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Richard Linklater's Apollo 10 : A Space Age Childhood is a fantastic animated film that ranks among the most underrated movies of the 2020s. An icon of American independent cinema, Linklater has been one of the world's greatest filmmakers for the past thirty-plus years. Linklater's latest film, the action romantic comedy Hit Man, has earned critical acclaim while dominating Netflix as one of the streaming service's most-watched films since its debut on June 7th. Due to Linklater's insistence on predominantly working on low-budget independent movies, his films have rarely achieved the box office status they deserve. Sadly, Linklater is one of many world-renowned auteurs who have struggled to finance his films in recent years. As a result, Linklater has struck distribution deals with Netflix for his previous two projects, Hit Man and Apollo 10 : A Space Age Childhood. However, whereas Hit Man has been a massive success, Apollo 10 : A...

Hakan Günday and Onur Saylak, the writer-director team behind hit Turkish series “Persona,” have signed with CAA for representation.

The highest-rated show in Turkey, “Persona” premiered its first season in 2018 and production on the highly-anticipated Season 2 recently wrapped. It will air on Turkish streaming platform Gain later this year.

“Persona,” or “Şahsiyet” as it is known in Turkey, follows Agâh, a retired 65-year-old judicial clerk, who crosses paths with Nevra, the only woman police officer in Istanbul’s homicide office. When Agâh is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, he sees an opportunity to commit a murder that he has been planning for years, knowing that he will not remember or feel remorse for it. Meanwhile, Nevra, on the verge of resignation due to her colleagues’ misogynistic behavior, will be forever changed by Agâh’s crime.

Günday began his career as an author and has penned nine books, three films and two series.

[October 20, 2023] Today, Grammy® Award-winning and chart-topping artist/producer duo The Chainsmokers have completed their 2023 release package, Summertime Friends, with the release of their new song “Think Of Us” featuring rising English singer Gracey. The track comes paired with a visualizer, which was directed and edited by Tony Tacheny.

A culmination of their singles this year so far, Summertime Friends includes the project’s title track as well as their explosive collaborations this year: “See You Again” with Illenium and Carlie Hansen, “The Jungle” with Alok and Mae Stephens, “Self Destruction Mode” with bludnymph, “Up & Down” with 347aidan, “My Bad” with Shenseea, and “Celular” with Nicky Jam and Maluma. With these tracks, The Chainsmokers were able to revisit one of their favorite ways to create music, which is working with some of the most exciting voices in music today. Collectively, these songs have already accumulated over 125 million combined streams to date.

2023 was...

The episode of Wtf Really Happened to This Horror Movie covering Black Water was Written and Narrated by Andrew Hatfield, Edited by Mike Conway, Produced by Lance Vlcek and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

Animal attack movies have been quite a lucrative genre for a very long time. Obviously, Jaws is the beginning and the end of the conversation but there’s so much more. Grizzlies, whales, dogs, you name it have been the focal point of horror films and will continue to be there with things like Cocaine Bear, The Meg 2, and others infiltrating theaters on a yearly basis. Most of these, of course, are fictional accounts like Stephen King giving us Cujo or any number of other on-screen animals gone wild. There are, however, the rare account that is based on a true story and today is one of those cases. Alligators and crocodiles...

A boxing legend is getting their story told on screen in an exclusive Big George Foreman clip. Helmed by The Hate U Give's George Tillman Jr., the film chronicles Foreman's life and career as a star boxer who overcame his poor childhood, and his initial retirement after a devastating loss and championship return a decade later. Khris Davis leads the cast of Big George Foreman in the titular role alongside Jasmine Matthews, John Magaro, Sullivan Jones, Lawrence Gilliared Jr., Sonja Sohn, and Forest Whitaker.

In honor of the film becoming available on premium video-on-demand, Screen Rant is proud to present an exclusive Big George Foreman clip.

The video, featured above, is a behind-the-scenes featurette with star Davis highlighting the resilience of the eponymous boxer as he rose up from a poverty-ridden childhood to becoming one of the most iconic names in the sport.

How Big George Foreman Fares Against Other...

Brendan Fraser is best known for his physical performances in popular comedies like The Mummy and George of The Jungle, but in a recent interview, The Whale star broke down the effect his early career performances had on his body and mind.

“I got a little banged up from years of doing my own stunts and needed a surgical fix on the spine and the hinges,” he told The Telegraph.

The actor went on to have a series of surgical procedures including a partial knee replacement to repair his body.

