Movies

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

While Avengers: Endgame tried to resolve every plot thread that had been created over a decade of films, fans were still left scratching their heads over some issues. One of the biggest questions was since Captain America traveled back in time to live out his life with Peggy Carter before showing up again in the

IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Gia Coppola’s sophomore feature Mainstream which made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. IFC will open the movie on May 7 in select theaters and on demand. In Mainstream, a young woman (Maya Hawke) thinks she’s found a path to internet stardom when she starts making YouTube

When a movie becomes the highest-grossing film of all time, you are going to have a bunch of memorable moments in the story that stick with audiences over a long time. Avengers: Endgame has a lot of such moments, but arguably the one that gets the most cheers is when Captain America lifts Thor’s enchanted

Talk about pent-up demand. Detective Chinatown 3, which was originally scheduled to hit Chinese cinemas during the Lunar New Year period in 2020, has sprung out of the gate today with an astonishing Maoyan-estimated RMB 1.05B ($163M) to score the biggest opening-day gross ever of any movie in a single market. The debut overtakes Avengers: