You’d be forgiven if you thought butter was a carb, just like it’s totally understandable if you didn’t know the new “Mean Girls” is a musical.
Paramount, which released the movie over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, chose not to explicitly market it as a song-and-dance spectacle, according to the studio’s president of global marketing and distribution Marc Weinstock.
“To start off saying musical, musical, musical, you have the potential to turn off audiences,” he says. “I want everyone to be equally excited.”
The PG-13 film triumphed in its box office debut with $33 million over the four-day weekend. But despite the cultural prominence of Tina Fey’s 2004 comedy, which propelled Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams and Amanda Seyfried to stardom, Weinstock’s job – selling the masses on (and clearing up any confusion about) “Mean Girls” – was trickier than trying to make fetch happen.
The story is the same,...
Paramount, which released the movie over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, chose not to explicitly market it as a song-and-dance spectacle, according to the studio’s president of global marketing and distribution Marc Weinstock.
“To start off saying musical, musical, musical, you have the potential to turn off audiences,” he says. “I want everyone to be equally excited.”
The PG-13 film triumphed in its box office debut with $33 million over the four-day weekend. But despite the cultural prominence of Tina Fey’s 2004 comedy, which propelled Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams and Amanda Seyfried to stardom, Weinstock’s job – selling the masses on (and clearing up any confusion about) “Mean Girls” – was trickier than trying to make fetch happen.
The story is the same,...
- 1/15/2024
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Chris Rock is in final negotiations to direct and produce a biopic based on the life of Martin Luther King Jr. at Universal, an individual with knowledge of the project told IndieWire.
The film, which will be executive produced by Steven Spielberg, will be based on “King: A Life,” Jonathan Eig’s new biography that Universal has optioned and that The New York Times called the “definitive” bio of MLK Jr. and the first comprehensive account of his life in decades.
The project will be produced by Amblin Partners, with Kristie Macosko Krieger serving as producer, and Spielberg as EP.
“King: A Life” was a Nyt Bestseller and a National Book Award nominee. The book utilizes new FBI information from previously untapped primary sources and hundreds of interviews. Eig presents King Jr. as courageous but emotionally troubled, someone who demanded peaceful protest but also grappled with his own frailties.
This...
The film, which will be executive produced by Steven Spielberg, will be based on “King: A Life,” Jonathan Eig’s new biography that Universal has optioned and that The New York Times called the “definitive” bio of MLK Jr. and the first comprehensive account of his life in decades.
The project will be produced by Amblin Partners, with Kristie Macosko Krieger serving as producer, and Spielberg as EP.
“King: A Life” was a Nyt Bestseller and a National Book Award nominee. The book utilizes new FBI information from previously untapped primary sources and hundreds of interviews. Eig presents King Jr. as courageous but emotionally troubled, someone who demanded peaceful protest but also grappled with his own frailties.
This...
- 10/5/2023
- by Brian Welk
- Indiewire
It’s the sixth weekend of release for “Avatar: The Way of Water” and James Cameron’s science-fiction sequel is still floating atop the box office, ahead of new release “Missing.”
Playing in 3,790 theaters, “The Way of Water” added 4.6 million to its domestic haul on Friday, pushing its total to 582 million. That marks roughly a 35 drop from its previous outing, marking another strong hold for the holiday release as it continues to keep momentum up through January.
The “Avatar” sequel has made more than its predecessor had at this point in its run, though it continues to put up more heavy drops. Domestic total for the sequel should be on the edge of 600 million by Monday, putting the film just a stone’s throw away from taking down “Incredibles 2” (608 million) as the 12th-highest grossing film of all time in North America.
On a global scale, “The Way of Water...
Playing in 3,790 theaters, “The Way of Water” added 4.6 million to its domestic haul on Friday, pushing its total to 582 million. That marks roughly a 35 drop from its previous outing, marking another strong hold for the holiday release as it continues to keep momentum up through January.
The “Avatar” sequel has made more than its predecessor had at this point in its run, though it continues to put up more heavy drops. Domestic total for the sequel should be on the edge of 600 million by Monday, putting the film just a stone’s throw away from taking down “Incredibles 2” (608 million) as the 12th-highest grossing film of all time in North America.
On a global scale, “The Way of Water...
- 1/21/2023
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Marc Forster’s dramedy A Man Called Otto, starring Tom Hanks, is doing solid business at the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday box office in a much-needed win for adult-skewing movies.
The Sony release, playing in 3,802 theaters, earned a better-than-expected 15.3 million over the long weekend, enough to beat new wide offering Plane, an action pic starring Gerard Butler. Otto expanded nationwide after starting out in select theaters at the year-end box office. It earned an A Cinemascore on top of strong reviews.
