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The battle between Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively continues, and this latest update is just bizarre, although it does offer a glimpse into his perhaps...not-so-great character. The director of It Ends With Us, who is currently in a battle with the film's star regarding a plethora of issues, is being represented by attorney Bryan Freedman in this case. However, in what sounds like a true movie moment, Freedman once represented someone else who had accused Baldoni of nefarious activities. In this case, stealing their screenplay.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Freedman filed a lawsuit on behalf of Travis Flores in 2021 after Flores made the assertion that he wrote a screenplay for a film called Three Feet Distance that was based on his life. If that title sounds a little familiar, it's because Baldoni made a film called Five Feet Apart in 2019, which served as his directorial debut and was said...

Justin Baldoni returned to the directorial chair in 2024 with It Ends With Us, which was a smash hit. However, the actor and director had made his directorial debut a few years earlier with 2019's Five Feet Apart.

Justin Baldoni started his career in the film industry as an actor and his most defining role was the one of Rafael Solano in the CW satirical series Jane the Virgin. Following the end of the series, Baldoni made a career shift and focused more on work behind the camera. His directorial debut came in 2019 with CBS Films' Five Feet Apart, which is now streaming for free on Tubi amid the drama with It Ends With Us.

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It Ends with Us has generated a great deal of buzz. Being adapted from the beloved yet controversial book of the same name by Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us is a surprise box office hit, grossing over $50 million in its opening weekend, exceeding tracking expectations. Plenty of elements played into the movie's big opening, but one was buzz about behind-the-scenes conflict with star Blake Lively and director/co-star Justin Baldoni, as many noted neither did promotion for the film together and were not photographed at the film's world premiere. Some reports suggest that Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, overtook the production, taking control away from Baldoni, while other reports paint Baldoni as difficult to work with.

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Verve is bolstering its Media Rights team with the hire of senior publishing agent Jenni Ferrari-Adler.

Ferrari-Adler will be based in Verve’s New York office, working with Partner Liz Parker and IP Agent Noah Ballard to further expand the Media Rights team.

Having previously served at Union Literary for over a decade, Ferrari-Adler was key to cultivating the agency’s successful cookbook portfolio and business endeavors. Her diverse representation spans recent New York Times bestsellers, Hello Sunshine Book Club and Read with Jenna picks. In addition to handling literary and commercial novels, she represents award-winning young adult and middle-grade novels, short story collections, graphic memoirs, narrative non-fiction, and cookbooks. Noteworthy clients under her representation include Jennifer Baker, Aya de Leon, Ariel Djanikian, Amy Kurzweil, Neel Patel, Ana Reyes, Gerardo Samano Cordova, and Susie Yang.

Ferrari-Adler previously edited the anthology Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone.

Exclusive: Lionsgate is pushing the theatrical releases of this August’s White Bird: A Wonder Story and next year’s Dirty Dancing sequel from director Jonathan Levine due to the dual WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike, we hear.

White Bird, the spin-off prequel to the studio’s 2017 box office smash Wonder, was set to launch limited on Aug. 18 and go wider on Aug. 25. It’s now undated for Q4 at the end of this year. That leaves the last weekend in August without a wide theatrical release, which isn’t that unusual for that point in summer. White Bird stars Helen Mirren and Gillian Anderson, and it’s the type of movie that really needs the push from its actors to raise it above the fray. Now it’s in the Oscar season corridor, which is a better spot than the dog days of August. Best to wait the strike out.

Actresses Antonia Gentry and Haley Lu Richardson have been named ambassadors for the 29th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, SAG announced Wednesday.

The SAG Awards will be broadcast live on Netflix’s YouTube channel Feb. 26 at .5 p.m. Pt from the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

​​”SAG Awards Ambassadors are actors who exemplify the utmost values of the profession and are positive role models for the next generation of performers,” the release states. “These individuals actively use their platform to advocate for humanitarian and public service endeavors.”

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Gentry (“Ginny & Georgia”) and Richardson (“The White Lotus”) will present the show in addition to taking viewers behind the scenes of the ceremony, and they will participate in pre-show events like the SAG Awards Ambassador Dinner presented by Campari, the official...

Exclusive: Verve has made several key promotions this week across the motion picture and television literary teams with Partners Felicia Prinz and Chris Noriega being upped to Co-Heads overseeing the Television Literary Team, Parker Davis and Liz Parker will assume the Co-Head mantle of the Motion Picture Literary Team, and Tyler Reynolds has been promoted to head the Television Director Team. Reynolds will report to Prinz and Noriega. In these newly created positions, Prinz, Noriega, Davis, Parker, and Reynolds will be responsible for the day-to-day management of their respective teams while working alongside the Partnership to streamline decision making, communication and to provide strategic support.

