A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel has reversed a lower court's ruling in an ongoing legal battle between Paramount Pictures and the American Federation of Musicians that could have far-reaching implications for the overseas outsourcing of film scores.

In reversing a ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee (r…

Writethru Sunday AM after Late Friday/Saturday AM posts: What’s up with late October at the box office?

If the first weekend of May is known as the official launch of summer and guarantees a $100M-plus opening title, then the third and even fourth weekend of October can officially be known as a dumping ground for medio…

For a second weekend in a row, a low-budget movie will take out an exorbitantly-budgeted one for the top spot. Lionsgate’s Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween, the sequel to last autumn’s surprise hit, is expected to make $20 million-$25 million in a crowded weekend that includes such wide entries as Warner…

The new full-length trailer for Pure Flix’s fall release Same Kind of Different as Me showcases the film’s three stars — Greg Kinnear, Renée Zellweger and Djimon Hounsou, in an uplifting tease for the film’s long-delayed October 20 release.

Directed by Michael Carney, the film is an adaptation of the inspirational…

A newly-cut trailer has been released by Pure Flix for the faith-based film Same Kind of Different As Me starring Greg Kinnear, Djimon Hounsou and Renée Zellweger about an international art dealer (Kinnear) who befriends a homeless man (Hounsou) on a quest to save his struggling marriage to his wife Deborah…

Same Kind of Different as Me, the film that is an adaptation of a book and stars Greg Kinnear, Renee Zellweger, Jon Voight, Djimon Hounsou and Olivia Holt has been moved off the Paramount Pictures 2017 slate and picked up by Pure Flix for distribution. The picture originally had an April 29, 2016 release date, but in…

A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that Paramount Pictures was not the "producer" of the upcoming film Same Kind Of Different As Me and did not violate its contract with the American Federation of Musicians when the film was scored overseas with nonunion musicians.

The ruling stems from a lawsuit the union filed…

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Paramount today took The Moon And The Sun off its schedule just three weeks before the film was set for a wide release. The studio has not indicated its plans for the Pierce Brosnan starrer, originally slated for April 10.

A joint production with Cosmos Filmed Entertainment, Bliss Media and Lightstream Pictures, Moon A…

Edmund Kingsley is set for his first lead role in writer-director Andrew Martin's debut feature Capsule. The son of Oscar winner Ben Kingsley will play an experienced fighter pilot who is in command of Britain’s first manned mission to space at the height of the Cold War. He ends alone in space with a malfunctioning…

Jon Voight and Greg Kinnear are joining Renee Zellweger and Djimon Hounsou in Paramount Pictures’ upcoming faith-based drama Same Kind Of Different As Me based on the best-selling nonfiction book by Ron Hall, Denver Moore and Lynn Vincent.  Production is…

EXCLUSIVE: Renee Zellweger has boarded Paramount’s faith-based drama Same Kind Of Different As Me, adapted from the 2006 nonfiction best-seller about the unlikely friendship between wealthy white art dealer Ron Hall and former sharecropper-turned-drifter Denver Moore. Introduced by Hall’s wife Deborah, the two men…