Alien: Romulus filmmaker Fede Alvarez is totally open to doing a revamped Alien vs. Predator movie, but he’ll need a little help. “Maybe it’s something I have to co-direct with my buddy Dan,” Alvarez said. That friend being Dan Tratchenberg who helmed the widely watched Predator 2022 prequel Prey for Hulu and is already working
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Once the first Despicable Me movie was released in 2010, it didn’t take long for this Universal Pictures and Illumination property to become one of the most popular animated franchises. 14 years later, six movies comprise the Despicable Me film series, including two Minions spinoffs, and now it ranks as the highest-grossing animated franchise of
EXCLUSIVE: Cinematica Media has set the domestic release of the Mexican Comedy, El Candidato Honesto, for Sept. 6. The movie opened as the top local film in Mexico last weekend to $2M. Directed by Luis Felipe Ybarra (Hermanos y Detectives, La Noche del Diabilito), El Candidato Honesto tells the story of a former idealistic leader turned corrupt
Alien: Romulus is off to a solid start with $6.5M previews. Critics and audience scores remain high on Rotten Tomatoes at 82% and 88% for the Fede Alvarez directed take of the Ridley Scott production. In regards to comps Alien: Romulus isn’t far from A Quiet Place: Part Two ($6.7M previews, $52M opening), Kingdom of
On the heels of its box office triumph, It Ends With Us, Sony Pictures has dated their next female event movie with Oscar Margot Robbie in her post-Barbie splash, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, on May 9, 2025. Also starring Colin Farrell, the pic comes from Imperative Entertainment and 30West and is billed as an original
Reporter Kjersti Flaa says Blake Lively‘s “It Ends With Us” drama isn’t on her radar, or at least it wasn’t when she uploaded their cringe interview — instead, she insists it’s pure coincidence. We spoke with Kjersti in the aftermath of her video blowing up … and she shared further insight into the tense convo,
Wife wins over hubby again at the daily box office as Blake Lively‘s It Ends With Us, which starred in and produced, made $5.5M to Ryan Reynolds‘ Deadpool & Wolverine which did $5.3M on Wednesday . This is the third day in the row that the Sony/Wayfarer Studios’ romance drama, directed and starring Justin Baldoni,
After successes with Trap and Oppenheimer, Josh Hartnett is back in the spotlight showing everybody that the former Hollywood teenage heartthrob is still as talented as ever. While some may be wondering if the handsome leading man is single, he most certainly is not. Hartnett has been married to actress Tamsin Egerton since 2021, and
Charles Cohen’s Landmark Theatres “remains dedicated to its business” and “anticipates a favorable resolution” to ongoing, complex litigation that recently saw a judge set an auction date for the chain and other properties. “Having successfully navigated the pandemic and now adapting to fewer film releases due to last year’s actors and writers strikes, Landmark continues
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, the long-awaited Warner Bros sequel to the 1988 Tim Burton directed, Michael Keaton starring haunted comedy landed on three-week tracking this AM with an outlook of $65M-$75M — however, don’t be surprised if it does more for there’s too much fuel on this building box office bonfire. Recent box office history has shown
Sony has titled the Tommy Wirkola thriller starring Phoebe Dynevor, Beneath the Storm. The shark thriller will hit theaters next summer on Aug. 1. Also on this release date are the wide entries, The Bad Guys 2 from Universal and DreamWorks Animation and an untitled Warner Bros event feature. Wirkola also wrote the movie which
Gena Rowlands, who famously played Allie in “The Notebook,” is dead … TMZ has learned. The retired actress died Wednesday afternoon at her home in Indian Wells, CA … where she was surrounded by family, including her husband, Robert, and her daughter Alexandra Cassavetes. We’re told her son, director Nick Cassavetes, had also been at
Disney will continue their No. 1 2024 YTD domestic box office domination this weekend and show that’s there’s still flash in their inherited 20th Century Studios logo with the latest rendition of the Ridley Scott produced sci-fi franchise Alien: Romulus. That movie per industry sources is expected to do $40M in U.S./Canada. Together with a
After it was announced that Adam Sandler would be making a Happy Gilmore 2 for Netflix, excitement from fans of the comedian has been at an all-time high, and speculation has begun about who will return for it. Among the most important characters that we need to see in Happy Gilmore 2 is Shooter McGavin,
A New York State Supreme Court judge set a Nov. 8 auction date for properties owned by Charles Cohen’s Cohen Realty Enterprises, including the U.S. Landmark and U.K. Curzon arthouse cinema chains he acquired in 2018 and 2019. Fortress Credit Corp. sued Cohen earlier this year for defaulting on a large loan backed by Landmark
