EXCLUSIVE: Hot off today’s London Critics’ Circle Film Awards where it scored eight nominations, Saint Maud from A24, will be hitting theaters in a limited release on Jan. 29. Additionally, I hear EPIX went after the movie strongly for a Pay TV-all platform release on Feb. 12 in a deal that was estimated to be
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That makes complete sense. While Cassius Clay may display pompous or conceited qualities at times, it’s the fact that he truly cares about others just as much as himself that makes him so likable. Eli Goree’s performance as Clay is captivating, the way he commands attention every time he’s on screen the way Clay did
Refresh for chart and more analysis Even if there wasn’t a pandemic, odds are this would still be a hard weekend at the domestic box office, what with all the distraction that came out of our nation’s Capitol this past week. Television news seems to be filled with enough suspense and cliffhangers with the Capitol
Exclusive Alabama players could be channeling their inner Liam Neeson when they take the field Monday … ’cause the whole team got a private screening of the Hollywood badass’ newest flick the night before the big game!! TMZ Sports has learned … Nick Saban and his #1-ranked Crimson Tide got in some team bonding before
Sony’s Morbius, starring Jared Leto, will no longer debut on March 19 rather Oct. 8. With COVID cases raging as we await a calmer administration to set foot in Washington and deal with the nation’s health crisis, many are expecting this year’s Q1 theatrical releases to move. Morbius moves on to a release date currently occupied by United
At the start of 2020, the plan was for Morbius, which is part of the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters, to be released on July 10, 2020, though that date quickly changed to July 31 a few weeks later. By the time the COVID-19 pandemic started getting out of hand in late March 2020,
The Broadway premiere of Skeleton Crew, written by Tony Award nominee Dominique Morisseau (Ain’t Too Proud) and directed by Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson (August Wilson’s Jitney) will begin performances on Broadway during the winter of 2022, producer Manhattan Theatre Club announced today. The production joins MTC’s previously announced 2021-22 Broadway line-up of Santiago-Hudson’s Lackawanna Blues
Lionsgate has slated Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar for a February 12 release on premium video on demand, the latest concession to a theatrical marketplace upended by Covid-19. The comedy, which was set up nearly two years ago, had originally eyed a 2020 release. It pairs Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, who
International box office was led again by China this weekend with local titles A Little Red Flower and Shock Wave 2 at the top of the charts, and Disney/Pixar’s Soul continuing its jazzy run there. The Pete Docter-directed original is soon to become Pixar’s No. 3 highest-grossing title ever in the market. Other weekend highlights
Specialty box office titles and those that also have their foot in the wide release landscape make up the majority of the top box office numbers of the weekend — which is pretty darn good all things considered. Some of these titles would be considered more “specialty” in the before-times, but as the box office
It’s still hard to believe that Coming 2 America is finally a reality, as many fans were unsure if a sequel to Eddie Murphy’s hit 1988 film would ever be made. But lo and behold, not only are fans getting a sequel, but they’ll even get to see most of the original actors reprise their
Of course, he’s also ventured into television through his acclaimed Netflix horror anthology series. The Haunting of Hill House became an internet sensation, earning Flanagan multiple award nominations for his direction and writing, and its follow-up, The Haunting of Bly Manor, yielded similar success for the streaming service. His next series, Midnight Mass, recently finished
As we first told you last month, Legendary and Warner Bros are poised to settle their fight over Godzilla vs. Kong, the fourth monster movie between the two which the former financed the $200 million-plus production at 75%, with the movie keeping its simultaneous theatrical and HBO Max release date May 21. Meanwhile, a settlement over
Play video content @tylerperry / Twitter Tyler Perry wanted to vote in the Georgia runoff THIS BAD … he hopped on a jet and flew all the way to Georgia to cast his ballot in person … because his absentee ballot never showed up. Tyler says he waited and waited for more than a month
In the midst of some massive restructuring at Disney, Deadline has confirmed that Disney vet Tony Chambers has been upped to EVP of Theatrical Distribution. He’ll oversee both domestic and international film distribution as well as home entertainment. I understand that there’s even reassignments going on in the corporate communications and publicity departments as well