“As Verve continues to scale, we realize that empowering our valuable colleagues is the best way to maintain our unique work culture while providing the best creative representation in the business,” said the Partnership. “Felicia, Chris, Parker, Liz, and Tyler are highly respected by their colleagues,...

Lionsgate announced this afternoon that their Dirty Dancing sequel starring Jennifer Grey will hit theaters on Feb. 9, 2024.

Deadline first reported about the project, which Jonathan Levine is directing off a screenplay by Elizabeth Chomko, Jonathan Levine, Mikki Daughtry, Tobias Iaconis. In part 2, Baby (Grey) takes us back to Kellerman’s Resort for a story of summer, young romance, and dancing. That weekend is the pre-Valentine’s Day weekend and right now Universal has an untitled animation film on the calendar.

In addition, Lionsgate’s feature take of Judy Blume’s 1970 novel Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret will now open April 28, 2023 instead of Sept. 16 this year. Universal recently moved DreamWorks’ Distant off that date to Jan. 27, 2023. While I hear Lionsgate likes the new pre-summer date for the Judy Blume movie, I’m wondering now if New Line’s feature take of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot in the previous Sept.

Are you ready for another scary YA-like kids story? Netflix’s new film “Nightbooks” places its morbid storytelling directly in the hands of one special boy. His talents are put to the test after encountering a witch with a taste for terrifying tales. This adaptation of J.A. White’s book harkens back to classic ‘80s fantasy and horror like “Labyrinth.” The film features a screenplay from Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis; both Daughtry and Iaconis are well aware of genre content, having worked on 2019’s “The Curse of La Llorona.”

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Director David Yarovesky once again focuses on the dark details that surround youth.

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Watch Krysten Ritter wield her witchy ways to get two children who she trapped in her apartment to tell her scary stories every night or else, in the new trailer for Nightbooks. It's scary enough for the whole family. "I'm going to need a story every night. Or it's the last thing you'll ever do."

The official synopsis reads, "Alex (Winslow Fegley) is a creative boy with a strong passion for writing scary stories. But when he's labeled weird and rejected for what he likes, he swears he'll never write again. That's when an evil witch (Krysten Ritter), captures him in her magical apartment in New York City and demands that he tell her a new tale every night if he wants to stay alive. Trapped inside with Lenore, the witch's spiteful cat watching his every move, Alex meets Yasmin (Lidya Jewett), another young prisoner who has learned how to survive the witch's wicked whims.

Exclusive: Following the promotion of Roberto Larios to Agent just before the holidays last year, Verve has started the new year with the hire of Literary Agent Noah Ballard, expanding its Publishing team. The hire will also epxand its New York presence with Ballard being based in the agency’s New York offices.

Ballard, a University of Nebraska grad, began his career working for Emma Sweeney at her eponymous agency before moving over to Curtis Brown, where he has been an agent for the last six years. Named by Writer’s Digest as a “Top Literary Agent to Follow on Twitter”, Ballard’s clients include Cinelle Barnes (Monsoon Mansion), Julie Dicaro (Sidelined), Josh Gondelman (Nice Try) and Tochi Onyebuchi.

“As Verve enters its twelfth year, we are excited to continue our strategic approach to growing the agency and are thrilled to announce the hire of Literary...

'Dirty Dancing' sequel is moving forward without Johnny Castle, the character originally played by the late Patrick Swayze.

In August, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer surprised fans of the film by reportedly confirming that a follow-up to the 1987 cult-classic was on the way, with Jennifer Grey reprising her role as Frances 'Baby' Houseman as well as serving as an executive producer, reports NME.

In an interview with People Grey, 60, has now revealed that the film will not recast Patrick Swayze’s character and instead will go in a different direction to its beloved predecessor.

Swayze, who played Baby’s love interest in the original film, sadly passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2009.

“All I can say is there is no replacing anyone who’s passed… you never try to repeat anything that’s magic like that. You just go for something different,” she said.

She also explained why she...

This summer, fans of Dirty Dancing learned that they would be having the time of their lives all over again, with Lionsgate officially confirming that a sequel to the 1987 romantic hit is in the works. Made famous by the infectious chemistry of stars Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, many wondered how the follow-up will approach Swayze's character, Johnny, following the actor's untimely passing in 2009. Well, Grey has now confirmed that there will be no attempt to recast the role, and that instead Dirty Dancing 2 will go in a different direction to its beloved predecessor.

