Five of the remaining contenders are from the Disney family; 'Kubo and the Two Strings' could be first animated film to get a nomination in this category since 1993
By Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter It’s been a chilly fall at the multiplex. North American box-office revenue was down 10 percent versus last year in the period between post-Labor Day and Oct. 31, after a number of titles got iced or didn’t fully deliver domestically. The saving grace: Year-to-date revenue is still running ahead of 2015’s by 3.4 percent. Ron Howard’s Inferno, the third installment in the Da Vinci Code series, is the latest blow. The movie, starring Tom Hanks, bombed in the U.S. over Halloween weekend with $14.9 million. ...
Because she’s best known for the CW soap opera satire Jane the Virgin, you might not realize that Gina Rodriguez is a bona fide badass. Rodriguez did all of her own stunts in the movie except for one: the climactic nine-story leap Williams and Fleytas would make to safety. “Insurance wouldn’t clear me,” a disappointed Rodriguez lamented to Yahoo Movies at the Toronto International Film Festival, where Deepwater premiered.
During a Facebook Live chat, actor reveals he and frequent collaborator David O. Russell want to reteam to tell story of Father Stu, a Montana athlete-turned-priest
The Damien Chazelle-directed movie musical took home TIFF’s coveted Audience Award, and appeared on many critics’ “Best of the Fest” lists. La La Land was one of our festival favorites as well, but, believe it or not, there are other films coming out this fall that are worthy of your time, attention, and dollars.
Deepwater Horizon marks the first acting collaboration between Kurt Russell and stepdaughter Kate Hudson. Russell told Yahoo Movies Tuesday at the Toronto International Festival that he actually wanted Kate, whom he raised with wife Goldie Hawn, to take a role in 1996’s Escape From L.A., his eye-patched action hero Snake Plissken’s follow-up to the the 1981 classic Escape From New York.
Peter Berg is about to get worked up. Berg feels there is an unfair public perception of the workers onboard the titular oil rig — particularly the 11 men who died in the 2010 explosion in the Gulf of Mexico — which he sites as a primary reason he wanted to make the film. “It’s such ignorance,” Berg (Lone Survivor, Friday Night Lights) told Yahoo Movies Tuesday at the Toronto International Film Festival, shortly before Deepwater premiered to anti-oil pipeline protestors outside the screening and then strong reviews from critics.
Peter Berg recreates the horrific tragedy with surprising success; could be one of the fall's biggest hits.
Peter Berg’s upcoming disaster thriller Deepwater Horizon gives faces to the men and women who were aboard the titular drilling rig when it was rocked by an explosion. Chief among those faces in the film version is Mark Wahlberg, who plays Deepwater Horizon’s southern-drawled crewman Mike Williams. Deepwater Horizon is the first of two films this fall from Berg and Wahlberg, along with the Boston marathon bombing drama Patriots Day, which examine real-life tragedy through the lens of a suspenseful actioner.
Jonathan Demme, Oliver Stone, and Mira Nair are just a few of the notable directors who will be bringing their latest films north of the border from Sept. 8-18
Fall film focuses on the 2010 BP oil rig fire and explosion that killed 11 crew members and caused the United States’ largest offshore oil spill in history
Lionsgate has released the first teaser-trailer for Deepwater Horizon with several scenes recreating the massive 2010 explosion that killed 11 men working on the platform. Wahlberg plays an electrician on the oil rig. The movie will mark the first onscreen pairing of Russell with Hudson.