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Update: The Man From Toronto is walking away from MLK weekend 2022 where Kevin Hart has traditionally launched his Ride Along movies and will now open on Aug. 12, 2022. Man From Toronto leaves behind Spyglass and Paramount’s reboot of Scream on MLK, as well as the Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas 20th Century Studios thriller Deep Water and

EXCLUSIVE:  As the American Film Market kicks off this week, Deadline has learned about some executive changes at Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions and Stage 6 Films. Jon Freedberg has been promoted to EVP Content Strategy & Operations of the division. He began with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions in 2008, and has been instrumental in shaping

Actor Luke Evans has had a long and successful career, with his talents gracing both the silver and small screens in recent years. The Alienist actor famously played Gaston in the live-action Beauty and the Beast, and he’s been keeping a physique that would make that Disney villain proud. Because the fully ripped Evans recently

EXCLUSIVE: 20th/Hulu are moving forward with The Boogeyman, a two hour film based on the Stephen King short story. Production will be this winter/spring in New Orleans. Rob Savage (Host and Dashcam) is set to direct. 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy, Dan Levine & Dan Cohen are producing. Mark Heyman (Black Swan) has been writing the

Hilaria Baldwin thinks her husband, Alec, will develop post-traumatic stress disorder after the shooting that claimed Halyna Hutchins‘ life … which is partly why they fled New York. The actor’s spouse revealed the reason behind their family’s travel to Vermont, saying they needed to get away from all the madness following the fatal accident …

Fans of 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way believe that Jenny Slatten and Sumit Singh’s mother Sadhna Singh’s yoga and neti scenes were absolutely unnecessary. With Sadhna coming to stay at Sumit’s house, Jenny has had to make a lot of changes. Not only did Sadhna expose Jenny’s unhygienic habits by making her clean the dirty kitchen, but

Refresh for latest…: MGM/Eon/Universal’s No Time To Die, as projected, crossed the $600M global mark this weekend, leading international box office play with an additional $51.9M from 72 combined Universal and MGM markets. That lifts the offshore cume to $472.4M and worldwide to $605.8M. The bulk of the weekend’s business came from China where 007

Who says people don’t want to go to the movies and are complete lemmings for streaming? Comscore this morning reports that the October domestic box office clocked $638M, the highest month to date during the pandemic beating July’s $583.8M. Seventy-five percent of October’s figure was driven by major studio event pics Sony’s Venom: Let There

I want to preface this review by saying I am embarrassed. I was embarrassed for not knowing more about this documentary sooner and embarrassed by the film’s lack of attention from the media. Finding Kendrick Johnson sits at 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes with five critics’ reviews and no reviews from trades. Was the film

Since Chris Evans has hung up his Captain America shield and passed it off to Anthony Mackie’s Falcon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we’ve certainly missed Steve Rogers. But the next era of the actor’s career has already been epic. Evans took on the nefarious role of “Ransom” Drysdale in the 2019 murder mystery Knives

Play video content BACKGRID Alec Baldwin is speaking on the death of Halyna Hutchins for the first time on camera — and he had a lot to say. The actor addressed a swarm of paps Saturday who were hounding him in Manchester, VT, where he and his family have been laying low since the fatal

MGM/Eon/Universal’s No Time To Die brought James Bond to China today, with an RMB 52M ($8.1M) No. 1 opening (including a smattering of Thursday midnights). This is the third biggest Hollywood opening day of 2021 in the market and is ahead of the launch days of the most recent comps Dune (+33%) and Free Guy (+53%).

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Oculus, recently announced plans to remove the need for its Quest VR headset users to be logged into a Facebook account. The requirement to connect Oculus and Facebook accounts is a relatively recent development that immediately proved unpopular. To make matters worse, losing access to one’s Facebook interfered with accessing games and

“This time last year,” observed California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday, “we had about 4,000 cases. One month later we had 18,000 cases. One month after that, we had 54,000. “Basically,” the state saw “a tripling of cases,” he said. Newsom meant the reminder as a warning. “What’s going on in the U.K. right now?”

