From facial wars to a penguin friend, wandering surfers and Haitian immigrants in Miami, the independent film market is fun, thoughtful, varied and contending with a faster cadence of high performing studio wide releases. That’s exhilarating on one hand but, indie distribution executives say, is making it increasingly difficult to date their films after having
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Most horror movies don’t even receive one novelization, yet Friday the 13th Part III somehow ended up with two. In fact, the second sequel in this beloved franchise was the first to be novelized; the original 1980 movie and its immediate follow-up were not adapted until ‘87 and ‘88, respectively. Meanwhile, Michael Avallone’s divisive take
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20th Century Studios/Disney’s Alien: Romulus is gobbling up tickets around the globe, now poised to come in with a $100M worldwide opening — significantly higher than pre-weekend projections. This is notably due to the strength of the Fede Alvarez-directed sci-fi horror at the international box office, and more specifically in China. As Anthony has reported,
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EXCLUSIVE: Utopia will be teaming with Lionsgate on the stateside theatrical release of Francis Ford Coppola’s dystopian epic, Megalopolis when it hits theatres on Sept. 27. Utopia will create and implement specialty marketing, word-of-mouth, and non-traditional theatrical distribution initiatives targeting moviegoers. Utopia as behind such movies as the critically acclaimed Shiva Baby and the Oscar shortlisted Holy Spider.
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It’s summertime which means one thing in the cinemaverse: shark movie season! We have already been served fin-ematic releases like Under Paris from Netflix and Something in the Water over the past couple of months, but Mad Angel Films adds one more helping to our “shark”-cuterie plate with their horror-comedy Graveyard Shark. The Indiegogo-funded feature
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1 Shibuya Flat Now 50% Off Lean into the denim-shoe trend with an upscale slingback. Pair it with a white sundress for an endless-summer vibe. 2 Sundance Plateau 140 Perfect for girls’ night out, this metallic ultra-high platform calls for late nights on the dance floor. 3 Film Sandal 35 For days when a true
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Blac Youngsta‘s checking off a legal issue that’s dogged him for years … a judge just dismissed his gun case in a Dallas court. The rapper was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon stemming from a 2020 arrest, but the case was was dismissed this week … according to documents obtained
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News Leon Bridges Announces Fall 2024 North American Tour The Leon Tour has support from Hermanos Gutiérrez and Texas country singer Charley Crockett By Matthew Strauss August 16, 2024 Facebook X Leon Bridges, photo by Jack Bool Facebook X Leon Bridges is going on tour in support of his recently announced new album, Leon. The
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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
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BookTok is a phenomena that has moved an unfathomable amount of books. Despite its reputation as being solely the realm of Sarah J. Maas and Colleen Hoover, you can find book videos in every conceivable genre and format on TikTok — if you know where to look. Some of us, though, can’t be trusted with
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Image Credit: WireImage Former Saturday Night Live cast member Victoria Jackson announced this week that she has been diagnosed with inoperable cancer—estimating she has roughly three years to live. Jackson first revealed her breast cancer diagnosis in 2016, but on Wednesday, Aug. 14, the 65-year-old confirmed in her ‘Is the Cancer Back?’ Instagram video series
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Australia has us beat. When it comes to how long you can expect to live, you’d expect America to come out on top.  Far from it. In a new study of life-expectancy in six English-speaking countries,  America does not come in first, second, or even third.  We come in last.  Dead last. The new study, which appeared in the British
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