One year after horror star Sid Haig’s passing, filmmaker and frequent collaborator Rob Zombie paid tribute to the genre icon on social media. Over the course of three of Zombie’s movies, Haig portrayed the sinister clown Captain Spaulding, a character that has since become one of the horror genre’s most recognizable villains. Sadly, Haig died
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Star Wars fans are eagerly awaiting the arrival of The Mandalorian Season 2 this fall. All-new episodes will begin streaming October 30 exclusively on Disney+. Unlike last year, Mando and Baby Yoda will be flying solo with no new Star Wars movies in theaters. So this year we’re not going to get the traditional Force
SUNDAY AM: It’s going to be a brutal autumn at the box office, and this weekend is only the start; the first without a major MPAA studio wide release until Oct. 23 when 20th Century Studios/Disney’s all-star mystery Death on the Nile opens. Gosh, Disney, it would help if you moved up the release a week
The WandaVision trailer may have revealed who Kathryn Hahn is playing in the highly anticipated Disney+ series. Marvel Studios shared the first footage from the series during last night’s Emmys broadcast, much to the surprise of Marvel Cinematic Universe fans from all over the world. The footage is a lot to take in, and like
Refresh for latest…: Christopher Nolan’s Tenet handily passed $200M overseas this weekend with a $25M offshore frame to bring the overseas box office to $214M. Including domestic, the global cume is now $250.1M. Boosting play overseas, as we noted yesterday, was the Japan bow which came in a a strong $4.3M in the No. 1
Just in time for the Halloween season, legendary horror host Joe Bob Briggs and Los Angeles-based Black Vortex Cinema have announced today their partnership on Joe Bob’s Haunted Drive-In, a brand new, one-of-a-kind, COVID-conscious haunt experience/short horror film festival now being curated, and coming to drive-ins in Southern California this October. “During these troubling times,
The majority of the specialty box office has shifted to virtual debut, streaming and digital-only since theaters have shuttered due to the pandemic, but as physical theaters begin to open their doors, titles have returned to the big screen, slowly pumping life into the long-dormant specialty space. Bleecker Street’s post-WWII thriller The Secrets We Keep opened
Melissa McCarthy and Warner Bros. are being sued for alleged copyright infringement over the story for Life of the Party. The movie wasn’t exactly a hit, as it received mixed reviews upon its release. It did earn McCarthy a People’s Choice Award for playing a woman who attended college with her daughter after her husband
As box offices start to test the waters, Roger Michell’s family drama Blackbird starring Susan Sarandon is set to open in theaters and on demand starting today. Known for My Cousin Rachel and Notting Hill, Michell directs a script by Christian Torpe, who wrote the 2014 Danish film, Silent Heart of which the family drama is based. In it,
Lego is getting in on this weekend’s Batman Day festivities with the reveal of a massive Batwing set as it appeared in Tim Burton’s original Batman movie. Advertised as a companion piece to the previously-released 1989 Batmobile, the Batwing itself measures at over 4″ (11cm) high, 20″ (52cm) long, and 22″ (58cm) wide. Consisting of
EXCLUSIVE: Christopher Nolan’s Tenet added a handful of markets this weekend after beginning overseas rollout in August. While the domestic performance has been hampered by the coasts being closed, offshore markets have had a bit more leeway, and in some ways been robust even with capacity restrictions. This is yet another sign that offshore differs
Matt Reeves shared some new art today in honor of Batman Day. The Batman director is currently back to work on the project after two pretty major delays, which both had to do with the public health crisis. For now, the movie is still on track to be released next year, though anything can happen
The upcoming season of Encores! at New York’s City Center will include an adaptation by Pose‘s Billy Porter of The Life, a musical last seen in New York on Broadway in 1997. Porter’s adaptation, which he’ll direct, is one of two upcoming Encores! productions reviving rarely staged Broadway musicals centering on Black lives; also in
Hollywood icon, Denzel Washington, has now paid tribute to the late Black Panther star, Chadwick Boseman, calling him a “gentle soul.” The talented actor and MCU star had been secretly battling colon cancer for the last four years and recently passed away surrounded by his wife and family. “He didn’t get cheated. We did. I
EXCLUSIVE: Break, which is one of Rutger Hauer’s finals movies, will be getting a multiplatform release via Conduit Presents, the distribution division of Conduit Now. Conduit Presents acquired the Michael Elkin-directed crime sports drama and has set a release for Jan. 5, 2021. Break follows a young inner city kid who is wasting his talents on petty crime.
Andrew Lincoln has provided an update on The Rick Grimes movie. The whole franchise is going through some major changes at the moment and a lot of people are turning to Lincoln for answers. The hit AMC show just announced that it will be coming to an end when season 11 wraps up. From there,
Universal is moving up The Croods: A New Age from its Dec. 23 release date to Wednesday, Nov. 25. This move indicates the studio’s confidence that Disney will move Pixar’s Soul out of the Thanksgiving stretch according to recent reports, that movie still scheduled to debut on Nov. 20 on the same weekend of MGM’s No Time to Die.
We have a new trailer for The Last Shift. This is one of relatively few new movies arriving in theaters this fall, at least when compared to any typical year. Sony Pictures picked up the rights after the movie debuted at Sundance earlier this year and they are opting to see what it can do