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Leading the charge this week in streaming and specialty titles is Netflix with two films that have been garnering awards season buzz with their star wattage and prestige storytelling. First up, is the highly anticipated Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom adapted from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson’s play of the same name. Set in 1920s

Apple TV+ continues to cobble together a catalogue of original movies for its fairly new streaming service, as it carves out its own niche amongst the streaming crowd. Today, we have a first look at their new drama Palmer, which stars pop megastar and sometimes actor Justin Timberlake as a convicted felon attempting to reform

Warner Bros/DC’s Wonder Woman 1984, as expected, landed at No. 2 in its China debut on Friday, coming in behind local actioner The Rescue. The Patty Jenkins-helmed sequel to 2017’s Wonder Woman grossed an estimated RMB 44.2M ($7M, including sneaks). This portends a weekend in the mid $20M range for the Middle Kingdom, lower than

Patty Jenkins’ highly anticipated follow-up to her 2017 feature Wonder Woman is gearing up for release. Wonder Woman 1984 is the film chosen to lead Warner’s daring experiment in releasing their movies on HBO Max at the same time as in theaters. Clearly, the studio has a lot of faith in what Jenkins has come

The Mandalorian director Bryce Dallas Howard comments on the possibility of Grogu going to the dark side. The Child, aka Baby Yoda, and now Grogu, has captured the hearts of Star Wars fans from all over the world. However, season 2 of the hit Disney+ series has revealed some possible dark secrets about the character,

Lionsgate’s YA sci-fi adventure Chaos Walking will be released in theaters nationwide and in IMAX on March 5, 2021, a push-back from the previous Jan. 22 date. The move comes as distributors begin to adjust the Q1 calendar in response to the ongoing pandemic, which they are hoping quells by spring given the good news

Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall reunite in the first-look images from Coming 2 America. It’s been over 30 years since we’ve seen Prince Akeem and his good friend Semmi on the big screen, and they’re back together in the upcoming highly-anticipated sequel. Coming to America hit theaters in 1988, at a time when Murphy was

Scott Stapp is making the jump to Hollywood. The Creed frontman and Grammy winner is set to play legendary singer Frank Sinatra in an upcoming biopic on former president Ronald Reagan. This will mark Stapp’s feature debut as an actor. Stapp is a successful musician and many from the world of music have made the

Warner Bros/DC’s Wonder Woman 1984 begins offshore rollout today in such markets as Indonesia, Portugal and the UK — though on a very limited basis in the latter where London cinemas have been re-shuterred as the capital moves into a Tier 3 Covid lockdown. In total, there will be 32 markets open through Friday with

Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin race against the apocalypse in the middling disaster thriller, Greenland. The film is loaded with eye candy. Desperate people running for their lives, cities blown to cinders, and the requisite countdown to extinction; ticking away in the background. The elements are there for gritty popcorn cinema. But the narrative is

Refresh for latest...: The international box office continues to provide welcome surprises during the pandemic era. Where movie theaters are open and people feel safe, they turn up for new or enduringly exciting product that’s on offer. To wit: Japan’s Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train has perhaps become the story of the year. A

Will there be a post-credit scene attached to Zack Snyder’s Justice League? The filmmaker has provided a definitive answer ahead of its release next year on HBO Max. Snyder is finally getting to complete his vision for the DC Comics adaptation more than three years after it originally hit theaters. It will contain hours of

Searchlight’s Venice Film Festival Golden Lion winner Nomadland starring Frances McDormand, is opening on Feb. 19, 2021 limited. The movie was previously set to open on Dec. 4. Also Disney took the 20th Century Studios drag queen teenage musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie off its Feb. 26, 2021 release date and has designated the feature to being unset for

Earlier this year, WarnerMedia dealt a devastating blow to the theater industry by announcing that all their upcoming movies will be streamed on HBO Max at the same time as in theaters. Since then, several notable filmmakers from Christopher Nolan to Denis Villeneuve and Judd Apatow have come out in open opposition to Warner’s new

Warner Bros. is doing a minor massage to its release schedule for 2021. New Line’s Mortal Kombat, which I hear isn’t finished, is going on April 16, 2021 instead of Jan. 15. The Simon McQuiod directed feature adaptation of the videogame will have access to Imax screens. In response to the move, Warners is talking Westworld co-creator Lisa

Zack Snyder’s Justice League may be heading to theaters after all, and it’s probably going to be R-rated. This, according to Snyder himself, who has revealed some new details about his fabled cut of the DC Comics superhero movie. The so-called Snyder Cut will be arriving on HBO Max as a miniseries next year. But,

Focus Features continues its steady rollout of movies into 2021 with the release of Robin Wright’s feature directorial debut drama Land on Feb. 12, 2021, just in time for Oscar qualifications which have a cutoff date of Feb. 28. Land is scheduled on a weekend when the following movies are currently expected to open: 20th Century Studio’s The King’s

Casting actors for video game movie adaptations can be tricky. You can get someone who looks the part but can’t act. Even if they can act, they might not be in the kind of almost superhuman shape that most video game characters display at all times. 1995’s Mortal Kombat movie lucked out in getting Robin