Lin-Manuel Miranda Joins with Kingkiller Chronicle Author Pat Rothfuss to Develope Film, TV and Stage Productions on the Series

Lionsgate today announced that multi-award winning actor, composer, rapper and writer Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of the smash Broadway musical Hamilton, is partnering with The Kingkiller Chronicle author Pat Rothfuss to serve as creative producer and musical mastermind of feature film and television series adaptations of the best-selling franchise book trilogy with an option to be involved in future stage productions as well. Miranda will serve as producer of the franchise and is expected to compose the original music and write the songs. Rothfuss is an executive producer for both film and television.

In an unprecedented collaboration between film and television, Lionsgate will simultaneously develop and produce the feature film franchise based on The Kingkiller Chronicle trilogy and a premium quality drama series that expands on the world outside of the books. The film script, which is being penned by writer Lindsey Beer (Transformers 5, Dungeons & Dragons), will be based on the first book, The Name of the Wind.  Miranda and Rothfuss will be intimately involved in the development of the new characters and storylines explored in the TV show.  As previously announced, Robert Lawrence (Clueless, Die Hard with a Vengeance), who has been involved in The Kingkiller Chronicle series since its earliest days, will produce for film and television.

Official Worldwide Box Office Results for Weekend of October 23, 2016

The top 12 domestic USA weekend box office estimates, listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, October 23, are below.

 

1. Tyler Perry's Boo! A Madea Halloween - Lionsgate - $27.6M
2. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back - Paramount - $23.0M
3. Ouija: Origin Of Evil - Universal - $14.1M
4. Accountant, The - Warner Bros. - $14.0M
5. Girl On The Train, The - Universal - $7.3M
6. Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children - 20th Century Fox - $6.0M
7. Keeping Up With The Joneses - 20th Century Fox - $5.6M
8. Kevin Hart: What Now? - Universal - $4.1M
9. Storks - Warner Bros. - $4.1M
10. Deepwater Horizon - Lionsgate - $3.6M
11. Magnificent Seven, The - Sony - $2.4M
12. Middle School:The Worst Years Of My Life - Lionsgate - $2.3M

The Big O: Roy Orbison Bio-pic Takes Another Step Forward

The life story of the legendary Roy Orbison whose career and personal narrative were fraught with struggle, setbacks, triumph and tragedy is the subject of The Big O: Roy Orbison, now getting underway. The Big O: Roy Orbison is the first Orbison Estate authorized dramatic musical biopic; the film is being produced by Marty Katz (The Great Raid, The Four Feathers, Reindeer Games, Titanic, Lost in America), Alex Orbison and Roy Orbison Jr. with Wesley Orbison serving as Executive Producer along with Chuck Fleckenstein and Ron Moore. Alex, Roy Jr. and Wesley are the late icon’s surviving children whose Roy’s Boys LLC has overseen their father’s legacy in the years following the 2011 death of Barbara Orbison, the star’s widow and mother of Roy Jr. and Alex.

Ray Gideon and Bruce Evans are teaming to write the screenplay based on the story by Alex and Roy Orbison Jr. Among a long list of credits, Gideon and Evans were responsible for writing the scripts for Stand By Me, Starman and Mr. Brooks, the latter title also directed by Evans. They are represented by David Styne’s Wicked Curve with Harold Brown of Gang, Tyre, Raymer & Brown handling legal representation.

Upon revealing the project, expected for a 2018 release, Alex Orbison commented, “Our father’s life story has an undeniably cinematic quality to it. We feel that the telling of it is in extraordinarily capable hands with Bruce and Ray and the overall team will bring The Big O finally to the screen.”

2015 Film Box Office Crosses $11B Mark !

Rentrak a leader in precisely measuring movies and TV everywhere, today announced the North American box office crossed the $11 billion benchmark for the year on Tuesday, December 29, 2015, making 2015 the highest-earning year at the North American box office in movie history.
                  

A wide assortment of movies brought enthusiastic patrons to movie theaters across the USA throughout the year, giving the film industry its biggest overall revenue in North American box office history, with a total of $11.1 billion projected for the calendar year through December 31, 2015. The previous record was set in 2013, which brought in $10.919 billion to the North American box office at year-end.

 

"Hollywood built the perfect box office beast in 2015, with one hit movie after the next, week after week, exceeding expectations with a regularity that made it look easy. With records falling like dominoes, the revenues just kept building as audiences flooded multiplexes in huge numbers," said Rentrak's Senior Media Analyst, Paul Dergarabedian. "A diverse and compelling selection of great titles, big and small, from every studio fueled an extraordinary level of interest by patrons who seemingly could not get enough of the big screen experience in 2015."

 

Lionsgate Announces "Borderlands" Video Game Movie Plans

Lionsgate , a premier global content leader, is teaming with the publisher and creators of Borderlands, and renowned producers Avi and Ari Arad to adapt Gearbox Software's critically-acclaimed blockbuster video game Borderlands into a tent-pole feature film, the parties announced today.  Borderlands is an action role-playing first-person shooter video game created and developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K, a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.

The award-winning Borderlands franchise has been lauded by critics and over the years has built a passionate global fan base, shipping more than 26 million copies around the world since its launch in 2009, including 8 million copies shipped during Take Two's fiscal year 2015 alone. Set in the frontier of a sci-fi universe, Borderlands is best known for Gearbox's blending of irreverent humor and characters, with a unique comic-book art style, and co-operative four-player genre-bending, loot-grabbing gameplay. It's a franchise that in the last six years has ushered in a new and popular category of first-person shooters.

The Borderlands film creative team will be led by producers Avi and Ari Arad, who are responsible for some of the most successful motion picture and television franchises in history, including Iron Man, Spider Man, The Amazing Spider Man, X-Men, Ghost Rider and Blade.