Child stars are a significant part of Hollywood. But sometimes, these young actors hit it big at an early age and then seem to vanish shortly after. One of example is David Dorfman from The Ring.
Horror movie fans will remember Dorfman as the creepy and iconic Aidan Keller in the horror movie The Ring. As the eerie boy who predicted people’s deaths, the young actor stood out in the movie franchise. However, many people do not know was a child prodigy who went to college at 13. Today, Dorfman is working for the government and leading a life far removed from Hollywood’s limelight.
David Dorfman from ‘The Ring’ was a prolific child actor
Did you know that David Dorfman, the creepy kid in The Ring and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre went to college at 13, graduated UCLA with a perfect Gpa, got a J.D. from Harvard, and now works at the U.
Horror movie fans will remember Dorfman as the creepy and iconic Aidan Keller in the horror movie The Ring. As the eerie boy who predicted people’s deaths, the young actor stood out in the movie franchise. However, many people do not know was a child prodigy who went to college at 13. Today, Dorfman is working for the government and leading a life far removed from Hollywood’s limelight.
David Dorfman from ‘The Ring’ was a prolific child actor
Did you know that David Dorfman, the creepy kid in The Ring and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre went to college at 13, graduated UCLA with a perfect Gpa, got a J.D. from Harvard, and now works at the U.
- 4/14/2023
- by William Decker
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Veteran film executive Toby Emmerich is exiting his post as Warner Bros. Picture Group chairman, three sources told Variety.
A company man who survived numerous WB ownership changes for over two decades, Emmerich’s transition out of the role follows weeks of chatter that he was leaving the studio. He will be replaced by Michael De Luca, and Pamela Abdy, who will be named co-chairs of Warner Bros. Picture Group. A spokesperson for Warner Bros. Discovery did not immediately respond to a request for comment, though a formal announcement of the leadership change is expected imminently.
De Luca and Abdy’s oversight will also include New Line Cinema. Their influence over DC Films is presently unclear. The pair recently led Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer until that company was sold to Amazon. At MGM, the duo landed buzzy projects such as “Licorice Pizza,” “Cyrano” and “House of Gucci,” though critics noted that some of...
A company man who survived numerous WB ownership changes for over two decades, Emmerich’s transition out of the role follows weeks of chatter that he was leaving the studio. He will be replaced by Michael De Luca, and Pamela Abdy, who will be named co-chairs of Warner Bros. Picture Group. A spokesperson for Warner Bros. Discovery did not immediately respond to a request for comment, though a formal announcement of the leadership change is expected imminently.
De Luca and Abdy’s oversight will also include New Line Cinema. Their influence over DC Films is presently unclear. The pair recently led Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer until that company was sold to Amazon. At MGM, the duo landed buzzy projects such as “Licorice Pizza,” “Cyrano” and “House of Gucci,” though critics noted that some of...
- 6/1/2022
- by Matt Donnelly and Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
HBO Max is out with its list of everything new coming to the streaming service in October and everything leaving at the end of the month.
The list includes HBO Originals like the limited series “The Undoing” starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant, out Oct. 25, and David Byrne’s “American Utopia” special event about Byrne’s Broadway show that electrified audiences, out Oct. 17.
There is also Nathan Fielder’s comedic docuseries “How To With John Wilson,” out Oct. 23, and the first season finale of “Lovecraft Country” on Oct. 18.
Among the things leaving at the end of the month are “Amelie,” “Ocean’s 11,” “V For Vendetta,” “Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” and “Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.”
Read the full list here:
Oct. 1
A World of Calm, Documentary Series Premiere
Akeelah And The Bee, 2006 (HBO)
All-Star Superman, 2011
American Dynasties: The Kennedys, 2018
American Reunion, 2012 (HBO)
Analyze That,...
The list includes HBO Originals like the limited series “The Undoing” starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant, out Oct. 25, and David Byrne’s “American Utopia” special event about Byrne’s Broadway show that electrified audiences, out Oct. 17.
There is also Nathan Fielder’s comedic docuseries “How To With John Wilson,” out Oct. 23, and the first season finale of “Lovecraft Country” on Oct. 18.
Among the things leaving at the end of the month are “Amelie,” “Ocean’s 11,” “V For Vendetta,” “Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” and “Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.”
Read the full list here:
Oct. 1
A World of Calm, Documentary Series Premiere
Akeelah And The Bee, 2006 (HBO)
All-Star Superman, 2011
American Dynasties: The Kennedys, 2018
American Reunion, 2012 (HBO)
Analyze That,...
- 10/1/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
With Lovecraft Country still providing HBO and HBO Max with its horror content through October, the streamer is looking elsewhere for its spooky season offerings. HBO Max’s new releases for October 2020 feature some truly awesome horror library titles.
Jordan Peele’s Us, John Carpenter’s The Thing, and David Fincher’s Se7en all arrive on Oct. 1. That alone should be enough to last you through spooky season. And if it doesn’t, It: Chapter Two is right there as well. October is also a big month for Batman and Superman with Man of Steel arriving on Oct. 1 along with a whole of animated specials dropping that same day.
In relation to the library titles, this isn’t HBO Max’s strongest month from an original perspective. But there is still plenty to like here. The West Wing election special arrives on Oct. 15. That will be followed by David Byrne...
Jordan Peele’s Us, John Carpenter’s The Thing, and David Fincher’s Se7en all arrive on Oct. 1. That alone should be enough to last you through spooky season. And if it doesn’t, It: Chapter Two is right there as well. October is also a big month for Batman and Superman with Man of Steel arriving on Oct. 1 along with a whole of animated specials dropping that same day.
In relation to the library titles, this isn’t HBO Max’s strongest month from an original perspective. But there is still plenty to like here. The West Wing election special arrives on Oct. 15. That will be followed by David Byrne...
- 9/30/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
HBO Max is serving up a lot of great new movies this October. Fittingly for the spooky season, the Warner Bros. streaming service is adding a fair few classic horrors to its library next month, but there’s really something for everyone going up – from comedies to romances to sci-fi to superhero films.
Speaking of that last genre, DC lovers will be pleased to note that 2013’s Man of Steel, the movie that kicked off the Dceu, is among the titles arriving on October 1st. Besides that, there’s a bunch of animated DC pics dropping the same day, including Superman/Batman: Public Enemies and All-Star Superman. 2005’s Constantine featuring Keanu Reeves, meanwhile, also debuts on the service from the 1st.
That’s not the only film starring the beloved actor headed to the platform, though, as probably the highlight of October’s haul is the addition of the...
Speaking of that last genre, DC lovers will be pleased to note that 2013’s Man of Steel, the movie that kicked off the Dceu, is among the titles arriving on October 1st. Besides that, there’s a bunch of animated DC pics dropping the same day, including Superman/Batman: Public Enemies and All-Star Superman. 2005’s Constantine featuring Keanu Reeves, meanwhile, also debuts on the service from the 1st.
That’s not the only film starring the beloved actor headed to the platform, though, as probably the highlight of October’s haul is the addition of the...
- 9/24/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
HBO Max has a major job on its hands to justify its approximately $15 a month subscription fee, especially given the strong competition out there from established names like Netflix and Amazon Prime. Disney Plus faced a similar challenge last year in arriving onto an already-saturated streaming marketplace, but at least had the advantage of major series like The Mandalorian to promote. While HBO Max will eventually be home to the Snyder cut of Justice League, and has some originals for its first week of availability, the big draw right now is its enormous back-catalogue of movies.
Given the various corporate elements that are going into HBO Max, including the Warner Bros. library, owners AT&T will be hoping that the combination of brand recognition for HBO programming, and a deep bench of movies, will convince people to add a new subscription to their list. To this end, HBO Max have added 122 films today,...
Given the various corporate elements that are going into HBO Max, including the Warner Bros. library, owners AT&T will be hoping that the combination of brand recognition for HBO programming, and a deep bench of movies, will convince people to add a new subscription to their list. To this end, HBO Max have added 122 films today,...
- 6/1/2020
- by Jessica James
- We Got This Covered
Do you like lists? Well, here’s a doozy. Below is everything coming to Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max, Hulu and Amazon Prime in June 2020.
Though the summer sun is starting to beat down, most of us are still being encouraged to stay indoors for Covid-19 related reasons. It’s not much fun, but at the very least, there’s an absolute ton of stuff landing in June that should distract you from the call of the beach.
Of particular note is the newly launched HBO Max, which is trying to catch the eye of potential subscribers with a red-hot first month. There’s an excellent selection of movies coming on June 1st, with horror titles like An American Werewolf in London (still the best werewolf movie ever made), Final Destinations 1-4, From Dusk til Dawn and Lifeforce.
