Author: Hollyood rep

Kaelen Ohm says what got her as a fearless young skier better and faster down mountains in small-town Canada now drives her climb onto everyone’s call sheets as a go-for-it actor, filmmaker and musician. “For some reason, I have branched out from everything I’ve known from my childhood, in following this path completely into the unknown,” Ohm tells The Hollywood Reporter about having gone from being a powder hound in Fernie, British Columbia as a child to her latest film, The Betrayers, world premiering at the Toronto Film Festival. That’s whether she’s executing a steep cliff drop as a skier,…

Practical Magic 2 looks to conjure up a box office win over the unstoppable Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The Warner Bros. sequel from director Susanne Bier grossed $13 million domestically on Friday, including Thursday previews. Earning a B+ CinemaScore from audiences, Practical Magic 2 heads to an opening weekend around or just under $30 million, following the studio having projected a debut in the range of $30 million to $35 million. It opens in over 4,000 North American locations and carries a $75 million production budget. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman reprise their roles as the Owens sisters from the 1998 original that topped out…

Practical Magic 2 looks to brew up a winning combination at the domestic box office as it begins its opening weekend that is set to overthrow Spider-Man: Brand New Day from the top spot. With Warner Bros. releasing director Susanne Bier’s sequel in over 4,000 North American theaters, Practical Magic 2 grossed $4.& million in Thursday previews. The studio projects an opening weekend in the range of $30 million to $35 million domestically for the movie that carries a $75 million production budget. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman reprise their roles as the Owens sisters from the 1998 original that…

Some stories refuse to stay on the page. The Hollywood Reporter’s Beyond the Book column explores what happens when books make the leap to screen and beyond — unpacking what stayed, changed, how it was done and why it matters with the creatives who made it.  *** [Warning: This story contains spoilers for Practical Magic 2 and The Book of Magic.] The fact that a sequel to Practical Magic is happening came down to, well, magic. Nearly 30 years after her book Practical Magic was published and adapted into the film starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman, author Alice Hoffman feels the timing for an…

Hollywood’s obsession with Silicon Valley is about to reach a fever pitch with four major films set to take on controversial tech moguls. What’s more: All the movies have key dates in October, resulting in a rather extraordinary thematic pileup as one California industry takes on another. And oddly enough: Earlier this week, three of the projects released their first teaser trailers (below) within 48 hours of each other. In Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning, Jeremy Strong plays Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a sequel (or “companion piece,” as Sony insists on calling it) to The Social Network. The project…

The world’s richest man wasn’t in the building — nor would the troll king ever want to be, seemingly — but Alex Gibney‘s nearly four-hour documentary portrait, Musk, nonetheless brought the house down Tuesday at its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The Oscar-winning director’s lengthy interrogation of Elon Musk and the growing power he wields received a five-minute standing ovation from the appreciative crowd, with a couple of people shouting “thank you,” inside the Sala Grande. The film received a very positive reception but its nearly four-hour runtime and the deeply unsettling nature of Gibney’s portrayal also seemed…

Watching Alpha Gang, the new sci-fi comedy from Sasquatch Sunset filmmakers David and Nathan Zellner, it is very easy to imagine what a thrill it must have been to cook up the look of the thing. The leads — a small squadron of aliens who’ve infiltrated our planet — are decked out in the studded leather jackets of a 1950s motorcycle gang. Their home base, nestled deep into some war-torn European countryside, looks simultaneously like the ruins of an ancient castle, an opulent cave lair suitable for Dracula, a retro-futuristic spaceship with gleaming chrome surfaces. Alpha Gang The Bottom Line…

A film some people hated when it premiered at Cannes but which many others (those of us with excellent taste) adored from the moment they saw it in 2006, Marie Antoinette is aging exceptionally well. It’s like one of those gawky kids who, by the time they get to university, turns out to be both a beauty and a brainiac. And given one of its sub-themes is parenthood, and mother-daughter relationships in particular, it’s moving to see Sofia Coppola‘s third feature finally whelping a making-of documentary long after the fact, made by Sofia’s own mother Eleanor Coppola, who shot 80…

After the fireworks of the summer, the season comes to an end with a sleepy weekend at the box office, at least in terms of new entries like By Any Means and Onslaught. Sony and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day is expected to be No. 1 for its sixth weekend in a row, with roughly $22 million over the four-day frame. The Destin Daniel Cretton-directed feature just crossed $900 million domestically, making it only the second film ever to do so, behind 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which stands as the all-time domestic holder at $936 million. Brand New…

Byron Allen’s Freestyle Releasing has picked up screenwriter and director Ziad H. Hamzeh’s drama Hello Beautiful for a limited theatrical release starting Sept. 25. The feature adapts cancer survivor Christine Handy’s best-selling novel Walk Besides Me and stars Tricia Helfer as supermodel Willow living a perfect life with Tarek Bishara as husband Khalil and two children, until a health scare. “When Willow receives a devastating breast cancer diagnosis, that life is suddenly thrown into uncertainty. As her body and appearance change, so does her sense of who she is. For Khalil, the woman he loves is confronting a new reality…