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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:

Darth Maul actor Ray Park may have just teased the iconic characters’ return to the screen. There are some obvious complications about the character’s current fate in the Star Wars universe, but there have been quite a few rumors about a possible return in the upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney+ series, which is all set to

While Disney CEO Bob Chapek remains flexible about release strategies for movies between the big screen and the studio’s streaming service Disney+, he said today that Marvel’s long-awaited feature Black Widow is still set to be a pure theatrical release as mentioned back at the company’s December investor day. However, “we’ll be watching to see the reopening

Once an Avenger, always an Avenger. Jeremy Renner recently took a trip down memory lane when he posted a picture from the sets of Avengers: Endgame, in which the actor can be seen alongside Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Hemsworth. Both Renner and Hemsworth were sporting their hairdos from Endgame. The photo was captioned, “Miss

EXCLUSIVE: NEON and Bleecker Street have formed the joint home entertainment distribution company DECAL. The standalone full-service operation, which is a joint venture between the two film labels, will handle distribution deals on the home entertainment rights to both NEON and Bleecker Street’s curated slate of features and will be overseen by NEON’s Andrew Brown

The Star Wars world was recently rocked with some big news. Gina Carano, who played Cara Dune in the first two seasons of The Mandalorian, is no longer a part of Lucasfilm. She will no longer be a part of any future projects within the franchise. As such, a major character who had become quite

The Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal will play Joel in HBO’s TV series adaptation of The Last of Us. Word of Pascal’s casting comes just hours after it was announced that Game of Thrones breakout star Bella Ramsey will co-star in the series as Ellie, the teenage girl Joel cares for in the original video game.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Charisma Carpenter claims Joss Whedon cultivated a “toxic” and “hostile” environment on the set. Carpenter alleges Whedon’s behavior carried over to the set of Angel. The latest allegations come months after Justice League star Ray Fisher came forward with his own allegations against Whedon, which resulted in WarnerMedia conducting an

Rumors of dramatic reshoots on Rogue One may have been greatly exaggerated. This, according to Mads Mikkelsen, who starred in the 2016 Star Wars movie as Galen Erso. It is indeed true that the Disney/Lucasfilm production underwent extensive reshoots and rewrites before its release. Much was made of this in the press ahead of and

Filmmaker Christopher Landon has made a mark in Hollywood with his unique approach to horror-comedies, with movies like Happy Death Day and its sequel, and 2020’s Freaky. Fans have long wondered whether we could be getting a second sequel to Happy Death Day someday. In a recent interview, Landon confirmed that he has every intention

More bad news for exhibition, and this from the distributor which has been good about releasing movies during the pandemic: Universal is moving their Jennifer Lopez musical-driven romantic comedy Marry Me from May 14, 2021 to Feb. 11, 2022. Translation: The studio has enough confidence in the movie to postpone it, and give it the full box