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EXCLUSIVE: Amanda Rufener is being promoted to SVP Exhibitor Marketing & Operations at PaperAirplane. In her expanded role, Rufener will lead the exhibition relation firm’s account team, overseeing partnerships with studios, exhibitors, and marketplace partners while driving the strategic use and growth of exhibitor media channels across the theatrical landscape. Rufener joinedPaperAirplane in April of

Julie Andrews is confirming that she will not appear in Princess Diaries 3. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter alongside her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton about their new children’s book Shy, the actress explained why she doesn’t see herself returning for the third film with Anne Hathaway. “I think the absolute truth is that

EXCLUSIVE: With the Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery merger hung up in a pending antitrust trial that’s set for March 2027, Regal Global Entertainment’s Eduardo Acuna, CEO of the No. 2 theater chain, is throwing his support behind the union of the two historic studios, saying tonight, “It is time for all parties to sit down and

Shatara Michelle Ford’s Dreams in Nightmares made its world premiere nearly two years ago, at the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia. Reviews coming out of the screening were strong; Ford had clearly built on the success of their celebrated debut, Test Pattern, which was nominated for the Gotham Award for Best Feature and three Indie

Sony/Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Brand New Day continues to do whatever a Spider-Man movie does, and that’s breaking more box office records. Today, the Destin Daniel Cretton-directed movie is becoming the fastest to cross a half-billion at the domestic box office, pulling this off in a week’s time and beating the eight days that it took

The Jonas Brothers are going back to their Disney roots, both executive producing and reprising their Camp Rock roles in the franchise’s third film. Camp Rock 3 sees the brothers’ band Connect 3 returning to the camp to look for a new opening act for their tour. This means a whole new cast of campers

This year’s embarrassment of riches at the global box office continues as we can tell you today that Universal’s Christopher Nolan feature take on Homer’s The Odyssey has crossed the $1 billion mark at the global box office. The pic soon will become the 2x Oscar winner’s highest-grossing movie ever, overtaking 2012’s The Dark Knight

Bill Jersey, the Bay Area documentarian who wrote, directed, shot, edited and produced films for more than a half-century, collecting two Oscar nominations and three Emmy noms along the way, has died. He was 99. Jersey died July 24 of congestive heart failure at his home in Lambertville, New Jersey, his wife, ShirleyKessler, told the

EXCLUSIVE: Briarcliff Entertainment will open Spencer King’s Nickels in select theaters on Oct. 2 as well as on PVOD. In the pic, Rob Riggle stars as Tom Monroe, a successful entrepreneur and devoted family man who has never recovered from the tragic motorcycle accident that claimed his older brother’s life when he was a teenager.

You have to acknowledge the good intentions behind Michael Russell Gunn’s feature directorial debut depicting the 1986 meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in Reykjavik that helped advance the cause of a nuclear reduction treaty. In the film’s press notes, the writer-director emphasizes that his intention was not to make his movie overly political,

A dynamic selection of indies starts rolling out today with Dominic Sessa as a young Anthony Bourdain in Matt Johnson’s Tony, indie director Jane Schoenbrun’s latest, Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma with Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson, documentaries on cheesemongers, Girl Scout cookie season, and small town movie theaters, and the annual CatVideoFest

Sony’s Crunchyroll has snapped up global distribution rights to anime hitmaker Makoto Shinkai‘s much-anticipated next feature. The anime streamer will co-distribute the untitled project with Sony Pictures Entertainment across the world excluding Asia — with the exception of India, which is grouped with the Western territories. Crunchyroll said Tuesday that the film’s title, plot details

We told you on Friday that The Odyssey cracked the $1 billion mark at the global box office, and Universal is making it known that as of today the feature take of Homer’s epic is now director Christopher Nolan‘s highest grossing movie ever, ahead of 2012’s Dark Knight Rises ($1.085B). The current cume for The

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SUNDAY AM WRITETHRU after Saturday AM update: For a film’s second weekend to gross over $100M, that’s quite a gift, not just for a studio, but the greater exhibition industry. Spider: Man: Brand New Day caught $145M this weekend in its web (Sony just updated from $144.5M), the eighth title to pull this off, and

A year after Kristen Stewart made her directorial debut with The Chronology of Water, it’s now her wife’s turn, as Dylan Meyer writes and directs new stoner comedy The Wrong Girls. The movie stars Stewart and Alia Shawkat as codependent, marijuana-loving best friends who get caught in a case of mistaken identity that throws their

The global box office is humming with Sony/Marvel Studio’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day crossing the $1 billion threshold abroad in 12 days of release, the second-fastest to do so after Avengers: Endgame. The Destin Daniel Cretton movie is now the 12th highest ever at the worldwide B.O. with $1.67B ($655M domestic, $1.01B overseas). Brand New

Aisling Bea, the Irish actress and BAFTA TV winner, has joined the cast of Starman, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. Bea joins the cosmic sci-fi thriller starring Oscar winner Brendan Fraser (The Whale, The Mummy) and two-time Emmy winner Jeff Daniels (Dumb and Dumber, The Newsroom). Emmy winner Josh Wakely (Beat Bugs) is directing

When it comes to Paramount‘s legal wrestling with 12 state attorneys general’s antitrust case over the Melrose lot’s possible merger with Warner Bros, the key is to divide and conquer with exhibition. Deadline knows that Paramount has made a written commitment to at least one of the top two circuits specifically Regal, for 30 films

Joan Blackman, who played women that Elvis Presley ultimately could not resist in Blue Hawaii and Kid Galahad, has died. She was 87. Blackman died March 16 at a hospital in Santa Rosa, California, her son, Ngai Tarkington, told The Hollywood Reporter. She was a longtime resident of nearby Calistoga. The San Francisco native also