Guardians of the Galaxy star Karen Gillan may well be gearing up to join the already stacked roster of upcoming Marvel sequel Thor: Love and Thunder. The actress recently shared images of her arrival in Australia, where production on Love and Thunder is currently getting ready for filming, leading many to speculate that this means
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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
Captain Marvel is set to premiere this weekend on TNT, which marks its TV debut. This is probably good news for casual Marvel fans who may have missed it, or for those who may want to put it on their DVR. But in what might be referred to as an odd flex, the cable network
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
A suspect has been arrested on suspicion of burglary after allegedly breaking into Johnny Depp’s Hollywood Hills home. According to TMZ, investigators say a “possibly homeless” woman broke into the home over the weekend, triggering the security system and alerting the police. The suspect fled before officers arrived, though she was quickly found nearby and
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
It has been well over a year but the Marvel Cinematic Universe is finally gearing up for its return next week. Phase 4 of the MCU will officially kick off with the release of WandaVision on Disney+, with the live-action series set to debut on January 15. That wasn’t always the plan but 2020 forced
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
The release of Wonder Woman 1984 was not exactly the triumphant event that either its studio Warner Bros. or filmmaker Patty Jenkins would have liked. Amid middling reviews, outright criticism of certain aspects of the movie, and modest box-office gains, the Wonder Woman franchise has taken quite a hit in recent times. Another point of
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
If Indiana Jones 5 starts shooting in May as planned, original star John Rhys-Davies is on board to return as Sallah is he gets the call. After years of gestating in development hell, Indiana Jones 5 finally appears to be on track with James Mangold in the director’s chair. Last month, Disney confirmed that the
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
Back in 1984, Elisabeth Shue played the crucial character of Ali Mills, in The Karate Kids, who put into motion many of the events in the film and was the prime catalyst for the rivalry between Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence. Ever since Cobra Kai began in 2018, fans were eager to see the beloved
If 2020 began with promise, all that changed as every industry tradition we took for granted was stripped away without warning. The pandemic has seen nearly 20 million positive cases in the U.S. alone, and soon 350,000 will be dead. Every facet of entertainment was impacted: live theaters and movie theaters closed, production in TV
It was recently announced that the company behind the classic Rubik’s Cube toy is gearing up to spawn an ambitious multi-media franchise under Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment Group and Endeavor Content. It will include, but not be limited to, a Rubik’s Cube movie and game show that revolves around the multi-colored toy. The news
The first weekend of the year, which at its apex in 2016 grossed $219.5M off the heat of Disney’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, registered under an estimated $13M for the entire weekend in a continued decimated exhibition marketplace that’s praying to reopen in 2021. Warner Bros.’ theatrical release of Wonder Woman 1984, which is also available on
Lucasfilm has released a new trailer for Star Wars: The High Republic. The latest look at the upcoming story event shows just how massive it will be when all is said and done. The stories all take place centuries before The Phantom Menace and the start of the Skywalker Saga, which means we will be
The specialty box office space entered 2021 with two fresh titles and one under-the-radar pic with Vertical Entertainment’s Shadow In The Cloud, Netflix’s Pieces of a Woman and Amazon Studios’ Herself. In general, reporting on box office numbers has been tricky ground considering circumstances and that will continue in 2021 — especially with the specialty box