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EXCLUSIVE: A year after selling out 70MM Imax showtimes, Universal‘s second Christopher Nolan movie after his multi-Oscar-winning Oppenheimer, The Odyssey, finally arrives. While we had a puffy projection last week for Disney’s Moana of $130M in worldwide box office fueled by lofty tracking, few sources see the feature take of Homer’s epic poem getting sidelined
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Aung Phyoe’s Fruit Gathering won the Grand Prix — Crystal Globe, the top award, at the closing ceremony of the 60th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF). The Special Jury Prize went toMads Mengel’s The Guest, starring Trine Dyrholm(The Girl With the Needle,Poison), Simon Bennebjerg (The Pact,Promised Land) and Josephine Park (The
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Curry Barker‘s surprise $400M global grossing romance horror Obsession has set a streaming date on Peacock of July 17. That’s a 63-day theatrical window to streaming. Focus Features, as we told you, acquired North American and certain foreign on the movie out of TIFF Midnight for $15M+. Obsession tells the tale about a guy, Bear
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Christopher Nolan says the online conversation surrounding The Odyssey is ultimately “irrelevant.” In a recent interview with The Telegraph, the Oscar-winning filmmaker responded to criticism surrounding his adaptation of Homer’s epic, which has sparked online debate over some of its casting choices and the use of American accents and modern dialogue in its trailers. “Comes
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Disney‘s live-action Moana, which stars Dwayne Johnson and Catherine Laga’aia, got off to a rocky start as the reimagining of the original 2016 animated feature opened at the box office. Director Thomas Kail‘s new feature led the weekend in opening with $43 million from 3,900 North American screens, putting it well short of its targeted
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A24’s highest grossing movie at the domestic and global box office, Backrooms, is coming home on Tuesday, July 14 via digital sales and rentals. That’s a 46-day theatrical window to digital sales/rental. The movie from YouTube content creator Kane Parsons shocked many, initially tracking around a $20M-$30M opening before becoming A24’s biggest opening ever at
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Sony Pictures Classics’ comedy Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass opens wide along with IFC erotic thriller Night Nurse. Buzzy Barrio Triste by longtime Bad Bunny collaborator Stillz and documentaries including Ross McElwee’s Venice award-winning Remake and Jessica Earnshaw’s Baby Doe are other indie debuts this weekend. SPC’s Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex
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Stephen Chow is officially back! Kung Fu Soccer, the comedy legend’s long-awaited Shaolin Soccer spinoff and his first film as director in seven years, dominated China‘s box office with a mighty $73.6 million (RMB 500.3 million) haul over the weekend, according to data from Artisan Gateway. The two-day tally accounted for nearly three-quarters of all
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Magic Hour Entertainment, Max Siemers and Tanner Anderson’s newly formed production company, is set to adapt romance novel Love and Other Words, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. The feature film, based on Christina Lauren’s popular novel of the same name, centers on “childhood best friends turned first loves who reconnect after more than a
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SATURDAY AM: Disney’s live-action Moana wound up with a better than expected Friday/previews of $18M and an A- CinemaScore, underscoring the sheer divide between audience and critics on this Dwayne Johnson movie. Also, Moana earned an overall A with women, and an A+ with the under 18 demo. But Maui and the Island Princess are
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The big names keep taking the stage as the60th editionof theKarlovy VaryInternationalFilm Festival(KVIFF) and Tuesday’s expanded andbroadenedKVIFFIndustry Daysprogram was no exception — closing out with a conversation between Nomadland producer Mollye Asher and A House of Dynamite producer Greg Shapiro on the art of building a slate with intention. The latter surprised and entertained the
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