The Black Adam movie starring Dwayne Johnson has been in official development ever since 2014, with the movie planned as far back, and openly talked about at Warner Bros. since 2007. For one reason or another, the film kept getting delayed, until things finally seemed to be moving in a positive direction this year, with
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We’re hearing that Warner Bros. release of Legendary’s Dune is no longer going on Dec. 18, rather Oct. 1, 2021. Right now that’s the same release date as Matt Reeves’ The Batman, so we have to figure Warners moves Batman. Duh. Many in distribution land always believed it was too good to be true for Warners to keep
Drew Barrymore and her talk show were spoofed over the weekend in the Saturday Night Live season 46 premiere, but it would appear that she couldn’t be happier about it. Debuting on CBS just last month, The Drew Barrymore Show served as a source of inspiration for a new sketch with Chloe Fineman doing her
EXCLUSIVE: Cineworld Group, the world’s second biggest exhibition chain, today announced plans to temporarily close its Regal movie theaters in the U.S. and its Cineworld and Picturehouse sites in the UK as coronavirus wreaks havoc with the industry. Cineworld CEO Mooky Greidinger tells Deadline the decision primarily came down to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s
The movie theater business is looking rather dire amid new reports that Cineworld may close all Regal Cinema venues in the United States, along with all cinemas in the U.K. and Ireland this coming week. The news comes just a day after the James Bond movie No Time to Day was given another delay to
Neon’s Possessor Uncut brought the sci-fi thrills this weekend to select theaters around the country as the specialty box office continues to find signs of life during the pandemic. Written and directed by Brandon Cronenberg, the pic starring Andrea Riseborough and Christopher Abbott played on 320 screens in its debut and earned an estimated $227,500, with
Iconic skater Tony Hawk is grateful for the Saturday Night Live shoutout of his newly remastered set of games. Hawk’s games debuted over 20 years ago and were able to get a whole new audience of gamers who would have never picked up a controller into the world of consoles. Bands who were supposed to
The town is still shell-shocked by yesterday’s news about Cineworld’s pending indefinite shutdown of its UK theaters this coming week and what we’re hearing now looks to be an expected partial shutdown of the U.S. No. 2 chain Regal. Cineworld remains radio silent. On Friday, distributors received word from Regal that out of their 340-400
Millie Bobby Brown has confirmed that Stranger Things season 4 has begun production, speaking about the show’s upcoming return and stressing how happy she is to go back to work. At the start of the month, Netflix tweeted a photo of a clapperboard along with the vague caption, “Today in Hawkins.” This seemingly confirms the
In response to MGM’s No Time to Die moving out of the Thanksgiving corridor to Easter weekend 2021, Cineworld is closing down 128 of its UK and Ireland cinemas as well as its U.S. Regal chain as of next week according to reports. This is the first massive exhibition casualty during the pandemic. It remains to
The stars of Mean Girls have acknowledged “Mean Girls Day” with a surprise cast reunion posted online. In the original 2004 movie, “October 3rd” is stated as the date in an often-quoted line. Fans have since recognized Oct. 3 as a celebration day for the movie, dubbing the date as Mean Girls Day and celebrating
MGM’s No Time to Die is officially heading to April 2, 2021, Easter weekend, and vacating its Nov. 20 release date. Interestingly enough, this puts No Time to Die on the same weekend with Universal’s F9. Universal is handling overseas on No Time to Die, so it will be interesting to see what falls out there down the road. “MGM, Universal and
Idris Elba and John Cena will reunite in Heads of State, a new action movie in the works at Amazon Studios. Deadline reports that the project was pitched specifically to team the two actors back up following the release of The Suicide Squad next year, which will feature both Elba and Cena as part of
Universal said Friday that F9 is moving to May 28, 2021, which is Memorial Day weekend. The move comes after MGM moved its James Bond pic No Time to Die to April 2, 2021 — which had been the release date of the latest installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise. Universal is handling
Another day, another bit of very bad news for the movie business. AMC Theatres, the largest theater chain in the U.S., is now expected to run out of money within six months. Even though the chain has been able to reopen many of its locations in recent weeks to coincide with the releases of The
Originally set for an October theatrical release, the Robert Zemeckis-directed Warner Bros. feature Roald Dahl’s The Witches is heading to the studio’s streaming service HBO Max on Oct. 22. The movie, which stars Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer and Stanley Tucci, is being positioned as Halloween season event programming for HBO Max. Initially, The Witches was scheduled
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19. Trump confirmed the news this evening after it was revealed that Press Secretary Hope Hicks tested positive earlier this week. It has been reported that Hicks showed symptoms before the 2020 Presidential Debate and then flew with the President and first lady
A lucrative period for Chinese cinemas, the National Day holiday officially got underway today with the release of Jiang Ziya: Legend Of Deification. The highly-anticipated follow-up to 2019 smash Ne Zha set a new single-day record for animation in the Middle Kingdom with an estimated RMB 359M ($53M). This beats both Ne Zha‘s July opening