February 23, 2014

BOX OFFICE: 'Lego' Is Lord Of Business, Costner's '3 Days To Kill' No. 2 Buries 'Pompeii'; 'Hunger Games: Catching Fire' Now 10th Highest Domestic Grosser Ever By Anita Busch Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has grossed $423.6M to date, now stepping into the Top Ten highest-grossing film of all time domestically, it was announced by Lionsgate. The film just flew… Read the Whole Story  > Ebersols Aboard To Produce And Script Warner Bros' 'Space Jam 2' As A Starring Vehicle For LeBron James By Anita Busch EXCLUSIVE: What's up, doc? A broken nose. Ouch! After he recovers from the injury suffered in last night's game, NBA MVP LeBron James will be ready for his close-up -- with Bugs Bunny. Read the Whole Story  > Warner Bros Sets 'Lego Movie' Sequel For May 2017 By The Deadline Team The Lego Movie to date has made $151.7 domestically after two weeks in release and now it is getting a sequel. Warner Bros just announced that it has blocked out May 26, 2017 on th… Read the Whole Story  > Open Road Says It Will Still Release 'Midnight Rider'; Female Crew Member Killed In On-Set Train Accident Identified By Anita Busch The Wayne County Sheriff's Office said today that the victim's name is Sarah Elizabeth Jones from Atlanta. The investigation is ongoing, with railroad and film crew personnel co… Read the Whole Story  > Viggo Mortensen To Star In Electric City's 'Captain Fantastic' By Mike Fleming Jr EXCLUSIVE: Viggo Mortensen is in talks to star in Captain Fantastic, a drama written and to be directed by Matt Ross. Production will begin this summer. Lynette Howell and Jamie Patricof of … Read the Whole Story  > OSCARS: Harvey Weinstein On His Dark Horse Best Picture Candidate 'Philomena,' And, Well, Everything Else By Mike Fleming Jr Each year, Harvey Weinstein has taken time out from his Sundance buying frenzies to do an Oscar-season interview that touches on his Academy hopefuls, all the films he bought in Park City, and politi… Read the Whole Story  > OSCARS: ‘12 Years A Slave’ Telling Voters "It's Time" - But How Will It Resonate? By Pete Hammond That’s the message seen for the past few weeks on the 12 Years A Slave billboard as you drive on to the 20th Century Fox lot. And since the film earned nine Oscar nominations it has frequently been th… Read the Whole Story  > Haley Joel Osment Lands 'Entourage' Role By Mike Fleming Jr EXCLUSIVE: Haley Joel Osment has landed a supporting role in Entourage, the feature transfer that Doug Ellin is directing from his HBO series creation for Warner Bros. Some 13 years removed … Read the Whole Story  > 'Ride Along 2' Gets Rolling: Tim Story To Direct, Will Packer To Produce With Deals Closing For Kevin Hart and Ice Cube By Anita Busch EXCLUSIVE: It was inevitable after the huge success of Ride Along that Universal Pictures executives would be salivating to get the sequel together. Tim Story will direct Ride Along 2… Read the Whole Story  > J. Michael Straczynski Options Harlan Ellison's Classic Sci-Fi Story 'Repent, Harlequin!' By Mike Fleming Jr EXCLUSIVE: For the first time, iconic sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison has allowed a film to be developed based onRepent, Harlequin! Said The Ticktock Man, the seminal story he published in … Read the Whole Story  >