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China’s third Friday back to the movies scored a slight increase on last week’s comparable day at $4.38M. It’s short of the $7.6M generated last Sunday which was boosted by Warner Bros’ reissue of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, but still a jump on last Friday, while midweeks were solid. Play today was led by DreamWorks/Amblin/Universal’s 1917

So An American Pickle was never meant to be a major release, but that doesn’t mean a studio could not have hit theaters. It fits more neatly under the indie model that a studio like Fox Searchlight often shepherds. If you remember last year’s Jojo Rabbit, that’s an example of a Fox Searchlight release. Movies

One of Top Gun: Maverick‘s newest character is Glen Powell’s Hangman and there’s a number of reasons to believe he could be Pete Mitchell’s (Tom Cruise) secret son. After more than three decades, the ’80s iconic film that catapulted Cruise to mainstream popularity, Top Gun,  is finally getting a sequel. But with a lot of the original actors

A court ruling that dropped today allowing movie studios to buy theaters (whether or not they want to — and they probably don’t) is the latest snub to an industry that’s been rattled by change for years, in particular since March and COVID-19. Exhibition hasn’t been this pressured in a century. When the 1918 Spanish

Heidi Moneymaker is a prominent stunt performer who has worked alongside Brie Larson for Captain Marvel and Scarlett Johansson for Black Widow, to name a few. When she worked with Halle Berry for John Wick 3, she was especially impressed with how game Berry was. Moneymaker said the 53-year-old actress performed all the stunts except

A new international trailer for Tenet gives fans new insight into time reversal, the concept at the heart of Christopher Nolan’s espionage thriller. The movie is finally set to release in international markets in late August, and will hit theaters in the US and China in early September. Initially meant to lead the summer blockbuster season, Tenet

On today’s earnings call for the No. 1 financially challenged exhibitor AMC, CEO Adam Aron took the high road in not damning Disney for their recent seisimic-shifting choice to take Mulan to Disney+ instead of theaters where the streaming service is available. “You might thing I’m disappointed that Mulan is moving, but AMC has no bigger friend

Had things gone according to plan, John Wick: Chapter 4 would have started shooting later this year in order to make its original May 21, 2021 release date. However, the current health crisis led to Keanu Reeves’ work on The Matrix 4 was extended due to filming halting in mid-March, then resuming in late June.

Warning, this article contains spoilers for Black Cat #12 by Jed McKay, C.F. Villa, Brian Reber and Ferran Delgado. Black Cat just flew circles around Iron Man in Black Cat #12. Felicia Hardy is Marvel’s second-generation cat-burglar. The Black Cat was not groomed for a life of crime but fell into it after gaining fighting and

Auditions make me nervous. Not for myself — I’m beyond the casting-call stage of life. But rather for anyone who still has the nerve to endure the almost always disappointing, sometimes humiliating, process of being screened, interviewed, tested and most probably rejected for a role in show business. Or journalism. Or politics, wherein the final

This bevy of talent feels like a sign of something truly special, as producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller and star Ryan Reynolds are all familiar with striking a similar tone. With Lord and Miller tacking everything from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse on their creative plate, and Reynolds

The Simpsons actor Harry Shearer opposes the idea that white actors shouldn’t be able to voice non-white characters. Staring down questions of bias and privilege, animated series like Central Park and Family Guy have tried to respond to the prevalence of white actors voicing people of color. The Simpsons has been a lightning rod for

Clearly it’s inspired by the body of a crab, but can it also bring in its legs and act as solely as a submersible. One has to wonder if its legs work at the bottom of the ocean somehow. Can it also work on shore? The Crabsuit’s place in the franchise itself is yet to

Wizards of the Coast announced that they’ll be releasing a Dungeons & Dragons line of The Great Dalmuti cards. The traditional game set will get a D&D-themed revamp to feature classic monsters and creatures from D&D canon, with all new art and some nods to fan favorites. Wizards of the Coast has had year punctuated

MSG Entertainment said it is canceling the annual Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes due to concerns about COVID-19. The move is not a major surprise, given that Broadway theaters and other indoor arts venues in New York like Lincoln Center remain indefinitely shuttered. Still, it drives home the fact that the coronavirus will remain

