‘The Dark Knight’ Tenth Anniversary To Be Celebrated With Imax 70MM Release – Comic-Con
Posted on Wednesday July 18, 2018

Ten years ago today Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight swept into theaters and Warner Bros. is celebrating with an exclusive one-week limited re-release of the movie in Imax 70MM starting Aug. 24. Jeff Goldstein, Warners’ President of Domestic Distribution, made the announcement today. The Dark Knight will play in four Imax locations: AMC Citywalk in Universal City, CA; AMC Lincoln Square in New York, AMC Metreon in San Francisco and and the Ontario Place Cinesphere in…

‘Rick & Morty’ & ‘Community’ Creator Dan Harmon To Exec Produce Comedy Rap Album
Posted on Wednesday July 18, 2018

EXCLUSIVE: Dan Harmon is a pretty busy guy; the Community creator is working on 70 episodes of his Adult Swim series Rick and Morty and is penning a script for a TV remake of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Sirens of Titan. He's now moving into music. Harmon is exec producing a comedy rap album by comedian Rob Tanchum. The album, Disturbed, Depressed, Inadequate is a concept album from the New Yorker, who caught Harmon's eye after setting one of the latter's long-running jokes to…

UK Sales Outfit Great Point Media Hires Trio Including Former Altitude Staffer
Posted on Wednesday July 18, 2018

EXCLUSIVE: Jim Reeve and Robert Halmi Jr.’s London-based Great Point Media (GPM) has made three additions to its film and TV sales team. Jordan Allwood joins as Sales Executive after working most recently at Altitude Film Sales as International Sales Co-ordinator. Joining as Sales Assistant are both Lucas Meurin, formerly a production manager at Canal + in Paris, and Regys Badi, who was most recently a Team Co-ordinator at Discovery Communications. Last November, sales…

‘Saturday Night Live’ China Pulled; UK SVOD Figures; Cliff Richard Wins BBC Privacy Case – Global Briefs
Posted on Wednesday July 18, 2018

The Chinese adaptation of Saturday Night Live has been pulled from Chinese digital platform Youku. The remake of the NBC Universal format has been taken down from the service after launching a few weeks ago. The fourth episode of the Chinese show was due to launch last weekend but did not air and the previous episodes have also been taken down. It's not exactly clear why the show was removed but there's an increasing crackdown on controversial entertainment shows by the…

‘Overlord’ Moves Out Of October & Marches Into Early November
Posted on Wednesday July 18, 2018

Paramount’s World War II horror movie Overlord will now open on Nov. 9 instead of Oct. 26. That means the studio has a lot of faith in the Bad Robot-produced, Julius Avery-directed pic, believing the movie has the grit to play through the competitive holiday period. That second weekend in November is when Paramount launched its Oscar-winning box office sci-fi sleeper Arrival. Not to mention that Oct. 26 pre-Halloween weekend is typically a death zone at the box office as…