Good+ Foundation founder Jessica Seinfeld and Jerry Seinfeld were joined by Los Angeles-area families for a spook-tacular afternoon at the 2nd Annual Halloween Bash at The Culver Studios in Culver City, CA.
Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld
The family-fun day raised nearly $300,000 to benefit the Foundation’s work to help lift families out of poverty in the Los Angeles area.
An extension of Good+ Foundation’s New York City “Bedtime Bash,” the Halloween Bash featured activity booths and games, carnival artists, a toddler activity area, and delicious treats. All funds raised will go to help Los Angeles families living in poverty.
“The Halloween Bash is always one of our favorite days of the year because it allows families to spend a fun afternoon together while supporting our work to provide for families here in Los Angeles,” Jessica Seinfeld, Founder of Good+ Foundation, said.
Nearly 600 guests, including families the Foundation...
Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld
The family-fun day raised nearly $300,000 to benefit the Foundation’s work to help lift families out of poverty in the Los Angeles area.
An extension of Good+ Foundation’s New York City “Bedtime Bash,” the Halloween Bash featured activity booths and games, carnival artists, a toddler activity area, and delicious treats. All funds raised will go to help Los Angeles families living in poverty.
“The Halloween Bash is always one of our favorite days of the year because it allows families to spend a fun afternoon together while supporting our work to provide for families here in Los Angeles,” Jessica Seinfeld, Founder of Good+ Foundation, said.
Nearly 600 guests, including families the Foundation...
- 10/25/2017
- Look to the Stars
“A cream-and-black-leather tribute to Scarface, then a cozy beach shack inspired by Mildred Pierce, then, after a trip to Asia, a textural Balinese home, then a blue-and-white homage to Bel Air.”
Ryan Murphy, 51, could easily be speaking about the sets of his successful TV shows and movies. But, as the director reveals in the February issue of Architectural Digest, these are actually the many incarnations of his beloved Laguna Beach home, which he has decorated and redecorated countless times over the last 13 years.
It’s an ambitious feat for any amateur interiors enthusiast, but perhaps not a surprising one for...
Ryan Murphy, 51, could easily be speaking about the sets of his successful TV shows and movies. But, as the director reveals in the February issue of Architectural Digest, these are actually the many incarnations of his beloved Laguna Beach home, which he has decorated and redecorated countless times over the last 13 years.
It’s an ambitious feat for any amateur interiors enthusiast, but perhaps not a surprising one for...
- 1/4/2017
- by Mackenzie Schmidt
- PEOPLE.com
Kirk Douglas, one of Hollywood's most celebrated icons, turns 100 on Friday, marking a milestone in a life filled with some of the best roles a star could hope for and some of the best performances anyone has ever given.
With three Oscar nominations and an honorary Lifetime Achievement Oscar under his belt, Et is taking a look back at some of Douglas' greatest films in honor of his special day.
Photos: 12 Actors' Kids Who Went On To Become Stars
1. Champion (1949)
United Artists
In one of his first leading roles, Douglas starred as a boxer named Midge Kelly, whose rise to fame and stardom in the ring brings out his vain, cruel side in his private life. The black and white noir drama earned Douglas his first of three Oscar nominations.
2. Ace in the Hole (1951)
Paramount Pictures
In this brooding, cynical noir thriller, directed by Billy Wilder, Douglas plays Chuck Tatum, a disgraced...
With three Oscar nominations and an honorary Lifetime Achievement Oscar under his belt, Et is taking a look back at some of Douglas' greatest films in honor of his special day.
Photos: 12 Actors' Kids Who Went On To Become Stars
1. Champion (1949)
United Artists
In one of his first leading roles, Douglas starred as a boxer named Midge Kelly, whose rise to fame and stardom in the ring brings out his vain, cruel side in his private life. The black and white noir drama earned Douglas his first of three Oscar nominations.
2. Ace in the Hole (1951)
Paramount Pictures
In this brooding, cynical noir thriller, directed by Billy Wilder, Douglas plays Chuck Tatum, a disgraced...
