Cuban Film Restoration Project Launched at UCLA
The UCLA Film & Television Archive is partnering with Cuba’s national film archive to restore, exhibit and distribute pre-revolutionary Cuban cinema. It’s the first collaboration between the…
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Box Office: Will Smith’s ‘Focus’ Opens with $900,000 Thursday Night
Will Smith’s con artist comedy “Focus” has opened moderately with $900,000 in Thursday night showings in the U.S. The Warner Bros. film has been tracking to launch with around $21 million for the…
‘The Devil in Pew Number Seven’ Movie in the Works
Sony subsidiary Affirm Films and Mass Hysteria Entertainment are teaming on a movie based on the memoir “The Devil in Pew Number Seven.” The book, written by Rebecca Nichols Alonzo with Bob DeMoss…
Blake Lively, Jason Clarke to Star in Drama ‘All I See Is You’
Blake Lively and Jason Clarke are starring in the romance-drama “All I See Is You” with Marc Forster directing. SC International Pictures will finance and produce. Forster, whose credits include…
Bruce Willis Action Pic ‘Wake’ Closes Down Amid Financing Woes
Financing problems have shut down production of action-thriller “Wake,” starring Bruce Willis, which had been shooting in Cleveland. "Benaroya Pictures is working quickly to remedy the delay in…
Sony Pictures Fires Digital Chief Bob Osher (EXCLUSIVE)
Sony Pictures Digital president Bob Osher, who oversaw Sony Animation and Imageworks for the past seven years, has been fired, according to knowledgeable sources. Thursday’s firing comes amid an…
Viola Davis-Jennifer Lopez Drama ‘Lila and Eve’ Bought by Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to Charles Stone III's “Lila and Eve,” starring Viola Davis and Jennifer Lopez. The film premiered last month at the Sundance Film Festival…
Pat Mills Comedy ‘Guidance’ Bought for U.S. by Strand
Strand Releasing has acquired U.S. rights to Pat Mills’ comedy “Guidance,” which premiered in September at the Toronto Film Festival. Mills stars as a pathologically immature former child actor who…
Meryl Streep to Narrate Documentary on Women’s Health in Africa
Meryl Streep will narrate the feature documentary "Shout Gladi Gladi,” co-directed by Adam Friedman and Iain Kennedy and focusing on women's health in Africa. The film has an emphasis on fistula, a…
‘Gods of Mischief’ Biker Gang Movie in Development
Hyperion Media Group and Identity Films have picked up the rights to George Rowe’s “Gods of Mischief: My Undercover Vendetta to Take Down the Vagos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang,” Variety has learned…
