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NEON has set a theatrical release date for its Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner Titane, the distributor’s second after Bong Joon Ho’s 2019 Parasite which continued on to win a historical Best Picture at the Oscars for a foreign film. Titane will be hitting theaters on Oct. 1. NEON acquired Titane back in September 2019.  The pic, directed and written by French

China slammed Olympics broadcaster NBCUniversal on Saturday for a segment featuring a map of the country, which they called “incomplete.” The map in question depicted neither the island of Taiwan nor the South China Sea. It was presented on television on Friday, as Chinese athletes arrived for the Tokyo Olympic’s opening ceremony. The Chinese consulate

Jungle Cruise, also starring Jack Whitehall, Paul Giamatti, Edgar Ramirez and Jesse Plemons, will follow a Disney tradition of adapting movies out of their famed attractions, not unlike Pirates of the Caribbean and The Haunted Mansion. We’ll have to see how Emily Blunt’s character measures up to Indiana Jones, especially since Jungle Cruise is neighbored

FRIDAY AM Update: Refresh for updates Universal’s Old grossed $1.5M on Thursday night from 2,750 theaters that began showtimes at 7PM. This topped the Thursday night results for Paramount’s Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins which did $1.4M, also starting at 7PM at 2,662 theaters. Both titles are respecting a theatrical window. As far as who wins at the

Play video content Cleveland Guardians Cleveland pulled out the big guns to unveil its MLB team’s new name, drafting none other than Tom Hanks to roll out … the Cleveland Guardians!!! A slick new video announced the name change — which takes effect next season — with Hanks handling the voiceover, explaining the new name

It’s a requirement this year for all of those attending CinemaCon 2021 to be fully vaccinated against Covid. As such, we hear that the theatrical exhibition-Hollywood studio confab will go on from Aug. 23-26 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, NV. This despite news that Disney won’t be sending executives or stars to CinemaCon out

Andrew Lloyd Webber says he is “determined” to bring his on-pause (at least) Cinderella musical to London, though he can’t provide a timeline, telling a UK newspaper, “who knows when we will open here? 2084?” The composer announced yesterday that he would not open Tuesday night as planned following the positive Covid test on Saturday

When I wrote that movie, I didn’t put the end scene on. I handed it to the studio without that end scene on. We shot it without that end scene on. We previewed it without that end scene on. And then the best part was… I said, ‘Let’s just go for it.’ Lemme call Bruce

John Cornell, the Australian director and writer whose longtime friendship and comedy partnership with actor Paul Hogan led to the pair’s word on Crocodile Dundee and other film and TV projects, died today at his home in Byron Bay, New South Wales following a two-decade battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 80. His death was

Shaun Weiss, the goalie in the ‘Mighty Ducks’ movie, has scored a hat trick — finishing a court-ordered drug program, getting a criminal case dismissed … and most importantly, getting his life back on track. The D.A.’s Office in Yuba County, CA praised Shaun for successfully completing the drug court program. As we’ve reported, Shaun’s

EXCLUSIVE: DC hero Renee Montoya is coming to the rescue in Gotham City. Victoria Cartagena has joined the upcoming third season of Batwoman as a new series regular, portraying Renee in the CW drama. Cartagena’s Montoya is a former GCPD officer who left the force when she could no longer stomach the corruption inside the

Quentin Tarantino said that he would be comfortable showing his son, Leo, Kill Bill at age 5. In 2017, Tarantino got engaged to singer Daniella Pick, who’s the daughter of musician Svika Pick. The two met while Tarantino was traveling for Inglorious Basterds. After getting married in 2018, they announced that she was pregnant with their child in

EXCLUSIVE:  Brian and Mark Gunn are set to adapt the screenplay for Sony Pictures and Escape Artists’ The Kaiju Score based on the AfterShock Comics’ series by James Patrick and artist Rem Broo. The feature plot is being kept under wraps. In the comic book series, The Kaiju Score follows four characters who are attempting a

New York’s Public Theater canceled last night’s and tonight’s Free Shakespeare in the Park performances of Merry Wives after a member of the production tested positive for Covid-19. In a statement tweeted two hours before last night’s performance, the Public noted, “Earlier today, we learned that a member of the production has tested positive for

