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Apple Original Films has confirmed it will be the studio backing and distributing Bad Blood, the drama about the shocking rise and fall of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes that Adam McKay is writing to direct, with Jennifer Lawrence starring. The project was originally set up at Legendary after a heated auction in 2016, and it

Oscar winner Jane Campion’s first feature film as director in 12 years, The Power of the Dog, had plenty to wag its tail about in its weekend debut on Netflix. Samba TV said Monday that the feature take of Thomas Savage’s 1967 Western novel drew in 1.2 million U.S. households. That’s a great start for what

Thanks to the events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, many of the dinosaurs who made it off Isla Nublar before the island was wiped out are now roaming free. With Jurassic World Dominion taking place four years after the fifth entry in the Jurassic Park franchise, the public continues to face danger from these prehistoric

The glitterati was out in full force in Jeddah on Monday night as the inaugural Red Sea International Film Festival kicked off with the Middle Eastern premiere of Joe Wright’s musical romance Cyrano. Stars such as Catherine Deneuve, Saudi helmer Haifaa Al-Mansour, Anthony Mackie, Clive Owen, Hilary Swank, Vincent Cassel and Cannes Film Festival director

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez did a little blending Saturday … as the love train chugged through Westwood. Ben and Jen hit up the Regency Theater with his daughter, Seraphina, and her twins, Emme and Sam. They took in a showing of “Licorice Pizza” and looked like a fam out for a day of fun.

Here’s your first trailer for Netflix’s WWII thriller Munich: The Edge Of War, which debuted earlier this year at the London Film Festival. Based on the novel by Robert Harris, the film is set in fall 1938 when Europe stands on the brink of war. Adolf Hitler is preparing to invade Czechoslovakia and Neville Chamberlain’s government desperately

The Toxic Orb is a peculiar battle item in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl, badly poisoning any Pokémon holding it in battle. The original Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl introduced nearly as many items as it did new Pokémon to the series, including some bizarre held items like the Toxic Orb. However, very few held items in Pokémon can

Neon and Participant opened animated documentary Flee to a $25,033 debut in four locations. That makes for a strong per-theater average of $6,258 ahead of a rollout early next year for the much-decorated Danish film ahead of Academy Award nominations Feb. 8. It’s one of a few rather particular offerings, including Drive My Car, that

Aleem Khan’s After Love dominated the 2021 British Independent Film Awards, winning six prizes in total including Best British Independent Film. Khan also took home both Best Director and the Douglas Hickox Award for Best Debut Director, as well as Best Screenplay. Joanna Scanlan won Best Actress and Talid Ariss won Best Supporting Actor for

As far as romcoms go, The Proposal seems to check all of the boxes. Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Bullock, and Betty White help make up a hilarious all-star cast that does the enemy-to-lovers trope some serious justice. Apparently, Bullock is giving Reynolds a different kind of justice these days, because she has now opened up about

After having been cleared by authorities in late November for an eventual China release, the market has now given Warner Bros/Village Roadshow’s highly-anticipated The Matrix Resurrections an official date — on January 14, 2022. The Keanu Reeves-starrer begins early offshore rollout December 16 with domestic and the majority of international markets starting December 22 and

Jordan Belfort is the proud new owner of a piece of art history, because he bought it from the youngest person ever to have a booth at “Art Miami.” The “Wolf of Wall Street” dropped a fat stack on some artwork from rising artist Andres Valencia — the 10-year-old responsible for a 29″ x 11″

Spencer director Pablo Larraín said Saturday that while he and screenwriter Steven Knight took different immersive paths when developing the film’s screenplay, the result was unlike any other he’d worked on: the finished script matched the final edit scene for scene. “The movie right now has the same order – exactly the same order –

A new clip from Morbius shows off Jared Leto’s vampire powers. After rebooting Spider-Man again and introducing Tom Holland to the MCU, Sony has been working hard on spinoff Spider-Man movies focusing on the web-slinger’s iconic villains. Holland’s two solo Spider-Man outings introduced audiences to Vulture, Shocker, Scorpion, and Mysterio, but plenty more are getting solo movies,

