Think your hangover is bad today? When Jason Blum took the stage this morning at Film Independent Forum 2015 for an in depth discussion – moderated by Daily Beast editor and former Deadline colleague Jen Yamato – of the incredible success of Blumhouse Productions, the irony of the topic was, to put it mildly, obvious…

“Soooo, this is a bit awkward,” director Jon Chu says in his opening keynote remarks Saturday at Film Independent Forum. He and Jason Blum set out to make a live action movie adaptation of 30-year-old classic animated TV show Jem And The Holograms. They made it “with little resources, all in L.A.,” he said.

“It looks l…

5TH UPDATE, Sunday 8:20 AM Final: In a weekend with distributors offering five wide entries, most of which were paltry, audiences decided what was old was new for them as 20th Century Fox’s The Martian shot its way back to No. 1 with an estimated $15.9M and $166.4M. Sony’s Goosebumps chased behind in No. 2 with a…

If there was ever a weekend when distributors were looking to cannibalize one another this is the one, as five fresh wide releases are hitting theaters. What gives? One reason is that most distributors want to avoid Halloween next weekend (October 30-November 1), which is falling on a <img class="alignleft size-dl-arti…

“I, Jerrica Benson, am living the most unexceptional life. … At some point we all wish we could become someone else.” Relatable stuff from the voice-over in the first trailer for Universal’s Jem And The Holograms. Aubrey Peeples, who plays Layla on Nashville, stars as a kid who writes songs that no one outside of her…

The live-action Jem And The Holograms movie based on the Hasbro animated series will be released on October 23, 2015, Universal said today as it dated two of its upcoming Blumhouse pictures. The music-driven film about a young woman who transforms into a pop star with the help of her best friends and a pair of…

EXCLUSIVE: Aurora Perrineau has been cast in sci-fi romance Equals following her gig rocking out as Shana in the upcoming Jem And The Holograms movie. Equals, from director Drake Doremus (Like Crazy), is set in a future society where emotions have been eradicated and one man, Silas (Nicholas Hoult), finds himself…

EXCLUSIVE: The live-action Jem And The Holograms movie is getting a little more truly outrageous with the addition of Oscar-nominated actress and rocker Juliette Lewis. Production is already underway in Los Angeles on the music-driven film, based on Hasbro’s 1980s animated series about a young woman who transforms…

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