Makeup artist Dave Elsey realized a childhood dream working on Mr Holmes, the Ian McKellen-starring pic from Bill Condon in which Elsey tasked with transforming the 76-year-old two-time Oscar nominee into both younger and older versions of Sherlock Holmes. In fact, you could call Elsey a Holmes superfan. He grew up in…

Ian McKellen will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Tribute at the 38th Mill Valley Film Festival on October 11. This can also be viewed as a kickoff to Roadside Attractions/Miramax’s Oscar campaign for McKellen’s widely praised performance as an elderly Sherlock Holmes in their independent summer hit Mr…

7TH UPDATE, Monday 2:58PM – Final weekend actuals: Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation arrived closer to the industry’s estimates yesterday morning with $55.5M, still a gross that’s considered a comeback for both Tom Cruise and the M:I franchise. The sequel, according to distrib experts, is…

Sunday was a tad slower than anticipated for Disney Marvel’s Ant-Man which came in below its $58M weekend estimate with $57.1M. Universal Illumination Entertainment’s Minions also came in under its $50.25M estimate with a reported actual of $49.3M. Uni’s Trainwreck came quite close to matching yesterday’s projection…

Sony Classics opened Woody Allen's latest, Irrational Man, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone and Parker Posey in New York and L.A. this weekend, outpacing his 2014 feature Magic In The Moonlight, which also starred Stone as well as Colin Firth and Marcia Gay Harden, though his current film bowed in fewer theaters…

It's summer, so it's time for a Woody Allen film. Irrational Man is the latest in a half-dozen titles the filmmaker has had in recent years to be released in the summer by Sony Pictures Classics. The popular adage among some circles is that Allen makes a movie, then moves on to the next, never looking at its…

Sherlock Holmes is back, but we have never seen a Sherlock like this before. As I say in my video review (click the link above), the new Mr. Holmes is a completely different take on Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary detective. This new film with a screenplay from Jeffrey Hatcher based on the book A Slight Trick Of The Min…

What would the Great Detective have Dr. Watson and the Baker Street Irregulars do with this case? On the eve of the 156th anniversary of the birth of Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author's often litigious estate this week hit director Bill Condon and co-distributors Miramax and Roadside Attraction…

Since world premiering to a very warm reception in Berlin in February, Mr. Holmes has offered up clues via clips and a teaser. Today, the full official trailer has landed (above) with more of the story revealed — including Ian McKellen’s 93-year-old eponymous detective proclaiming he’s “never worn” a deerstalker, and…

UPDATED, March 27: The San Francisco Film Society said today that Mr. Holmes will have its U.S. premiere April 25 at the San Francisco International Film Festival. PREVIOUSLY, March 11: Bill Condon’s latest film was a real favorite at Berlin, and now it’s out to conquer the States. Miramax and Roadside Attractions…

Mr. Holmes was one of the bright spots of this year’s Berlin Film Festival where it debuted out of competition. Director Bill Condon reteams with his Gods And Monsters star Ian McKellen who plays the 93-year-old Sherlock as he revisits the circumstances of the unsolved case that forced him into retirement, and…

With most of the Berlin Film Festival competition titles now screened, there are some standouts. But sentiment on the ground here is that it’s the out of competition titles that have clearer crossover appeal. That’s a switch from last year when the main section went user-friendly. In 2014, The Grand Budapest Hotel…