"All I can say is there is no replacing anyone who's passed - you never try to repeat anything that's magic like that. You just go for something different."

No doubt Grey's assurance that Patrick Swayze and his legacy will remain intact, and that there will no efforts made to replace him or the character of Johnny,...

Exclusive: Jessica Jones star Krysten Ritter, Winslow Fegley And Lidya Jewett are set to star in the Netflix family pic Night Books with David Yarovesky on board to direct. Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert will produce through Ghost House Pictures along with Mxn Entertainment’s Mason Novick and Michelle Knudsen.

Based on the J.A. White horror-fantasy children’s book, the story follows Alex (Fegley), a boy obsessed with scary stories, who is imprisoned by an evil young witch (Ritter) in her contemporary New York City apartment. He meets Yasmin (Jewett), who is also trapped there, and learns he must tell a new scary story every night in order to stay alive.

Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis will adapt the script. Ghost House Pictures’ Romel Adam will exec produce and Mxn Entertainment’s Tracy Kopulsky will co-produce.

Yarovesky broke on to the scene with his horror pic The Hive in 2014 and...

In this episode of Everything is Canon, Steve talks with Mikki Daughtry and Rachael Lippincott all about their great new book All This Time! Coming off Five Feet Apart, a New York Times bestseller, All This Time is a fairy-tale inspired teen romance novel adapted by Rachael, based on Mikki and her partner Tobias Iaconis’s […]

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Because having the time of your life just once was not enough, a sequel to the 1987 romantic hit, Dirty Dancing, has now been confirmed to be coming from Lionsgate. And, because nobody puts baby in the corner, star of the original movie, Jennifer Grey, has also been confirmed to return. The news comes following weeks of rumors that a Dirty Dancing 2 would be sashaying its way onto the silver screen.

Along with the news that Jennifer Grey will reprise her role as Frances "Baby" Houseman, Dirty Dancing 2 will reportedly be produced by Jonathan Levine, whose previous directing credits include the Seth Rogen comedies 50/50 and Long Shot, as well as the zombie rom-com Warm Bodies from 2013. Levine will produce the project alongside Gillian Bohrer from a screenplay by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis. Jennifer Grey will also be executive producing. Currently, there is no word on who will direct,...

A new “Dirty Dancing” movie is in the works at Lionsgate that will bring back the 1987 original’s star Jennifer Grey to both star and executive produce and that will be directed by Jonathan Levine, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer announced on its earnings call Thursday.

The studio also announced that a fifth “John Wick” movie, this one arriving after the planned “John Wick 4,” will hit theaters in 2022. The studio plans to shoot both movies in the action franchise back to back as soon as star Keanu Reeves becomes available.

Rumors of a “Dirty Dancing” remake or reboot have been circulating for some time, even without the late Patrick Swayze returning. And ABC did a TV movie update on the story back in 2017 starring Abigail Breslin, Sarah Hyland and Colt Prattes.

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Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer confirmed what we first told you back in mid-July, in what he billed as “one of the worst kept secrets in Hollywood”: Jennifer Grey is starring and executive producing a new Dirty Dancing movie at the mini-major.

Warm Bodies director Jonathan Levine is shepherding the project with Gillian Bohrer from a screenplay by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis.

The first Dirty Dancing movie was released in 1987 by Vestron and grossed $218 million at the global box office off a $5M production cost. The pic won an Oscar and Golden Globe for the original song “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” by Frank Previte, John DeNicola and Donald Markowitz. At the Globes, Dirty Dancing was nominated in the comedy/musical category with nods for Patrick Swayze as comedy/musical actor and as well as Grey in the best actress category.

A new Dirty Dancing movie may be in the works with original star Jennifer Grey. This has yet to be confirmed, but Lionsgate has partnered with Grey for a new dancing movie that doesn't have an official title yet. But it is neither confirmed nor denied at this point that a sequel to the iconic 80s classic is indeed happening. What's more, it's said that the movie will be taking place in the 90s.

According to a new report, Jennifer Grey has been set to star in and executive produce this new mysterious dance movie. Details are currently being kept under wraps but there are "rumblings" that this is a new Dirty Dancing movie. The story also states that those with knowledge of the project aren't confirming or refuting the idea at this point. Whether or not Grey would reprise her role as Baby remains to be seen, assuming it...

