According to a report in Deadline, 20th Century Studios is developing a new Master and Commander film, almost two decades after the release of 2003’s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. The new film will be written by Patrick Ness, who previously wrote the 2016 film A Monster Calls and, most recently, the film Chaos Walking, which was an adaptation of his … Continue reading A New ‘Master and Commander’ Movie is in the Works!!
As expected, Warner Bros./Legendary’s Godzilla vs. Kong made up for its down second Friday ($3.88M, -67% off Good Friday) with a solid Saturday of $6.1M that was up close to 60%, which makes the pic’s second weekend $13.3M, -58%, for a running domestic total of $69.5M. That ease in weekend 2 would be considered quite standard during pre-pandemic times, and is a very good hold. Warners … Continue reading ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Continues Dominitation With $13.4M Domestic, $358M Global Take at the BO!!
Whoever said moviegoing was bound to stay dead, or that streaming has won, needs to go back to business school. Because a big event movie plus a holiday weekend, along with LA & NYC reopened exhibition markets equaled big bucks. At the box office, Warner Bros./Legendary’s Godzilla vs. Kong decimated all industry projections with a 5-day box office of $48.5M after a $12.5M Saturday, +8%. Godzilla … Continue reading ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Defeats Pandemic with $48.5M Opening at the BO!!
Universal’s action genre-defying feature Nobody starring Bob Odenkirk took the top box office spot with $6.7M in a theatrical marketplace which is in the throes of trying to come back. The good news is that Los Angeles is maintaining its stamina as the No. 1 box office market, with currently $1.1M in its second weekend back, +5% from the same Friday and Saturday period last … Continue reading ‘Nobody’ Opens Strong at #1 Position with $6.7M at the BO!!
Disney‘s fantasy-adventure Raya and the Last Dragon stayed atop the chart in hits third outing, falling a mere 5 percent to $5.2 million as L.A. theaters roared back to life over the weekend in a needed boost for Hollywood and ravaged theater owners. Raya‘s domestic total is now at $23.4 million for a global total of $71.2 million. The Disney title was hardly the only … Continue reading As Theaters Roar Back to Life ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ Stays at #1 With $5.2M at the BO!!
Synopsis – A dystopian world where there are no women and all living creatures can hear each other’s thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called Noise. My Take – With the massively successful Hunger Games franchise and comparatively poorly received and incomplete Divergent series in their kitty, it might have seemed like Lionsgate would be done with their share of YA novel … Continue reading Chaos Walking (2021) Review!!!
Sunday AM Writethru: Following Saturday post, refresh for chart and updated analysis. There’s lots of good news ahead at the box office, but we’re not quite there yet. The No. 1 box office market, Los Angeles (over $900M in 2019), won’t begin to really wake up until next weekend. Then the industry’s only headache is waiting for capacity restrictions to increase well beyond the current … Continue reading ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ Holds #1 Spot at a Slowly Recovering BO!!
Sunday AM Write thru: Updated with NYC B.O. data While Disney’s animated release of Raya and the Last Dragon led the weekend box office with $8.6M at 2,045 theaters, the movie’s less than stellar result has left agitate in the bellies of many exhibition and studio executives. Read on. Raya‘s start is 41% below last weekend’s $14.1M opening for Warner Bros.’ Tom & Jerry, and that … Continue reading ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ Opens Soft with $8.6M at the BO!!
Chaos Walking is set to hit theaters (don’t be surprised if a Digital release is announced soon) on March 5, and Lionsgate has now sent us over a series of character posters spotlighting the heroes and villains of the long-delayed sci-fi adventure. The banners spotlight leads Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley, along with supporting players Cynthia Erivo, David Oyelowo, Nick Jonas, and Mad Mikkelsen. Based … Continue reading ‘Chaos Walking’ Gets New Character Posters!! Check It Out!!
Lionsgate has released the first clip from Doug Liman’s new movie Chaos Walking. The film stars Daisy Ridley as Viola, a woman who crash lands on a planet comprised of only men who are affected by “the Noise”, which puts all their thoughts on display. Among the people she meets on the planet are Todd (Tom Holland), and in this clip, you can see their … Continue reading ‘Chaos Walking’ Gets a a First Clip and a New Release Date!! Check It Out!!
Synopsis – A dystopian world where there are no women and all living creatures can hear each others’ thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called Noise. Directed – Doug Liman Starring – Tom Holland, Mads Mikkelsen, Daisy Ridley Check out the trailer: Continue reading ‘Chaos Walking’: Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley’s Dystopia Thriller Gets a Trailer!! Check It Out!!
