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Character Actor Tim Blake Nelson may have found his niche in memorable turns recalling the heyday when westerns ruled the roost in Hollywood. Or at least in Venice where this film festival once again has shown a fondness for the star in a genre that rarely gets much of a close up anymore. A couple of

Natasha Parker is receiving much support from her Bachelor In Paradise co-stars after a shocking betrayal by her sole romantic interest, Brendan Morais. Since the show commenced, Natasha only had eyes for the 31-year-old, who won the hearts of fans on Tayshia Adams’ season of The Bachelorette. Brendan was seen as a “good guy,” even when he pulled

EXCLUSIVE: In what becomes the first hot package to be unveiled as part of the Toronto International Film Festival market, Oscar winners Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Al Pacino and Oscar nominee Danny DeVito are set to star in Sniff, a stylish reinvention of the film noir genre that will be directed by Oscar winner Taylor

It was the worst kept secret in Hollywood that Sony was bound to vacate Venom: Let There Be Carnage from its Oct. 15 release date, but after the enormous $90M Labor Day weekend success of Disney/Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the Culver City lot has decided to go earlier with their own

However, if you’d rather enjoy Star Wars as a filmed spectacle, and through the power of Lego or not, Disney+ has you covered. With the entire Skywalker Saga, and tons of other specials and series to enjoy, you don’t need to jump to hyperspace to find your next adventure. Though if you’re not a Disney+

EXCLUSIVE: Former Disney President of Marketing Ricky Strauss is one of five joining the advisory board of new entertainment app Binj. Binj is an app which provides recommendations from friends and family members on what to watch on TV or streaming. Industry vet Strauss, who previously served as President of Content & Marketing for Disney+ and

Takeshi Kitano, the famed Japanese actor/director, was attacked with a pickax by a man who was angry Kitano wouldn’t help him break into showbiz. Kitano was leaving the TBS studio in Tokyo Saturday night when the attacker used the pickax to smash his car windows and demanded Kitano get out of the vehicle. Fortunately, the

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the debut trailer for Last of the Right Whales, Nadine Pequeneza‘s documentary about the fight to save the titular sea mammal from extinction. The doc is the story of a disparate group of people – a wildlife photographer, a marine biologist, a whale rescuer, and a crab fisher – united in their cause

Warning! Spoilers for Defenders #2 by Marvel Comics below The Defenders just met a brand new villain who essentially is Galactus, but even deadlier. After being taken across space and time and finding themselves on the planet Taa, the Marvel heroes discover a devourer of worlds who existed before Galactus: Omnimax. And unlike Galactus, Omnimax

Tango Shalom — where a female Tango dancer (Dancing with the Stars champion Karina Smirnoff) invites an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi (Jos Laniado) to enter a televised dance competition — was an arthouse standout this weekend with a per screen average of over $4,000 at four theaters in New York and LA. The solid performance in a

Refresh for latest…: Disney/Marvel’s Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings outperformed expectations at the global and international box office this weekend, coming in with $56.2M overseas for the standard frame, and a new Labor Day record $83.5M for the four-day domestic session ($71.4M three-day). Combined, and including the Labor Day estimate, the worldwide

CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links. Major spoilers for Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings lie ahead. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings introduced audiences to a new hero but to a new

Panelists at the press conference for Ana Lily Amirpour’s Venice Film Festival competition title Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon today said they have experienced feeling like an outsider, a theme that runs through the story. The film follows a girl with unusual and dangerous powers who escapes from a mental asylum and tries to

New York Giants pass rusher Azeez Ojulari is starting off his rookie season in a Wakanda-kinda way … by coppin’ an insane “Black Panther” diamond chain — that glows in the dark!!! TMZ Sports has learned the outsider linebacker wanted to pay homage to Chadwick Boseman with some new drip before the Giants’ season-opener …

Editor’s Note: A lawsuit has been filed against Activision Blizzard by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, which alleges the company has engaged in abuse, discrimination, and retaliation against its female employees. Activision Blizzard has denied the allegations. The full details of the Activision Blizzard lawsuit (content warning: rape, suicide, abuse, harassment) are being updated

