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Film critic Roger Ebert once said that, “No good movie is long enough and no bad movie is short enough.” Well we’re about to put that first half to the test, as we’ve got a list of films that pack a ton of quality into a running time of under 90 minutes. So if you

Refresh for latest…: Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes very (very) narrowly missed the $100M mark globally in its opening weekend, but it’s as near as dammit with an estimated $98.5M through Sunday worldwide. The Francis Lawrence-directed prequel came in slightly higher than pre-frame projections overseas with $54.5M from 87 international

Hollywood’s first go-around with Godzilla in 1998 didn’t go well, as the Roland Emmerich-directed movie was critically panned and considered a box office disappointment (though CinemaBlend’s own Rich Knight is among its supporters). In 2014 though, America’s entertainment industry got a second bite at this proverbial apple, and the Godzilla reboot was not only much

UPDATE: The Thanksgiving stretch will see the most amount of moviegoing for this fall after being slowed down by the actors strike. Currently the top five movie standings in terms of grosses are looking better than that of the top five of 2021, our first holiday back post-pandemic which for all titles grossed $142M per

Love him or not, Chris Pratt has proved to be a rather consistent good luck charm for successful animated movies in his voice roles so far. That is between leading 2014’s The LEGO Movie and voicing Mario for 2023’s biggest animated movie of the year, The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Next, Pratt will be behind

Emerald Fennell’s dark comedy Saltburn takes a massive jump from to over 1,500 screens today as Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, Hayao Miyazaki’s latest The Boy and the Heron, animated They Shot The Piano Player and other festival favorites launch awards season runs this Thanksgiving specialty weekend. Apple, opening Napoleon wide with Sony, is also planting a

I make pretty good money, but I’m not made of money. So, when I learned that Trolls Band Together (which we recently reviewed), and Disney’s Wish were coming out literally days apart, I knew I had to have a long, heartfelt talk with my kids, because I couldn’t afford to pay for both movies. That

Broadway box office took a 7% slide in the week before the Thanksgiving holiday, with the 29 shows settling in at a total $27,060,113 in receipts. Attendance for the week ending Nov. 19 was 228,423, about 86% of capacity and a slip of 3% from the previous week. The attendance figure is 12% lower than

Keanu Reeves and Alexandra Grant have generally kept a low profile during the tenure of their romance, to the point where they’d allegedly been dating for two years before being seen on a red carpet for the first time in 2019. She spent time with the actor while John Wick- Chapter 4 was filming in

Disney original animation is looking at a comeback this Thanksgiving. The princess pic Wish is looking at as much as $45M-$50M over five days after the studio suffering a setback over last year’s holiday with Strange World, which did $18.8M. With the strikes over and Thanksgiving week a primetime for moviegoing with K-12 schools off

Since Training Day, Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua have proven to be a winning team. They scored another box office success with the threequel The Equalizer 3. Now the successful duo is gearing up for another movie collaboration. As awesome as the project sounds, it’s a blow to fellow Hollywood A-lister Vin Diesel, who’s been

EXCLUSIVE: Derval Whelan, who previously worked at Searchlight Pictures for 14 years until 2021, is returning to the Disney specialty label as their Head of Distribution. She takes over for former Head of Distribution Frank Rodriguez, who Deadline told you departed for Amazon MGM to be their General Sales Manager. Whelan will be responsible for

If you were to pick the greatest music movies of all-time, I can’t imagine you’d get to many before Almost Famous. Cameron Crowe’s coming of age exploration of Rock ‘n Roll’s past is jam-packed with a non-stop cacophony of classic tracks, all placed with care to match the emotional impact the exceptional cast is delivering

In a super weekend for specialty, Saltburn had a lofty open on seven screens and The Holdovers a nice $2.7 million in a major week-three expansion that put it at no. 6 at the domestic box office. Actors are once again out promoting their films and indie/original fare continues to benefit from fewer studio releases

