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Jon M. Chu’s long awaited feature adaptation of the Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes 4x Tony winning musical In the Heights finally hits theaters and HBO Max this Friday and in a recent Fandango poll of 1,3K-plus moviegoers, 96% of ’em say it’s the first movie they plan to see since pandemic started. The pic, which

EXCLUSIVE: We can reveal Friends star Lisa Kudrow as the first name for Disney+’s musical comedy Better Nate Than Ever, which is being produced by La La Land, Mary Poppins Returns and Cruella super-producer Marc Platt. Ferdinand scribe Tim Federle, who recently show-ran Disney’s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, is adapting and directing the family

Movies can take a long time to get made. The wait can be frustrating for fans, but most films have so many hoops to jump through that the delay is inevitable. However, even the longest journeys start with a single step, and pre-production news can be just as exciting as a release date. Director James

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, MGM has secured feature rights to Minnie Schedeen’s short story Exoplanet. The Old Guard director Gina Prince-Bythewood is attached to helm, and Matt Tolmach (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Venom, Morbius) and David Manpearl are attached to produce for Matt Tolmach Productions. Schedeen will adapt her short story for the

Margot Robbie and her hubby are building a beachfront home smack in the middle of a homeless encampment that has overrun the area … but they are undeterred. The Aussie actress and her mister, Tom Ackerley, are knee-deep in construction at their Venice Beach house … which is chock-full of dirt, debris and Caterpillar machinery

Rob Zombie is pulling up to 1313 Mockingbird Lane. The rocker-turned-filmmaker said on social media today that he will tackle The Munsters as his next film project. The adaptation of the 1960s creepshow comedy will be for Universal 1440 Entertainment, NBCU confirmed, which likely means it will stream on Peacock. “Attention Boils and Ghouls!” he wrote amid

Imax announced Monday that Marvel Studios’ Black Widow — set for released by Disney July 9, will debut with 22 minutes of select scenes in expanded aspect ratio exclusively in Imax. The Scarlett Johansson-starrer is the first new movie in “Phase Four” of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the first new Marvel Studios theatrical release

The Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival on Monday unveiled winners for its just-wrapped 31st edition, bestowing its Audience Award for narrative feature on Ümit Ünal’s Love, Spells and All That and its best first feature honor on Marley Morrison’s Sweetheart. A total of 143 films including 33 features and five episodic series unspooled during the

Lisa Banes was almost killed by someone who mowed her down with a scooter and fled the scene out in New York City … TMZ has confirmed. Law enforcement sources tell us … the “Cocktail” actress was struck late Friday evening on the Upper West Side near the Lincoln Center — where she was reportedly

EXCLUSIVE: The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off in earnest this week and one of the indisputable highlights of this New York-centric fest as far as I am concerned is a documentary having its sold-out world premiere June 15 and chronicling a certain Southern California musical legend. Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road from director Brent Wilson (no

If you’ve been paying attention to Keeping Up With The Kardashians star Kourtney Kardashian and new beau Travis Barker, you’ll notice that the new couple has been enjoying a lot of time together in Palm Springs. It turns out that Kourtney hasn’t been just lounging around Kris Jenner’s mansion. Instead, Kourtney purchased a $12 million compound for her

With more theaters reopening and film-goers slowly returning, life is being resuscitated into the specialty box office. This week we see a faith-based movie premiere banking serious dinero. Witnesses is a film recounting the early days of the Church of Latter-Day Saints and the translation of the Book of Mormon. The movie is directed and

The BAFTA TV Awards winners have been announced, and it was a big night for Michaela Coel, whose BBC and HBO series I May Destroy You scooped two of the biggest prizes of the evening. During a pre-recorded ceremony at London’s iconic Television Centre, Coel walked away with best leading actress for her performance as

The Last Night In Soho Cast Includes Anya Taylor-Joy and Matt Smith Thomasin McKenzie and Anya Taylor-Joy seem to be co-leads of Last Night in Soho. Anya Taylor-Joy’s past work includes M. Night Shyamalan’s Split and Glass. She also appeared in The Witch, Emma, The New Mutants, Peaky Blinders, and The Queen’s Gambit. Thomasin McKenzie’s

