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Paramount and Miramax’s revival of Scary Movie from the Wayans Brothers looks to be the “it” pic this weekend, in what’s a very positive sign for comedy on the big screen with a $40 million stateside and $70M outlook. For a pure comedy to open to $40M, that’s like, wow, the biggest since God knows

The Russo brothers fired up a rainy SXSW London on Tuesday afternoon. AGBO co-founders Anthony and Joe Russo were joined by their partner, former chief creative officer at Epic Games Donald Mustard, at a headline session titled “Building Artistic Universes Without Borders” at the Shoreditch installment of the major festival and conference event. The directors

DC Studios and Warner Bros’ Supergirl arrived on three-week tracking Thursday morning with an outlook of $55M+ when it opens on June 26. The campaign is just gearing up, with tickets going on sale Wednesday for the Craig Gillespie-directed feature take on Tom King and Bilquis Evely’s graphic novelSupergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. Related Stories News

Oscar-winning Dune production designer Patrice Vermette and David Grinspoon, an astrobiologist at the Planetary Science Institute, discussed exploring and building worlds and science and science fiction at SXSW London on Tuesday. Their dive into the intersection of science and storytelling ranged from imagining alien worlds to visualizing the future of humanity. Canadian Vermette, who won

The David Leitch directed action comedy Jason Statham Stole My Bike will be hitting theaters on Aug 6, 2027 via Black Bear. Principal photography wraps this this week. Plot details for the film are currently under wraps, but take a guess what it’s about. The pic reps a long-standing collaboration between Black Bear and Statham,

The holiday season, sandwiched between the fifth Avengers, third Dune and fourth Jumanji, will be something audiences haven’t seen in theaters for some time: A mid-budget, real-life sports movie from one of the major studios. Paramount and Skydance’s Mr. Irrelevant ended up with a prime Christmas Day wide release — a coveted spot for both

The next big title out of the latest YouTube sensations on the big screen, Fathom Entertainment and Glitch Productions’ The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Actis opening today in what we’re hearing is $6.8M at 2,221 theaters. That will be enough to win Thursday at this point, ahead of A24’s it-pic, Backrooms. We gave you

He-Man lands in theaters Friday, and reviews for Masters of the Universe are now in. The film, a live-action adaptation of the Mattel franchise from director Travis Knight, follows Prince Adam of Eternia, who crash-lands on Earth as a child and is separated from his Sword of Power. Raised as an ordinary man named Adam

UPDATED AFTER EXCLUSIVE: Paramount-Miramax’s Scary Movie will win the weekend, but Fathom Entertainment’s YouTube sensation The Amazing Digital Circus led Thursday with a reported $7.8M at 2,235 theaters in its first regular day of release. Sources believe the pic’s weekend will be extremely front-loaded. Others were seeing $8M+ for the Glitch Productions animated finale to

Martin Scorsese is teaming up with the artificial intelligence company Black Forest Labs, where he will serve as an advisor with the research lab. The Academy Award winner said in a statement released Tuesday that he’s utilizing the company’s FLUX technology to assist in creating storyboards. “For 70 years, I’ve been creating my own storyboards.

Mariska Hargitay, making her Broadway debut taking over from Daniel Radcliffe as the star of Every Brilliant Thing, proved quite the draw in her first week on the job: Attendance at the Hudson Theatre was at 97% of capacity, and although last week’s gross of $1,135,322 was a considerable drop from the previous when Radcliffe

Stop! That! Train! director Adam Shankman is shutting down claims that his upcoming feature, led by RuPaul, utilized “fully generative AI shots” to capture the film. “Hey everyone! Every shot in Stop! That! Train! was made by human hands! It’s come to my attention that there is some on-line speculation that Stop! That! Train! Is

Who saw this coming? Kane Parson’s Backrooms is crossing $100 million today at the domestic box office, becoming A24‘s first movie ever to do so, and their highest grossing movie stateside, surpassing the Timothée Chalamet period dramedy Marty Supreme ($96M domestic). And Backrooms pulled this off in six days. On a global basis, with north

At the beginning of John Carney’s Oscar-winning film Once, Glen Hansard’s busker character is robbed mid-performance, resulting in a foot chase across the streets of Dublin to recover what rightfully belongs to him. In the Irish filmmaker’s newest film, Power Ballad, Paul Rudd’s wedding band frontman, Rick Power, witnesses an older busker being fleeced in

Westwood’s Village Theatre continues its revival: Universal’s Christopher Nolan epic The Odyssey is booked to have a three-week engagement in 70 mm when the pic opens on July 17. The 95-year-old cinema, which will undergo a 12-month renovation this fall, is operated by the American Cinematheque and the Jason Reitman-led Village Directors Circle. Nolan and

Tom Holland is pulling double duty this summer by starring in two highly anticipated films: The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day. And he’s revealing how he made sure not to miss Christopher Nolan’s epic. In the newest GQ cover story, alongside The Odyssey co-stars Matt Damon and Robert Pattinson, Holland reflected on how he

DC co-chief James Gunn made it official on Instagram that advance tickets for the Craig Gillespie directed Supergirl are on sale. The pic based on the Tom King and Bilquis Evely graphic novel Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow, opens on June 26. Ana Nogueira adapted the comic for the big screen. The official trailer which dropped

Rising genre filmmaker Caleb Phillips has signed with Underground, the company that is riding high thanks to client Curry Barker’s box office hit Obsession. The move comes after the South by Southwest premiere of Phillips’ cosmic horror thriller Imposters, where it landed an early Rotten Tomatoes critics score of 93 percent out of the fest’s

For quite some time, Hollywood has moaned about the lost YouTube generation at the box office: How do we get the Gen Z set in? Sure, they’ll show up for a Marvel movie, but today’s 18-25 demo aren’t attending like they did in the 1980s. Finally, arguably this year, Hollywood has been able to harness

Sydney Sweeney appears to be head over heels for a new literary project. The actress is attached to star in Hollow, a movie adaptation of Lindsey Anderson Beer‘s debut novel that has sold to Putnam and is set to be published in fall 2027. Anderson Beer, who made her feature directorial debut with 2023’s Pet