“That took a lot out of me. I knew I would get better, but it took a long time,” he said.

Fraser continued to say that in 2007 while shooting a third Mummy movie in China, every morning, he would wake up and put himself “together like a gladiator with muscle tape and ice packs, strapping on this Transformer-like exoskeleton just to get through the scene.

A League of Their Own is a pretty darn perfect movie. The Penny Marshall-directed film from 1992, about the women recruited to play professional baseball while so many men were off fighting World War II, is a crackerjack sports movie, a winning ensemble comedy, and a well-hit drama about female empowerment in an era when the concept seemed utterly foreign. It’s got all-star performances by Geena Davis, Tom Hanks (it’s the role that kicked off his Hall of Fame run in the Nineties), Madonna (never better as an actor), and more.

Jodie Comer is set to make her UK stage debut in the premiere of Suzie Miller’s play Prima Facie.

The Killing Eve star will play Tessa in this one-person play, a young, brilliant barrister who loves to win and has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game, prosecuting, cross-examining and lighting up the shadows of doubt in any case. An unexpected event forces here to confront the lines where patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and morals diverge.

Prima Facie is directed by Justin Martin and performances begin on Friday April 15 at the Harold Pinter Theatre for a strict limited 9-week season.

Comer has most recently starred in 20th Century Studios’ Free Guy and The Last Duel, directed by Ridley Scott. She first hit the international scene with her role in Killing Eve. Next year she’s reunited...

The Suicide Squad unsurprisingly came in at number one at this weekend's box office after bringing in $26.5 million. James Gunn's long-awaited movie featuring some of DC Comics' stable of villains was able to break a record for the highest-earning R-rated opening during the pandemic. With that being said, the opening is also a franchise worst. The Suicide Squadis currently streaming on HBO Max, which most definitely stole some box office thunder, but several analysts are pointing to another reason why the latest DC movie is underperforming and a lot of it has to do with the first time the characters were introduced on the big screen.

David Ayer's Suicide Squad (2016) was a box office monster, earning $746.8 million worldwide. However, it was panned by fans and critics. The decision to bring James Gunn on board to revamp the villains has been deemed a great choice by the studio, but...

Walt Disney gave a copy of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book to one of his writers and said: "The first thing to do is not to read it." (As per Art and Animation: From Mickey Mouse to Hercules by Bob Thomas.) So from this alone, it's clear that Disney's final movie was intended to not be a loyal adaptation to Kipling's novels.

Related: 10 Reasons The Jungle Book Is Disney's Best Live-Action Remake

This is understandable, as the original book had a number of tales and characters, and is darker and more sinister than the light-hearted animation audiences know and love. From character changes to character cutting, there were a number of changes made from the original book when making this beloved animated classic.

Shere Khan in The Jungle Book Photo: Disney It was International Tiger Day yesterday, so we're earning our stripes this week with a Streaming Spotlight dedicated to these Asian big cats. The animals are still under global threat, with their numbers dropping by more than 95 per cent since the beginning of the 20th Century according to the WWF, although they are now, thankfully on the rise again - and if you're looking for a film charting conservation efforts, Tigerland is well worth watching, although sadly not currently available to stream. You can read more about International Tiger Day on the WWF website.

The Jungle Book, Disney+

Surely the Goat of cinematic tigers, Shere Khan first prowled his way into the hearts of a generation of children with the 1967 Disney animation - and he was given a whole new lease of silky menace by Idris Elba in this live-action remake. "Live...

Disney Parks has announced that they are going to overhaul the iconic Jungle Cruise ride because of its "negative depictions" of cultures. Many have criticized the ride for years, claiming that it presents a racist view of indigenous people. The Jungle Cruise is one of Disneyland's oldest rides and was personally overseen by Walt Disney. The news comes after it was announced that they intend to overhaul Splash Mountain because of its connections to the controversial 1946 movie Song of the South.

Disney officials say that their "Imagineers are constantly looking for opportunities to enhance experiences," which in this case, means they're making some big changes to the Jungle Cruise ride. "When it comes to updating classic attractions, they employ a very careful and thoughtful approach," Disney officials said in a statement. "In this particular case, Imagineers created a storyline that builds upon what people love the most while addressing negative depictions simultaneously.

Duke Bootee, the pioneering rapper who co-wrote and appeared on Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s classic “The Message” — Number One on Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time — died Wednesday at the age of 69.

