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Midnight Madness For ‘Breaking Dawn’ DVD

By NIKKI FINKE | Sunday February 12, 2012 @ 11:31pm PSTTags: Breaking Dawn Part 1, movie DVDs, Twilight Saga

Sneak Peek At Twilight ‘Breaking Dawn Pt 2′

SUNDAY: Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 on opening day starting at midnight Saturday sold an estimated 2.4 million DVD and Blu-ray units. That’s 15% ahead of its predecessor Eclipse. Digital sales on Saturday also were 45% higher than Eclipse for electronic sell-through, and 160% higher than Eclipse via video on demand.

SATURDAY: Amazing how some aging franchises can still cause a frenzy. There were long lines inside and outside retailers when this second-to-last Twilight Saga film Breaking Dawn – Part 1 began selling its DVDs, Blu-ray disks, as well as video-on-demand and electronic sell-thru at 12:01 AM Saturday across North America. Summit Entertainment partnered with Target and Walmart and held “midnight” fan events for the 3,000 select stores. Exclusive sneak peeks at footage from Breaking Dawn – Part 2 will be showing at some Targets nationwide. Walmart has an exclusive version of the Part 1 DVD (called ‘Bella’s Wedding Dress Edition’) while Target has a limited edition DVD (with a sweepstakes for fans to win a trip to the “real Isle Esme” resort, site of Bella’s & Edward’s honeymoon. The DVD also comes with a limited edition collectible: authentic prop flowers from the movie wedding scene encased in an acrylic keepsake. Wanne bet that next year Summit will include Bella’s baby afterbirth as a keepsake with Part 2‘s DVD? Anything for a buck.

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BAFTA Awards: What ‘Artist’, Dujardin, Streep Wins Mean For Oscar – Hammond

By PETE HAMMOND | Sunday February 12, 2012 @ 3:09pm PSTTags: BAFTA Awards, Christopher Plummer, Jean Dujardin, Meryl Streep, Octavia Spencer, The Artist
Pete Hammond

If there was any question before today’s British Academy Film Awards that The Artist was the film to beat for the Oscars, the results in London just cemented it, and in an impressive sweep that portends big things. It wasn’t just the … Read More »

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64th BAFTA Awards Winners: ‘The Artist’, Meryl Streep, Jean Dujardin, Director Michel Hazanavicius, ‘Rango’, Octavia Spencer, Christopher Plummer

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Sunday February 12, 2012 @ 11:11am PSTTags: BAFTA Awards

LONDON: It’s a chilly evening here in Covent Garden where the BAFTA Awards are underway. The show is held at the Royal Opera House (where earlier I stood aside as Max von Sydow was escorted in through the stage door). The awards … Read More »

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BAFTA 2012 Preview: Very British Affair Takes On International Hue

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Sunday February 12, 2012 @ 12:32am PSTTags: BAFTA Awards, The Artist, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Tonight is the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ turn to stand in the awards-season spotlight. Demonstrating increased crossover, this year’s Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) are a mixed bag of international collaboration. The Artist, a French film shot in Los Angeles, leads the pack of nominees with 12 nods. The very British Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, financed by France’s Studiocanal and directed by Sweden’s Tomas Alfredson, follows with 11. The Descendants, Drive (with its Danish director and British co-star) and The Help round out the top film category. Tinker Tailor is shortlisted in both the Best Film and Best British Film races and is the only one to straddle the two. Meanwhile other Best British Film nominees also boast an international feel: My Week With Marilyn has an American star in Michelle Williams, Shame is set in New York, We Need To Talk About Kevin is based on a book by an American-born author, and documentary Senna is about the Brazilian race car legend. And, in her own words, “international star, role model and diva” Miss Piggy is hosting the red carpet show. Read More »

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RECORD-BREAKING WEEKEND! 4 Films Open $20+M: ‘The Vow’ $41M, ‘Safe House’ $39M; ‘Journey 2′ $27M, ‘Star Wars 3D’ $23M

By NIKKI FINKE | Sunday February 12, 2012 @ 12:31am PSTTags: Hollywood box office, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Safe House, Star Wars Phantom Menace, The Vow

SATURDAY PM, 6TH UPDATE: “Looks like that first-ever 4 openings over $20 mil on a non-holiday weekend … Read More »

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Remembered: Jennifer Hudson To Perform Whitney Houston Tribute At The Grammys

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday February 11, 2012 @ 8:59pm PSTTags: Grammys, Jennifer Hudson, Whitney Houston
Nellie Andreeva

R.I.P. Whitney Houston

UPDATED: Whitney Houston’s shocking death just 24 hours before the music industry’s biggest event, the annual Grammy Awards, sent CBS, the Recording Academy and the show’s  producers scrambling to put together a fitting tribute to … Read More »

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Live From NY, It’s Jean Dujardin On ‘SNL!’

