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Motion Picture Exchange AFM Title EXCLUSIVE: Motion Picture Exchange has acquired global sales rights to heist film Take the Night and will launch sales at the upcoming virtual American Film Market. Written and directed by Seth McTigue, starring are Sam Li, Roy Huang (The Offer), Grace Serrano (Thou Shalt Not Kill) and Brennan Keel Cook (Encounter). Pic

The entire cast of The Real Housewives of Potomac was uncomfortable with how Chris Bassett handled his wife, Candiace Dillard Bassett, during a heated argument. Candiace has not been making it easy for her husband, who often finds himself between a rock and a hard place. The two are still newlyweds and trying to figure

Netflix, Tribeca Studios and Gold House have teamed up to launch the Future Gold Film Fellowship, a program designed to elevate experienced directors from the Asian and Pacific Islander communities. The three directors selected for the program by Tribeca Studios and a panel of industry leaders— including Aneesh Chaganty, Jon M. Chu, Destin Daniel Cretton,

In mid-September, Gower Street Analytics projected global box office for 2021 would come in at $20.2B. The London-based film tech company has now increased its estimate to $21.6B, with the possibility of hitting a nice round $22B. The reason for the shift is primarily driven by the strong performance of October titles including China’s The

Doom Patrol is sticking together. The superhero drama series has been renewed by HBO Max for a fourth season. Cancellations/Renewals Scorecard: TV Shows Ended Or Continuing In 2020-21 Season The series, which is currently airing its third season, premiered exclusively on DC Universe in 2019, while HBO Max and DC Universe aired the second season

We may have seen actor/director Sylvester Stallone wrap his role in The Expendables 4, as well as the franchise in general. That doesn’t mean the man who gave us Barney Ross is going to stop giving us gifts pertaining to the action series he helped bring to stunningly violent life. While Barney and his heavy

Unclenching the Fists, the drama directed by Kira Kovalenko that won the grand prize this year in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard sidebar, has been selected to represent Russia in the Best International Feature Film category at the 94th Oscars. The news was announced Monday by the Russian Oscar Committee. Produced by Ukranian-Russian

Alec Baldwin was practicing a “cross draw” — pointing his gun at the camera — when a live round struck the director in the shoulder and the cinematographer fatally in the chest … this according to new court documents. Director Joel Souza told Sheriff’s investigators he heard someone — we’re told the assistant director —

Kit Clarke (Get Even, Leonardo) has been set to play Rupert Everett’s younger self in the autobiographical tale Lost and Found in Paris, which Everett will direct from his own screenplay. John Malkovich and Kristin Scott Thomas are also in the cast, with Everett in a supporting role. The story follows an unruly teenager sent

For nearly 20 years, Age of Empires has been a well-loved staple that helped to define the RTS genre, and the latest installment from Relic Entertainment and Xbox Game Studios, Age of Empires IV, feels both familiar and modern. In Age of Empires IV, players will experience some of the greatest civilizations and battles in history, from the Normans

Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch did what a glum arthouse market was waiting for, revved it up with a smashing three-day average. “If Wes builds it, they will come,” said an elated Searchlight Pictures after a two year wait to get the film into theaters. It opened in 14 markets and in a total of

Refresh for latest…: There were milestones aplenty this weekend at the global and international box office with three Hollywood heavy-hitters reaching important new benchmarks. Among them, MGM/Eon/Universal’s No Time To Die crossed both $400M overseas and $500M worldwide while Sony’ Venom: Let There Be Carnage topped $350M globally. The weekend leader, however, was Warner Bros/Legendary’s

Dune is cruising to a successful opening weekend at the domestic box office, and the sci-fi epic is staking its claim as the next big franchise to rival the greats. Director Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s influential book is a jaw-dropping spectacle that’s seemingly amazed not only audiences but the film’s stars as well.

