FRIDAY 1:30 PM: I’m still on vacation but can’t ignore four new movies opening in wide release and performing as expected. Universal’s comedy The Five–Year Engagement (2,936 theaters) from Judd Apatow’s banner is looking to compete with Sony/Screen Gem... »
As principal photography gears up for a Monday start on The Railway Man, Stellan Skarsgård and Hiroyuki Sanada have joined the cast. Colin Firth stars in the true story of Eric Lomax, a prisoner of war forced to work on the construction of the Thai/Bur... »
Wednesday night was Sony’s night to shine at CinemaCon in Las Vegas as they became the first major studio to simply present a straight and slickly produced product reel rather than a more elaborate dog and pony show in which stars, directors and produc... »
Political thriller The Reluctant Fundamentalist is based on Mohsin Hamid’s novel and stars Kate Hudson, Riz Ahmed, Kiefer Sutherland, Liev Schreiber, Martin Donovan and Om Puri. Nair is directing from a script by Hamid, Ami Boghani and William Wheeler.... »
Amos Vogel, champion of American film culture and co-founder of the New York Film Festival, died Tuesday in New York City. He was 91. The Vienna native moved to the United States with his parents in 1938. He and his late wife Marcia founded Cinema 16, ... »
The once-gaping void between traditional TV programming and original online entertainment shrunk some today, when AOL unveiled its new AOL On Network. It brings the more than 320,000 videos currently on the site and presents them in 14 curated, themed ... »
Burbank, CA (April 24, 2012) – ABC Family announced today the pick-up of a second season of the original drama series The Lying Game. The new season will begin production this Summer for a Winter premiere. The audience for the drama series grew conside... »
Longtime Hollywood mogul Peter Chernin’s indie company has just received a new infusion of capital to help with his goal of expanding into a global media company “across all fronts with this additional expertise and resources”. Led by Providence Equity... »
Magnolia Pictures appears to have another strong documentary on its 2012 slate. The distributor bowed Kevin Macdonald’s documentary Marley at 42 locations Friday 4/20 (a coincidental date?) to impressive numbers theatrically, averaging over $6K per sit... »
FRIDAY 4:45 PM: I’m on vacation but the North American box office doesn’t stop. Big online ticket seller Fandango callled this sleeper early when it reported that Think Like A Man based on the bestselling book by TV/radio comedian Steve Harvey was its ... »
The historic Culver City Hotel may see a little Hollywood union history of its own Friday when Visual effects Artists from nearby Sony Pictures Imageworks meet with representatives of the Animation Guild and IATSE. “Meeting with @IATSE and @AnimGuild ... »
FRIDAY PM UPDATE: Universal’s Battleship continues to screen strongly overseas with estimates from Day 2 and Day 3 bringing the 72-hour total to $25 million with all 26 international territories now open. Director Peter Berg’s military vs alien actione... »
EXCLUSIVE: Is a fight over the right to use the name and work and trademark of America’s Sweetheart heading to court? An announcement posted April 2nd by the 10-year-old Mary Pickford Institute of Film Education claims its yearly funding of $500,000 wa... »
Jim Orr has joined FilmDistrict as the new president of distribution, CEO Peter Schlessel announced this afternoon. Orr will oversee all aspects of FilmDistrict’s feature distribution and will report directly to Schlessel. This follows Sclessel’s recen... »
A slew of programming announcements out of BET’s upfront presentation, which is going on right now Los Angeles. The network has greenlighted three new primetime series, including comedies Second Generation Wayans, co-written by and starring Craig and D... »
