Month: August 2023

Releases keep coming but talent is not comfortable promoting films, even indies, even if productions have waivers or don’t need them. Where that’s leading isn’t clear. “Who’s going to take the plunge first? We’ll see. The festivals will be the big test,” said one independent distribution exec. From a moderate release like Jules, in nearly
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Both All Jacked Up and Full of Worms and The Outwaters, two of this year’s SCREAMBOX Originals, are coming to fully functional VHS, we’re thrilled to announce today! A partnership between Lunchmeat, SCREAMBOX, Cineverse, Bloody Disgusting, 5100 Films, and Fathom Film Company, both titles drop for pre-order tomorrow (Saturday, August 12) at 12pm ET exclusively
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News Bob Dylan Pays Tribute to Former Bandmate Robbie Robertson The guitarist was a key element to Dylan’s pivotal late 1960s sound, and they maintained their friendship for decades By Allison Hussey August 11, 2023 Facebook Twitter Bob Dylan and Robbie Robertson, November 1976 (Photo by Larry Hulst/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Facebook Twitter Bob Dylan
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Check out how contentious the Kevin Costner/Christine Baumgartner divorce has gotten … here’s the first line of Kevin’s latest filing … “Christine asserts she cannot admit or deny that she understood the Premarital Agreement because she (and apparently all of her attorneys) do not understand the word “understand.” It’s all over whether Christine understood the
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CEO Adam Aron has expounded on Twitter and most recently on AMC Entertainment’s latest earnings call about the risk of a cash crunch and even bankruptcy if it wasn’t able to secure financing in a still uncertain box office climate. Today he can breathe easier as a Delaware Chancery Court Judge approved a revised shareholder
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Following a period of estrangement between Britney Spears and her sons, her ex-husband Kevin Federline‘s attorney says she was recently in touch with the boys. The “PopoZão” singer’s lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan told Page Six in comments posted Aug. 11 that Sean Preston Federline, 17, and Jayden James Federline, 16, communicated with their mom “probably a couple of weeks ago.” However he
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Filmmaker William Friedkin forever changed horror with 1973’s The Exorcist, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. He returned to the genre again in 1980 with the Giallo-like thriller Cruising and fearlessly got weird with gory folk horror The Guardian in 1990. Fearless perfectly encapsulates Friedkin’s style and his approach to life; he was never afraid to speak
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News Outside Lands 2023 Livestream Schedule & Details Announced Including performances from the 1975, Lil Yachty, Interpol, Father John Misty, Maggie Rogers, JID, and more By Evan Minsker August 11, 2023 Facebook Twitter Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival 2021 (Kravitz/FilmMagic for Outside Lands) Facebook Twitter Outside Lands 2023 takes place this weekend (August 11-13)
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In 1968 Pope Paul VI established a Global Peace Day. A New Year’s Day on which the Pope gives a speech “reflecting the signs of our times.” Wednesday August 9th, the Vatican put out an announcement about the speech the pope will give at next year’s Peace Day, coming up on January 1st, just four months
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FRIDAY AM UPDATE: The only new wide release this weekend is Amblin’s period Dracula horror pic The Last Voyage of the Demeter being distributed by Universal. It made $750K last night in previews from showtimes that began at 5PM in 2,350 theaters in what is expected to be an underwhelming 3-day single digit million result
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Publishing companies are a business, and they need to generate revenue to stay afloat. As much as it’s uncomfortable to think about, the book business revolves around profits and sales. This is evident when publishers do “comps” or a sales forecast using comparative titles. I was once a publisher, so I also felt icky crunching
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Before this ecstatic little girl holding her shoe turned into a singer and songwriter, she was growing up in London, England hittin’ the stage at open mic nights (and her father’s pub) and dropping song covers on YouTube. Her YT videos caught the eyes of DJ Fresh who featured her on his song “Hot Right
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Based on the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Mike Flanagan‘s final series for Netflix is “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and it’s going to be unlike anything Flanagan has ever done before. The limited series from Intrepid Pictures is “based on multiple works from Poe,” and Netflix has announced this morning that “Usher” will
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