Born Edward Fletcher, the rapper died at his home in Savannah, Georgia. The cause was end-stage congestive heart failure, his wife, Rosita, confirmed to Rolling Stone.

Fletcher served as a member of Sugar Hill Records’ house band alongside fellow New Jersey funk veterans like bassist Doug Wimbish, guitarist Skip Alexander,...

Zz Top’s Billy Gibbons will livestream his sixth annual all-star Jungle Show concert from Austin, Texas, this New Year’s Eve.

For the past four years, Gibbons has convened this once-a-year blues supergroup with Jimmie Vaughan, Mike Flanigin, Sue Foley, and Chris Layton to play a couple of special gigs at Antone’s in Austin. While this year’s event will be virtual, the band will still be performing at Antone’s, and the show will air at 8 p.m. in various time zones around the world, including Et...

Brought to life by a stellar cast of A-listers, David Fincher's Golden Era-styled Netflix drama, Mank, hops back and forth in time to develop a rounded picture of its troubled genius subject, screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman). A love letter to the early days of Hollywood showbiz, the black-and-white film mostly follows the development of Citizen Kane. But how much of Mank is based on a true story, and how much of it is proverbial movie magic? While there's the occasional Hollywood flourish here and there, much of Mank is rooted in reality.

Did Mankiewicz Write Citizen Kane at a Ranch?

Early in the film, Mankiewicz, an established critic-turned-screenwriter, emerges from a car accident. He ends up at a quiet ranch in Victorville, CA, with a secretary named Rita Alexander (Lily Collins), who helps him type up the script for Citizen Kane. Filmmaker Orson Welles (Tom Burke) occasionally phones...

There are just a handful of independent production companies with three or more half-hour series currently on U.S. television. One of them could surprise you: It’s Australian indie Jungle Entertainment, owned by CEO Jason Burrows, director Trent O’Donnell, writer Phil Lloyd and COO Chloe Rickard.

They are behind CBS All Access’ first original comedy series No Activity, Fox’s family comedy The Moodys and FX’s half-hour comedy-drama Mr. Inbetween. Additionally, a series by O’Donnell and Lloyd became Comedy Central’s 2014 Review. All four shows have run multiple seasons; three are American versions of the Jungle team’s Australian series, and one, Mr. Inbetween, is the actual Australian series airing on FX in the U.S.

The Moodys and Mr. Inbetween were recently renewed for another season. A third season of No Activity also in the works; it has already been written. While not formally greenlighted, the...

Joerg Winger, the creator of hit German drama Deutschland 83, is stepping down as managing of UFA Fiction to launch a drama label that will sit within the Fremantle-backed production company.

Winger has established Big Window Productions, which will focus on bringing stories from Berlin to a global audience. He will be managing director of the new venture and his team will include Sebastian Werninger and Philipp Driessen.

Winger said: “At Big Window we are concentrating on a small portfolio of extraordinary stories with high entertainment value, often inspired by real events. The core of our work is focused on intensive development. Our international team’s cultural diversity opens up new perspectives and conversations for the German landscape.”

Development projects include French-German series Ouija with Thomas Bourguignon’s Kwaï for France Télévision and The Jungle (working title), about a Covid-19 outbreak at a slaughterhouse, for WarnerMedia Germany-backed TNT Serie.

It...

Online edition reportedly generated 280 one-on-one meetings.

FIDLab, the project development platform of France’s International Film Festival FIDMarseille, has unveiled the winners of its online edition which took place July 6-10.

The jury was comprised of Fiorella Moretti, founding co-chief of Paris-based sales company LuxBox; Matthijs Wouter Knol, the outgoing director of the European Film Market and Cannes Directors’ Fortnight delegate general Paolo Moretti. They awarded nine different in-kind prizes provided by 11 FIDlab partners to the mostly hybrid projects.

Us artist Sharon Lockhart won the Air France award (of two long-haul flights) for her documentary project Baumettes, capturing the life...

Audible, the Amazon-owned company with the world’s largest audiobook library has introduced a new, free service aimed at kids (and adults!) who want to brush up on some reading while they’re stuck indoors.

The program is called Audible Stories, and it’s impressively easy to use. There’s no membership (Audible, Amazon, or otherwise) to sign up for, no fees, and no limits on the amount of books you can stream. To access the library, use this link, and you’ll be taken to the Audible Stories home page.

