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Gil Kenan To Direct ‘Five Nights At Freddy’s’ For Warner Bros
EXCLUSIVE: Gil Kenan has made a deal with Warner Bros to direct Five Nights At Freddy's, a live-action adaptation of the popular video game series created by Scott Cawthon. It is an online sensation that takes place in a Chuck-E-Cheese-like eatery, where an animatronic animal that is part of the house band becomes a…
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‘San Andreas’ To Shake Up Charts Post Memorial Day — Box Office Preview
Memorial Day weekend might be over, but it’s still summer for the major studios. With close to 27% of schools K-12 out this Friday, and growing each weekend, multiplex lobbies should continue to see some foot traffic. Despite any ennui from the lackluster Memorial Day weekend, distrib execs firmly believe it’s a…
‘Tomorrowland’ Slightly Better In Actuals, But Memorial Day Frame Was Still A Downer – Tuesday B.O. Update
6th UPDATE, Tuesday 4:15 PM: Disney’s Tomorrowland came in slightly higher than what was reported with $42.679M for the 4-day. With a global weekend of $74.7M, the B.O. for Tomorrowland reps anywhere from 39% to 42% of its lofty $180M-$190M budget. Not a good start. Furthermore, among Memorial Day bows, it’s way down…
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‘Tomorrowland’s $74.7M Global Bow; ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ Singing $190.4M Cume; ‘Mad Max’ Smokin’ $227.7M – Wwide B.O. Update
Updated with latest Disney, Warner Bros, Uni and Fox figures, Tuesday 3:51PM: Walt Disney's sci-fi adventure Tomorrowland came in first among new releases overseas with a $32.1M from 65 territories representing roughly 56% of the international marketplace. Combined with its North American 4-day tally of $42.6M that…
‘Tomorrowland’ Limited Release While ‘Poltergeist’ Grabs Strong $1.4M – Box Office Thursday
UPDATE, Friday 7:52 AM: Disney just reported for Tomorrowland with $725K from its limited run in what they’ve been calling 701 “premium/palace locations” (which means IMAX and PLF screens) with a nice $1,077 per screen average. Had they played the film on a greater number of screens — in the 2,500 to 3,000 range…
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‘Tomorrowland’ Has Bright Future Over ‘Pitch Perfect 2’, ‘Poltergeist’ Should Scare Up Some Business – B.O. Preview
Memorial Day weekend will really kick off at 7 PM on Thursday when previews for the sci-fi adventure Tomorrowland begin with IMAX letting go of Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Age Of Ultron (after its fourth weekend) and taking hold of the Disney film that stars George Clooney and two young stars Britt Robertson and Raffey…
Fox Shifts ‘Poltergeist’ Out Of Valentine’s Weekend In Favor Of Actioner ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’
The 2015 release schedule carousel has spun again as Fox moves its creepshow reboot away from Fifty Shades Of Grey and will counter instead with the male-skewing comic book actioner from X-Men First Class director Matthew Vaughn. The shifts give MGM co-distributed Poltergeist a July 24 release, making it the first…
Fox Sets Date For ‘Planet of the Apes’ Project, Moves Romancer ‘The Longest Ride’ Away From ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’; ‘Night At the Museum’ Now Head to Head With ‘The Hobbit’
20th Century Fox has announced new release dates on three films, including staking out July 29, 2016, for its Untitled Planet of the Apes project. It will be released two weeks after the next installment in another franchise Ice Age 5. It also has announced a date shuffle for Valentine’s Day next year. It is dropping…
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Delroy Lindo Cast In ‘Cymbeline’; Kennedi Clements Is Little Girl In ‘Poltergeist’ Remake; Jimmy Tatro Joins ’22 Jump Street’
Delroy Lindo has joined the cast of Cymbeline, writer-director Michael Almereyda’s biker-gang-and-bad-cops take on the Shakespeare play. Lindo will portray Belarius, a manly, battered and paranoid noble. Ed Harris, Dakota Johnson, Penn Badgely, Milla Jovovich, Ethan Hawke, Boyd Holbrook and Anton Yelchin also star in…
Jared Harris Joins ‘Poltergeist’ Reboot
EXCLUSIVE: Sherlock Holmes star Jared Harris has nabbed a lead role in MGM and Fox 2000’s Poltergeist reboot. Harris will play Carrigan, a larger than life TV personality who left the world of academia behind to become the star host of basic cable TV show Haunted House Cleaners. Gil Kenan is directing from a script…
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Rosemarie DeWitt Scares Up Lead In ‘Poltergeist’ Revamp
EXCLUSIVE: Rosemarie DeWitt is the choice to play the female lead in Poltergeist, the new installment of the Tobe Hooper-directed horror classic that will be made by MGM and Fox 2000, with Gil Kenan directing a script by David Lindsay-Abaire. They are looking to cast the male lead. Jobeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson…
MGM, Fox 2000 To Co-Finance & Distribute ‘Poltergeist’; Production To Start This Fall
LOS ANGELES, CA (June 20, 2013) – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM), a division of MGM Holdings Inc., has partnered with Fox 2000 Pictures, a division of Twentieth Century Fox, to co-finance and distribute the film "Poltergeist," it was announced today by MGM Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Gary Barber and…
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