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In light of the capacity crisis facing Southern California hospitals due to the COVID pandemic and an anticipated post-holiday surge of COVID cases, SAG-AFTRA and organizations representing commercial advertisers and advertising agencies and independent film and television producers have reached agreement on recommending a temporary hold on in-person production in Southern California. The major studios

Refresh for latest…: China was the big international box office winner this weekend with three local movies at the top of the chart and a New Year’s Day record set on Friday. That came just as it was confirmed the market led global box office for 2020, surpassing North America for the first time. We’ll

Wonder Woman 1984 has won its second weekend at the box office after earning $5.5 million. The sequel fell 67% when compared to its debut last weekend. So far, the domestic total for the movie is $28.5 million, with a global total of $118.5 million. As of this writing, analysts don’t believe that Wonder Woman

The specialty box office and streaming space is ringing in 2021 with a peppering of new titles starting with Shadow in the Cloud starring Chloë Grace Moretz, which opens in select theaters and drops on VOD and digital starting January 1, 2021. Directed by Roseanne Liang who co-wrote the script with Max Landis, Shadow in the

New images from the anticipated video game adaptation Uncharted tease Nathan Drake’s first big screen adventure. The project has been in development for a number of years and it’s finally getting close to opening in theaters. Tom Holland stars in Uncharted as Nathan Drake and Mark Wahlberg as mentor Victor Sullivan along with a supporting

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

Michael Rooker is channeling Rowdy Burns after finding and putting on his old jacket from Days of Thunder. Over the course of his career, Rooker has performed a variety of memorable roles, perhaps most often as an antagonist. The Winston Cup Champion and a rival to Cole Trickle (Tom Cruise), Rowdy stands out as one

A word for stocks in 2020: epic — as in monumental, as a bona fide crash in the spring alternated thereafter with convulsions of angst and optimism reflecting a world turned upside down by the first global pandemic in a century. Major indexes from the Dow Jones to the Nasdaq, S&P 500 and Russell 3000

Robert Downey Jr. is just as happy as the rest of us to leave 2020 behind, literally jumping into 2021 to the music of Van Halen. On Instagram, RDJ posted a video of himself in a golfer’s cap and an all-white outfit, jumping and dancing in a small pool of very dirty water. All the

It’s historically been a week when we’re reporting on Star Wars movies doing a daily box office average of $20M, but in this distressed Covid environment where 60% of all U.S. and Canadian theaters are closed, we have only to highlight that Warner Bros.’ Wonder Woman 1984 did an estimated $22.5M in its first week. Eeesh. Now

Cobra Kai is back to kick off the new year with the release of season 3 on Netflix. Originally a YouTube Red exclusive, Cobra Kai made the move to Netflix after releasing its first two seasons. With those episodes streaming on Netflix for the past several months, a larger audience has made the series even

The Patty Jenkins-directed DC sequel has grossed more than $100M worldwide according to Warner Bros. Wonder Woman 1984 opened to $16.7M domestic last weekend in the U.S. and Canada where 60% of 5,5k theaters are shutdown. The film is also available on the studio’s streaming service HBO Max which is only available stateside, but will expand

It’s time to wave goodbye to 2020. And what better way to do so than snapping the year away with Tony Stark in Avengers: Endgame? It’s New Year’s Eve, a time when the world celebrates the end of a year and the beginning of a new one. Parties are usually held during this time of

It was supposed to be a year when the playing field became even. After losing to Disney for four years in a row, with the Burbank studio setting an industry record in 2019 of $13.2 billion global box office, a new major studio was set to become the domestic king. “I think 2020 is going

The Mandalorian season 2 may be over but the era of Star Wars on Disney+ is just beginning. Many new shows are coming to the streaming service in the next few years and there is at least a possibility that an all-timer of a classic story will be resurrected as part of those plans. Indeed,

Is WandaVision going to feature a huge Avengers: Endgame cameo? It has already been confirmed that the long-awaited Disney+ series will directly tie into Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but it looks like it might be even more direct than originally thought. For now, not a lot is known about the series, except

AMC Entertainment filed to sell up to 50 million more shares in an ongoing quest to stay solvent as it outruns the pandemic. The nation’s largest theater chain registered the shares in an SEC filing this morning, adding to the 200 million it previously registered. It said it’s raised $104 million as of December 28

SAG-AFTRA has announced that the majority of their productions in California will be on hiatus until early next year. The news comes after the Los Angeles Health Department asked the entertainment industry to pause productions. SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris and national executive director David White updated the labor union website with more COVID-19 filming protocols