Exclusive: Former Mozart in the Jungle and Coco star Gael García Bernal is set to recur in HBO Max’s Station Eleven, a 10-episode post-apocalyptic drama limited series based on the international bestseller by Emily St. John Mandel, from Maniac creator Patrick Somerville and Paramount TV.

Written and executive produced by Somerville, Station Eleven is a post-apocalyptic saga spanning multiple timelines. It tells the stories of survivors of a devastating flu as they attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew while holding on to the best of what’s been lost.

Bernal will play Arthur, a famous actor from a small island off the coast of Mexico.

Somerville also will serve as showrunner. Hiro Murai directs and executive produces with Somerville, Scott Steindorff, Scott Delman, Dylan Russell and Jeremy Podeswa. Nate Matteson will serve as co-ep. Paramount TV is the studio.

Bernal won a Golden Globe Award for his...

Chris Longo Dec 31, 2019

Ready to enter the fifth dimension? We have the Twilight Zone New Year's Marathon schedule right here.

The Twilight Zone is as timeless as infinity. In this dimension, 2019 was a special year for the iconic sci-fi anthlogy as it marked the series' 60th anniversary. We may be entering a new decade, but Rod Serling will be there to greet us once more with the annual New Year's Twilight Zone marathon on Syfy.

The marathon begins on Tuesday, Dec. 31st at 6:00 a.m. with "One For The Angels" and concludes on Thursday, Jan. 2nd at 3:30 a.m. with "A Piano in the House."

This time of year is always special in The Twilight Zone. Rod Serling was born on Christmas Day in 1924. The New Year's Marathon is just one of the many ways Serling's legacy lives on. Earlier this year, his daughter, Anne, wrote in an...

Zz Top’s Billy Gibbons will reunite with Jimmie Vaughan, Mike Flanigin, Sue Foley and Chris Layton for their fourth straight Jungle Show, set to take place December 27th and 28th at Antone’s in Austin, Texas.

The idea for the once-a-year supergroup came about four years ago when Gibbons and Flanigin, an Austin-based organist, were tapped to perform at the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame’s induction of B.B. King. By that point, most of King’s staples had been picked up by other artists, so the pair...

I've been in this entertainment racket long enough to see some strange and incredible things on film and TV sets. I've walked through a "torture chamber," watched Pennywise have a friendly chat with the crew, and strolled through a few stunning full-scale spaceships over the years, but I can safely say I've never been on a set quite like The Lion King. That's because it wasn't really a "set" at all, but a warehouse full of groundbreaking technology, where filmmaker Jon Favreau and his crew (many returning from their previous collaboration on The Jungle …...

While the Drama Desk Awards nominate a slew of off-Broadway fare, the winners invariably come from Broadway. That was once again the case on Sunday when all but one of the 16 champs in the musical races were Broadway productions while it was 8 of 12 on the play side.

This love of all things Broadway even extended to “Hadestown,” which was only in contention for new elements such as cast members after having contended here previously for it Off-Broadway run. It won four awards: Director (Rachel Chavkin), Featured Actor in a Musical (Andre De Shields), Lighting Design, and Sound Design.

One of its main rivals for Best Musical at the Tony Awards is “Tootsie,” which claimed victories for Best Actor (Santino Fontana), Book, Music, and Lyrics. But it was another contender, “The Prom,” that swooped in and claimed Best Musical despite losing all of its other bids.

The all Yiddish production of...

The winners for the 64th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced Sunday night with Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman winning for Outstanding Play and The Prom taking home the trophy for Outstanding Musical.

Other big winners for the night included The Waverly Gallery and Fidder on the Roof winning for Outstanding Revival of a Play and Outstanding Revival of a Musical respectively. Dance Nation received a special Ensemble Award while Montana Levi Blanco was honored with the Sam Norkin Award.

The ceremony was hosted by Michael Urie and took place at at The Town Hall in Manhattan. The evening included performances by Drama Desk nominee George Salazar (Be More Chill) who was accompanied by composer/lyricist and Drama Desk nominee Joe Iconis. Other performers included Drama Desk nominees Stacey Sargeant and Andrew R. Butler (Rags Parkland) and Drama Desk and Tony®Award winner Lillias White who sang the In Memoriam.

Metrics can be a devil indeed.

Twitter, for instance, said as part of its recent earnings announcement that it would stop reporting its monthly active user headcount. Understandable, given that its MAUs keep dropping as the company dumps millions of nefarious, fake, and dead accounts. Instead, in a letter to shareholders, Twitter said it will report a number that's actually growing, monetizable daily active users.

