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Warner Bros/DC’s The Batman is just beginning to spread its wings overseas, and has a running international box office total of $5.3M across two days and from only eight markets. The Matt Reeves-directed Robert Pattinson-starrer is adding 47 markets today and a further 19 on Friday. After debuting to $1.7M in Korea on Tuesday —

Amusement parks are supposed to be fun escapes from reality where people can spend a day just having fun. But there are times when things don’t quite go according to plan.  One of those days has now resulted in a lawsuit against SeaWorld, a park that has been in the news a lot lately for

Director Taika Waititi reveals the differences between filming Thor: Ragnarok and Thor: Love and Thunder. After the success of his initial Marvel Studios film in 2017, the filmmaker is back for another project with Chris Hemsworth. Having now shot two MCU projects, Waititi compares his recent experience with his first one. Announced during San Diego

China has cleared Warner Bros’ Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore for release in the market, though a date is still to be set. The WB Weibo account posted today that “magic is coming” and said, “stay tuned.” This is the third film from the studio this year to be granted access, following The Matrix

Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez have been friends since they were teens, which dates their BFF history back 15 years. That means the fellow pop singers have been there for each other for the career highs and lows. One of Swift’s unfortunate lows was when Scooter Braun purchased Big Machine Records (the label where she

Humans give specific signals when they interact, and Google wants its devices to know them well. Several Google products can read body language and are “aware of their own space.” The Nest Hub can pick up gestures. Users can snooze google’s smart alarms with just a wipe, the Pixel comes with motion sensing and even their thermostat

In the wake of Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home rattling box office records, and creating a gravitational pull toward cinemas with a $1.85 billion global gross, Warner Bros.’ The Batman is looking to keep this big screen rally going. Industry projections for the Robert Pattinson movie stand at $115M-$125M domestic, and another $110M-$120M overseas for a global reach

Nearly twenty years after Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo played best friends in 13 Going On 30, the co-stars are back together and playing a couple in Netflix’s The Adam Project. The time travel adventure starring Ryan Reynolds includes a cute nod to the beloved movie with the pairing, but now that the actors have

The scene where Cal Kestis is knighted by Cere Junda in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order actually serves as a nod to the 2003 Clone Wars cartoon, and is one of the first pieces of canon Star Wars media to depict a Jedi’s knighting ceremony. Toward the end of Fallen Order, Cere, a former Jedi Master, knights Cal, meaning

Shortly after Disney took a stand this afternoon and paused the theatrical release of Pixar’s Turning Red in Russia over the country’s invasion of Ukraine, Warner Bros has officially stopped the release of its highly anticipated The Batman for now in Russia. The movie was set to open on March 3, and Deadline was informed by the studio

While The Conjuring Universe is one of the most popular canons running in the horror world, it’s one of its spinoffs from the core series that has been the biggest hit. Corin Hardy’s The Nun is still the highest grossing entry in the entire Warner Bros./New Line franchise, despite some ranking it among the lesser

James Gunn recently revealed his top three favorite movies of all time. The director started his career in the industry as a screenwriter during the mid-’90s. He began directing in 2006, making his debut with the horror-comedy film Slither before moving onto the superhero genre. Gunn directed Super in 2010 before entering the highly popular Marvel Cinematic Universe, taking

As Drive My Car sped from a best screenplay win and stellar reviews at Cannes to four Oscar nominations (Best Picture, International Feature, Director, Adapted Screenplay), distributor credits for the three-hour Japanese drama went to Sideshow/Janus Films – the former a little known new venture from Jonathan Sehring. The longtime head of IFC Films said

While we’ve certainly heard of actors going doing a lot to learn skills for movies (like when Tom Holland worked as a bartender), usually they don’t end up using those skills later on in real life. Apparently, learning cattle ranching for The Power of the Dog really came in handy for star Benedict Cumberbatch, though.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe seems to be making it clear that young heroes are going to be a major part of upcoming projects, but Fantastic Four has the potential to open the door for younger characters—and, by extension, younger actors. While the MCU is no stranger to young heroes, thanks to Spider-Man, prominent child characters have never been seen on the

SATURDAY AM: Refresh for more analysis and chart  Before a big tentpole comes into the marketplace, there’s typically a lull at the box office, but it’s an even bigger lull when the major studios don’t have any new wide entries. Everyone is waiting for Warner Bros. The Batman and many sources tell me it’s bound easily for

