Aug 9, 2017 | New Releases, Trending
Love of horror movies and screaming pervaded the red carpet Monday night for New Line’s advance screening of “Annabelle: Creation” for the L.A. Film Festival at the Theatre at Ace Hotel. “I love scary movies; I did my first one when I was six in ‘Deliver Us From...
Aug 1, 2017 | New Releases, Trending
With millions of loyal readers and a fantastical setting, Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower” book series has tantalized Hollywood. The movie business is always on the prowl for the next “Lord of the Rings” or “Harry Potter.” King’s novels, about a mysterious gunslinger...
Jul 12, 2017 | New Releases, Trending
Before he took the helm of the “Planet of the Apes” franchise in 2014, Matt Reeves had no intention of ever directing a studio blockbuster. In fact, he figured he had a foolproof plan for getting himself out of any potential tentpole assignment: Insist on doing the...
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 | 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...