Daniel Mayer Selznick, one of Hollywood’s last direct connections to the industry’s founding families, died of natural causes on Thursday, August 1 at the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, California at 88. He had been a longtime and beloved resident at the retirement home, overseeing the construction of the Louis B. Mayer Theater
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Justin Simien says the Donald Glover-starring Solo: A Star Wars Story spinoff series Lando will not be happening. Collider published remarks Friday from Simien indicating that Lando is dead. Simien is out promoting Hollywood Black, an MGM+ docuseries based on the book by scholar Donald Bogle examining race and representation in Hollywood. That’s when the
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
Actor Josh Hartnett has revealed why he chose to turn down two superhero movie roles at a time when he seemed destined for superstardom. Hartnett, who stars in M Night Shyamalan’s forthcoming psychological thriller, Trap, told the UK’s Guardian newspaper that the amount of attention he was receiving had a part to play in his
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
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
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
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
Paul Feig is set to direct a new movie for Blumhouse based on William Brennan’s New York Magazine article that inspired the Netflix unscripted series Worst Roommate Ever. In the pic, a newly single woman finds a seemingly perfect gentleman to sublet the spare room in her dream home, but she soon learns that his deceit goes
The Boy and the Heron, the Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning animated feature from Hayao Miyazaki and his Studio Ghibli, has been set to premiere exclusively on Max in the U.S. on Friday, September 6. There, the film will join the rest of the Studio Ghibli library, which came to Max as part of an exclusive
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
UPDATED, 12:12 PM: A tentative settlement has been reached in a lawsuit brought by a woman who alleged that longtime fugitive Roman Polanski sexually assaulted her in the 1970s at his home after plying her with tequila there and at a restaurant, all the while knowing she was a minor. In court papers filed Tuesday
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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