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EXCLUSIVE: The story of Black British boxing sensation Len Johnson is to be told in a feature film from Rush exec Guy East, written by the “godmother of Black British playwrights” Winsome Pinnock. Champion is the first major project from UK commercials producer MindsEye’s two-year-old film and TV division and is based on Rob Howard’s

Do you like scary movies? Unlike Scream’s lead final girl Sidney Prescott, Jason Blum loves them and has built a life and successful career out of them. As the founder of Blumhouse Productions, Blum has produced a large number of successful and recognizable horror films over the last 15 years. As his most recently released

Johnny Depp might be considered a pariah in the U.S. — but the guy’s still got the love and support of LOTS of fans outside the country, especially in Italy … where he’s a rock star. Check out these clips of JD showing up Sunday to the premiere of his new animated TV series, “Puffins,”

EXCLUSIVE: Whitney director Kevin Macdonald is to direct an ITV doc profiling the ferocious floods that have hit the UK in recent years. In It Takes A Flood, Academy Award-winning director Macdonald, who was also behind a recent ITV Coronavirus doc, will move from London, where historic levels of rain battered the capital last year,

The latest update to Animal Crossing: New Horizons was just announced on October 15, and there’s plenty of exciting new content coming to the game in the near future, including a wide range of fashionable hairstyles that can be obtained through multiple methods. The update is scheduled for November 5 and will be free for

EXCLUSIVE: In addition to a host of previously set worldwide territories, Netflix, in a deal with Entertainment One, has acquired rights to Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter in the UK, Benelux and Germany. Gyllenhaal’s feature directing debut will bow on the streaming service on December 31. Adapted by Gyllenhaal from Elena Ferrante’s best-selling 2006 novel,

A24’s Lamb hit the top ten for the second week running (No. 8) at the North American box office, surging past $2 million. The Rescue expanded to 552 theaters, the widest documentary screen count since Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, said distributor Greenwich Entertainment, anticipating it will ultimately top $1M. Holdovers outperformed newcomers this weekend,

“By the end of this trilogy, in 20 years, you’re going to look back at these movies as the greatest history lesson of our times, and yet they’re slasher movies,” Halloween Kills star and actress in six pics in the franchise Jamie Lee Curtis tells us on Hero Nation today. The movie has already beat the preview

Things seem to happen grudgingly slow or frighteningly fast in Hollywood, and in Timothée Chalamet’s case, it certainly seems to be the latter as of late. The Dune star has picked up an awesome number of major roles in a short amount of time, pandemic be damned. Chalamet is currently filming as a young Willy

Refresh for latest…: Sony’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage chomped on a big chunk of the international box office this weekend as it swallowed a $62.3M mouthful from 44 overseas markets. This follows from the symbiote’s record-breaking Russia and Latin America starts over the past few weeks. The Tom Hardy-starrer has now cumed $115.6M overseas

Michael Caine ain’t hanging it up just yet in the acting department — this despite the fact that he strongly suggested he would be … doing a 180, which has fans sighing with relief. The legendary British actor clarified what his future professional plans were Saturday … saying he is NOT retiring, while his rep

Refresh for updates…Early exuberance in Hollywood surrounding news of a new IATSE contract has dimmed somewhat, as more details about the deal negotiated with the AMPTP have emerged. Among those walking back or contextualizing their initial reactions on Saturday evening was Yvette Nicole Brown, who initially tweeted “#UnionStrong!”, along with emojis depicting a raised fist

Various members of the Keeping Up With the Kardashians family have reportedly continued to work with Lou Taylor, Britney Spears’ former business manager, within the year 2021. The Kardashian-Jenner family has had business ties with Lou throughout Britney’s conservatorship battle. Members of the Kardashian-Jenner clan have made supportive statements regarding Britney, but connections to Lou and others

A year after the inaugural DC Fandome revealed the first The Batman trailer from filmmaker Matt Reeves, we now get a second before the pic’s theatrical release on March 4, 2022. And we finally get to see the villains: Paul Dano as The Riddler, Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman, and Colin Farrell as a very unrecognizable Penguin

AMC Theatres guests can now find select showtimes utilizing an open caption format at 240 AMC locations, in more than 100 U.S. markets. The offering of some open caption showtimes for all new release movies is intended to expand the overall movie-going audience, especially intended for those with hearing difficulties or where English is a