Apple did something of the same thing last fall, telling distressed shareholders it would no longer report iPhone unit sales, which have plateaued in the maturing mobile sector. To its credit, Apple will instead will focus on reporting revenues, which literally are the bottom line, rather than the funny-money of some social-media metrics.

Which brings us to Facebook, scorched again this week by an official British investigation that deemed it a "digital gangster" (gotta love the Brits' lively way with the mother tongue), setting...

Exclusive: After acclaimed and sold-out runs in London and New York, current-events-based play The Jungle will have its West Coast premiere at the storied Curran Theater in San Francisco this spring.

Carole Shorenstein Hays and Sonia Friedman Productions with Tom Kirdahy made the announcement. The Jungle was written by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson and is directed by Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin.

The Good Chance Theatre, National Theatre and Young Vic production dramatizes the conditions and cross-cultural blending of refugees from various nations at a sprawling camp in Calais, France, known as the Jungle. The immersive production brings the audience close to the men, women and children fleeing war and persecution as they form unlikely bonds and find warmth despite the dangerous and squalid setting.

Miriam Buether’s award-winning set design debuted in the West End production and traveled to St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. A similar transformation...

Box office returns in Italy dropped about 5% to €555 million ($631 million) in 2018, posting their worst result in a decade as Hollywood blockbusters drew in fewer Italian moviegoers than usual.

On the bright side, Italian films gained traction last year, scoring a 22% market share, up from 16% in 2017, marking the second-best showing in the past four years, according to box office analyst Robert Bernocchi. He said that this surpassed the results for homegrown pics in Spain and Germany, which clocked in at about 17% and 18%, respectively.

U.S. films in 2018 nabbed a total of €330 million ($375 million), accounting for 60% of Italy’s market share. That’s a solid result, but roughly six percentage points lower than in 2017, fueling the country’s overall box office drop. The year’s top grosser was Fox’s international hit “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which has pulled in more than €21 million ($23 million), and counting.

Italian ticket sales in 2018 were just shy of 86 million,...

Swiss director Matthias Huser, whose 2014 Kaurismaki-ish debut, “They Chased Me Through Arizona” drew fans at Locarno, is with his 8horses producer Tolga Dilsiz participating in Ventana Sur’s project section, where the two are looking to court potential co-producers on their upcoming feature, “The Jungle.”

At September’s San Sebastian Festival, the project won the Co-production Forum’s Eurimages Development Award. The win followed a San Sebastián Festival where the Swiss production collective 8horses also had the European première of “The Innocent,” screening in main competition.

“The Jungle” is the story of a dying Swiss hippie who decades before moved to the Honduran rainforest in an attempt to protect the land from corporate and industrial interests. His now-adult daughter will return to the land and the home where she grew up, to see her father before he dies.

The two will struggle with long-dormant issues in their relationship, as well...

Production is underway on Disney's upcoming live-action Star Wars series, and the studio has debuted a first look image along with a list of impressive directors! As we learned yesterday, titled The Mandalorian, the upcoming series witness the emergence of a new warrior in the Star Wars universe after the stories of Jango and Boba Fett, following a long gunfighter to the outer reaches of the galaxy. In a bit of an unusual move, we're getting a first look at the gunman before we know the actor who's underneath the mask. Iron Man and The Jungle …...

San Sebastian — Pablo Fendrik’s “Hermano Peligro,” Jayro Bustamante’s “La Llorona,” Matthias Huser’s “The Jungle” and Clara Roquet’s “Libertad” took one prize a piece at San Sebastian’s 7th Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, which wrapped Wednesday night.

Meanwhile, “The Sharks,” the first feature of Uruguay’s Lucia Garibaldi, swept San Sebastian’s Films in Progress.

While awards in the past have sometimes gone to little-known projects, this year saw plaudits shared by four of the strongest projects at the market in terms of director reknown, prestige producer backing or even, in the case of “La Llorona,” a sales market deal.

Winner of the Co-production Forum Best Project Award, “Hermano Peligro,” for instance, comes from a director. Pablo Fendrik, whose first three films, “The Mugger,” “Blood Appears” and “Ardor” have all been selected for the Cannes Festival, before he went on to co-direct two of the most distinguished...

After years of producing films, Styler has directed Freak Show, starring The Imitation Game’s Alex Lawther as a flamboyantly queer Texan teenager. But why does he get no action?

