Writethru Sunday AM after Friday/Saturday posts:Â This weekend clearly proved the challenges in launching films during the pre-Halloween weekend span — even if you have a horror movie.
With $75M in total ticket sales, this weekend was the second lowest of 2017 to date after the last frame of August which hit rock…
Hollywood has certainly turned out countess numbers of films of men in battle. The list of war movies is endless, but not so films about what happens when those men come back from the fight. Sure, there have been classics like the 1946 Oscar winner The Best Years of Our Lives which focused on World War II vets…
Jigsaw is expected to keep Lionsgate’s box office domination going this weekend with a take in the low $20 million range at 2,800 theaters, while the studio’s cash cow Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween will ease to second with a projected $11M, down 48% from its No. 1 opening.
Jigsaw is the eighth installment in…
Universal has dropped the trailer to DreamWorks Pictures’s forthcoming war drama Thank You For Your Service, the directorial film from American Sniper scribe Jason Hall. Based on the David Finkel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book and adapted by Hall, the pic is due out in theaters October 27.
Starring Miles Teller, Haley…
EXCLUSIVE: Scott Haze, who has appeared in such films as Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special, The Sound and the Fury and Child Of God, has signed with a team at CAA, moving from ICM. Haze recently was seen in James Franco’s In Dubious Battle, with Nat Wolff, Josh Hutcherson and Selena Gomez, which premiered at last…
Universal will release DreamWorks Pictures' Thank You For Your Service, about a group of U.S. soldiers who battle PTSD upon their return from Iraq, on October 27.
Pic marks the directorial debut of American Sniper scribe Jason Hall and is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by David Finkel, which Hall adapted. It…
EXCLUSIVE: Jason Hall has signed with UTA. Hall is the actor-turned screenwriter whose breakthrough came with American Sniper, for which he was nominated for an Oscar. He has since drawn such plum writing jobs as drafting a film about Rasputin as a potential starring vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio for Warner Bros and…
EXCLUSIVE: Hot off her acclaimed breakout performance in Trainwreck, Amy Schumer is taking a detour into drama. She has joined the cast of the DreamWorks Pictures adaptation of David Finkel's book Thank You For Your Service, a film that has just gone into production. American Sniper scribe Jason Hall makes his…
