The Channing Tatum-co-directed and -starring film is #4 in theaters this weekend, down only 13 percent and approaching $50 million. That made it seem like a prime candidate for extended exclusive play and its studio has not been particularly aggressive on early PVOD. “No Time to Die” did appear after 30 days, but since then both “House of Gucci” and “Licorice Pizza” had two month windows before going to home platforms....
Deadline has reported that the auteur is currently in talks to direct “one or two episodes” of FX’s upcoming limited series “Justified: City Primeval,” with Timothy Olyphant reprising his role as U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens. IndieWire has reached out to FX for comment. Tarantino’s attachment to the “Justified” revival seven years after the series wrapped would reunite the “Kill Bill” director with his “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” performer, as well as author Elmore Leonard....
The first time I interviewed Peter was for a story about “Mask” in 1985 when I was with The Hollywood Reporter. He was in the midst of a legal battle to obtain the rights to some Bruce Springsteen songs for his biopic about Rocky Dennis (Eric Stoltz), the sweet teenager who suffered from lionitis, and his struggle to survive with his mom (Cher). Rocky adored Springsteen’s music, which was a source of constant joy for him, but Peter lost the battle, suing Universal in the process....
“The story is when my acting career started to peter out, I still loved show business, and Dick let me be a production assistant for him,” Cohen wrote in a tribute published by Variety. “I worked for him at Warner Bros. When I was applying to college, I said, ‘Hey Dick, can you write me a letter of recommendation for college?’ And he said, ‘Sure kid.” He called everybody kid....
“Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence” is helmed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Zach Heinzerling. The three-part docuseries explores the survivors of Ray’s sex cult that spanned over a decade. Ray, a former CIA agent, was convicted of sex trafficking, extortion, conspiracy, and other charges in 2019. The official synopsis reads: With unprecedented access, “Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence” excerpts striking first-hand interviews with conman Larry Ray’s victims and incorporates personal audio tapes and video recordings to tell the story of his grim 10-year influence over a group of young people....
According to Osage News, Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear and the Osage Nation’s film ambassador Chad Renfro organized a meeting with Scorsese and DiCaprio as “an opportunity for Scorsese to speak directly to members of the community about the film.” An official press release added, “Scorsese made a presentation of the overall intention of the film, particularly highlighting the themes of trust and betrayal, how ultimately the story of Mollie Kyle and Ernest Burkhart is a microcosm of the wider betrayal of the Osage people....
That news came paired with an even bigger update: The studio is consolidating its film and TV divisions while making it clear that many of its productions will go straight to the streaming service instead of theaters. This comes in the wake of its hybrid approach to the “Mulan” release, and anticipates some of the broader conversations about the future of exhibition sure to come up in the year ahead....
In a new interview in The Daily Beast author Candace Bushnell, whose New York Observer column inspired the original HBO series, has revealed she doesn’t care that Samantha will not be part of the show. The fan-favorite won’t be joining the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis in reprising her beloved role. “This is an entertainment product,” she said. “All of these shows have their own interior logic and their own rules....
“It was a very strange experience,” he said. “There was certainly a big brain trust of writers around the table. You had a lot of voices and none of them could agree on much. Much like when I’d visit my relatives for Thanksgiving and everyone’s arguing with each other…You had some people saying, ‘Should our monsters all be villains in these movies or can they all be heroes?’ And someone else would say, ‘We can build the plane when we fly it....
Carruth’s previous ex, Amy Seimetz, had been granted a restraining order against Carruth in June 2020, citing years of emotional and physical abuse. One alleged incident that occurred at a hotel in 2016 found Carruth strangling Seimetz until it was hard for her to breathe. According to the new report, Santa Monica police were summoned to the woman’s home on Thursday around 4:50 a.m., per Lieutenant Rudy Flores. Once police arrived, Carruth had left the scene....
This time around, there isn’t just Sonic the hedgehog (voiced by Ben Schwartz) fulfilling that role, but his buddy Tails the fox (voiced by Colleen O’Shaughnessey) and his adversary Knuckles the Echidna (voiced by Idris Elba), a trio of dead-eyed toys trudging from scene to scene without charm or personality. There’s a chuckle or two to be found, but it’s really not much better than Jeff Fowler’s first film from February 2020, which just so happened to be my last trip to a movie theater before the world shut down....
