Sometimes, only sometimes, Hollywood serves up exactly what its audiences asks for. Just last summer, many of us asked for “Bad Moms” breakout Kathryn Hahn to gain more recognition for her comedic chops. But not like this: Enter “A Bad Moms Christmas,” a fast-tracked, holiday-themed sequel to the surprise smash hit (nearly $185 million worldwide) that giddily plays up all the worst impulses of Hahn’s indelible character Carla, culminating with the Emmy nominee spouting off the year’s most eye-popping line: “It was almost like waxing the balls of the Dalai Lama.”
You want raunchy Kathryn Hahn, you’re gonna get it, care of a slapdash followup that has mostly forgotten what made the original so weirdly charming.
Set soon after the events of the original film, “A Bad Moms Christmas” follows the eponymous bad moms as they attempt to work through the most stressful time of the year — aka the holidays.
You want raunchy Kathryn Hahn, you’re gonna get it, care of a slapdash followup that has mostly forgotten what made the original so weirdly charming.
Set soon after the events of the original film, “A Bad Moms Christmas” follows the eponymous bad moms as they attempt to work through the most stressful time of the year — aka the holidays.
- 11/1/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Apple signaled this week that it is serious about competing in the original-programming space, devoting a cool $1 billion in a concerted push into new TV shows. But questions remain regarding exactly which kinds of shows will fill out its roster. The Cupertino-based company initially plans to develop up to 10 series as it joins the crowded content fray that already includes digital platforms such as Netflix, Amazon and Hulu. This summer saw Apple launch its first two original shows, “Planet of the Apps” and a spinoff of James Corden’s “Carpool Karaoke.” Neil Landau, author of “TV Outside the Box” and.
- 8/18/2017
- by Ryan Gajewski and Matt Pressberg
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Mfi announces fresh deals on dark comedy crime caper set in small town China.
Memento Film International (Mfi) has announced a slew of fresh deals on Chinese feature animation Have A Nice Day which premiered in competition at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year.
The Paris-based sales company has sold the film to Spain (La Aventura), Benelux (Fu Works), Switzerland (Outside the Box), Greece (Seven Films), Turkey (Bir Film), Former Yugoslavia (Megacom), Hungary (Cirko) and airlines (Encore).
News of the deals follows Us distributor Strand Releasing’s announcement last week that it had acquired all Us rights to the feature for an autumn release.
As previously announced, streaming service Mubi acquired the title for UK and Ireland for a theatrical and VOD release in April.
Mfi is sharing sales on the film with Hong Kong-based sales and distribution outfit Edko Films which handles Asia. Mfi handles all other territories.
Have A Nice...
Memento Film International (Mfi) has announced a slew of fresh deals on Chinese feature animation Have A Nice Day which premiered in competition at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year.
The Paris-based sales company has sold the film to Spain (La Aventura), Benelux (Fu Works), Switzerland (Outside the Box), Greece (Seven Films), Turkey (Bir Film), Former Yugoslavia (Megacom), Hungary (Cirko) and airlines (Encore).
News of the deals follows Us distributor Strand Releasing’s announcement last week that it had acquired all Us rights to the feature for an autumn release.
As previously announced, streaming service Mubi acquired the title for UK and Ireland for a theatrical and VOD release in April.
Mfi is sharing sales on the film with Hong Kong-based sales and distribution outfit Edko Films which handles Asia. Mfi handles all other territories.
Have A Nice...
- 6/26/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Adam Tenenbaum, one of the executive producers on Stephen Gyllenhaal's So B. It which stars Alfre Woodard, Cloris Leachman and John Heard and opens in October of this year from Good Deed Entertainment, is launching private equity firm — Outside the Box Film Partners. It has already pegged its first two projects. The firm is financing one film and hopes to finance two films the following year with budgets between $2M and $7M. “Because are using private equity…...
- 2/28/2017
- Deadline
Simon Brew Oct 10, 2016
From Doctor Who and The FiveIsh Doctors to Campion and Button Moon: we chat to the fifth Doctor, Mr Peter Davison...
Ah, the mighty Peter Davison. The Fifth Doctor, All Creatures Great And Small, Campion, and living in a house with Freddy from Rainbow are just some of the topics we chatted to him about, ahead of the publication of his terrific autobiography, Is There Life Outside The Box.
We’ve got a fair bit to get through, so without further ado….
I got a sense you thoroughly enjoyed writing this book, once you were over some initial research-y hurdles. Would that be fair?
Yeah, that’s fair. It was kind of a journey, really. A reassembling. I’ve had these memories, and it was really a chance to put them down on paper and order them. Everything fragments as you get older, and things come out,...
From Doctor Who and The FiveIsh Doctors to Campion and Button Moon: we chat to the fifth Doctor, Mr Peter Davison...
Ah, the mighty Peter Davison. The Fifth Doctor, All Creatures Great And Small, Campion, and living in a house with Freddy from Rainbow are just some of the topics we chatted to him about, ahead of the publication of his terrific autobiography, Is There Life Outside The Box.
We’ve got a fair bit to get through, so without further ado….