It’s early on a Tuesday morning. A car pulls up outside a north London members’ club. “Trudie is arriving!” someone calls. A small delegation goes out on to the pavement to meet her. “Trudie” is Trudie Styler. In a black beret with a little star on the front, the 64-year-old resembles an upmarket Wolfie Smith. The website of her film production company, Maven Pictures, tells us that she is “an award-winning and prolific film producer, director, environmentalist, human rights activist and Unicef ambassador”. She also has everyone’s personal number and has homes everywhere and is married to Sting and, no, we are not here to discuss their extended tantric sex sessions in which climax can be delayed for up to three weeks,...

“Lady and the Tramp” is getting a live action reboot! According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 1955 animated Disney classic is set to be made into a live action/CG hybrid for Disney’s upcoming digital streaming service. The remake will be directed by “The Lego Ninjago Movie” director Charlie Bean and produced by Brigham Taylor, who worked on “The Jungle...

Black Panther reaches $700m worldwide.Show Fullscreen

February 26 Update: Dante Lam’s rescue thriller Operation Red Sea had too much even for Black Panther in the latter’s second weekend, as it grossed $107m in China to propel the international running total to $334.6m.

China Box Office

Detective Chinatown 2 used an $80m weekend to reach $417.7m, while Monster Hunt 2 added $33.5m for $323.4m. The Monkey King 3: Kingdom Of Women grossed $7.6m for $109.8m.

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Update: Marvel Studios’ box office smash Black Panther has soared to $708.9m worldwide by the end of its second weekend as the international arena delivered a further $85.1m to boost the tally to $305.3m.

The film held at number one in most of its markets and debuted in Russia on $1.6m, rising to $2.6m including previews. It also arrived in Vietnam on $1.6m in the fifth highest industry debut, while $700,000 in Trinidad & Tobago delivered the highest debut in history...

Black Panther reaches $700m worldwide.Show Fullscreen

Dante Lam’s rescue thriller Operation Red Sea had too much even for Black Panther in the latter’s second weekend, as it grossed $107m in China to propel the international running total to $334.6m.

China Box Office

Detective Chinatown 2 used an $80m weekend to reach $417.7m, while Monster Hunt 2 added $33.5m for $323.4m. The Monkey King 3: Kingdom Of Women grossed $7.6m for $109.8m.

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International

Marvel Studios’ box office smash Black Panther has soared to $700m by the end of its second weekend as the international arena delivered a further $83.8m to boost the tally to $304m.

The film held at number one in most of its markets and debuted in Russia on $1.6m, rising to $2.6m including previews. It also arrived in Vietnam on $1.6m in the fifth highest industry debut, while $700,000 in Trinidad & Tobago delivered the highest debut in history.

The UK remains...

Black Panther reaches $700m worldwide.Show Fullscreen

Dante Lam’s rescue thriller Operation Red Sea had too much even for Black Panther in the latter’s second weekend, as it grossed $107m in China to propel the international running total to $334.6m.

China Box Office

Detective Chinatown 2 used an $80m weekend to reach $417.7m, while Monster Hunt 2 added $33.5m for $323.4m. The Monkey King 3: Kingdom Of Women grossed $7.6m for $109.8m.

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International

Marvel Studios’ box office smash Black Panther has soared to $700m by the end of its second weekend as the international arena delivered a further $83.8m to boost the tally to $304m.

The film held at number one in most of its markets and debuted in Russia on $1.6m, rising to $2.6m including previews. It also arrived in Vietnam on $1.6m in the fifth highest industry debut, while $700,000 in Trinidad & Tobago delivered the highest debut in history.

The UK remains...

Director Jon Favreau and writer Justin Marks are currently in the process of developing the script for The Jungle Book 2 for Disney. During a recent interview with /Film, Marks offered up some details on where they are getting their ideas for the sequel. One of the cool things that he reveals is that they dove into the Disney archives and pulled out a bunch of unused ideas for the original 1967 animated film and they are going to implement them into their story. Those ideas come from a script that Walt Disney rejected.

"In the second film, the idea is to go further through the Kipling but also go into some of the Disney resources from the ’67 film that maybe didn’t get to see the light of day in the first film. If you look back to Bill Peet’s work on the original film, some of which was thrown out by Walt Disney,...

Simon Brew Jan 16, 2018

It's become a surprise commercial and critical hit - so what has the new Jumanji film got right?

Spoilers lie ahead for Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle.

