Tag: White Boy Rick
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Bel Powley to Star With Pete Davidson in Judd Apatow Comedy at Universal
Bel Powley, the star of “Diary of a Teenage Girl” and “White Boy Rick,” is set to star as the female lead opposite Pete Davidson in an untitled comedy Davidson co-wrote with director Judd Apatow at Universal, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.It was also recently announced that comedian Bill Burr would…
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‘The House With a Clock in Its Walls’ Tops Studios’ TV Ad Spending
In this week’s edition of the Variety Movie Commercial Tracker, powered by the TV advertising attention analytics company iSpot.tv, Universal Pictures claims the top spot in spending with “The House With a Clock in Its Walls.”Ads placed for the fantasy film had an estimated media value of $5.81 million through Sunday for 1,315 national ad…
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‘The Predator’ Leads the Weekend, But May Not Break Even at the Box Office
With a $24 million opening, “The Predator” easily took the top spot this weekend after “The Nun” proved to be no contest with a 66 percent fall. An unusual total of four new wide releases made the Top 10, with the female-oriented “A Simple Favor” doing a decent $16 million, while “White Boy Rick” (Sony)…
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‘The Predator’ Targets Weekend #1; ‘Simple Favor’, ‘White Boy Rick’ & ‘Unbroken’ Also Debut
On the heels of The Nun‘s strong start to the fall season, this weekend sees the release of Fox’s The Predator, which should top the weekend box office, though a cloud of controversy may stall what might have been a larger performance. Also releasing this weekend is the Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick thriller A…
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‘The Predator’ Tops Studios’ TV Ad Spending
In this week’s edition of the Variety Movie Commercial Tracker, powered by the TV advertising attention analytics company iSpot.tv, Twentieth Century Fox claims the top spot in spending with “The Predator.”Ads placed for the sci-fi thriller had an estimated media value of $6.55 million through Sunday for 1,523 national ad airings on 34 networks. (Spend…
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Telluride: With ‘White Boy Rick,’ Matthew McConaughey Could Score a Supporting Actor Nom
As can be attested by anyone who has seen the 2014 film ‘71 — an indie about a British soldier caught behind enemy lines in Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles — the French filmmaker Yann Demange is an extremely talented guy. But his first Hollywood pic, White Boy Rick, which came in…
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Telluride Film Review: ‘White Boy Rick’
Everybody in “White Boy Rick” seems to be running some kind of scam. The title character (newcomer Richie Merritt), née Richard Wershe, Jr., and his huckster dad have some kind of borderline-illegal gun business going. His sister’s a teenage drug addict dating a shady dude who offers her a ticket out of their sad Detroit…
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‘Operation Finale’ Tops Studios’ TV Ad Spending
In this week’s edition of the Variety Movie Commercial Tracker, powered by the TV advertising attention analytics company iSpot.tv, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer claims the top spot in spending with “Operation Finale.”Ads placed for the drama had an estimated media value of $4.04 million through Sunday for 968 national ad airings on 29 networks. (Spend figures are based…
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Sony Moves Tarantino’s Manson Pic, Dates ‘Zombieland 2’ & ‘Little Women’
Sony has announced a slew of release dates and moves. The studio set the newly greenlighted Zombieland 2 for October 2019 and will open Little Women on Christmas Day that year. It also moved the opening of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood back by two weeks to August 9, 2019. Meanwhile, Sony…