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Cannes: Wrekin Hill Acquires U.S. On Gabriele Salvatores’ ‘Siberian Education’ With John Malkovich

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday May 19, 2013 @ 6:40am PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Wrap-Up, John Malkovich, Siberian Education, Wrekin Hill
Mike Fleming

Wrekin Hill Entertainment acquired U.S. rights to Gabriele Salvatores’ Siberian Education. Based on the novel by Nicolai Lilin, with a screenplay by Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli and Salvatores, the film stars John Malkovich, Arnas Feravicius, Vilius Tumalavicius, Eleanor Tomlinson, Peter Stormare, Jonas Trukanas and Vitalji Porsnev. Set in the ghetto of Soviet Russia, Siberian Education follows the path of two boys who are members of a gang of exiled Siberians. The best friends grow up together, mastering a unique education focused on illegal arts such as theft, banditry and weaponry. Their clan has its very own stringent code of honor, which, while criminal, sometimes actually coincides with what is generally considered ethical and moral. It is a code that must never be broken, no matter what. As the boys turn to men, everything they have come to know and learn is tested. The film’s produced by Catteya’s Riccardo Tozzi, Giovanni Satabilini, Marco Chimenz, and executive produced by Gina Gardini. READ MORE »

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John Malkovich To Star In NBC’s Pirate Drama Series ‘Crossbones’ As Blackbeard

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday March 11, 2013 @ 10:58am PDTTags: Crossbones., John Malkovich, NBC
Nellie Andreeva

In a major casting coup for NBC, the network has landed Oscar-nominated John Malkovich to topline new action-adventure series Crossbones, from Luther creator Neil Cross and feature producers Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald and Georgeville TV. He will play the notorious English pirate Blackbeard, a role Brit Hugh Laurie flirted with for a while but ultimately did not commit to. The 10-episode Crossbones is set in 1715 on the Bahamian island of New Providence, the first functioning democracy in the Americas, where the diabolical pirate Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard (Malkovich), reigns over a rogue nation of thieves, outlaws and miscreant sailors. Part shantytown, part marauder’s paradise, this is a place like no other on Earth — and a mounting threat to international commerce. The series, originally picked up for this midseason, has not been slotted and will likely launch next season. Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Red 2′

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday January 17, 2013 @ 6:04pm PSTTags: Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Red 2

The “retired and extremely dangerous” spies are back in Red 2, and this time they’re hunting a portable nuke that’s gone missing. Dean Parisot directed the sequel from Jon Hoeber & Erich Hoeber’s screenplay adapted from the graphic novel Red by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner. Bruce Willis, John … Read More »

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Armie Hammer, Ben Kingsley, John Malkovich, Michael Sheen And Teresa Palmer Head ‘Cut Bank’ Cast

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 24, 2012 @ 9:09am PDTTags: Armie Hammer, Big Deals Film, John Malkovich
Mike Fleming

Armie Hammer, Sir Ben Kingsley, John Malkovich, Michael Sheen and Teresa Palmer are set to star in the crime thriller Cut Bank. Scripted by Roberto Patino from a script that made the 2009 Black List, the pic will be directed … Read More »

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Dave Franco Joins ‘Now You See Me’ At Summit

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 5:50pm PDTTags: Channing Tatum, Isla Fisher, Jesse Eisenberg, John Malkovich, Jonah Hill, Louis Leterrier, Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman, Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Woody Harrelson
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Dave Franco has joined the cast of Now You See Me, which is his second straight movie for Summit Entertainment. Franco joins Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Morgan Freeman and Isla Fisher in the Louis Leterrier-directed drama about … Read More »

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John Malkovich Takes ‘Warm Bodies’ Before Heading To Operas And Stage

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday September 8, 2011 @ 2:37am PDTTags: Film Casting, John Malkovich, Jonathan Levine, Nicholas Hoult, Summit Entertainment, Teresa Palmer, Warm Bodies
Mike Fleming

John Malkovich has signed on to Summit’s Warm Bodies, the Jonathan Levine-directed adaptation of the novel about a zombie who rediscovers his soul through a relationship with a human girl. Nicholas Hoult plays the zombie; Teresa Palmer … Read More »

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‘Transformers 3′ Crosses $1 Billion Worldwide

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday August 2, 2011 @ 11:00pm PDTTags: Brad Grey, Brian Goldner, Don Murphy, Frances McDormand, Ian Bryce, John Malkovich, John Turturro, Josh Duhamel, Julie White, Kevin Dunn, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian, Michael Bay, Paramount Pictures, Patrick Dempsey, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Shia LaBeouf, Steven Spielberg, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Tyrese Gibson

HOLLYWOOD, CA (August 3, 2011) – Worldwide box office receipts for TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON, have hit $1 billion, Paramount Pictures announced today. To date, the third installment of the hit Transformers franchise, and the first shot in 3-D, has grossed $338 million in U.S. (through Monday) and $663 million internationally (through Tuesday).

“TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON is the first billion dollar grossing movie in the history of Paramount Pictures, marking a substantial milestone in the 99 year life of this legendary studio,” said Brad Grey, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Pictures. “We are grateful for the extraordinary work of  Michael Bay and his film-making team, executive producer Steven Spielberg, and everyone at Paramount around the globe who played a part in helping make this latest TRANSFORMERS one of the 10 highest grossing films worldwide of all time.”