Later in the month, there are some more recent films showing up, including...
Though the summer sun is starting to beat down, most of us are still being encouraged to stay indoors for Covid-19 related reasons. It’s not much fun, but at the very least, there’s an absolute ton of stuff landing in June that should distract you from the call of the beach.
Of particular note is the newly launched HBO Max, which is trying to catch the eye of potential subscribers with a red-hot first month. There’s an excellent selection of movies coming on June 1st, with horror titles like An American Werewolf in London (still the best werewolf movie ever made), Final Destinations 1-4, From Dusk til Dawn and Lifeforce.
Later in the month, there are some more recent films showing up, including...
- 5/29/2020
- by David James
- We Got This Covered
To help you anticipate and navigate all that HBO Max has to offer, TVLine presents this comprehensive list of all the TV series, movies, documentaries and specials making their debut on the new streaming service this month — all as a 100-percent free supplement to our daily and handy What to Watch and weekly TVLine-Up columns, and our monthly New on Netflix roundup.
Among Max Originals coming in June are a new Adventure Time special, Doom Patrol Season 2 and Search Party Season 3. You’ll also be able to stream the most recent episodes of HBO original series, including Insecure, I Know This Much Is True...
Among Max Originals coming in June are a new Adventure Time special, Doom Patrol Season 2 and Search Party Season 3. You’ll also be able to stream the most recent episodes of HBO original series, including Insecure, I Know This Much Is True...
- 5/28/2020
- TVLine.com
Welcome to the HBO Max era! WarnerMedia’s streaming giant arrived on May 27 and is absolutely bursting with Warner movies, TV shows, and other titles. But time waits for no man or streaming service and each new month HBO Max will be expected to bring new content to the table. Things get started in June 2020 with the first batch of HBO Max new releases.
To be clear, the majority of the original series coming to HBO Max actually belongs to HBO. Shows like I May Destroy You (June 7), Perry Mason (June 21), and I’ll Be Gone in the Dark (June 28) all belong to HBO…which now just happens to be a part of HBO Max. Confusing stuff, we know, but rest assured that if you have HBO Max you’ll get these shows…and if you only have HBO, you can go ahead and just get HBO Max for the same price anyway.
To be clear, the majority of the original series coming to HBO Max actually belongs to HBO. Shows like I May Destroy You (June 7), Perry Mason (June 21), and I’ll Be Gone in the Dark (June 28) all belong to HBO…which now just happens to be a part of HBO Max. Confusing stuff, we know, but rest assured that if you have HBO Max you’ll get these shows…and if you only have HBO, you can go ahead and just get HBO Max for the same price anyway.
- 5/27/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
HBO Max launches May 27 with a whole lot of content ready to stream immediately. But throughout the nascent streamer’s first month, even more titles will be added, from HBO Max originals like “Adventure Time: Distant Lands Bmo,” to old favorites like “Amelie,” “Black Beauty” and “The Bucket List.”
Other brand-new HBO Max originals include the third season of comedy “Search Party,” and the second seasons of “Doom Patrol,” and “Esme & Roy,” all coming June 25, and on June 18, the second season of “Summer Camp Island” and the series premiere kids competition series “Karma.”
For a list of everything that will be available on launch day, look here.
Below is the full list of everything new coming to HBO Max in June.
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June 1
4th & Forever: Muck City, Season One
Adventures In Babysitting, 1987 (HBO)
Amelie, 2001 (HBO)
An American Werewolf in London,...
Other brand-new HBO Max originals include the third season of comedy “Search Party,” and the second seasons of “Doom Patrol,” and “Esme & Roy,” all coming June 25, and on June 18, the second season of “Summer Camp Island” and the series premiere kids competition series “Karma.”
For a list of everything that will be available on launch day, look here.
Below is the full list of everything new coming to HBO Max in June.
Also Read: Chelsea Handler Sets First Standup Comedy Special in 6 Years at HBO Max
June 1
4th & Forever: Muck City, Season One
Adventures In Babysitting, 1987 (HBO)
Amelie, 2001 (HBO)
An American Werewolf in London,...
- 5/26/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
Before HBO Max even launches — it goes live May 27 — WarnerMedia is trying to lure new subscribers by revealing what’s coming next month to the streamer.
The June lineup highlights on HBO Max include all 23 seasons of “South Park,” snapped up in a multiyear, $500 million-plus deal; James Cameron’s Oscar-winning “Titanic”; and the “Adventure Time: Distant Lands” special featuring lovable robot Bmo.
HBO Max, regularly priced at $14.99 per month (the same as HBO Now), will be available on multiple platforms and distributors through deals including with Apple, Google, Charter, Xbox, PlayStation, and AT&T/DirecTV. As of this writing, however, WarnerMedia has not locked in HBO Max deals with Comcast, Roku or Amazon.
New Max Originals this June include kids’ adventure competition series “Karma,” Season 3 of comedy “Search Party” and the second seasons of “Doom Patrol,” “Esme & Roy” and “Summer Camp Island.”
Movie highlights include “Titanic,” “Veronica Mars,” “Magic Mike” starring Channing Tatum,...
The June lineup highlights on HBO Max include all 23 seasons of “South Park,” snapped up in a multiyear, $500 million-plus deal; James Cameron’s Oscar-winning “Titanic”; and the “Adventure Time: Distant Lands” special featuring lovable robot Bmo.
HBO Max, regularly priced at $14.99 per month (the same as HBO Now), will be available on multiple platforms and distributors through deals including with Apple, Google, Charter, Xbox, PlayStation, and AT&T/DirecTV. As of this writing, however, WarnerMedia has not locked in HBO Max deals with Comcast, Roku or Amazon.
New Max Originals this June include kids’ adventure competition series “Karma,” Season 3 of comedy “Search Party” and the second seasons of “Doom Patrol,” “Esme & Roy” and “Summer Camp Island.”
Movie highlights include “Titanic,” “Veronica Mars,” “Magic Mike” starring Channing Tatum,...
- 5/22/2020
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
New Line Cinema may be known as the "House That Freddy Built," but there's no doubt that founder Bob Shaye certainly laid the foundation. A prolific producer who has helped hundreds of movies see the light of day, Shaye (who went on to co-found Unique Features with Michael Lynne after parting ways with New Line) returns to the director's chair with Ambition, a new psychological thriller about a violinist who finds herself surrounded by death and obsession in the days leading up to her biggest performance. With Ambition now in theaters and on VOD and digital platforms from Shout! Studios, Daily Dead caught up with Shaye to discuss his return to directing for the first time since 2007's The Last Mimzy, collaborating with his sister Lin (who he calls the "Betty White of horror"), and he also reflected on workin with Wes Craven during the now legendary filming of A Nightmare on Elm Street.
- 9/20/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Although he's best known by horror fans as the founder of New Line Cinema and the producer of A Nightmare on Elm Street movies (and executive producer of Freddy's Nightmares), Bob Shaye is also a director, and following 1990's Book of Love and 2007's The Last Mimzy, Shaye returns to the director's chair with the thriller Ambition, and Shout! Studios and Unique Features are teaming up to release the suspense thriller this fall.
Press Release: Shout! Studios, the multi-platform filmed entertainment distribution and production arm of Shout! Factory and Unique Features announced a strategic distribution collaboration to bring visionary filmmaker Bob Shaye’s new suspense thriller Ambition to a wide variety of entertainment platforms and in select U.S. cinemas. Unique Features and Seth Willenson will handle theatrical distribution duties. Directed by Shaye, Ambition stars Katherine Hughes, Giles Matthey, Sonoya Mizuno, and Bryan Batt with a special appearance by Lin Shaye.
Press Release: Shout! Studios, the multi-platform filmed entertainment distribution and production arm of Shout! Factory and Unique Features announced a strategic distribution collaboration to bring visionary filmmaker Bob Shaye’s new suspense thriller Ambition to a wide variety of entertainment platforms and in select U.S. cinemas. Unique Features and Seth Willenson will handle theatrical distribution duties. Directed by Shaye, Ambition stars Katherine Hughes, Giles Matthey, Sonoya Mizuno, and Bryan Batt with a special appearance by Lin Shaye.
- 6/6/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Netflix may have cancelled the Wachowski’s cult hit “Sense 8,” but its adding two of their defining works to its streaming library next month. All three entries in “The Matrix” trilogy are heading to Netflix, as is the ambitious “Cloud Atlas,” which means you’ll be able to bring summer to an end by bingeing mind-melting science fiction.
