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Samba TV has provided an update on the number of U.S. Smart TV terrestrial households which have tuned into Disney+ Premier’s Black Widow with a running cumulative U.S. household viewership of 2 million. Last weekend, Samba TV reported that 1.1M U.S. households bought Black Widow in its first weekend. That means an additional 900K households bought the Scarlett

Warner Bros on Monday released a series of character posters from Dune, its upcoming sci-fi tentpole directed by Denis Villeneuve. The pic, an update of Frank Herbert’s novel which was turned in into a 1984 movie by David Lynch, is set to have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September before it

When filming any normal scene, a cinematographer would shoot the scene multiple times, all from different angles and lengths, to be able to give an editor the ability to put the different shots together in a variety of ways. But one expects that, when it came to shooting inside fighter jets, there wasn’t the time

Dr. Dre‘s son, Curtis Young, is ready to step out from his father’s shadow and make a name for himself in Hollywood … and he’s doing it by landing a starring role in a feature film. Curtis tells TMZ … he’s not only starring in the new film, “Charge It to the Game,” but also

EXCLUSIVE: Signature Entertainment has boarded international sales rights and UK distribution on revenge thriller Bull, starring Neil Maskell (Kill List) in the lead alongside David Hayman (Fisherman’s Friends). Bafta winner Paul Andrew Williams (London To Brighton) has written and directs. Producers are Dominic Tighe (A Confession), Signature’s Marc Goldberg (Final Score) and Sarah Gabriel (Kidnap), and Tea

The Man Without Fear has always been more of a solo act, but there came a time when even Daredevil had to assemble alongside the Avengers. The Earth’s Mightiest Heroes invited Matt Murdock to their ranks on more than one occasion, though Daredevil always had his reasons for turning them down. But when he proved himself

Spanish actress and activist Pilar Bardem—mother of actors Monica, Carlos, and Javier Bardem—died on Saturday at the Ruber Hospital in Madrid because of complications from lung disease not related to Covid-19. She was 82. The Goya Award-winning actress (the Spanish equivalent of an Oscar) appeared in a variety of film, theater, and TV projects throughout

If Disney keeps up this whole theatrical-PVOD day-and-date model, maybe it won’t be so scary for rival studios in the future to follow a Marvel movie during its second weekend at the box office. The studio’s Marvel Cinematic Universe standalone origin movie Black Widow had a great fall in its second session at the domestic B.O., down

CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links. There are some directors whose names alone are synonymous with adventure, thrills, and all other emotions we seek at the movies and I firmly believe that the late Richard Donner is such a

Cannes jury president Spike Lee said he “messed up, simple as that” after accidentally revealing the Palme d’Or winner, Titane, early during tonight’s awards ceremony. “I’m a big sports fan. I’m like the guy at the end of the game who misses a free throw or a kick. No apologies. The people of Titane said

Jodie Turner-Smith‘s Cannes Film Festival visit came to an abrupt halt this weekend — this after having to talk to cops about someone jacking her jewels … according to a new report. The “Queen & Slim” actress — who was there promoting her new film, “After Yang” — filed a police report Sunday after an

UPDATE: In what was one of the wildest, and most ground-breaking awards ceremonies of recent memory at the Cannes Film Festival, French filmmaker Julia Ducournau became the second-ever female director to win the Palme d’Or, with her audacious Titane. The last time a woman scooped the top prize was in 1993 when Jane Campion shared

Warning! Spoilers for the Sunday, July 18 episode of Big Brother 23 below! Live-feed viewers caught Brandon “Frenchie” French claiming that Big Brother 23 would be ruined if he were to get evicted. During night one inside the house, Frenchie won all three competitions that were thrown his way. Not only did he earn the

Less than a month before The Walking Dead kicks off its 11th and final season, the long and bitter legal war between former showrunner Frank Darabont, CAA and AMC is over. In the dictionary definition of a strategic whimper not a bang, the cabler just filed paperwork with the SEC declaring that they have paid

Two releases, very well reviewed and pretty widely available by recent specialty standards, look set to heat up the arthouse box office this weekend — Pig with Nicolas Cage in one of his best performances in years and Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain open on 600 and 952 screens respectively, and only in theaters. Oscar-winning

