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EXCLUSIVE: Powerhouse Thai producer Vanridee Pongsittisak has unveiled more details about BASK Production House — a new collaboration formed between Bangkok-based studio GDH and Bad Genius director Baz Poonpiriya, which was unveiled earlier this month. Poonpiriya is set to direct BASK’s first two projects, which have Fast & Furious films director Justin Lin and Anita Gou
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Refresh for latest…: Marvel/Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine has started tearing it up at the international box office. From 48 material markets combined on Wednesday and Thursday, Ryan Reynolds‘ Merc with a Mouth and Hugh Jackman‘s adamantium-clawed mutant have grossed $64.8M across their first two days of overseas play. That puts the Shawn Levy-directed installment tracking
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On the heels of well-received mainstream video game adaptations like HBO’s The Last of Us or Prime Video’s Fallout, the timing of fantasy dramedy short film Chuck and Fern couldn’t be more appropo. Making its world premiere at the Oscar and BAFTA qualifying LA Shorts International Film Festival on Friday, the short follows the story
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Mediapro Studio Buys ‘Game Of Thrones’ Firm Fresco Film The Mediapro Studio has bought Fresco Film, the Malaga-based production services company that played a key role in Game of Thrones filming in Spain, helping to establish a lucrative tax credit system in the process. Mediapro sees the acquisition as part of its strategy to attract large-scale international
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Steve McQueen’s Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan and Elliott Heffernan, will be the closing night selection of the 62nd New York Film Festival, making its North American premiere, said the fest’s parent Film At Lincoln Center. The re-creation of London during its blitzkrieg by the Germans during World War II is told from the parallel perspectives
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EXCLUSIVE: Djimon Hounsou has joined the cast of Sony Pictures‘ untitled thriller from producers Adam McKay and Kevin Messick. Phoebe Dynevor and Whitney Peak are also starring, with Tommy Wirkola writing and directing. Plot is being kept under wraps. McKay and Messick are producing through HyperObject Industries. Hounsou was most recently seen in the box office hit A Quiet Place: Day One with Lupita
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EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has commenced production on The Long Walk, its adaptation of the 1979 novel from Stephen King, starring Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson, adding seven to the cast. The newcomers are Garrett Wareing (Ransom Canyon), Tut Nyuot (The Witcher: Blood Origin), Charlie Plummer (National Anthem), Ben Wang (American Born Chinese), Jordan Gonzalez (Pretty Little
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Earlier this summer we had to endure the misbegotten Summer Camp which was yet another attempt by Diane Keaton, joined by Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard, to mix comedy and later-in-life drama in an older female bonding flick. Keaton had great success in the first film that announced this subgenre, 2018’s Book Club, which smartly
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EXCLUSIVE: Apple Original Films has won a spirited auction to land The Corsair Code, an original feature film set to star Chris Hemsworth. The film is based on a short story by Jonathan Tropper, which he brought to Hemsworth and his producing partner Ben Grayson. Hemsworth and Grayson will produce through their Wild State shingle,
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A group of 11 former employees of bankrupt Redbox parent Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment have filed a lawsuit charging the company and ex-CEO Bill Rouhana with “greed at shocking levels.” The suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by Michael Alder and Lani Levine of L.A. firm AlderLaw, seeks up to $1 billion
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Police are investigating an apparent suicide at Trilith Studios in the Atlanta suburb of Fayetteville, GA. Officers and medical personnel responded to a report of an “unconscious adult contractor” inside a vehicle on the studio property at around 6:47 a.m. Wednesday, according to a police statement. The unidentified person was found dead from an apparent
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San Diego Comic-Con is back in full force this year as the Hollywood studios bring their major IP to the iconic convention after many skipped out on the 2023 event because of the dual writers and actors strikes. But while there are panels, parties and activations galore, their signage is still lacking in the area
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EXCLUSIVE: Multi-hyphenate actress and comedian Lisa Ann Walter has signed with Gersh for representation. Walter, one of the stars of ABC’s Emmy-winning comedy series Abbott Elementary, has earned a Peabody award and shares a SAG award for her role as Melissa Schemmenti on the show which is entering its fourth season. Her other credits include
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Black Panther star Letitia Wright, who is an EP on the current faith-based title Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot, recently issued a statement on social, distancing herself from the movie’s conservative partners, The Daily Wire. Wright was reportedly getting dinged on social about being affiliated with the org, which claims was “not
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