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A handful of moderate and limited releases showed some pep at the specialty box office but it’s a tough weekend with Michael dominating the dance floor. Independent Film Company’s R-rated action comedy Over Your Dead Body had the no. 8 opening in North America at $1.425 million on 1,550 screens — its third wide release

“I’m always on the lookout for interesting characters that suggest a world,” says John Carney, the director behind music-driven films like Once and Sing Street. Having dedicated himself to being a cinematic chronicler of music and the people who make it, Carney has carved out a unique in-between space as a storyteller. A self-professed “failed

Focus Features is out with Morgan Neville’s documentaryLorne at414locations, a behind-the-scenes look at Lorne Michaels, the creator ofSaturday NightLive and one of television’s most influential creative forces. The doc features rare footage and never-before-seen archival materials and wide-ranging conversations with some of SNL’s most influential cast members and writers including Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, John

Dean Tavoularis, the revered Oscar-winning production designer who collaborated with Francis Ford Coppola on 13 films, including all three Godfather movies, Apocalypse Now and One From the Heart, has died. He was 93. He died Wednesday night in a Paris hospital of natural causes, THR writer and film critic Jordan Mintzer reported. The two teamed

SUNDAY AM WRITETHRU after Friday and Saturday posts…: Refresh for updates Illumination/Nintendo/Universal’s Super Mario Galaxy Movie came in higher with a No. 1 third weekend of $35M, -49%, after a better than expected Saturday near $17M. Running cume by end of today is $355.2M. While this movie along with Project Hail Mary ($20.4M fifth weekend,

Michael Jackson fans will not get to see actress Kat Graham portray Diana Ross in forthcoming biopic Michael. Graham took to social media Thursday to confirm that the scenes she filmed as the legendary Supremes singer did not end up in the final version of the Lionsgate feature due to “certain legal considerations.” Hitting theaters

The outer-space plumbers continue to reign supreme around the world with an $83.2M global weekend ($35M domestic, $48.2M overseas at 82 territories), taking The Super Mario Galaxy Movie‘s global running cume to $747.4M ($355.2M domestic, $392.2M overseas). But the bigger deal is that the Illumination/Nintendo/Universal franchise through two pics has clicked past $2 billion, becoming

Cannes Film Festival regular Bruno Dumont (Slack Bay, Flanders) is returning to the Croisette this year with his latest, Red Rocks, screening in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar. Directors’ Fortnight added the feature, described as a Romeo and Juliet-style romantic drama set on the French Riviera, as a late edition on Thursday. Dumont will also give

Mother Mary strutted to a solid limited opening as The Christophers expanded nicely and Exit 8 kept going. A handful of limited releases and holdovers spiced up the specialty scene, along with faith-based historical pic A Great Awakening, which is holding in the top 10. A24’s Mother Mary from David Lowery opened to a nice

A lot of people are talking about The Drama. Much of that conversation has focused on how it was marketed, how it landed with audiences and whether it went too far — or not far enough — in depicting a young person on the brink of violence. Those are valid questions. But they are not

A24‘s romance feature The Drama starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson indeed has engaged moviegoers around the globe, crossing $100M today to become the studio’s fifth film to hit the century mark in its 13-year history. Writer-director Kristoffer Borgli’s $28M net Square Peg production also has bested the global take of Zendaya’s previous non-IP movie, 2024’s

Focus Features is staying in the Curry Barker business. The company, which will release the Barker-written and directed movie Obsession on May 15, has picked up Anything But Ghosts, a separate feature that Barker directed and co-wrote with creative partner Cooper Tomlinson. The duo also co-star in Ghosts, which just wrapped production. Little is known

Lionsgate‘s Michael Jackson biopic Michael, after additional shoots, will not ease down the road but rather boogie this weekend with what’s expected to be a $150 million start at the global box office. The feature, which carries a $200M production cost, in Lionsgate fashion has foreign sold to mitigate risk, with international distribution in the

Be sure to stop by the concession stand and stock up on liquids before sitting down to watch Rupert Wyatt’s anachronistic swords-and-sandals epic set, as the opening graphics inform us, 1,500 years ago in Arabia. As the title would indicate, Desert Warrior takes place in arid settings, but they’re not nearly as arid as the

Broadway box office sagged a bit last week, possibly as the previous week’s Easter vacationers and spring-breakers returned home and a crowded, 40-show production slate with lots of newcomers competed with one another for attention. The winners among the recent arrivals, at least in terms of attendance relative to capacities? Proof, virtually selling out the

Anyone who has seen Charlize Theron kick butts onscreen knows she has the tough athleticism to handle herself in the most punishing action roles. Whether with firearms and blades, fists and feet or behind the wheel, her work is made more visceral by the insistence on doing her own stunts whenever possible. In films likeMad

New Line’s Mortal Kombat II hit tracking late last week for what’s shaping up to be a domestic opening in the $40M-$50M range when it opens on May 8. The R-rated feature take of the Midway game is the third in a string of highly anticipated late spring/early summer pics expected to juice the box

For more than a decade, the Polish-Australian filmmaker Nancy Paton has been in the thick of massive cultural shifts in the Middle East. She first moved to Saudi Arabia in the early 2010s, a time when “I never saw men,” she says, due to the strict climate of gender separation. The thought of launching a

Focus Features has set a Sept 11 release for the Paul Greengrass directed, Andrew Garfield starringThe Uprising, which follows the untold true story of a ferocious rebellion against the tyranny of King Richard II. As war burns across England, an army of commoners rises to face the King’s might in a fight for justice and

David Harbour is going all Rambo. The Stranger Things star is a late addition to John Rambo, Lionsgate and Millennium Media’s action feature being directed by Jalmari Helander, the helmer behind the grimy and gritty Sisu movies. Templeton Media and AGBO are also involved in the production. An origin story that takes place before the