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Simon Hunter Helms Vampiric ‘Last Blood’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday July 22, 2011 @ 7:04pm PDTTags: James Purefoy, John Malkovich, Ron Perlman, Simon Hunter, Thomas Jane
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Simon Hunter has been set to direct Last Blood, a live action adaptation of the Keenspot graphic novel that takes place after a zombie apocalypse, when vampires must battle to protect the last surviving humans to keep alive the … Read More »

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Older Thesps Show Staying Power: ‘Red’ Sequel, Schwarzenegger Planning Pics

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 18, 2011 @ 6:09am PSTTags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Mario Kassar, Mary Louise Parker, Morgan Freeman, Randall Wallace, Red, Robert Schwentke, Summit Entertainment
Mike Fleming

In a move that’s not exactly surprising, Summit Entertainment brought back Jon and Erich Hoeber to write another installment of Red, the overachieving Robert Schwentke-directed action film that had been widely spurned around town because studios were nervous building such … Read More »

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BOX OFFICE GROSS: ‘Jackass 3D’ No Joke With $50M Weekend, ‘Red’ Strong #2

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Saturday October 16, 2010 @ 11:16pm PDTTags: Box Office, Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Jackass 3D, John Malkovich, Johnny Knoxville, Life As We Know It, Morgan Freeman, Movies, Red, Secretariat, Spike Jonze, The Social Network, The Town

SATURDAY PM/SUNDAY AM UPDATE: Two movies roundly rejected by Hollywood, one for being too moronic and the other too moldy, led the North American box office weekend with a big $125M weekend overall:

1. Jackass 3D (Paramount) NEW [3,081 Theaters]
Friday $21.8M, Saturday $17M, Weekend $50M

As a studio exec joked to me Friday, “The Oscar race has been turned on its head”. That’s because Paramount’s Jackass 3D aimed at the youth market not only earned twice the gross of Sony’s Academy Awards-touted Facebook origins film starting its 3rd week Friday, but knocked it out of #1. Producers Johnny Knoxville’s and Spike Jonze’s stupid stunt pic directed by Jeff Tremaine earned a “B+” CinemaScore. Still the headline is that, despite the restriction of an “R” rating, it opened to a whopping Friday for the biggest single day ever in October because of the higher 3D ticket prices. That included $2.5M from midnight shows, also the most ever for October. Plus a healthy Saturday after the “first to see” subsided. Its $50M weekend take was the record for the biggest opening in the month of October (besting Scary Movie 3 which did $48.1M in October 2003 but was only 2D). Guess this shows Hollywood that movies don’t need a script and a plot, right? With a budget of only $20M, the studio would have been more than happy with the $30M weekend it expected from the higher ticket prices from the 2,452 3D-equipped locations. (The first 2D Jackass opened with a $22.8M weekend and the 2D sequel to $29M.) Believe it or not, I’m told the filmmakers debated whether or not shooting a film in 3D would mess up their comedic timing.

Exit polling showed the audience was 60% male, and 67% under age 25. Two of the biggest components of the Jackass 3D marketing campaign were premiering 10 minutes of 3D footage at Comic-Con via a mobile 3D screening room and the public spectacle of letting MTV’s Jersey Shore cast been seen watching and talking about the new film. There’s been relentless promotion by the Viacom sister company which first gave birth to the Jackass TV and movie franchise and even product licensing program (now featuring apparel, sunglasses, skateboards, even a Converse shoe, and hardbound book. As if Jackass fans read.) Last weekend, MTV marked the 10th anniversary of Jackass with 2 TV specials leading up to the film’s release: Jackass: The Beginning and The Making Of Jackass 3D featuring never-before-seen content from the gang: Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Ryan Dynn, Jason “Wee Man” Acuña, Preston Lacy, Dave England, and Ehren McGhehey. MTV also showed the franchise’s humble TV origins back in 2000 before it became a pop culture phenom. (P.S. The Making of Jackass 3D contains a visual of Deadline Hollywood. I couldn’t be more proud)

2. Red (Summit) NEW [3,255 Theaters]
Friday $7.3M, Saturday $9.2M, Weekend $22.5M

Every studio passed on making the stylish PG-13 comedy Red aimed at the adult audience except for Summit Entertainment: now the Robert Schwentke-directed pic features Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, and Bruce Willis — some of them as past-their-expiration-date assassins. That’s surprisingly strong considering the over-the-hill stars and subject matter. But the pic received an “A-” Cinemascore and 73% definite recommend. Exit polling showed the audience was 53% male, and 58% over age 35. In pre-release screenings, I’m told the film played as a crowd pleaser by mixing the right amount of action with humor based on witty lines and deft timing. It was tracking across all quadrants with the strongest being male moviegoers over age 30. But that cast was the #1 reason people went to see the film based on the cult DC Comics graphic novels by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner. Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Red’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 24, 2010 @ 11:52am PDTTags: Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, Mary Louise Parker, Morgan Freeman, Red Movie, Robert Schwentke Director Red, Summit Entertainment, Trailers, Video
Mike Fleming

Summit Entertainment has just released its new trailer for Red, the Robert Schwentke-directed film that stars Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, and John Malkovich and opens October 15th:

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