Jun 27, 2017 | New Releases, Trending
Five days into the summer, Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler welcomed the season unpretentiously at New Line’s world premiere Monday of R-rated comedy “The House” at the TCL Chinese Theatre. “For something you’d want to see on a summer weekend, I think it hits the mark,”...
Jun 27, 2017 | New Releases, Trending
Like the apes it depicts, the technology behind the ‘Planet of the Apes’ prequels has evolved to act more human than the human characters. In the original “Planet of the Apes” movies, Caesar and his simian co-stars were buried beneath layers of prosthetic...
Jun 20, 2017 | Gossip, In Production
The H Collective is launching as a production-financing entity that’s backing half a dozen projects including the sequel to “xXx: Return of Xander Cage” and Aaron Paul’s thriller “The Parts You Lose.” The Los Angeles-based H Collective has signed production deals with...
Jun 20, 2017 | In Production
Paramount Pictures and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot have set a release date for World War II horror movie “Overlord,” starring “Fences” actor Jovan Adepo and Wyatt Russell. The movie is scheduled for Oct. 26, 2018, The film is directed by Julius Avery (“Son of a Gun”), and...
Jun 20, 2017 | Films, Trending
Sony and Marvel’s “Spider-Man: Homecoming” dominated social media buzz with nearly 93,000 new conversations last week, according to media-measurement firm ComScore and its PreAct service. Sony released an international poster on June 12, announced an arcade game at...
Jun 20, 2017 | New Releases, Trending
In this week’s edition of the Variety Movie Commercial Tracker, powered by the TV advertising attention analytics company iSpot.tv, Paramount Pictures claims the top spot in spending for the second week in a row with “Transformers: The Last Knight.” Ads placed for the...
Jun 20, 2017 | Hollywood Chronicles
June is graduation month, which means a long parade of commencement ceremonies and family parties celebrating the new graduate. And at many of those parties, someone will make a joke about Mrs. Robinson or the word “plastics,” because the 50-year-old film “The...
Jun 20, 2017 | New Releases, Trending
47 Meters Down looks to be the most terrifying shark movie in years, if the tense trailer for the film is any indication. Don’t let the movies you see on the Syfy network fool you. Sharks are terrifying creatures, and they still can be in movies. There might be dozens...
Jun 13, 2017 | In Production
Woody Allen’s next film will hit theaters this December, Variety has learned. “Wonder Wheel,” a drama set in Coney Island during the 1950s, will debut in limited release on Dec. 1, 2017. That pits it against “The Disaster Artist,” a comedy with James Franco about the...
