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“Gracie and Pedro: Pets to the Rescue”, is a new CG-animated feature, directed by Kevin Donovan and Gottfried Roodt, starring Bill Nighy, Alicia Silverstone, Brooke Shields, Danny Trejo, Bianca Alongi, Claire Alan and Cory Doran, with streaming Tba:

“…’Gracie’ and ‘Pedro’ are family pets with nothing in common. Gracie is a snobby, purebred pooch who considers herself ‘Best in Show’, while Pedro is a brazen, rescue cat, preferring his dinner fresh from the trash.

“After the family undertakes a big move, Gracie and Pedro’s brawling destroys the airport baggage carousel, leaving the pets lost and stranded without their collars in a frightening and unknown world.

“What lies between the pets and reunification with their family is a daunting quest, packed with colorful characters and perilous adventures…

“…that forces Gracie and Pedro to accept what they have in common — they won’t quit on family.

“Meanwhile, Sophie and Gavin,...

The American Film Markets runs October 31-November 5

Screen International is rounding up the key projects launched before and during this year’s American Film Market.

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They Follow

The sequel to the 2014 cult horror It Follows with Maika Monroe reprising her role and David Robert Mitchell returning to direct. Neon will co-produce alongside Good Fear Content. Starts filming in early 2024.

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Bad Apples

Saoirse Ronan leads Jonatan Etzler’s English-language debut - a satirical comedy and thriller about a school teacher who locks one of her students in her basement. Produced by Pulse Films,...

Voice cast also includes Alicia Silverstone, Brooke Shields, Danny Trejo and Susan Sarandon.

Oscar-nominee Bill Nighy has been confirmed alongside Alicia Silverstone, Brooke Shields, Danny Trejo and Susan Sarandon in the voice cast for animated adventure comedy Gracie And Pedro’s (Not So) Awesome Adventure, which Hungarian outfit Luminescence is launching at the American Film Market (Oct 31-Nov 5).

The family adventure comedy follows dog Gracie and cat Pedro, whose brawling destroys the airport baggage carousel during the family’s big move, leaving the pets lost and stranded without their collars in a frightening world.

The film, now in late post-production,...

While Jackie Chan has always been an affable and comedic performer, even going back to his early martial arts films from the 1970s, something curious happened when he broke into the Hollywood mainstream in the late 1990s. Producers looked at Chan's playful, heroic, somewhat goofy charm and shifted it into overdrive. Chan's American films, as a result, tended to be incredibly broad, full of silly mugging, "culture clash" humor, and a general lack of stakes. Chan's first major American hit was Brett Ratner's "Rush Hour" in 1998, a serviceable but largely unremarkable police comedy wherein Chan played opposite Chris Tucker. That film was such a runaway success (it made over 244 million worldwide) that a pattern was immediately set for Chan. Pair him with an unlikely co-star, put him in generic action scenarios, and watch the money roll in. 

The next few years saw such pieces of mainstream fluff as Kevin Donovan...

Kevin Donovan's 2002 film "The Tuxedo," while certainly not critically beloved, began with a cute enough premise. An affable chauffeur (Jackie Chan) becomes the driver for a kindly government agent played by Jason Isaacs. When Isaacs is unexpectedly killed, Chan inherits his tuxedo. It turns out, though, that the Isaacs character was a James Bond-type spy, and his tuxedo is, in fact, a high-tech suit of armor that can robotically manipulate the limbs of its wearer. All of a sudden, a working-class schlub can fight like Jackie Chan. The character quickly becomes embroiled in a spy plot all his own. "The Tuxedo" should have been...

The post Jackie Chan's First Encounter With Steven Spielberg Sounds Extremely Delightful appeared first on /Film.

Phd, a one-stop shop “collective” founded by visual effects industry veterans John Hughes, Helena Packer and Kevin Donovan, has been launched in Los Angeles. Hughes is best known to the industry as one of the co-founders of VFX company Rhythm & Hues — he led that studio for 26 years. The company, which won three Oscars for Visual Effects also was heralded for creating its own proprietary software used to generate photo-realistic character animation and visual effects. That earned the company four scientific and engineering Academy Awards.

Rhythm & Hues Studios acquired visual effects house Vifx in 1999. Only a few years later, R&h laid off about 230 employees before it went into bankruptcy (2013) which then prompted a lawsuit from the Chapter trustee.

