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
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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
The Gentlemen is moving from the big screen to the small screen. Director Guy Ritchie (Snatch, Sherlock Holmes) has partnered with MiramaxTV to develop his latest movie into a TV series. The movie was released in theaters earlier this year and was one of few releases in 2020 to have a full, relatively uninterrupted theatrical
EXCLUSIVE: Gerard Butler’s latest action thriller Greenland will not be playing at U.S. movie theaters as the pic’s studio ErosSTX pivots the feature for a Premium Video On-Demand release sometime in the fourth quarter. STX will control the PVOD window on the Ric Roman Waugh-directed movie. Additionally, we can tell you first, that HBO has shelled
‘Weird Al’ Yankovic already has a song about last night’s 2020 Election Debate between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Yankovic teamed up with the Gregory Brothers to pen the song, which is called “America Is Doomed, The Musical.” The debate has been on the minds of nearly everybody who tuned last night, which is
EXCLUSIVE: With the domestic box office still in the hospital, studios have been keen to make their finished films revenue events to the widest audience possible, maximizing profits by whatever means. For MGM’s Orion that meant releasing the long-awaited Keanu Reeves-Alex Winter threequel Bill & Ted Face the Music on PVOD and whatever theaters would play
Bill & Ted Face the Music was able to pull in around $32 million from VOD sales alone. Despite the chaotic and unprecedented summer movie season, the sequel was able to become a lean success for the studio. Fans of the franchise began to think that the third installment was never going to happen after
As September comes to a close and October brings in autumnal vibes, the country (and the world for that matter) is focusing on two things: the forthcoming November election and the end of the world. Luckily, in this early edition of this week’s specialty preview, we have something that is relevant to both! After making
Paulie’s robot Sico has been axed from Sylvester Stallone’s new cut of Rocky IV, and the creator of the machine believes it was a cost-cutting measure. In the works to honor the 35th anniversary of the release of the hit sequel, Stallone’s Rocky IV Director’s Cut has a lot of excitement surrounding the project. With
San Francisco Mayor London N. Breed and county officials finally gave the go-ahead for movie theaters to reopen on Oct. 7, despite the fact that California state health officials said it was OK to do so weeks ago. That might come as good news for Warner Bros.’ Tenet, which has always pegged the city as
Surprise! We got The Craft: Legacy trailer today. We’ve known for some time that Blumhouse Productions and Sony Pictures were collaborating on a new The Craft movie, but it was largely mysterious, with the many expecting that we were getting a reboot. Instead, we’re getting The Craft 2, which is officially titled The Craft: Legacy.
Watching Wayne Wang’s Coming Home Again, set for a virtual release (online, but through individual theaters) by Outsider Pictures on Oct. 23, delivered a jolt. Like getting nicked by a live wire. The picture is so small–shot in just over three weeks on a micro-budget. So personal: The story is about a young Korean-American man