- 12/9/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
Above: 1960s French stock poster for Marx Brothers revivals.This weekend New York’s Film Forum begins a week-long series entitled The Marx Brothers & The Golden Age of Vaudeville which is as good an excuse as any to look at the representation of the greatest sibling comedy team in cinema through movie posters. It has long been a tradition in movie poster illustration to render comedy stars as caricatures—often with oversized heads on small bodies—and Groucho, Harpo and Chico were a caricaturist’s dream. (Zeppo, the straight man, less so, but he left the act after Duck Soup in 1933, and re-release posters for the films he appeared in tend to ignore him, as in the Belgian Duck Soup and the Danish Horse Feathers below). With their distinctive props—Groucho’s oversized greasepaint mustache and cigar, Harpo’s curly blonde wig and Chico’s Alpine hat—the threesome could...
- 9/23/2016
- MUBI
From September 16 through 29, the Film Society of Lincoln Center will be screening new restorations of all six films that make up Eric Rohmer's Moral Tales: The Bakery Girl of Monceau, Suzanne’s Career, My Night at Maud's, La collectionneuse, Claire's Knee and Love in the Afternoon. More goings on: Work by Curt McDowell and Tom Rubnitz, Derek Jarman's Will You Dance With Me?, David Miller's Sudden Fear with Joan Crawford in New York; The Monkees and Guillermo del Toro in Los Angeles; Rouben Mamoulian at Harvard; art inspired by Wes Anderson's films in San Francisco; remembering Abbas Kiarostami in Toronto; and a Mohsen Makhmalbaf series in London. » - David Hudson...
- 8/11/2016
- Keyframe
From September 16 through 29, the Film Society of Lincoln Center will be screening new restorations of all six films that make up Eric Rohmer's Moral Tales: The Bakery Girl of Monceau, Suzanne’s Career, My Night at Maud's, La collectionneuse, Claire's Knee and Love in the Afternoon. More goings on: Work by Curt McDowell and Tom Rubnitz, Derek Jarman's Will You Dance With Me?, David Miller's Sudden Fear with Joan Crawford in New York; The Monkees and Guillermo del Toro in Los Angeles; Rouben Mamoulian at Harvard; art inspired by Wes Anderson's films in San Francisco; remembering Abbas Kiarostami in Toronto; and a Mohsen Makhmalbaf series in London. » - David Hudson...
- 8/11/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Il Divo is on the road again. The classical crossover quartet - assembled by Simon Cowell in 2003 - will hop the pond for the North American leg of their Amor & Pasíon tour in September. People has an exclusive behind-the-scenes video of what fans can expect on the tour - from a tango- and salsa-dancing backup crew to special song selections like Frank Sinatra. Amor and Pasíon is the group's seventh studio album, which dropped last year and topped Billboard's U.S. Top Latin Albums chart. The platinum-selling, Brit Award-winning group - comprised of Swiss tenor Urs Bühler, Spanish baritone Carlos Marín,...
- 4/14/2016
- by Jeff Nelson, @nelson_jeff
- PEOPLE.com
Il Divo is on the road again. The classical crossover quartet - assembled by Simon Cowell in 2003 - will hop the pond for the North American leg of their Amor & Pasíon tour in September. People has an exclusive behind-the-scenes video of what fans can expect on the tour - from a tango- and salsa-dancing backup crew to special song selections like Frank Sinatra. Amor and Pasíon is the group's seventh studio album, which dropped last year and topped Billboard's U.S. Top Latin Albums chart. The platinum-selling, Brit Award-winning group - comprised of Swiss tenor Urs Bühler, Spanish baritone Carlos Marín,...
- 4/14/2016
- by Jeff Nelson, @nelson_jeff
- PEOPLE.com
Gwyneth Paltrow is releasing her fourth cookbook soon and it's dedicated to some famous friends' pint-sized cuties! It's All Easy: Delicious Weekday Recipes for the Super-Busy Home Cook hits stores on April 12. According to People, Paltrow, 43, dedicated it not only to her own kids, Apple, 11, and Moses, 9, but also to celeb pals Beyoncé and Jay Z's 4-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy Carter; Rob Lowe and Sheryl Berkoff's sons Matthew, 22, and John Owen, 20; Drew Barrymore and Will Kopelman's daughters Olive, 3, and Frankie, 1; Ryan Murphy and David Miller's sons Logan, 3, and Ford, 1; Nicole Richie and Joel...
- 3/23/2016
- E! Online
The Amazing 911 operator who helped Iman Shumpert deliver his baby last week is a Stud who will "definitely" be nominated for service awards ... his boss tells TMZ Sports. We spoke with Cleveland Ems Headquarters chief David Miller who wouldn't reveal the ID of the heroic 911 operator -- but told us, "He's always been a really good employee." So good ... that Miller says the operator will "definitely be nominated" for several prestigious awards for emergency workers...
