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Amazon Orders Two Seasons of ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ From ‘Gilmore Girls’ Creator
3 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Amazon has ordered two seasons of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” from “Gilmore Girls” creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, Variety has learned. The order marks the first multi-season order for a new series in the streaming service’s history.
The series, written and directed by Sherman-Palladino, stars “House of Cards” and “Manhattan” alum Rachel Brosnahan as Miriam “Midge” Maisel, a 1958 New York City woman who has everything she’s ever wanted—the perfect husband, two kids, and an elegant Upper West Side apartment perfect for hosting Yom Kippur dinner. But her perfect life suddenly takes an unexpected turn and Midge discovers a previously unknown talent for standup comedy. The pilot became available on Amazon Prime in March.
“In her onstage debut, Mrs. Maisel killed and had audiences responding overwhelmingly with digital applause,” said Joe Lewis, head of comedy, drama and Vr for Amazon Studios. “Like any great young stand-up, we’re excited to see what she has to say next »
- Joe Otterson
'Boss Baby' Repeats at #1 While 'Beauty and the Beast' Closes in on $1 Billion Worldwide
9 April 2017 9:01 AM, PDT | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
Fox and DreamWorks Animation's The Boss Baby topped the weekend box office for a second week in a row, once again leading Disney's Beauty and the Beast over the course of what felt like a placeholder weekend as far as new releases are concerned. While Sony's Smurfs: The Lost Village performed mostly as expected and New Line's Going in Style over performed based on expectations, it seems most moviegoers are merely waiting for the next weekend's release of The Fate of the Furious as it looks to become the second 2017 release to debut over $100 million. Otherwise, this weekend also featured a satisfactory opening for Pure Flix's The Case for Christ, which could see its estimates receive a bump today as a result of it being Palm Sunday, while last weekend's release of Ghost in the Shell dipped over 60% in its second weekend in release. At the top of the »
- Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
Amazon India Inks Licensing Deal With Paramount
3 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Amazon has signed a licensing deal with Paramount for the Indian version of its Prime Video streaming service.
Recent titles under the deal include “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows,” “Star Trek Beyond,” and “10 Cloverfield Lane,” while library titles span films from the “Transformers,” “Indiana Jones,” “Mission: Impossible,” “Madagascar,” “Shrek,” and “Kung Fu Panda” franchises.
Nitesh Kripalani, director and country head, Amazon Prime Video India, said: “Our goal is to provide our customers with the best movies – be it local or international.”
Amazon India has supply deals with international companies including Lionsgate and the BBC and with local firms including Vishesh Films, T-Series and Dharma Productions. »
- Naman Ramachandran
‘Ghost in the Shell’ Tops Foreign Box Office With $41.3 Million
20 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
“Ghost in the Shell” is trying to find redemption overseas after bombing domestically.
The Japanese manga adaptation topped the foreign box office this weekend, taking in a leading $41.3 million from 46 markets. That brings the science-fiction adventure’s global haul to $124.4 million, a disappointing result given its $110 million production budget and the tens of millions spent marketing and distributing the picture. Some publications are conservatively estimating that “Ghost in the Shell” will end its run $60 million in the hole.
Paramount, Reliance, and DreamWorks backed the picture, which stars Scarlett Johansson as a cyber warrior. “Ghost in the Shell” did get a boost from China, where it opened to $21.4 million. Japanese audiences were less receptive. The film debuted to a modest $3.2 million. “Ghost in the Shell” received a social media shellacking for the producers’ decision to cast Johansson in a role originally written for an Asian performer. »
- Brent Lang
Film Review: ‘Born in China’
15 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
When you put the word “Disney” together with the word “nature,” it tends to call up images of something fuzzy and cuddly and anthropomorphically adorable — something, just maybe, too good to be true. “Born in China,” the new wildlife documentary from the studio’s Disneynature division, tells the story of three animal families — pandas, snow leopards, and golden snub-nosed monkeys — living in the colorful splendor of China’s sun-kissed mountains and woodlands. (There are also sideline excursions into tribes of antelope and red-crowned cranes.) The film, directed by Lu Chuan, has most of the qualities you remember from born-in-the-wilderness Disney docs going all the way back to “Beaver Valley” (1950): the narration so friendly and affectionate it just about grins (in this case John Krasinski reading lines like, “To them, this vast mountain range is just one rocky playground!”), the crystal-clear photography, the organizing of the life cycle into a benign kind of storybook fable, »
- Owen Gleiberman
New York State’s Film Production Incentive Gets Three-Year Extension
21 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
New York State’s newly approved budget, passed by the state senate nine days after the April 1 start of the fiscal year, includes a three-year extension of the Film Production Tax Credit program, the production incentive that has helped make New York — both state and city — a hotbed of production activity in recent years.
