As pollyannaish as it sounds, especially as the domestic 2020 box office crumbles to a historic all-time low of $2.27 billion due to the coronavirus pandemic, the global theatrical business is poised for a comeback in 2021. However, it might take a few months. How in God’s name can such a ridiculous projection be forecasted?
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The future of the DC movie universe, at least some of it anyway, is on HBO Max. It has been revealed that DC Films is going to ramp up in the coming years, and not just on the theatrical side. On top of movies such as The Batman that are intended as theatrical releases, Warner
Sunday AM Update: Refresh for more analysis and chart We’ll have to wait and see what success WarnerMedia drums up in regards to Wonder Woman 1984‘s outcome on HBO Max, but from a box office perspective over Christmas with 60% of the 5,8K theater domestic market closed due to COVID, it posted better 3-day numbers than
Putting the creepy, invasive, potentially dangerous ramifications to one side, the art of the deepfake has been a gift to movie fans, allowing dedicated fans to both improve on the sometimes-disappointing CGI renderings of Hollywood releases, and bring castings that never happened into some semblance of reality. Following John Krasinski as Captain America and Tom
Like the title suggests, Promising Young Woman brought a glimmer of promise to the specialty box office space. The Emerald Fennell-directed dramatic thriller starring Carey Mulligan debuted in 1,310 theaters in North America on December 25 earning an estimated $680K. Since making its world premiere at Sundance, the film has been getting tons of buzz and acclaim.
Following the recent passing of Jon Huber, many of his colleagues and fellow pro wrestling stars are paying tribute on social media. Huber, who wrestled on television as Luke Harper in WWE and Brodie Lee in AEW, died of a lung issue on Saturday at the young age of 41. Along with wrestling fans across
Refresh for latest…: There was a bit more varied action at the international box office this weekend, including the continued rollout of Warner Bros/DC’s Wonder Woman 1984, a sizable start for China’s Shock Wave 2, the debut of Disney/Pixar’s Soul, The Croods: A New Age nearing $100M global, and a brand new milestone for Japan’s
Very sad news is rocking the world of professional wrestling this weekend, as AEW star Jon “Brodie Lee” Huber has passed away. Prior to his debut in AEW earlier this year, Huber competed for several years as Luke Harper of the Wyatt Family and is very well known to fans of both companies. On Saturday,
While several of Kevin McCallister’s creative booby traps in Home Alone are very dangerous and potentially lethal, they don’t seem to fall outside of the confines of the law. On Twitter, defense attorney Mike Buresh did a deep dive into the legalities of the movie with a series of tweets to determine if what Kevin
Warner Bros. isn’t reporting any official box office results for Wonder Woman 1984 on its opening Christmas Day –which various sources tell us was record-worthy for the pandemic stateside, disastrous by normal marketplace conditions– but various HBO Max users are taking to social media, in particular the @HBOMaxHelp Twitter handle to voice their grievances over either streaming
In the recently released Wonder Woman 1984, Princess Diana aka Wonder Woman finds herself facing off against not one but two supervillains: media mogul Maxwell Lord, and The Cheetah. In an interview with CBR, the director of the movie Patty Jenkins explained how she wanted to explore the “Why?” behind the creation of a supervillain.
For many years in cinema we thought of movies in a very linear way. Action movies were action movies, comedies were comedies, romantic dramas were… you get the gist. Sure, a comedy might have action here and there, but by and large you were laughing not seeing some heavy getting his face blown to bits.
A new fan theory may reveal who was able to save Grogu from Order 66. The Mandalorian season 2 just wrapped and there are still a load of questions surrounding the little guy, which Star Wars fans are hoping will be explored in the future. However, the biggest question at the moment seems to revolve
Moff Gideon has been the ultimate big bad of The Mandalorian since Season 1. He killed countless people to bring “order” to the galaxy, he ordered the death of Kuiil, destroyed the Razor Crest, and oh, the biggest sin ever- kidnapping Grogu and threatening him with the Darksaber. But don’t think it was an easy
WarnerMedia will be closing its Hong Kong theatrical office with films from Warner Bros to be released by Universal Pictures in the market from January 1, Deadline has confirmed. Layoffs are expected in Hong Kong, though an exact number is not yet clear. A typically solid market, Hong Kong’s cinemas shuttered for the third time
Following several clues from returning star Natalie Portman regarding how Jane Foster fits into Thor: Love and Thunder, Tessa Thompson has begun sharing some insights as to what audiences can expect from her character, Valkyrie, in the MCU sequel. When asked recently whether she would find love or thunder, the actress teased an answer that
Warner Bros. Pictures announced theatrical release dates for three big event movies tonight — and their intention is that they’re going straight to the big screen, not HBO Max and theaters. Those three are the George Miller Max Max prequel Furiosa on June 23, 2023, Dave Green’s animated hybrid Coyote vs. Acme on July 21,
James Gunn has an epic Marvel and DC dream crossover for a team project. Gunn has been behind the camera for a lot of movies over the years, but it was the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise that blasted him into the stratosphere. After a pretty big falling out with Disney in 2018, he started