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The Polar Express offers a great message for everyone at Christmas time, with this festive movie bringing a lot of joy throughout, and the fantastic story and train journey being full of awesome whimsical moments. However, while it’s full of happiness and fun, there are also a lot of emotional moments and clear lessons for people

Where is the next Squid Game, Line of Duty or The Bridge coming from? These are questions we frequently pose at Deadline and, hopefully, we’ve identified some key contenders below. From World War Two epics, to Boris Johnson biopics, to the first ever original from the Faroe Islands, here are seven dramas we think are going to make

Refresh for latest…: Spidey has done it again, logging yet another milestone as he swings past $800M global. Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home now has a worldwide total of $813.9M through Wednesday. This pushes it past No Time To Die and makes it the No. 3 movie of the year, and the top Hollywood release.

“This is what Christmas is all about,” wrote Arnold Schwarzenegger on Twitter yesterday after personally donating 25 “tiny homes” to Los Angeles-area homeless veterans. Schwarzenegger was on hand at the unveiling, tweeting photos and his own thoughts on the process. “All of you have the power to do something for someone else this holiday season,”

The holiday release A Journal For Jordan has made a lot of headlines recently. First of all, it’s a true story about a father and son, as well as a love story between a man and his wife. Second of all, it stars none other than Michael B. Jordan, and it marks the first time

Warning: the following interview contains spoilers from Disney+/Marvel’s season one finale of Hawkeye, “So This Is Christmas?”: “The people need to be reminded that this city belongs to me,” Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk aka Kingpin tells his loyal henchman Kazi at the onset of the Hawkeye season one finale. As Hawkeye hands off to its spinoff

New York native Bobcat Goldthwait (real name Robert Francis Goldthwait) gained fame while in his mid-twenties after he parlayed his successful stand-up career into big-screen acting gigs while keeping his signature squawky voice on iconic ’80s movies. BG’s recognizable roles include the zany Zed on “Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment,” Fred Chaney on the

Apax Capital Group, a new film fund backed by the Italian government, an Italian insurer and a consortium of other investors, says it plans to spend €1.5 billion (about $1.7 billion) over 10 years on films shot and/or completed in Europe, primarily Italy. The venture is led by producer Yona Wiesenthal (Shtisel, Footnote, Beaufort, Allegiance,

Content Warning: This article contains PLOT SPOILERS for the Disney+ show Hawkeye. If there’s one thing that differentiates Disney+’s Hawkeye from the rest of the MCU series released this year, it’s the show’s brutally honest portrayal of Clint Barton’s experience as a superhero. This approach doesn’t sit well with some fans who have expressed their unpopular

“Deliver a good entertainment, and the audience will come.” That’s what the venerable director Robert Wise told me after defying Hollywood doubters with his hit musical West Side Story (yes, the 1961 version). Courtly and gracious, Wise also was a tough realist who, following his success, decided to turn to disaster movies like The Hindenburg and

Three big event movies –Illumination/Universal’s Sing 2, Warner Bros’ Matrix Resurrections, and 20th Century Studios’ The King’s Man– were no match for Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home which continued to dominate Wednesday with an amazing $27.8M. The Jon Watts-directed MCU title has a running U.S/Canadian total of $356.5M over six days, which is the third best for that

If you sat around for the end credits sequence on Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, you’ve already seen this trailer for Disney/Marvel’s Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness and know what will be happening to Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) after casting that nasty spell for Peter Parker that messes with the multiverse. It’s clear that the

James Franco has been off the grid following a string of sexual misconduct allegations that were made against him back in 2018. Since that time, his former frequent co-star Seth Rogen has gone about his own business and made a number of great projects, such as An American Pickle and The Boys. During that time,

The Belgian government on Wednesday imposed additional restrictions to combat rising Covid-19 numbers, including shuttering movie cinemas among most indoor activities as well as mandating sporting events including soccer be played behind closed doors. The new restrictions go into effect beginning Sunday, according to Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo who held a press conference

Buzz McCallister is probably gonna be the one who’s home alone for Christmas this time around — because he got arrested for beating up his girlfriend … and is already out of jail. ‘Home Alone’ star Devin Ratray was booked on domestic violence charges Wednesday after turning himself in to the authorities in Oklahoma City

1960s Soho, London comes back to life in Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho. You can’t visit without paying a price though, as Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) finds out in the period psychological thriller. Krysty Wilson-Cairns wrote the screenplay with Wright based on Wright’s story. Ellie is an American girl coming to London for fashion school.

