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Rita Ora and Sterling K. Brown have signed on to ‘Voltron’.The 34-year-old singer and the ‘This Is Us’ actor, 48, are set to join Henry Cavill, John Kim and Daniel Quinn-Toye in ‘Red Notice’ filmmaker Rawson Marshall Thurber’s blockbuster for Amazon MGM Studios.Although exact plot details are being kept under wraps, the upcoming movie will be a live-action adaptation of the beloved mecha anime show ‘Voltron: Defender of the Universe’, which followed a battalion known as the Robot Lions and their teenage pilots as they attempted to defeat the evil King Zarkon and take over the Galra Empire. As well as directing ‘Voltron’, Thurber is set to produce the picture alongside Todd Lieberman (Hidden Pictures) Bob Koplar (World Events Productions) and David Hoberman (Hobie Films).The ‘Central Intelligence’ filmmaker recently teased his ‘Voltron’ flick would “stay true to the iconic elements” that fans love.In a video message...

“Rye Lane”, “Scrapper”, “All of Us Strangers”, “How to Have Sex” y “Femme” encabezan las nominaciones a los premios BIFA.

El jueves se anunciaron los nominados a los premios BIFA (British Independent Film Awards). Estos premios son galardones cinematográficos que se otorgan en el Reino Unido para destacar y honrar las películas independientes británicas. Los ganadores de los premios BIFA 2023 se darán a conocer el 3 de diciembre. Aquí os dejamos con la lista de los nominados de esta edición:

Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente BRITÁNICA

All Of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh

Femme, Sam H Freeman & Ng Choon Ping

How To Have Sex, Molly Manning Walker

Rye Lane, Raine Allen-Miller

Scrapper, Charlotte Regan

Mejor PELÍCULA Independiente Internacional

Anatomy Of A Fall, Justine Triet

Fallen Leaves, Aki Kauriskmäki

Fremont, Babak Jalali

Monster, Hirokazu Kore-eda

Past Lives, Celine Song

Mejor DIRECCIÓN

Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane

Sam H Freeman & Ng Choon Ping, Femme

Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers...

3rd update, Sunday writethru: Jumanji remained king of the box office jungle despite the entry of three new titles, two of which were action films geared towards an older male audience — 12 Strong and Den of Thieves, both of which are estimated to take in mid-teens this weekend. January has begun to ratchet down after the holidays, with weekend ticket sales seeing an estimated $137M or down about 6.6% from a year ago. This was the weekend also that Disney’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi shot past the $600M mark domestically with $604.25M.

Some will say that business is slow because all the kids returned to school, but ComScore shows only 3% of K-12 schools off with another 16% colleges on break. However, let’s not forget that a year ago, Universal/Blumhouse’s Split drew a great 45% under-25 crowd, surprising us with the fifth-best January start ever at $40M and legging...