There may be another “Dirty Dancing” movie in the works.

Original star Jennifer Grey is collaborating with Lionsgate on an untitled dance movie in which she will star and executive produce.

The studio refuses to comment on whether the project, set in the 1990s, will bring back Grey’s Frances “Baby” Houseman character. “Dirty Dancing” starred Patrick Swayze as Grey’s dance instructor and romantic interest, along with Jerry Orbach and Kelly Bishop as Grey’s parents. The original film was set in 1963 at a Catskills resort.

Megamix’s Jonathan Levine and Gillian Bohrer are shepherding the untitled project with a screenplay by the team of Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis, whose credits include “Five Feet Apart” and “The Curse of La Llorona.”

The original “Dirty Dancing” was released in 1987 by Vestron. It grossed $217 million at the worldwide box office and sold more than 1 million home video units. The song...

Exclusive: A new untitled dance movie is taking shape at Lionsgate, set in the 1990s and starring and executive produced by Dirty Dancing Golden Globe nominee Jennifer Grey. While details are being kept quiet, there’s some rumblings that a new Dirty Dancing movie could be in the works. Sources aren’t confirming, but they aren’t putting the idea in a corner either.

Lionsgate holds distribution rights to the Dirty Dancing films, and Grey, of course, played teenager Baby in that movie who falls for her Catskills resort dance instructor, Johnny Castle, played by the late Patrick Swayze. The first movie released in 1987 by Vestron racked up $218 million at the global box office off a $5M production cost, as well as an Oscar and Golden Globe win for the original song “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” by Frank Previte, John DeNicola and Donald Markowitz. At the Globes,...

Pitching projects during a pandemic is no easy task, but the WGA West is offering five tips on virtual pitch meetings. “As if the prospect of pitching wasn’t daunting already, writers now have to do it through the impersonal, virtual workplace that is the Zoom room,” the guild told its members today. “The subtle and stressful art of pitching is not made easier when you can’t read the room, make eye contact, or tell if the people in the tiny squares on your computer screen are laughing – or even paying attention.”

The guild’s recommendations stem from its recent “Pitch Perfect” panel discussion moderated by Spiro Skentzos that featured conversations with writers Annie Julia Wyman (The Chair), Mikki Daughtry (The Curse of La Llorona), and Tripper Clancy (I Am Not Okay With This); and executives Amy Suh, development executive of genre series at Amazon Studios, and Sheila Walcott,...

Exclusive: In the wake of winning a multi-studio and streamer auction for film rights to Judy Blume’s classic novel Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret this morning as Deadline broke, Lionsgate continues to strut its stuff in the Ya sphere. It is reteaming with Five Feet Apart filmmaker Justin Baldoni, who’ll direct a feature adaptation of Katie Khan’s novel Hold Back the Stars.

Baldoni, I hear, will direct and produce from a screenplay by Christy Hall, and the film will be produced by 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen.

Khan’s novel, from Gallery Books, focuses on a young man and a woman who revisit memories of their doomed love affair on a utopian Earth while trapped in the vast void of space with only 90 minutes of oxygen left.

Lionsgate distributed CBS Films’ Five Feet Apart, which made $91.5 million-plus at the global box office. The...

The ReFrame coalition has awarded 26 feature films released in 2019 with its ReFrame Stamp, which recognizes the top 100-grossing gender-balanced narrative and animated features. The list, which grew from 20 total films that earned the stamp a year ago, includes Booksmart, Captain Marvel, Harriet, Hustlers and Oscar Best Picture nominee Little Women.

This reflects gains for women in the important roles of director, department heads, and women of color leads and co-leads. With an aim to increase the number of women of all backgrounds working in film, TV, and media, the ReFrame Stamp, which is showcased in end credits and appears on IMDb, serves as a mark of distinction for projects that have demonstrated success in gender-balanced hiring. Additional points are awarded to content that has women of color in key positions.

This year’s list included 12 women directors (12 percent) in the top 100 films at the box office compared to 4 in 2018, with...

Exclusive: Lionsgate has just taken the upcoming Ya novel All This Time by Mikki Daughtry and Rachael Lippincott off the table for six figures after multiple studios were circling. The novel from Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers hits store shelves on Oct. 6.

This is the much anticipated follow-up book from the team behind Five Feet Apart, which sold a million copies, spent 60 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was adapted from the CBS Studios movie (distributed by Lionsgate) that grossed close to $92M worldwide.

