A lucrative period for Chinese cinemas, the National Day holiday officially got underway today with the release of Jiang Ziya: Legend Of Deification. The highly-anticipated follow-up to 2019 smash Ne Zha set a new single-day record for animation in the Middle Kingdom with an estimated RMB 359M ($53M). This beats both Ne Zha‘s July opening
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Not going to lie, I kind of want two different Craft sequels now. Because while the trailer for Legacy shows that the movie is bringing something new to the franchise, it also would have been awesome reuniting with the original coven. What happened to Sarah, Nancy, and the rest of the group after the events
The PlayStation Store is celebrating the PlayStation 4’s library with the “Games of a Generation” sale, including Ghost of Tsushima, Red Dead Redemption 2 and other hits from across the console’s lifetime. The sale features impressive discounts on popular PS4 titles and may be the last sale of significance until after the PS5 is released
EXCLUSIVE: With the domestic box office still ailing, studios have been keen to make their finished films revenue events to the widest audience possible, maximizing profits by whatever means. For MGM’s Orion, that meant releasing the long-awaited Keanu Reeves-Alex Winter threequel Bill & Ted Face the Music on Premium VOD and whatever theaters would play it
The world lost another of the true greats yesterday when singer, actress, and feminist icon Helen Reddy passed away at the age of 78. Reddy wrote the song that became the anthem for the women’s movement in the 1970s with “I Am Woman” and now she is being remembered by the people whose lives she
Though the iconic animated comedy known as SpongeBob SquarePants has aired over 250 episodes across its twelve-season span, some episodes of the Nickelodeon show are certainly better than others. To give credit to the best of the best, we’re here to look at the top ten SpongeBob episodes of all time, as determined by the fans at
Vertical Entertainment and Noriva, the distribution arm of The Forest Road Company, are teaming for the US distribution of the FBI spy thriller The Informer starring The Killing and Altered Carbon actor Joel Kinnaman. The feature will hit PVOD on Nov. 6 at a price of $19.99, available on Comcast, ATT, DIRECTV, Dish, Spectrum, Verizon, Frontier, Amazon, FandangoNow, Vudu,
Well, there you have it. It looks like Sean Gunn is hoping for some real Kraglin growth in Guardians fo the Galaxy Vol. 3. And in addition to gaining proper control over Yondu’s signature arrow, he’s also hoping the character has more control over his own personal path. And without his leader/friend with him, Yondu
This week on Big Brother 22: All-Stars, the houseguests will play the traditional OTEV competition for the Power of Veto. For beginners, it should be noted that OTEV is “VETO” spelled backwards. This longstanding POV competition was introduced on Big Brother 7, which is otherwise known as the first All-Stars season of the series. Janelle Pierzina was the first-ever houseguest to win the
Refresh for updates, analysis and chart: The depressed state of the box office continued into its fourth weekend since the big three exhibitors reopened with Warner Bros.’ Tenet still No. 1 with $3.4M, -26%. To date, the Christopher Nolan time-twisting noir has collected $41.2M at 2,850 locations in a domestic market that’s 75% opened with
1. Adaptation (2002) I’ll tell you, Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze make a really great team. In Charlie Kaufman’s best film, Nicolas Cage plays Charlie Kaufman and Charlie Kaufman’s fictional brother, Donald. Charlie Kaufman is adapting the real book, The Orchid Thief, but has severe writer’s block, while his brother, Donald, is a budding screenwriter
CBS All Access’ Star Trek: Discovery returns for its third season on October 15th. The streaming series ran into a bit of delay in post-production as a result of the ongoing Cornoavirus pandemic, but a lot of hard work and determination have made the season possible. With the premiere just weeks away, it’s a good time to
Refresh for latest…: In its fifth weekend at the international box office, Warner Bros’ Tenet added another $15.8M from 56 markets. The offshore cume has risen to $242M for a worldwide total of $283.2M. Christopher Nolan’s time-bending thriller had a strong hold (-30%) in Japan where it debuted at No. 1 last weekend. Benefitting from
Yes, The Volturi Will Be Involved In The Twilight Sequel Additionally, Meyer talked a little bit about the main villains of the original Twilight series, the Volturi. As you know, the Volturi is a largely powerful coven of vampires that enforce the law, but can have a pretty lethal way of going about it. Bella
Hercule Poirot is up there with Sherlock Holmes in the list of the most famous fictional detectives of all time. Born from the mind of Agatha Christie, the best-selling author of time, the Belgian detective has been interpreted on the big and small screen for several decades, much to the joy of audiences everywhere. RELATED: Agatha
The first major blockbuster of the pandemic era, The Eight Hundred this week became the No. 1-grossing movie of 2020 worldwide, jumping ahead of Bad Boys For Life ($430.3 million global, per Sony). The Guan Hu-directed war epic has through Friday amassed $434M at the Chinese box office alone, and is also now the 10th
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett brought a bit of Scream energy with them on Ready Or Not already, with that movie centering on a newlywed being hunted by her in-laws, who are part of a dark cult. Scream 5 is still ahead of schedule by our measure, despite the small setback. It was originally intended
Sony is giving popular Japanese YouTubers a chance to try the PlayStation 5 and posting videos online starting in early October. Plenty of footage of PS5 games is already available online thanks to several next-gen reveal events from Sony, but these new videos might provide a less scripted look at some of Sony’s upcoming games.