There are some TV and film franchises that reach the point where they cease to simply be entertainment and become cultural phenomenons, and the James Bond franchise (and, comparably, the Doctor Who franchise) certainly fits that bill. The franchise has welcomed some big names over the years, including Michelle Yeoh, who starred in 1997’s Tomorrow

Video game franchise Fortnite and Marvel Comics are teaming up for a new series featuring the likes of Spider-Man, Wolverine and Iron Man fighting for the fate of the multiverse alongside the video game series’ heroes. As the second comics crossover for the franchises, and the first full series, Fortnite X Marvel: Zero War is set to

UPDATED, 12:55 PM: Sony today moved the release date of it Mark Wahlberg film Father Stu up by two days. The story of boxer-turned-priest Father Stuart Long now will open wide on Wednesday, April 13; it had been set for Friday the 15th. PREVIOUSLY, January 25: Sony Pictures has acquired global rights to Rosalind Ross’ feature directorial debut Father

While the show goes on for the Academy Awards every year, for the past three years, the Oscars telecast have not had a host to help move the show along. For next month’s telecast, ABC has chosen three hosts in Regina Hall, Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes, but as you can imagine, the Academy likely

Carolyn Moore is confident in her connection with Kurt Sowers on Joe Milli0naire, and she’s calling out anyone who is jealous of her self-assurance. Bachelors Kurt and Steven McBee have narrowed the contestants down to just six remaining women, and Carolyn has made it through each elimination so far. The 30-year-old made her connection with Kurt during

The Hisui region in Pokémon Legends: Arceus is home to many regional variants, and this includes Hisuian Typhlosion. While early reveals of Legends: Arceus‘ starters – Oshawott, Cynaquil, and Rowlet – caused speculation that their final evolutions would have new forms, this information was only confirmed just before the game’s launch. Since then, the reception

WARNING: Contains spoilers for Free Guy. Free Guy manages to subvert a lot of conventional movie clichés with its original and satirical storytelling, which extends to its ending where Guy and Millie don’t end up together. The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy is that rare type of Hollywood blockbuster: an original concept. Free Guy walks the fine line between irreverence and touching,

Though one of the more principled members of Batman’s rogues gallery, Poison Ivy got involved with one of the most bizarre villains ever to grace Gotham. Jason Woodrue, aka the Floronic Man, recruited Ivy as part of the “Leaves of Grass” story in Batman: Shadow of the Bat. Instead of aiming to achieve power or revenge, Woodrue

UPDATED, 9:59 AM: Sony Pictures Classics said today that its film Mothering Sunday will get a limited release on February 25 in Los Angeles and New York following its weeklong awards-qualifying run in November. The pic, which premiered at Cannes in July, will expand to other markets in the ensuing weeks, the distributor said. Mothering Sunday

Ahead of Creed III’s arrival, moviegoers will soon have the opportunity to witness a different take on one of the Rocky franchise’s most popular entries. Sylvester Stallone’s new cut of Rocky IV, a.k.a. Rocky IV: Rocky vs. Drago, will debut with a one-night theatrical screening on November 11, and it’ll be available on on-demand the

The original Scream almost had Randy killed off, only to return through the use of horror movie rules. When the teen slasher arrived in 1996, it was hardly a highly anticipated release. By that point, director Wes Craven was a well-known horror movie filmmaker. Still, aside from directing the first film in the A Nightmare on

In mid-September, Gower Street Analytics projected global box office for 2021 would come in at $20.2B. The London-based film tech company has now increased its estimate to $21.6B, with the possibility of hitting a nice round $22B. The reason for the shift is primarily driven by the strong performance of October titles including China’s The

In the world of pop culture, Stephen King is not just a prolific content creator, but also an extreme consumer. He regularly takes to his personal Twitter account to share his thoughts about films, television shows, and books he has imbibed, and back in January he even made a New Year’s Resolution that saw him

Twitch streamer Rudeism recently beat Dark Souls 3  with just one button, having used Morse code to specify and initiate each of the game’s inputs. Beating Dark Souls 3 is a feat by its very nature, seeing as the Dark Souls series and other games in the “Soulsborne” genre are popular in part due to their difficult – and oftentimes frustrating - gameplay. Rudeism is known for his