Now, if you’ve made it this far and you aren’t sold on the old school horror yet, there’s still the hilarious Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein, which features Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster and The Wolf Man (all played by their original actors, I might add). The film follows Abbot and Costello as they run into the
The past year — and even the events of the past week in this country has been a struggle for a lot of people. More specifically, the pandemic and Covid-19 has claimed the lives of over 360,000 people and there are thousands of families in mourning. They are grieving — and this includes children. The
Deezer D, best known for his role as nurse Malik McGrath on “ER” has died … TMZ has learned. The actor, whose real name was Dearon Thompson, was found unresponsive at home Thursday morning in Los Angeles. His brother, Marshawn, tells us the family believes he died of a heart attack, but there is not
France’s cinemas and other cultural venues are to remain closed until at least the end of January, French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced during a press conference this evening local time. The move is not terribly surprising given the country’s daily rate of new Covid-19 cases is well above the 5,000 threshold that had been
I think the biggest surprise for me when we released the film was there’s been some controversy on the way I portrayed the white characters in the film, to be quite honest. Some people were like, ‘Oh, why are you being so sympathetic? Why are all the white people so sympathetic? And it just sort
EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has picked up the U.S. and Canada rights to Paolo Pilladi’s comedy Last Call, which the filmmaker directed, produced and co-wrote. IFC is eyeing a theatrical release this year. Pic follows Mick, played by Jeremy Piven, who is a local success story and real estate developer. He returns home to his offbeat blue collar
Paramount made it official tonight that Lee Daniels’ The United States vs. Billie Holiday is off their theatrical release schedule. We first told you on Christmas Eve that the movie was headed over to Hulu, however, it wasn’t clear at that time whether Paramount would still wind up handling theatrical. Doesn’t look that way, and I hear
Play video content MEGA Tanya Roberts‘ longtime partner says he was distraught and confused during his final moments with her … which may explain why he prematurely told folks she had died. Lance O’Brien told a photog Tuesday … when he visited her Sunday at the hospital she was in bad shape — unresponsive on
With an estimated $12.4B in global grosses, $10.2B of which came from the international box office, 2020 was off overall by 71% and 67%, respectively, from 2019 according to Gower Street Analytics. It’s a year the world at large would like to forget, but in industry terms it provided interesting phenomena to reflect upon even
With the pandemic still raging, it is difficult to ascertain if Indiana Jones 5 will indeed be able to start rolling cameras in May, or if it will become necessary to delay production once again. Regardless, John Rhys-Davies is aware that Indiana Jones 5 is happening, and while he didn’t confirm or deny if he’ll
John Stephens, the outgoing CFO of WarnerMedia parent AT&T, defended the company’s move to release its 2021 film slate concurrently on HBO Max and in theaters and cited Warner Bros. century-long relationship with Hollywood talent — with some disgruntled at the move and the way it was communicated. “We’ve got a long history of working
Adam Aron, CEO of AMC Entertainment, said the nation’s largest cinema chain has raised $204 million of the at least $750 million needs to get to the other side of a global pandemic that has crippled moviegoing. AMC raised cash from stock and bonds sales in rounds in April, June, October and most recently in
Exclusive Details Tanya Roberts‘ feared she had contracted COVID-19 before collapsing at home … but doctors believe a serious infection — not COVID — is what killed the actress. The late actress’s partner, Lance O’Brien, tells TMZ … Tanya said she felt short of breath, tired and had tightness in her stomach just days before
Financially hurting cinema advertising network National CineMedia has inked a deal to run ads with Coinstar, a big operator of supermarket coin-counting kiosks. With the exhibition business on the Covid-19 skids, the agreement helps expand National CineMedia’s digital-out-of-home footprint by extending its movie-centric entertainment content, trivia, and advertising beyond movie theaters to complementary venues. It
For some individuals, it’s been a year of self-improvement, of weight loss, home projects or even family additions from pups to kids. Cameron Diaz, however, blew through that baby milestone in 2019, so when the pandemic hit in 2020, she decided it was her year of wine. And in fact, she asked her fans to