- 12/21/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Coleen Gray in 'The Sleeping City' with Richard Conte. Coleen Gray after Fox: B Westerns and films noirs (See previous post: “Coleen Gray Actress: From Red River to Film Noir 'Good Girls'.”) Regarding the demise of her Fox career (the year after her divorce from Rod Amateau), Coleen Gray would recall for Confessions of a Scream Queen author Matt Beckoff: I thought that was the end of the world and that I was a total failure. I was a mass of insecurity and depended on agents. … Whether it was an 'A' picture or a 'B' picture didn't bother me. It could be a Western movie, a sci-fi film. A job was a job. You did the best with the script that you had. Fox had dropped Gray at a time of dramatic upheavals in the American film industry: fast-dwindling box office receipts as a result of competition from television,...
- 10/15/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Abstract Entertainment and Eracme Entertainment have announced a new major motion picture, entitled Monkey, based on the beloved Chinese story Journey to the West. While it has been portrayed in previous productions in traditional settings, Monkey reimagines the story 4000 years after the original. A contemporary global action movie, Monkey begins when an unimaginable evil is once again threatening the world, bringing the lead character, the Monkey King, and his loyal friends back to save mankind. The film will be co-financed by Eracme Entertainment.
Said Producers Mike Bundlie and Barry Levine:
There has been a rush to bring western-originated movies to the Chinese market. Monkey reverses that and will be the first English language film focused on introducing a Chinese tale to the international audience in a contemporary setting. In the same way that European mythology made a successful transition from period-based films to modern tentpoles, Monkey opens the door...
Said Producers Mike Bundlie and Barry Levine:
There has been a rush to bring western-originated movies to the Chinese market. Monkey reverses that and will be the first English language film focused on introducing a Chinese tale to the international audience in a contemporary setting. In the same way that European mythology made a successful transition from period-based films to modern tentpoles, Monkey opens the door...
- 9/15/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
The London-based distributor will commence international sales in Toronto on Jamie M Dagg’s imminent world premiere.
Xyz Films represents Us sales and Elevation Pictures holds Canadian rights to the thriller starring Rossif Sutherland as an American doctor on the run in Laos after he intervenes in a sexual assault and finds himself accused of murder.
The film will premiere in Discovery on September 15. Sara Botsford, Douangmany Soliphanh and Vithaya Pansringarm also star. Nick Sorbara produced and Todd Brown, Mattie Do and David Miller served as executive producers.
This is a potentially breakout festival for Sutherland, who also stars in Canadian war film and upcoming Toronto world premiere Hyena Road.
Xyz Films represents Us sales and Elevation Pictures holds Canadian rights to the thriller starring Rossif Sutherland as an American doctor on the run in Laos after he intervenes in a sexual assault and finds himself accused of murder.
The film will premiere in Discovery on September 15. Sara Botsford, Douangmany Soliphanh and Vithaya Pansringarm also star. Nick Sorbara produced and Todd Brown, Mattie Do and David Miller served as executive producers.
This is a potentially breakout festival for Sutherland, who also stars in Canadian war film and upcoming Toronto world premiere Hyena Road.
- 9/9/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The London-based distributor will commence international sales in Toronto on Jamie M Dagg’s imminent world premiere.
Xyz Films represents Us sales and Elevation Pictures holds Canadian rights to the thriller starring Rossif Sutherland as an American doctor on the run in Laos after he intervenes in a sexual assault and finds himself accused of murder.
The film will premiere in Discovery on September 15. Sara Botsford, Douangmany Soliphanh and Vithaya Pansringarm also star. Nick Sorbara produced and Todd Brown, Mattie Do and David Miller served as executive producers.
This is a potentially breakout festival for Sutherland, who also stars in Canadian war film and upcoming Toronto world premiere Hyena Road.
Xyz Films represents Us sales and Elevation Pictures holds Canadian rights to the thriller starring Rossif Sutherland as an American doctor on the run in Laos after he intervenes in a sexual assault and finds himself accused of murder.
The film will premiere in Discovery on September 15. Sara Botsford, Douangmany Soliphanh and Vithaya Pansringarm also star. Nick Sorbara produced and Todd Brown, Mattie Do and David Miller served as executive producers.
This is a potentially breakout festival for Sutherland, who also stars in Canadian war film and upcoming Toronto world premiere Hyena Road.
