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UPDATE, WRITETHRU: Two months after beginning global rollout, Fox's War For The Planet Of The Apes planted its foot in China. The debut of $62.3M on 30,000 screens scored the studio its biggest opening weekend ever in the Middle Kingdom. The result also pushed the Matt Reeves-directed threequel from Chernin…

Not long after I saw mother! at an early morning screening at the Toronto Film Festival this week, I ran into Christopher Nolan at his Dunkirk event and he was asking which movies I had seen, particularly curious about Darren Aronofsky’s. “I hear it is one of those movies you either love or hate,” he said. I replied…

Appearing at both the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival with two films—Loving Pablo, from Spanish writer/director Fernando León de Aranoa, and Darren Aronofsky’s menacing Mother!—Javier Bardem is having a banner year. Carrying the desire to portray infamous Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar for two…

When Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan came out of the fall film festival circuit seven years ago, the pic was promptly teed up for Oscar season with many bewitched by Natalie Portman’s graceful turn as a tormented ballerina who notches the lead in Swan Lake.  Fox Searchlight ensured that the movie was protected…

UPDATED, writethru with press conference details: Darren Aronofsky hit the Venice Film Festival today to unveil his latest, mother! Previously shrouded in secrecy, the psychological horror pic plays out like a dark, twisted fever dream and is alternately being compared to The Shining and Rosemary's Baby. Response was…

Paramount has released the first full-length trailer to the Jennifer Lawrence-starring psychological horror film Mother!, from Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky. The pic, also starring Javier Bardem, Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer, will have world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and will bow in Toronto before…

The first official glimpses of fall film fest titles are beginning to roll out, with the latest a tease for Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!. Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem star in the psychological thriller whose full trailer will be revealed on August 8. Its world premiere follows in Venice before the film heads to…

UPDATED with more details: Kicking off awards season in earnest, the Venice Film Festival will world premiere movies by such directors as Alexander Payne, Guillermo del Toro, George Clooney, Darren Aronofsky, Paul Schrader and Martin McDonagh. The rundown announced today by fest chief Alberto Barbera was pretty much…

Paramount has shifted its awards-season fare, moving George Clooney’s Suburbicon and Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! up in the fall release schedule while pushing the next iteration of Cloverfield in Imax to February 2, which is Super Bowl weekend. Originally slotted for October 13, Mother! starring Jennifer Lawrence…

Many in Hollywood sent flowers today or picked up the tab for brunch. But director Darren Aronofsky offered a different sort of Mother’s Day present, revealing a new poster for his upcoming fall movie Mother. The image tweeted by Aronofsky (see below) shows a photo-realistic illustration of the film’s star, Jennifer La…

Paramount has set a date for Darren Aronosfky’s mother! starring Jennifer Lawrence and Michelle Pfeiffer for Oct. 13. Pic’s logline reads: a couple whose relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence. Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Domhnall Gleeson also star. Pic…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Universal Pictures acquired Mother, an action comedy pitch that will be developed as a star vehicle for Halle Berry. Berry and Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas will produce through their 606 Films Production banner. Pablo Fenjves will write the screenplay. It is the latest deal since…