Daughtry and her writing partner, Tobias Iaconis, are adapting and also executive producing the feature version of All This Time. They and Lippincott adapted the novel Five Feet Apart from the screenplay Daughtry and Iaconis wrote.

In All This Time, former high school quarterback Kyle is left grief-stricken by the tragic loss of his girlfriend Kimberly following a car crash. He...

Stars: Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez, Marisol Ramirez, Sean Patrick Thomas, Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen, Roman Christou | Written by Mikki Daughtry, Tobias Iaconis | Directed by Michael Chaves

Linda Cardellini takes a starring role in this efficient ’70s-set horror from producer James Wan. Based on a genuine Latin American folk tale, The Curse of La Llorona is not without its problems, but it delivers enough jump scares and suspense moments to keep undemanding Friday night audiences satisfied.

After a prologue set in 17th century Mexico, The Curse of La Llorona opens in 1973 Los Angeles, where recently widowed social worker Anna (Linda Cardellini) is raising her two super-cute young children, Sam and Chris (Roman Christou and Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen). When two boys under her care are found drowned in the river, the distraught mother, Patricia Alvarez (Patricia Velasques), blames Anne, claiming she had locked her children in a cupboard to protect them from La...

If you missed The Curse of La Llorona in theaters, you can summon The Weeping Woman from the comforts of your own home when the film is released on Blu-ray and DVD beginning August 6th (following its digital release on July 16th). Ahead of the film's home media release, we have a look at the cover art and full list of special features, including deleted scenes.

Check out the press release and cover art (via Home Theater Forum) below for the full release details, and in case you missed it, read Heather Wixson's SXSW review of The Curse of La Llorona.

Press Release: If you don’t know her name, you will when “The Curse of La Llorona” arrives on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital. From New Line Cinema and producer James Wan, “The Curse of La Llorona” brings the iconic Latin American legend to terrifying life in an original horror film,...

Exclusive: Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis, the screenwriting duo behind the recently released Five Feet Apart and Warner Bros’ The Curse of La Llorona, have signed on to pen the screenplay for Netflix’s film adaptation of the children’s fantasy-horror book, Nightbooks, by author J. A. White. The pic is being produced by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert of Ghost House Pictures and Mason Novick and Michelle Knudsen of Mxn Entertainment.

The tale follows Alex, a boy obsessed with scary stories, who is trapped by a witch in her modern, magical New York City apartment. His original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping him safe as he desperately tries to find a way out of this twisted place.

Daughtry and Iaconis were also recently tapped to pen a feature based on the social media sensation Esther the Wonder Pig. They are repped by Verve, Lit Entertainment Group, and McKuin Frankel.

Stars: Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez, Marisol Ramirez, Sean Patrick Thomas, Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen, Roman Christou | Written by Mikki Daughtry, Tobias Iaconis | Directed by Michael Chaves

The Curse of La Llorona is directed by James Wan protege Michael Chaves and stands as the directors’ penultimate test, as he has been chosen – specifically by Wan himself – to finish up what he started in the third, and supposedly final, entry in the Warner Brothers The Conjuring franchise.

The Curse of La Llorona is sadly a surface level horror with a few mildly interesting scares but unfortunately poorly explores the rich Mexican culture on screen in an insufficient and almost cheap manner. The camera work is suitable and fitting throughout with a similar aesthetic utilised by Wan in his Conjuring pictures, with the use of space on the screen undeniably something to admire. The wide lenses utilised by cinematographer Michael Burgess and director...

Stars: Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez, Marisol Ramirez, Sean Patrick Thomas, Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen, Roman Christou | Written by Mikki Daughtry, Tobias Iaconis | Directed by Michael Chaves

Linda Cardellini takes a starring role in this efficient ’70s-set horror from producer James Wan. Based on a genuine Latin American folk tale, The Curse of La Llorona is not without its problems, but it delivers enough jump scares and suspense moments to keep undemanding Friday night audiences satisfied.

After a prologue set in 17th century Mexico, The Curse of La Llorona opens in 1973 Los Angeles, where recently widowed social worker Anna (Linda Cardellini) is raising her two super-cute young children, Sam and Chris (Roman Christou and Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen). When two boys under her care are found drowned in the river, the distraught mother, Patricia Alvarez (Patricia Velasques), blames Anne, claiming she had locked her children in a cupboard to protect them from La...

