If you made it a tradition of watching The Holdovers every Christmas because you can’t get enough of it, you will be happy to know that Miramax feels the same way. In a new report, Variety reveals that the production company is looking to transform several of its biggest titles into TV shows or limited series. One of them is the Oscar-winning comedy/drama, which first … Continue reading ‘The Holdovers’ Is Getting a Series Adaptation!!
As it emerges from the shadow of longtime boss Harvey Weinstein, who is now a convicted sex offender, Miramax is raiding its vaults to expand its media footprint. Some of its most acclaimed films, including Gangs of New York, The English Patient, and Chocolat, are being developed as TV series. Variety reports that new studio head Jonathan Glickman is spearheading the effort to make the … Continue reading ‘Gangs of New York’, ‘The English Patient’ and ‘Chocolat’ Series Are in the Works!!
At the 2024 Academy Awards, Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer took home the most Oscars of the evening, including the coveted wins for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, and Best Film Editing. While Oppenheimer‘s domination was predicted, there was one major upset this evening: Best Actress. After a highly competitive award … Continue reading ‘Oppenheimer’ Sweeps the Oscars 2024!! Check Out the Full List of Winners!!
Oppenheimer leads the 2024 Oscar nominations, were revealed Tuesday morning. The film nabbed a total of 13 noms, followed by Poor Things with 11, Killers of the Flower Moon with 10 and Barbie with eight. All four films will compete for best picture of the year, along with American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, The Holdovers, Maestro, Past Lives and The Zone of Interest. Zazie … Continue reading ‘Oppenheimer’ Leads Oscar Nominations 2024!! Check Out the Full List!!
The 2024 awards season is officially underway as Universal Pictures’ Oppenheimer won Best Motion Picture Drama the 81st annual Golden Globes tonight, leading all films and TV shows with five trophies. Check out the winners in all 27 categories below, see the wins by distributor and TV network/platform here. Cillian Murphy took Best Male Actor in a Motion Picture Drama for Universal’s global smash period … Continue reading Golden Globes 2024: ‘Oppenheimer’ Wins Top Awards!! Check Out the Full List!!
Indeed, another year of incredible movies comes to an end and what a year it been. While superhero fatigue appeared in full form (with the exception of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3), the last 12 months saw some spectacular cinematic feats unfold, particularly with the Barbenheimer phenomenon that made it seem as though cinema reached peak pervasiveness this year. That is of course, until … Continue reading Top 20 Best Hollywood Films of 2023 – A MovizArk Take!!!
The full list of nominations for the 81st annual Golden Globe Awards has been released. Per Deadline, the nominations for the 81st annual Golden Globe Awards were officially announced on December 10, 2023. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie led the pack with a total of nine nominations, followed by Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer with eight. Trailing only slightly behind were Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and … Continue reading ‘Barbie’, ‘Oppenheimer’ Lead Golden Globe Nominations!! Check Out the Full List!!
Synopsis – A cranky history teacher at a remote prep school is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a troubled student who has no place to go. My Take – Though his reputation took a small hit with Downsizing (2017), there is no doubt filmmaker Alexander Payne knows how to create an artful film considering how he has produced a comparatively more consistently … Continue reading The Holdovers (2023) Review!!
Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes won Black Friday and Saturday at the box office, respectively with $11.4M and $11.2M, soaring above a Disney animated movie (Wish) which are typically the champs of Thanksgiving weekend, and big streamer Apple’s $200M war epic, Napoleon, for a No. 1 win over the holiday stretch with a 3-day $28.8M and 5-day of $42M. The … Continue reading ‘Hunger Games 5’ Holds Top Spot Over ‘Napoleon’ and ‘Wish’ at the BO!!
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is coming in at the bottom of where we were seeing it yesterday, with a $44M opening. The hope was that this Suzanne Collins prequel was bound to file $50M+. Overseas was better at $54.5M, for a $98.5M Global opening. Saturday stateside for Songbirds & Snakes was $15M, coming off of a $19.1M Friday, -21%, with … Continue reading ‘The Hunger Games 5’ Sets Mid $44M Opening as ‘Marvels’ Sees Worst MCU Drop at the BO!!
