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Summer Movies in Review: Lone Rangers and Game Changers
Variety's critics debate the highs and lows of an unusually paranoid and post-apocalyptic summer movie season.
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COVER STORY: How China’s Homegrown Biz Is Threatening Hollywood’s Payday
Is Hollywood doing something wrong, or are Chinese filmmakers doing something right? Both, which is why American studios need to quickly rethink their roles and goals. Some already are.
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Study Suggests Studios Aren’t Offering Enough Online Legal Options to Counter...
Adding to a growing body of competing data on who bears the blame for rampant online infringement, two George Mason U scholars unveiled a website that claims that few of the most pirated movies are...
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PHOTOS: Hollywood Film Awards Honorees
It’s clear that 2013 is an exceptionally exciting year for films that quicken the pulses of movie fans and ratchet up the stakes for the annual awards season derby.
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Chinese Box Office Set for More Explosive Growth
China's appetite for movies -- both American and local -- is far from being satisfied, setting up the Chinese box office for more explosive growth in coming years.
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Visual Effects: F/X Lighting Goes to 11
One of the challenges in f/x has long been to match the lighting of the special effect, be it a model, a miniature, or a digital element, to the live-action “plates” for the same scene. This year...
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China Box Office Delivers 27% Surge in 2013
China’s box office grew by 27% in 2013, rising from $2.7 billion (RMB17 billion) in 2012 to an estimated $3.57 billion (RMB21.6 billion) last year.
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Japanese Films Thump Hollywood at 2013 Japan Box Office
Japanese pics again delivered a solid beating to the Hollywood competition at the local box office in 2013.
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Comic-Con: Guillermo Del Toro on His New Black and White Film and Call Out to...
He’s got the greenlight for “Pacific Rim 2,” is editing “Crimson Peak,” is a producer on “The Strain” and “Book of Life” and a writer on “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.” But what...
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‘Pacific Rim 2’ Pushed Back to Summer 2017
Universal has shifted and set the dates for many of its big upcoming movies, including “Warcraft,” “The Mummy” reboot and “Pacific Rim 2.” “Pacific Rim 2” has been pushed from April 2, 2017, to August...
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‘Pacific Rim’ Sequel Delayed Indefinitely
Legendary Pictures is putting its “Pacific Rim” sequel on an indefinite hold. Guillermo del Toro committed in June, 2014, to making a sequel to “Pacific Rim” with Universal scheduling the release for...
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‘Crimson Peak’ Costume Designer Mixes Frills and Chills for Victorian Story
Kate Hawley has long lamented — mostly in jest — that on her films, she never gets to design the lovely “frocks” she does for the stage. “Every time my agent rings, I go, ‘Please tell me it’s a frock...
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COVER STORY: How China’s Homegrown Biz Is Threatening Hollywood’s Payday
Is Hollywood doing something wrong, or are Chinese filmmakers doing something right? Both, which is why American studios need to quickly rethink their roles and goals. Some already are.
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Newcomer Cailee Spaeny Lands Female Lead in ‘Pacific Rim 2’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Actress and pop singer Cailee Spaeny has landed the female lead in Legendary’s “Pacific Rim 2” the sequel to the 2013 sci-fi hit. John Boyega will play the male lead in “Pacific Rim 2” and Scott...
View ArticleWith ‘The Shape of Water,’ Guillermo del Toro Realizes a Lifelong Monster Dream
Guillermo del Toro is a hugger. Not a facehugger, like those nasty creatures in Ridley Scott’s “Alien” — a film whose Lovecraftian monsters both scarred and inspired del Toro when he first saw it at...
View ArticleKorea Box Office: ‘Pacific Rim: Uprising’ Eases Aside ‘Be With You’
“Pacific Rim: Uprising” debuted on top of the South Korean box office. Opening on Wednesday, the UPI release earned $6.38 million from 858,000 admissions over five days. That is lower than the $11.2...
View ArticleNetflix Unveils Five Original Anime Shows
Global streaming giant Netflix has unveiled five anime shows as exclusive original series and features. They range from spin-offs of global film properties to a Philippines-set fantasy. “At Netflix, we...
View Article‘Pacific Rim’ Anime Series Heads Huge Netflix Originals Slate in Asia
A “Pacific Rim” anime series and Chinese-language “Triad Princess” are among a slate of new shows unveiled by Netflix on Thursday, part of the global streaming giant’s push to expand significantly its...
View ArticleGuillermo Del Toro Reveals Why He Didn’t Direct ‘Pacific Rim’ Sequel, Says He...
Guillermo del Toro revealed he had to drop out of directing the sequel to his 2013 kaiju blockbuster “Pacific Rim” due to scheduling conflicts with “The Shape of Water.” The director walked away from...
View Article‘Pacific Rim’ Prequel Series in Development at Legendary Entertainment Under...
Legendary Entertainment has entered into a first-look television deal with Eric Heisserer, Variety has learned exclusively. Under the deal, Heisserer and Carmen Lewis — with whom Heisserer founded the...
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