The Grease spinoff series that was originally ordered at HBO Max has found a new home at Paramount Plus, and along with the switch comes a new title. Originally called Rydell High, the series was initially announced as a part of the new streamer’s upcoming projects by former WarnerMedia Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt. Reportedly, new
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As the exhibition industry teeters, global cinema owners beseeched New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to reopen theaters in areas of the state with low infection rates. The response was not promising. The executive committee of the Global Cinema Federation — led by Alejandro Ramirez Magaña, CEO of Cinépolis, in a letter to the governor Wednesday,
It was announced earlier this week that Disney is debuting their latest Pixar animated adventure direct to Disney+. Soul will stream for all Disney+ subscribers beginning Christmas day. There will be no additional charge to watch Soul, unlike Mulan, which was touted by Disney as a Premier event and priced at an additional $30. Soul
Alongside Czech Republic and parts of Romania, Slovakia is now among the latest Central European countries to order the re-shuttering of its cinemas amid an escalation of COVID-19 cases, Deadline has confirmed. Movie theaters in Slovakia will close from this Thursday (October 15) after originally closing on March 9 and reopening May 20. A state
Neve Campbell is preparing to head to the Scream 5 set to once again reprise her franchise role as Sidney Prescott, and the scream queen says she’s excited to reunite with her former co-stars. Throughout all four prior Scream movies, Campbell’s Sidney managed to make it to the end along with married couple Dewey (David
Exhibition shares took a beating Tuesday as AMC Entertainment announced its cash might be gone by year end and Walt Disney became the latest big content company to restructure operations around streaming. As theaters reopen to limited audiences without key New York and Los Angeles markets and a paucity of new studio fare, heavily indebted
AMC Theatres, the largest movie theater chain in the U.S., is in a dire situation. The company has confirmed that they are likely going to run out of money by early 2021. This affirms what analysts have been predicting and, barring an unforeseen turnaround at the box office, the chain could find itself in a
With Broadway’s shut down at least until June, some producers who had been hoping to open shows this spring are re-setting their sights on fall or even 2022, while others have announced no plans whatsoever. The latest to announce a new schedule is Lincoln Center Theater’s much anticipated production of Flying Over Sunset, a new
Spider-Man and Batman have easily the most successful film careers out of all the superheroes. That means multiple directors have put their own spin on the two characters over the decades. Recently, the co-director of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Peter Ramsey, had an issue with the direction taken with the webbed wall-crawler in the MCU,
Digital movie ticketing platform Atom Tickets and the Independent Cinema Alliance (ICA) have teamed to offer contactless, digital ticketing to moviegoers. ICA reps more than 175 companies and 3,000 screens. The first group of theatres to sign on and activate digital ticketing under the partnership include Premiere Cinemas (Texas, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, New Mexico and South
2020 has been a truly unpredictable year for the movie business, to say the least of it. The box office has been mostly a shadow of its former self since March, even after theaters reopened for Tenet. But people are still going to the movies right now and strange things are happening. To that point,
Her Oscar winner Spike Jonze has boarded Sony Pictures Classics upcoming early 2021 release as an Executive Producer. Additionally, SPC has also acquired the rights in Asia, Israel, Turkey and the rest of Europe, making it a worldwide release for the label. The film will next be seen in the Hamptons Film Festival and AFI,
Disney and Lucasfilm have revealed a new set of character posters for The Mandalorian season 2. The live-action Star Wars series is set to make its return later this month and, more than likely, the folks at Lucasfilm are going to keep the vast majority of the secrets under wraps until the episodes drop. But
As 101 Studios’ family comedy The War With Grandpa dominated the box office with an estimated $3.6 million in 2,250 theaters, Diane Paragas’ Yellow Rose starring Eva Noblezada, Lea Salonga and Princess Punzalan made its debut at theaters and drive-ins to earn an estimated $150K from 900 locations, bringing its total domestic cume to $170K through Sunday.
After The Boys star Aya Cash expressed her interest in playing Jean Grey in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, some awesome new fan art has been drawn up imagining how she might appear in the role. Very well known for her role as the villainous Stormfront in the popular Amazon series, Cash was asked in an
Refresh for latest…: China’s National Day holiday officially ended last Thursday, with takings for the October 1-8 period at an estimated RMB 3.95B ($589M) as the market continues to close the 2020 gap with domestic. This weekend saw continued play for the key titles, led by patriotic pic My People My Homeland which added another
Jim Carrey returned to Saturday Night Live this weekend for the show’s cold open segment, this time taking on Jeff Goldblum and his character in The Fly. In the season 46 premiere, Carrey made his debut as former vice president Joe Biden, mocking that week’s presidential debate with Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump. After last
There has been some concern by some industry insiders that the family film may have gone the way of the dinosaurs during the pandemic, particularly as Disney has taken its marquee theatrical releases Mulan and Soul to Disney+. Some of those maneuvers stem from polling which shows that families aren’t entirely ready to head back to the box office