Author: Hollyood rep

There’s something quintessentially American and straight out of Norman Rockwell about centering a survey of multiple generations around the living room, with idealized themes of home and family reinforced by scenes around the Christmas tree or the dining table, fully extended to accommodate the ever-expanding clan at Thanksgiving. But relatable doesn’t always mean interesting, even if the moments of joy don’t hide the vein of sadness and disappointment that runs through Here. The same goes for the idea of shooting everything — reaching back to prehistory and right on up through contemporary times — from the same fixed point and…

Venom: The Last Dance slithered its way to $8.5 million in Thursday night previews at the domestic box office. The movie is looking to score the lowest opening of the three film in the franchise, at least domestically. Globally is a different matter. Based on early returns, Last Dance is headed for a worldwide launch of $180 million, which is five percent higher than the worldwide debut of Venom: Let There Be Carnage ($171.6 million) in 2021. The film has earned $35.8 million worldwide through Thursday, including $8.5 million from Thursday’s U.S./Canada early shows, which started at 2 p.m. at 3,452…

Warner Bros. Motion Pictures Group has won the feature film adaptation package of Saltburn filmmaker’s Emerald Fennell take on Wuthering Heights. Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are attached to star in the feature project, which hails from MRC and generated intense interest from streamers and studios and a bidding war. Warners won out partially due to its commitment to launching Heights theatrically worldwide. “We are thrilled to partner with MRC, Emerald Fennell, and LuckyChap for this feature film adaptation of Wuthering Heights,” said Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group’s Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy in a statement. “From the moment…

Amazon MGM Studios is doubling down on its original film business. The studio arrives at MIPCOM Cannes with nearly all its eggs in Earth Abide‘s basket, an original series starring Alexander Ludwig (Vikings) and Jessica Frances Dukes (Ozark). The show is a post-apocalyptic tale, based on George R. Stewart’s 1949 novel, about the fall of civilization from deadly disease — which Chris Ottinger, president of worldwide distribution and acquisitions at MGM, says represents “a lot of the feeling of now, when it’s a very strange time to be on this earth.” The executive sat down with The Hollywood Reporter in…

Paramount and the revived Republic Pictures are betting on indie films to complement their tentpole movies like Mission Impossible and Gladiator II. The studio’s chief content licensing officer Dan Cohen spoke at a MIPCOM Media Mastermind Keynote Session in Cannes Tuesday afternoon, confirming the U.S. and Canadian rights to their “Coen brothers-esque” noir film Adulthood, directed by Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure Star Alex Winter, has been picked up by Republic Pictures. “You get an announcement today,” Cohen, also president of Republic Pictures, told World Screen’s Anna Carugati, who was moderating. “We have a film coming called Adulthood. It’s a…

Spain‘s most prestigious film school has launched the second phase of its annual Dream Makers Contest to open doors for a new generation of talent. The Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya (ESCAC) has confirmed submissions are open for a chance to win a full 4-year scholarship at the school and almost half a million euros to produce the short film. Applicants are first required to create an original eight-minute film based on three words chosen by J.A. Bayona, ESCAC and Spanish automobile company Cupra: Barcelona, film and eye. The school was attended by Bayona (Jurassic World, The…

The 68th edition of the BFI London Film Festival (LFF) is wrapping up Sunday night with Piece by Piece, the animated LEGO biopic of Pharrell Williams by Morgan Neville (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, 20 Feet From Stardom) following the unveiling of this year’s various competition winners, led by Adam Elliot’s claymation feature Memoir of a Snail. Set in Australia in the 1970s, the movie, which had already won the animation-focused Annecy Film Festival, stars Succession‘s Sarah Snook as Grace Pudel, a shy girl born with a cleft palate who grows up with her wild and occasionally pyromaniac twin brother Gilbert (Kodi Smit-McPhee) but…

At a special screening on the Paramount lot on Friday, Gladiator II stars Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Connie Nielsen and Fred Hechinger offered a first look at their new film and opened up about their experiences working on Ridley Scott‘s sequel. The film sees Mescal playing a grown-up Lucius Verus II, a nephew of emperor Commodus from the original film played by Joaquin Phoenix. Lucius returns to Rome after being forced into slavery to battle not as a ruler but as a gladiator out for revenge and power, seeking to return the glory of Rome to its people. “I suppose…

Tripoli/A Tale of Three Cities, a documentary by Lebanese director Raed Rafei, will celebrate its world premiere in the Frontlight section of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), which runs Nov. 14-24. The Hollywood Reporter is revealing the first official trailer for the film, produced by Rafei via his company Anwar Film and Eliane Raheb. “Queer director Raed Rafei returns to Tripoli, Lebanon to confront a hometown that once rejected him,” a synopsis for the doc explains. “He interviews the city’s inhabitants about their cultural and social beliefs and their embrace of new ideas. This contemplative urban symphony paints…

When Andy Goodrich’s wife, Naomi (Laura Benanti), tells him that she’s checked herself into rehab and plans to leave him, few people are surprised. Everyone knew the mother of his two elementary school-aged children reached for pills at night to lull her to sleep and indulged in extra glasses of wine. That the news nevertheless shocks Andy, played with an endearing clumsiness by Michael Keaton, speaks more to his own distracted state. The gallerist has never been a present partner or parent, as evidenced by his relationship to his eldest daughter (Mila Kunis) with his first wife (Andie MacDowell). Now that his…