Read More: Netflix Is Not the Problem: Why Bad Theatrical Presentations Are Destroying the Experience
Other titles joining the streaming service include underrated gems from Quentin Tarantino and Michael Haneke, plus two of the year’s most exciting documentary films. Check out a complete list of all the new movies joining Netflix in August 2017 below, including our 7 must-binge choices.
“The Matrix” Trilogy (August 1)
August kicks off with “The Matrix,” “The Matrix Reloaded” and “The Matrix Revolutions” all becoming available to stream on Netflix. Say what you want about the two sequels, but...
Read More: Netflix Is Not the Problem: Why Bad Theatrical Presentations Are Destroying the Experience
Other titles joining the streaming service include underrated gems from Quentin Tarantino and Michael Haneke, plus two of the year’s most exciting documentary films. Check out a complete list of all the new movies joining Netflix in August 2017 below, including our 7 must-binge choices.
“The Matrix” Trilogy (August 1)
August kicks off with “The Matrix,” “The Matrix Reloaded” and “The Matrix Revolutions” all becoming available to stream on Netflix. Say what you want about the two sequels, but...
- 7/24/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Andrew Herwitz Cannes-bound with Ambition, Smitten!
The Film Sales Company has acquired worldwide sales rights to features directed by two familiar Hollywood names.
Psychological thriller Ambition is directed by New Line Cinema founder Bob Shaye and produced by Unique Features, the company Shaye and former New Line president Michael Lynne launched in 2008.
The completed film centres on a beautiful young woman who must decide how far she will go to get what she wants – with or without the help of her two ardent suitors.
Shaye, whose directing credits include The Last Mimzy, produces Ambition with Unique’s Sarah Victor. Katherine Hughes, Sonoyoa Mizuno, and Giles Matthey.
Film Sales Company head Andrew Herwitz’s sales slate includes the rom-com Smitten! directed by Barry Morrow, who shared the best original screenplay Oscar for Rain Man in 1989.
Glee’s Darren Criss stars alongside model and TV star Madalina Ghenea. The story takes place in Tuscany, Italy, as a couple...
The Film Sales Company has acquired worldwide sales rights to features directed by two familiar Hollywood names.
Psychological thriller Ambition is directed by New Line Cinema founder Bob Shaye and produced by Unique Features, the company Shaye and former New Line president Michael Lynne launched in 2008.
The completed film centres on a beautiful young woman who must decide how far she will go to get what she wants – with or without the help of her two ardent suitors.
Shaye, whose directing credits include The Last Mimzy, produces Ambition with Unique’s Sarah Victor. Katherine Hughes, Sonoyoa Mizuno, and Giles Matthey.
Film Sales Company head Andrew Herwitz’s sales slate includes the rom-com Smitten! directed by Barry Morrow, who shared the best original screenplay Oscar for Rain Man in 1989.
Glee’s Darren Criss stars alongside model and TV star Madalina Ghenea. The story takes place in Tuscany, Italy, as a couple...
- 5/9/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne, the former New Line Cinema honchos who anted up big years ago to produce The Lord of The Rings trilogy, are paired on a new film with Shaye stepping behind the camera to direct. The mystery thriller Gifted — in which 60 Minutes reporter Steve Kroft’s son co-stars — marks the third feature-length film that Shaye has directed, following The Last Mimzy in 2007 and The Book of Love in 1990. “I decided this is what I like to do best,”…...
- 3/16/2016
- Deadline
It's shaping up to be an unusually quiet Fourth of July at the box office: Transformers: Age of Extinction should easily hold first place over the holiday weekend ahead of newcomers Tammy, Deliver Us From Evil and Earth to Echo.The fourth installment in the Transformers franchise opened just over $100 million this past weekend. That's the fourth movie this Summer to debut north of $90 million (a new record). The other three all dropped at least 61 percent in their second frame; meanwhile, 2009's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen received similarly poor reviews and fell 61 percent over the Fourth of July weekend. It's likely that Age of Extinction winds up in the same range, which would put it just below $40 million.Tammy is the only movie with any chance of taking first place from Transformers. Opening at 3,465 locations on Wednesday, the Melissa McCarthy comedy could theoretically earn over $30 million this weekend.McCarthy...
- 7/3/2014
- by Ray Subers <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
Every few years comes a media blowup about a crowd of kids and parents attending a screening of a G or PG-rated family film, only to be accidentally screened several minutes of something explicit or obscene.
A "Megamind" screening in 2010 saw a bunch of kids accidentally watching scenes from "Saw 3D". Most memorably, a screening of "The Last Mimzy" in 2007 began with the gory opening of "The Hills Have Eyes 2" in which a chained woman graphically gives birth to a mutant baby born of the irradiated cannibals who raped her.
Nowhere near as extreme as that comes reports today that kids at a screening of Disney's "Frozen" in Tampa Bay, Florida were exposed to "explicit sexual content" that ran for several minutes that was played before the film began.
The cinema was reportedly having technical difficulties and suddenly began playing the offending footage forcing parents to cover the eyes and ears of their children.
A "Megamind" screening in 2010 saw a bunch of kids accidentally watching scenes from "Saw 3D". Most memorably, a screening of "The Last Mimzy" in 2007 began with the gory opening of "The Hills Have Eyes 2" in which a chained woman graphically gives birth to a mutant baby born of the irradiated cannibals who raped her.
Nowhere near as extreme as that comes reports today that kids at a screening of Disney's "Frozen" in Tampa Bay, Florida were exposed to "explicit sexual content" that ran for several minutes that was played before the film began.
The cinema was reportedly having technical difficulties and suddenly began playing the offending footage forcing parents to cover the eyes and ears of their children.
- 12/3/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Two more names have been added to the cast of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: Kathryn Hahn and Josh Charles (photo) will be joining actor-director Ben Stiller, Kristen Wiig, Adam Scott, Patton Oswalt, and Shirley MacLaine in the 20th Century Fox production. Hahn is to play Stiller's sister in the movie. Charles will play Wiig's ex-husband. Among Kathryn Hahn's movies are two box-office bombs starring Paul Rudd, Wanderlust and My Idiot Brother. Hahn also had roles in the Kate Winslet-Leonardo DiCaprio drama Revolutionary Road, the Will Ferrell comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, and in Robert Shaye's family drama The Last Mimzy. Among Josh Charles' movie credits are Peter Weir's Oscar-nominated Dead Poets Society, Pie in the Sky, S.W.A.T., and Weakness. On television, Charles is a The Good Wife regular. Based on a story by James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty...
- 4/5/2012
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Box office phenomenon The Hunger Games was once again the undisputed champ this weekend, as it had little difficulty fending off unimpressive fantasy flicks Wrath of the Titans and Mirror Mirror. With that strong holdover performance, and two newcomers combining for over $50 million, the Top 12 earned $140.4 million (a 23 percent improvement over the same period last year).The Hunger Games fell 61.6 percent to $58.55 million this weekend. That ranks as the eighth-highest second weekend ever, though it fell behind Avatar, Spider-Man and Alice in Wonderland among non-sequels. Still, that drop was lighter than the decline for any of the Twilight movies that opened on a Friday including the first one, which lost 62.2 percent in its second weekend. The sci-fi book adaptation will pass $250 million on Monday, which will make it the seventh-fastest movie to ever reach that milestone (first among non-sequels). Through just 10 days in theaters, The Hunger Games has earned $248.5 million,...
- 4/2/2012
- by Ray Subers <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
As expected, The Hunger Games easily held on to the top spot at the box office on Friday, though its steep drop was more reminiscent of front-loaded sequels than original properties. In second place, Wrath of the Titans failed to open anywhere close to its predecessor, while Mirror Mirror got off to a fine start in third. The Hunger Games plummeted 72 percent to an estimated $18.85 million. The movie had a steeper decline than Alice in Wonderland (58 percent) and The Dark Knight (65 percent), but it did mark a slight improvement over New Moon (76 percent) and Breaking Dawn Part 1 (77 percent). The Hunger Games cruised past $200 million early yesterday, which places it as the fifth-fastest movie ever to reach that level. Through eight days, the popular book adaptation has earned $208.8 million, and it should wind up with a three-day gross of at least $60 million. Wrath of the Titans debuted to an estimated $12.4 million on Friday,...
- 3/31/2012
- by Ray Subers <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
Elisabeth Röhm, best known for her role as Serena Southerlyn on Law & Order, has a busy year ahead of her.
The actress, 38, can be seen on the big screen in the upcoming films Chlorine, Transit, Abduction and Officer Down, and can be found online on Facebook and @ElisabethRohm on Twitter.
In her latest blog, Röhm can’t wait for summer’s wonderful weather and plans an outdoor theatre for Easton August, 3, her daughter with fiancé Ron Anthony
What are your favorite family-friendly movies? Please share your thoughts in the comments!
