TRUE KOREAN WAR FIGHTER PILOT STORY ‘DEVOTIOIN’ SET AT BLACK LABEL WITH GLEN POWELL TO STAR
By Patrick Hipes March 7, 2018 11:24am EXCLUSIVE: Black Label Media has optioned rights to Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice, and will make a film about the true story at the center of Adam Makos’ 2015 book about two Korean War Navy pilots — one from an affluent white New England... Read More
BEN PLATT LANDS FIRST FILM LEAD POST ‘DEAR EVAN HANSEN’
By Justin Kroll Following his Tony award-winning performance in the Broadway hit “Dear Evan Hansen,” Ben Platt has found his next feature film, signing on to star in Black Label Media’s “Love & Oatmeal.” “Camp X-Ray” director Peter Sattler is helming the project with Steve Waverly penning the script. Black Label Media’s Molly Smith, Rachel Smith, Thad Luckinbill, and... Read More
SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT INVITES FANS TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIAL CAMPAIGN TO RAISE $100K FOR FIREFIGHTERS
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Feb 13, 2018, 17:34 ET To help support brave firefighters like those depicted in the film Only the Brave, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) is teaming with the social change platform Pixhug™ to raise up to $100K for the Granite Mountain Fund, an organization that drives donations to support firefighters. Pixhug... Read More
NETFLIX ACQUIRES ‘SIERRA BURGESS IS A LOSER’ STARRING ‘STRANGER THINGS’ ACTRESS SHANNON PURSER
By Justin Kroll Netflix has acquired “Sierra Burgess Is A Loser,” a feature film from Black Label Media. Ian Samuels directed the pic with Lindsey Beer penning the script. The movie stars “Stranger Things” actress Shannon Purser, RJ Cyler, Kristine Froseth, Noah Centineo, Chrissy Metz, Alan Ruck, and Lea Thompson. The film is a modern... Read More
BENECIO DEL TORO RETURNS IN FIRST SICARIO 2: SOLDADO TRAILER
NICK ROMANO December 19, 2017 AT 09:00 AM EST Josh Brolin has called Sicario 2: Soldado, the sequel to 2015’s Sicario, a “more severe” and “much bigger” film than the first. Benicio Del Toro would just add that while Sicario was more of a “really hardcore straight line,” this one “is a little more complicated.”... Read More
WATCH THE EXCLUSIVE FIRST TRAILER FOR CHRIS HEMSWORTH’S ’12 STRONG’
By Bryan Alexander Even Chris Hemsworth, who makes a living as a cape-wearing, hammer-wielding demigod, concedes that the image of a modern military leader rolling into battle on horseback makes for a curious spectacle. “That absolutely got my attention, the visual uniqueness of this warfare,” says Hemsworth of the Afghanistan war drama 12 Strong (in... Read More
ONLY THE BRAVE: FILM REVIEW
9:00 AM PDT 10/11/2017 by Todd McCarthy THE BOTTOM LINE An engaging account of a tragic real-life story. Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin, Jennifer Connelly, Taylor Kitsch and Miles Teller star in a drama about the Granite Mountain Hotshots, who battled against the Yarnell Hill fire in Arizona in 2013. The well-worn dramatic format of putting... Read More
J.D. SALINGER BIOPIC ‘REBEL IN THE RYE’ EFFECTIVELY EVOKES AUTHOR’S STRUGGLES
By Gary Goldstein The journey of J.D. Salinger from young wiseacre to world-celebrated author and notorious recluse is absorbingly traced in Danny Strong’s “Rebel in the Rye.” The movie opens in 1939, when budding scribe Jerome “Jerry” Salinger (Nicholas Hoult) takes an inspiring Columbia University writing class from Story magazine editor Whit Burnett (Kevin Spacey).... Read More
EXCLUSIVE ‘REBEL IN THE RYE’ TRAILER EXPOSES A FAMED WRITER’S SECRETS
Before he became famous around the world as the author of The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger was a young man in search of inspiration. As portrayed by Nicholas Hoult in Rebel in the Rye, he has no lack of confidence; he knows he wants to be a professional writer, but he doesn’t yet... Read More
ONLY THE BRAVE OFFICIAL TRAILER, STARRING MILES TELLER AND JOSH BROLIN
Here’s your first look at the movie inspired by GQ’s feature story on the Granite Mountain Hotshots and their battle against one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history. GQ