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Video game and horror film fanatics were swarming around the horror adaptation of Five Nights at Freddy’s. After the supernatural horror film crushed it at the box office, it was only natural to wonder when filming for Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 would be underway. Matthew Lillard, who played the previous film’s antagonist, luckily gave

EXCLUSIVE: Ketchup Entertainment‘s pickup of Warner Bros Animation’s The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie will be debuting in theaters on February 28, 2025. The movie, which was originally conceived for Max, made its world premiere at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June, when it received high praise from critics.

Four years after her time on the TV series Felicity came to an end, Keri Russell made her blockbuster movie debut in Mission: Impossible III, where she played Lindsey Farris. Although her time in this installment of the Mission: Impossible film series was relatively short, Russell at least got to shine alongside franchise lead Tom

Sony’s Screen Gems is releasing the feature take of its Sony Playstation game Until Dawn on April 25, 2025. David F. Sandberg directs off a recent draft by Gary Dauberman. Blair Butler wrote the previous draft. The pic stars The film stars Ella Rubin, Michael Cimino, Ji-young Yoo, Belmont Cameli, Odessa A’zion, Maia Mitchell and

When it comes to upcoming horror movies on the way during the prime Halloween season we are now in, the Smile 2 release date is definitely circled in red a couple times for fans of the genre. One central reason why we are freaked out by the sequel is through the maniacal grins characters in

There’s really one true one wide release this weekend and it’s Paramount‘s sequel Smile 2, which currently sees presales pointing toward a high-teens-millions opening. Tracking earlier this week indicated higher, in the $20 million-plus range, but that all depends on whether Latino and Hispanic moviegoers send this $28M-priced sequel to the 2022 original to another

We’re still two weeks away from Halloween, and there’s been plenty of options on the 2024 movie calendar to make horror movie fans smile. But, as we learned from a certain 2022 flick, that’s not always a good thing, and now, Parker Finn is back with the sequel Smile 2, which is set to hit

TUESDAY UPDATE: Damien Leone‘s Terrifier 3 came in at $2.59 million on the Indigenous Peoples holiday, which means the four-day total is $21.5M at 2,514 theaters. Tuesday, we’re hearing from sources, is around $1.8M, which gets the running total for the Cineverse movie to $23.3M. Overall, Monday was won by DreamWorks Animation/Universal’s The Wild Robot with

2023 was an eventful year for the John Wick franchise, with John Wick: Chapter 4 crushing critically and commercially in theaters, and then the miniseries The Continental becoming available to stream with a Peacock subscription. Following a 2024 hiatus, fans will finally get to return to this world of colorful assassins next year, as the

Four-time Grammy Award-winning duo for King + Country are bringing their annual popular holiday concert A Drummer Boy Christmas to theaters nationwide for the first time in a limited engagement December 5-9 on 1,000+ screens. The faith-based duo, brothers Joel and Luke Smallbone, announced they will then take a brief touring hiatus in 2025 to

Jan de Bont’s Speed is undeniably one of the best action movies out there, with its high-octane race for survival largely set aboard a bomb-strapped bus. Not to mention, the stellar casting of Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock helped make this ‘90s flick all the more memorable. That duo almost didn’t exist, though, considering Reeves

With Warner Bros.’ Joker: Folie à Deux bombing and this past weekend’s overall ticket sales being off 43% from the same period a year ago, the October box office might feel kind of sluggish. It’s at this point in time that we say, where are you Venom? A nation’s box office turns its lonely eyes to

Scream has many magnificent movies. It’s one of the best horror movie franchises because the series only has a few duds. Scream and Scream 4 are my favorites and the best movies in the film series. Though I had only seen Scream 4 once, it instantly became a favorite. I have toyed with the idea

In a weekend of wide releases, indies included, A24’s Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh-starring We Live In Time popped on five screens with the third best limited opening of the year after Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds Of Kindness and Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night. The romance by John Crowley grossed $225.9k opening weekend for a per-screen average

At this point in his long and successful career, Christopher Meloni is likely most recognizable to general audiences for his lengthy stint(s) as Eliott Stabler in the world of both Law & Order: SVU and its spinoff Law & Order: Organized Crime, whose fifth season shifted to Peacock from NBC. Though we’ll be waiting until

