Michael Bay is a maverick filmmaker that does what he wants, when he wants. So it came as a surprise when SAG-AFTRA shut down his plans to film one of the first new movies since the pandemic swept the world. This put the whole production in jeopardy heading into the weekend. But now SAG-AFTRA has
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Kadrolsha Ona Carole (KO) has been in countless celebrity magazines, celebrity sightings, and movies. Her career is fully engaged and moving forward at breakneck speed. With all her successes, and there are many, she is dedicated to a positive message, helping others including animals. How does she find the time and energy to do it
Talk about box-office drama. As the July 4 weekend unwinds, IFC’sThe Truth might be slugging it out with Homewrecker from Dark Star and The Outpost from Fathom for the honor of ranking somewhere in the 300s, near IFC’s own Wiener-Dog, among all-time Independence Day performers. (Who can say for sure, as release dates have become
Shia LaBeouf is playing a ‘white boy’ who grew up ‘in the hood’ in his new crime thriller The Tax Collector. But that hasn’t stopped quite a few detractors from accusing the movie of ‘Brownfacing’. Director David Ayer has utilized social media to answer these accusations. Some of those opposing the movie aren’t in agreement
Chiwetel Ejiofor has long made his presence felt in Hollywood with a slew of critically acclaimed roles in a range of films. As Baron Mordo, Ejiofor appeared opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in Doctor Strange. In an interview with ComicBook.com, the celebrated actor weighed in on how the world of the MCU differs from the world of
Alexandra Daddario as Zatanna? That’s our pick this morning as news heats up about a live-action movie moving forward at Warner Bros. featuring the DC Comics character. Sure, Alexandra Daddario hasn’t been mentioned at all in any way, shape, or form aside from a few fan castings. But looking at the various comic book images
David Ayer’s latest movie, The Tax Collector, is re-teaming him with actor Shia LaBeouf. It’s no secret that LaBeouf has made his fair share of headlines over the years for his erratic behavior but he has made an honest effort to focus on the craft of acting in recent years. Ayer, for example, recently praised
John Lewis has always been fighting for civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. He’s been doing it for over 60 years so to say that his narrative is relevant more now than ever is a wild understatement. In the documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble, director Dawn Porter (Trapped, Gideon’s Army) chronicles
Heads up, 90s Disney fans as The Mighty Ducks is finally streaming on Disney+. When the streaming service launched in November of last year, it seemed like there was a reasonably robust offering from the studio’s back catalog. But there were some notable omissions and the Disney library was far from complete. Now, one of
As expected, Broadway will remain dark through 2020, with the Broadway League announcing today that theater owners will refund or exchange all tickets purchased for productions through Jan. 3, 2021. “The Broadway experience can be deeply personal but it is also, crucially, communal,” said Chairman of the Board of The Broadway League Thomas Schumacher. “The
Kobe Bryant has been honored by NBA 2K21 with the Mamba Forever Edition. The late Los Angeles Lakers star will appear on two different covers of the iconic video game. Bryant is the third cover star to be announced this week following Trail Blazers player Damian Lillard, who is considered the current-gen, and Pelicans rookie
EXCLUSIVE: While many offshore markets are showing increasing signs of life as cinemas return, there are still several question marks surrounding when the majority of the world gets back to the theatrical business – chief among them for the international box office is China. There has been some chatter that Middle Kingdom movie theaters may
Hamilton, the pop-rap Broadway musical reimagining the life of America’s founding father Alexander Hamilton is arriving on Disney+ soon as a 2016 recording of the stage show starring the production’s original actors. The recorded version has had a couple of swear words censored, a decision that many purist fans are decrying on social media. In
The international box office this weekend was again led by Korea, with major local release #Alive taking a 70% share of the market. The zombie horror thriller from Spackman Entertainment’s Zip Cinema sold 1.06M tickets in its first five days for a gross of $7.4M through Sunday, again demonstrating the strength of new offerings, particularly
We continue to inch ever nearer to movie theaters opening up their doors again in the U.S. Yet, some of us may not be ready to return to theaters even when that does happen and, even so, we’ve still got several weeks to kill before it’s even an option. With that, we’re left to stream
The Disney catalog joined Universal’s this weekend in playing whatever theaters were open at the box office as the majority of exhibition’s 5,9K theaters remain shuttered nationwide due to COVID-19. Overall, ticket sales continued to be distressed. Disney’s 2016 Oscar-winning hit Zootopia took the top spot with an estimated $280K, putting its liftime total at $341.5M,
The Conjuring 3 may be the next major Hollywood movie to get bumped back to 2021. With the ongoing movie theater closure that started in mid-March, a chaotic situation has emerged that has seen the 2020 release calendar shuffled around constantly. While quite a few titles have been delayed to later in the year in
EXCLUSIVE: The recent surge nationwide of coronavirus cases and California Governor Gavin Newsom‘s recent promise for tougher restrictions in Los Angeles tomorrow has many in exhibition and distribution really concerned that there’s no hard date in immediate sight as to when the big circuits will reopen again. I hear that after July 4, there will be