A day after the European premiere of season three of his HBO series Succession at the London Film Festival, the show’s creator, Jesse Armstrong, took to the stage with comedian Nish Kumar to discuss the art of screenwriting. In between dispensing pearls of wisdom for aspiring comedy writers (“Don’t write any jokes,” was especially memorable),

Oh, these two. Who knew X-Men Origins: Wolverine would spawn so many sequels? Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman have a running “feud”/bromance raging over on social media, and it’s continued through to Jackman’s 53rd birthday. The Aussie actor celebrated his big day on Tuesday and has been receiving a lot of well wishes from family,

NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ+ film festival, kicks off tonight with one of the most prominent documentaries of the fall. Mayor Pete, directed by Jesse Moss, goes behind the scenes and on the stump with Pete Buttigieg as he became the first openly gay major presidential candidate, vying for the Democratic nomination. Buttigieg’s campaign was unusual

Sean Penn‘s actress wife just waved the white flag on their union … because she filed for divorce after just over one year of marriage. Sean’s wife, Australian actress Leila George, filed divorce docs Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court … according to online records. Sean and Leila, the daughter of actor Vincent D’Onofrio,

EXCLUSIVE: Jamie Lee Curtis revealed to us on today’s Hero Nation that while she’s not expecting a third season of Scream Queens, she is reteaming with that series co-creator Ryan Murphy on a new Netflix limited series tentatively titled Outfielder. (According to sources close to the matter, there are no deals for the project which is

The Bechdel Test was developed by Alison Bechdel in 1985 as a way to gauge female presence in movies. This test isn’t used to measure feminist content, just if women are in the movie or not. There are three parts to the Bechdel Test. Two named female characters have to talk about something that has

Masked men stormed a Moscow showing of Agnieszka Holland’s film Mr Jones yesterday night, chanting “Shame on the Motherland” as they took over the stage. In footage posted on Twitter, the group of what appeared to be around 20 people took to the front of Moscow’s Memorial Human Rights Center, where the film was being shown.

Universal/Miramax/Blumhouse’s sequel Halloween Kills, which is also available on Uni’s streaming service Peacock today to paid subscribers, made $4.85M from 7PM shows last night booked at 2,950 theaters. The rebooted franchise from filmmaker David Gordon Green, and starring the franchise’s legend Jamie Lee Curtis of six pics, is expected to open to mid-to-high $30Ms, for what is

Mindler’s last acting role was the 2016 TV movie, Chad: An American Boy.  Millersville University reported that Mindler went missing Tuesday evening. “He was last seen walking from his residence hall, West Villages toward the Centennial Dr. parking lot area at 8:11 p.m. Tuesday night. He was wearing a white Millersville University hooded sweatshirt with

The opening scene of Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel features a preview of the titular climactic showdown (which, naturally, plays out in full in the movie’s third act). Sirs Jean de Carrouges and Jacques Le Gris, respectively played by Matt Damon and Adam Driver, suit up in their plate armor, mount their steeds, grab their

After nearly 60 years of heroics, James Bond today seems more revered than beloved. His newest iteration, No Time to Die, has delivered a welcome jolt to exhibitors worldwide, though to some filmgoers (and critics), the movie plays more like Daniel Craig’s Long Goodbye. Craig has bowed out gracefully, though, in contrast to some of

Play video content TMZ.com Jay-Z must have been feeling it after showing off his new movie, because he hopped on the mic and threw down … on a classic track he did with Kanye. The hip-hop mogul put on an apparently impromptu show Wednesday night at L.A.’s Shrine Auditorium following a screening of “The Harder

It has been a tricky period for theatrical, but as a panel of leading European (and American) film industry experts highlighted today, change has been in the post and the cinema biz will need to adapt to survive. Speaking during an event at the MIA Market in Rome, Michael Weber, MD at German indie The

Titans season 3 just revealed the true reason Jason Todd broke bad and made the switch from Robin to Red Hood. With Blackfire, Scarecrow, Lady Vic, and even Gizmo, Titans season 3 boasts many a vicious villain, but none are more thrilling than Red Hood. Adapting DC’s “Death in the Family” comic arc, Jason is brutally killed at the hands