- 9/8/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Dean Jones: Actor in Disney movies. Dean Jones dead at 84: Actor in Disney movies 'The Love Bug,' 'That Darn Cat!' Dean Jones, best known for playing befuddled heroes in 1960s Walt Disney movies such as That Darn Cat! and The Love Bug, died of complications from Parkinson's disease on Tue., Sept. 1, '15, in Los Angeles. Jones (born on Jan. 25, 1931, in Decatur, Alabama) was 84. Dean Jones movies Dean Jones began his Hollywood career in the mid-'50s, when he was featured in bit parts – at times uncredited – in a handful of films at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer In 2009 interview for Christianity Today, Jones recalled playing his first scene (in These Wilder Years) with veteran James Cagney, who told him “Walk to your mark and remember your lines” – supposedly a lesson he would take to heart. At MGM, bit player Jones would also be featured in Robert Wise's...
- 9/2/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Nearly 60 international and Canadian producers will head to the Ontario Media Development Corporation’s (Omdc) annual International Financing Forum in Toronto.
The 10th anniversary edition of Omdc’s International Financing Forum (Iff), a feature co-financing market for English-language projects, will run Sept 13-14 during Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20).
The projects include Drama, the third feature to be directed by Oscar-winning Us actress Helen Hunt, written by Justin W. Lo (‘Mistresses’).
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The two-day event includes one-on-one meetings, an industry panel discussion, roundtable meetings, a networking luncheon, and a producers’ opening night networking reception.
Iff partners include Telefilm Canada, UK Trade and Investment (Ukti) and new sponsor Canadian Media Producers Association (Cmpa).
More than 750 meetings will be scheduled for the 37 producer teams (20 Canadian projects and 17 international projects).
In total, 56 producers have been selected to participate in the programme from countries including: Australia, Germany, India, Israel, Spain, Uganda...
The 10th anniversary edition of Omdc’s International Financing Forum (Iff), a feature co-financing market for English-language projects, will run Sept 13-14 during Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 10-20).
The projects include Drama, the third feature to be directed by Oscar-winning Us actress Helen Hunt, written by Justin W. Lo (‘Mistresses’).
Scroll down for more projects
The two-day event includes one-on-one meetings, an industry panel discussion, roundtable meetings, a networking luncheon, and a producers’ opening night networking reception.
Iff partners include Telefilm Canada, UK Trade and Investment (Ukti) and new sponsor Canadian Media Producers Association (Cmpa).
More than 750 meetings will be scheduled for the 37 producer teams (20 Canadian projects and 17 international projects).
In total, 56 producers have been selected to participate in the programme from countries including: Australia, Germany, India, Israel, Spain, Uganda...
- 9/1/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Joan Crawford Movie Star Joan Crawford movies on TCM: Underrated actress, top star in several of her greatest roles If there was ever a professional who was utterly, completely, wholeheartedly dedicated to her work, Joan Crawford was it. Ambitious, driven, talented, smart, obsessive, calculating, she had whatever it took – and more – to reach the top and stay there. Nearly four decades after her death, Crawford, the star to end all stars, remains one of the iconic performers of the 20th century. Deservedly so, once you choose to bypass the Mommie Dearest inanity and focus on her film work. From the get-go, she was a capable actress; look for the hard-to-find silents The Understanding Heart (1927) and The Taxi Dancer (1927), and check her out in the more easily accessible The Unknown (1927) and Our Dancing Daughters (1928). By the early '30s, Joan Crawford had become a first-rate film actress, far more naturalistic than...
- 8/10/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
I can only assume that The Whispers‘ Sean Bennigan has never seen The Shining.
If he had, he would know that all work and no play only makes him a dull boy — or, in the case of Monday’s episode, a boy who is hell-bent on taking a doctor hostage and tracking down a nuclear power plant in the middle of nowhere — oh, and getting a close shave in the bathroom of a rest stop.
RelatedSummer TV Calendar: True Detective, Big Brother, Graceland and 105+ Other Dates to Save
Indeed, it’s a good thing Milo Ventimiglia has had experience playing...
If he had, he would know that all work and no play only makes him a dull boy — or, in the case of Monday’s episode, a boy who is hell-bent on taking a doctor hostage and tracking down a nuclear power plant in the middle of nowhere — oh, and getting a close shave in the bathroom of a rest stop.
