Canadian actor Adam Beach has had a long and successful acting career over the last two decades that started with some epic movie roles like the snakes and sparklers salesman Kicking Wing in the 2001 redneck adventure film “Joe Dirt” and the Navajo Private Ben Yahzee in the 2002 war movie “Windtalkers.” “Joe Dirt” was
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David Attenborough will choose his favorite recordings from the natural world that have revolutionized our understanding of song as part of a packed BBC Christmas slate on which he features twice. The majority of shows on the slate, one of the BBC’s largest of the year, have already been announced, and The Wonder of Song from
Peeves the Poltergeist was sadly cut from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, but there are several details about the character’s discarded scenes. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone kicked off the magical Warner Bros. franchise in 2001. Now twenty years later, the Harry Potter cast is reuniting for Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, and several cast members from
The Casting Society of America has made the first callbacks for the 37th annual Artios Awards. The group today revealed its nominees for television, theater, short films and shortform series. Netflix leads with 11 noms, nearly double the haul for runners-up HBO and Hulu, which grabbed six apiece. Disney+ is next with four, followed Amazon
C’mon C’mon from A24 turned in the best per-screen average for a limited platform release since Covid at five theater in New York and LA as stellar critical response was met by strong exit polls ahead of a wider rollout into top markets over Thanksgiving and continued expansion thereafter. The Mike Mills’ awards contender led
It’s been less than a month since we learned that Gal Gadot will be taking on the role of one of Disney’s most iconic villains. While it may be a while before she actually gets on set for the live-action adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, it looks like she’s already searching for
Refresh for latest…: There was a lot of holdover play this session overseas with one new Hollywood addition in Sony’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife which came in essentially on par with pre-weekend offshore projections at $16M in 31 international box office markets. However, with domestic’s overperformance, the Jason Reitman-directed sequel trapped a better-than-expected $60M global opening. In
A movie about Serena and Venus Williams — focusing on their dad teaching ’em tennis — is, apparently, getting blasted as sexist … even though they’re literally the ones behind it. Count this as the biggest bad hot take of the week … and Twitter mostly agrees — this person seems to be woefully misinformed
Deadline’s Contenders Film: Documentary awards-season event, our virtual showcase of the year’s leading nonfiction, gets underway Sunday beginning at 9 a.m. PT. This year’s lineup of 25 movies reflects the growing availability of documentary content across a variety of platforms: Showtime and HBO, streamers HBO Max, Netflix, Discovery+, Hulu, Amazon Studios, and Apple TV+, as
Warning! Spoilers for DC: The New Frontier DC Comics’ classic Justice League origin story The New Frontier deserves spinoff titles. The late writer and artist Darwyn Cooke’s beloved tale has a lot of potential for expanded series which hasn’t been utilized. In recent years, DC has returned to hit comics that fans never expected they would see
MGM/Eon/Universal’s No Time To Die is crossing $733M worldwide this weekend, making it the highest grossing Hollywood film of 2021 — and of the pandemic era. After topping $708M through last Sunday, and becoming the biggest Hollywood movie overseas in 2021 and throughout the pandemic, we’ve been expecting Mr Bond to overtake the previous global
Mike Mills’ A24 film C’mon C’mon triumphed at the 2021 EnergaCamerimage Film Festival, celebrating the art of cinematography—claiming its high honor, the Golden Frog, along with its Audience Award. Cinematographer Robbie Ryan’s Golden Frog win gives him new momentum as a 2022 Oscar contender, on the heels of his first nomination in 2019 for his
In the matter of a decade, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has arguably become Disney’s most popular property, making it a no-brainer for the company to expand its cinematic vision to Walt Disney Parks. Over the summer, the studio’s original theme park in California became the home of Avengers Campus and, now, Walt Disney World is
Sony’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife is off to a promising start at the pre-Thanksgiving box office with $4.5M, ahead of Sony’s 2016 all-femme reboot which posted a Friday of $3.5M. While Sony was projecting $27M-$28M, and the industry higher $30M-$35M, Thursday night’s ticket sales (which started at 4PM at 3,450 locations) puts the Jason Reitman-directed feature in a position
Misha Collins must be feeling like a real estate guru right now — he unloaded his Hollywood oasis and made it look super easy by selling it quickly, and getting way above his asking price. The “Supernatural” star sold his stunning Hollywood Hills pad — a 27,683-square-foot slice of tranquility — for $4,550,000. Not too