Robert Evans
Although I am in New York City working...
The actress, 38, can be seen on the big screen in the upcoming films Chlorine, Transit, Abduction and Officer Down, and can be found online on Facebook and @ElisabethRohm on Twitter.
In her latest blog, Röhm can’t wait for summer’s wonderful weather and plans an outdoor theatre for Easton August, 3, her daughter with fiancé Ron Anthony
What are your favorite family-friendly movies? Please share your thoughts in the comments!
Robert Evans
Although I am in New York City working...
- 5/26/2011
- by Sarah
- People - CelebrityBabies
Back in January, we told you about Waterfoot Films‘ forthcoming web-series adaptation of H.G. Wells’ classic novel, The Invisible Man. The series has been filming since the beginning of the year and stars Johnny Hightower (Burn Notice: Covert Ops) and Bruce Harwood (The X-Files, Supernatural, The Last Mimzy).
Now, the folks over at Waterfoot Films have released the first teaser trailer and poster for the series, and you can check them out below!
Click here to view the embedded video.
Be sure to “Like” them over on their Facebook page to follow the production.
The Invisible Man is slated to premiere this Summer.
Now, the folks over at Waterfoot Films have released the first teaser trailer and poster for the series, and you can check them out below!
Click here to view the embedded video.
Be sure to “Like” them over on their Facebook page to follow the production.
The Invisible Man is slated to premiere this Summer.
- 4/25/2011
- by Jason Moore
- ScifiMafia
Sci-Fi stalwart, Bruce Harwood (The X-Files,Supernatural, The Last Mimzy) has joined the cast of Waterfoot Films‘ forthcoming web-series adaptation of H.G. Wells‘ classic novel, The Invisible Man. The five-part web series is set to begin principal photography this month and is slated to hit the web in the Spring.
from Waterfoot Films:
Actor Bruce Harwood has joined the Invisible Man team! Mr. Harwood is probably best known for his role as John Byers in the hit Fox TV show, The X-Files, but he has also worked on a variety of other TV shows and feature films including Supernatural, Smallville, and The Last Mimzy. He joins the cast of The Invisible Man as Kemp, the Invisible Man’s estranged colleague who has secluded himself in the snowy mountains of Colorado to hide from his former co-worker. Kemp’s role in the story leads to an emotional climax and shocking revelation...
from Waterfoot Films:
Actor Bruce Harwood has joined the Invisible Man team! Mr. Harwood is probably best known for his role as John Byers in the hit Fox TV show, The X-Files, but he has also worked on a variety of other TV shows and feature films including Supernatural, Smallville, and The Last Mimzy. He joins the cast of The Invisible Man as Kemp, the Invisible Man’s estranged colleague who has secluded himself in the snowy mountains of Colorado to hide from his former co-worker. Kemp’s role in the story leads to an emotional climax and shocking revelation...
- 1/7/2011
- by Jason Moore
- ScifiMafia
Monster Mutt is a family-friendly, 80s retro-looking monster dog movie (which Doesn’T feature CGI – yay!) that follows:
…a pair of kids trying to save their beloved pooch from a mad scientist working for a sinister villain whose experiment has transformed their dog into a crazy-eyed muppet monstrosity.
The film, which is going straight to DVD in the Us, is directed by Todd Tucker and stars Rhiannon Leigh Wryn (The Last Mimzy), Bart Johnson (High School Musical), Brian Stepanek (The Suite Life of Zach and Cody), Juliet Landau (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Zack Ward (Postal).
According to Dread Central, Monster Mutt is released in the Us on January 4th 2011.
…a pair of kids trying to save their beloved pooch from a mad scientist working for a sinister villain whose experiment has transformed their dog into a crazy-eyed muppet monstrosity.
The film, which is going straight to DVD in the Us, is directed by Todd Tucker and stars Rhiannon Leigh Wryn (The Last Mimzy), Bart Johnson (High School Musical), Brian Stepanek (The Suite Life of Zach and Cody), Juliet Landau (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Zack Ward (Postal).
According to Dread Central, Monster Mutt is released in the Us on January 4th 2011.
- 12/1/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
It was a little over a year ago when I first brought news of Monster Mutt, a monstrous new family film billing itself as "Beethoven meets Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" about a lovable dog transformed by a mad scientist into an adorably silly looking furry fiend. I predicted then it would be on DVD shelves sometime in 2010. My prediction proved off by four days.
Monster Mutt will arriving on DVD shelves at Wal-Mart and other DVD retailers/renters on January 4, 2011. Todd Tucker (a co-producer of the Night of the Demons remake) directs Rhiannon Leigh Wryn (The Last Mimzy), Bart Johnson (High School Musical), Brian Stepanek ("The Suite Life of Zach and Cody"), Juliet Landau ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") and Zack Ward (Postal) in this frightfully funny family flick about a pair of kids trying to save their beloved pooch from a mad scientist working for a sinister villain whose...
Monster Mutt will arriving on DVD shelves at Wal-Mart and other DVD retailers/renters on January 4, 2011. Todd Tucker (a co-producer of the Night of the Demons remake) directs Rhiannon Leigh Wryn (The Last Mimzy), Bart Johnson (High School Musical), Brian Stepanek ("The Suite Life of Zach and Cody"), Juliet Landau ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") and Zack Ward (Postal) in this frightfully funny family flick about a pair of kids trying to save their beloved pooch from a mad scientist working for a sinister villain whose...
- 12/1/2010
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
Back in 2007, a theater accidentally showed "The Hills Have Eyes 2" instead of "The Last Mimzy," which is a kids movie. The opening scene of "Hills" features a chained naked woman giving birth to a mutant baby, and children were there to witness everything. Now comes word that a theater in Revere, Massachusetts accidentally played "Saw 3D" instead of the G-rated "Megamind." The children were told to cover their eyes during scenes showing murder and mutilation until the theater corrected the problem. Even though "Saw 3D" was taken off the screen in a few minutes, parents said that the damage was already done. "He came and slept with us and we thought we had gotten past that years ago. He said that he had a few nightmares," said an upset father. The children were given one free ticket as a result of the mix up.
- 11/17/2010
- WorstPreviews.com
I know! I know! it has nothing to do with movies… But who cares, because we all like free stuff!
Wamg is giving away Season 6 of The Office on DVD.
Official Rules: 1. Fill out your name and email address below. 2. Tell us your best office story. Does your cubicle neighbor have a spastic colon? Does the mail guy stalk you non-stop? Did you quit in a blaze of glory? We want to hear about it!!! 3. Winner will be chosen on 9/7 and be contacted by muah!
The Office Season 6 is available on DVD September 7th, 2010!
So good luck people… and keep on loving The Office! (But not in an inappropriate way. We don’t condone that kind of behavior young lady! (or young man!)
About The Office:
From Deedle-Dee Productions, Reveille and Universal Media Studios comes the hilarious documentary-style look into the humorous and sometimes poignant foolishness that plagues the...
Wamg is giving away Season 6 of The Office on DVD.
Official Rules: 1. Fill out your name and email address below. 2. Tell us your best office story. Does your cubicle neighbor have a spastic colon? Does the mail guy stalk you non-stop? Did you quit in a blaze of glory? We want to hear about it!!! 3. Winner will be chosen on 9/7 and be contacted by muah!
The Office Season 6 is available on DVD September 7th, 2010!
So good luck people… and keep on loving The Office! (But not in an inappropriate way. We don’t condone that kind of behavior young lady! (or young man!)
About The Office:
From Deedle-Dee Productions, Reveille and Universal Media Studios comes the hilarious documentary-style look into the humorous and sometimes poignant foolishness that plagues the...
- 9/2/2010
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Video game developer Quantic Dream is in the process of wrapping up an auction that would give the winner screen rights to its successful and generally acclaimed murder mystery, Heavy Rain. Unique Features, a studio founded by ex-New Line CEOs Bob Shay and Michael Lynne, is reported to have won the bidding war and is currently progressing toward a finalized deal.
While all logic and past experience seems to indicate that Heavy Rain: Now It’s a Movie! will fall into the all-consuming black hole of suckiness that’s reserved exclusively for video game adaptations and family comedies involving animals, it’s possible that Shay and Lynne just might be the guys to pull it off. During their time at New Line, the studio released Se7en, American History X and a little known franchise called The Lord of the Rings. Shaye also directed the underrated The Last Mimzy and produced...
While all logic and past experience seems to indicate that Heavy Rain: Now It’s a Movie! will fall into the all-consuming black hole of suckiness that’s reserved exclusively for video game adaptations and family comedies involving animals, it’s possible that Shay and Lynne just might be the guys to pull it off. During their time at New Line, the studio released Se7en, American History X and a little known franchise called The Lord of the Rings. Shaye also directed the underrated The Last Mimzy and produced...