Expedition Everest Disney’s Animal Kingdom was a unique theme park idea from its inception. Rather than simply being another theme park full of rides, the idea was to focus on the natural world and to include as many attractions surrounding actual animal life as traditional theme park rides and shows. The problem is that building

Twitter is again in the media spotlight due to a recent cyber attack which took place using an intrusion method called ‘spear phishing’, and included a number of big-name celebrity accounts being compromised to generate Bitcoin. Hacking enjoys a unique place in the media whether related to video games or as news in the business and tech world. However, what hacking

Russell Crowe thriller Unhinged became the most high-profile UK cinema release in the pandemic era this week, taking a provisional $230K (£174,901) from 250 sites, an average of around $920, with venues still to report. That number may look fairly minor on first glance but in the current context it offers reason for optimism. Two

The Cast Of Solo Is Pretty Great There’s something to be said about the cast of Solo: A Star Wars Story when examining the overall quality, featuring a lineup including Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and Paul Bettany in addition to Alden Ehrenreich. This movie pulled some sizable star power,

Recently, Chrishell Stause and Mary Fitzgerald celebrated their birthday together. Most of their Selling Sunset cast members were present at the party. However, Christine Quinn’s invitation seemingly got lost in the mail.  Mary and Christine have not been on friendly terms since season one of Selling Sunset, when Chrishell joined the show. As a gesture of support, Christine

SATURDAY UPDATE: Since cinemas reopened in China’s low-risk areas on July 20, the market today had its biggest day yet. Box office was $5.74M (RMB 40M) overall for the day, according to Maoyan figures. That reps a 38% jump from Friday. After leading last weekend and the midweeks, then dropping to No. 2 on Friday,

Steve Barron Was “Basically Cut Out” Of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles During Post-Production Despite director Steve Barron’s cruciality to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles getting made, especially with his ties to Jim Henson from the original The Dark Crystal, Golden Harvest, the studio backing the production, was not too happy with his vision for the film,

While the Incredible Hulk may be one of the strongest characters in Marvel, his son Skaar may be even deadlier than his father ever was. Though the Hulk may seem like the last person to raise a family, he has more than a few Hulk children of his own, one of them is Skaar. Skaar was conceived

China’s second Friday with cinemas back to business in low-risk areas rang up another $4M at local turnstiles, a 39% increase versus the same day last week. About 60% of movie theaters are now operating, with capacity limits and social distancing still in place, so all numbers are to be taken with a grain of

Dune is based on the 1965 landmark science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, which was previously adapted in 1984 by David Lynch. Jason Momoa joins a massive cast including what seems like half of Hollywood, with Timothee Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, Javier Barderm, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac and Stellan Skarsgård among his co-stars.

Alan Parker, best known for directing Fame, Midnight Express and Mississippi Burning, has passed away at the age of 76 following a long illness. Parker was born in London on February 14, 1944. The early part of his career was spent working in advertising as a copywriter and eventually a commercials director. Parker’s 1974 TV

The hope for NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell in the studio’s new unprecedented 17-day theatrical window collapse-PVOD deal with AMC Theatres is to make more money in the post theatrical windows which have waned in recent years. “Movies are our lifeblood,” said the NBCUniversal pro-PVOD exec, “Over the last couple of years, it’s become more increasingly

Nowadays, comic book films don’t mind leaning into their roots more and more because the genre has become so popular. Risks in every direction have been made in Marvel films, whether it be through the beautifully colorful costumes of a movie like Captain Marvel, or the gritty realism of Logan. When X-Men was being made,

Lady Masako is one of the main non-playable characters in Ghost of Tsushima, and while the game reveals a lot about her backstory, it’s easy to miss the fact that her husband wasn’t her only lover. When confronting a former servant who stands accused of betraying her family, Lady Masako reveals the two of them

EXCLUSIVE: Those in town assuming that one of the other big exhibition circuits will fall in line with AMC, and seek their own 17-day theatrical window-PVOD deal with Universal, will soon realize that it will be a cold day in hell. Cineworld CEO Mooky Greidinger, who oversees the world’s second largest chain, exclusively tells Deadline