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Summer 2013: Sleeper Movie Forecast

By JEN YAMATO | Monday April 29, 2013 @ 7:45pm PDTTags: Frances Ha, Fruitvale Station, Summer Movies, The Heat, The Spectacular Now, The To Do List, The Way Way Back

Anyone who predicts sleeper hits ahead of the summer is either very brave or very spun. But these are the pics expected to emerge through the cracks of tentpole action: All benefit from obvious counterprogramming, festival hype, and demo-targeted storytelling. In chronological order:

– IFC’s Frances Ha has high awareness among its targeted younger-skewing arthouse crowd and exhibitors. “It’s certainly getting talked about in the right places for the audience they’re going for,” one NATO member tells me. Star Greta Gerwig and director Noah Baumbach are indie darlings and scored a talked-about New Yorker piece last week that boosted their profile as a filmmaking couple. According to an IFC Films rep, it’s the sleeper they’re banking on when it releases May 17. “We think we’re going to get great word of mouth,” they tell me.

Kings Of Summer CBS Films – CBS Films has two indie pickups budgeted at under $2M each that they’ve slotted into the summer. Sundance pickup Kings Of Summer (formerly Toy’s House) stars three youngsters and has TV stars Alison Brie, Nick Offerman, and Megan Mullally supporting. The studio’s hoping for its Stand By Me-esque story to build momentum with a May 31 limited release. “It’s a movie about discovering in general — which people who see arthouse films spark to,” a studio insider tells me. “And discovery is part of what makes a sleeper hit”. CBS Films is hoping it becomes this year’s Salmon Fishing In The Yemen which was a surprise success for the studio last year.

– Upstart distrib A24 is new to the summer game and has two more youth-skewing pics on tap after scoring a minor youthquake with the sexploitation Spring Breakers in March. The first is Sofia Coppola’s Bling Ring will get a NY-LA limited opening June 14 two weeks after its Cannes premiere.
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Sequels On Tap For ‘The Heat’ And ‘Ride Along’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 23, 2013 @ 12:48pm PDTTags: Katie Dippold, Matt Manfredi, Phil Hay, Ride-Along, The Heat
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: You can always tell if a studio is bullish over the tracking of an upcoming film by whether they start the wheels moving on the sequel before the film even comes out. I’ve heard of two cases on upcoming … Read More »

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CinemaCon: Fox Unveils Ben Stiller’s ‘Secret Life Of Walter Mitty’ Which Could Be Oscar Bound

By PETE HAMMOND | Thursday April 18, 2013 @ 2:08pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox, Ben Stiller, Chris Aronson, CinemaCon, Jim Gianopulos, Melissa McCarthy, Sandra Bullock, The Heat, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Wolverine
Pete Hammond

20th Century Fox (“and it is called 20th Century Fox,” as Distribution President Chris Aronson wryly noted in his welcoming remarks) presented to theater owners at CinemaCon today. The highlight was about 12 minutes of selected scenes from the studio’s holiday release The … Read More »

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Paul Feig’s Feigco Taps Jessie Henderson As Exec Veep

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 16, 2013 @ 11:21am PDTTags: Feigco, Jessie Henderson, Paul Feig, The Heat
Mike Fleming

Paul Feig’s Feigco Entertainment has tapped Jessie Henderson to be the company’s executive vice president. Henderson, who leaves Chernin Entertainment to take this job, will be in charge of finding and developing new projects … Read More »

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‘The Heat’ Scribe Katie Dippold Makes 7-Figure Sale To Chernin Entertainment

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 3, 2013 @ 6:01pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Chernin Entertainment, Katie Dippold, Paul Feig, The Heat
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Chernin Entertainment and Fox are so convinced they have a hit in the Paul Feig-directed comedy The Heat with Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock that they moved the picture right into the heat of the July … Read More »

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Sony Moves ‘Evil Dead’ Into April 5 Slot After Fox Bumps ‘The Heat’ To Summer

By JEN YAMATO | Wednesday January 30, 2013 @ 12:55pm PSTTags: Evil Dead, FilmDistrict, Sony Pictures, The Heat

Evil Dead RemakeSony has shifted the release of its reboot with FilmDistrict of Evil Dead to April 5 now that Fox has moved its Sandra Bullock-Melissa McCarthy comedy … Read More »

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Hot Red Band Trailer: ‘The Heat’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday December 19, 2012 @ 8:15pm PSTTags: Melissa McCarthy, Paul Feig, Sandra Bullock, The Heat

This one provides a little more graphic look at Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy as reluctant partners in The Heat, written by Katie Dippold (Parks And Recreation) and directed by Bridesmaids‘ Paul Feig:

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Hot Trailer: Bullock & McCarthy In ‘The Heat’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday November 16, 2012 @ 7:55pm PSTTags: Melissa McCarthy, Sandra Bullock, The Heat

Think this will work? Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy play mismatched officers of the law who are forced together as partners to go after a drug lord. The Heat is directed by Bridesmaids‘ Paul Feig and written by Katie Dippold (Parks & Recreation). The 20th Century Fox … Read More »

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Movie Casting Round-Up: ‘Noah’ Adds A Wife, ‘The Heat’ Adds A Villain

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday August 9, 2012 @ 7:10am PDTTags: moving casting, Noah, The Heat

Madison Davenport has joined the cast of Noah. The teen will play the role of Na’el in the Darren Aronofsky-directed film. Noah also stars Russell Crowe, Anthony Hopkins, Logan Lerman, Jennifer Connelly and Emma Watson. In … Read More »

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‘Mad TV’s Michael McDonald Joins Paul Feig’s ‘The Heat’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 1, 2012 @ 8:19am PDTTags: Melissa McCarthy, Michael McDonald, Paul Feig, Sandra Bullock, The Heat
Mike Fleming

Michael McDonald, a standout performer for a decade on the Fox series Mad TV, has joined the cast of the 20th Century Fox Paul Feig-directed buddy comedy The Heat, which stars Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. He will play a … Read More »

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Demian Bichir Takes ‘The Heat’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday July 30, 2012 @ 4:26pm PDTTags: Demian Bichir, Melissa McCarthy, Sandra Bullock, The Heat
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Demian Bichir has joined The Heat, the Paul Feig-directed comedy that stars Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. It is the first studio comedy for Bichir, who was Oscar nominated … Read More »

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Paul Feig’s ‘The Heat’ Adds Online Comic Spoken Reasons

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday June 28, 2012 @ 1:16pm PDTTags: Fox, Movie Casting, Paul Feig, Sandra Bullock, The Heat, YouTube

EXCLUSIVE: Leaping from YouTube to the big screen, Spoken Reasons has been added to the cast of The Heat. The online comedy star joins Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy in the Paul Feig-directed … Read More »

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