EXCLUSIVE: Last Kingdom fanatics gearing themselves up for next year’s fifth and final season have something extra to smile about, a Netflix feature film is in the works. Delivering the announcement at today’s London MCM Comic Con, Alexander Dreymon, who stars as protagonist Uhtred and exec produces the historical drama, unveiled Carnival Films’ Seven Kings

Simon Monjack isn’t the monster he was portrayed to be in HBO’s newest Brittany Murphy doc, so says his brother, who feels he was duped into participating in the whole thing. The two-part series investigates the life, relationships and death of the actress … but mostly focuses on her bizarre marriage to Simon Monjack —

Robert Downey Jr. didn’t want to film Iron Man’s iconic final scene in Avengers: Endgame at first. In 2008, Jon Favreau kicked off the MCU with Iron Man, debuting the actor as Tony Stark. Since then, Downey has played the role ten times over the course of 11 years. He capped it off in 2019 in Joe and Anthony Russo’s Avengers:

Costa Rica on Friday selected Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s debut feature Clara Sola to as the country’s submission to the 2022 International Feature Oscar race. The pic, which made its world premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, was later scooped up by Oscilloscope Laboratories which will release it in theaters

Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic Dune hit China today with an estimated RMB 42 million ($6.5 million) on 28,274 screens and a 34.3% share of the market. While we do not yet have a social score, Friday’s estimate would portend a weekend in the $20M+ neighborhood as we noted coming into the session. Handled in China

Responding quickly to the on-set tragedy that took the life of cinematographer Halyna Hutchens yesterday, the AFI has established a memorial scholarship in her name for female cinematographers. Hutchens graduated from the AFI Conservatory in 2015 and was selected as one of American Cinematographer’s Rising Stars of 2019 as well as a cinematographer for the

Guilty Party‘s Kate Beckinsale has proven herself to be a versatile actress over the years, but her bread and butter has been starring in multiple action films over two decades, including her time as Underworld heroine Selene. After doing so many action films, you would think the actress would be quite limber with all her

The gun handed to Alec Baldwin before the fatal shooting on the “Rust” movie set was loaded with a live round … according to a warrant from the ongoing police investigation. The warrant says an assistant director handed the gun to Alec and told the actor it was safe to use before the deadly incident

Come Fall In Love, a new musical based on the acclaimed 1995 Bollywood blockbuster film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, will open on Broadway during the 2022-23 season after a world premiere at San Diego’s Old Globe Theater in September 2022. Widely known by its initials DDLJ, the film was directed by Aditya Chopra, who will

Bachelor In Paradise fan favorite Tia Booth revealed her new boyfriend to her Instagram followers in a video montage detailing their relationship. Known for being unlucky in love, Tia seems to have finally found someone to make her happy. After watching her three stints with the Bachelor franchise, Tia’s co-stars and fans are thrilled to see

UPDATE: Director Joel Souza is out of hospital, we have confirmed with the filmmaker’s reps. PREVIOUS STORY: Rust director Joel Souza is now out of hospital, according to one of the film’s stars Frances Fisher. During a Twitter conversation with Patricia Arquette, veteran actress Fisher Tweeted that Souza told her he was out of hospital:

It’s quite clear that the availability of Warner Bros. theatrical slate on HBO Max day-and-date this year has impacted the studio’s U.S. box office results. This has either led to a film seeing a big drop in weekend 2 at the B.O. after a solid first weekend or in the case of New Line’s Sopranos prequel

People have had many questions about the rekindled romance of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck since the duo reconnected back at the end of April, just a few days after Lopez and ex-fiancé, Alex Rodriguez, officially announced their split. One of those questions, of course, is why the relationship would work out this time, when

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount’s genre division Paramount Players has tapped Night Teeth and I See You filmmaker Adam Randall to direct the horror pic Curfew. The former Blood List entry follows a rebellious teenage girl who is sent to stay with her grandmother in a sleepy town whose quirky traditions include a curfew banning anyone from going

Kate Beckinsale had a super-interesting chit-chat with Howard Stern Wednesday … she said her off-the-charts IQ has actually damaged her career. Howard did an excellent job of mining for gold, knowing that Kate was extremely brainy. He pushed to know where Kate landed on the IQ spectrum, and Kate either didn’t remember or didn’t want

Sweden is sending Ronnie Sandahl’s Tigers to this year’s International Oscar race. The film is a coming-of-age drama about the world of professional sports, telling the true story of 16-year-old football prodigy Martin Bengtsson (played by Erik Enge). It was written and directed by Ronnie Sandahl, based on Martin Bengtsson’s autobiographical novel In the Shadow

The Avengers almost featured Wasp as part of its roster, and Zooey Deschanel was the top choice to play the role. Introduced in Tales to Astonish #44 in June 1963 by creators Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Ernie Hart, Janet Van Dyne a.k.a. The Wasp, has been an integral part of the Marvel Universe and