- 5/20/2010
- by Jonathan Poole
- GameRant
Thanks to "Twilight" we now have more teen wolves on the prowl in Hollywood than ever. And if the Catherine Hardwicke update of "Little Red Riding Hood" and Bradley Rust Gray's lesbian werewolf romance "Jack and Diane" aren't enough to look forward to after the release of "Breaking Dawn," here's another adaptation that sounds an awful lot like that huge supernatural sensation: "Shiver."
Based on Maggie Stiefvater's new young adult novel, which has been a best seller since hitting stores last month, "Shiver" tells of a love story between a teenage girl and a yellow-eyed boy who moonlights (pun definitely intended) as a wolf during the winter months. I don't know if I'd call him a werewolf since his changes happen seasonally rather than being tied to the lunar cycle. Then again, "Twilight"'s vampires are fang-less and sparkle in the sunlight.
There's a touch of "Splash" in there too,...
Based on Maggie Stiefvater's new young adult novel, which has been a best seller since hitting stores last month, "Shiver" tells of a love story between a teenage girl and a yellow-eyed boy who moonlights (pun definitely intended) as a wolf during the winter months. I don't know if I'd call him a werewolf since his changes happen seasonally rather than being tied to the lunar cycle. Then again, "Twilight"'s vampires are fang-less and sparkle in the sunlight.
There's a touch of "Splash" in there too,...
- 9/30/2009
- by Christopher Campbell
- MTV Movies Blog
From the mastermind Bruce Joel Rubin, whose credits include Ghost and The Last Mimzy, adapted a fascinating and intelligent tale from Audrey Niffenegger’s 2003 best selling novel The Time Traveler’s Wife. Two souls ripped apart by time, spend a lifetime trying to establish a life full of love and happiness. This stellar film is well thought out with flares of details riddled throughout the film waiting for audience members to pick up on it. PopStar was on hand at the press junket for The Time Traveler's Wife and picked up some inside scoop from the director and actors involved in this truly remarkable film. The small details make this film outstanding, and picking up on them will only enhance the movie experience for the viewer. For example, as seen in the commercials, when Henry (Eric Bana) disappears to travel time he dissolves into what many are calling tiny pixels.
- 8/14/2009
- by cjoyce@corp.popstar.com (Colleen Joyce)
- PopStar
Opened in 3,187 theaters across the U.S. last Friday, March 13, Disney's "Race to Witch Mountain" has taken the top slot at the North American box office from last week champion "Watchmen". Exceeding analysts' expectation, the adventure comedy movie has raced to the #1 slot by garnering $24.4 million over the weekend.
While its opening bow wasn't as big as "Horton Hears a Who!", this Walt Disney Pictures' family-oriented adventure has soared above The Rock's previous starring movie by the mouse house, "The Game Plan". "Race to Witch Mountain" bow was also bigger than what "Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D", "The Last Mimzy" and "Sky High" had collected previously.
"I think audiences this weekend were really drawn to the action adventure of 'Race to Witch Mountain,'" said president of Disney's motion-picture group, Mark Zoradi, about the strong sales of the movie. "There was also this element of parents over...
While its opening bow wasn't as big as "Horton Hears a Who!", this Walt Disney Pictures' family-oriented adventure has soared above The Rock's previous starring movie by the mouse house, "The Game Plan". "Race to Witch Mountain" bow was also bigger than what "Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D", "The Last Mimzy" and "Sky High" had collected previously.
"I think audiences this weekend were really drawn to the action adventure of 'Race to Witch Mountain,'" said president of Disney's motion-picture group, Mark Zoradi, about the strong sales of the movie. "There was also this element of parents over...
- 3/16/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
In Utah -- the state so pure that some theaters owners refuse to show the relatively tame Zack and Miri Make a Porno but haven't given Saw V a second glance -- one theater moved their audience for the weekend's #1 movie, High School Musical 3: Senior Year, into a larger auditorium that had been showing the raunchy Sex Drive ... and promptly continued to do so once the lights went down.
This isn't a terribly uncommon mistake to be made. Just last year, a Long Island multiplex exposed children to the gruesome opening of The Hills Have Eyes 2 instead of The Last Mimzy, and back in 2005, I found myself attending a Saturday night sneak of Zathura in a theater where The Fog proceeded to begin instead. (Childless and intrepid as I was am, it took my fetching a manager to correct the situation, not any of the number of vocally...
This isn't a terribly uncommon mistake to be made. Just last year, a Long Island multiplex exposed children to the gruesome opening of The Hills Have Eyes 2 instead of The Last Mimzy, and back in 2005, I found myself attending a Saturday night sneak of Zathura in a theater where The Fog proceeded to begin instead. (Childless and intrepid as I was am, it took my fetching a manager to correct the situation, not any of the number of vocally...
- 10/30/2008
- by William Goss
- Cinematical
Year: 2008
DVD Release date: October 14, 2008
Director: Ole Bornedal
Writers: Ole Bornedal / Henrik Prip
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Amazon: link
Review by: agentorange
Rating: 7.5 out of 10
America take note: Denmark is bringing back the lost art of the PG-13 kids flick and they're making you look bad in the process. It's time to step up.
With The Substitute, director Ole Bornedal has managed to bring together two kinds of cinema and construct a film that I can only describe as being Dogme 95 meets The Monster Squad. It took me about 30 minutes to realize it, but when the realization finally hit, it was like a ton of bricks; "Holy crap... I'm watching a kids movie!" From there the movie was a joy to take in and had me grinning from ear to ear, remembering my own childhood and all the lost days of watching edgy kids flicks from the 80s like The Gate,...
DVD Release date: October 14, 2008
Director: Ole Bornedal
Writers: Ole Bornedal / Henrik Prip
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Amazon: link
Review by: agentorange
Rating: 7.5 out of 10
America take note: Denmark is bringing back the lost art of the PG-13 kids flick and they're making you look bad in the process. It's time to step up.
With The Substitute, director Ole Bornedal has managed to bring together two kinds of cinema and construct a film that I can only describe as being Dogme 95 meets The Monster Squad. It took me about 30 minutes to realize it, but when the realization finally hit, it was like a ton of bricks; "Holy crap... I'm watching a kids movie!" From there the movie was a joy to take in and had me grinning from ear to ear, remembering my own childhood and all the lost days of watching edgy kids flicks from the 80s like The Gate,...
- 10/9/2008
- QuietEarth.us
The Rocker
Starring Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate, and Teddy Geiger
Directed by Peter Cattaneo
Rated PG-13
The new comedy The Rocker is both slightly better than its premise and slightly worse than it should be. There are some great little moments that unfortunately are balanced with a couple misfires, although it does showcase something different from Rainn Wilson (The Office) than we've seen before.
Robert "Fish" Fishman (Wilson) was the original drummer in Vesuvius, one of the biggest hard rock bands of all times. Because he didn't have the right look for the band, though, Vesuvius dumped him unceremoniously right as their journey to the top began to take off. It's not by chance that former Beatles drummer Pete Best has a cameo.
Fish has never been able to let it go; 20 years later, Vesuvius is one of the world's biggest bands and he's stuck working in a call center.
Starring Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate, and Teddy Geiger
Directed by Peter Cattaneo
Rated PG-13
The new comedy The Rocker is both slightly better than its premise and slightly worse than it should be. There are some great little moments that unfortunately are balanced with a couple misfires, although it does showcase something different from Rainn Wilson (The Office) than we've seen before.
Robert "Fish" Fishman (Wilson) was the original drummer in Vesuvius, one of the biggest hard rock bands of all times. Because he didn't have the right look for the band, though, Vesuvius dumped him unceremoniously right as their journey to the top began to take off. It's not by chance that former Beatles drummer Pete Best has a cameo.
Fish has never been able to let it go; 20 years later, Vesuvius is one of the world's biggest bands and he's stuck working in a call center.
- 8/20/2008
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
- The movie Gods must be strict creationists. That would explain why the heady sci-fi works of Isaac Asimov have not translated well to the big screen. Sure his writing tends more towards grand ideas than epic scope, but there’s no excusing bastardizations like Bicentennial Man and I, Robot. Yet Hollywood continues trying to crack Asimov’s dystopian worlds. Next up? Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne will attempt an adaptation of perhaps his most non-cinematic work the Foundation trilogy. Spanning seven volumes, the series begins with a brilliant mathematician who develops a method to predict the future called psychohistory. The method works like gangbusters on a large scale, but is utterly useless on an individual basis. Unfortunately the future he sees for the Galactic Empire is bleak: a thirty-thousand year dark age leading to the rise of a new empire. In an attempt to salvage as much knowledge and
- 7/29/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne are looking to the future -- literally.