Focus Features presents Edgar Wright’s Last Night In Soho, a twisty psycho-thriller with a great soundtrack, as Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch goes wider, testing the appeal of a director whose films have been called the arthouse equivalent of Marvel. Last Night, a time-bending genre tale, unspools on just over 3,000 screens, not exactly specialty

It’s a busy moment in time for Jake Gyllenhaal, who recently released his shot-in-quarantine thriller The Guilty on Netflix and has a Michael Bay film called Ambulance coming early next year, among a ton of other projects. Even so, the actor has just added another leading role his lineup of upcoming work, this time in

EXCLUSIVE: It’s been at least 15 minutes since we broke a buzzy American Film Market package, so here’s another one that’s sure to garner big interest from buyers. STXInternational is launching sales on Guy Ritchie action-thriller The Interpreter, which will star Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal as a soldier who returns to a warzone to repay

The head armorer for “Rust” is pointing fingers, claiming the real culprit is the person who introduced live rounds on the set … she says unbeknownst to her. The lawyers for Hannah Gutierrez-Reed say in a statement, Hannah “is devastated and completely beside herself over the events that have transpired.” The attorneys go on to

Camille Saviola, whose many stage and TV roles included the Bajoran religious leader Kai Opaka in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the mother of the hapless Turtle in Entourage and, on Broadway, characters in Nine and Chicago, has died at age 71. Her death was announced on the Star Trek website WarpFactorTrek.com. Additional details were

The official Twitter account for the upcoming The Matrix Resurrections has mocked Facebook following the company’s recently announced rebrand as Meta. The fourth Matrix film is set to reintroduce audiences to the sci-fi future of the Matrix, a fake simulation of the world run by evil sentient AI, in which messianic hero Neo (Keanu Reeves)

Update: Sony has moved up its release of Sam Raimi production 65 from May 13, which was in the second weekend of Disney/Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, another film directed by the filmmaker to April 22, 2022. On its new date, 65 stands alone as the only major studio wide release. The movie leaves behind on May 13,

EXCLUSIVE: Here comes the AFM brawn. The Expendables and Aquaman star Dolph Lundgren is set to direct and star in action pic Wanted Man, which Millennium Media is launching ahead of the virtual AFM. Lundgren has also penned the script with Michael Worth (Killing Cupid). In Wanted Man, when a cartel shooting leaves several DEA

There are few things everyone can agree on, but there are some things in Hollywood that the vast majority of people have a common respect for: one being Quentin Tarantino films and another being the many iconic roles of Johnny Depp. Well, Hollywood staple and iconic bad guy Brain Cox is about to make a

EXCLUSIVE: Popcornflix, the streaming service owned by Crackle parent Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, has acquired its first original documentary feature, Hollywood Bulldogs: The Rise and Falls of the Great British Stuntman. The colorful portrait (watch the trailer above), explores major 1970s and 1980s franchises like James Bond, Indiana Jones, Superman, Star Wars, Rambo

Halyna Hutchins is being honored in more ways than one by her Hollywood peers — including financial help for her family, with a major A-list actress and a ton of fellow cinematographers donating. Sarah Paulson is among the many high-profile people who’ve donated to a GoFundMe page set up on behalf of Hutchins’ loved ones

South Park creator Matt Stone says Netflix’s reputation went up due to their response to the Dave Chappelle comedy special controversy. Stone and Trey Parker are the creators of South Park, the animated comedy show that has been running since 1997 and is on its 24th season with more on the way. The duo created the

EXCLUSIVE: Liam Neeson (Taken) is set to star in Ireland-set thriller In The Land Of Saints And Sinners, which will re-team the actor with The Marksman director Robert Lorenz. Their previous collaboration topped the U.S. box office earlier this year. Set in a remote Irish village, Neeson will play a newly retired assassin who finds

UPDATED, 9:59 AM: Sony Pictures Classics said today that its film Mothering Sunday will get a limited release on February 25 in Los Angeles and New York following its weeklong awards-qualifying run in November. The pic, which premiered at Cannes in July, will expand to other markets in the ensuing weeks, the distributor said. Mothering Sunday

EXCLUSIVE: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has named In Kim, a 30-plus year veteran of the franchise industry, its chief operating officer as the chain expands rapidly post-bankruptcy and audiences return to theaters. The Austin-based exhibitor just opened its first Manhattan location and has plans for new theaters in Staten Island, St. Louis and Washington D.C. in

Ahead of Creed III’s arrival, moviegoers will soon have the opportunity to witness a different take on one of the Rocky franchise’s most popular entries. Sylvester Stallone’s new cut of Rocky IV, a.k.a. Rocky IV: Rocky vs. Drago, will debut with a one-night theatrical screening on November 11, and it’ll be available on on-demand the