Chaos Walking is an upcoming science fiction film. It stars MCU’s Spider-Man Tom Holland and Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley, with the movie directed by Edge of Tomorrow helmer Doug Liman. The first glimpse at the film is released by the makers. IGN has recently released Chaos Walking first look teaser. It shows Daisy Ridley in a land where man’s thoughts are heard out loud. She … Continue reading ‘Chaos Walking’ Gets First Look Images and a Trailer Teaser!! Check It Out!!
It feels like we’d never reach this point, but we finally have a poster for Lionsgate’s Chaos Walking. It’s been more than three years since filming on Chaos Walking began, with a relatively standard production process extending into years of additional work — primarily reshoots — so Patrick Ness‘s science fiction novel The Knife of Never Letting Go could finally come to the big screen. Chaos Walking is … Continue reading ‘Chaos Walking’: Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley’s Dystopia Thriller Gets a First Poster!! Check It Out!!
Lionsgate has announced a slew of release date changes, the most notable of which is that the Saw sequel Spiral is moving back a full year, from May 15, 2020 to May 21, 2021. Now that is a huge bummer, because I was super excited to see that one, especially with Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson joining the long-running horror franchise. In fact, the … Continue reading Lionsgate Sets New Release Dates for ‘Spiral,’ Among Others!!!
Hollywood has not always been kind to leading actors in the Star Wars Skywalker Saga. Mark Hamill can be a geek icon now that Star Wars fandom is a cultural force, but people forget that for decades of his post-Return of the Jedi career, Hamill was in the wilderness, relegated to supporting roles and voice acting despite starring in one of the biggest franchises of all-time. … Continue reading ‘The Ice Beneath Her’: Daisy Ridley in Talks to Star in Psychological Thriller!!
Justice for Piggy! If you’ve ever read William Golding‘s classic novel Lord of the Flies(or skimmed enough Cliff’s Notes to finish your high school paper), you know its darkly classic structure well: Kids get stranded on an island, kids try to retain a sense of sanity and society, kids quickly devolve into their inherent animalistic natures, kids kill each other moments before getting rescued. The book has … Continue reading ‘Lord of the Flies’: Patrick Ness Set to Write Luca Guadagnino’s New Film!!
It’s been a long time coming but Lionsgate has finally announced the Chaos Walking release date. The film stars Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley working under the direction of Doug Liman to bring to life a dystopian sci-fi adventure story that features approximately zero spidey suits or lightsabers. According to a Friday press release from Lionsgate, Chaos Walking will finally be released in theaters on January 22, 2021. The feature film was originally intended to … Continue reading ‘Chaos Walking’: Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley’s Sci-Fi Pic Finally Gets a Release Date!!
Three-and-a-half years ago, Alexander Payne signed on to direct an adaptation of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s travel articles My Saga for Bona Fide Productions, and now the film is finally heading into production — with Mads Mikkelsen in final negotiations to star. Netflix has made a deal to finance and release the film, which is now untitled. Mikkelsen will play a Danish journalist who takes a … Continue reading Mads Mikkelsen to Star in Road Trip Movie from Alexander Payne!!!
Rising screenwriter Lindsey Beer has been welcomed aboard the Hello Kitty movie in the works at New Line, Collider has confirmed. Beer has two feature credits to her name — the Netflix original Sierra Burgess Is a Loser and the upcoming Tom Holland–Daisy Ridley movie Chaos Walking — yet she has had a hand in numerous tentpole films, including Transformers: The Last Knight. Beau Flynn … Continue reading ‘Hello Kitty’: ‘Chaos Walking’ Screenwriter Lindsey Beer Joins Adaption!!
Aquaman director James Wan has settled on his next project, and no, it’s not Aquaman 2. It was announced today that Wan will executive produce and direct the debut episode of the upcoming Netflix series The Magic Order. The show was created at Netflix by Mark Millar, who subsequently turned it into a comic book series illustrated by Olivier Coipel based on designs by the … Continue reading ‘The Magic Order’: James Wan to Direct Debut Episode of Netflix Series!!
THR is reporting that Lionsgate has enlisted Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe and The Girl in the Spider’s Web director Fede Alvarez to assist Doug Liman on reshoots on the troubled sci-fi movie Chaos Walking. Last week it was announced that “additional photography” was underway on Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley-headlined adaptation of Patrick Ness’ YA novel at a cost in excess of $15 million, after … Continue reading ‘Chaos Walking’: Fede Alvarez Enlisted to Assist Doug Liman with Re-Shoots!!!
Edge of Tomorrow and American Made director Doug Liman is gearing up for a remake of the 1980s action comedy, The Cannonball Run. Deadline reports Liman is in early talks with Warner Bros. to reboot the property, which followed a raucous, illegal cross-country car race. Written by Brock Yates and directed by Hal Needham, The Cannonball Run featured an all-star cast that included Burt Reynolds, … Continue reading ‘The Cannonball Run’: Doug Liman In Talks to Helm Warner Bros. Remake!!