When I was about eight years old, my little sister and I developed a habit of sneaking out of our bedroom in the middle of the night to go watch TV in the living room. We weren’t the most stealthy kids, so obviously we were caught a few times. The last time we snuck out, it was our grandmother who found us watching Looney Tunes in the middle of the night, and as she yelled at us in Spanish, told us that if we continued to misbehave, La Llorona would come to snatch us both, and take us to be with her forever, because she looked for little kids who didn’t listen to their parents.

For many nights after, my sister and I laid still, staring at every shadow, jumping at every tiny sound, and wondering if La Llorona would get us if we dared get out of our beds.

The Curse of La Llorona might be set in the Conjuring universe, but rest assured this whitewashed fare is no The Conjuring.

Do you remember the first time as a child you got frightened by a nightmare? Or maybe the hundredth? It’s a common experience for most humans, just as it is for the parents who have to calm them down. Which is one of the many reasons you’re left to wonder if the characters in The Curse of La Llorona are in fact that... human? They may look like you and I, and they might be played by members of the homo genus class, but don’t let looks deceive you. These blank automatons behave with about as much humanity as Hal 3000 on a short circuit—stony faced cattle who as children keep their literal ghost-inflicted scars to themselves, never mind the knowledge they’re being stalked by a crazy,...

Movie review of The Curse Of The Weeping Woman (The Curse Of La Llorona original title) is here. Releasing in India and USA on April 19, 2019, the movie is the debut of Michael Chaves as a feature director. The movie stars Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz and Patricia Vel?squez. Does the movie satisfy the genre enthusiast and instigates hopes in the hearts of people who swear by Conjuring-Annabelle universe when it comes to spook and fear? Let?s find out in the review of The Curse Of La Llorona aka The Curse Of The Weeping Woman.

Immediate reaction when the end credits of The Curse Of The Weeping Woman roll

The Curse Of The Weeping Woman ? The sixth instalment in The Conjuring Universe gets a traditionally spooky addition though indirectly which indicates that the future editions by Michael Chaves (The Conjuring 3) can have more universal potential.

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There’s a lot of box-office heat on horror these days — Jordan Peele’s Us has already grossed $236 million worldwide. Still, that’s no excuse for a lazy cash-in like The Curse of La Llorona, which plays too timid for terror and is too lazily constructed to haunt anyone’s dreams. This missed-opportunity of a film is based on the Mexican legend of La Llorona, a.k.a. the Weeping Woman. Back in the 17th century, she drowned her two kids after her husband’s skirt-chasing pissed her off; since then,...

The Curse of La Llorona arrives in Us theaters nationwide this week with a modern reimagining of a classic character from Mexican folklore: The Weeping Woman. The film is directed by Michael Chaves from a screenplay penned by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis. And, though it hasn’t been marketed as such, The Curse of La […] The post Before You See The Curse Of La Llorona Learn the Real Legend of The Weeping Woman appeared first on Dread Central.

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About The Film

The Curse Of La Llorona: This timeless Hispanic legend comes to terrifying life in “The Curse of La Llorona.” La Llorona. The Weeping Woman. A horrifying apparition, caught between Heaven and Hell, trapped in a terrible fate sealed by her own hand. The mere...

La Llorona. The Weeping Woman. A horrifying apparition, caught between Heaven and Hell, trapped in a terrible fate sealed by her own hand. The mere mention of her name has struck terror around the world for generations.

In life, she drowned her children in a jealous rage, throwing herself in the churning river after them as she wept in pain.

Now her tears are eternal. They are lethal, and those who hear her death call in the night are doomed. La Llorona creeps in the shadows and preys on the children, desperate to replace her own. As the centuries have passed, her desire has grown more voracious … and her methods more terrifying.

In 1970s Los Angeles, La Llorona is stalking the night—and the children.

Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her own small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm.

In Justin Baldoni’s “Sick-Lit” inspired new film Five Feet Apart, Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse (Riverdale) star as two teenagers suffering from Cystic-Fibrosis who fall madly in love despite never being able to come closer than, you’ve guessed it, five feet within one another. Written by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis, the film presents a jarringly formulaic plot which will require a fair amount of suspension of disbelieve to even contemplate going with it.

Stella (Richardson) likes to be in control, having lived with Cystic-Fibrosis, a disease which has been slowly destroying her lungs since childhood, the teenager has learnt that discipline and doing what the doctors have ordered is the only way she can survive long enough until a lung donor comes along. When she is hospitalised for the umpteenth time to help her get ever a recent bout of illness, Stella meets Will (Sprouse), the...

