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Victoria De Mare appears opposite Scott Speedman (Underworld, Animal Kingdom) in Golden Globe-winner Lena Dunham’s written, directed, produced comedy feature film Sharp Stick premiering at the Sundance Film Festival January 2022. Sharp Stick features an all-star cast including Jon Bernthal, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Scott Speedman, Lena Dunham, Taylour Paige and Victoria De Mare. Victoria also stars opposite
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UPDATE, writethru: Sony/Marvel’s friendly neighborhood webslinger now leads the No. 4 movie of 2021 worldwide, as Spider-Man: No Way Home overtakes F9 with $751.3M through Tuesday. At the international box office, Peter Parker has also leapt to a new milestone, topping the $400M milestone with yesterday’s grosses for a running cume of $422.6M in 68
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Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home raked in $37.1M on Monday, making it the third best for that day ever behind 2018’s Black Panther ($40.15M) and 2015’s Star Wars: Force Awakens ($40.109M). The running total for the MCU title stands at $297.2M through four days. Indeed, headlines about the looming Omicron, aren’t impacting ticket sales, and we’re not hearing any
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Holdovers Drive My Car, Red Rocket and The Scary Of Sixty First looked good in limited runs on a weekend with few new specialty releases and even fewer numbers. Streamers – which presented The Lost Daughter (Netflix), Swan Song (Apple) and The Tender Bar (Amazon), don’t reveal them and smaller distributors often report early in
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Refresh for latest…: Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home has become the third biggest global opener of all-time with $587.2M. Crossing the $500M mark makes it only the sixth film ever to the milestone in a launch frame. The Jon Watts-directed MCU entry instantly becomes the No. 6 movie of 2021 worldwide (No. 3 for the
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Much-lauded The Lost Daughter, Tribeca Fest winner The Novice, George Clooney’s The Tender Bar plus Swan Song with Mahershala Ali and the doc President dip a toe in the specialty market this Spidey-centric weekend amid gathering Covid clouds. The question: how will a surging infection rate (that just closed down theaters in Denmark and is
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EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is putting forth the biggest promotional campaign to date during the pandemic for any major studio wide release with Spider-Man: No Way Home; the global brand marketing value seeing $202M and a billion-plus reach. While that dollar figure is the second highest for a Sony webslinger movie after 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home
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Next spring’s buzzy production of Macbeth starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga will have a larger Broadway home than previously expected, courtesy of the Princess Diana musical. Macbeth had originally been set for the approximately 943-seat Lyceum Theatre, but with the unexpected early closing of Diana, The Musical this weekend, that show’s approximately 1,095-seat Longacre
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STX films has made some changes to its 2022 release schedule: The Burbank, CA-studio will be opening supernatural horror Bed Rest on July 15 while Guy Ritchie’s Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre and The Contractor are going slightly later in the spring. The Lori Evans Taylor directed Bed Rest stars Melissa Barrera as Julie Rivers, a pregnant
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National CineMedia, the nations’ biggest in-theater advertising firm, had a tough 2020 but is unspooling a reimagined Noovie Preshow this weekend timed to the record eyeballs awaiting Spider-Man: No Way Home. A consortium of the nation’s biggest theater chains, National CineMedia’s preshow, the cornerstone of its business, runs on 2,100 screens, about 75% of the
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Universal/Blumhouse’s Black Phone will now be answered by moviegoers in the summer. The studio is pushing the Ethan Hawke horror thriller from Feb. 4, 2022 to June 24, 2022. Uni already had the date blocked off for an untitled Blumhouse movie. The pic will be up against Warner Bros.’ Baz Luhrmann movie Elvis. Sony’s Where the Crawdads Sings recently departed the
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