Author: Deadline

As Christopher Nolan prepares to take viewers on an Imax odyssey, he’s hopeful for the future of filmmaking without the use of AI. The 2x Oscar winner admitted that not all applications of artificial intelligence are “useless of meaningless,” he explained that generative AI is “hitting at exactly the wrong time” for Hollywood. “I’ve never seen a more rapid wholesale dismissal of a supposedly foundational jump in technology in my lifetime,” Nolan told The Telegraph. “So much energy has been expended on bringing in AI, but if you look at that generation’s reaction, they’re utterly rejecting it.” Citing his own…

Curry Barker‘s surprise $400M global grossing romance horror Obsession has set a streaming date on Peacock of July 17. That’s a 63-day theatrical window to streaming. Focus Features, as we told you, acquired North American and certain foreign on the movie out of TIFF Midnight for $15M+. Obsession tells the tale about a guy, Bear (Michael Johnston), who wishes that the love of his life, Nikki (Inde Navarette) loves him back. However, chaos ensues. Obsession opened to $17.1M stateside in mid-May and legged out to an unprecedented 14.6x multiple to a current $249.5M domestic off a rare A- for a…

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey will storm The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon next week, with nightly guest appearances by Tom Holland, Matt Damon, Zendaya and Lupita Nyong’o scheduled throughout the July 13-16. The special Odyssey week schedule on Tonight is: Monday, July 13 – Tom Holland (who plays Telemachus) Tuesday, July 14 – Matt Damon (Odysseus) Wednesday, July 15 – Zendaya (Athena) Thursday, July 16 – Lupita Nyong’o (Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra) Related Stories And Fallon won’t be done with the Nolan epic even then. The following week, rapper and producer Travis Scott, who plays bard Demodocus in The…

Specialty distributor Fathom Entertainment has named former Disney and Imax executive Jason Brenek as CEO. He will take over the top job after the previously announced retirement of Ray Nutt. Fathom’s founders and co-owners are top movie theater circuits AMC, Regal and Cinemark, which collectively control 19,000 movie screens in the U.S. The company is evolving from its roots as Fathom Events into a more comprehensive distributor. a full-service specialty theatrical distributor with major motion picture distribution capabilities. On October 23, it will handle the wide theatrical release of Laika’s new stop-motion animated feature Wildwood. “Jason is the right leader to…

EXCLUSIVE: Independent animation studio, Sycamore Studios, has acquired the exclusive animated motion picture rights to the New York Times bestselling John Patrick Green InvestiGators franchise. InvestiGators counts 5M copies in print since its debut in 2020, known for its crime-fighting alligators. “Great family franchises don’t come along very often, and when they do, they have a way of capturing the imagination of an entire generation. InvestiGators is one of those rare properties,” said Christian McGuigan, Co-Founder and CEO of Sycamore Studios. “John Patrick Green has created something incredibly rare: a wholly original world that children genuinely love. As a father…

Controversial AI “actor” Tilly Norwood will “star” in Misaligned, marking the first time she has lead a feature film. Eline van den Velden’s Particle 6, which created Norwood, is in development on the pic. The London-based firm claims to have “retrained and upskilled” more than 30 TV and film creatives, filmmakers, actors and technologists since its launch, and is now applying the approach to the movie’s production. Particle 6 claims Misaligned‘s production will see traditional professionals such as directors, writers and editors working alongside AI specialists. Misaligned is billed as “a comedy-drama telling a coming-of-age story infused with existential AI chaos.”…

After nearly 35 years, Joe Eszterhas is back to basics with the follow-up to his 1992 erotic thriller. The Basic Instinct screenwriter, who was tapped to pen a reboot for Amazon MGM Studio’s United Artists last year, has given an update on the script, which features the onscreen return of Catherine Tramell (infamously originated by Sharon Stone). “They came to me and asked, ‘Do you have any ideas for this?’” Eszterhas recalled to Interview Magazine. “And I said, ‘I do.’ I really talked about bare bones. As you know, after Basic, there was a so-called sequel. … it’s really bad.”…

Woody Harrelson and Hunger Games fans everywhere, eat your heart out over Lionsgate‘s new look at young Haymitch Abernathy. On Saturday, July 4, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping teased the Nov. 20 prequel with a new ‘Meet Haymitch’ promo featuring Joseph Zada as the Second Quarter Quell victor, in celebration of the character’s birthday and Reaping Day. Watch the promo below. “Can you imagine the sun rising on a world without a Reaping?” asks Haymitch’s girlfriend Lenore Dove Baird (Whitney Peak), to which he responds, “Not on my birthday. Never had one that came without a Reaping. The…

Kjell Nilsson, the Swedish born weightlifter and actor best known for playing the villainous masked marauder Lord Humungus in the classic 1981 Mad Max film The Road Warrior, died in Queensland, Australia, Thursday, July 2, following a four-year battle with kidney disease. He was 76. His death was announced by family on his Facebook page. “As many of you know, Kjell had been battling end-stage kidney disease for the past four and a half years, receiving dialysis three days a week,” his family writes. “It was a long and painful journey, filled with countless battles to overcome, including the gradual…

EXCLUSIVE: Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman) is set to produce rom-com feature Best Men about a romantically challenged “man of honour” who falls for the groom’s charming best man. Jenkins is developing the project with filmmaker Jason Crain who will direct the the adaptation of Sidney Karger’s script, adapted from his debut novel. Published in May 2023 by Berkley, the gay love story “follows romantically challenged Max Moody, who is asked by his childhood best friend Paige to serve as her “man of honor” at her wedding, only to be paired with the groom’s impossibly charming best man, Chasten. What begins…