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New York’s July heat wave is doing nothing to wilt the prospects of some recent Broadway arrivals, with four spring-summer arrivals filling each and every seat at their respective venues last week: Oh, Mary!, The Outsiders, Stereophonic and Hell’s Kitchen were sell-outs for the week ending July 14. Long-runners Hadestown and Hamilton were SRO, as

The rom-com Anyone But You feels like it’s been a 2024 movie release, but it’s actually one of 2023’s box office success stories, and for good reason. Stars Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney were great in the film, and it really marked a comeback for the studio rom-com as a whole. The press tour was

Imax has struck a deal with Muvi Cinemas, Saudi Arabia’s biggest exhibitor, to open four new Imax With Laser locations (its most advanced offering) at some of the biggest commercial centers in the country including two in Riyadh, the capital and most populous city, and and one in Jeddah’s Mall of Arabia. Another location will be the

It looks like what I think will be best Timothée Chalamet movie is still on the way, and it’s thanks to A24. Chalamet is going into the world of sports biopics, and surprise, someone from the Uncut Gems family is along for the ride as well. In what sounds like a home run for movie

The Barbie filmmaker is 2024’s Pioneer of the Year recipient. Greta Gerwig will be bestowed with the 75th honor at the September 25th ceremony at the Beverly Hilton by the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation (WRMPPF).  The Pioneer of the Year Award is bestowed upon esteemed and respected members in the motion picture industry whose

Lots of rumors have been circulating about the state of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s relationship, and none of them are very positive. After canceling her world tour, JLo seems to be leaning on her friends, as she went on vacation without her husband amidst speculation that the couple is headed for divorce. While Affleck’s

A24’s drama Sing Sing starring Colman Domingo turned out the third highest limited opening and per screen average of the year so far, and Touch from Focus Features by Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur has a nice opening. Indian 2 marks the third straight week with one or more Indian films in the top ten. It’s

Doing an impression of Robert De Niro is almost ritual at this point in pop culture, with Matthew McConoughey a close second favorite. But according to Zac Efron, who has worked with the Taxi Driver himself, no one does a better De Niro impression than Dave Franco. Efron was able to see Franco’s impression first

The bananas obsessed creatures won’t stop: Universal Pictures will release Illumination’s Minions 3 on Wed, June 30, 2027. The news comes in the wake of Despicable Me 4 clearing $255M at the global box office following its July 3 opening stateside. Minions 3 is written by Brian Lynch (Minions, The Secret Life of Pets films) and directed

We’ve seen Zendaya and Margot Robbie method dress time and time again, and now it’s Blake Lively’s turn. It Ends With Us is set to release on the 2024 movie schedule on August 9, and you better believe that as the press tour for it begins, she’s already bringing her A-game to her outfits. To

As Illumination/Universal’s Despicable Me 4 continues global rollout, and with its Friday numbers included, the latest from Gru and the gang has helped propel the Despicable Me/Minions franchise across the $5B mark (to $5.025B through Friday) at the worldwide box office. This makes it the first animated franchise ever to reach the milestone. It was

The Walt Disney Company is coming off recently celebrating one hundred years as a studio, and boy, do they have a massive legacy to boast about. One especially great element to come out of the animation house and entertainment conglomerate is all the incredible music that has been composed for their iconic movies over the

Sing Sing, the powerful, poignant prison drama starring Colman Domingo, opens NY/LA, with indie love stories Dandelion and Touch debuting on hundreds of screens as distributors continue to tinker with release patterns. Martin Scorsese, eloquent as always, narrates (and executive produced) Made In England: The Films of Powell And Pressburger. Sorry/Not Sorry takes on comedian

Alec Baldwin has been in and out of the spotlight over the past few years for tragic reasons, following the shooting on the set of his film Rust that resulted in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in New Mexico in 2021. After some back and forth over involuntary manslaughter charges going back to early

EXCLUSIVE: A lotta people around the world watched the official trailer for Paramount‘s Gladiator II in its first 24 hours after dropping Tuesday. So much so that it outstripped the debut trailer traffic of the studio’s own Top Gun: Maverick. You’ll remember Top Gun: Maverick posted a three-day U.S. box office opening of $126.7 million.

