Eon Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Sony Pictures Entertainment announced that “Skyfall” earned £37.2 million in its opening week, overtaking “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” to secure the biggest seven-day gross of all time in UK box office history. “Skyfall,[...]
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Spider-Man Filmmakers Talk Blu-Ray, Sequel
— by SHERICE ANTOINETTE — At a press conference yesterday, director Marc Webb and visual effects supervisors Jerome Chen, David Schaub and Rob Engle answered questions about the Blu-ray/DVD release for “The Amazing Spider-Man” and It’s Just Movies was there to cover it. First off, [...]
Disney to Release Star Wars VII in 2015
— by SEAN GERSKI — On April 1 of every year, plenty of otherwise responsible websites like to put up stories that are 100 percent fictional as April Fools’ gags. Reading the following news felt to me like one of those times. Not only has The Walt Disney Co. purchased George Lucas’[...]
Games Being Developed for The Hobbit Trilogy
Kabam, a leader in massively multiplayer games for connected devices, and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment have partnered to co-publish games for mobile devices and the Web inspired by Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit” Trilogy, a production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictu[...]
Reunited: Matt Damon & Ben Affleck
— by CHERRY BELL DAMASCO-FARRINGTON — The writers of “Good Will Hunting” have not worked together on too many projects since their debut as screenwriters for the Oscar-winning film. In the interim, the best friends have achieved plenty during their solo careers as award-winning actor[...]
Treat Added Before Hotel Transylvania
“Hotel Transylvania” – the record-setting 3D computer-animated monster comedy from Sony Pictures Animation that ranked as the biggest September opening in movie history and the best opening ever for the studio – is releasing a new animated short as a special Halloween treat. Beginning Oct. 2[...]
Hallmark Channel to Honor Hero Dogs
You’ve heard of the Dog Days of Summer? Well, for three evenings in November, the Hallmark Channel is inaugurating the Dog Nights of Autumn. The network is celebrating four-legged friends from Tuesday to Thursday, Nov. 6 to 8, from 6 p.m. thru midnight ET/PT each night. How is the channel celebrat[...]
Danny Strong Tapped to Pen Mockingjay
— by CHERRY BELL DAMASCO-FARRINGTON — Production for “Catching Fire” — the sequel to March’s blockbuster hit “The Hunger Games” based on Suzanne Collin’s novel of the same name — began in Atlanta, Ga. last month. After only a few weeks into production, rumors have[...]
Sony Unveils Culver City Landmark
Sony Pictures Studios and the city of Culver City have unveiled “Rainbow,” a public art installation by American sculptor Tony Tasset. Soaring 94 feet high, just beyond the Madison Street entrance to Studio’s historic lot, “Rainbow” is a multi-colored steel arc 188 feet[...]
Cloud Atlas Soundtrack Due Oct. 23
WaterTower Music will release the “Cloud Atlas: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” at all digital retailers on Oct. 23, with a physical CD release to follow on Nov. 6. The original music was composed by Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, and Reinhold Heil. Tykwer also shares screenwriting and directing[...]
Sony Pictures Classics Adds Fill the Void
Sony Pictures Classics has announced that it has acquired all North American rights to Rama Burshtein’s directorial debut, “Fill the Void.” Written and directed by Burshtein, “Fill the Void” played in Venice and Toronto to enthusiastic audiences and will make its U.S. debut at the New [...]
Asia Pacific Screen Awards: 2012 Nominees
Nominees for the sixth annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) were announced today with 34 films from 18 Asia Pacific countries and areas nominated in the region’s highest accolade in film. The five films nominated for Best Feature Film are “Khers” (aka “Bear” — Islamic Republi[...]
You’re On Camera, Charlie Brown!
— by SHERICE ANTOINETTE — More than 60 years ago, the talented Charles Schulz created the beloved comic strip Peanuts. Schulz, who incidentally was rejected by Disney Studios, earned roughly $30 million annually from the characters he imagined through merchandise and product endorsements[...]
Argo Soundtrack Available Today
WaterTower Music has released “Argo: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” to all digital retailers. The original music was composed by four-time Academy Award nominee Alexandre Desplat. “We needed to find a theme that we would use throughout — obviously different instrumentation and tempo[...]