The last-minute push for The Marvels with an appearance by star Brie Larson on Friday’s The Tonight Show and at a theater in NYC post-actors strike have not moved weekend grosses any higher for Marvel Studios‘ The Marvels. The film is posting a 3-day at the bottom of yesterday’s estimates with $47M, the lowest-ever for Disney‘s Marvel Cinematic Universe. Don’t blame the running time, as … Continue reading ‘The Marvels’ Sets Record Low Debut for the MCU at the BO!!
The ramifications of the actors strike at the weekend box office continues to be felt, as ticket sales this weekend plummeted to an estimated $64.6M (-49% from last weekend), which is currently the fourth-lowest of 2023 to date. Remember, the Legendary/Warner Bros’ Zendaya-Timothee Chalamet-Austin Butler-Florence Pugh sequel Dune: Part Two was originally set to play this weekend, and with its departure, there’s at least $50M … Continue reading ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ Continues Hold with $19M at the BO!!
Universal/Blumhouse’s big screen version of nine-year-old videogame Five Nights at Freddy’s has hit an unprecedented $78M opening, $4.4M shy of what Uni wowed with earlier this summer in firing up Oppenheimer ($82.4M). Rivals are spotting $80M. Some in the business, including exhibition, will argue that they saw this tidal wave coming, that they saw big numbers right in front of them — and you were … Continue reading ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ Marks Biggest Horror Debut of the Year with $78M at the BO!!
Academy Award-winning director Alexander Payne has largely lived in the world of comedy with acclaimed titles like Sideways, The Descendants, and, most recently, his Toronto International Film Festival entry The Holdovers. One of his next projects, however, will finally give the director a chance to explore a genre he’s always wanted to — the Western. Speaking to Collider‘s Steve Weintraub at our TIFF media studio … Continue reading Alexander Payne Is Working on a Western!!
Synopsis – Nobody likes teacher Paul Hunham (Giamatti) — not his students, not his fellow faculty, not the headmaster, who all find his pomposity and rigidity exasperating. With no family and nowhere to go over Christmas holiday in 1970, Paul remains at school to supervise students unable to journey home. After a few days, only one student holdover remains — a trouble-making 15-year-old named Angus, a … Continue reading ‘The Holdovers’ Trailer Sees a Grumpy Teacher Making Unlikely Friendships!! Check It Out!!
A release date has been set for Alexander Payne‘s next feature film, The Holdovers, which sees the Oscar-winning director re-team with Paul Giamatti with whom he worked on the 2004 Oscar-winning picture Sideways. According to an announcement from Focus Features, The Holdovers will fall into theaters on November 10 firstly as a limited release, followed by a nationwide release on Wednesday, November 22, just in … Continue reading ‘The Holdovers’: Alexander Payne’s Next Sets Fall Release Date!!!
In some exciting (almost) end of the week casting news, Deadline has revealed that The Good Fight actress, Carrie Preston, has been tapped to lead the Miramax feature, The Holdovers. Combining the writing talents of Whiskey Cavalier creator, David Hemingson, with the directorial eye of two-time Oscar winner Alexander Payne (Nebraska, The Descendents), The Holdovers is quickly gaining momentum. Throw in the fact that Preston … Continue reading ‘The Holdovers’: Carrie Preston Joins Alexander Payne’s Next!!
Sideways duo Paul Giamatti and director Alexander Payne are reuniting for the indie comedy The Holdovers, Collider has confirmed. Set in 1970, The Holdovers sees Giamatti playing an unpopular history teacher at the Massachusetts prep school Deerfield Academy, where his students, fellow faculty members, and his boss find him pompous and rigid. With no family of his own and nowhere to go over Christmas break, … Continue reading ‘The Holdovers’: Paul Giamatti and Alexander Payne Reteam for Comedy!!
