Movies

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount and Spyglass Media’s Scream VI hit tracking today with what looks to be a franchise opening record of $37M stateside. The previous highest opening for a Scream movie was Scream 3 back in 2000 which debuted to $34.7M stateside. Lots of factors contributing to the heat: You can’t deny the star power of

Sony Pictures Classics said it’s planning to release Sean Mullin’s documentary on baseball superstar Yogi Berra, It Ain’t Over, in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on May 12, expanding over following weeks. The film is produced by Natalie Metzger, Matt Miller, Peter Sobiloff and Mike Sobiloff with Vanishing Angle and Off Media, and

Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Puss in Boots: The Last Wish had a happy Valentine’s Day, swashbuckling to a new global milestone. The spinoff sequel crossed $400M with Tuesday’s numbers bringing the worldwide kitty to $401.5M. The split is $160.1M domestic and $241.4M at the international box office.  The Oscar nominated pic from directors Joel Crawford and Januel

EXCLUSIVE: For the first times since pre-pandemic times, a Super Bowl trailer broke the 100M view threshold on social media in the 24 hour period following the Big Game. That was Disney/Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 which clocked 134.1M views across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook as measured by social media

EXCLUSIVE: Performance artist, comedian, actress, playwright and elected Koreatown Los Angeles representative, Kristina Wong, has inked with CAA in all areas. Wong has mounted several solo shows here in Los Angeles, however, her latest Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord, earned her a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama last year. Sweatshop Overlord, a co-production between Center Theatre Group

The original Indiana Jones trilogy was a staple of ‘80s cinema, with Raiders of the Lost Ark kicking things off in 1981, The Temple of Doom following in 1984 and The Last Crusade arriving in 1989. Then the polarizing Kingdom of the Crystal Skull came out in 2008, and in summer 2023, Harrison Ford’s tenure

New York Times bestselling author and CEO of the multimedia Hollis Company, Rachel Hollis, took to social today about the sudden loss of her ex-husband, former Disney President of Worldwide Distribution Dave Hollis. Dave Hollis passed away Saturday at 47. No cause of death had been determined, but the family confirmed that the former Disney

The relationship between Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis, or more specifically, the end of that relationship, has been a headline-grabbing topic for many months. A few other big names like rocker Harry Styles have also been part of the topic, but another individual that was making headlines was a former nanny for Sudeikis and Wilde.

In a turnabout, China is handing out release dates for Hollywood movies at a clip these days — and with a fair bit of notice. Yesterday, we learned that Paramount/eOne’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves will go day-and-date on March 31, and today comes news that Universal/Blumhouse/Atomic Monster’s hit M3GAN has been granted a

Since its premiere at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale has earned a great deal of acclaim, but it’s also been the subject of a lot of controversy. Some have accused the movie of being fatphobic in its storytelling, and the casting of Brendan Fraser in the lead role has received criticism

Paramount/eOne’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves has become the latest Hollywood film to be granted access to China. The studio’s Weibo account posted the news early Monday local time, noting the adaptation of the iconic Hasbro role-playing game will debut March 31, day-and-date with North America.  Paramount on Friday revealed its 30-second Super Bowl

Channing Tatum once again hit theaters baring it all this weekend — just in time for Valentine’s Day — in his latest film, Magic Mike’s Last Dance. At this point, everyone is pretty used to seeing him scantily clad, but it certainly isn’t getting old. Both he and his fans enthusiastically celebrated the film in

Utopia opened Clay Tatum and Whitmer Thomas’ slacker comedy The Civil Dead, the feature debut from the lifelong friends from Gulf Shores, Alabama who have been making projects together — from skateboarding videos to an HBO special — since grade school. It’s grossed $17k so far on 27 screens including a sneak-preview Q&A tour at Alamo

Halle Berry is nothing if not a good sport. When the actress was nominated and then won a Razzie Award (a parody award show honoring the worst of cinematic underachievements) for her performance in the critically lambasted 2004 Catwoman movie, she showed up in person to accept the honor (and Berry has also called out

Steve Bunnell has scored an exec job coveted by many in exhibition, from what I’ve been told: He’s been hired as EVP Content Strategy at Marcus Theatres. What Bunnell brings to the exec position is his years of working in both distribution (at Universal) and exhibition. He’ll lead the programming of new releases, alternative content,

