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Refresh for more analysis and chart With great success, comes continued great chaos for the theatrical experience this past week. On the plus side, the domestic box office is continuing its rebound during the pandemic with the second weekend of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings earning $9.7M in its second Friday, -67%

Though it is interesting that the report does not mention the confirmed status of Spider-Man: No Way Home, which is reportedly coming this December as well. However, in that instance, while Marvel Studios obviously had a hand in making No Way Home, it ultimately hails from Sony Pictures, so the latter likely has more say

Editor’s note: One in a series of remembrances on the 20 years since 9/11. The 2001 Toronto Film Festival was at its midpoint on a clear and sunny Tuesday morning, when American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m., followed by United Airlines Flight

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are reminding everyone they know how to dress to impress — which is good, because all eyes were on them for their big public event debut. Ya gotta see Ben and Jen together Friday at the 78th Venice International Film Festival … it’s the first time since they reunited that

EXCLUSIVE: What better to liven up a quite Toronto Film Market than a package for a movie set in the rap arena, that has stars and a slam dunk a top-selling soundtrack? Justice Smith, Idris Elba and Taylour Paige will star in We All Die Young, a drama that Hamilton star Daveed Diggs has scripted

The Real Housewives of Orange County alum Tamra Judge is reportedly joining the season 2 cast of the Real Housewives spin-off series on Peacock. The first installment of the spin-off was filmed in May in Turks and Caicos, featuring current cast members from the many Housewives franchises. However, no one from RHOC was in the cast. The first season will include Kenya Moore,

Universal will be releasing the Blumhouse/Miramax movie Halloween Kills in theaters and on Peacock on Oct. 15. The release date stays the same, the distribution pattern changes up. Why is Uni doing this in the wake of moviegoers’ great return to theaters for Disney/Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings, that pic having cleared $106M?

EXCLUSIVE: Yellowstone and Fifty Shades franchise actor Luke Grimes has signed on to star in the sci-fi-thriller Hello Stranger, with April Mullen (Wander) slated to direct from a screenplay penned by Ryan Christopher Churchill. In Hello Stranger, a woman attempts to replace her newly deceased husband, Evan (Grimes), with an android simulant. Although SIM Evan

Jason Momoa plays Duncan Idaho in Dune against a huge cast also including Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Dave Bautista, Oscar Isaac and Josh Brolin (among many others). The actor recently told Collider that he’s checked out the movie a few times, and he’s been viewing it from the outside looking in, as if he’s not a

EXCLUSIVE: Rosario Dawson has been set to join LaKeith Stanfield and Tiffany Haddish in Haunted Mansion, Disney’s latest live-action film based on one of its theme park attractions. Justin Simien is directing a script from Katie Dippold, and the pic is now gearing up to begin shooting next month. The plot is under wraps and

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are back in Italy, and even though this time it’s for industry biz … there’s always time to pack in a little PDA. It’s what they do. The couple arrived Thursday for the 78th Venice International Film Festival, and were all smiles — and all over each other — on

“We have three days before the future is changed irrevocably,” proclaims Star Trek: Picard’s Sir Patrick Stewart in the telling and time jumping latest look at Season 2 of the Paramount+ series. However, the future was on display in more ways than one this Star Trek Day for Jean-Luc as the newest Picard trailer (watch

Paul Schrader, who co-wrote Martin Scorsese‘s Raging Bull, disagrees with his old collaborator on whether Marvel movies are cinema. Schrader has screenwriting credits on some of Scorsese’s most acclaimed works, including Taxi Driver, Bringing Out the Dead, and The Last Temptation of Christ. He’s also an impressive director in his own right. Despite this storied resume, Schrader picked up his first

EXCLUSIVE: Among the world premieres being offered at the Toronto Film Festival this week is the latest from director Ted Melfi, The Starling, which reteams him with Melissa McCarthy and Chris O’Dowd. Both also appeared in Melfi’s much acclaimed St. Vincent that starred Bill Murray and which also had its world premiere at TIFF in 2014.

Before the industry could calculate summer’s final box office figures, they had to wait for Disney, which had the final say. Because when you have a Marvel movie like Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings programmed during the final weekend of the season, and it delivers a Labor Day holiday opening of $94.67M, it

EXCLUSIVE: Power Book III: Raising Kanan star Omar Epps and Stumptown‘s Michael Ealy are teaming for the Lionsgate and Command Films thriller The Devil You Know, Deadline has learned. Written and directed by Charles Murray, The Devil You Know follows Marcus Cowans (Omar Epps), who after a lifetime of trouble, finally has the chance to turn things around with the love and

From the moment they discover this gigantic threat to life as we know it, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence’s Don’t Look Up protagonists are sent on a wild ride. Visits to the White House, andspots on cable news with anchors played by Cate Blanchett and Tyler Perry ensue, all with the goal of getting the

Tributes for Michael K. Williams are pouring in from the sports world after his shocking death Monday morning … with star athletes and pro teams honoring the late actor on social media. Dwayne Johnson — who worked with Williams in the 2013 film “Snitch” — penned an emotional message on Instagram … saying, “You’ll be

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

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