I’ve actually wondered if the upcoming James Wan-produced horror film The Curse of La Llorona was connected to The Conjuring universe. I figured that the movie would be its own thing, but it looks like I figured wrong.

The Curse of La Llorona premiered recently at SXSW, and it sounds like Tony Amendola’s Father Perez officially crosses over from The Conjuring universe. This character initially appeared in the first Conjuring spinoff film Annabelle.

Bloody Disgusting went ahead and confirmed that this is indeed the same character. They explain in their review how the character fits in:

But this is a Conjuring universe film through and through, which means there’s a familiarity to the scares and formula. It also means a tenuous and not so necessary connection between the films. Remember Father Perez (Tony Amendola) from Annabelle? If you don’t, that’s ok. This film works hard to remind you,...

Stars: Haley Lu Richardson, Cole Sprouse, Claire Forlani, Moises Arias, Parminder Nagra, Emily Baldoni, Gary Weeks, Kimberly Hebert Gregory, Cynthia Evans | Written by Mikki Daughtry, Tobias Iaconis | Directed by Justin Baldoni

Justin Baldoni’s Five Feet Apart, on the surface, is your casual generic and conventional teen drama that evokes a similar sense of “impending doomed romance” that plays with every cliché it can. However, while undoubtedly Five Feet Apart is your bona fide Romeo + Juliet meets John Green’s Fault in Our Stars, it is convicted in an emotionally compelling and deeply poignant prowess with two fantastic lead performances from Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson.

Sprouse, in particular, impresses dearly. His first feature starring role in eight years, with his last appearance with his twin sibling Dylan Sprouse in the famed Disney Channel sequel show The Suite Life on Deck in 2011. However, Sprouse has been heavily active in...

The Curse of La Llorona isn’t Annabelle unwatchable, but it’s certainly no The Conjuring rebirth. Michael Chaves’ ritualistic Conjurverse spinoff lays standard haunted house blueprints but doesn’t execute plans with particular enthusiasm or distinct characteristics. “La Llorona” herself evokes such richness in Latin American darkness and fabled maternal horrors, but none of that translates in this blandly monotone pastiche of basic scares that Wan’s lens has before presented with more paranormal viciousness. Chaves executes from Curse A to Banishment B, just without the particularly descript terrorization that’s elevated horror cinema’s best efforts as of late.

Linda Cardellini stars as social worker Anna Tate-Garcia, a single mother who unwittingly introduces her children to an evil ghost after handling Patricia Alvarez’s (Patricia Velasquez) tragic case. “La Llorona” (Marisol Ramirez) hopes to steal Anna’s children and drown them, but the strong-willed widow won’t submit without a fight.

The second frame of Disney-Marvel’s latest MCU installment, 'Captain Marvel,' is set to top the box office with an estimated $70 million.

The superhero film already pushed past the $200 million mark domestically after taking in $19 million on Friday for a total of about $215 million. It’s also generated $378 million overseas after jolting the domestic box office out of a slump that had seen it down 27% from last year.

“Captain Marvel’s” second weekend will mark the second-highest in March box office history with “Beauty and the Beast” having taken in $90 million in its second frame in 2017. “Captain Marvel’s” weekend take will mark a 54% drop from its debut.

Paramount’s animated adventure film “Wonder Park” should drop into second place with about $17 million from 3,838 North American locations, while CBS Films and Lionsgate’s “Five Feet Apart” is estimated to bring in about $13 million from 2,803 domestic sites for third place.

Things go bump in the night — and, as an occasional change of pace, in the middle of the afternoon — with a frequency that will neither surprise nor disappoint genre fans throughout “The Curse of La Llorona,” an efficiently formulaic shocker inspired by the centuries-old Mexican legend of the titular bogeywoman. It’s set in Los Angeles during the early 1970s, for no readily apparent reason other than to justify the what-the-hell inclusion of Curtis Mayfield’s “Superfly” theme on the soundtrack. But its true location clearly is a distant corner of producer James Wan’s “The Conjuring” extended horror-movie universe, which gets a fleeting wink-wink hat-tip early on with a clever cameo appearance by Tony Amendola in his “Annabelle” role as Father Perez.

Linda Cardellini strikes a credible balance of maternal instincts and mortal terror as Anna Garcia, a social worker and widowed mom who suspects the worst when she...