Official Competition (Competencia Oficial) announces its meta intentions with its very title. Here is a Venice Film Festival competitor about the making of a festival film. Lampooning the very world in which it exists, the Spanish comedy-drama is a highly entertaining entry with winning performances from Penelope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martínez. An eccentric

For the pandemic, Disney/Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings posted a solid Thursday night preview gross especially before a slow Labor Day box office frame, with $8.8 million  from showtimes that began at 6 p.m. On the high side, that figure is above the Thursday night start of Universal’s F9, which posted $7.1M

When Last Night In Soho director Edgar Wright submitted his latest film to the Venice Film Festival, he called it “a dark Valentine to Soho.” Elaborating on that, Wright told the Lido press corps this afternoon, “I love London, but there’s a lot to fear about it as well, so you have a conflicted relationship

The actors are set to reunite in the upcoming Marvel film Spider-Man: No Way Home, which will pick up right where Far From Home left off. In the 2019 movie, Peter Parker and MJ got closer on a summer European vacation, when MJ learned of his secret identity and they started dating. In No Way

Play video content TMZ.com “Really Love” star Kofi Siriboe says his new Netflix show breaks the mold … a romantic drama with Black leads where the story is not rooted in trauma or crime. Kofi — best known for his role in Ava Duvernay and Oprah Winfrey‘s TV series “Queen Sugar” — says he grew

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune had its official world premiere here at the Venice Film Festival on Friday evening and had the Sala Grande reverberating like a thropter as it gave the adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi classic a seven-minute standing ovation. Deadline was present and timed the applause, which ended only after the director humbly

[WARNING: Spoilers for No More Heroes 3 ahead] No More Heroes 3 features a surprising crossover with another video game, resulting in a literal Deus Ex Machina that resolves a tricky situation. Luckily for Travis Touchdown, No More Heroes 3 tells an unconventional story, and the response to the crossover will likely be a positive one, especially as it has

There is an especially very telling, and actually chilling scene in Spencer, Pablo Larrain’s brilliantly imagined portrait of Princess Diana (Kristen Stewart) facing the crossroads of a long dead marriage during a Christmas holiday at the Queen’s Sandringham Estate. Prince Charles (Jack Farthing), stands in an ornate room at one end of a pool table

EXCLUSIVE: After a successful launch of clips and footage at CinemaCon, Paramount is pushing its big Tom Cruise tentpoles, Top Gun: Maverick to May 27, Memorial Day weekend 2022, and Mission: Impossible 7 to Sept. 30, 2022. Again, these are big potential billion dollar grossing franchises co-produced with Skydance which require the world to be in an

Much like Disney/Marvel’s 2018 mega blockbuster and Oscar-winning feature Black Panther was a breakthrough for diversity on the big screen, the studios continue to shine with that this coming weekend with Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the first Hollywood Asian-American superhero movie. Today on Deadline’s Hero Nation podcast, we speak with both the

Though the room contains experts about all things magical, scientific, and alien, not to mention Wenwu’s kin, none of them know the precise nature of the Ten Rings. What is clear is that they are incredibly ancient, and also that usage of them has activated a beacon. Exactly who or what is being called isn’t

“I don’t really feel like it’s going anywhere,” a character in Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter laments at one point, and for a good long time one is inclined to feel this way about the film itself. Like the titular low-end professional gambler, Schrader here plays the long game, winning as often as not by

Dua Lipa‘s trading in one star-studded event for another — the singer’s missing out on the Met Gala … because she’s working on her big-screen acting debut. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … the “Levitating” singer’s among a slew of celebs invited to the famous fundraising ball in NYC this month, but she had

Twenty years ago, Paolo Sorrentino began his relationship with the Venice Film Festival when he brought his feature directorial debut, One Man Up, to the Lido. This year, The Great Beauty Oscar winner is in town with The Hand Of God, an autobiographical drama that recounts the filmmaker’s own youth and the tragedy of losing

Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Marvel’s What If…? episode 4. Mordo is missing from Marvel’s What If…? evil Doctor Strange story, so where was Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Doctor Strange villain? The animated Disney+ series is re-exploring events from the Marvel Cinematic Universe with very different twists, such as Peggy Carter becoming Captain Carter and the original Avengers dying before they could