Pete Davidson’s love life has been an object of the public’s attention for years, especially since the former Saturday Night Live cast member has had the tendency to attract famous and powerful women such as Ariana Grande, Kim Kardashian and Kate Beckinsale. And, the actor and comedian’s latest romance is with his Bodies Bodies Bodies

Diverse festival notables from Hannah Ha Ha to The Blue Caftan join a spattering of specialty horror titles led by Consecration, and the U.S. theatrical debut of Gaspar Noé’s controversial Irréversible: Straight Cut. The last is presented by Altered Innocence, whose owner Frank Jaffe spoke with Deadline about why he wanted to give Noe’s unusual

As we look forward to 2023’s Academy Awards, there’s certainly been a lot of viral moments to recall over the years, including when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock and got subsequently banned from the Oscars for his behavior. Other notable moments were when John Travolta said Idina Menzel’s name wrong and Jennifer Lawrence’s fall on

Channing Tatum is looking at another opening at No. 1 in his canon of February theatrical releases with the Warner Bros Steven Soderbergh directed threequel Magic Mike’s Last Dance with industry estimates between $9M-$11M at 1,500 theaters. Warner Bros is not reporting numbers. Friday is around $4.3M which includes an estimated $1M previews that started

With each new passing Fast and Furious movie, the “family” grows ever larger. The franchise has added the likes of Kurt Russell, Helen Mirren, and Charlize Theron to the ranks in recent installments. And based on what we know about the pending Fast X, Jason Momoa, West Side Story legend Rita Moreno, and Brie Larson

MGM’s Creed III is holding an Imax Live Premiere Event timed to the actual Feb. 27 world premiere. Tickets jut went on sale. The pic opens on March 3. The movie’s star-director-producer Michael B. Jordan will be joined by the cast to celebrate his directorial debut at the TCL Chinese Theater. The premiere red carpet

Sometimes all you need to sell a movie is a title with two words that hammer home exactly what the story should be. In the case of Charlie’s Angels, the legacy of the ‘70s crime drama was the lure that was supposed to bring audiences to director Elizabeth Banks’ legacy-quel. Meanwhile, the 2023 new movie

In both a noble gesture toward exhibition after the studio’s Project Popcorn, and in a means to monetize downstream revenues, Warner Bros is taking what was a HBO Max movie, Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike’s Last Dance, and putting into 1,500 theatrical locations this weekend. That’s with a thrifty marketing spend. It’s the second movie after

Top Gun: Maverick was one of the most successful movies of 2022 that couldn’t and wouldn’t stop making money at the box office. But other than the impressive box office records it was dominating left and right, this beloved sequel really touched the hearts of fans who first saw Maverick fly in his cockpit back

Counsel for bankrupt Cineworld said today the Regal parent has received the outline of a restructuring plan from lenders, a blueprint that would take it out of bankruptcy, although it’s also still pursuing a possible sale of assets. At a hearing at bankruptcy court in the Southern District of Texas, Cineworld attorney Joshua Sussberg said

We know that sometimes the production of a movie can be a difficult and stressful place, but it seems that sometimes that’s the case even for movies that never get made. Eva Green is currently suing the production company behind A Patriot, a sci-fi film she was set to appear in. The film collapsed during

Actor Elijah Wood is not a fan of AMC Entertainment’s latest move around ticketing that sets different prices for different seats inside its theaters. “The movie theater is and always has been a sacred democratic space for all and this new initiative by @AMCTheatres would essentially penalize people for lower income and reward for higher

At the movies, the 2023 new movies schedule has Jonathan Majors and Michael B. Jordan squaring off in the massive battle that is Creed III. Off-screen, the actors share a very different relationship, as the two sparring partners are pretty close friends. Majors has even admitted that the two have sometimes commiserate over “girl troubles,”

Theater chain AMC Entertainment is now shifting ticket prices depending on where seats are located in theaters in an initiative called Sightline AMC. The seating selections based on their sightline of the movie screen within the auditorium include Value Sightline, Standard Sightline and Preferred Sightline sections. Standard Sightline, the most common, is sticking to the

When you think of Anna Kendrick and Pitch Perfect, the song “Cups’ automatically comes to mind. The song was a viral hit before that was a thing and became a Top 10 Billboard hit in the process. Of course, the key to the song’s success was Beca Mitchell showcasing her acapella cup routine. While the