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Warner Bros has made some release date changes, unrelated to its pending marriage with Paramount. DC’s Robins-origin puppets-meet-animation feature Dynamic Duo is moving from June 30, 2028, to Septemer 22, 2028. The reasoning is that Warner Bros distribution believes this will be a good back-to-school animated feature slot for not just K-12 but also teens
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta can rest easy: A merged Paramount Warner Bros Discovery would already account for 36 movies on the release schedule for 2027. Note, that’s an organic number of theatrical releases that were always set to happen even before the union of the storied studios came together with Monday’s settlement announcement. As
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UPDATED: TriStar Pictures/Constantin Film/Davis Films’ Resident Evil rang up a massive $108.3M worldwide, not only the best start the franchise has ever seen, but also Zach Cregger‘s biggest start as filmmaker surpassing the $70M WW reported opening of last year’s Weapons. What was the previous biggest opener in the Resident Evil franchise? We’re told it
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John Wilson’s The History Of Concrete had a record-breaking IFC Center debut, grossing $90k in three days for the top doc opening and the second-highest weekend gross in the NYC theater’s 21-year history after only Parasite ($119k in 2019). Nearly every available ticket sold for the entire weekend, including for shows added Saturday afternoon for
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Resident Evil hit the ground running in its box office opening as the reboot far outstripped initial expectations in setting a franchise high, representing a rarity for a horror series’ eighth installment. Writer-director Zach Cregger‘s horror-survival video game adaptation grossed $60 million in its three-day debut weekend to top the North American chart. This is
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Filmmaker Aaron Sorkin said Jeremy Strong treated his co-stars in The Social Reckoning “the way he imagines Mark [Zuckerberg] treats the people around him” while filming The Social Network follow-up. During a recent interview with The New York Times, the director opened up about what Strong, a known method actor, was like on set and
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Charlize Theron had plenty to celebrate at the sixth annual Block Party benefiting the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project (CTAOP) on Saturday night. Nearly 20 years after founding CTAOP, the Oscar-winning actress reflected on its impact, which has helped close to 5 million people across South Africa – and on the overwhelming response to Christopher
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When Marlene Emilie Lyngstad hosted San Sebastian Film Festival director José Luis Rebordinos for a screening of her debut feature, Cute, she was admittedly extremely nervous. “It is a film that divides the audience,” the Norwegian filmmaker tells The Hollywood Reporter at the town’s Hotel Maria Cristina on Sunday. “I was very nervous to hear
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SATURDAY AM: Zach Cregger‘s R-rated Resident Evil is giving the fall box office a blood transfusion with an opening that could approach $60M per rivals, this after last weekend’s less robust start of Practical Magic 2. As of this AM, Sony is calling the 3-day at $53M-$55M. I don’t know what slowdown they’re seeing, but
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It’s a busy specialty weekend with fewer new studio releases. Well-reviewed Depression-era western The Weight starring Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe in wide release joins comedic doc The History of Concrete by John Wilson in an exclusive engagement. GKids opens Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom and Johnny Knoxville stars in R-rated Tiny
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It finally happened: Sony’s highest-grossing movie ever, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, is now the top-grossing movie ever at the domestic box office, eclipsing Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which held the record for the past 10 years with a cume of $936.66 million. As of Tuesday, Spider-Man: Brand New Day counts a running domestic cume
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EXCLUSIVE: There’s been a lot of happy days at Sony this summer with the never-ending record breaking success of Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day, but nothing could be sweeter than the now as the Destin Daniel Cretton-directed movie conquered Star Wars: The Force Awakens to become the highest grossing movie ever at the domestic
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The still waters and intriguing depths conveyed by Chase Infiniti in The Julia Set offer proof positive that the magnetic One Battle After Another discovery has the goods to carry a movie. She also has robust support from an ensemble that includes Christopher Briney, Nina Hoss, Jason Isaacs and Gillian Anderson, an impressive assembly, especially
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Is actor-turned-director Cody Fern’s debut, Closing Night, intended as a refraction of John Cassavetes’ Opening Night, the 1977 Gena Rowlands vehicle about an actress grappling with a debilitating personal crisis? Seems likely, though that would be just one of several instances of the filmmaker’s aim exceeding his reach. For at least half the movie’s running
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