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Roald Dahl’s children’s novel The Witches got a new version, and the cast is full of familiar faces – here’s who they are playing and where you’ve seen them before. Roald Dahl was a British author who became one of the most popular writers of children’s books thanks to stories like Charlie and the Chocolate

Sony Pictures said Wednesday that it has moved the release date of Ghostbusters: Afterlife from March to June 11, 2021, which will be the same weekend as the first Ghostbusters film was released in 1984. It becomes the latest tentpole shift in the theatrical calendar given the ongoing restrictions of movie theaters amid the pandemic.

Despite all the insanity being thrown his way in Back to the Future, for the most part, Marty McFly was able to keep a cool head during that first movie, but being called a chicken in the sequels definitely caused some problems that could easily have avoided. Fortunately, by the end of Back to the

Pokémon Sword and Shield approach almost one full year since their release with their newest piece of content, The Crown Tundra. This new additional DLC for Sword & Shield promises to bring back a horde of Pokémon from the series’ past, including many fan-favorite Legendary Pokémon that have gone missing in the current generation of titles.

The association of theater owners, NATO, called on Congress Tuesday to get an aid package approved, saying exhibitors are desperate for help. It’s begged for help before. Now Senators Schumer, Cardin and Shaheen have included relief for movie theaters as part of the Save Our Stages initiative, which is included in the COVID relief bill

Back in March 2019, before the world was turned upside down, Sherlock Holmes 3 was already pushed back to December 22, 2021. Now with the current state of things, and Dexter Fletcher’s statement about the project being on the back burner, it’s highly likely that date will get pushed back even further.

The marketing for The Mandalorian season 2 is spot-on once again, despite the relative lack of big names. After a rapturously received debut on Disney+, The Mandalorian season 2 is inching closer, promising a bigger and better Star Wars experience the second time around. Din Djarin and Baby Yoda will explore the galaxy in search of their respective

New York state on Monday published its reopening guidelines for movie theaters, which Gov. Andrew Cuomo has allowed to open (except in New York City and a handful of counties) on Friday for the first time since March. The guidelines don’t hold many surprises for operators that are already set up to adhere to the

CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links. Star Wars is one of the most popular movie franchises of all time, with entire generations of moviegoers brought up on the galaxy far, far away. The iconic cast members are therefore beloved,

Recently, the My Hero Academia manga series has followed the conflict between Izuku Midoriya and Tomura Shigaraki. The hopeful hero and leading villain have the center of attention from their peers and readers alike. However, the ending of chapter #288 (titled Save Takeo!!) brings back a familiar rivalry between Ochaco Uraraka and Himiko Toga. The two first

The specialty box office was fairly quiet this weekend with The Kid Detective being the new theatrical release posting numbers. The Stage 6 Films comedy starring Adam Brody and Sophie Nélisse banked an estimated $135,000 on its opening weekend. The movie debuted in 865 theaters and took in $45,000 on Friday, $57,000 on Saturday and is projected

During a recent appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, the daytime TV host spoke with Jamie Lee Curtis on a variety of subjects, including Chris Evans’ genitalia. In fact, Jamie Lee Curtis now says she thinks the nude leak may have actually gone exactly as predicted, noting on the series that Evans is a smart

Warning: contains spoilers to Marvel Zombies: Resurrection #3, out now! In zombie movies, the living survivors tend to have one of two long-term goals in mind: either finding some safe place to call home or eventually discovering a cure for the undead. The latest chapter of Marvel Zombies is no exception, as Valeria Richards, one of

Open Road’s Liam Neeson action movie The Honest Thief posted a notable first night during the pandemic of $225K in previews. Neeson’s action movies outside of Taken typically see largely double that or more than triple that in a healthy marketplace, i.e. last year’s Cold Pursuit posted $540K on its Thursday preview, The Commuter did $700K, and Run All Night grossed

There’s an incredible story behind the dinos in Jurassic Park, and it remains relevant as CGI technology remains an omnipresent medium in moviemaking. As the filmmakers explain, Steven Spielberg’s original vision for Jurassic Park was to make it using only practical effects. He worked closely with Stan Winston Studios to make elaborate puppets of the