RelatedSummer TV Calendar: True Detective, Big Brother, Graceland and 105+ Other Dates to Save
Indeed, it’s a good thing Milo Ventimiglia has had experience playing...
- 6/16/2015
- TVLine.com
Asics transports an old New York City subway car cross-country for its flagship store, 7th Heaven actor Stephen Collins admits to child molestation, Jennifer Lawrence speaks out about nude photo leaks, and more in First Dibs.
Asics is opening a flagship store in Times Square and shut down 42nd Street to move an old subway car that was found in the Mohave Desert into the building. After three hours, two fork lifts, and dozens of construction workers, it was installed. The store opens this month on 42nd St. between Broadway and 6th Avenue. 7th Heaven actor Stephen Collins has admitted to several instances of child molestation during a conversation with his ex-wife Faye Grant. [USA Today] Jennifer Lawrence speaks out about her nude photo leaks. [Vanity Fair] Neve Campbell is pregnant with her second child with longtime boyfriend Jj Feild. [Us Weekly] Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon recently met up in Central Park with the two...
Asics is opening a flagship store in Times Square and shut down 42nd Street to move an old subway car that was found in the Mohave Desert into the building. After three hours, two fork lifts, and dozens of construction workers, it was installed. The store opens this month on 42nd St. between Broadway and 6th Avenue. 7th Heaven actor Stephen Collins has admitted to several instances of child molestation during a conversation with his ex-wife Faye Grant. [USA Today] Jennifer Lawrence speaks out about her nude photo leaks. [Vanity Fair] Neve Campbell is pregnant with her second child with longtime boyfriend Jj Feild. [Us Weekly] Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon recently met up in Central Park with the two...
- 10/7/2014
- by Stacy Lambe
- TheFabLife - Movies
It’s taken 30 years for Larry Kramer’s incendiary play The Normal Heart to make it to the screen. Heart, which premiered in 1985 and had a 2011 Tony-winning revival on Broadway, is one of the first literary works to tackle the AIDS crisis and boldly criticize the lack of government support to fight the disease. In this week’s EW cover story, the cast and crew talk about the challenges of bringing Heart to life, the transformative production, and their hopes for the film’s legacy.
Despite involvement from names like Barbra Streisand, who owned the rights for 10 years, The Normal Heart...
Despite involvement from names like Barbra Streisand, who owned the rights for 10 years, The Normal Heart...
- 5/7/2014
- by EW staff
- EW.com - PopWatch
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 6, 2014
Price: DVD $24.95, Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Olive Films
The 1949 music-filled comedy Love Happy was the final film starring the legendary Marx Brothers (Duck Soup, Animal Crackers).
In the film, Harpo Marx is a true patron of the arts, taking from the rich to help feed a group of poor actors struggling to open a new musical without financial backers. He unknowingly makes off with the missing Romanoff diamonds when he shoplifts a tin of sardines from a classy Manhattan market. The diamonds have been smuggled into the country by a sinful yet sizzlingly beautiful jewel thief, Madame Egelichi (Ilona Massey). The Madame traces the tin back to the theater and becomes the show’s financial backer. Hoping to recover the missing diamonds, she and her henchmen nearly bring the whole house down in a madcap race to retrieve the jewels on opening night.
In addition to Harpo,...
Price: DVD $24.95, Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Olive Films
The 1949 music-filled comedy Love Happy was the final film starring the legendary Marx Brothers (Duck Soup, Animal Crackers).
In the film, Harpo Marx is a true patron of the arts, taking from the rich to help feed a group of poor actors struggling to open a new musical without financial backers. He unknowingly makes off with the missing Romanoff diamonds when he shoplifts a tin of sardines from a classy Manhattan market. The diamonds have been smuggled into the country by a sinful yet sizzlingly beautiful jewel thief, Madame Egelichi (Ilona Massey). The Madame traces the tin back to the theater and becomes the show’s financial backer. Hoping to recover the missing diamonds, she and her henchmen nearly bring the whole house down in a madcap race to retrieve the jewels on opening night.
In addition to Harpo,...
- 4/14/2014
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Actor Luke Goss is making the jump behind the camera for the first time with the action/thriller “Your Move.” Triumph Entertainment CEO Cecil Chambers announced the project on Wednesday. Goss also wrote the script and will star in the film. The story follows David Miller, a successful New York businessman who witnesses the brutal attack and kidnapping of his wife and child on a video call. Unable to rely on the Mexican law enforcement, he takes it upon himself to find his family and get revenge on their kidnappers. Also read: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan Attached to Star in Tom.
