The Visual Effects Society has revealed nominations for the 17th annual VES Awards, which will recognize the best VFX artistry and innovation in film, animation, TV, commercials and video games.
Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity Wars and Netflix’s Lost In Space lead the film and TV categories this year with six…
8TH UPDATE, 7:30 AM Wednesday: Aquaman had a huge Christmas Day, earning $22M to make it one of six films to gross north of $20M on Christmas after Star Wars pics The Force Awakens ($49.3M), The Last Jedi ($27.4M) and Rogue One ($25.8M), along with Sherlock Holmes ($24.6M), and Avatar ($23M). This takes the James…
For the third time since his 2012 Oscar-nominated film Flight, filmmaker Robert Zemeckis tanked at the box office last weekend, with Universal/DreamWorks’ Welcome to Marwen bottoming out with $2.3M at 1,911 theaters.
This feature adaptation of the 2010 documentary Marwencol was an attempt by the director to deliver a…
Whenever a studio’s marketing department resorts to commercials calling a film “the year’s most original movie,” you know they don’t quite know how to sell it. Such is the case with Oscar-winning director Robert Zemeckis’ Welcome to Marwen, an odd duck of a movie about a unique human being named Mark Hogancamp. While…
Between last weekend and Christmas, ten wide releases carrying a combined near production cost of $913M will vie for business in a box office marketplace that one distribution source describes as a “game of chutes of ladders; there will be winners and there will be losers.”
The multiple factor is wild, and many…
UPDATED 8:48AM with revised estimates: The Christmas box office menu of Warner Bros’ Aquaman, Paramount’s Bumblebee, Disney’s Marry Poppins Returns, Universal’s Welcome to Marwen and STX’s Second Act hit tracking today, and for many of these movies, it’s about the long road instead of the traditional three-day…
Universal has set a November 21 release date for Green Book, the Participant/DreamWorks road trip movie starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali and directed by Peter Farrelly. The studio’s Steve Carell-starrer Welcome to Marwen, which had been on that date, now moves to December 21, the Friday before Christmas.
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In a nod to its recent deal to distribute the 25th James Bond installment overseas, Universal showed off the morphing of the studio’s and 007's logos ahead of its presentation at CineEurope. Uni won rights for international as well as for home entertainment to the next 007 in a deal with EON Productions and MGM last…
