No Twilight Reboot Planned by Lionsgate
Summit's parent, Lionsgate, is denying rumors that it is planning a fifth anniversary remake of the massively successful book and film series, Deadline reports.
Your Sister's Sister OK in Debut; Moonrise Kingdom Fierce in Week 4
IFC Films’ Your Sister’s Sister trumped the weekend’s openers in a generally quiet weekend in the specialty box office. Sundance doc Marina Abramovic The Artist Is Present bowed in two theaters, grossing just under $11K for a middling $5,495 average, Deadline reports.
Sheffield Doc/Fest: Our Programme will Not be Censored by China
Chinese delegates withdraw from attending the UK's Sheffield Doc/Fest after a request to cancel screenings of Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry and High Tech, Low Life were refused by festival organizers, The Guardian reports.
Warner Bros Beats Louis Vuitton in Hangover II Knockoff Handbag Dispute
A judge has dismissed Louis Vuitton's lawsuit against Warner Bros. over knockoff handbags in a scene in The Hangover Part II. "In the film, the character played by Zach Galifianakis carries a bag marked LVM, and when it gets pushed, he admonishes another character, 'Be careful, that is … that is a Lewis Vuitton,' THR reports.
Summermetrics: 10 Ways of Looking at a Very Bad Movie
"We as summer moviegoers should probably be grateful for Rock of Ages, the first big film of this blockbuster season to signify nothing other than good old-fashioned Hollywood narcissism — no knotty questions about the soupy, staple-y origins of man and xenomorph; no referendums on anyone's increasingly perplexing career; no hyena laughing about the misfortune of the hubris-salted studio executives who green lighted John Carter. Just Tom Cruise in leather pants, with a tattoo of a heart above his actual biological heart. It's the platonic ideal of summer cinema: You are going to go to the theater, and people are going to entertain you inside of it," writes Grantland.