23 May 2013
By Studio System News Staff 
NEW ATTACHMENTS Legacy of Secrecy Logline: The story of how FBI informant Jack Van Laningham allegedly obtained a confession from mob boss Carlo Marcello to having ordered the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Based on true events. Studio/Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros....
Read more → 22 May 2013
By Paul Dergarabedian, Hollywood.com 
Memorial weekend 2013 is shaping up to be a potential record-breaker at the box office and no wonder given three high-profile debuts set for release and a solid lineup of holdovers. Could this be the weekend to beat 2011’s Top 50 four-day (F-S-S-M) frame total of $276,290,321 and potentially rank...
Read more → 20 May 2013
By Diane Panosian 
Veronica Mars and Zach Braff have thrown crowdfunding into the headlines. But online film finance isn't just about high-profile names and projects. Crowdfunding and equity funding sites represent not only the best tools to fund your next project, they're also an ideal venue for discovering today's most...
Read more → 20 May 2013
By Studio System News Staff 
STARTS This is Where I Leave You Start: 5/10/2013 Logline: A Jewish father's last wish is that his nonreligious family sit shiva for him. Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures Production Company: 21 Laps Entertainment, Spring Creek Pictures Director: Shawn Levy Producers: Paula Weinstein, Jeff Levine,...
Read more → 19 May 2013
By Paul Dergarabedian, Hollywood.com 
Paramount Pictures You won't need to break out your Vulcan mind meld to figure out that Star Trek Into Darkness has landed atop the weekend box office with boffo 'bucks in tow. The sci-fi action epic raked in a total of $84 million domestically on its Thursday through Sunday run. The film opened...
Read more → 17 May 2013
By Paul Dergarabedian, Hollywood.com 
We knew this was going to happen, but in just 23 days?! According to Walt Disney Pictures, Marvel’s Iron Man 3 crossed the $1 billion threshold at the global box office on May 16, in 23 days of global release. This is the second Marvel Studios film and the sixth Walt Disney Studios release to reach...
Read more → 17 May 2013
By Aimee Manis 
The First in a Series on the Fate of the Screenwriter in Today's Hollywood Talk to any screenwriter—a newbie, a veteran, an A-Lister—and you’re sure to hear the same worrying refrain. The Hollywood landscape has gone through vast changes in recent years, and all of them seemingly at the screenwriter’s...
Read more → 16 May 2013
By Paul Dergarabedian, Hollywood.com 
The venerable Star Trek brand has its phasers set to stun audiences this weekend with Paramount's Star Trek: Into Darkness. This weekend, director J.J. Abrams brings the frenetically brilliant second installment of his re-booted vision of the franchise to a combined total of 3,868 IMAX and traditional...
Read more → 16 May 2013
By Studio System News Staff 
NEW ATTACHMENTS Mission: Impossible 5 Logline: Storyline is under wraps. Studio: Paramount Pictures Production Company: Skydance Productions, Bad Robot Producers: J.J. Abrams, Tom Cruise, David Ellison Writer: Drew Pearce Details: Based on the Paramount Television series Mission: Impossible created...
Read more → 15 May 2013
By Randy Johnson 
When a franchise has been around as long as Star Trek, and when so many of us have been raised with Star Trek from the very beginning, the opportunity for a Trekkie—or Trekkers, or whatever we're called now—to rank the feature films from top to bottom is an irresistible impulse, providing fodder...
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