- 2/20/2014
- by Michael Balderston
- The Wrap
From new voices like NoViolet Bulawayo to rediscovered old voices like James Salter, from Dave Eggers's satire to David Thomson's history of film, writers, Observer critics and others pick their favourite reads of 2013. And they tell us what they hope to find under the tree …
Curtis Sittenfeld
Novelist
My favourite books of 2013 are Drama High (Riverhead) by Michael Sokolove, Sea Creatures (Turnaround) by Susanna Daniel, and & Sons (Harper Collins) by David Gilbert. Drama High is incredibly smart, moving non-fiction about an American drama teacher who for four decades coaxed sophisticated and nuanced theatrical performances out of teenage students who weren't privileged or otherwise remarkable and in so doing, changed their conceptions of what they could do with their lives. Sea Creatures is a gripping, beautifully written novel about the mother of a selectively mute three-year-old boy; when she takes a job ferrying supplies to a hermit off the coast of Florida,...
Curtis Sittenfeld
Novelist
My favourite books of 2013 are Drama High (Riverhead) by Michael Sokolove, Sea Creatures (Turnaround) by Susanna Daniel, and & Sons (Harper Collins) by David Gilbert. Drama High is incredibly smart, moving non-fiction about an American drama teacher who for four decades coaxed sophisticated and nuanced theatrical performances out of teenage students who weren't privileged or otherwise remarkable and in so doing, changed their conceptions of what they could do with their lives. Sea Creatures is a gripping, beautifully written novel about the mother of a selectively mute three-year-old boy; when she takes a job ferrying supplies to a hermit off the coast of Florida,...
- 11/24/2013
- by Ali Smith, Robert McCrum, Tim Adams, Kate Kellaway, Rachel Cooke, Sebastian Faulks, Jackie Kay
- The Guardian - Film News
Paramount will continue to ride movie franchises Mission Impossible, Star Trek, GI Joe, and World War Z and roll out animated films for SpongeBob SquarePants and Monster Trucks, the company told analysts this morning as execs offered a rosy picture of Viacom’s growth prospects. CEO Philippe Dauman also crowed about the attention that Miley Cyrus’ sexually charged dancing brought to MTV’s Video Music Awards in August, calling it a “moment that is still reverberating across the pop culture landscape.” But some investors likely will be more concerned about the company’s acknowledgement that the original programming planned for its pay TV networks will drive costs up by a high single digit rate in 2014. “Original programming gives us the ability to build our brand better,” Dauman says. “It creates a lot of value for us.” In addition, Viacom says that its stock repurchases — which accelerated to $2.7B in the...
- 11/14/2013
- by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Financial Editor
- Deadline TV
It’s a low bar. But the projection by the DreamWorks Animation CEO in a conference call with analysts should reassure investors who feared that the company would have to record an impairment charge for its summer release about a snail who dreams about competing in the Indy 500. The film, which cost about $127M to produce, has generated about $246.1M from worldwide box offices — far below early expectations. Fox is still recouping its distribution costs. As a result, DreamWorks Animation recognized just $6.4M from the film in Q3 largely from China and South Korea, where Fox is not the distributor. Jeffrey Katzenberg said in July that he expected Turbo to turn a profit, especially in overseas markets where it had yet to open and would face less competition than it did in the U.S. But with Dwa’s continuing box office disappointments, Janney Capital Markets’ Tony Wible said last...
- 10/29/2013
- by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Financial Editor
- Deadline TV
The company’s had a strong run lately following better-than-expected box office sales for the March release The Croods, and potentially lucrative TV production deals with Netflix and Super Rtl. DreamWorks Animation shares are up more than 17% over the last two months and 55.5% over the last five. But the bull run may be over, B. Riley & Co’s David Miller says today. Dwa’s stock price is down 4.5% to $28.24 in mid-day trading after the analyst changed his recommendation to “neutral” from “buy.” “Despite our best attempts at stretching the rubber band further, we simple cannot justify a higher price target at this juncture” from his current price of $29. He lowered his global box office estimate for Dwa’s Turbo by 22.6% to $395M ahead of its debut in major markets including the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Holland, and New Zealand. The film about a snail that becomes an Indy 500 speedster cost...
- 9/23/2013
- by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Financial Editor
- Deadline TV
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