Watching the tumultuous and punishing Russian extravaganza Petrov’s Flu is like suffering a physical assault in a dark alley, or having a load of garbage jammed down your throat and piled on top of you until you just can’t take it anymore. Experimental theater bad boy and 2018 Cannes competition Leto entrant Kirill Serebrennikov takes

Fans are very excited about The Suicide Squad for many reasons, one of which is the magnificent King Shark, who is poised to be the film’s breakout star. Another Batman villain has been revealed to be appearing in The Suicide Squad, addinganother one of the Caped Crusaders rouges gallery to the mix. The Suicide Squad

With Cannes winding down tonight—just one last movie in the festival’s official selection, by Gaspar Noe, was left to play—Bill Murray took to the stage at the Debussy theater with cellist Jan Vogler, pianist Vanessa Perez and violinist Mira Wang for a 25-minute concert of music following the premiere of Andrew Muscato’s doc New Worlds:

Play video content @therock / Instagram Dwayne Johnson is stuck between a rock and a hard place — not being able to *easily* access a path to his car so he could get his sweat on … all because of a hungry hawk. The Rock couldn’t really leave his house Sunday morning — which he

EXCLUSIVE: Indiecan Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to Junta Yamaguchi’s Japanese comedy Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes. The pic premiered at Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, winning the White Raven and the Critics Award, before screening at events including Neuchâtel, Bucheon and Fantaspoa, winning the audience award at the latter. It will have

After debuting Fear Street Part 1: 1994 and Fear Street Part 2: 1978, Netflix’s horror trilogy event continues with Fear Street Part 3: 1666, taking viewers back to the origins of Sarah Fier’s curse on Shadyside and Sunnyvale. Based loosely on R.L. Stine’s Fear Street novels, a series with more mature themes and stories than the

Shown anywhere else other than at the Cannes Film Festival and like-minded environs, Memoria would play as nearly pitch-perfect parody of an art film. Arid, potted with risible minimalist dialogue, positively stewing in its own creative amazingness and with Tilda Swinton, no less, in the leading role, this seventh feature from Thai-brow pet Apichatpong Weerasethakul

EXCLUSIVE: Mooky Greidinger, CEO of Cineworld, the world’s second-biggest exhibition circuit and owner of Regal Cinemas, says he’s satisfied with this past weekend’s $80M domestic theatrical box office opening for Disney/Marvel’s Black Widow. But he also tells Deadline he remains “convinced” that with an exclusive theatrical window, “we could have brought in maybe $110M, maybe

While songs about exes might be cringeworthy for some recording artists, it looks like Jennifer Lopez doesn’t feel that way about her hit 2002 album. What’s more, she’s seemingly been re-listening to This Is Me… Then, which literally includes a track titled “Dear Ben.” Now I wonder why she might be revisiting this part of

If you haven’t heard of The Match Factory, you probably don’t work in the international arthouse film arena. The German sales and production outfit is one of the world’s leading champions of auteur cinema and has consistently been involved in a raft of festival-winning titles since its inception in 2006. From Cannes Palme d’Or winner

Sacha Baron Cohen is pissed at a cannabis company he claims is plastering his “Borat” character on one of its giant billboards … and now he’s suing over it. The actor filed suit against Solar Therapeutics, where he alleges the company is using his famous persona to sell medical marijuana in Massachusetts … where Borat’s

Jessica Alba starts filming the thriller Trigger Warning for Netflix in New Mexico this fall, starring and executive producing her first feature film in a few years. She told Deadline she’ll be flying back to Los Angeles twice a week in large part to tend to Honest Co., a business she founded a decade ago,

Some of Spider-Man’s greatest story arcs, like the death of Gwen Stacy, have been adapted into the movies, but with sixty years of comic book history behind him, many Spider-Man stories remain unknown to general audiences. Some of his best stories are very underrated, even among comic book fans. RELATED: Spider-Man’s Comic Book Villains, Ranked From

A new play about NSA whistleblower Reality Winner and Lucas Hnath’s acclaimed Dana H. will play in rotation on Broadway this fall, producers announced today. Is This A Room, conceived and directed by Obie Award winner Tina Satter, with text taken from the FBI interrogation of Winner, will begin previews at the Lyceum Theatre on

Lea Seydoux won’t be in Cannes this year after testing positive for Covid-19 back on Saturday. The star is staying in Paris to serve her self-isolation and to do her “part to keep everyone safe and healthy.” She was asymptomatic following the initial diagnosis and tested negative the day after, on Sunday, but French rules