Asghar Farhadi, the Iranian filmmaker with two Best International Film Oscars to his name, has returned with another naturalistic immersion in his homeland: A Hero. The title of the Amazon Studios release, which won the Grand Prix in Cannes, promises feats of courage and bravery. While there are some of those along the way, the

The arthouse is awash with well reviewed new offerings from Danish animated doc Flee to Paulo Sorrentino’s Hand of God to IFC’s Benedetta heading into awards season and amid a paucity of new wide releases. The first weekend of December following the five-day Thanksgiving frame is notoriously slow at the box office, but also a

Deadline’s Contenders Film returns to New York this morning with a hybrid in-person and livestreamed showcase at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, and a lineup of 23 films spotlighting the best motion pictures this awards season has to offer. The in-person event kicks off with a breakfast sponsored by United Artists Releasing

Kirsten Dunst is among a crop of actors who started starring in movies as a kid and have found enough success (and life balance) to become successful into adulthood. The 39-year-old actor, who is currently receiving Oscar buzz for her role in The Power of the Dog, recently looked back over her career and remembered

“We always knew this was a journey to the chair, but I couldn’t have imagined how rich the journey was going to be to the chair,” Sonequa Martin-Green says on Deadline’s Hero Nation podcast about her Michael Burnham finally being named the first Black female Star Trek Captain in Season 4 of Paramount+’s Star Trek:

Play video content ABC Alec Baldwin‘s claim he’s not responsible for Halyna Hutchins‘ death is not echoed by the woman leading the “Rust” shooting investigation — instead, she says Baldwin, and several others, could still be charged for their roles in the tragedy. During his sit-down with George Stephanopoulos, Baldwin said he didn’t feel guilt

Debuting at the Venice Film Festival earlier this year, Leave No Traces instantly became Poland’s official submission for the International Feature Oscar race. Directed by Jan P. Matuszyński, it’s based on a reportage by Cezary Lazarewicz and chronicles true events that took place in 1983, when Poland was shaken by the case of a high

Rob Zombie has revealed the first look at a new character named Igor in his reboot of The Munsters. The Munsters was a short-lived TV sitcom from the 1960s about a family of monsters that move from Transylvania to suburban America. The show lasted two seasons before being canceled, but it continued to gain popularity

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Landmark Theatres will be entering into a long-term lease at one of the former Arclight Cinemas locations, that being the Glen Town Center in Glenview, IL. The chain, owned by the Oscar-nominated Cohen Media Group, has plans to reopen the cinema as a 10-screen venue this coming spring after a $2.5M remodel, supported by the

UPDATE: The first case of the omicron variant has arrived in Los Angeles, according to the County Department of Public Health. Its announcement follows an earlier one on a case in New York City. For Los Angeles, the unnamed patient returned to Los Angeles County after travel to South Africa via London on Nov. 22.

Pretty much anybody who’s done an action film has been asked if they’d want to play James Bond. Thanks to the press rounds for Netflix’s original film Red Notice, we have two more candidates for the role: former wrestling superstar/current action star Dwayne Johnson and former TV star/current jack of all trades Ryan Reynolds. You

Canal Plus has reached a new agreement with French film industry organizations which sees the pay-TV group commit to invest more than 600M euros ($679M) in local and European film across the next three years. The deal, which was signed today with the BLIC, BLOC and ARP guilds — repping distributors, exhibitors, producers, directors and

Play video content ABC News The lawyer for the assistant director on “Rust” is backing Alec Baldwin‘s claim he did not pull the trigger on the gun that caused the death of Halyna Hutchins. Lisa Torraco appeared on “Good Morning America” Thursday and actually went a step further, saying her client told her from day

When you hear the name Guillermo del Toro you usually associate the Oscar winning director with fantastical filmmaking, monsters, supernatural elements,  and gothic stories from another world, but maybe for the first time with his remake of the 40’s film noir Nightmare Alley he is dealing on a smaller scale more focused strictly on people, albeit