Nubia One last Amazon who should star in a Wonder Woman spinoff should be Hippolyta’s second daughter, Nubia. Just as Diana Prince was sculpted from clay, so is Nubia, but with a clay that gives her dark skin. Nubia is supposed to have the great strength of Diana, but Ares/Mars steals her from Hippolyta and
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Berkeley Rep’s world premiere of Swept Away, a stage production featuring the music of The Avett Brothers, written by Moulin Rouge!‘s John Logan and reteaming Spring Awakening director Michael Mayer and star John Gallagher Jr, has been postponed for a year to summer 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. With its high-profile creative team and
EXCLUSIVE: When the Danny Boyle-directed fable Yesterday was released last June, it was viewed as a bright spot for counter-programming at a moment when Toy Story 4 owned the box office leading into Spider-Man: Far From Home. The Universal/Working Title film, which grossed over $153.7M worldwide, did well enough to make it onto a list
As exhibitors in major European markets begin eyeing potential openings at the end of June and through mid-July, some smaller hubs are returning to operation this week, albeit under strict social distancing guidelines and at reduced capacities. Overall, a somewhat clearer picture is beginning to emerge with regard to restarting the business in Europe —
Breaking News Tom Cruise is set to boldly go where no actor’s gone before — like, for real — by making a movie in space, and NASA’s fully on board for the project. Yep, Mr. ‘Mission Impossible’ is going into orbit!!! NASA’s Jim Bridenstine, says they’re “excited to work with Tom Cruise on a film
Movie theaters in Australia are aiming to re-open in July, the National Association of Cinema Operators said late Tuesday local time. Cited by local media, the org said it was “enthusiastic about the prospect” and “is hopeful of conditions enabling it to do so in July.” Oz cinemas began to partially shutter in mid-March, amid
At this point, we don’t know enough about the collaboration between Tom Cruise, SpaceX and NASA to speculate what’s coming in Hollywood’s first movie in outer space. This project will let the actor to continue to push the limits of action on the big screen and allow audiences to spend extended time in the actual
The Sundance U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize winner for Ensemble Acting, Charm City Kings, has been acquired by HBO Max from Sony Pictures Classics. The Angel Manuel Soto-directed movie, which follows a 14-year old who wants to join an infamous group of Baltimore dirt-bike riders, was originally expected to open this spring before SPC moved the movie
Elon Musk is having himself quite a week — he put 2 homes on the market, he’s potentially shooting a movie in space with Tom Cruise, and oh yeah … he had a baby with his girlfriend, Grimes. The Tesla honcho revealed the news on Twitter Monday evening by first replying to a tweet by
Marcus Corp, which owns the nations fourth largest movie chain as well as restaurants, hotels and resorts, swung to a loss last quarter, hit by theater closures and one-time charges. A net loss of $19.3 million compared with a $1.8 million profit the year before. Revenue dipped 6.2% to $159 million The company cited nonrecurring
The pair go on a killing spree all over NYC, Venom must join forces not only with Spider-Man but characters including Black Cat, Nightwatch, Iron Fist and Morbius to combat the threat. It’s the perfect setup for either Venom 2 to go or to lead into a third film for the franchise. Plus, in the
Roger Horchow, a Cincinnati-born entrepreneur who parlayed a luxury mail-order fortune into a Tony Award-winning streak as a producer on Broadway, died Saturday in Dallas of cancer. He was 91. The founder in 1971 of he Horchow Collection luxury mail-order catalog, Horchow sold the company to Neiman Marcus in 1988, and by 1992 had won
Robin Wright made the best of the coronavirus pandemic Saturday by taking a trip to the beaches of Malibu with her brood and a few friends. Robin and daughter, Dylan, hit the sand with some friends, as her husband, Clement Giraudet, hit the water with his board and took advantage of some pretty decent waves.