It really hasn’t been broadcasted widely, but Sofia Coppola’s latest dramedy from Apple/A24, On the Rocks, is opening in key markets next weekend, October 2. I hear it will be a very limited run followed by a debut on the Apple TV+ streaming service on October 23. The movie made its world premiere at the New
Madonna The final pick we have for the Madonna biopic is… Madonna. Yes, the woman herself! Hey, she’s directing, producing and co-writing, might as well go all in right? The Irishman style, de-aging tech if she’d like it and just let her act out her life! This likely won’t happen considering the report detailed she
Nioh 2’s second DLC, Darkness in the Capital, is releasing in October, promising to bring even more exciting new content to a game already overflowing with replay value. The first game in the series, 2017’s Nioh, was a breath of fresh air to fans of the Soulslike genre, blending the stylistic action that developer Team
EntTelligence, a new corporation devoted to features and streaming audience analytics, has opened its doors today. Additionally, as of Oct. 1, motion picture industry vet Steve Buck will join as Partner and Chief Strategy Officer to the newly formed entity. EntTelligence subsumes MovieQu and its technology, currently supporting Hollywood’s premiere trailer verification service, MovieMeasure, which will
Back in 1996, Paul Rudd would have just had his big break with Clueless, the Amy Heckerling classic that had Alicia Silverstone starring as Cher and spewing the line “As if!” Witherspoon must have been 20 in the above picture, with a few films under her belt, including The Man in the Moon and A
Proletariat Inc’s. Spellbreak has achieved a milestone of 5 million players since its release only three weeks ago. The game is an animated battle royale that features magic to dish out damage to opponents, with different classes - such as Pyromancer and Frostborn - available to suit gamers’ different playstyles. Players can also unlock and equip different
In the wake of COVID-19’s continued grip on the box office, Disney made another round of release-date changes Wednesday, the good news for exhibition being: Nothing is headed to Disney+. That includes Pixar’s Soul, which is currently sticking to its November 20 release against MGM’s James Bond movie No Time to Die. While we already
Aaaron Sorkin was preparing to film The Trial of the Chicago 7 back in 2007, which eventually fell through due to the writer’s strike and Steve Spielberg dropped out as director. Sorkin is directing and wrote the new Netflix movie, which features familiar faces like Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eddie Redmayne, and Michael Keaton.
The approaching Season 6 for Call of Duty: Warzone and Modern Warfare will add two new Operators next week. Besides that, there’s a lot more to be excited about with the next batch of seasonal content coming to Infinity Ward’s latest. By the end of the season, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War should
Focus Features and Magnolia Pictures said Tuesday that they will rerelease their respective Ruth Bader Ginsburg features On the Basis of Sex and the documentary RBG, in tribute to the late Supreme Court justice. Both pics will play in 1,000 theaters this Friday, and also be available on-demand, with net proceeds from both pics’ box office going to
Last Night In Soho – April 23, 2021 Edgar Wright has been playing with genre throughout his career, between making Shaun of the Dead, Baby Driver, Scott Pilgrim vs the World and Hot Fuzz. The filmmaker has made his first true horror movie with Last Night in Soho, a time-bending thriller that goes between in
ZeniMax Online Studios has taken to Twitter to ensure fans that its MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online will not be affected by the recent Microsoft buyout. The tech giant acquired ZeniMax Media for $7.5 billion earlier today. The massive deal gives Microsoft control over Bethesda, id, and Arkane, giving it the rights to iconic video game franchises