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In the wake of delivering Talking Heads frontman David Byrne his second Oscar nomination with Everything Everywhere All at Once, A24 has acquired worldwide rights to his former band’s 1984 cult hit concert pic Stop Making Sense for theatrical release later this year. A24 will give the director Jonathan Demme’s first concert pic a 4K
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EXCLUSIVE: Illumination/Universal/Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros Movie just landed on tracking this morning ahead of its Easter weekend release, and the animated film is shaping up to make at least $85M-$90M+ over its Wednesday through Sunday launch and that’s on the conservative side. Given the fervent response by fans to trailers, it would not be shocking
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AMC stockholders today overwhelmingly approved a pair of provisions that would dramatically enhance the company’s ability raise fresh cash by issuing and selling shares and boost the price of the company’s shares in a ten-for-one-reverse stock split. The approval at a special meeting of shareholders help virtually would also trigger the immediate conversion of AMC
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A raft of Broadway’s recent arrivals led by Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street helped push the industry’s total box office last week to $28,638,821, up 13.8% from the previous week. Total attendance was up commensurately to 229,771. Sweeney Todd, starring Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford, contributed a whopping $1.8 million to the
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Australian–American actor Keir O’Donnell was 26 years old when he was cast as the hilarious Todd Cleary — the black sheep of the family who enjoys painting semi-nude portraits — in the classic comedy movie “Wedding Crashers” back in 2005. Joining Keir in the classic movie was Vince Vaughn as the wise wedding crasher and
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Refresh for latest…: Paramount/Spyglass Media’s Scream VI has slashed its way to a franchise-record opening at the global box office with $67.1M, topping Scream 3 for the best in the bunch of this long-running Kevin Williamson-created series. At the international box office, it also set a franchise-best start with $22.6M from 53 markets, a whopping
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Play video content TMZ.com Versace’s fashion show was an absolute hit — despite a last minute call to move it up one day — with some of the biggest names in Hollywood dressing to the nines to attend. The fall/winter show wound up getting rescheduled from Friday to Thursday due to rain — it was
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Shout! Studios presents The Magic Flute by Florian Zigl, executive produced by Roland Emmerich, at 325 theaters with expansion likely. A reimagining of the Mozart opera, it follows a present-day teen sent from London to the Austrian Alps on singing scholarship at the legendary Mozart boarding school. There, he discovers a century old forgotten passageway
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American actress Julie Michaels was only 19 years old when she was cast as the blonde beauty Denise — who spends her nights dancing topless at The Double Deuce dive bar and in quarrels with her abusive boyfriend Jimmy — in the 1989 spin-kicking Patrick Swayze action film “Road House.” While Julie’s character sided with
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Oscar-nomination afterglow for this year’s Best Picture contenders was largely felt more in the home than it was at the box office, with a majority of titles already available to be viewed on the couch except for 20th Century Studios/Disney’s 3D title Avatar: The Way of Water. Since noms were first announced on January 24
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American actress Cozi Zuehlsdorff was just 12 years old when she was first cast as Hazel Haskett — the bubbly and talkative little girl who works at her father’s aquarium — in the family/adventure movie “Dolphin Tale” back in 2010. Zuehlsdorff shared the big screen with Harry Connick Jr. as Cozi’s protective father and the
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Paramount/Spyglass Media’s Scream VI is headed to a franchise-record opening of $50M+ worldwide from roughly 50 offshore territories including domestic. The most recent Scream pic opened to $48M WW, $30M from U.S./Canada last year. The highest opening for the Kevin Williamson-conceived horror series was Scream 3, which opened to $34.7M domestic in 2000. Scream VI,
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The revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, with Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford in previews at the Lunt-Fontanne, is firmly in Broadway’s $1 million club, with receipts for the week ending March 5 at a bloody good $1,526,254. And that’s just for six performances. The Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical filled every
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