In the span of six days, the Chinese box office roared to a $1.2B Lunar New Year record, with Wanda Pictures’ Detective Chinatown 3 setting global benchmarks for the biggest opening day and weekend in a single market. This happened even as some Covid restrictions remain in place in the Middle Kingdom. While the pandemic
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A remastered version of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is confirmed to be releasing on Blu-ray, and likely on HBO Max as well. This, according to director Zack Snyder, who previously revealed that he was working on a newly remastered edition of his 2016 DC Comics adaptation. This new version is intended to replace
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wednesday set reopening dates for amusement parks, indoor family recreation centers and summer camps — the latest venues to get a nod as movie theaters in the city remain shuttered. That’s despite Manhattan having the lowest Covid-19 infection rate in New York — 2.5%, confirmed at the governor’s press briefing
It was announced last summer that Predator and Alien are both coming to Marvel Comics. But not without wrecking a little havoc amongst their various iconic superheroes first. The Hunter from Predator will be getting a new series of Marvel stories later in 2021. Before that happens, the iconic 20th Century Fox movie monster, who
On Wednesday, Chinese New Year box office achieved yet another new milestone with grosses for the holiday period growing to an estimated RMB 7.78B ($1.2B). This beats the previous all-time high set during the comparable 2019 holiday (RMB 5.9B). China often outdoes itself, but the fact that 2021’s Lunar New Year frame came with Covid
Tim Burton is taking his reboot of The Addams Family to Netflix. Last year, it was reported that Burton was developing a live-action series based on the pop culture’s kookiest family with MGM TV. The project was reportedly shopped to various potential buyers with Netflix leading the pack. Now, it’s been announced the Netflix has
Still considered the benchmark of superhero cinema, two DC classics will continue on in the pages of new comics coming our way soon. Sure, Richard Donner’s 1978 Superman and Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman saw multiple sequels. But these new stories will be a continuation of what happened in the original movies before their follow-ups ever
A year after Covid raged in China, the country’s box office is all sewn up and back together with Detective Chinatown 3 besting Avengers: Endgame‘s U.S./Canada all-time opening with a $394M weekend. But here in the states, we’re still trying to get the pandemic under control, and winter storms which impacted 100 million Americans according to the
Gina Carano didn’t get her pink slip before word of her firing from The Mandalorian went public, as the former Cara Dune actress found out on social media at the same time as the rest of us. Last week, Gina Carano came under fire for sharing a post on Instagram that critics say compared the
Refresh for latest…: Chinese moviegoers ushered in the Year of the Ox with the colossal three-day debut of Detective Chinatown 3 grossing an estimated RMB 2.56B ($397M). This tops Avengers: Endgame’s 2019 five-day China bow of RMB 2.22B to make DC3 not only the biggest opener in Chinese history, but also giving it bragging rights
Zack Snyder is looking to bring the legend of King Arthur back to the big screen in a “faithful retelling” of the classic medieval story. Next month, fans of the filmmaker will see the release of Snyder’s next big project when Zack Snyder’s Justice League finally premieres on HBO Max. Later this year, Netflix will
Queen Latifah kicked down the door and showed us her vigilante side with the series premiere of The Equalizer on CBS. The crime drama debuted with a 0.9 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and netted 7.98 million viewers. The network also scored in viewership with 60 Minutes scoring the largest audience of the night with 9.06 million viewers
Disney’s Us Again short will debut with theatrical screenings of Raya and the Last Dragon, which hits screens on March 5th. It’s been five years since Disney’s last short, Inner Workings, debuted before Moana. Us Again is a vibrant and original new theatrical animated short from director Zach Parrish that brings together dance, music, emotional
As the specialty box office space continues to navigate the digital VOD and day and date waters, numbers are trickling in but, again, they don’t necessarily give a solid reflection of a film’s box office performance as they did in the before-times (aka pre-Covid). On this President’s Day holiday weekend, award season faves like A24’s
Zack Snyder has brought the infamous “We Live in a Society” Joker meme to life. The director/writer just revealed it in the latest Justice League trailer, which was released earlier today. Snyder was finally able to go back and make the movie that he originally envisioned, which included doing some brief reshoots with original cast
EXCLUSIVE: Frank Patterson, who served as the Disney Vice President of Sales Eastern Division, has exited the studio after 17 years, Deadline has learned. Patterson is a second generation theatrical distribution vet; his father Frank Patterson Senior was the longtime EVP and Head Film Buyer at Loews Theaters. When you speak to any major studio
The Croods: A New Age won the holiday box office this weekend after bringing in an estimated $2.6 million. The animated family movie has been in theaters for 12 weeks, which makes its return to the number one spot pretty remarkable, especially in today’s landscape. In addition to being in theaters for so long, The
“My plan was to die before the money ran out” has become the anthem and tagline of the Sony Pictures Classics’ French Exit starring Michelle Pfeiffer as a 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite — a role that has been earning her plenty of awards season buzz. Opening in theaters today before expanding nationwide April 2, French
Filmmaker David Fincher is well known for making his actors do take after take, sometimes to the tune of a hundred different takes of the same shot, in order to get the best performance out of them. Some actors have had issues with Fincher’s obsession with retakes, most notably Jake Gyllenhaal on the sets of
The next My Little Pony movie has just been picked up by Netflix in a global rights deal excluding China. Paramount was set to release the movie on Sept. 24. The pic is from eOne’s animation outfit Boulder Media, directed andby Rob Cullen and Jose Ucha, with co-director Mark Fattibene. Cecil Kramer and Peter Lewis produced. A