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The second installment of the
Divergent series did about as expected, while Kenneth Branagh’s live action fairy tale hurtles past the $100 million mark with an impressive $34.49 million of its own.
Run All Night finished a distant third place with $5.12 million, while
The Gunman opens weak, with just $5.01 million.
(BO)
Krishna and
Peace Officer each win both Jury and Audience Awards. Also among the winners were the Sally Field-starrer
Hello, My Name is Doris, which won in the headliners category, and Todd Rohal's comedy
Uncle Kent 2, in the visions section.
(IW)
Two new bills to increase the state’s film tax incentives have sailed through the state Legislature. The measures now go to Governor Susana Martinez, who is expected to sign them into law. One of the bills extends the state’s existing 30% tax incentives for TV series to stand-alone pilot episodes. It also makes it easier for feature film productions that shoot at outdoor movie ranches to qualify for the full 30% labor credit.
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The show’s sixth and final season is shooting now, and with most of the cast members' contracts expire at the end of the upcoming season — currently filming — and, as one source notes, "You can keep the show going without Matthew and Sybill, but you can’t continue it without the entire Crawley family."
(VUL)
The Tony-winning musical bio of the legendary Carole King’s life and career, which stars Jesse Mueller as King, will be translated to film with the help of Tom Hanks’ Playtone production shingle. Hanks, his partner Gary Goetzman and the show’s producer, Paul Blake, and will use King’s songs in the adaptation, as well.
(VAR)
As Guy Ritchie’s
King Arthur: Knights Of the Round Table starts shooting, word comes that Basil Iwanyk’s Thunder Road Pictures is developing
Man At Arms, which is being described as an Arthurian story filtered through
Unforgiven, with Lancelot as the main character. Jonathan Liebesman, who directed last year’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, is attached to direct.
(SF)
Out of a field of 163 applicants, the National Black Programming Consortium, a Harlem-based media arts nonprofit, has selected the winners for its new incubator program, NBPC 360. The new funding initiative is designed to identify innovative storytellers and to generate quality serial, digital and multiplatform content for television and the Web.
(SAA)
In January Fox TV Group chairman Gary Newman announced that series creator Chris Carter was in talks with the network for a new run of the show and that stars Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny were onboard with the plan. Now it appears as though these talks have materialized into a limited run of the series (less than 10 episodes).
(COL)
The first TV trailer for the latest installment of Tom Cruise’s franchise sees Ethan Hunt and his team battling “an anti-IMF.” The film also stars Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, Alec Baldwin and Ving Rhames and is directed by Christopher McQuarrie. It hits theaters July 31st.
(TP)
If you are not careful, different concepts of what happens at what time can lead to misunderstandings or even complete breakdowns and failures. When looking on how best to deal with the complexity of time in this industry, the answer is, it depends.
(SM)
