Mike Flanagan had a good Thursday twice: he wrote the screenplay for Clayface, and his Carrie series topped the streaming chart. Also, Charli xcx reportedly has a secret part in the next Scorsese movie.
Clayface makes an estimated $3.5M+ in Thursday previews
DC's Clayface made an estimated $3.5 million, "if not more," in Thursday night previews, per Deadline's exclusive. Weekend forecasts sit at $20M to $25M. Deadline puts the net production cost at $44M, part of DC's move into lower-budget genre films. James Watkins directs from Flanagan's script, and the film is a stand-alone story about a Hollywood actor who loses his face.
Charli xcx reportedly has a cameo in Scorsese's What Happens at Night
Sources tell Variety that Charli xcx has a cameo in Martin Scorsese's What Happens at Night, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. Her part is being kept under wraps. Apple and StudioCanal are producing the Gothic psychological drama, and it has no release date yet. Scorsese is also one of the three faces on the cover of her album Music, Fashion, Film.
I Play Rocky gets a new trailer
The film about how Rocky got made has a new trailer. Anthony Ippolito plays Sylvester Stallone, and Peter Farrelly directs. Ippolito has done this before: he played Al Pacino in The Offer, the series about the making of The Godfather. The trailer has the young Stallone refusing to sell his script unless he gets to play the lead.
Flanagan's Carrie is No. 1 on Nielsen's streaming chart
Carrie, Flanagan's present-day take on Stephen King's novel, was the No. 1 streaming title in the U.S. for Oct. 5-11, with 1.26 billion viewing minutes. The eight-episode Prime Video series premiered Oct. 7, and Prime Video renewed it for a second season the same day the numbers came out.
The Mosquito Bowl premieres at AFI Fest
Peter Berg's Netflix film The Mosquito Bowl had its world premiere Thursday at AFI Fest. It adapts Buzz Bissinger's book about four college football stars who enlist after Pearl Harbor and fight at Okinawa, and Deadline's review calls it a war movie, not a football movie. Berg and Bissinger were also the pair behind Friday Night Lights. Deadline lists an Oct. 30 theatrical release and Nov. 25 on Netflix.