The New Line founders-turned-producers have signed on to produce their first project since they received their post-New Line deal at Warners, boarding an adaptation of Isaac Asimov's futuristic sci-fi epic "Foundation" that they'll produce through their Unique Features banner.
Warners recently picked up "Foundation," which had been in development at Fox. Vince Gerardis, who had been attached as a producer in the Fox incarnation, will remain on board as a producer for the Warners project with Shaye and Lynne.
"Foundation" is based on Asimov's "Foundation Trilogy," which centers on a society that has figured out how to predict the future based on a method called psychohistory and sets up a foundation devoted to scientific research to protect itself and ensure its survival.
The politically inflected work, which features such characters as the prophetic Hari Seldon and a villain called the Mule, spans hundreds of years, essentially tracking the rise and fall of civilizations. Each book contains a new set of characters, which has in the past prompted some development execs to say they consider it a difficult work to adapt for the screen.
Shaye and Lynne's goal is to adapt the first book for now, and, if it's successful, potentially follow the New Line "Lord of the Rings" template by developing adaptations down the road of the second and third books.
Calling the trilogy "one of the things I've had close to my heart" since he read the books as a young man, Shaye said the project had as its goal locating and creating an audience for the Asimov classic. "Our idea to renew the worldwide audience's appetite for the story," he said.
Shaye noted that the books' political themes, particularly its focus on the rise and fall of empires, give the movie a geopolitical relevance. But he also said their complexity would cause the company to move forward carefully. "This is not a script you can knock out in six months," he said.
Science fiction is a genre in which the duo and New Line had dabbled, most notably in recent years with "The Last Mimzy," the sci-fi family tale that Shaye directed.
Shaye and Lynne exited the Warner fold this year as part of Time Warner's absorption of New Line. This month, the pair announced the formation of Unique, a production company with a three-year, first-look deal at Warners. The goal is to produce two or three movies per year, with Warners handling marketing and distribution.
Hollywood has found Asimov a difficult writer to adapt to film because his books tend to incorporate philosophical themes as much as action elements. Still, the loose adaptation of his "I, Robot" collection of stories turned into a $340 million global hit for Fox in 2004.
Fox, which adapted the whole trilogy as one standalone script (perhaps in a bid to counteract development obstacles), had attached several individuals who had worked on an earlier Asimov adaptation. In addition to Gerardis, who produced "I, Robot," Jeff Vintar, who penned the screenplay to that film, was attached to pen the "Foundation" screenplay. Vintar has said in interviews that he was focusing on the latter parts of the trilogy, which span a more limited period of time, to make the Fox project more manageable.
Shaye said that the ambition of the "Foundation" project makes it the right movie to kick off the Unique slate. "This epitomizes the movies we want to make, not the movies that ought to be made to fill a slate or movies that repeat an old formula," he said.
The New Line founders-turned-producers have signed on to produce their first project since they received their post-New Line deal at Warners, boarding an adaptation of Isaac Asimov's futuristic sci-fi epic "Foundation" that they'll produce through their Unique Features banner.
Warners recently picked up "Foundation," which had been in development at Fox. Vince Gerardis, who had been attached as a producer in the Fox incarnation, will remain on board as a producer for the Warners project with Shaye and Lynne.
"Foundation" is based on Asimov's "Foundation Trilogy," which centers on a society that has figured out how to predict the future based on a method called psychohistory and sets up a foundation devoted to scientific research to protect itself and ensure its survival.
The politically inflected work, which features such characters as the prophetic Hari Seldon and a villain called the Mule, spans hundreds of years, essentially tracking the rise and fall of civilizations. Each book contains a new set of characters, which has in the past prompted some development execs to say they consider it a difficult work to adapt for the screen.
Shaye and Lynne's goal is to adapt the first book for now, and, if it's successful, potentially follow the New Line "Lord of the Rings" template by developing adaptations down the road of the second and third books.
Calling the trilogy "one of the things I've had close to my heart" since he read the books as a young man, Shaye said the project had as its goal locating and creating an audience for the Asimov classic. "Our idea to renew the worldwide audience's appetite for the story," he said.
Shaye noted that the books' political themes, particularly its focus on the rise and fall of empires, give the movie a geopolitical relevance. But he also said their complexity would cause the company to move forward carefully. "This is not a script you can knock out in six months," he said.
Science fiction is a genre in which the duo and New Line had dabbled, most notably in recent years with "The Last Mimzy," the sci-fi family tale that Shaye directed.
Shaye and Lynne exited the Warner fold this year as part of Time Warner's absorption of New Line. This month, the pair announced the formation of Unique, a production company with a three-year, first-look deal at Warners. The goal is to produce two or three movies per year, with Warners handling marketing and distribution.
Hollywood has found Asimov a difficult writer to adapt to film because his books tend to incorporate philosophical themes as much as action elements. Still, the loose adaptation of his "I, Robot" collection of stories turned into a $340 million global hit for Fox in 2004.
Fox, which adapted the whole trilogy as one standalone script (perhaps in a bid to counteract development obstacles), had attached several individuals who had worked on an earlier Asimov adaptation. In addition to Gerardis, who produced "I, Robot," Jeff Vintar, who penned the screenplay to that film, was attached to pen the "Foundation" screenplay. Vintar has said in interviews that he was focusing on the latter parts of the trilogy, which span a more limited period of time, to make the Fox project more manageable.
Shaye said that the ambition of the "Foundation" project makes it the right movie to kick off the Unique slate. "This epitomizes the movies we want to make, not the movies that ought to be made to fill a slate or movies that repeat an old formula," he said.
- 7/29/2008
- by By Steven Zeitchik
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Fifty-nine songs from eligible feature-length motion pictures are being considered in the original song category for the 80th Annual Academy Awards.
The songs, unveiled Wednesday, include four songs from August Rush as well as three each from Dan in Real Life, Enchanted, 56 Drops of Blood, Good Luck Chuck, Into the Wild and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
Films with two eligible songs are Badland, Grace Is Gone, The Hottest State, Music and Lyrics and Once.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen clips in random order Jan. 15 featuring each song for voting members of the music branch in Beverly Hills and New York. Following the screenings, members will vote to determine which three, four or five songs become nominees in the category.
The 80th Academy Awards nominations will be announced Jan. 22.
The original songs, along with the motion picture in which each song is featured, are:
"Do You Feel Me" from American Gangster
"At the Edge of the World" from Arctic Tale
"Someday" from August Rush
"This Time" from August Rush
"Raise It Up" from August Rush
"Break" from August Rush
"Nothing's There" from Badland
"The Devil's Lonely Fire" from Badland
"A Hero Comes Home" from Beowulf
"The Stars of Orion" from Berkeley
"Say" from The Bucket List
"To Be Surprised" from Dan in Real Life
"My Hands Are Shaking" from Dan in Real Life
"I'll Be OK" from Dan in Real Life
"December Boys" from December Boys
"So Close" from Enchanted
"That's How You Know" from Enchanted
"Happy Working Song" from Enchanted
"Atkozott Egy Elet" from 56 Drops of Blood
"O, Atyam!" from 56 Drops of Blood
"Eleg!" from 56 Drops of Blood
"A Dream" from Freedom Writers
"Lyra" from The Golden Compass
"Good Luck Chuck" from Good Luck Chuck
"Shut Me Out" from Good Luck Chuck
"I Was Zapped by the Lucky Super Rainbow" from Good Luck Chuck
"Grace Is Gone" from Grace Is Gone
"Lullabye for Wyatt" from Grace Is Gone
"Come So Far (Got So Far to Go)" from Hairspray
"The Tale of the Horny Frog" from The Heartbreak Kid
"China Doll" from Honeydripper
"It Will Stay With Us" from The Hottest State
"Never See You" from The Hottest State
"Society" from Into the Wild
"Guaranteed" from Into the Wild
"Rise" from Into the Wild
"First Amendment Blues" from Larry Flynt: The Right To Be Left Alone
"Hello (I Love You)" from The Last Mimzy
"Despedida" from Love in the Time of Cholera
"Huck's Tune" from Lucky You
"Little Wonders" from Meet the Robinsons
"Another Believer" from Meet the Robinsons
"Way Back into Love" from Music and Lyrics
"PoP! Goes My Heart" from Music and Lyrics
"Ordinary People" from Music Within
"Pretty Much Amazing" from Nancy Drew
"Falling Slowly" from Once
"If You Want Me" from Once
"Le Festin" from Ratatouille
"Land of Quiet Poems" from Resurrecting the Champ
"Love Will Still Be There" from September Dawn
"Royal Pain" from Shrek the Third
"Rule the World" from Stardust
"Before It's Too Late (Sam and Mikaela's Theme)" from Transformers
"Baby Don't You Cry" from Waitress
"Beautiful Ride" from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
"Walk Hard" from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
"Let's Duet" from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
"Back Where You Belong" from The Water Horse...
