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Tuesday, December 24, 2013
"The Wolf of Wall Street" isn't out until Christmas, but you can read the screenplay for it.
Read This Year's Best Screenplays - Business Insider
Movie site The Film Stage gathered together links for 33 of this year's screenplays. So if you're looking for some quality reads over the holiday and don't want to pick up a book, here's a great alternative for you to download
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Another Blow For Hollywood
Hollywood, L.A., increasingly not where movies made; Tinseltown is fighting back - CBS News
Eight major films are coming out in time for Christmas, but Hollywood is facing another kind of drama. The newest saga involves director James Cameron. He's shooting his "Avatar" sequels about as far from Southern California as you can get. Cameron says he will spend $412 million making his next three "Avatar" films in New Zealand.
Draft Day is coming to theaters everywhere on April 11, 2014.
▶ DRAFT DAY - Official TRAILER [HD] - Kevin Costner - YouTube
On the day of the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver (Kevin Costner) has the opportunity to save football in Cleveland when he trades for the number one pick. He must quickly decide what he's willing to sacrifice in pursuit of perfection as the lines between his personal and professional life become blurred on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with dreams of playing in the NFL. Also featuring Jennifer Garner and NFL & ESPN on-air talent Jon Gruden, Mike Mayock, Deion Sanders, Rich Eisen, Mel Kiper and Chris Berman.
Hugh Jackman Actor cites scheduling constraints as the reason for leaving a project to which he's been attached for years
Hugh Jackman Exits Brewing Broadway Musical ‘Houdini’ | Variety
Hugh Jackman has stepped away from the upcoming Broadway musical “Houdini,” citing the scheduling demands of developing a new tuner as the cause of his departure from a project to which he’s been attached, both formally and informally, for several years now. “I have greatly enjoyed the collaborative process on ‘Houdini,’” the actor said in a statement. “Ultimately, though, I wasn’t able to commit to the time this role will require. I have tremendous respect and admiration for the creative team and I wish everyone the best. I know they’re well on their way to making something extraordinary.”
Below are the ten best performances by an actor this year.
Looking Back: Joey Picks 10 Best Performances by an Actor in 2013 | FirstShowing.net
The year is almost over folks, and with that brings the deluge of lists that we all look forward to reading and agreeing/disagreeing with from fellow cinephiles. For my part, I'm delivering a two-part look at the Best Performances of 2013, split up between performances from actors and actresses. This was a year full of performances to rave about, so I'm thrilled to be able to give my personal favorites a moment in the sun, starting with just the actors here in this first part. From relative newcomers like Will Forte to old veterans like Bruce Dern (both in the same movie), wherever you looked, there was someone giving a performance for the ages, and it was a pleasure to watch all of them on the big screen throughout this year.
Jennifer Lawrence, Natalie Portman and Dwayne Johnson also score high on list that measures value of money earned studio for every dollar paid for their contracts. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/forbes-2013-list-best-actors-buck-surprise-cast-article-1.1557502#ixzz2oSYrhQwh
Forbes' 2013 List of the Best Actors for the Buck has surprise cast at top with Emma Stone, Mila Kunis - NY Daily News
Even among the multi-million dollar contracts doled out by the Hollywood execs like Christmas candy, there are still a few bargains left. Emma Stone finished at the top of Forbes' 2013 List of the Best Actors for the Buck, having earned studios $80.70 for each $1 they paid her over her last three films.
Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" has been polarizing audiences who have seen the movie in advance of its Christmas theatrical opening.
'Wolf of Wall Street' at the academy: What really happened - latimes.com
As we've exhaustively reported, the motion picture academy is on the older side. The average age of eligible Oscar voters is now 63. And as much as we'd like to picture these people as open-minded and artistically adventurous, reality just keeps slapping us in the face. To put it another way: We want to picture academy members as being like this guy when, in some cases, they're more like him.
Monday, December 23, 2013
The first episode of a holiday television event begins with Matthew McConaughey, Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, Josh Brolin and Michael B. Jordan's tales of their worst auditions - and leg waxing.
Watch The Hollywood Reporter's Actor Roundtable Tonight on PBS SoCal - The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter's Actor Roundtable heads to the small screen Sunday night, as PBS SoCaL kicks off a holiday television event with a 7 p.m. premiere of the Actor Roundtable withMatthew McConaughey, Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, Josh Brolin andMichael B. Jordan on the channel, available in 18 million households in the greater Los Angeles area.
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THR's Stephen Galloway and Matthew Belloni sat down for acandid conversation with the six stars. Leto revealed he almost quit acting after a six-year break -- "I was focusing on other passions, and time kind of flew by," the Dallas Buyers Club star revealed, "but it can be heartbreaking" -- and each actor was curious about McConaughey's time with Christopher Nolan on the set of his forthcoming sci-fi epic Interstellar.
"Is he a big guy?" one of the participants asked McConaughey. Queried another, "Does he talk a lot?"