The overall $153.1 billion budget includes provisions for the three-year extension of a production incentives program that hadn’t been set to expire until 2019. As proposed by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, the new extension brings the expiration date up to 2022, reupping with $420 million per year to sustain a program that includes fully refundable tax credits of 30% on productions and post-production costs incurred in New York state, plus an additional 10% credit on projects with budgets of more than $500,000.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Proposes Production Incentive Extension
“This will ensure stability and predictability for television and »
- Gordon Cox
Kylie Jenner Spinoff Series ‘Life of Kylie’ Gets Greenlight at E!
34 minutes ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Kylie Jenner will star in and executive produce her own E! spinoff series called “The Life of Kylie,” the network announced Monday.
The show, which will debut this summer, will follow Jenner as she navigates her life as an entrepreneur, fashion designer, author, television and social media star, and CEO of Kylie Cosmetics. The show will also follow Jenner in her personal life, including spending time with her close friend Jordyn Woods.
This is the latest series centered around the Kardashian-Jenner clan for E!. Season 13 of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” is currently airing on the network. Others include “Rob & Chyna,” “Kourtney and Kim Take Miami,” and “I Am Cait.”
“The last couple years have been such an incredible journey with the support of my fans,” Jenner said. “This show will allow me to give them a peek inside all of the exciting things I am working on as well as some personal time with friends.”
In »
- Joe Otterson
United Slammed as ‘Disgusting’ After Man is Forcibly Dragged Off a Flight (Videos)
34 minutes ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Social media is ablaze after videos showing a man being forcibly dragged off a United Airlines flight went viral early Sunday night. A video posted by Audra D. Bridges shows three men wearing security jackets speaking with a man seated on the plane. After a few seconds, the men grab the passenger who begins to scream before being dragged by his arms toward the front of the plane. Other passengers are visibly shaken from the event. A United spokesperson told TheWrap in an email Monday morning that the passenger had been taken off the flight because it was overbooked and one customer refused. »
- Beatrice Verhoeven
‘Sense8’ Season 2 Trailer Shows Sensates on the Run (Video)
35 minutes ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
The sensates are still on the run in the first trailer for the Wachowskis’ “Sense8” Season 2, released by Netflix on Monday. Our cluster of eight international misfits are back and while we may not know exactly what they’re going to get up to in this upcoming season, we can see that their bond is stronger than ever. Viewers get a small art history lesson as well, as the trailer opens with a nod to Rembrandt and themes of “individuals setting aside their differences for the common good.” Also Read: 'Sense8' Star Jamie Clayton on Playing a Trans Character Well Past Transition: 'Nomi. »
- Carli Velocci
Asia Kate Dillon Petitioned the Emmys to Address Gender in Acting Category — and Won
43 minutes ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
“Billions” star Asia Kate Dillon will be eligible for awards this Emmy season under the “Outstanding Supporting Actor” category after a conversation with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences on the subject of gender identity. In an impassioned letter sent to the Academy, and obtained by TheWrap, Dillon — who identifies as gender non-binary and doesn’t fall into typical “male” and “female” categories — asked for the organization’s definitions of gender in order to submit for acting awards this season. Also Read: Stephen Colbert Pays a Special Tribute to Don Rickles (Video) Dillon was curious how the Academy defined gender, »
- Carli Velocci
FilmRise Buys Documentaries About Dog Rescuers, Multiple Personality Disorder (Exclusive)
44 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
FilmRise has acquired worldwide distribution rights to two documentaries from Ron Davis and his Docutainment Films: the dog rescue movie “Life in the Doghouse” and the dissociative identity disorder film “I Am We.”
Davis’ “Life in the Doghouse” is currently in production and chronicles the story of Danny Robertshaw and Ron Danta, who operate Danny & Ron’s Rescue, which has saved more than 10,000 abandoned dogs in the aftermath of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. Davis is planning a national impact campaign centered around dog rescue to support the release of the film, including a “Junior Changemakers” team to build a global movement. “Life in the Doghouse” is being executive produced by Geralyn Dreyfous.
Davis met the subjects of “Life in the Doghouse” when he became the proud owner of two dogs from Danny & Ron’s Rescue.
“I was completely inspired, not only by the work they do and how they do it, »
- Dave McNary
Isabelle Huppert Graces Official Poster of Kering/Cannes Film Festival’s ‘Women in Motion’
46 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Paris – French star Isabelle Huppert will be the face of the third edition of Women in Motion, the program launched by Francois Henry Pinault’s French luxury company Kering and backed by the Cannes Film Festival.
A program aimed at highlighting women’s achievement in film in front of and behind the camera, Women in Motion will run alongside the film festival, which this year celebrates its 70th anniversary.
The poster of the upcoming edition shows a glamorous portrait of Huppert, who just won a flurry of awards, including a Golden Globe and a Cesar prize, and an Oscar nomination for her performance in “Elle.” The portrait “draws on the aesthetics of the silver screen in a vibrant homage to the power of women in cinema,” said Kering.
Huppert has had a close relationship with Cannes for more than 30 years. She presided over the jury in 2009, and won best actress »
- Elsa Keslassy
'Blade Runner' Timeline Has Been Reached
1 hour ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
It seemed like such a long time into the future when Blade Runner was released in 1982, but today we reached an important date in the classic sci-fi film's timeline.