The songs, unveiled Wednesday, include four songs from August Rush as well as three each from Dan in Real Life, Enchanted, 56 Drops of Blood, Good Luck Chuck, Into the Wild and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
Films with two eligible songs are Badland, Grace Is Gone, The Hottest State, Music and Lyrics and Once.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen clips in random order Jan. 15 featuring each song for voting members of the music branch in Beverly Hills and New York. Following the screenings, members will vote to determine which three, four or five songs become nominees in the category.
The 80th Academy Awards nominations will be announced Jan. 22.
The original songs, along with the motion picture in which each song is featured, are:
"Do You Feel Me" from American Gangster
"At the Edge of the World" from Arctic Tale
"Someday" from August Rush
"This Time" from August Rush
"Raise It Up" from August Rush
"Break" from August Rush
"Nothing's There" from Badland
"The Devil's Lonely Fire" from Badland
"A Hero Comes Home" from Beowulf
"The Stars of Orion" from Berkeley
"Say" from The Bucket List
"To Be Surprised" from Dan in Real Life
"My Hands Are Shaking" from Dan in Real Life
"I'll Be OK" from Dan in Real Life
"December Boys" from December Boys
"So Close" from Enchanted
"That's How You Know" from Enchanted
"Happy Working Song" from Enchanted
"Atkozott Egy Elet" from 56 Drops of Blood
"O, Atyam!" from 56 Drops of Blood
"Eleg!" from 56 Drops of Blood
"A Dream" from Freedom Writers
"Lyra" from The Golden Compass
"Good Luck Chuck" from Good Luck Chuck
"Shut Me Out" from Good Luck Chuck
"I Was Zapped by the Lucky Super Rainbow" from Good Luck Chuck
"Grace Is Gone" from Grace Is Gone
"Lullabye for Wyatt" from Grace Is Gone
"Come So Far (Got So Far to Go)" from Hairspray
"The Tale of the Horny Frog" from The Heartbreak Kid
"China Doll" from Honeydripper
"It Will Stay With Us" from The Hottest State
"Never See You" from The Hottest State
"Society" from Into the Wild
"Guaranteed" from Into the Wild
"Rise" from Into the Wild
"First Amendment Blues" from Larry Flynt: The Right To Be Left Alone
"Hello (I Love You)" from The Last Mimzy
"Despedida" from Love in the Time of Cholera
"Huck's Tune" from Lucky You
"Little Wonders" from Meet the Robinsons
"Another Believer" from Meet the Robinsons
"Way Back into Love" from Music and Lyrics
"PoP! Goes My Heart" from Music and Lyrics
"Ordinary People" from Music Within
"Pretty Much Amazing" from Nancy Drew
"Falling Slowly" from Once
"If You Want Me" from Once
"Le Festin" from Ratatouille
"Land of Quiet Poems" from Resurrecting the Champ
"Love Will Still Be There" from September Dawn
"Royal Pain" from Shrek the Third
"Rule the World" from Stardust
"Before It's Too Late (Sam and Mikaela's Theme)" from Transformers
"Baby Don't You Cry" from Waitress
"Beautiful Ride" from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
"Walk Hard" from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
"Let's Duet" from Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
"Back Where You Belong" from The Water Horse...
- 12/13/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Will Ferrell in tights toppled Walt Disney Pictures' latest 3-D effort, but none of the weekend's new releases came anywhere near last year's behemoth opener on the comparable weekend, 20th Century Fox's "Ice Age: The Meltdown", which bowed to $68 million. Still, "Blades of Glory" was able to pull in an estimated $33 million to win the weekend for the Paramount Pictures release of the DreamWorks/MTV Films co-production. And Disney's animated tale "Meet the Robinsons" drew in an estimated $25.1 million for the frame to land at No. 2.
Miramax Films' "The Lookout", the weekend's other new wide release, bowed in 955 theaters to a dismal $2 million, not enough to crack the top 10. Overall, the top 12 films at the boxoffice were down an estimated 14% compared with last year at this time.
Universal Pictures experimented with the rerelease of Sobini Films' "Peaceful Warrior". Bowing in 615 theaters through a giveaway program with Best Buy retail stores, the film grossed what Universal is estimating to be $2.1 million in boxoffice receipts.
The holdovers from last frame had a hard time maintaining audiences, a factor many in the industry attributed to the NCAA men's basketball tournament, which played its Final Four games Saturday night.
Warner Bros. Pictures' "TMNT", which occupied the top spot the previous weekend, dropped a steep 62% in its sophomore session to an estimated $9.2 million. Facing competition from both "Robinsons" and "Blades", the film has grossed $38.4 million in 10 days. Warners is confident, though, that the film will make up its deficit with the majority of school-aged children on spring break this week.
New Line Cinema's "The Last Mimzy" also wobbled in its second weekend; the PG family film dropped a steep 60% to $4 million. From director Robert Shaye, the movie's 10-day cume is $16.4 million.
Fox Atomic's "The Hills Have Eyes 2" fell 59% in its second weekend in theaters. The R-rated horror film earned an estimated $3.9 million to put its 10-day gross at $15.8 million -- the number to which last year's "The Hills Have Eyes" opened.
Miramax Films' "The Lookout", the weekend's other new wide release, bowed in 955 theaters to a dismal $2 million, not enough to crack the top 10. Overall, the top 12 films at the boxoffice were down an estimated 14% compared with last year at this time.
Universal Pictures experimented with the rerelease of Sobini Films' "Peaceful Warrior". Bowing in 615 theaters through a giveaway program with Best Buy retail stores, the film grossed what Universal is estimating to be $2.1 million in boxoffice receipts.
The holdovers from last frame had a hard time maintaining audiences, a factor many in the industry attributed to the NCAA men's basketball tournament, which played its Final Four games Saturday night.
Warner Bros. Pictures' "TMNT", which occupied the top spot the previous weekend, dropped a steep 62% in its sophomore session to an estimated $9.2 million. Facing competition from both "Robinsons" and "Blades", the film has grossed $38.4 million in 10 days. Warners is confident, though, that the film will make up its deficit with the majority of school-aged children on spring break this week.
New Line Cinema's "The Last Mimzy" also wobbled in its second weekend; the PG family film dropped a steep 60% to $4 million. From director Robert Shaye, the movie's 10-day cume is $16.4 million.
Fox Atomic's "The Hills Have Eyes 2" fell 59% in its second weekend in theaters. The R-rated horror film earned an estimated $3.9 million to put its 10-day gross at $15.8 million -- the number to which last year's "The Hills Have Eyes" opened.
Cowabunga! With six wide releases bowing at the North American boxoffice, the surprising topper for the frame was Warner Bros. Pictures' TMNT, the revitalization of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise -- whose last film was 14 years ago -- that the Weinstein Co. co-produced. Bowing to an estimated $25.5 million, the CG-animated film lured in Turtles fans of all ages.
Paramount Pictures' Shooter was the second-highest-grossing new release, debuting to an estimated $14.5 million to finish third in the weekend rankings, just behind Warners' juggernaut 300.
The opening frames for the other four wide bows weren't nearly as auspicious.
New Line Cinema's The Last Mimzy, directed by the company's co-chairman and co-CEO, Robert Shaye, opened in fifth place to an estimated $10.2 million, while 20th Century Fox launched Fox Atomic's horror sequel The Hills Have Eyes 2 to an estimated $10 million. Sony Pictures' adult drama Reign Over Me lured in an estimated $8 million for the well-reviewed film starring Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle, and Lionsgate's urban drama Pride faltered, grossing an estimated $4 million in more than 1,500 theaters.
The collective gross for the weekend's top 12 films was more than $125 million, up nearly 28% compared with the comparable frame last year, when Universal Pictures' Inside Man and Buena Vista Pictures' Stay Alive launched.
Still, it took four extra wide releases to help push the boxoffice nearly $30 million above last year's level. It's likely that if some of the wide releases had more room to breathe during the weekend, their opening grosses could have been significantly higher.
The frame also received a boost from another staggering performance from 300. The R-rated battle epic from Zack Snyder continues to capture the imagination of young moviegoers, dropping just 38% for its third weekend. Ranking second overall, the film earned an additional $20.5 million for the three-day period, putting its three-week gross at an estimated $162.4 million.