After testing actresses this week, Warner Bros And DC Films looks to have found their Batgirl. Sources tell Deadline Leslie Grace has been tapped to play Barbara Gordon in the studios’ Batgirl. The studio was already super high on the rising Afro-Latina star following her breakout role in In the Heights, and sources say her

In fact, I think all of the Scary Movie films are funny. To a certain extent, anyway. But horror is interesting, since what’s considered “scary” at the time is always changing, which is why the films that the Scary Movie franchise parodied usually directly affected the hilarity of each movie. Like, do you find the

See-Saw Films has hired Helen Gregory to the newly-created position of Creative Director. Joining September 1 and based in London, she will be responsible for steering the company’s creative strategy and the development of its TV slate, while also working closely with founders Iain Canning and Emile Sherman on the film strategy. Gregory joins from

Michaela Coel is rumored to be in the new “Black Panther” sequel — now being filmed after Chadwick Boseman‘s death — and it’s got fans wondering … curtains for Letitia Wright??? Word of the casting just came down Wednesday via Variety, which says the “I May Destroy You” star is definitely in it … but

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health confirmed 2,551 new cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday. According to officials, this is a 20-fold increase in a month, up from 124 new Covid-19 cases reported on June 21. It’s also a 40% increase just over the past 24 hours, when the daily count hit 1,821. Of

The long-hoped-for 2.0 update for Genshin Impact has been fully revealed. The update will add a new region, complete with its own quests, mechanics, and rewards. Three new characters will also be introduced, along with a slew of new weapons. These are only the major new additions; smaller features like recipes and crafting will be

“There is only one question that matters,” the young woman is told: “Do you swear on your life that what you say is true?” Here is the first trailer for The Last Duel, Ridley Scott’s period drama starring Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer and Ben Affleck. Based on the book by Eric Jager, it

Universal has dated two DreamWorks movies, Distant and Easter Sunday, as well as Amblin Entertainment’s The Last Voyage of the Demeter.  Distant, directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck, will open on March 11, 2022. The sci-fi comedy stars Anthony Ramos as a low-level mining engineer whose spaceship gets struck by an asteroid sending him to an unknown alien planet.

The simmering debate about UK government plans to privatize Channel 4 has boiled over into an all-out war. Channel 4 chair Charles Gurassa has written a blistering letter to culture secretary Oliver Dowden, warning that the government’s ambition to sell the It’s A Sin and Great British Bake Off network could be “very harmful” to

In Loki, Sylvie killed off He Who Remains, but as the character promised, his death led to the opening of the multiverse, and thus variants of himself. One of those variants will surely be Jonathan Majors’ Kang the Conqueror. In the comics, Kang is a time-traveling villain named Nathaniel Richards who is from the 31st

If there was any question Ben Platt is the real deal, the Dear Evan Hansen Tony winner and star of Netflix’s quirky The Politician, proves he has the acting chops to stand next to the best of his generation in the new indie dramedy, Broken Diamonds.  In the film inspired by the real-life experience of its screenwriter Steve Waverly,

Harvey Weinstein is currently aboard an airplane for the first time in over a year — but it’s not for any type of vacay … the guy’s on his way to L.A. to face even more charges. The disgraced movie producer’s attorney, Mark Werksman, tells TMZ … Weinstein’s legal team was notified their client is

EXCLUSIVE: After a thorough search that involved months of meeting a slew of talent, Marvel’s new Blade movie has found its director. While a deal is not yet done, sources tell Deadline that Bassam Tariq, best known for directing the Riz Ahmed film Mogul Mowgli, is in talks to helm the the new adaptation of the

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD has had a great release and has received many favorable reviews across the board. However, while there have been several quality-of-life improvements since the original Skyward Sword debuted on the Wii ten years ago, there are still some issues that tarnish the game’s overall refinement. This includes the Imprisoned fights, which

EXCLUSIVE: Spotify has signed a first-look deal with Noiser, the first agreement of its kind with a UK podcast producer. The partnership is housed through Spotify’s podcast network Parcast and gives the audio streamer first refusal on shows developed by Bristol-based Noiser. WME, which signed Noiser last year, brokered the pact. Deathbed Confessions will be