‘Everest’ Trailer: Reaching The Summit Only The Tip Of The Story
The first trailer for Universal Pictures’ Everest dropped today and it is provides a chilling glimpse at what must be one of the most terrifying sights ever: What happens when you reach the peak of the...
View ArticleWorking Title Re-Ups With Universal, New Agreement To Run Through 2020
EXCLUSIVE– British production powerhouse Working Title is re-upping with Universal Pictures for another five years to take the two companies through 2020. The new production agreement replaces the...
View Article‘House Of Cards’ Actor Michael Kelly On Escaping Death – As Doug Stamper &...
Michael Kelly has been through the Beau Willimon grinder. He knows full well that any character, beloved or not, can be done away with by the House of Cards creator at a moment's notice. Just ask Kate...
View ArticleBaltasar Kormákur’s ‘Everest’ To Open Venice Film Festival
Baltasar Kormákur’s Everest will open the 72nd Venice Film Festival, it was announced today. The Working Title production, based on a true story, documents the journey of two different expeditions...
View ArticleJohnny Depp’s ‘Black Mass’ To World Premiere In Venice
Venice Film Festival organizers today announced that Black Mass, the Johnny Depp-starring biopic of notorious gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, will get its world premiere out of competition at this...
View ArticleVenice Jury: Pawel Pawlikowski, Elizabeth Banks Join Alfonso Cuaron On Lido...
The Venice Film festival is due to unveil its full lineup on Wednesday this week for the 72nd running of the world’s oldest such event. So far, we know that Working Title and Universal’s Everest is on...
View Article‘Everest’ Imax Trailer: Chilling New Peek At Epic Mountain Climbing Drama
The first trailer for Baltasar Kormákur’s adventure thriller Everest dropped back in June. That one introduced us to the main climbers as they set out to conquer the world’s highest mountain, “without...
View ArticleDiscovery Channel To Air ‘Sherpa’ Docu In 200 Countries Next Year – Edinburgh
From director Jennifer Peedom, Sherpa looks at how Mt Everest's Sherpa community united in grief and anger to reclaim the mountain following the deadly avalanche that struck on April 18, 2014, killing...
View Article‘Everest’: Baltasar Kormakur, Tim Bevan & Jason Clarke on Mounting An Epic –...
SPOILER ALERT: While Everest is based upon real events which made headlines around the world in 1996 and spawned numerous accounts, the following includes details that may be unfamiliar to those who...
View Article‘Everest’ Review: Big-Screen 3D Adventure Hits A New Peak
Set for its world premiere tonight as the opener of the Venice Film Festival, Everest is the kind of big-screen adventure picture Hollywood used to make regularly but seems to have forgotten about in...
View ArticleAlfonso Cuarón On Jury Duty & Missing Guillermo Del Toro In Venice
Venice jury president Alfonso Cuarón blew the doors off of the festival two years ago when his out-of-competition Gravity debuted here on opening day. The following year, Cuaron’s pal, Alejándro...
View Article‘Everest’ Team Talks Responsibility As Venice (After Hiccup) Officially Is...
UPDATE with details from gala screening: Jan and Sarah Arnold-Hall, Helen Wilton, David Breashears and Sherpa Ang Dorje were all on the Lido this afternoon, attending the press conference for Baltasar...
View Article‘Maze Runner’, ‘Black Mass’, ‘Captive’&‘Everest’ Debut In Box Office Mixed...
This weekend’s box office should rev up, thanks to Fox’s Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials which should push past the first installment’s $32.5M opening last year at this time. The film has already opened...
View Article‘Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials’, ‘Black Mass’, ‘Everest’ Start Their Weekend...
20th Century Fox is reporting $1.7M for Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials at 2,900 locales last night, a 55% spike over the first installment’s Thursday previews of $1.1M. The gun went off at 8 PM...
View Article‘Maze Runner,’‘Black Mass,’‘Captive,’‘Everest’— B.O. Friday Matinees
Maze Runner: Scorch Trials is only slightly ahead right now of its predecessor and with the $1.7M in previews, it looks on track to gross anywhere around $10.5M to $11.5M today, compared to last year’s...
View ArticleOverseas Moviegoers Begin Hiking To ‘Everest’ In 36 Territories
Universal this weekend is rolling out Everest, its $60M adventure epic from Working Title, Cross Creek and Walden Media, in 36 overseas territories. With several No. 1s and good word of mouth, the...
View Article‘Scorch Trials’ Heats Up $43.3M; ‘Everest’ Scales $28.2M – Intl Box Office...
UPDATE, SUNDAY PM PT: Without the locomotive provided by Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation in its debut China frame last week, international box office is down about 35% across the top three studio...
View ArticleWhitey Bulger Shoots Back At The ‘Maze Runner’ Gang At Weekday Box Office
Warner Bros.’ Whitey Bulger gangster film Black Mass, despite being the No. 2 movie last weekend with $22.6M, has ruled No. 1 at the weekday B.O. from Monday through Wednesday, beating last weekend’s...
View Article‘Hotel Transylvania 2,’‘The Intern’ Bow Amidst Holdovers ‘Everest’ And...
Last weekend, it was Universal’s Everest in its debut and Fox’s Maze Runner: Scorch Trials that were capturing the attention of international audiences. This weekend we have the same newcomers from the...
View Article‘Martian’ 2nd-Best Opening For October, Damon & Scott Despite Losing Fuel...
Monday update, 5:57PM: 20th Century’s The Martian came in slightly lower for the weekend from where the studio and the industry saw it yesterday, $54.3M in actuals versus its Sunday AM projection of...
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