Related: Rhythm and Hues Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing

The new company from Hughes which takes its acronym Phd from its founders’ last names,...

The New York Knicks are one of basketball’s most storied franchises but they haven’t won an NBA title since 1973. Celebrity fans like Spike Lee, Woody Allen, and screenwriter William Goldman worshipped the star-studded — but team-first — Knicks teams of that championship era, and a generation of aging sportswriters refuse to let those hardwood legends die. Actor Michael Rapaport was only three years old when the Knicks won their last title, but he’s turned his yearning for those glory years into a documentary, When the Garden was Eden.

Rapaport’s movie, which is also part of Espn’s “30 for 30″ series,...

The world premiere of the 30 For 30 documentary When The Garden Was Eden marking actor Michael Rapaport’s feature directorial debut will kick off the Tribeca/Espn Sports Film Festival on April 17.

The line-up includes Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield taking part in an on-stage conversation as part of the Tribeca Talks series, as well as the world premiere of the documentary Maradona ‘86.

Each of the Tribeca/Espn Sports Film Festival films will screen throughout the festival and every one will screen again on April 26.

The Tribeca/Espn Sports Film Festival sponsored by Mohegan Sun will present a series of free, sports-related games and activities on Sports Day under the umbrella of the Tribeca Family Festival Street Fair on April 26.

The Tribeca Film Festival will run from April 16-27.

Tribeca/Espn Sports Film Festival

Synopses adapted from those provided by the festival.

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The world premiere of the 30 For 30 documentary marking actor Michael Rapaport’s feature directorial debut will kick off the Tribeca/Espn Sports Film Festival on April 17.

The line-up includes Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield taking part in an on-stage conversation as part of the Tribeca Talks series, as well as the world premiere of the documentary Maradona ‘86.

Each of the Tribeca/Espn Sports Film Festival films will screen throughout the festival and every one will screen again on April 26.

The Tribeca/Espn Sports Film Festival sponsored by Mohegan Sun will present a series of free, sports-related games and activities on Sports Day under the umbrella of the Tribeca Family Festival Street Fair on April 26.

The Tribeca Film Festival will run from April 16-27.

Tribeca/Espn Sports Film Festival

Synopses adapted from those provided by the festival.

Gala

When The Garden Was Eden (Us), dir Michael Rapaport.

Actor Michael Rapaport delivers his love letter to the Knicks in a fast-paced...

Toronto – Rob Ford is back in hot water after the gossip site Gawker claimed to have viewed a videotape of the Toronto mayor smoking crack cocaine. In a Thursday night post, Gawker’s John Cook said the video is for sale and shows Ford allegedly inhaling from a crack pipe within the last six months. Toronto Star newspaper reporter Kevin Donovan on Friday reported he has similarly seen the 90-second video clip in question where the city’s pratfall-prone mayor “appears to be smoking a crack pipe.” Gawker’s Cook gives a graphic account of sitting in a Toronto car

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-- At least 3 men accused of making threats during or after watching the new Batman movie have been arrested in separate incidents, underscoring moviegoers' anxieties and heightened security in the wake of a deadly mass shooting at a Colorado theater showing the film.

A Maine man was arrested when he told authorities that he was on his way to shoot a former employer a day after watching "The Dark Knight Rises," Maine state police said Monday.

Timothy Courtois of Biddeford, Maine, had been stopped for speeding, and a police search of his car found an Ak-47 assault weapon, four handguns, ammunition and news clippings about the mass shooting that left 12 people dead early Friday, authorities said.

Former graduate student James Holmes, 24, is accused of opening fire in a theater in a Denver suburb. The shooting also injured 58 people.

Courtois said he had attended the Batman movie on Saturday, although police...

Last we heard from Derek Gunn the Irish horror author was well on his way to becoming one of the busiest writers on the scene. His popular series, Vampire Apocalypse, was in feature film development with director Kevin Donovan (The Tuxedo) on board to direct, Descent into Chaos, the book's sequel, had just been released and a third part to the series was still on the way!

Now, word has come to us that Gunn has even sold an entirely new horror title to our favorite purveyors of Pa/Horror fiction, Permuted Press, called "The Estuary." The novel sounds intriguing (if a little ambiguous) and looks to be a step in another direction for Gunn.

The Estuary is a fast-paced, horror adventure tale, about a desperate plan formulated in the darkest years of an evil empire, which now threatens to engulf the residents of a small community in Southern Ireland.