Chaos Walking, Doug Liman’s big-budget adaptation of the best-selling YA novel of the same name by Patrick Ness, is the latest big-budget movie to undergo significant reshoots, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. And, because of complicated scheduling issues with stars Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley, the reshoots could very likely force Lionsgate to push back the movie’s release date, which is currently slated for March 1, 2019. … Continue reading ‘Chaos Walking’: Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley Sci-Fi Movie to Get Major Reshoots!!!
Hope remains for Edge of Tomorrow 2 to become an actual movie that happens, rather than a long-hoped-for sequel that never materializes. Director Doug Liman’s 2014 sci-fi actioner didn’t explode at the box office, but it earned high critical praise and grew its legion of fans once it hit home video, offering up a smart and refreshingly unique blockbuster that stood in direct contrast to … Continue reading Doug Liman Says ‘Edge of Tomorrow 2’ Could Be His Next Film!!!
Edge of Tomorrow is a miracle of a movie, and may become a prime example of goodwill and word of mouth actually pushing a sequel into reality. The Doug Liman-directed sci-fi film combined a juicy time travel twist with a cowardly Tom Cruise character and a downright badass Emily Blunt performance to result in a hilarious, surprising, and wildly entertaining ride. The Warner Bros. film grossed $370.5 … Continue reading ‘Edge of Tomorrow 2’ Director Doug Liman Gives Update on the Sequel!!
Filming has officially begun on the Chaos Walking movie, and star Daisy Ridley has released the first official behind-the-scenes image, revealing the actress and Tom Holland in the starring roles. The YA adaptation is based on the Patrick Ness novel The Knife of Never Letting Go and takes place in a world devoid of women, where all living creatures can hear one another’s thoughts “in a stream … Continue reading Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland Venture into Dystopia in First ‘Chaos Walking’ Set Image!! Check It Out!!
Gerard Johnstone has been tapped to polish the script to Warner Bros.’ “Justice League Dark” movie, sources tell Variety. Johnstone was one of the handful of directors in the running to helm the film and while the studio has decided to hold off on naming a director, execs were interested enough in Johnstone’s presentation to allow him to do a pass on the screenplay. The … Continue reading ‘Justice League Dark’ Gets Script Polish From Gerard Johnstone!!
Mads Mikkelsen is in negotiations to join Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley as the villain in Lionsgate’s science-fiction adventure “Chaos Walking.” Doug Liman is directing while Allison Shearmur, Doug Davison, and Erwin Stoff are the producers. The screenplay will be written by Charlie Kaufman, Lindsey Beers, John Lee Hancock, and Gary Spinelli (“Mena”). The film is based on Patrick Ness’ “Chaos Walking: The Knife of … Continue reading Mads Mikkelsen in Talks to Join Sci-Fi Adventure ‘Chaos Walking’!!
Fans of the “Dark Universe,” a.k.a. “Justice League Dark,” comics are going to have to wait a bit longer for the film adaptation, as it just lost its director. Sources tell Variety that director Doug Liman has left the project. Insiders say the reason is schedule-related, as Liman is also attached to direct Lionsgate’s “Chaos Walking,” which recently received a greenlight. Sources say the studio has … Continue reading Doug Liman Parts Ways With Justice League Dark Film!!
Young-adult novel adaptations aren’t as hot as they used to be. (Just look at the dwindling Divergent franchise.) But Chaos Walking, based on the novel by Patrick Ness, will draw eyes for the casting alone: Daisy Ridley, who plays Rey in the new Star Wars films, already has the female lead, while the Marvel universe’s newly minted Spider-Man, Tom Holland, is in talks to join. THR was the first to report the news of Holland, … Continue reading ‘Chaos Walking’: Tom Holland May Star Opposite Daisy Ridley in Doug Liman’s YA Adaptation!!
After seeing Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it was clear that Daisy Ridley was going to be a breakout star. While she wasn’t able to land the lead in the Tomb Raider reboot (that went to Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander), it looks like she might have another franchise on the horizon. According to THR, Ridley has landed the lead in the post-apocalyptic thriller Chaos Walking. Doug Liman will direct the adaptation of Patrick Ness’ best-selling young-adult trilogy, which takes … Continue reading Daisy Ridley Gets Herself another Franchise with ‘Chaos Walking’!!
Well here’s a curious development. After 20th Century Fox’s Channing Tatum-fronted X-Men spinoff Gambit lost director Rupert Wyatt, the studio tapped Bourne Identity and Edge of Tomorrow helmer Doug Liman to direct. However, the project kept seeing delays as further work was being done on the script, with the most recent push delaying filming from early 2016 to late 2016 or early 2017. Liman chose … Continue reading Doug Liman May Direct Charlie Kaufman-Scripted YA Thriller ‘Chaos Walking’!!!
