Focus Features will release Participant’s documentary Final Account which is directed and produced by the late Luke Holland, setting a date of May 21. Focus has global rights outside of Israel. Universal International will distribute the feature abroad. The announcement comes today on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Filmed over ten years, Final Account is a portrait of the
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Gone are the days when MUC fans would be satisfied with standalone projects in the franchise. Every fresh movie is now closely examined for ties to other Marvel movies, and clues that set up future films. Something similar is happening with the Disney+ show WandaVision. According to a new interview with Elizabeth Olsen, who plays
EXCLUSIVE: In what’s to be expected given how virtual the Sundance Film Festival is this year, sources tell us that there won’t be a surprise screening. While the pandemic has forced the festival to go online and branch out to those surviving arthouses during Covid to play its lineup, nothing beats the energy that comes from
Ever since fans saw the sign of S.W.O.R.D., the anti-terrorism and intelligence agency in the Marvel Comics, appear in the MCU, many theories had cropped up that claimed S.H.I.E.L.D.’s director Nick Fury created the organization after those snapped away by Thanos were brought back to existence. Many had even speculated that the organization was formed
The movie adaptation of Tony-winning Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen will hit theaters on September 24, Universal Pictures said Friday. Ben Platt is reprising his Tony-winning title role alongside Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, Kaitlyn Dever, Amandla Stenberg, Colton Ryan, Nik Dodani, DeMarius Copes and Danny Pino. The story follows Evan Hansen (Platt), a high schooler
The Flash has quickly emerged as one of DC’s most intriguing big screen projects. The news that Michael Keaton would be reprising the role of Batman all these years later for The Flash sent fans into a frenzy, with many wondering whether any other characters from the Keaton/Tim Burton Batman era would be making an
Harry Macqueen’s drama Supernova is one of many films this weekend that will open in theaters before hitting a digital platform — this seems to be a new trend. Written and directed by Macqueen, The Bleecker Street pic that follows Sam (Colin Firth) and Tusker (Stanley Tucci), a couple of 20 years. They are more in love
Ethan Hawke has just joined the cast of Blumhouse’s The Black Phone. Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson is at the helm of the upcoming movie, which is based on Joe Hill’s short story of the same name. Derrickson is directing from a script that he co-wrote with frequent collaborator C. Robert Cargill. Blumhouse and Universal
Baz Luhrmann’s untitled Elvis Presley movie, currently in production in Australia, is moving from its Nov. 5, 2021 date to June 3, 2022. The movie will explore the life and music of Elvis Presley (portrayed by Austin Butler), seen through the prism of his complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker, played by
It’s a sad day today as Cicely Tyson, the Emmy and Tony-winning actress whose career includes dozens of roles in theater, movies, and television, has passed away. Just two days after the release of her memoir, Just As I Am, Tyson reportedly died on Thursday afternoon, though the cause of death wasn’t revealed. She was
Just dubbed Rising Star 2021 by The Hollywood Digest, Steve Hamm has a had a stellar year working at his craft in between his helicopter piloting and his voice over career. Hamm has a promising future in the entertainment industry and I’d predicted to have elevated success in 2021. I exchanged some intimate questions with
Supergroup “Halloween Jack” is set to release “TRASH”, a cover song video by The New York Dolls as a tribute/ token of love to the glam/punk band’s Sylvain Sylvain who died last week after losing his battle with cancer. The New York Dolls, known for their glam rock androgyny and their signature attire including women’s
AMC Entertainment said Silver Lake Group is converting $600 million worth of the theater chain’s debt that it holds into stock at a conversion price of $13.51 a share, a surprise all around considering the exhibitor’s shares were languishing below two bucks earlier this month. The giant investment firm partnered with AMC back in 2018
Spider-Man 3 star Zendaya has seemingly confirmed that Alfred Molina will indeed return as the villainous Doctor Octopus in the upcoming Marvel sequel. While appearing on Variety’s Actors on Actors, Zendaya describes Molina as being “so nice, by the way,” while discussing how it is always the nicest actors who end up playing the nastiest
Paramount is moving its animated feature Rumble from May 14 this year to Feb. 18, 2022. The movie directed by Hamish Grieve is set in the world of monster wrestling where monsters are superstar athletes. Teenage Winnie seeks to follow in her father’s footsteps by coaching a loveable underdog monster into a champion. Matt Lieberman and Etan
After the news of Cloris Leachman’s death broke on Wednesday, fans from all over the world took to social media to express their heartbreak over the painful loss. Among her many, many fans are her colleagues and former co-stars who remember working with Leachman on various projects in years past. What all of these tribute
As exhibitors get set to report results from the last quarter of their annus horribilis, 2020, one Wall Street bull is predicting record box office in 2023. Eric Wold, a veteran analyst with B. Riley Securities, acknowledged in a note to clients that exhibitors’ efforts to emerge from the abyss of Covid-19 have been hampered
We have a brand new trailer for the upcoming horror/thriller Honeydew. This movie, on paper, has several things going for it. For one, it was a buzzy title coming out of the Nightstream Film Festival. Secondly, it stars Sawyer Spielberg in his feature acting debut. And yes, this is not a coincidence. Sawyer Spielberg is
This just in: James Wan’s upcoming horror movie Malignant is opening on Sept. 10 this year per Warner Bros. Again, this is part of their theatrical and HBO Max release plan. The movie, scheduled in the hot post Labor Day corridor that Warners created at the box office, fills the place for an untitled horror movie they
Spider-Man series star Tony Revolori is in talks for a lead role in the Willow TV Show, the upcoming sequel adaptation of the classic fantasy movie in the works at Disney+. The new series comes from Jonathan Kasdan, who wrote the pilot episode and serves as co-showrunner alongside Wendy Mericle, in collaboration with original movie