Director Matthew Vaughn said that the forthcoming Kingsman 3 will wrap up the saga of Taron “Eggsy” Egerton and his mentor, Colin “Harry” Firth.
The gimmicky British spy saga has seen the two survive the wipeout of virtually all of their fellow Kingsmen in 2017’s The Golden Circle, the sequel to 2014’s The Secret Servi…
Elton John claims that he had to fight to tell his story his way in ‘Rocketman.”
"Some studios wanted to tone down the sex and drugs so the film would get a PG-13 rating. But I just haven't led a PG-13 rated life," John said in an article he wrote for the UK’s Guardian. "I didn't want a film packed with drugs and sex…
UPDATE, writethru: Disney’s live-action take on the classic 1992 animated Aladdin rode to a $121M start at the international box office this weekend, coming in right at the top end of industry predictions with a better-than-expected debut in some Asian markets. The global three-day opening is $207.1M.
In North…
Bill Yoast, the football coach whose personality was portrayed by Will Patton in the film Remember The Titans, has died. He was 94 and passed at an assisted living facility in Springfield, Virginia, according to a news release from the Alexandria City Public Schools.
Yoast coached at Francis C. Hammond High School, an…
4TH UPDATE/Writethru, 2nd SUNDAY Update after 5:02AM post: Though Disney, which is usually conservative and safe with their estimate shows an $86.1M 3-day and $105M 4-day for Aladdin(still great numbers), industry averages believe Prince Ali will be much higher with a 3-day of $88.5M and a 4-day in the $110.9M range…
Corneliu Porumboiu returned to Cannes ten years after 2009's Police, Adjective with The Whistlers, one of the freshest genre hybrids in a festival full of them. Set in Porumboiu's native Romania, it concerns a corrupt cop who is in league with gangsters based on Gomera in the Canary Islands. But what makes this film…
Since his 2005 Sundance winner 40 Shades of Blue, Ira Sachs has been synonymous with the U.S. indie sector, so it was a huge leap for the director to make the leap into this year's Cannes competition. With a strong international cast headed by Isabelle Huppert and including Marisa Tomei, Brendan Gleeson, and Jérémie…
Bart Starr, the Green Bay Packers quarterback whose sneak dive into the end zone on the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field remains of the National Football League’s most iconic plays, has died. He was 85 and had been in failing health since 2014, when he suffered two strokes and a heart attack.
Starr was one of the faces…
Although Pedro Almodóvar is considered a fixture in the Cannes competition, he's only ever won the main prize once, with 2006's Volver. Indeed, after 1999's Cannes hit All About My Mother was pipped at the very last minute by the Dardenne brothers' Rosetta, the director briefly followed Woody Allen's example by…
Andrew Slater's music documentary Echo In The Canyon opened with a bang in two Los Angeles theaters over the Memorial holiday weekend, crooning out the second-highest opening weekend per theater average of 2019, solidifying further non-fiction as the star genre among the specialties so far this year.
The…
Writer/director Edgar Wright is attacking Netflix for an auto-playing trailer that includes a major plot twist on his film The World’s End.
The 2013 science fiction film stars Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan and Rosamund Pike as a group of friends who deal with an alien invasion…
Netflix has scooped up the global rights to Cannes Grand Prix Winner Atlanticsfrom female director Mati Diop and the Cannes Critics' Week Award WinnerI Lost My Body from Xilam Animation. That pic reps director Jérémy Clapin's Animated Feature Debut.
For Atlantics, the deal doesn’t include China, Benelux…