By MIKE FLEMING | Saturday February 11, 2012 @ 8:00pm PSTTags: Jean Dujardin, Saturday Night Live, The Artist, Zooey Deschanel
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: I’m hearing that The Artist star Jean Dujardin will make a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live in an hour or so. From what I’m told, the producers wanted him, and it was a dream of his to do the show. So he flew in Friday from Paris for … Read More »

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R.I.P. Whitney Houston

By MIKE FLEMING | Saturday February 11, 2012 @ 5:37pm PSTTags: R.I.P., Whitney Houston
Mike Fleming

Jennifer Hudson To Perform Tribute At The Grammys

UPDATE: I’ve confirmed that a rough cut of Sparkle was turned in, though I’m not sure whether Whitney Houston saw it before she died. Sony publicist Steve Elzer said … Read More »

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TOLDJA! Indomina-BET Buy Sundance ‘LUV’

By MIKE FLEMING | Saturday February 11, 2012 @ 6:37am PSTTags: 2012 Sundance, Berlin, BET Networks, LUV
Mike Fleming

Deadline revealed exclusively Wednesday that Indomina acquired North American theatrical distribution rights to LUV. And that a significant TV component was part of the deal 7-figure deal brokered by ICM and Cinetic. BET is the TV piece. The film is now being screened for international buyers at EFM in … Read More »

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Saoirse Ronan Bigger Teen Action Queen

By MIKE FLEMING | Friday February 10, 2012 @ 4:53pm PSTTags: Chuck Norris, Saoirse Ronan, The Order of the Seven
Mike Fleming

When she got an Oscar nom for playing the precocious brat in Atonement, who would have guessed Saoirse Ronan would become Ireland’s answer to Chuck Norris? Ronan, who starred in Hanna, next headlines as a resistance fighter in the Andrew Niccol-directed adaptation … Read More »

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WME Signs Writer-Director Jon Kasdan

By MIKE FLEMING | Friday February 10, 2012 @ 4:35pm PSTTags: Jon Kasdan, The First Time, WME
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off the 2012 Sundance Film Festival premiere of his film The First Time, Jon Kasdan has signed with WME. Kasdan, who wrote and directed The First Time, made his directing debut on 2007′s In The Land of Women, … Read More »

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‘Glee’s Jane Lynch Joins Indie Film Comedy

By MIKE FLEMING | Friday February 10, 2012 @ 4:20pm PSTTags: A.C.O.D., Black Bear Pictures, Glee, Jane Lynch
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning Glee star Jane Lynch has boarded Black Bear Pictures’ feature film A.C.O.D. She joins Richard Jenkins and Adam Scott in the Stuart Zicherman-directed comedy which Zicherman wrote with Ben Karlin. Karlin is the co-creator of The Colbert Report and long time exec producer of The Daily Show who most recently got a Golden Globes nomination for producing 50/50. Teddy Schwarzman is producing and fully financing the project through his Black Bear Pictures’ shingle. Karlin and Tim Perell will also produce. Read More »

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Universal Revives ‘Dracula Year Zero’ With Director Gary Shore

By MIKE FLEMING | Friday February 10, 2012 @ 3:56pm PSTTags: Dracula Year Zero Alex Proyas, Gary Shore
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures is negotiating with Gary Shore to direct Dracula Year Zero. This is the film that was close to a production start with Sam Worthington starring and Alex Proyas directing, only to see Universal close the coffin because … Read More »

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Jodie Foster Sending Mel Gibson Film ‘The Beaver’ To All Academy Members

By PETE HAMMOND | Friday February 10, 2012 @ 2:19pm PSTTags: Jodie Foster, Mel Gibson, Summit Entertainement, The Beaver
Pete Hammond

EXCLUSIVE: In an unprecedented move this late in Oscar season, two-time Academy Award winning actress and director Jodie Foster, with the help of her film’s distributor Summit Entertainment, is sending DVD screeners of The Beaver (the Mel Gibson film she directed and … Read More »

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‘Roseanne’ Reunion: John Goodman To Co-Star In Roseanne Barr’s NBC Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 10, 2012 @ 1:50pm PSTTags: Downwardly Mobile, John Goodman, Roseanne Barr
Nellie Andreeva

Roseanne co-stars Roseanne Barr and John Goodman together again. I’ve learned that, after lengthy negations, Goodman is in final negotiations to join Barr’s new sitcom, the NBC pilot Downwardly Mobile. Co-created by Barr, her boyfriend John Argent and Eric Gilliland, who … Read More »

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UPDATE: Closing Arguments Conclude In Golden Globes Trial; Lawyer Says Dick Clark “Enslaved” HFPA

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday February 10, 2012 @ 1:05pm PSTTags: Dick Clark Productions, Golden Globes, Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Freelance journalist Dominic Patten is covering the trial for Deadline.