Universal has set aside a number of release dates for event pics the studio plans to program in 2022. Disney and Warner Bros. do this all the time, and its a way of letting the competition know that there’s a title coming down the road. First date is MLK weekend, Jan 14 against 20th Century
When Stephanie Meyer revealed that Midnight Sun was on the way, she said she hoped it would be a good distraction from the real world. The fact that, after 12 years, we’re finally getting the book, while most of us are under stay at home orders, is an irony not lost on fans. Edward Cullen
Cast members from Broadway’s Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Jagged Little Pill, Company, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Chicago, Diana, Mean Girls, Girl from the North Country, Six, and Mrs. Doubtfire will take part in Sunday’s Broadway Does Mother’s Day, a digital variety benefitting Broadway Cares’ COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund. The show is designed to replace
Tom Hardy is trying his best to look like the late Chicago kingpin, Al Capone — but it’s becoming clearer with every new shot and still photo that comes out … they’re not a match. You might’ve heard about the new movie Tom’s starring in called ‘Capone,’ in which he plays the titular character …
Will Arnett returns to voice LEGO Batman, and he’s joined (off-screen) by Ralph Fiennes’ Alfred, who patiently attempts to keep the superhero on track while they discuss the coronavirus pandemic. At first, LEGO Batman is all bluster, offering to beat up the virus so that it can’t hurt anyone. When Alfred tells him he can’t
Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry are not hiding their allegiance … they’re telling the world they’re on the Fauci train all the way. The expecting couple posted what seems to be their position on the coronavirus controversy, but there are nuances. Dr. Fauci — the undisputed hero in the fight against the pandemic — has
Antebellum writing and directing team Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz have set up their next project at Lionsgate, Rapture. At the same time, the studio as re-dated Antebellum, originally scheduled for the spring pre-COVID-19, to Aug. 21 of this year. The deal was made for Rapture after a highly competitive bidding situation for the material. Bush and Renz have written a
I think for me, honestly, it’s been all good. Obviously, I’m not living with millions of fans all across the world. The only time I really get to see and interact with fans is when I’m online. But for most of it, for me, it’s been great because I’ve been able to go home and
April proxy season, which just ended, is an annual rite that lifts the curtain on CEO salaries for the previous year ahead of shareholder meetings in May and June. For 2019, big entertainment companies are showcasing habitually hefty paydays even as millions of Americans lose their jobs each week and the business sees huge pandemic-related
UPDATED: Lionsgate has just shifted a number of movie originally scheduled for this year pre-coronavirus to next year and beyond. John Wick 4 will no longer open on May 21, 2021 where Warner Bros. plopped Keanu Reeves’ Matrix 4, rather May 27, 2022, which is Memorial Day weekend. Taking over John Wick 4‘s old spot next
Paramount has given a date for a new live-action Transformers movie of June 24, 2022. The studio is in development on two different projects: one by Murder Mystery scribe James Vanderbilt and the other by John Wick Chapter 3 EP and Army of the Dead scribe Joby Harold. The Vanderbilt project, from what we’ve heard, is based on Transformers spinoff Beast Wars which are robots that transform into
Exclusive Joe Pantoliano is in a Connecticut hospital after he was struck by a car while out for a walk … TMZ has learned. Joe’s wife, Nancy, tells TMZ … the ‘Sopranos’ star was walking with family Friday in their neighborhood when a Porsche skidded across the road and hit him. She says the Porsche
EXCLUSIVE: Despite recent, scattered press reports suggesting New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was snubbing Broadway by shutting the industry out of his New York Forward Re-Opening Advisory Board, the state and the theater industry are working closely on how to re-start, Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway League, tells Deadline. “We are completely aligned
CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has become a behemoth in the film industry, with the last decade and change of filmmaking cumulating in last year’s Avengers: Endgame. The Russo Brothers’ pair of Avengers movies
Days after Jeff Shell’s statements in the Wall Street Journal spurred AMC boss Adam Aron to embargo the studio’s films, the NBCUniversal CEO acknowledged the company’s commitment to theatrical, but that PVOD will still be part of the equation. “The question is when we come out of this (pandemic), what is going to be the model?
Not to deflate the rousing round robin of mudslinging between AMC, Cineworld and Universal, but this whole OMG melee between exhibition and studios over PVOD, theatrical-window crunching and hurt feelings is poised to calm down soon. Some industry insiders believe the situation has already eased, and the statements made Thursday morning on Comcast’s Q1 earnings
What will theater look like after the pandemic? How will stage artists address the societal upheavals wreaked by COVID-19? Everyone’s asking, no one knows, but Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Nelson and New York’s Public Theater offered up a much-needed and beautifully executed bit of hope last night with the era-suiting livestreamed world premiere of What