Warning! SPOILERS ahead for Being the Ricardos Aaron Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos tells the true story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz – however, some key details have been either changed or left out. One of the most famous and beloved on-screen couples ever, Lucy and Desi were the stars of I Love Lucy and the

Disney films are the ones to beat at the 49th annual Annie Awards, whose nominations were announced Tuesday morning. Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Raya and the Last Dragon and Encanto scored a leading 10 and nine noms, respectively, followed by Pixar’s Luca with eight. Sony & Netflix’s The Mitchells vs. the Machines also landed eight noms and

Broadway box office tumbled last week, dropping 26% from the previous week to a combined tally of $22,511,627 for the 31 productions. Attendance for the week ending Dec. 19 – a week marked by the emergence in New York of the Omicron covid variant and the beginning of a rush of Broadway cancellations – was

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today unveiled its shortlist of 15 films that will advance to the next stage of voting in the International Feature Film category at the Oscars. Notable among omissions is Julia Ducournau’s Titane, the entry from France which won the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or — becoming only

Marry Me is a return to form for Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson. Both stars haven’t appeared in a romantic comedy since 2012’s What to Expect When You’re Expecting for Lopez and 2015’s She’s Funny That Way for Wilson. Despite their rom-com pedigree, moviegoers didn’t see JLO and Wilson’s team-up coming. While the onscreen pairing

Walt Disney Co. said it’s extended Christine McCarthy’s contract as senior executive vice president and chief financial officer by two years through June 30, 2024, The 22-year Disney veteran, one of the top women executives in entertainment finance, has served as CFO since 2015. She oversees the company’s worldwide finance organization, which includes brand and

Even when Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson look like they’re going to the movies like a normal couple, there’s nothing average about it … not when they’re renting out the joint for themselves. If it wasn’t clear before, things are definitely heating up between these 2, and there seems to be a common theme when

Keanu Reeves jokes about streaming The Matrix Resurrections on HBO Max. The Canadian actor originated the role of Thomas Anderson in 1999’s The Matrix, a computer programmer by day and hacker by night, known as Neo, who learns that humanity is unknowingly living in a simulated reality while machines use their bodies as an energy source. With the

Sayaka Kanda, a voice-over actress and singer who voiced Anna in the dubbed Japanese version of Disney’s Frozen, was found dead on Saturday at a hotel in Sapporo. She was 35. According to local media reports, Kanda, the daughter of actor Masaki Kanda and singer Seiko Matsuda did not show up for an afternoon performance

Canada, after delivering 7% of Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s $260M domestic opening weekend, will see its Quebec province shut down cinemas in addition to bars and gyms as public health officials look to slow the spread of the Omicron Covid variant. CBC reports that Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé made the decision to prevent a strain

EXCLUSIVE: Lightyear Entertainment has acquired two documentaries that made their world premieres at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival: Thomas Robsahm’s A-ha: The Movie and Eddie Martin’s We Were Once Kids. The former will open in theaters across the U.S. and Canada on April 8, with the latter set for release in May. A-ha: The Movie celebrates

Leonardo DiCaprio apparently doesn’t remember what happened the last time he jumped into frozen waters, because he dived right back in a frozen lake while filming Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up. This time, though, it wasn’t a drenched and freezing Kate Winslet he was saving, but one of his rescue huskies. And Titanic fans can’t

Bradley Cooper‘s newest movie did abysmally bad at the box office — and ticket sales were apparently so poor … theaters actually started bumping BC for Peter Parker. The flick — titled “Nightmare Alley” and directed by Guillermo del Toro — raked in just under $3 million over its opening weekend across a little over

The 15-strong shortlist for the Oscars’ International Feature Film category is due on Tuesday, so it’s time to run down my annual preview of titles that have a good shot at making the cut. Films from a total 93 countries are eligible in the race this year, and below we take a close look at