After much pre-release turbulence, The Apprentice today opens on 1,740 screens across the country. Inspiring coming-of-age tales are a Hollywood staple, but most are warm and cozy compared to The Apprentice. In this ‘70s-set Manhattan tale, an ambitious real estate developer looking to crack the big time finds a mentor and role model in a

If you are watching the crowd during a Knicks or Lakers home game, odds are you’ll see some A-listers sitting courtside. Over the years that list has included big-name actors like Billy Crystal and Jack Nicholson, in fact, they’ve even attended them together. Now, the When Harry Met Sally actor has opened up about sitting

Theaters are brimming over with an army of well-reviewed and buzzy indie films. But, in an unusual state of affairs, pretty much all of them are in wide release, meaning Terrifier 3, Piece by Piece, Saturday Night and The Apprentice, as well as animated My Hero Academia: You’re Next. Limited openings are few — a

It goes without saying that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s relationship has garnered significant attention. Spanning over two decades, their romance has been a rollercoaster, from their initial engagement in the early 2000s to a very public breakup and their surprising reconciliation in 2021. Now, weeks after JLo reportedly filed for divorce from the ex-DC

FRIDAY PM: Industry midday projections show Cineverse’s Terrifier 3 to be the bigger clown at the box office this weekend, with an estimated Friday around $7.7M for a potential $15M-plus 3-day at 2,514 theaters It would be great story for the business if a little movie like this can hold to this potential, and if

One of the buzziest 2024 movies to hit cinemas this weekend is Saturday Night, and it just received some major praise from the perfect source. Dan Aykroyd, who is portrayed by Dylan O’Brien in the movie about the preparations that went into the first SNL episode in 1975, has called it “a stand-alone masterpiece” that

Roadside Attractions is giving Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl an awards qualifying run in Los Angeles on Dec. 13 with a wide break on Jan. 10. Deadline first told you that RSA acquired North American rights to the critically acclaimed feature out of TIFF (81% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes), with Sony taking the rest of

Alright… where do I even start this? Joker: Folie à Deux was one of those films I was really looking forward to on the 2024 movie schedule. While I didn’t know if having a sequel to a movie like Joker would work after watching it back in 2019 (jeez, was it really five years ago?),

Great news ahead of its Nov. 22 opening: Universal‘s feature take of stage musical Wicked has posted first day advance ticket sales on Fandango which rank as the retailer’s second best year-to-date behind Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine. As you know that Disney theatrical release posted a first day of $96.1M and 3-day of $211.4M.

A lot has been written about Jennifer Lopez over the last few months regarding her split from husband Ben Affleck. Most of what we knew about the situation came from rumors and unnamed sources. The divorce confirmation only came after the legal paperwork had been filed. But now Jennifer Lopez is speaking for herself. While

EXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to French survival thriller, Survive, starring Emilie Dequenne (Close), Andreas Pietschmann (Dark), Lisa Delamar, Lucas Ebel, and Arben Bajraktaraj. Pic is getting a release in theaters and on VOD in January. The pic, directed by Frédéric Jardin and written by Matt Alexander, follows Julia and her

Dylan O’Brien is returning to the big screen via one of this weekend’s new 2024 movies, Saturday Night. In it, he portrays Dan Aykroyd amid the drama surrounding the first SNL taping. While promoting the movie, the actor recently reflected on a dangerous moment on the set of a film that was completely “life-changing.” Back

James Shani, whose new company Rich Spirit stepped in to help release Ali Abassi’s The Apprentice, was ebullient at the film’s New York premiere days ahead of a wide theatrical release. “We did it. I don’t know how many of you guys know what it took to get here,” he told a crowd at the

With Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan arguably crafted the most successful film of his career. The blockbuster historical epic earned nearly $1 billion at the box office before going on to win seven Academy Awards, including the 2024 Best Picture prize (Nolan also notably won Best Director after multiple nominations). Naturally, there have been a lot of

Sunset Blvd., Jamie Lloyd’s revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical starring Nicole Scherzinger and Tom Francis, topped the $1 million mark in weekly grosses last week, filling the St. James Theatre for all six previews and joining the ranks of McNeal and Romeo + Juliet as Broadway’s most recent powerhouse newcomers. Though it fell