So why did a videogame based on “Fast & Furious 6” race to big success on mobile platforms, while a long-in-development console game based on the new “Star Trek Into Darkness” crash like the Enterprise did in the movie?
Deadline’s Nikki Finke and Jen Yamato have the inside scoop, part of a much bigger trend in Hollywood toward mobile and browser-based movie-based games. Read all the details here:
http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/movie-tie-in-games-star-trek-flops-fast-furious-6-tops/
Joseph Gordon-Levitt may have dropped the “addiction” from the title of his writer/director debut, but “Don Jon” still features the same hot cast and enough promise that it was snapped up for $4 million at Sundance a couple of months ago.
Deadline has the trailer, featuring Scarlett Johansson looking even more than usually fetching, and interesting roles for Julianne Moore, Tony Danza and others. Watch it here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/video-hot-trailer-don-john-joseph-gordon-levitt/
What do you think of the trailer? Looks pretty great, I think.
Claire Denis at the photocall for Les salauds at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
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The second trailer has surfaced for “The World’s End,” the latest collaboration between Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. That trio previously unleashed “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz” on an unsuspecting public. Now comes this drinking game/middle-aged buddy reunion/end of the world mashup that appears to have at least a few amusing moments.
See the whole thing here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/worlds-end-trailer-simon-pegg-video/
What do you think? Seems like it might be a fun one, at least for a Netflix night or VOD on the telly.
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Steven Soderbergh talks to Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr. about betting big on last year’s indie hit “Magic Mike.” He also talks in the extended interview with Mike about “Behind the Candelabra,” the HBO film that Soderbergh says will be his last, featuring Matt Damon and Michael Douglas as Liberace and his lover, Scott Thorson.
Read Soderbergh’s entire retirement interview with Mike here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/steven-soderbergh-retirement-interview/
It’s really terrific, as always when Mike finds the time in his crazy busy schedule (he’s helping cover the Cannes Film Festival for Deadline right now) for a long takeout with an industry notable. Check it out.
Straight off the Croisette, Deadline International Editor Nancy Tartaglione talks to me about the hot films, producers and projects at the Cannes Film Festival in our latest “Deadline Festivals & Markets Watch” podcast.
Among today’s topics: Can Keanu Reeves’ directorial debut help the booming Chinese film business bust through the Great Wall seemingly keeping its movies from worldwide success? How did the producers of “The Gunman,” starring Sean Penn, manage to get all their territories sold before a scene was shot? And what’s with that crime wave sweeping across the festival, led by a million-dollar heist of Chopard diamonds?
Listen to it all here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/deadline-festivals-markets-watch-podcast-cannes-2013-2/
Deadline has the latest exclusive trailer for “The Wolverine” with a splendid Hugh Jackman telling the character’s origin story here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/wolverine-trailer-hugh-jackman-movie-video/
Have to say it’s stuffed with a whole lot of coolness for 2 minutes, 33 seconds. What do you think? Looking forward to the film?
“The Heat” should do well this summer, AND will be one of the few female-skewing comedies out there (and yes, there’s probably a connection between those two facts, don’t you think?).
Who’s looking forward to the film, with Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock as cops?
(Source: deadline.com)
We have the trailer for “As Cool As I Am,” an IFC indie film with Sarah Bolger as a seriously underappreciated teen and Claire Danes and James Marsden as the one-time teen couple who play her wholly inadequate parents.
See the whole thing here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/as-cool-as-i-am-trailer-claire-danes-ifc-films/
What do you think of the trailer? I wasn’t impressed initially but liked it more as it played through.
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