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Feb252025 by cineverseNo Comments

Technicolor Begins to Shut Down Operations ‘Due to Inability to Find New Investors

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By Carolyn Giardina According To The variety Following a weekend during which it tried to make 11th hour deals to save the company and its brands, Technicolor Group CEO Caroline Parot sent a memo to employees Monday, writing “due to inability to find new investors for the full Group, despite extensive efforts, [Paris-headquartered] Technicolor Group has filed for Court ‘recovery procedure’ before the French Court of Justice to give a chance to enable to find solutions.” Technicolor encompasses VFX giant MPC (“Mufasa,” “The Lion King”), commercial VFX brand The Mill, Mikros Animation and Technicolor Games. A total shutdown of MPC and Technicolor’s operations would affect thousands of visual effects workers in countries include the U.S., UK, Canada and India. T...

Feb242025 by cineverseNo Comments

Conclave’ Cast Reacts to Pope Francis Being in Critical Condition: ‘I Really Wish Him Well’

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By Katcy Stephan According To The variety As Pope Francis remains in critical condition with early kidney failure, the events of “Conclave” have never felt more timely. The cast of the movie, who took home the top honor of best film ensemble at Sunday night’s SAG Awards, took a moment to send well wishes to Pope Francis during the ceremony. “First of all, we would like to wish Pope Francis a quick recovery,” star Isabella Rossellini said before the cast teed up a montage of the film. When the “Conclave” ensemble was later asked in the winners’ room about their thoughts on Pope Francis’ recent health issues and the potential for a real-life conclave in the near future, Rossellini stepped up to the press room mic, citing her perspective as an Italian woman. “P...

Feb232025 by cineverseNo Comments

Box Office: ‘The Monkey’ Drums Up $5.8 Million Opening Day, ‘Captain America’ Gets Second Term on Top

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By J. Kim Murphy According To The variety Neon’s horror comedy “The Monkey” is seeing and doing a strong opening weekend, though it’ll take silver at the box office behind Disney’s “Captain America: Brave New World,” still on top of the charts but facing a substantial tumble in its second weekend. “The Monkey” chopped into an estimated $5.8 million from 3,200 theaters across Friday and preview screenings. That puts it on track for Neon’s second-biggest opening weekend ever, only falling behind director Osgood Perkins‘ prior horror film at the banner, last summer’s breakout “Longlegs.” Reviews have been positive for this follow-up, though audiences are mixed with ticketbuyer survey firm Cinema Score logging a “C+.” Horror films skew lower in those polls though; beyond that, “Long...

Feb222025 by cineverseNo Comments

George Armitage, ‘Grosse Pointe Blank’ and ‘Miami Blues’ Director, Dies at 83

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By Pat Saperstein According To The variety George Armitage, who directed, wrote and produced films including “Grosse Pointe Blank” and “Miami Blues,” died Saturday in Playa del Rey, his son Brent confirmed. He was 83. Raised in Hartford, Conn., Armitage started out in the 20th Century Fox mailroom before becoming associate producer on the long-running series “Peyton Place” in the 1960s. He met Roger Corman on the Fox lot and moved into feature films, writing the Corman-produced 1970 comedy “Gas! – Or – It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It.” He continued making films for Corman and his brother Gene Corman, moving into directing with “Private Duty Nurses.” The 1972 Blaxploitation film “Hit Man,” which he directed and co-wrote, starred Pam Grier and Bernie Cas...

Feb182025 by cineverseNo Comments

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ Weighs Cannes Film Festival Debut

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By Elsa Keslassy, Nick Vivarelli According To The variety Ethan Hunt could be hitting the Croisette. Though no decision has been made, “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning” is weighing a Cannes Film Festival bow, which could see Tom Cruise injecting some serious star power into the event. Paramount, which declined to comment for this article, will be releasing the movie in theaters on May 21, which falls during the second week of the festival. The film is intended to be Cruise’s last outing as the IMF spy. Paramount has a rich history with the festival, and so does Cruise, whose last trip to Cannes — for “Top Gun: Maverick” in 2022 — was a triumph. The movie went on to gross $1.45 billion at the worldwide box office and even garnered six Oscar nominations...

Feb172025 by cineverseNo Comments

Roschdy Zem Set for Psychodrama ‘Elisa — I Wanted to Kill Her’ Directed by Leonardo Di Costanzo (EXCLUSIVE)

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By Nick Vivarelli According To The variety French-Moroccan multi-hyphenate Roschdy Zem (“Days of Glory,” “The Innocent”) and Italy’s Barbara Ronchi (“Kidnapped”) are set to star in psychological drama “Elisa — Io la volevo uccidere” by Italian director Leonardo Di Costanzo (“The Inner Cage,” “The Intruder”). Zem, who is one of France’s most bankable actors, will play a compassionate criminologist named Alaoui, whose life intersects with a young woman named Elisa, played by Ronchi. Elisa comes from a middle class family and has been in prison for 10 years for brutally killing her sister. Rounding off the cast is Diego Ribon (“Doc”), who plays Elisa’s father. Shooting is set to start March 1 on “Elisa — Io la volevo uccidere,” which is the film’s Italian worki...

Feb122025 by cineverseNo Comments

New Berlinale Chief Tricia Tuttle on Political Furor and ‘Bold, Exciting’ Cinema: ‘Filmmakers Are Noting That We Live in a Crazy, Divisive WorldBy

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By Leo Barraclough According To The variety The Berlin Film Festival prides itself on being a political event, which dates back to its inception in 1951 as a beacon of democracy in West Berlin, surrounded by Communist East Germany in the Cold War era. This year’s edition, the festival’s 75th, takes place in the final two weeks of a federal election in Germany that is expected to see a lurch to the right, with the right-wing Alternative for Germany party doubling down on its anti-refugee rhetoric. This makes the position of the director of the Berlinale, as it is known locally, all the more challenging, especially as the director reports to the German federal government and the festival derives the bulk of its funding from the federal government and the state of Berlin....