Blake Lively may have had to settle for second place over the weekend behind her husband’s Deadpool & Wolverine, as It Ends With Us debuted to $50M to the MCU title’s third frame, however, she was the boss of the box office on Monday and Tuesday. The Justin Baldoni directed/starring Sony/Wayfarer Studios romance drama hooked
Josh Gad is steaming mad at Germany’s flagship airline … he says his international travel experience on Lufthansa has been a complete nightmare … and he’ll never book them again. The “Frozen” star is going nuclear on Lufthansa on social media, accusing the airline of sticking him back in coach seats despite paying for business
Coming out of D23, it’s not shocking to hear that Frozen 3 is getting the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, Nov. 24, 2027 release date. That’s the traditional time when Frozen and Disney animated movies ‘let it go’ so to speak; har har har. On Friday night at Disney’s presentation, it was indicated that the threequel would
George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino have both been major players in the film industry for decades now, and early on in their careers, they had the opportunity to work together in From Dusk till Dawn (a movie packed with amazing behind-the-scenes facts), which Tarantino wrote and appeared as the brother of Clooney’s character. The two
Play video content Orlando Bloom can’t get enough of jumping outta helicopters … and this time he brought his fiancée Katy Perry along for a daring ocean plunge. The singer shared an IG vid of this bucket-list moment from her Sardinian escape Monday … featuring Orlando revving her up as they perch on the helicopter’s
Greta Gerwig has entered the prestigious league of filmmakers whose films have crossed the $1 billion mark in box office earnings, thanks to the summer smash Barbie. The movie stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and has propelled Gerwig into the rankings as the second female director to break global and US Box Office Records.
This weekend, arguably one of the most anticipated entries on the 2024 movie schedule hit theaters. I’m talking about one of the latest book-to-screen adaptations, romance film It Ends with Us, which is based on Colleen Hoover’s novel of the same name. At the lead of the film is Blake Lively, who plays the role
UPDATED: Deadpool & Wolverine has officially crossed the $1B global box office milestone this weekend, with $1.029B+ through Sunday. The international box office portion of the Marvel/Disney marvel is $535.2M and domestic is $494.3M, adding up to a total $1,029.5M. In reaching and surpassing the coveted milestone, the Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman-fronted threequel becomes
Refresh for latest….: As we reported earlier today, Deadpool & Wolverine this weekend crossed the $1B global box office milestone, a major feat and with swagger to spare. But, hey, there’s a lot going on at turnstiles alongside the Merc with the Mouth. Impressively, a female-driven title that cost peanuts is making bank. To wit:
What was once old is completely anew at the box office with the booming success of Sony and Wayfarer Studios’ It Ends With Us which opened to a surprising $50M this weekend. Nobody saw this coming weeks ago, the pic arriving on tracking to around $15M, and it was only evident in the final run-up
Ángel Salazar — best known as Al Pacino’s trusted sidekick “Chi Chi” in the iconic gangster film “Scarface” — has died, TMZ has learned. Salazar’s rep and closest friend, Ann Wingsong, tells TMZ … the actor passed away in his sleep at his friend’s Brooklyn home over the weekend. On Sunday morning, Wingsong said, the
Cuckoo is looking at a $3+ million opening, not a Longlegs debut ($22 million) but on target for Neon’s Alpine-set horror starring Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens. R-rated Cuckoo by Tilman Singer opened at 1,503 theaters for 9th place at the domestic box office. Schafer is great as troubled 17-year-old Gretchen, who reluctantly leaves
After spending over a decade in development, Disney’s Tron: Ares is officially heading to the big screen. It’s been an incredibly long wait for fans of the sci-fi movie franchise, but after it was announced that the third Tron film had wrapped production, there was certainly reason to be excited. The film’s cast, including Jared
Tim Blake Nelson‘s taking film legend Martin Scorsese to task … saying he respects the famed director — but, that doesn’t mean he thinks he’s right about Marvel. The actor — who played a small role in the 2008’s “The Incredible Hulk” — spoke with Variety about the seminal cinematic universe Scorsese just can’t stand
EXCLUSIVE: As it lights up the domestic box office, Sony and Wayfarer Studios’ It Ends with Us is also off to a more than lively start overseas. Out in just 68% of the international box office landscape, the Blake Lively-starrer grossed $13.3M through Friday in 42 markets. This points to an offshore weekend debut of