As a kid, I had heard whispers of “The Weeping Woman” from some of my friends, but I didn’t learn more about the mythology surrounding this haunting and tragic figure until several years ago when Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights created an immersive and terrifying maze centered around the supernatural child snatcher who has spent the eternity of her afterlife grieving for her children, who were drowned after she went mad. Considering it’s a story that has been around for hundreds of years now, becoming a cautionary tale that parents have used as a means to keep their kids in line, this folklore has been ripe for a cinematic interpretation for quite some time now, and director Michael Chaves does an excellent job of tapping into just why generations of tots have grown up haunted by the fear of being taken away by “La Llorona” if they don...

A tearjerking romance centered around two teenagers living with cystic fibrosis, first-time feature director Justin Baldoni’s “Five Feet Apart” is ultimately little more than a cover band treatment of “The Fault in Our Stars.” But as far as cover bands go, at least it has a hell of a frontwoman in Haley Lu Richardson. Fresh off of memorable supporting parts in “The Edge of Seventeen” and “Support the Girls,” Richardson gives a star turn every bit as charismatic and assured as the film is formulaic and forgettable, bringing soul, style and nuance to a character that could have easily been a condescending caricature.

An exceptional talent in a sea of well-meaning adequacy, Richardson plays Stella, a bright, wryly optimistic high schooler who has been dealing with cystic fibrosis since childhood. When we meet her, she’s just landed in the hospital for yet another extended stay, and wastes no...

The latest entry in the terminal-illness teen romance canon — shockingly, not based on a Ya novel, although the screenplay became the basis for a novelization — “Five Feet Apart” is like a new strand of the same formulaic disease, only this time featuring a set of specific symptoms that make physical contact between the sick lovers literally fatal. (Call it “The Fault in Our Lungs.”)

Within this sub-genre of doomed adolescent relationships, “Five Feet Apart” is more John Green-generic than “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl”-clever. What “Five Feet Apart” — the directorial debut of “Jane the Virgin” actor Justin Baldoni, from a screenplay by Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis — has going for it is how it uses the mechanics of the condition at its center as the basis for the plot, which saves it from being a copy-paste refurbishing of other, similar entries.

Hospital-bound Stella (Haley Lu Richardson...

It’s almost irrelevant that Justin Baldoni’s “Five Feet Apart” is atypically urgent for a Ya-flavored romantic drama about the impossible love between two star-crossed teenagers. Or that Haley Lu Richardson manages to pump some blood into even the most contrived moments of Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis’ script, reaffirming the “Columbus” and “Support the Girls” actress as a generational talent on the rise. It doesn’t really matter that the movie uses emotionally pornographic M83 songs and The Postal Service covers to pave over its bumpy stretches, or even that its climactic swing for the fences is an exhausting whiff at the end of a film that just needed to get the ball in play.

What’s important about “Five Feet Apart” is that it’s the first widely accessible Hollywood movie ever made about cystic fibrosis, and that it’s good enough to guarantee at least small...

With a $153 million opening domestically and $455 million worldwide, “Captain Marvel” is certain to be one of the fastest films to gross $1 billion at the box office. But exactly how fast will depend on whether it can hold as well in its second weekend as inclusive superhero films like “Wonder Woman” and “Black Panther.”

While both of those films had very different openings than “Captain Marvel” — “Wonder Woman” opened to $103 million while “Black Panther” opened to $202 million — both notably kept their second weekend drop-offs below 50 percent. Strong word of mouth, combined with the cultural weight those films had, resulting in Marvel and DC fans returning to theaters to see again and again, making them both huge hits.

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“This is the movie that ended the sluggish stretch we’ve gone through at the box office,...

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About The Film

Five Feet Apart: Stella Grant (Haley Lu Richardson) is every bit a seventeen-year-old…she’s attached to her laptop and loves her best friends. But unlike most teenagers, she spends much of her time living in a hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines,...

Exclusive: Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis, the screenwriters behind CBS Films’ upcoming Cole Sprouse starrer, Five Feet Apart, have been tapped by the studio to write the screenplay based on the social media sensation Esther the Wonder Pig. Jack Leslie and Lauren Shuler Donner of Donners’ Company, the company that produced the animal rescue films Free Willy and Hotel for Dogs, are producing this project.

The pic will follow the true story of how a couple adopts what they believe is a pigmy pig, also sometimes colloquially referred to as a micro piglet. Esther joins the family at five pounds and then grows to 650 inspiring the local community and millions of online followers in the process.

After adopting Esther, real-life couple, Steve Jenkins and Derek Walter opened the Happily Ever Esther Farm Sanctuary, where they could care for Esther and other animals in need. Jenkins and Walter, along with Caprice Crane,...