Sony's Sandra Bullock starrer Premonition also held nicely despite scathing reviews. The PG-13 thriller dropped 42% for its second weekend, pulling in an estimated $10.1 million; it has grossed $32.2 million in 10 days of release.
Universal's Dead Silence and Fox Searchlight's I Think I Love My Wife had a much more difficult time holding audiences.
Paramount Pictures' Shooter was the second-highest-grossing new release, debuting to an estimated $14.5 million to finish third in the weekend rankings, just behind Warners' juggernaut 300.
The opening frames for the other four wide bows weren't nearly as auspicious.
New Line Cinema's The Last Mimzy, directed by the company's co-chairman and co-CEO, Robert Shaye, opened in fifth place to an estimated $10.2 million, while 20th Century Fox launched Fox Atomic's horror sequel The Hills Have Eyes 2 to an estimated $10 million. Sony Pictures' adult drama Reign Over Me lured in an estimated $8 million for the well-reviewed film starring Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle, and Lionsgate's urban drama Pride faltered, grossing an estimated $4 million in more than 1,500 theaters.
The collective gross for the weekend's top 12 films was more than $125 million, up nearly 28% compared with the comparable frame last year, when Universal Pictures' Inside Man and Buena Vista Pictures' Stay Alive launched.
Still, it took four extra wide releases to help push the boxoffice nearly $30 million above last year's level. It's likely that if some of the wide releases had more room to breathe during the weekend, their opening grosses could have been significantly higher.
The frame also received a boost from another staggering performance from 300. The R-rated battle epic from Zack Snyder continues to capture the imagination of young moviegoers, dropping just 38% for its third weekend. Ranking second overall, the film earned an additional $20.5 million for the three-day period, putting its three-week gross at an estimated $162.4 million.
Sony's Sandra Bullock starrer Premonition also held nicely despite scathing reviews. The PG-13 thriller dropped 42% for its second weekend, pulling in an estimated $10.1 million; it has grossed $32.2 million in 10 days of release.
Universal's Dead Silence and Fox Searchlight's I Think I Love My Wife had a much more difficult time holding audiences.
- 3/26/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARK CITY -- New Line Cinema honcho Robert Shaye makes a rare appearance in the director's chair (his first since 1990's "Book of Love") bringing the well-regarded short story "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" to the big screen as the family-friendly fantasy "The Last Mimzy".
In the process the Lewis Padgett piece, first published in a 1943 science-fiction collection, has been turned into a reasonably engaging movie filled with fun visual effects and an appealing tone reminiscent of a certain Spielberg movie about an out-of-his-element extraterrestrial.
While the Shaye picture, which was given an advance preview in conjunction with a New Line 40-year retrospective conversation hosted by Sundance director Geoffrey Gilmore, won't be phoning home those "E.T". figures, "Mimzy" packs sufficient whimsy to make it a solid performer when it lands in theaters on March 23.
Despite the spelling change, screenwriters Bruce Joel Rubin ("Ghost") and Toby Emmerich ("Frequency") are unlikely to offend many purists in their update of the original work, about a box of educational toys that have been sent back from the future to the present. The original title took its cue from a line in Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky".
Here, the Mimzy in question is an innocuous-looking, well-traveled toy bunny found among mysterious items in a box that turns up floating behind the Wilder family waterfront vacation home in Seattle.
Opting not to share their discovery with their workaholic dad (Timothy Hutton) and overly cautious mom (Joely Richardson), siblings Noah (Chris O'Neil) and Emma Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) soon discover that playing with the newfound objects has a profound effect on their intelligence levels.
It's a development that doesn't go unnoticed by Noah's teacher, Mr. White ("The Office's" Rainn Wilson), who detects a higher purpose in the boy's complex geometric doodles that bear an eerie resemblance to the ancient configurations that keep popping up in his dreams.
Emma, meanwhile, has been picking up telepathically on Mimzy's warnings regarding the survival of the inhabitants of the future and has to act fast before special government agent Nathaniel Boardman Michael Clarke Duncan), who's investigating the source of a citywide blackout, gets to her.
Viewers willing to go along for the ride should be agreeably charmed by the yarn. And whenever developments threaten to push the boundaries of credibility a little too far, Wilson's character reins in the excess with his sardonic line delivery.
But even he can't salvage a jarringly clunky bit of product placement concerning Mimzy's internal make-up that yanks older viewers out of the mythology with little time left to bring them back into the fold.
Fortunately, Shaye ultimately manages to win enough of them over with the help of his inventive visual effects team, his energetic cast and a gently expansive Howard Shore score, assuring "Mimzy" a promising future.
THE LAST MIMZY
New Line Cinema
New Line Cinema, Michael Phillips Prods.
Credits:
Director: Robert Shaye
Screenwriters: Bruce Joel Rubin, Toby Emmerich
Based on the short story "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett
Producer: Michael Phillips
Executive producers: Robert Shaye, Justis Greene, Sara Risher
Director of photography: J. Michael Muro
Production designer: Barry Chusid
Editor: Alan Heim
Costume designer: Karen Matthews
Music: Howard Shore
Visual effects supervisor: Eric Durst
Cast:
Jo Wilder: Joely Richardson
David Wilder: Timothy Hutton
Nathaniel Boardman: Michael Clarke Duncan
Larry White: Rainn Wilson
Naomi: Kathryn Hahn
Noah Wilder: Chris O'Neil
Emma Wilder: Rhiannon Leigh Wryn
Running time -- 90 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
In the process the Lewis Padgett piece, first published in a 1943 science-fiction collection, has been turned into a reasonably engaging movie filled with fun visual effects and an appealing tone reminiscent of a certain Spielberg movie about an out-of-his-element extraterrestrial.
While the Shaye picture, which was given an advance preview in conjunction with a New Line 40-year retrospective conversation hosted by Sundance director Geoffrey Gilmore, won't be phoning home those "E.T". figures, "Mimzy" packs sufficient whimsy to make it a solid performer when it lands in theaters on March 23.
Despite the spelling change, screenwriters Bruce Joel Rubin ("Ghost") and Toby Emmerich ("Frequency") are unlikely to offend many purists in their update of the original work, about a box of educational toys that have been sent back from the future to the present. The original title took its cue from a line in Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky".
Here, the Mimzy in question is an innocuous-looking, well-traveled toy bunny found among mysterious items in a box that turns up floating behind the Wilder family waterfront vacation home in Seattle.
Opting not to share their discovery with their workaholic dad (Timothy Hutton) and overly cautious mom (Joely Richardson), siblings Noah (Chris O'Neil) and Emma Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) soon discover that playing with the newfound objects has a profound effect on their intelligence levels.
It's a development that doesn't go unnoticed by Noah's teacher, Mr. White ("The Office's" Rainn Wilson), who detects a higher purpose in the boy's complex geometric doodles that bear an eerie resemblance to the ancient configurations that keep popping up in his dreams.
Emma, meanwhile, has been picking up telepathically on Mimzy's warnings regarding the survival of the inhabitants of the future and has to act fast before special government agent Nathaniel Boardman Michael Clarke Duncan), who's investigating the source of a citywide blackout, gets to her.
Viewers willing to go along for the ride should be agreeably charmed by the yarn. And whenever developments threaten to push the boundaries of credibility a little too far, Wilson's character reins in the excess with his sardonic line delivery.
But even he can't salvage a jarringly clunky bit of product placement concerning Mimzy's internal make-up that yanks older viewers out of the mythology with little time left to bring them back into the fold.
Fortunately, Shaye ultimately manages to win enough of them over with the help of his inventive visual effects team, his energetic cast and a gently expansive Howard Shore score, assuring "Mimzy" a promising future.
THE LAST MIMZY
New Line Cinema
New Line Cinema, Michael Phillips Prods.
Credits:
Director: Robert Shaye
Screenwriters: Bruce Joel Rubin, Toby Emmerich
Based on the short story "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett
Producer: Michael Phillips
Executive producers: Robert Shaye, Justis Greene, Sara Risher
Director of photography: J. Michael Muro
Production designer: Barry Chusid
Editor: Alan Heim
Costume designer: Karen Matthews
Music: Howard Shore
Visual effects supervisor: Eric Durst
Cast:
Jo Wilder: Joely Richardson
David Wilder: Timothy Hutton
Nathaniel Boardman: Michael Clarke Duncan
Larry White: Rainn Wilson
Naomi: Kathryn Hahn
Noah Wilder: Chris O'Neil
Emma Wilder: Rhiannon Leigh Wryn
Running time -- 90 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
- 1/31/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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