UPDATE, 1:05 PM: Closing arguments have concluded and now it’s up to the judge to decide who wins and loses. But don’t expect a decision anytime soon as Matz told the jam-packed courtroom at the end of session today that “it is going to be some time before I can turn back to this”.

PREVIOUS, 12 PM: Hollywood Foreign Press Association lawyer Dan Petrocelli said that Dick Clark Productions’ amendment to an agreement about TV rights to the Golden Globes “enslaved the HFPA”. The words came during closing arguments today in the trial between DCP and the HFPA over those TV rights. Citing a 1993 perpetuity amendment at the heart of the two-week trial, Petrocelli said that “12 words changed the entire course of history between the two parties.” DCP, said the lawyer, added the language in 1993 in a “sloppy” and “dirty way”. He dismissed “a lack of candor” in the testimony of former DCP president Fran La Maina and former HFPA president Mirjana Van Blaricom as “severing off” key evidence around the amendment. Read More »

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Series Adaptation Of ‘Legion’ With Feature’s Director Scott Stewart In The Works At Syfy

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 10, 2012 @ 10:27am PSTTags: Legion, Syfy
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Syfy is developing a series version of the 2010 supernatural thriller Legion, which starred Paul Bettany. The feature’s director/co-writer Scott Stewart is set to direct and executive produce the TV adaptation, which will be written by Vaun Wilmott (Sons … Read More »

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Lionsgate Calms Investors With Talk About Charlie Sheen, ‘Hunger Games’ And ‘Twilight’

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Friday February 10, 2012 @ 8:15am PSTTags: Anger Management, Lionsgate, Lionsgate Stock, The Hunger Games, Twilight

Based on this morning’s nearly 6%-plus pop in Lionsgate’s share price, you’d never know how badly the company’s fiscal Q3 report released last night fell short of analyst forecasts. The market is forward looking, though, and Lionsgate execs filled their morning conference call with upbeat talk about their movie and TV plans. CEO Jon Feltheimer has high hopes for Charlie Sheen’s upcoming series on FX, Anger Management. The first 10 episodes begin production March 19. If they do well, then it “will be one of our most profitable series ever,” Feltheimer says, adding that Sheen ”resonates with audiences around the world.” The company expects to have Anger Management double run in syndication much earlier than usual, and to have repeats on FX within 2 1/2 years. “We would be shooting it about twice as fast as you’d typically shoot a network show,” Feltheimer said. Now that its acquisition of Summit Entertainment has closed, the company is also cheering tonight’s home video release of Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1; the second-to-last Twilight installment will be out earlier than usual to coincide with Valentine’s Day. Lionsgate expects it to sell about as well as the previous film from the series, Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Many stores, including several Walmarts, will stay open past midnight to accomodate fans who can’t wait. Trailers for Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn 2 will debut at showings of The Hunger Games beginning on its opening night. Not surprisingly, Lionsgate co-chair Rob Friedman says that if author Stephenie Meyer wants to write another Twilight installment, then “we’ll be there to support her.” Read More »

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Ridley Scott Commits To Next Direct McCarthy’s ‘The Counselor’; Will Michael Fassbender Play Title Role?

By MIKE FLEMING | Thursday February 9, 2012 @ 5:24pm PSTTags: Cormac McCarthy, Michael Fassbender, Ridley Scott, The Counselor
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: The Cormac McCarthy script The Counselor might well be traveling on the fastest track toward production of any film in recent memory. I’m told that Ridley Scott has now committed to make The Counselor his next film. Other sources tell me that Scott has been talking to his Prometheus star Michael Fassbender about playing the title role. While a formal offer hasn’t been made, I believe there’s a high likelihood that Hollywood’s hottest actor will star in the film.

Scott is eyeing a May 1 start date, and he is talking to a number of high-profile actors to take part in a film that insiders are describing as “No Country For Old Men on steroids.” Let’s put the whole thing in perspective: McCarthy’s ICM agents, who expected him to turn in a new novel, were surprised that he instead took a detour and turned in his first feature spec script in December. The agents started talks on a rich spec deal with The Road producers Nick Wechsler and Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz. Negotiations started before the end of the year and the deal was done in mid-January. Read More »

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