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SATURDAY AM UPDATE: The bowels of the summer box office have been reached, with Sony’s new C CinemaScore horror movie The Invitation leading with $6M-$7M at 3,114 theaters. Like the late Andy Rooney, I get a lot of mail from sources. But in this instance, it’s about why it’s important to be gentle when covering the

It has been a rough few years for Shia LaBeouf as he has faced numerous allegations and claims about his behavior on and off set. While his acting career has remained steady, his latest role as the real-life friar-turned-saint Padre Pio in an upcoming biopic may have been a turning point for him. Being a

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Warner Bros is making a slew of release-date changes next year. First of all, James Wan’s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom needs more time in postproduction, so it’s moving from March 17, 2023 to December 25, 2023. You’ll remember the first Aquaman was released during Christmas 2018 and made $335.1 million domestic

Spoilers for Bullet Train ahead! It’s become par for the course that if you are going to see a David Leitch movie, you should expect some sort of massive A-List celebrity cameo. With Brad Pitt showing up for .2 seconds in Deadpool 2 and Ryan Reynolds popping up in Hobbs & Shaw, audiences were left

Cohen Media Group hopes a Spanish film can dent the tough market for foreign language fare, Bleecker Street is out with a hostage drama and A24 presents Owen Kline’s directorial debut about a teenage cartoonist as the arthouse market flexes more muscle than it has in weeks. The dearth of new releases itself nudged some

The horror genre has been thriving for years now, to the delight of fans. One of the best horror movies to arrive recently was the 2018 Halloween movie, which led to two more movies being ordered from filmmaker David Gordon Green. The trilogy will end with Halloween Ends, with Jamie Lee Curtis recently sharing a

Roadside Attractions movies following their releases on the big screen will now be found on Hulu after the distributor signed a multi-year output deal with the streamer for the post-theatrical Pay 1 window. Hulu will get exclusive U.S. streaming rights to upcoming Roadside Attractions films as Call Jane, Oscar nominee Phyllis Nagy’s feature directorial debut

Both movie and musical fans should “start spreading the news,” as Liza Minelli once sang. Why? Hamilton‘s Lin-Manuel Miranda has landed his next Broadway project and it’s an adaption of a Martin Scorsese movie this time around.  The new project will be a take on Martin Scorsese’s 1977 flick New York, New York. According to

EXCLUSIVE: Start spreading the news! A new musical loosely based on Martin Scorsese’s 1977 film New York, New York will begin performances on Broadway, theater to be announced, in March 2023. Opening night will be in April, with Tony and Olivier Award winner Susan Stroman on board to direct and choreograph. The show — of

Top Gun: Maverick’s Glen Powell has been getting plenty of buzz since starring as “Hangman” in the long-awaited sequel. Now, the star’s career is seemingly going into overdrive, as his name is being attached to different projects. Like many rising stars following a career breakthrough, Powell’s name has been linked to the big M –

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Four holiday movies received HBO Max drop dates today including, Legendary’s Christmas Story sequel, A Christmas Story Christmas for Nov. 17 this year and three yuletide titles from ESX Entertainment: Holiday Harmony on Nov. 24, A Christmas Mystery on Nov. 24, and A Hollywood Christmas on Dec. 1. A Christmas Story Christmas from director Clay Kaytis and producers Irwin Zwilling,

Steven Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park movie changed the film industry forever, debuting cutting-edge visual effects. The franchise has remained a vital part of pop culture for the decades since, most recently returning to theaters with Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World trilogy. Those movies starred Bryce Dallas Howard as Claire Dearing, with the actor/director recently sharing that

Broadway box office drooped in the final, sun-baked weeks before the Fall arrivals of new shows, with the roster of productions down to 20 last week and total box office slipping 19% from the previous week to $22,232,527. Attendance was down about 15% to 181,785, roughly commensurate with the lesser number of productions (down from

Brendan Fraser has been in Hollywood obscurity for years, but the past several years have seen him starring in a number of prominent projects. The success that’s followed from his comeback is one that all actors would kill for, and among the ways the Brenaissance is continuing is through A24’s The Whale. The public is

UPDATED with closing prices: AMC Entertainment’s new APE securities — AMC Preferred Equity Units – began trading today late morning in a messy session for the big exhibitor, whose primary stock plummeted, closing down 41%. at $10.46. It was up slightly in after-market trading. APE units were being distributed to AMC shareholders via their brokers

