ray…

EXCLUSIVE: Chuck star Yvonne Strahovski has been set for the female lead in I, Frankenstein. She’ll star opposite Aaron Eckhart, playing his love interest, a beautiful and gifted scientist. Stuart Beattie is directing and wrote the script based on the Kevin Grevioux graphic novel. The movie’s being produced by…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO has teamed with BBC2 to acquire the rights to turn the Robert Graves historical novel I, Claudius into a miniseries. The mini will be exec produced by BBC Worldwide Productions’ Jane Tranter and Anne Thomopoulos, who were executives producers of HBO’s Rome. The deal ends a long series of twists and…