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Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business. BART: This is the week the indie crowd undergoes its annual mood swing: Disdainful of the summer movies, they exult in almost…

6TH WRITETHRU, Tuesday, updated with final actuals. So, what’s the ultimate leg factor for Sony/Screen Gems/Studio 6’s Don’t Breathe? Thanks to the Labor Day holiday, the second horror film from Fede Alvarez eased 40% for a $15.8 million second weekend and a $19.7M four-day gross. Already having bagged $55.1M, Don’t Br…

Sure, there were bigger upsets at the Labor Day box office this weekend between 20th Century Fox’s Morgan and The Weinstein Company’s Hands of Stone clocking under $3 million apiece. However, with the onset of the fall festival/awards season, the soft start for Disney’s final DreamWorks title The Light Between Oceans…

The 73rd Venice International Film Festival continued to amp up the glamour today as Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander docked on the Lido in support of Derek Cianfrance’s competition title The Light Between Oceans. Both actors are vets of the event: He won a Volpi Cup for Shame in 2011, and last year The Danish Gi…

If I didn’t know better, I would have sworn The Light Between Oceans was based on an old novel by Thomas Hardy or someone of his era who wrote this kind of intensely dramatic, almost soapy stories, but it’s based on M.L. Steadman’s 2012 international bestseller. Hardy would be proud. Whatever the source, I was taken…

Many expected last weekend to be the second most lackluster of 2016, with no title exceeding $20M at the box office. Scratch that – it’s actually this coming weekend. Unlike the weekend of Jan. 22-24, when ticket sales bottomed to a 2016 low of $66.2M due to a brutal snowstorm that closed Northeast theaters, this…

“In a moment of loss came a miracle of life.” On a remote Australian island in the years following World War I, a madly-in-love lighthouse keeper and his wife (Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander) lose their child. Fate intervenes when a small boat washes ashore with a dead man and an infant. It’s a dilemma. “Can’t…

DreamWorks and Disney have announced that Derek Cianfrance’s The Light Between Oceans will be released wide on September 2. This is film that the town has been wondering about for some time. Some believed that the film was to be released last year, but stars Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander had films in the…

Alicia Vikander is dominating movie theaters, billboards and award nominations lately, with a stratospheric rise to fame she calls "completely surreal." It's been a fast ride indeed. Since she entered public consciousness with 2012's A Royal Affair, Vikander has now become one of the most talked-about actresses in…

Participant Media and DreamWorks Studios, which teamed on their sixth film The Hundred-Foot Journey this summer, will continue their partnership on Steven Spielberg’s untitled Cold War pic and the upcoming adaptation The Light Between Oceans. Spielberg’s true story spy tale stars Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance and Amy Ryan…

BREAKING: DreamWorks has firmed a September start date in New Zealand and Australia on The Light Between Oceans, with Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, and Rachel Weisz starring and Derek Cianfrance directing his scripted adaptation of the M.L. Stedman novel. Heyday Films' David Heyman and Jeffrey Clifford are…

EXCLUSIVE: Swedish actress Alicia Vikander is getting two roles that all the brightest young actresses have been trying for. She is closing a deal to star with Michael Fassbender in the Derek Cianfrance-directed adaptation of the M.L. Stedman novel The Light Between Oceans for DreamWorks. At the same time, I hear that…