The Hollywood Reporter and PBS SoCaL have partnered to produce The Hollywood Reporter Roundtables series, which features Hollywood’s leading Academy Award contenders in intimate discussions. The five-part series will continue during the holiday season through Dec. 30 on PBS SoCaL's HD channel, KOCE.
David Jason has said that the new script for Only Fools and Horses is 'very good'
Actor David Jason says script for new Only Fools and Horses is 'very good' | Showbiz | News | Daily Express
David Jason, 73, who is best-known for playing wheeler and dealer Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter in the hit TV show, has read some of the new script and says it is "very good". According to reports, the potential return of the show all depends on Jason's approval - so his latest comments will be seen as a positive development "I've had a quick look at the treatment and it's very good, but I'm saving the proper read-through until there are no distractions," he told The Times.
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Wary of producing a flop, Sony Pictures Entertainment said it would cut back on big-budget releases next year. But its caution does not apply to “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” set for next summer.
Studios Unfazed by Colossal Wrecks - NYTimes.com
For Hollywood film studios, 2013 is shaping up as “the year of the flop,” as the public radio host Brian Lehrer described it on the air in August.
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Instead of starting production afresh, Universal is weighing options for Fast and Furious 7 using their investment to complete production while giving Walkers character a respectful exit.
Fast and Furious 7 Script is Being Rewritten
The script for Fast and Furious 7 is being rewritten according to The Hollywood Reporter. The recent death of the charismatic FF7 hero Paul Walker triggered this move of the production house, Universal Studios. According to the details over the media, most of the scenes of FF7 have already been shot. The optimum thing would be to use those scenes and re-work the story to give Walker’s character a respectful exit.
"Walking With Dinosaurs" stumbles; "American Hustle" and "Saving Mr. Banks" make top five chart.
Box Office: 'Anchorman 2,' 'Hobbit' End Friday in Dead Heat - The Hollywood Reporter
Will Ferrell comedy Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues and holdover The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug ended Friday in a virtual tie as the final weekend before Christmas got underway.
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Anchorman 2 enjoyed a slight advantage, grossing $8.7 million, compared to $8.6 million for Desolation of Smaug, but most box office observers believe Smaug will win the weekend with $30 million-plus. On Friday, Peter Jackson's tentpole soared past the $300 million mark worldwide and $100 million domestically.
From Paramount, Anchorman 2 is projected to take in a solid $29 million for the weekend, putting its five-day debut (the comedy opened Wednesday) in the $42 million range.
Anchorman 2, made for $50 million and receiving a B CinemaScore, sees the return of Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, David Koechner and Christina Applegate while adding newcomers James Marsden, Harrison Ford andKristen Wiig. It follows the news team as they make the transition from San Diego to New York. Adam McKay returns to direct from a script he co-wrote with Ferrell.
Friday, December 20, 2013
Daniel Brühl charts his fast-path rise from German TV to global stardom
A most wanted actor: Daniel Brühl on his rush to stardom - Features - Films - The Independent
Having spent years as the darling of European arthouse cinema, Daniel Brühl has finally broken into the multiplex. Brühl is sensational as Austrian Formula 1 racing driver Niki Lauda in Ron Howard’s Rush. And in Wikileaks drama The Fifth Estate he plays Daniel Berg, who became enamoured and then disillusioned with Julian Assange as the whistleblowing website gained notoriety.
“American Hustle” is the best movie of the year, but is it important?
The Best Movies of the Year : The New Yorker
Does a movie have to be “important” to be great? Does it have to deal with socially resonant themes, or a great national event, or a disintegrating American family?
Director Doug Liman Signs With Creative Artists
Director Doug Liman Returns To CAA - Deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Doug Liman has signed withCAA. Liman hadfollowed his longtime agent Adam Kanter to Resolution, but has returned to the CAA fold. Liman, who left his TV business at CAA, will be repped in all areas.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Black women are underrepresented in front of and behind the camera in movies and TV.
Where are the black women in Hollywood?
Last week marked the beginning of the awards season frenzy, as nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Awards and Golden Globes were announced. Yet, there was one important group that made a poor showing among the roster of talented nominees: black women. While Oprah Winfrey (The Butler) and Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave) both picked up supporting actress SAG nominations (and Nyong'o grabbed another from the Golden Globes), they are the lone black women on a list of lily-white female film nominees.
Darabont and his CAA agents claim they are owed "tens of millions of dollars" from TV's top-rated drama. "AMC’s conduct toward Frank to date has been nothing short of atrocious," his lawyer tells THR.
Fired 'Walking Dead' Creator Frank Darabont Sues AMC for Profits
Ousted The Walking Dead creator Frank Darabont has slapped AMC with a bombshell lawsuit alleging that the cable channel breached his contract and deprived him of tens of millions of dollars in profits from the hit series by making a sweetheart deal licensing the show to itself.
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The suit, filed Tuesday in New York state court and obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, hints that a standoff over Darabont’s profit participation, which has been brewing since February 2011, might in part explain his abrupt dismissal in July of that year, only weeks into production of Walking Dead's second season and two days after he had appeared at Comic-Con to promote the show. AMC never explained the firing publicly or, according to the suit, to Darabont himself.