Refresh for latest…: While the horror genre was the biggest global draw this weekend, the results are far from horrific — and therein is something to be said about the communal experience of scary movies. New Line/Warner Bros’ The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It led the international box office with $26.8M from 43

Play video content TMZ.com Paul Walker‘s brother says Vin Diesel and the rest of the ‘Fast and the Furious’ family made the right move letting his character ride off into the sunset … and he thinks Paul would get a kick out of where the franchise is these days. We got Cody Walker at Sancho’s

While the main focus of Mass Effect 2 is defeating the Collectors, Shepard can take time to help an old friend and finally face the enigmatic Shadow Broker in the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC missions. In the original Mass Effect trilogy, Lair of the Shadow Broker is a DLC players could purchase. Mass

Hello! Welcome to International Insider, I’m Jake Kanter. It’s been a short week both in the UK and America, but there’s still been a glut of news. Keep scrolling for all the headlines you need to read. As always, I’m on jkanter@deadline.com if you want to send comments, feedback or stories. And to get this

Saturday AM: Refresh for updates New Line’s The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is beating Paramount’s second weekend of A Quiet Place Part II, with an estimated $23.5M+ to $22M but there shouldn’t be any doubts: It’s a solid weekend at the box office, especially as the pandemic calms. Even No. 3 title, Disney’s Cruella is doing well,

No surprise here: Disney is capitalizing on last weekend’s success of Cruella in theaters and on Disney+ Premier, with a sequel already in the works with the pic’s director Craig Gillespie and writer Tony McNamara looking to team again. Said a Disney spokesperson, “We are very pleased with Cruella’s box office success, in conjunction with its strong

Peggy Carter’s Parking Spot The story behind Avengers Campus is that the location used to be a Stark Industries complex that has been repurposed into a place for Earth’s heroes to come together. However, there’s evidence in the land that the location had another purpose once upon a time, as at least part of it

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is turning Mark Millar’s Jupiter’s Legacy series into a universe spanning an anthology franchise. The streamer has set a live-action adaptation of Supercrooks, which delves into the story of Millarworld’s super-villains, as the next installment of the Jupiter’s Legacy saga. Meanwhile, Jupiter’s Legacy will not continue as an ongoing series. With Netflix and

Marilyn Monroe‘s cookbooks — the only 2 confirmed to have been owned by the icon — offer a glimpse into her personal life along with her diet … and they’re expected to fetch up to $75,000. The books — “The New Fanny Farmer Boston Cooking-School Cook Book” and “The New Joy of Cooking” — were

EXCLUSIVE:  Here’s the first clip from Accepted, the Tribeca world premiere documentary that offers a piercing look into the world of Ivy League college admissions. Directed by Dan Chen and produced by Concordia, the film looks at T.M. Landry, an unconventional K-12 school housed in a sparse warehouse made famous for sending its graduates to

Warning: Spoilers for Heroes Reborn #4 Rocket Raccoon and Groot have gone on a lot of adventures together, but in Heroes Reborn they are doing something they have never done before — raising a child. Not just any child either, a new God-tier hero called Starbrand. Indicated by a glowing star-shaped glyph marking, the Star Brand

True Detective star Stephen Dorff and The Edge of Seventeen‘s Blake Jenner have joined the Hawaiian production of Paradise City, which reps John Travolta and Bruce Willis’ first movie since 1994’s Pulp Fiction.  Willis plays renegade bounty hunter, Ryan Swan, who must carve his way through the Hawaiian crime world to wreak vengeance on the kingpin, played by Travolta,

Start banging the trash cans: Stomp, the long-running percussion extravaganza that’s been a popular Off Broadway audience draw for nearly 30 years, will resume performances on Tuesday, July 20, yet another sign that New York City’s theater scene is emerging from its now-15-month Covid hibernation. When it returns to the Orpheum Theatre, its home in

David F. Sandberg has been shooting the sequel to New Line’s Shazam! for about the past week and today provided a new look at the DC superhero’s new suit. Sandberg has mentioned on social that the character, played by Zachary Levi, was due for a new pair of leotards. “Why is it so dark?” says Shazam

It sounds like the inclusion of “Wildest Dreams” was all about the atmosphere the song added to Spirit Untamed through its sound and lyrics. The song, originally written in 2014 for her first completely pop record 1989, was a sweetly romantic tune about hoping to be remembered for one’s best moments, even if a couple