Lionsgate‘s Motion Picture Group Chair Joe Drake is exiting the studio. He’ll hand the reins to Adam Fogelson, who formerly lead both Universal Pictures and STX Motion Picture Group; Fogelson joined Lionsgate’s film group in 2022 as vice chair. This is now the third studio Fogelson will lead dating back to 2009. Drake returned to Lionsgate in 2017 after starting …
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If there was one way to sum up the snub talk surrounding the 2024 SAG Awards nominations, it’s that the critical darlings mostly got short-shrift. Of course, major awards players like “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” got good reviews to match their ballooning box office grosses, so their leading the film nominations with four nods each is not a huge surprise. But …
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Here’s the beautiful thing about David Ayer’s “The Beekeeper,” which is essentially a “John Wick” ripoff starring Jason Statham as a former top-secret government assassin who violently unretires after someone kills his bees: If for some twisted reason you showed me this movie right after I’d woken up from a 10-year coma and told me it was opening in theaters …
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Seth Rogen and his Point Grey Pictures are pledging their fealty to “Dame Donna Langley” (yes, she is quite literally a Dame), cheekily agreeing to be knights in service of Langley’s kingdom at Universal Pictures. The production company has signed a first-look film deal with the studio, expanding an existing relationship that brought us the “Neighbors” films, “Good Boys,” and …
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Our first look at the 2024 SXSW Film & TV festival lineup has officially been unveiled, and will open with the highly-anticipated Netflix series “3 Body Problem,” co-created by David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo, screening Opening Night as a TV premiere. On the film front, David Leitch’s Ryan Gosling-starring actioner “The Fall Guy” is set as the fest’s …
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Josh Singer takes a lot of notes. For an in-demand screenwriter like him (to wit: “Spotlight,” “The Post,” “First Man,” and those are just his best-known produced works) that makes sense, but Singer’s latest project, Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic “Maestro,” required even more copious files and neat notes. After all, Singer has been working on it for over a …
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It’s been a “Long, Long Time” coming for a Linda Ronstadt biopic. The Grammy-winning singer is at the center of an upcoming biopic, with “Only Murders in the Building” star Selena Gomez portraying Ronstadt. Rolling Stone confirmed that the film is in pre-production, with Ronstadt’s manager John Boylan and “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice” documentarian James Keach co-producing. …
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New ‘Star Trek’ Movie Will Be Set Decades Before Kirk & Spock – IndieWire You will be redirected back to your article in seconds The film will explore a whole new era in the “Trek” timeline. But a concluding film in the Chris Pine-starring series is still in the works. ad Source link
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Oppenheimer, Barbie, Killers of the Flower Moon: Oscar Frontrunners – IndieWire You will be redirected back to your article in seconds Between the Golden Globes, and the directors’ and actors’ guilds, SAG is the most revealing. The Critics Choice Awards are next. ad Source link
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Angela Bassett, Mel Brooks, and Michelle Satter: 2024 Governors Awards – IndieWire You will be redirected back to your article in seconds At the Academy’s post-strike Governors Awards, the delay impacted none of the energy for honorees Mel Brooks, Angela Bassett, Carol Littleton, and Michelle Satter — or, for Oscar campaigning. ad Source link
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