Plane, from Lionsgate, launched to 12 million for the four days from 3,023 cinemas. The movie, earning a B+ CinemaScore from moviegoers, also came in ahead of expectations.
Both films are drawing most of their strength from consumers over the age of 45.
The two movies are looking at fourth- and fifth-place finishes, respectively. Holding at No. 1 is James Cameron’s powerhouse Avatar: The Way of Water, which grossed a rousing...
The Sony release, playing in 3,802 theaters, earned a better-than-expected 15.3 million over the long weekend, enough to beat new wide offering Plane, an action pic starring Gerard Butler. Otto expanded nationwide after starting out in select theaters at the year-end box office. It earned an A Cinemascore on top of strong reviews.
Plane, from Lionsgate, launched to 12 million for the four days from 3,023 cinemas. The movie, earning a B+ CinemaScore from moviegoers, also came in ahead of expectations.
Both films are drawing most of their strength from consumers over the age of 45.
The two movies are looking at fourth- and fifth-place finishes, respectively. Holding at No. 1 is James Cameron’s powerhouse Avatar: The Way of Water, which grossed a rousing...
- 1/16/2023
- by Pamela McClintock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Actress Julia Roberts says the late Martin Luther King Jr and his wife Coretta Scott King paid the hospital bill for her birth.
The actress, 55, revealed the couple made the gesture as her parents couldn’t afford the fee, and said her mum and dad befriended the Kings while living in Atlanta running a theatre school, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
She told Gayle King, in a clip showing her in conversation with the journalist last month that has now been shared online by a fan: “One day Coretta called my mother and asked if her kids could be part of the school because they were having a hard time finding a place that would accept her kids.
“My mom was like, ‘Sure, come on over’, and so they all just became friends, and they helped us out of a jam.”
It has been reported that a Ku Klux Klan member...
The actress, 55, revealed the couple made the gesture as her parents couldn’t afford the fee, and said her mum and dad befriended the Kings while living in Atlanta running a theatre school, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
She told Gayle King, in a clip showing her in conversation with the journalist last month that has now been shared online by a fan: “One day Coretta called my mother and asked if her kids could be part of the school because they were having a hard time finding a place that would accept her kids.
“My mom was like, ‘Sure, come on over’, and so they all just became friends, and they helped us out of a jam.”
It has been reported that a Ku Klux Klan member...
- 10/31/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Exclusive: Labid Aziz’s People of Culture Studios (PoC Studios), has picked up North American distribution rights to Kim Bass’s comedy A Snowy Day in Oakland, and will open the film nationwide in theaters over the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday weekend, Jan. 13, 2023. The movie is the debut theatrical release for PoC Studios.
Written and directed by Kim Bass, A Snowy Day in Oakland follows an upscale psychologist from San Francisco who decides to end a stalled romance with her longtime, high-profile, psychiatrist, boyfriend/business partner. She moves on with her life by opening her own private practice in a vacant, street-front office space in the middle of a small, commercial block located across the bay in Oakland, turning the predominately African-American and psychologically ignored neighborhood on its emotional ear.
The movie stars Nicole Ari Parker (Boogie Nights), Loretta Devine (Crash), Kimberly Elise (The Manchurian Candidate), Deon Cole (Black-ish...
Written and directed by Kim Bass, A Snowy Day in Oakland follows an upscale psychologist from San Francisco who decides to end a stalled romance with her longtime, high-profile, psychiatrist, boyfriend/business partner. She moves on with her life by opening her own private practice in a vacant, street-front office space in the middle of a small, commercial block located across the bay in Oakland, turning the predominately African-American and psychologically ignored neighborhood on its emotional ear.
The movie stars Nicole Ari Parker (Boogie Nights), Loretta Devine (Crash), Kimberly Elise (The Manchurian Candidate), Deon Cole (Black-ish...
- 10/6/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
“It’s not easy being the first when you have to represent the entire race,” Spike Lee explains during the first official trailer for Reginald Hudlin’s Sidney, the Apple TV+ documentary chronicling the life and legacy of filmmaker and activist Sidney Poitier. Out Sept. 23, the film uses archival footage and candid interviews to strikingly capture Poitier’s positioning as an essential cultural thread between Hollywood and the civil rights movement.
Poiter, who died this year at age 94, blazed a trail followed by generations of Black actors and filmmakers, having...
Poiter, who died this year at age 94, blazed a trail followed by generations of Black actors and filmmakers, having...
- 8/16/2022
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
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