The main story of Blade Runner takes place in 2019 Los Angeles, but one of the replicants Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is tasked with "retiring," Leon Kowalski, was credited, or has the "incept date," April 10, 2017.
For those who can't remember, Leon was the replicant who violently escaped in the opening moments of the film after being asked about his mother, setting up that these androids were capable of murder.
Leon is also »
- Ryan Parker
At&T Teams With Tribeca Film Festival to Grant $1 Million to One ‘Underrepresented’ Filmmaker
1 hour ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
At&T, in partnership with the Tribeca Film Festival, is promising an aspiring filmmaker a hot $1 million to turn their dream project into a movie.
The multiyear “At&T Presents: Untold Stories” program is aimed at discovering scripted film projects from women and minorities — groups that historically have not been well-represented in Hollywood.
Tribeca and At&T have selected five finalists (listed below) for the inaugural program. The quintet of hopefuls will each have 10 minutes to pitch their ideas in New York on April 18 to a panel of industry judges, which will select the winner of the $1 million award and announce it at a lunch event immediately following.
The winning “Untold Stories” film will be presented as a world premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and then distributed — under a five-year license — across At&T’s video platforms, including DirecTV, DirecTV Now and and U-verse. The funding is intended to »
- Todd Spangler
‘The Voice’: Casi Joy is best singer on Team Blake Shelton from first two knockouts, say 50% of readers
1 hour ago | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
In the first two Knockout rounds of “The Voice” last week, coach Blake Shelton pitted two pairs of his artists against each other. He had to choose one singer in each duet to take on to the knockout rounds. And he stole one artist for his team from rival coach Gwen Stefani. His other four artists – Malik Davage, Mark Isaiah, Jesse Larson […] »
- Paul Sheehan
Watch the Trailers for All 8 Films in the 'Fast and the Furious' Franchise
1 hour ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
The Fast and the Furious franchise has brought fast cars and massive explosions to the big screen for 16 years.
The hit film series kicked off by following the street-racing adventures of Los Angeles cop Brian O’Connor (the late Paul Walker), after he enters the car-racing scene and meets Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel). Each movie has seen its share of box-office success, becoming Universal’s biggest franchise of all time with a nearly $3.9 billion total haul from all seven films combined.
The eighth movie, The Fate of the Furious, is set to hit theaters April 14 — with »
- Kara Haar
HBO’s John Oliver Slams Gerrymandering As ‘Stupid and Wrong’ (Video)
1 hour ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver spent much of Sunday’s show unpacking the term gerrymandering for viewers. Oliver called “democracy” the “best Greek import that doesn’t have fruit at the bottom” as he explained that Democrats love to complain about gerrymandering. Oliver then played a montage of political pundits saying that gerrymandering is the biggest threat to our democracy. Gerrymandering, as Oliver explained, allows lawmakers to reshape voting districts to shift the balance of political power, which can be a major problem for a democracy. “Slow down, that is a bit much. The biggest threat to »
- Brian Flood
Emmys: Final ‘Girls’ Season Makes a Strong Case in Heated Comedy Categories
1 hour ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
HBO’s “Girls” has maintained a modest presence at the Emmys ever since the program’s big coming-out in 2012 and 2013, when it scooped up two nominations in a row for outstanding comedy series. Adam Driver has shown up consistently in the supporting actor category, while guest stars like Gaby Hoffman and Peter Scolari have been recognized as well. But the show has mostly struggled to reach those early heights again.
That could change with the sixth and final season, which has made for the richest portrait of Lena Dunham’s world yet.
You may well have bailed by now, whether the creator’s outsized activist footprint overshadowed the series, or her various characters’ descent into their own navels made it seem like there was no light at the end of the tunnel. But it’s time to catch up. Things were already on the upswing with season five, and now, with »
- Kristopher Tapley
Paramount, Amazon India Strike Licensing Deal
1 hour ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Amazon Prime Video India has inked a streaming deal with Paramount Pictures for such titles as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Star Trek Beyond and 10 Cloverfield Lane.
In addition to these recent releases, the pact also covers the studio's library franchises, such as Transformers, Indiana Jones, Mission: Impossible, as well as DreamWorks Animation franchises such as Madagascar, Shrek and Kung Fu Panda.
“Our goal is to deliver our content to viewers how and when they want it and Amazon Prime Video offers an exceptional platform for fans to enjoy new and favorite films »
- Nyay Bhushan
'The Oa' Breakout Patrick Gibson on His "Mad" 2017 (And It’s Only April)
1 hour ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
Netflix’s surreal sci-fi eight-parter The Oa proved to be a talking point for many reasons. While much of the conversation may have focused on the somewhat head-scratching nature of the plot, there was a sizeable amount of interest in Patrick Gibson, the young Irish actor playing Steve Winchell, a troubled bully who finds an unlikely connection with Brit Marling’s blind protagonist Prairie Johnson.
But although The Oa — which has been renewed for season two — may be considered the 21-year-old’s “breakout moment,” it’s not the only project threatening to thrust Gibson »
- Alex Ritman
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