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s relationship remains a topic of public discussion for more than a few reasons. One of them is simply the fact that the two seem to have a lot of fun together – despite what the memes of Affleck’s face (which he called out) would make you believe. On that note,

It’s a cool indie weekend when the new album by André 3000, New Blue Sun, has morphed into a “cinematic listening experience.” Variance Films is putting the experience, directed by Terence Nance, into three theaters in NYC (IFC Center), LA (Cinepolis Inglewood) and Atlanta (Tara). Right now, it’s just those locations but after this weekend,

WARNING: Major spoilers for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes are ahead! If you haven’t seen the highly anticipated book-to-screen adaptation, it’s playing in theaters right now.  As I walked out of The Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the only thing I could think about was: Did Coriolanus

EXCLUSIVE: Getting a leg-up here on our Thanksgiving stretch preview, Apple Studios production of Ridley Scott’s Napoleon will invade the global box office via Sony this Wednesday, in what’s shaping up to be a $46M WW global start. Split up for the Wednesday-Sunday stretch, that’s $22M 5-day domestic, and $24M overseas. Note, it’s not the

Oftentimes in TV shows, there’s a love story or two for fans to follow, but disaster can strike leading to some harrowing breakup storylines. And there are 32 iconic TV character break-ups that I still can’t get over. Buckle up and bring your tissues are we go down memory lane.  To clarify, not every TV

Focus Features has set a Jan. 26, 2024 theatrical release date for Goran Stolevski’s latest, Housekeeping For Beginners. It premiered in Venice as part of the official “Orizzonti” (Horizons) competitive section, securing the prestigious Queer Lion Award. See Deadline review. It was selected shortly after as North Macedonia’s international Oscar submission. The film explores the

Rachel Zegler has been the subject of a lot of hate recently. She faced backlash when she talked about her lack of a connection to the Snow White story despite being cast in the titular role for the remake of the classic Disney film. She also was criticized when she admitted to taking her role

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate‘s prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is looking at a Thursday night between $5.75M-$6M after showtimes that began at 3PM. Again, these numbers aren’t from the studio and we could see a slightly different result by morning. While some will be quick to yell that Marvel Studios’ misfire last

While the TV side of the Star Trek franchise has been thriving for over half a decade now thanks to the various shows available to stream with a Paramount+ subscription, the same can’t be same for the film side. The last Star Trek movie, Star Trek Beyond, came out in 2016, and Star Trek 4

Former National Association of Theatre Owners executives John Fithian, Patrick Corcoran and Jackie Brenneman have launched a new consulting firm The Fithian Group to advise global exhibition clients on strategy, partnerships, innovation and strategic communications.  “We have spent the last couple of decades helping to guide the cinema industry through the biggest challenges it has

Every A-list actor had to start somewhere and all you have to do to find out what your favorite celebrity’s very first gig was is take a look at their profile on The Internet Movie Database. We sifted through the much celebrated site and found the first IMDb credit of some of today’s biggest stars. 

In what will be a revived week for moviegoing post actors strike heading into the Thanksgiving holiday, Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is looking to lead a global frame with a $100M+ start. The feature take of the Suzanne Collins’ prequel novel, who is also an EP here, about the

This Eli Roth project has been over a decade in the making. The premise behind the upcoming slasher film Thanksgiving was first introduced as a fake trailer in the 2007 film Grindhouse, and is actually the third from the Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino movie to be adapted into a feature-length film (following Machete and

Broadway began its trek into the lucrative holiday season last week at a steady clip, with the 28 shows grossing a total of $29,163,440 for the week ending November 12. That’s up about 10% over the previous week, though down about the same percentage from last year at this time. Last year’s take at this

Warner Bros. Discovery made headlines days ago, when it was reported that the studio had opted to scrap another film after Batgirl and Scoob! Holiday Haunt. The movie in question was the Looney Tunes spinoff Coyote vs. Acme, which notably starred John Cena. When news of the flick’s apparent demise hit social media, many expressed