Forza Horizon 5 features more than 500 different vehicles for players to use in the various races and activities across Mexico, but no offroad vehicle is as great as Halo’s Warthog. When it comes to street, road, and even dirt races, the Warthog can find some difficulty among the rest of the competition. However, the stock
The kitchen takes center stage in Boiling Point, a one-take wonder that thrives on the tension coursing through one night at a trendy London restaurant. The stress level may be cranked artificially high at moments, but director Philip Barantini’s follow-up to his well-received debut — last year’s East End gangster saga Villain — plunges you
C’mon C’mon is distributor A24’s first platform release post pandemic, opening on five screens in New York (Angelika and Lincoln Square) and LA (Grove, Landmark and AMC Burbank) It’s s vote of confidence — launching in the strongest markets and letting word of mouth spread only works if there are signs of life. Specialty distributors
EXCLUSIVE: Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever officially began its production hiatus for the remainder of 2021 today as it allows star Letitia Wright additional time to recuperate from an on-set injury earlier this year. This morning, cast and crew of the sequel received a note direct from Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito and Nate
Last Friday Disneyland’s It’s a Small World was supposed to open for its annual holiday season presentation for It’s a Small World Holiday, where costumes and music have been changed to give it a more festive vibe. Unfortunately, for the first time in over 20 years, that didn’t happen. There was a problem when the
George Clooney is speaking his piece on the fatal shooting that claimed Halyna Hutchins‘ life — and he’s torching the entire “Rust” crew over the tragedy, especially the assistant director. The legendary actor weighed in while he was on Marc Maron’s ‘WTF’ podcast and he didn’t hold back one bit … lighting up AD Dave
EXCLUSIVE: Peter Facinelli (Nurse Jackie) has been joined in action feature On Fire by Fiona Dourif (Tenet), Asher Angel (Shazam!) and Lance Henriksen (Aliens). We can unveil a first look at the movie, which is three weeks into shoot in Austin, Texas. As we revealed last month, the film follows a family who get caught up
90 Day Fiancé stars Jesse Meester and Jeniffer Tarazona, who currently star on 90 Day: The Single Life season 2, have hinted at being engaged via Instagram. Jesse was previously in a relationship with Darcey Silva, and Jeniffer was seeing Tim Malcolm on 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days. While Jesse claimed his breakup
Helen Mirren will receive this year’s SAG Life Achievement Award and will be presented with the prize during the 28th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony on February 27. The award is given annually to an actor who fosters the “finest ideals of the acting profession”. Oscar, BAFTA and Emmy winning actress Mirren becomes the
In the wake of Sony’s attempt to reboot Ghostbusters in 2016 with a female leading cast, the studio hasn’t given up on the IP and finally is releasing an all-new Jason Reitman-directed sequel, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which it has protected for a theatrical release throughout the pandemic. Exhibition bosses went nuts at CinemaCon for the movie, which has
Another November weekend is ahead, which means there’s some big box office potential headed our way. Will the audience call on the Ghostbusters with the release of the latest installment, Ghostbusters: Afterlife? Jason Reitman, the son of original Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman, has helmed the sequel that will also see Bill Murray, Dan Akyroyd and
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate and BuzzFeed have revealed details about their third movie tie-up, Dear David. The supernatural thriller was originally set up at New Line with Dan Lin producing but we can reveal that the project is now set as the next production on Lionsgate and BuzzFeed’s feature slate. Based on a true story and one
Quentin Tarantino seems to be pushing forward with plans to auction off “Pulp Fiction” NFTs, but the movie studio behind the film says they aren’t his to sell … according to a new lawsuit. The famous movie director is being sued by Miramax, which claims his plans to sell a set of digital tokens featuring
EXCLUSIVE: Silver Mountain Distribution, the sales and marketing wing of Ireland-based Silver Mountain Productions, is handling rights on Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Hosseini’s Son Of Man. The pic is a rare LGBTQIA+ story to come from Iran, where homosexuality continues to be illegal. It was also shot in the country, notable as other Iranian filmmakers have
Developer Niantic has responded to fans after a server crash hindered the recent Pokémon GO Turtwig Spotlight Hour. The Pokémon GO Spotlight Hour was scheduled to happen on November 16th, but for a time, players were unable to log into their accounts, causing fans to miss out on participating in the Hour. Spotlight Hours are similar to Community Days in