I know we’re still working our way through 2024, but I can’t help but get pumped about the upcoming 2025 movies as of late. And in addition to the highly anticipated three-quels of Paddington in Peru, Downton Abbey 3, and Tron: Ares, there are fresh-faced films like the Brad Pitt F1 movie heading to theaters

EXCLUSIVE: Everyone in distribution loves a surprise, and spurring a lot of chatter throughout today is the $2.5M-$3M previews for NEON‘s serial killer horror movie Longlegs. This is per box office sources tonight. For the specialty distributor with a penchant Palme d’Or winning movies, that’s the best take ever in Thursday night previews for their

So far this year, we’ve seen some notable representation for the disabled and those with mental health conditions. Marvel’s Echo put deaf star Alaqua Cox front and center and has her go full force in action scenes as an amputee with a prosthetic leg. Max’s Turtles All The Way Down authentically portrays a mental illness

Kevin Costner‘s Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2 is no longer coming out on Aug. 16. The news comes following the misfire of Chapter 1 over the July 4th box office frame. Still given the movie’s 50+ leaning audience and how they’re slow to come to cinemas, the filmmakers wanted to give that audience

Though the 2024 movie schedule will not see the release of the film adaptation of Michael Crichton and James Patterson’s best-seller Eruption, the gears are turning pretty fast behind the scenes. As the previous Eruption movie update saw Free Solo and Nyad directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi secured as the helmers, a pretty

As it continues its mind-blowing trajectory, and with Tuesday’s receipts now included, Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 has become the highest-grossing Pixar movie of all time at the worldwide box office. On Tuesday, it passed Pixar’s Incredibles 2 ($1.243B) to get to this latest milestone. The running global cume on Inside Out 2 through Tuesday is

It can be pretty amusing when two celebrities look enough alike to confuse people. Jesse Plemons, for instance, has said he’s been mistaken for Matt Damon, and the Vampire Diaries cast has a whole running joke about Paul Wesley looking like Justin Bieber. The entertainment industry is full of pretty people, after all, so if

Knoxville, Tenn.-based Regal, said it’s completed a $250 million capital raise to improve and digitally enhance its theaters as the box office rebounds. Construction has started with over 30 locations to be completed in 2025. The upbeat news comes as Regal’s parent Cineworld, which emerged from bankruptcy last summer, is facing the tough decision of

Glen Powell seems to be everywhere right now. While the actor wasn’t a big name even a few years ago, following his success in Top Gun: Maverick Powell is clearly “in demand” among many Hollywood directors and studios. He’s so omnipresent that some believe audiences are being “forced” to accept him by Hollywood, and such

UPDATED: The global and international box office were extra animated this weekend with the expansion of Illumination/Universal’s Despicable Me 4 to domestic as well as another 52 overseas markets. At the same time, Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 continues to jump for joy having reached $1,216.9M globally. It’s also now the No. 5 animated film of

Being a film actor is a job that generally requires a lot of patience. On a set, any given shot has a lot of people performing specific tasks, and there is a great deal of repetition thanks to both multiple takes and multiple angles that ensure the director gets everything they want before taking the

For some in Hollywood, there’s a sigh of relief in Skydance’s $8 billion takeover of Paramount: A legacy motion picture studio and entertainment conglom will largely remain standing. This versus if Sony had actually won Paramount, in which case we’d be looking at a potential reduction in theatrical releases, a maneuver that would greatly impact

Margot Robbie‘s dominant streak in Hollywood as one of its top leading actresses may go on pause in the near future, and we’ll have to watch her best movies on Max until she’s back at it again. Widespread reports have emerged claiming the A-lister is pregnant with her first child with husband Tom Ackerley, and

There wasn’t a lot new opening this weekend specialty-wise but few notable holdovers continued to crank in moderate release, namely Kalki 2898 AD, which is on fire, as well as Thelma and Kinds of Kindness. Kalki will end at No. 8 on 925 screens in week two, the second weekend in the top 10 for

Kevin Hart has amassed a lot of celebrity friends throughout his time as a Hollywood A-lister. Considering the connections that he’s made, he typically takes time out to wish his famous pals well on their birthdays and does that in fun ways. (Hart’s insult-laced tribute to Dwyane “The Rock” Johnson a few years ago was