Just a few weeks ago, the Alicia Vikander-led Tomb Raider sequel was revealed to have been cancelled following much speculation about the franchise’s future. It’s still unclear as to what lies ahead for the property as another studio seeks to gain the rights. But some are already fancasting new actresses for the lead role, and

Wise men say only fools predict that adult-skewing films won’t work at the pandemic box office. But older moviegoers kept falling in love with Warner Bros’ Elvis this summer, to the point where it’s now director Baz Luhrmann’s highest-grossing movie ever in U.S. and Canada with $144.851 million, beating the original run of his 2013 title

Translating the horrors of Stephen King’s imagination into visual mediums has a long history of high highs and low lows. The best King movies and television shows have consistently provided nightmare fuel for decades – from the rabid frightfest that is Cujo, to the human spider nest in The Mist – but we’ve also seen

The Picturehouse release of National Geographic Documentary Films  The Territory grossed a solid $26.4K in six markets (eight screens) for a PSA of $3,308 with its climate change message attracting a broader than typical age range for a theatrical doc, especially lately, according to Picturehouse CEO Bob Berney. He called it “very encouraging to see

Much of Hollywood and the public at large was shaken in 2017 following Bill Paxton’s death at the age of 61. Paxton died after suffering a stroke that was reportedly brought on by complications stemming from heart surgery. In the aftermath, his family filed multiple lawsuits, one of which was a wrongful death suit against

Universal/Illumination’s Minions: The Rise of Gru bowed in China today (Friday), grossing an estimated RMB 21.74M ($3.2M), including midnights. This was good for the biggest opening day of a Hollywood animated film during the pandemic. Overall, and not including China’s Friday, Rise of Gru has grossed $461.2M at the international box office for $807.7M worldwide.

This San Diego Comic-Con announced several films currently in development. One of which was the extremely exciting announcement of the John Wick spin-off film, The Ballerina, partly thanks to the official casting of Ana de Armas as the title character. But it looks like de Armas had some conditions when she signed on to the

Saturday AM: Thanks to two new wide releases, it’s not the lowest grossing weekend of summer, with all titles earning an estimated $77M, +14% from last weekend. However, we’re still way off from pre-pandemic times with the current weekend -36% from the same period in 2019. That’s when Universal’s R-rated comedy Good Boys opened to $21.4M

The John Wick series has always been a high-performance machine that outdoes itself with each entry. Keanu Reeves’ once-retired hitman sees the stakes increasing and the action getting more brutal with every continuing installment’s debut. The upcoming movie John Wick 4 is no exception, as director Chad Stahelski recently opened up about the pressure to

“People are catching up on films,” is how one arthouse executive described the current moment in specialty, which echoes the slowdown in studio wide releases. August can be slow ahead of a trio of festivals – Venice, Toronto, New York – and a ramp up to awards season. It can also offer an less obstructed

For those who want to know so badly about where our favorite Harvard Law School graduate lawyer Elle Woods is right now, you won’t have to wait too long. Legally Blonde 3 is officially happening with Reese Witherspoon coming back to grace us with her pink wardrobe and witty remarks. But one of the questions

China’s Bona Film Group, producer of such hits as The Battle At Lake Changjin, made its debut on the Shenzhen stock exchange on Thursday, with shares closing the day at RMB 7.24 ($1.07). This was a 44% increase from the initial public offering price of RMB 5.03 ($0.74) per share and put the market capitalization

It’s been an especially great summer for Miles Teller, as the actor reclaimed his heartthrob status as a mustachioed, aviator-wearing pilot in Top Gun: Maverick, the No. 1 movie of 2022 thus far. As Teller becomes a key character in the “Danger Zone” of Paramount’s successful action flick, we reminded him Maverick isn’t the only

Tony winner Jesse Tyler Ferguson and nominee Jesse Williams are suiting up again as stars of the baseball-themed Take Me Out, which is set to return to Broadway in the fall. The hit revival will re-take the field October 27 at the Schoenfeld Theatre for 14 weeks, it was revealed today. Written by Richard Greenberg and

The continued work on Indiana Jones 5 has been a subject of much excitement amongst fans of the franchise. Information about the film has come out slowly, which is good because I’m not sure anyone really wants to be spoiled about what’s coming. However, one of the stars of the film, Boyd Holbrook, has finally