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Marvel boss Kevin Feige once said back in 2017 at a Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 presser that when it came to the studio’s embrace of deeper character comic book stories like Black Panther and Ant-Man, “The biggest risk was not [in] doing them. The biggest risk would have been doingIron Man1, 2, 3,

Ahead of some big changes coming the Oscars‘ way, the Academy is shaking up its structure. The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that the organization’s CEO, Bill Kramer, announced to members on Wednesday that Teni Melidonian would be leaving her full-time role as chief Oscars officer effective immediately, while continuing on for the next year as

EXCLUSIVE: Mubi has set North American theatrical release dates for their recent Cannes-winning titles, Minotaur on Nov. 20 and Coward on Dec. 25. These films join MUBI’s previously announced 2026 North American theatrical slate of Cannes prize-winners: Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland (winner of Best Director) releases stateside on Oct. 23; and Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and

Spider-Man. Jurassic Park. Despicable Me. Moviegoers heading to air-conditioned theaters during the Fourth of July holiday can rely on seeing one of those Sony, Universal or Illumination franchises on the marquee over the past 25 years. And count on Despicable spinoff Minions & Monsters to put up big numbers for 5-day grosses this year, given

Illumination/Nintendo/Universal‘s The Super Mario Galaxy Movie will premiere on Peacock on July 30, in what is a 120-day theatrical window to streaming. The second installment ofThe Super Mariofranchise is the only movie to hit $1 billion at the global box office in 2026 so far and the 61st movie ever to hit that threshold. The

Jodie Foster touched down in Colorado to spend some time with media executive and former Sony boss Michael Lynton, discussing who owns the future of Hollywood during a session at the Aspen Ideas Festival. As part of their Tuesday conversation, they talked about the forces reshaping the film business and how the pandemic, labor strikes

A24‘s highest grossing movie ever, Backrooms, is getting an extended cut as early as this Friday. The Kane Parsons directed movie based on the viral IP will have 16 minutes of brand-new footage and will be freshly titled as Backrooms: Everything Must Go. The new cut will have more lore, and more Easter eggs for

Renny Harlin has a hard and fast rule for winning over actors on his movie sets: Preparation, preparation, preparation. The veteran filmmaker sat for a masterclass conversation last week at Malta’s Mediterrane Film Festival in Valletta, during which he opened up on the creative process he’s leaned on to make nearly four dozen films over

Broadway‘s production roster continued its usual summertime trimming last week, with its count of 35 shows down by three from the previous week. Still, box office held fairly steady in the June heat, with total receipts of $36,698,946 down just 6% from the previous week and 7% from this time last season. Attendance for the

Moritz Borman, the movie producer who often worked Oliver Stone and also on two Terminator films, has died. He was 71. Borman died Wednesday, his frequent producing partners Eric Kopeloff and Philip Schulz-Deyle confirmed. A cause of death was not immediately made available. “It is with profound sadness that we, as Moritz Borman’s longtime producing

Will the Minions continue to prevail at the box office? The babbling little slapstick guys are now teenagers at 16 years old (the first Despicable Me movie came out in 2010) and they’re pushing their seventh movie in the Illumination franchise with Minions & Monsters. Overseas, they’ll continue to translate, with a vibrant foreign weekend

Five Nights at Freddy’s has got a new furry friend. Gary Dauberman, who has had a hand in the making of some of the biggest horror franchises of the past decade,has been tapped to write the script for the third installment of Blumhouse Atomic Monster and Universal’s hit video game horror movie series. It is

Amazon MGM Studios’ hit film Project Hail Mary is premiering on Prime Video on Friday, July 3, repping a 105-day theatrical window to streaming. As we previously told you, the feature take on the Andy Weir novel directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller directed hit MGM+ first in homes on June 18, a 90-day

The spirit of Václav Havel and Jiří Bartoška lives on at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival(KVIFF), and attendees of the60th edition of the Czech fest will feel a sense of continuity and legacy, a reminder of the long history of the festival, along with innovations and updates that the team always looks to add

EXCLUSIVE: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is getting into the distribution business with their new labelAlamo Exclusives,which will offer limited run theatrical engagements to unreleased film fest titles on the exhibitor’s screens. The move by Alamo Drafthouse comes at a time when it has been increasingly challenged for independently financed film festival movies to find nationwide theatrical

Johnny Depp,Mel Gibson, Helen Mirren,Harvey Keitel, Milos Forman, Danny DeVito, Casey Affleck, Andy Garcia, John Malkovich —what reads like a who’s who of Hollywood star power is just part of the list of big names who have starred in trailers for the Karlovy VaryInternationalFilm Festival in the Czech Republic, whose celebrating its 60th anniversary edition

Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 5 had a great Monday with $17.3M at the domestic box office. So great that it’s the best Monday we’ve seen so far at the 2026 box office, ahead of Super Mario Galaxy Movie‘s first Monday, April 6, which did $16.8M. Toy Story 5 was also ahead of Disney/Lucasfilm’s Memorial Day Monday

Luca Guadagnino says it wasn’t surprising Amazon MGM dropped his nearly-finished Sam Altman movie Artificial shortly after Amazon announced a $50 billion investment in OpenAI. “I can’t say much because we are right in the middle of this situation,” Guadagnino told Italian television, “[but] these are industrial policies that are certainly not new.” Speaking to

Broadway ticket sales held steady last week as the newish season eases into the post-Tony summer weeks, with Chess posting strong figures during its final week and Celebrity Autobiography doing the opposite during its last bow. Chess, starring Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher had previously announced its early close (coinciding with Michele’s planned

At a time when comedy projects often need advocates, there aren’t many at the moment who are bigger — both in impact and stature — than John Cena. The WWE legend and accomplished actor stars opposite Eric André in Netflix‘s Little Brother. Currently streaming, director Matt Spicer’s feature also stars Michelle Monaghan and Christopher Meloni