Latest in The War With Grandpa

While the Weinstein Company deals with a few internal matters, it has pulled three films from their 2018 release dates — likely in anticipation of the company changing hands. Robert De Niro-Christopher Walken starrer The War with Grandpa had been set for February 23, Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart’s The Intouchables…

TWC/Dimension Films have moved the release date of their comedy The War with Grandpa for a third time. The movie starring Robert De Niro and Oakes Fegley has shifted the opening date to February 23, 2018 from the previous October 20, 2017; the October date had itself replaced a prior April 23 bow. Filmed over six…

Pete’s Dragon star Oakes Fegley is set to co-star opposite Robert De Niro in comedy pic The War With Grandpa, a film adaptation of Robert Kimmel Smith’s novel that Tim Hill is directing. Fegley will star as Peter, who declares war after his grandfather (De Niro) takes over his bedroom. Peter devises outrageous plans…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films CEOs Randall Emmett and George Furla and Tri G LLC have committed to co-finance with Marro Films The War with Grandpa, a comedy that will also have one of the youngest credited producers in film history. Deadline previously revealed the film will re-team The Deer Hunter stars Robert…

EXCLUSIVE: Marisa Tomei is in negotiations to join Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and Eugene Levy in the Tim Hill-directed feature The War With Grandpa. That would put three Oscar winners into the comedy which is based on the book by Robert Kimmel Smith. The story is about a kid who reluctantly gives up his…

EXCLUSIVE: In a rare instance of working together since 1978’s The Deer Hunter, good friends Christopher Walken and Robert De Niro will go before the cameras next month to take part in a different kind of war: The War With Grandpa, a comedy directed by Tim Hill (Hop). Comedy favorite Eugene Levy — who co-starred in…

EXCLUSIVE: Robert De Niro is in final negotiations to star in The War With Grandpa, a comedy that is being financed and produced by Marro Films and distributed by Dimension. Tim Hill will direct and Matt Ember & Tom Astle, the team behind the DreamWorks Animation hit Home and MGM’s Kid Robot, are doing a rewrite on…