“The “Devil” bow ranks as the third-highest January debut overall, behind 2008′s “Cloverfield,” which bowed to $40.1 million, and the “Star Wars” reissue, with its $35.9 million opening in 1997. (Both of those pics launched mid- to late-January.)”
Read more via Variety.
Click through for a fascinating article from Ad Week on the future of Silicon Valley. Here’s a highlight:
“Advertisers and other publishers have pointed out for years now that assembling audiences, and selling advertising against them, makes these companies, ipso facto, media businesses. And that to survive when the inevitable next big innovation makes mass selling even cheaper, they have to lure big brand dollars onto their platforms, something they’ve struggled to accomplish so far. To do this, they may finally be forced not only to embrace the media label, but actually act like media companies, building context as naturally as they build functionality. It’s a need the technology companies are just beginning to grasp.”
Read the full article here.
Levin speaks about what network chiefs face as they take the stage during TV upfronts.
“I think the one of the more nerve wracking things about the upfront is the over-emphasis on the pilots themselves being judged as fully complete, finished programs, rather than as a step in the overall development process. I think there’s often times too much judgment and too concise a critical eye placed on pilots as a complete entity as compared to looking at them on whether or not they display potential,” Levin says.
Read the full story here via Media Life magazine.
“There’s a lot of curiosity as to how these new regimes are going to approach the new season,” says Levin, commenting on what will be revealed at this year’s broadcast-network upfronts.
Read the full story via THE WRAP.
Read more about plans for the British helmer to reinvent Japanese classic “Seven Samurai” via Variety.
SYDNEY — Sam Worthington is to return to his home town of Perth to star in new surfing film Drift, set in the south west of Australia, national film agency Screen Australia said Wednesday.
Generate client and Australian filmmaker Shane Abbess (“Gabriel”) will direct “7th Day,” a sci-fi thriller that “Source Code” scribe Ben Ripley is writing for the Dino De Laurentiis Co.
read the full story via variety.
Brit helmer Michael J. Bassett has signed on to direct supernatural horror pic “Saint Mary’s.”
Generate client and scribe behind “Solomon Kane” and “Silent Hill: Revelation 3D” will write the screenplay with Matthew Kingshott (creator and co-writer), who is developing the project with producer-composer James Edward Barker’s Veneration Music.
Check out the full story via Variety.
Elle Driver, the French sales group, will be financing an English-language remake of the Uruguayan horror film SILENT HOUSE, directed by Generate clients Chris Kentis and Laura Lau.
Check out the full announcement in Screen Daily.
Comedian Doug Benson’s hilarious new series The Benson Interruption premieres this Friday night 11/5 at Midnight (11pm Central) on Comedy Central. Based on the popular live show of the same name, The Benson Interruption features Doug Benson sitting on stage and interrupting his friends. Tune in and enjoy!
Check out Doug interrupting Nick Swardson by clicking on the show logo below:
