Tag: Divergent
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Not Every Hollywood Hunk Needs To Be an Action Star
Watching Hollywood scramble to find new leading men throughout the 2010s movie scene was…interesting. With traditional launchpads for new leading men (namely comedies and romantic comedies) going out of fashion theatrically, studios pinned their hopes on fresh faces being able to revitalize old franchises. In the process, audiences got tastes of Jai Courtney (Terminator: Genisys),…
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Shailene Woodley: ‘Authenticity is my love language’
Despite being only 29, Shailene Woodley already has 25 years’ acting experience under her belt. Here, the star of Big Little Lies and Divergent talks about being free-willed, her hippy passions and her late-night calls with Kate WinsletThe one and only time Shailene Woodley beams during our time together – a long conversation over Zoom,…
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eOne seals UK and Ireland output and library deal with pay-tv broadcaster Sky
Titles from eOne’s library will be available to Sky Cinema customers.eOne has secured a pay-tv output deal with Sky covering the UK and Ireland for select new releases and almost 200 library titles.Catalogue titles in the deal include the Twilight and Divergent franchises, Young Victoria, Dallas Buyers Club and Looper.The new releases will include the…
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Shailene Woodley’s Career Nearly Ended Due to Illness in Her Early 20s
“Big Little Lies” star Shailene Woodley opened up about a health scare that almost ended her career in her early 20s.In an interview with The New York Times, Woodley revealed that she missed out on a lot of early roles because she was “very, very sick.”“I haven’t spoken much about this yet publicly, and I…
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‘The Batman’: Zoe Kravitz Says Playing Catwoman Is “A Little Scary” & Thinks Pattinson Is “Perfect” As Batman
Zoe Kravitz has had her fair share of franchise film experience. In her short career, she’s already starred in “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Divergent,” and “X-Men: First Class.” Let’s also not forget her role in the ‘Fantastic Beasts’ series. But in a new interview with Variety, she admits that tackling the upcoming film “The Batman”…
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‘Anaconda’ Reboot in the Works at Sony With ‘Divergent’ Writer
Sony Pictures is in early development of a reboot of the “Anaconda” franchise, hiring “Divergent” writer Evan Daugherty to write the project.The studio has not set up the project with a producer, director or actors.Sony released the original “Anaconda” in 1997 as a horror thriller starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz and…
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Lionsgate Says It’s Ready For Another ‘Hunger Games’ Film As Author Announces New Prequel Book Arriving In 2020
Much like any good fad, the Ya film genre that spawned from the ridiculous success of “Twilight” reached incredible heights but quickly fell back down to Earth after studios just flooded the marketplace. Franchises like “Divergent,” “The Maze Runner,” “Mortal Instruments,” and “I Am Number Four” were just several of many attempts to capitalize on…
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Doug Liman’s $100M ‘Chaos Walking’ Undergoes Reshoots After First Cut Deemed ‘Unreleasable’ — Report
When Lionsgate picked up the distribution rights to Patrick Ness’ “Chaos Walking” trilogy in 2011, it seemed that the home of such blockbuster adaptations as “The Twilight Saga” and “The Hunger Games” was lining up their next Ya-leaning smash hit. That market has, of course, changed in the intervening years — by the time the…
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Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston Movie ‘The Upside’ Lands at STX After Weinstein Co. Bankruptcy
STXfilms has acquired The Upside, the Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston-led remake of the French hit The Intouchables that found itself in limbo after The Weinstein Co. declared bankruptcy in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein accusations.Directed by Neil Burger (Divergent), The Upside is a heartfelt comedy about a recently paroled ex-convict (Hart) who strikes…
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‘The Darkest Minds’ Review: Amandla Stenberg Shines In the Kind of Ya Film They Don’t Make Anymore (For Good Reason)
In 2015, the four-film “Hunger Games” series wrapped its billion-dollar run with one final film, the bulkily-titled “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part Two.” It may have been the lowest-grossing entry in the series, but it still managed to make over $280 million at the domestic box office, the kind of money that similar Ya…