I got a sense you thoroughly enjoyed writing this book, once you were over some initial research-y hurdles. Would that be fair?
Yeah, that’s fair. It was kind of a journey, really. A reassembling. I’ve had these memories, and it was really a chance to put them down on paper and order them. Everything fragments as you get older, and things come out,...
- 10/6/2016
- Den of Geek
We’ve just gotten word of a new psychological horror film called Box (Facebook page here), from director El Mahk’gnoht, about a murderer who finds himself haunted by a mysterious box that appears on his doorstep. It stars Jimmy Dempster and… Continue Reading →
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- 9/26/2016
- by David Gelmini
- DreadCentral.com
Sales agent Coproduction Office has closed multiple deals on the feature doc, whose subjects will be on the Lido.
Maverick Austrian director Ulrich Seidl will be accompanied by a family of safari hunters this week in Venice for the world premiere of his new film.
Safari (sold by Coproduction Office and also screening at Tiff) is a feature documentary following German and Austrian hunting tourists as they travel through the African bush, stalking and massacring the local wildlife.
The film is billed as “a vacation movie about killing, a movie about human nature.”
The safari hunting family featured in the film will be coming to the Lido to attend the Venice screening. However, Seidl has told Screen that he will not “feed” these hunters to the media and that he feels “a certain responsibility to them.” They will not be doing any media interviews and will not attend the film’s press conference.
“My opinion...
Maverick Austrian director Ulrich Seidl will be accompanied by a family of safari hunters this week in Venice for the world premiere of his new film.
Safari (sold by Coproduction Office and also screening at Tiff) is a feature documentary following German and Austrian hunting tourists as they travel through the African bush, stalking and massacring the local wildlife.
The film is billed as “a vacation movie about killing, a movie about human nature.”
The safari hunting family featured in the film will be coming to the Lido to attend the Venice screening. However, Seidl has told Screen that he will not “feed” these hunters to the media and that he feels “a certain responsibility to them.” They will not be doing any media interviews and will not attend the film’s press conference.
“My opinion...
- 9/1/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
It’s no surprise that Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass’s return to the “Jason Bourne” franchise topped this weekend. It’s a near-replicate of last – a new franchise entry hits its mark, then two more lower-budget wide openers do less combined, but enough to boost the weekend totals above the previous year. “Jason Bourne,” more than “Star Trek Beyond,” exceeded pre-opening estimates.
Oddly, all three openers scored A or A- from audience pollster Cinemascore. (This is rare for any one week outside of awards season.) Their Metacritic ratings were more mixed, in the tiny range of 58-60. Their budgets also varied, with $120-million “Jason Bourne” (Universal) coming in at triple the combined cost of the other two (Stx’s “Bad Moms” and Lionsgate’s “Nerve” both cost around $20 million). As always, costs determines the ultimate box office winners and losers.
Why “Jason Bourne” soared $10 million above expectations.
1. Stars like Matt Damon still matter.
Oddly, all three openers scored A or A- from audience pollster Cinemascore. (This is rare for any one week outside of awards season.) Their Metacritic ratings were more mixed, in the tiny range of 58-60. Their budgets also varied, with $120-million “Jason Bourne” (Universal) coming in at triple the combined cost of the other two (Stx’s “Bad Moms” and Lionsgate’s “Nerve” both cost around $20 million). As always, costs determines the ultimate box office winners and losers.
Why “Jason Bourne” soared $10 million above expectations.
1. Stars like Matt Damon still matter.
- 8/1/2016
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
France’s Diaphana Distribution has picked up Haitian-born Raoul Peck’s long-gestating project, The Young Karl Marx.
The film centres on the budding friendship between Marx and Friedrich Engels in the mid-19th century.
The title character is played by August Diehl. Stefan Konarske, one of the stars of Philip Koch’s Outside The Box, plays Engels.
Konarske replaces Alexander Fehling, who left the role to play the boyfriend of Claire Danes’ character in Us TV drama Homeland.
The film is a French-German-Belgian co-production between agat films & Cie and Peck’s own company Velvet Film, with Berlin and Leipzig-based Rohfilm and Belgian producer Patrick Quinet’s Artemis Film.
Shooting began at the beginning of September and continue for nine weeks to Nov 7.
Sales agent Films Distribution pre-sold the feature to Germany’s Neue Visionen Filmverleih at this year’s Berlinale.
The film centres on the budding friendship between Marx and Friedrich Engels in the mid-19th century.
The title character is played by August Diehl. Stefan Konarske, one of the stars of Philip Koch’s Outside The Box, plays Engels.
Konarske replaces Alexander Fehling, who left the role to play the boyfriend of Claire Danes’ character in Us TV drama Homeland.
The film is a French-German-Belgian co-production between agat films & Cie and Peck’s own company Velvet Film, with Berlin and Leipzig-based Rohfilm and Belgian producer Patrick Quinet’s Artemis Film.
Shooting began at the beginning of September and continue for nine weeks to Nov 7.
Sales agent Films Distribution pre-sold the feature to Germany’s Neue Visionen Filmverleih at this year’s Berlinale.
- 9/29/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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