Over the weekend, I was back at my local multiplex to see the quite wonderful Coco. On the way in, I saw the manager of said picture palace, and we had a bit of a chat. He’s a friendly man, and just the kind of manager you want: always checks that everyone’s okay, is there if anything goes wrong.

He’s also good for a bit of insider chat, too. And we got talking about Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle.

I don’t think I was alone in inwardly sighing when I first learned of a reboot/sequel to Jumanji. I don’t hold massive affection for the original (although I thought Zathura was great), but still enjoyed it.

From the director of such nondescript horror films as The Reef and Black Water comes another nondescript horror film called The Jungle. Eager conservationist Larry Black (Rupert Reid) has a love for leopards that makes his wife cringe with jealousy. So, when he hears about the sighting of an elusive and endangered Javan Leopard, Larry and his cameraman friend hop on a flight to Java to find and tag the feline.

Once there, Larry teams up with guides Adi (Igusti Budianthika) and Budi (Agoes W Soedjarwo) to lead him through the thick jungle in search of the leopard. But Larry et al get more than they bargained for when the Javan Leopard they thought they were hunting turns out to be the legendary “forest demon.” And Larry’s adventurous urges lead them all into danger as they try to prove its existence.

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For the week of June 24th, there are a handful of cult classic releases that are finally getting their due on DVD and Blu-ray, including the long-lost Monsters from Beyond the Sun by Francis Ford Coppola. Other releases this week include Wolf Creek 2, The Jungle from writer/director Andrew Traucki (The Reef, The ABC’s of Death) and season 4 of Lost Girl. We’re also seeing the home release of Enemy, the latest collaboration between Dennis Villeneuve and Jake Gyllenhaal, several indie horror thrillers and the UK is bringing Bloody Birthday to hi-def this week as well.

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Bloody Birthday- UK Release (Import, Blu-ray)

Get ready for the rarely seen slasher classic from the 80s that may also be the most disturbing killer kids movies in grindhouse history: Three babies are simultaneously born in the same hospital at the peak of a full solar eclipse. Ten years later,...

Andrew Traucki returns to nature for inspiration for his latest film The Jungle, a film that caps a sort of unofficial trilogy he began with Black Water, continued with The Reef and caps with this film which hits DVD June 24th (tomorrow!). We have an exclusive clip to share with you which you can now watch here. In the film, a team of conservationists sets out to explore the dense Indonesian rainforest in search of a rare leopard. But the deeper into the jungle they journey, the more nervous the group’s native guides become – local legend has it that a deadly werewolf-like creature roams the lands.

The post Exclusive Clip: Something Awaits In The Jungle appeared first on Shock Till You Drop.

The release of Andrew Traucki’s (The Reef, Black Water) next tale of terror, The Jungle, is on the horizon; and right now we have an exclusive clip for you cats! Look for the film on DVD via Entertainment One on June 24th.

Rupert Reid and Agoes Widjaya Soedjarwo star.

Synopsis

A team of conservationists sets out to explore the dense Indonesian rainforest in search of the legendary javan leopard. But the deeper into the jungle they journey, the more nervous the group’s native guides become – local legend has it that a deadly werewolf-like creature roams the dense jungle. Determined to complete their mission, the expeditionists venture farther into the darkening forest, only to discover they are being stalked by an unseen predator: one that has no fear of humans.

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We've been talking about Andrew Traucki’s (The Reef, Black Water) next tale of terror, The Jungle, since 2012 and now we finally have some distro news for you cats! Look for it on DVD via Entertainment One on June 24th.

Rupert Reid and Agoes Widjaya Soedjarwo star.

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A team of conservationists sets out to explore the dense Indonesian rainforest in search of the legendary javan leopard. But the deeper into the jungle they journey, the more nervous the group’s native guides become – local legend has it that a deadly werewolf-like creature roams the dense jungle. Determined to complete their mission, the expeditionists venture farther into the darkening forest, only to discover they are being stalked by an unseen predator: one that has no fear of humans.

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Andrew Traucki's latest film, The Jungle, will see a DVD release from eOne on June 24th. In the final film in director Andrew Traucki's "trilogy of terror", following The Reef and Black Water, a team of conservationists sets out to explore the dense Indonesian rainforest in search of the legendary javan leopard. But the deeper into the jungle they journey, the more nervous the group's native guides become - local legend has it that a deadly werewolf-like creature roams the dense jungle.

