The Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez-led Spanish-language musical drama “Emilia Perez” has been the biggest hit of the Cannes Film Festival thus far. The film earned the biggest standing ovation of the first few days of the fest with total applause clocking in at over eleven minutes. Many reviewers and
NEON Snags King Adaptation “The Monkey”
Ahead of his highly buxxed about horror thriller “Longlegs” hitting cinemas in July, NEON is once again getting into business with actor-turned-filmmaker Oz Perkins (“Gretel & Hansel,” “I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House,” “The Blackcoat’s Daughter”). The distributor recently acquired the filmmaker’s soon-to-shoot “Keeper” and now
“IF” Launches To Soft Box-Office Start
The poor Summer box-office continued this weekend as John Krasinski‘s original family film “IF” launched and came in under expectations. The Ryan Reynolds-led film pulled in an estimated $31.5 million domestic debut – a far cry from the $35-40 million start suggested by prerelease tracking. Whilst critics definitely weren’t fans
Plemons Joins Stone, Lanthimos’ “Bugonia”
Jesse Plemons is joining and Emma Stone will again re-team with six-time Oscar nominated filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos for his next feature “Bugonia” which has landed at Focus Features. Will Tracy penned the film in which two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that
Cumberbatch Talks Marvel Return
When it is running at full speed, the Marvel movie-making machine is like no other, beyond even the famed 007 production line of the 60’s that put out a new movie every 18 months. That quantity over quality clearly became an issue for Marvel. You would expect actors to complain