DC Comics will be kicking off 2021 with Future State, a line-wide publishing event, sharing with fans exactly what the name implies: the future of the DC Universe and its heroes. For Superman, this will mean some unfortunate days ahead, as the Earth will reject the Man of Steel as one of its heroes, forcing

EXCLUSIVE: Yes, there have been a number of film distributors — big ones — who’ve cut and run during the pandemic, jettisoning their movies onto PVOD or selling them outright to streamers as domestic exhibition hangs in a fractured state. And despite how prevalent it has become, from Universal/Dreamworks Animation’s Trolls World Tour to Paramount’s $125M sale

Oddly enough, the two do look very similar, though it just might be the purple sweatshirt and white denim in his Never Say Never concert video. But when Justin Bieber knew that he needed a talented young actor to sell the loneliness that’s mirrored in the new song’s lyrics, he made the absolute right choice,

The Guardian will be making his triumphant return to the DC Universe during DC’s Future State event. During this mega event, the regular DC Universe line will cease publication for two months, and in its place, the publisher plans to release a series of mini-series and one-shots that tell the story of a future DC Universe

Donna Langley, chairman of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, and Ann Sarnoff, chair and CEO of Warner Bros had the same reaction Thursday when asked if their companies had any interest in buying movie theaters. They laughed. “We have no plans to do that currently,” Langley said, appearing with Sarnoff and CBS CEO George Cheeks on

Well, that’s a relief. Because while Halloween Kills was delayed a full year in order to try and make money for the studio, Blumhouse has no plans to push the highly anticipated slasher back another time. We’ll just have to wait and see how the ongoing health crisis pans out, and how that affects the

The original cover artwork for 1974’s Amazing Spider-Man #129 by Gil Kane and John Romita, Sr. is being put up for auction, and it’s been estimated to sell for at least $2 million. That may seem like a high price, but this isn’t just any old Spider-Man comic; it was in this issue that Frank Castle, AKA

As the exhibition industry teeters, global cinema owners beseeched New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to reopen theaters in areas of the state with low infection rates. The response was not promising. The executive committee of the Global Cinema Federation — led by Alejandro Ramirez Magaña, CEO of Cinépolis, in a letter to the governor Wednesday,

I had been hired to do a draft of Resurrection. I was working with an exec over there, Nick Phillips. We were both incredibly enthusiastic about the franchise, and really excited by it. We were just nerds about it, and would talk about Halloween constantly. We knew every character, every death. It’s one of my

With over forty years of kills under his belt, it’s no surprise that Michael Myers has played host to some of the most brutal murders in slasher history. But while the majority of Halloween‘s sequels upped the ante on Michael’s violence, John Carpenter’s original film captured audience nightmares with a slow build of eerie suspense. With

Exhibition shares took a beating Tuesday as AMC Entertainment announced its cash might be gone by year end and Walt Disney became the latest big content company to restructure operations around streaming. As theaters reopen to limited audiences without key New York and Los Angeles markets and a paucity of new studio fare, heavily indebted

The original Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is, of course, a comedy classic. Written and directed by John Hughes in the ’80s, it follows Steve Martin’s main character Neal Page as he desperately is trying to get home for Thanksgiving, but keeps getting delayed due to transportation issues. He ends up having to travel with Del

The Yeti brand of microphones from Blue need little introduction to consumers who have wanted to improve their home content creation setup. With hardware that ranges from affordable and efficient to expensive and incredible, Yeti has firmly established its place among gamers looking to up their stream game. With the Yeti X World of Warcraft Edition, the already

Digital movie ticketing platform Atom Tickets and the Independent Cinema Alliance (ICA) have teamed to offer contactless, digital ticketing to moviegoers. ICA reps more than 175 companies and 3,000 screens. The first group of theatres to sign on and activate digital ticketing under the partnership include Premiere Cinemas (Texas, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, New Mexico and South

If you had the money to do so, would you buy the Buffalo Bill house from Silence Of The Lambs? Answer our poll below, and before you do, think about the excellent and terrifying Halloween parties you could throw (tis the season to be thinking about such things), and also note that the basement doesn’t