“AMC’s conduct toward Frank to date has been nothing short of atrocious," Darbont's lead lawyerDale Kinsella tells THR. "Unfortunately, the fans ofThe Walking Dead have suffered as well by being deprived of his creative talent."
THR has reached out to an AMC spokesperson for comment and will update with a response.
Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider, center, and Robert Shaw in a scene from “Jaws,” the subject of two scripts on the Black List.
Next Year's Screenplay Nominees? - NYTimes.com
Among the tightest contests in this season’s highly competitive Oscar race are the screenplay categories. For original stories, will the Academy favor ones based on fact, like “American Hustle,” “Inside Llewyn Davis” and “Dallas Buyers Club,” or wholly invented cinema, like the romance “Her”? On the adapted side, will voters go with historical epics like “12 Years a Slave” or reward long character arcs, as in “Before Midnight”? The Bagger will investigate, ponder and pontificate.
In the meantime, you can get a jump on future hopefuls with the just-releasedBlack List, the annual survey of the best unproduced scripts circulating in Hollywood. Films like “Argo,” “Margin Call,” “The Descendants” and “The King’s Speech” once made the list, before jumping to the big screen.
Sweetpea Entertainment denies making or licensing a movie with Warner Bros.
Producer Aims to Stop 'Dungeons & Dragons' Film Lawsuit
Courtney Solomon'sSweetpea Entertainment is taking a second roll to stop Hasbro's lawsuit over a newDungeons & Dragons film.
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To quickly review, Hasbro filed the lawsuit first upon word thatSweetpea -- producer of a 2000 D&D film -- was working with Warner Bros. on another D&D movie based on Chainmail, aboard game from Dungeons & Dragons designer Gary Gygax. In response, Sweetpea brought counterclaims, arguing that it still retained rights from a 1994 deal and that Hasbro couldn't license Universal Pictures to make a D&D film. In August, a judge denied Sweetpea's summary judgment motion, saying it was "premature" to settle the score at an early juncture.
Monday, December 16, 2013
'Hunger Games' star Jennifer Lawrence is far and away the leader of IMDb's Top 100 Stars of the Year survey, out Tuesday.
Lawrence, Walker among IMDb's biggest stars of 2013
Jennifer Lawrence continues to smolder. The star of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire andAmerican Hustle (out Dec. 20) will top IMDb's list of the Top 100 Stars of the Year when the film/TV website releases its annual survey Tuesday. The survey, based on stars' page views, finds that:
No actor comes close to Lawrence's popularity — she received 89% more page views than runner-up Chloë Grace Moretz (Carrie).
Television is yielding hotter faces than ever, contributing six of the 10 fastest-rising stars in the survey.
Pitch Perfect continues to resonate with viewers, even though the musical film left theaters last year.
No actor comes close to Lawrence's popularity — she received 89% more page views than runner-up Chloë Grace Moretz (Carrie).
Television is yielding hotter faces than ever, contributing six of the 10 fastest-rising stars in the survey.
Pitch Perfect continues to resonate with viewers, even though the musical film left theaters last year.
Andrew Sodrowski’s “Holland, Michigan” topped the Black List of favorite unproduced scripts with 46 votes
Black List Unveiled: 72 of Hollywood’s Favorite Screenplays (Complete Rankings) - TheWrap
The Black List unveiled its annual list of Hollywood’s favorite unproduced screenplays on Monday, selecting 72 scripts based on votes by more than 250 executives. It began revelaing the names one-by-one using its Twitter account, which primed the list’s avid followers with a series of informational tweets in the hours leading up to the reveal. The tweets began at 10 a.m. PST.
Bob Weinstein (L) and his brother Harvey Weinstein, the founders of The Weinstein Co., an independent motion picture studio, pose at the premiere of their studio's film ''1408'' in Los Angeles, California June 12, 2007.
Weinstein brothers reunite with Miramax film studio they started | Reuters
(Reuters) - Hollywood producers Harvey and Bob Weinstein announced a multi-year deal to jointly make films, TV shows, and live stage shows with Miramax, the Oscar-winning film studio they started in 1979 and left in 2005. In a joint announcement, Miramax and The Weinstein Company said they would make films and TV shows based on Miramax's library of more than 700 films that include "Shakespeare in Love," "Good Will Hunting" and "The English Patient."
Lionsgate's 'Divergent' follow-up 'Insurgent' set to open March 20, 2015
‘Divergent’ Director Neil Burger Won’t Do Sequel (EXCLUSIVE) | Variety
“Divergent” director Neil Burger will not helm “Insurgent,” the second title in Lionsgate’s upcoming young-adult franchise, and the studio has set the sequel for a March 20, 2015, release. Burger is currently in post-production for “Divergent,” starring Shailene Woodley, for a March 21, 2014, release and Lionsgate is currently seeking another director for “Insurgent.”
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