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Do you live in Australia (lucky bastards) and plan on attending Monster Fest? More importantly, if you are attending Monster Fest and plan on seeing Andrew Traucki's latest film The Jungle, would you like to do so for free? Then have we got a deal for you!All you have to do is send our contact Down Under, Simon, your answer to a mind-boggling skill-testing question below. Simon will then write your name on an individual boomerang, throw all of them at once and the first five to come back will win a double pass to the screening on Saturday, November 23 at 7:30 p.m. You can pick up your double pass at the door the night of the screening. You just have to identify which...

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Writer Lee Gambin calls them Natural Horror films, other writers call them Revenge of Nature or Nature Run Amok films and writer Charles Derry considers them a type of Apocalyptic Cinema.

Of course we’re speaking of one of the great horror subgenres for which we’ll employ writer Kim Newman’s tag: The Revolt of Nature.

Since the end of the 1990s, lovers of animal attack films have been subjected to copious amounts of uninspired Nu Image, Syfy Channel and Syfy Channel-like dreck like Silent Predators (1999), Maneater (2007) Croc (2007), Grizzly Rage (2007) and a stunning amount of terrible shark attack films to name a few that barely scratch the surface of a massive list.

These movies fail miserably to capture the intensity of the unforgettable films they are imitating and the recent wave seems to carry with it the intent of giving the Revolt of Nature horror film a bad name.

Ready for another suspense thriller? Well, I’m sure all Andrew Traucki fans out there are pretty excited about his upcoming The Jungle, but unfortunately, when it comes to release date – the only info we have is July/August 2013. Still, the good thing is that (at least) we have this new trailer to share, hope you’ll enjoy… So, in 2007, you feared the swamp. In 2010, you feared the ocean. This time – the fear is real, ’cause every habitat has a natural predator, and as you’re about to see – this place is definitely not natural. The Jungle is the third film in Traucki’s...

Some 20 minutes of Patrick, director Mark Hartley.s re-imagining of Richard Franklin.s 1978 Australian psychological thriller, was screened for Us and international distributors at the Cannes Film Market.

Producer Antony I. Ginnane was pleased with the feedback and is hoping the film will be selected for the Toronto International Film Festival in October, which he believes would be the launch pad for a raft of sales.

In Cannes the international sales agent Bankside Films sold the pic, which stars Charles Dance, Sharni Vinson and Rachel Griffiths, to distributors in Turkey and the Middle East. Patrick will premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival in July and will open in cinemas in October via Umbrella Entertainment.

Ginnane produced the original, which starred Robert Helpmann, Susan Penhaligon and Robert Thompson. It was a breakthrough for the producer as it was snapped up by theatrical distributors worldwide. It made a ton of money...

Lightning Entertainment, the Santa Monica-based sales, production and distribution company, has acquired international rights to the hit South by Southwest Film Festival comedy, Gus, starring Michelle Monaghan (Source Code, Gone Baby Gone) Radha Mitchell (Olympus Has Fallen, Silent Hill) and Michael Weston (Fox’s “House,” HBO’s “Six Feet Under”), it was announced today by Robert Beaumont, President of Lightning.

The film, which premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival to rave reviews in March, marks the feature film debut of Jessie McCormack, who directed from her own script.

McCormack is also a producer alongside Kathryn Himoff, Kevin Fitzmaurice Comer and Erik Van Wyck. The film is executive produced by Richard N. Gladstein (Finding Neverland, The Cider House Rules, The Bourne Identity). The deal was negotiated by Lightning Entertainment’s Joseph Dickstein and ICM Partners on behalf of the filmmakers. ICM Partners represents Monaghan and Mitchell and is also...

Jonathan Lapaglia and Luke Hemsworth are joining The Reckoning, a film from Lightning Entertainment. The film will be directed John V. Soto (Crush). Hemsworth, much like the third Manning brother, is the lesser known of the Hemsworth clan, that has Thor and Gale as the other members. Lapaglia is the son of Without A Trace star Anthony Lapaglia. Check the press release for more deets on the film.

Los Angeles – Jonathan Lapaglia and Luke Hemsworth will star in the crime thriller The Reckoning, written and to be directed by John V. Soto (Needle, Crush), it was announced today by Robert Beaumont, President of Lightning Entertainment who is set to handle International sales rights to the film.

The Reckoning will start principal photography on April 29th on location in Australia. Deidre Kitcher (Needle, Crush) is producing. Robert Lundberg, Greg Coote, David Calvert-Jones, Roger Savill and Kim Savill will executive produce the film.