The deal gives Disney U.S. streaming and TV rights for Sony’s new theatrical releases from 2022-2026 and begins for each film following its Pay One TV window. Earlier this month Sony and Netflix announced a deal that will see the studio’s theatrical films sent to Netflix during the Pay One window, which begins after movies leave theaters and have been released on DVD/VOD. Under these pair of deals, distribution of Sony’s theatrical films will look like this: First to theaters, then to VOD/DVD, then to Netflix, then to Disney....
That said, this weekend’s projection for Taika Waititi’s second Marvel Cinematic Universe entry “Thor: Love and Thunder” (Disney) is $150 million (+/- $10 million). Still, that could be off-target, both up and down. Any elevated expectations for the film come from, perhaps more than anything else, the unanticipated performance of “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount). Already over $575 million, the Tom Cruise-led sequel now looks like it will end at somewhere between $700-750 million domestic....
Jenkins has been developing the hush-hush film with writer Matthew Robinson (“Love and Monsters,” “The Invention of Lying”) with Lucasfilm for over a year. But scheduling issues on both Jenkins’ side as well as among the producers and filmmaker team have caused the delay. Per The Hollywood Reporter, “The hope is that once Jenkins fulfills her previous commitments, she will be able to return to the project.” “Squadron” was recently set for a December 22, 2023, release from Disney amid other shuffles made to the studio’s release calendar back in October, including a delay on “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” (now May 6, 2022) and “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (November 11, 2022, though that film faces a new wrinkle with star Letitia Wright still out on medical leave for a set injury)....
“I saw several of the early cuts,” Van Zandt said. “He’s been tinkering now with it for a couple of years. So it may be a whole different movie by the time I see it again. He wanted me and [wife and fellow ‘Sopranos’ actress] Maureen to see it and give him some input. Silvio is in it, just 30 years earlier.” One part of the movie Van Zandt did not provide feedback on was the soundtrack, as compiling the music was David Chase’s “favorite part of doing ‘The Sopranos’ and his first movie ‘Not Fade Away,’ that’s all about him as a young guy joining his first band....
A strained but strangely affecting turducken of a movie that bakes a dad-on-a-mission thriller together with a heartwarming fish-out-of-water story and then a brutal crime drama before glazing the whole thing with a marvelously goateed Matt Damon, Tom McCarthy’s “Stillwater” is the kind of original Hollywood production that would make you say “they don’t make them like that anymore” if only they had ever made them quite this way in the first place....
For the supersized, penultimate Season 4 of “Stranger Things” (Volume 1 is currently streaming on Netflix; Volume 2 premieres July 1), creators Matt and Ross Duffer channeled “A Nightmare on Elm Street” to give a more tangible horror vibe to their latest monster: Vecna, a humanoid creature from the Upside Down. Similar to the “Elm Street” franchise’s Freddy Krueger, Vecna preys on his victim’s minds, psychically manipulating their traumatic memories into terrifying hallucinations before murdering and possessing them....
Leaked images from an official Monopoly “Stranger Things” tie-in reportedly reveal Season 4 spoilers for the Netflix hit series, and creators Matt and Ross Duffer are not having it. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix was frustrated with the retail mishap but according to sources, The Duffer Brothers were not even consulted about the game and had a “total meltdown” over the spoilers going public before Season 4 premieres May 27....
Finally, Netflix released a full trailer April 12 for Season 4, which will roll out on the streamer in two parts: Volume 1 premieres May 27, while Volume 2 premieres July 1. This season will altogether have nine episodes. Plot details remain scarce for what to expect from the next slate of episodes, but “Stranger Things 4” picks up six months after the Battle of Starcourt, which brought terror and destruction to Hawkins....
Superficial comparisons to “La La Land” might be inevitable considering the film’s star-crossed shape and bebop-obsessed male lead (brace for another one of those guys who isn’t sure if he needs to save jazz or be saved from it). But “Sylvie’s Love” has less interest in commenting on the Technicolor romances that Hollywood made in the 1950s than it does in being one of them. By that same token, the unreality of Ashe’s gauzy backlot fantasia — its fateful coincidences and fairy tale confessions compounded by an idealized vision of a mid-century America where racism is no more of a nuisance than a flat note in a trumpet solo — isn’t a symptom of ahistorical naiveté so much as a show of fidelity to a genre that’s never been able to romanticize the world in quite the same way....
