Warning: The below interview has spoilers about Zack Snyder’s Justice League, which goes live on HBO Max today. It’s pretty common for a notable director to have a director’s cut. But the circumstances surrounding Zack Snyder’s re-approach to his 2017 opus Justice League are quite an anomaly from both a filmmaker and studio perspective. Zack Snyder’s Justice
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The Brad Furman-directed crime thriller City of Lies has had quite a journey, but the Saban Films release finally hits theaters today before dropping on digital and on demand April 9. Based on the book, LAbyrinth, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Randall Sullivan and adapted by Christian Contreras, City of Lies follows the investigation into the infamous murder of
Top Gear presenters Freddie Flintoff, Chris Harris, and Paddy McGuinness are planning a big American road trip after being forced to film Season 30 of the motoring show entirely in the UK amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis. Ambitious overseas trips have become Top Gear’s signature over the years, but the pandemic has changed all of that,
CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links. Video game adaptations have had a rocky tenure in theaters, but the subgenre seems to be looking up. After the success of Detective Pikachu and Sonic the Hedgehog, fans can’t wait to see
EXCLUSIVE: William Baldwin (Backdraft) and Patrick Muldoon (Days Of Our Lives) have signed on to star in the family adventure film Dakota, alongside previously announced Abbie Cornish and Lola Sultan. The film centers on Kate (Cornish), a widow who lost her husband in the war in Afghanistan and is struggling to maintain her small-town farm
Arnold Schwarzenegger should be put in charge if aliens ever invade our planet … according to 2,000 adults in Great Britain. “The Terminator” star and ex-California Governor topped the list of 20 celebs and public figures in a British survey of who’d be best equipped to handle the doomsday scenario … with Will Smith coming
Spring is almost officially here with heroes, icons and mysteries both fictional and real booming on the small screen this weekend. Of course, only one of them will be the show you have to watch this week – as you can discover in the video review above. Chronologically, there’s The Falcon and The Winter Soldier
Kenny Niedermeier and Armando Rubio might just be the most romantic couple in 90 Day Fiancé history. They have some competition from power couples like Loren and Alexei Brovarnik and David and Annie Toborowsky, but Kenny and Armando’s pure and unproblematic love was wonderous to behold during their season of 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way.
With the first green shoots of spring — and mass vaccinations — bringing hope for continued drops in Covid-19 cases, some events and venues sidelined for the past year are cultivating comeback plans. Below is a running list of theme parks and movie theaters that are reopening, movies rescheduled, and awards shows, film festivals and
The Motion Picture Association released its annual report on box office and home entertainment, and the bottom line is sobering but little surprise after a year of Covid closures. The U.S./Canada box office market was down 80% in 2020, to $2.2 billion, while tickets sold were down 81% to 0.24 billion. Still, that was offset
GLAAD has set up an all-star lineup of LGBTQ people and allies for the upcoming virtual ceremony of the 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards on April 8. Hosted by Niecy Nash, the ceremony will include appearances by Ian Alexander (Star Trek: Discovery), Molly Bernard (Younger, Milkwater), Matt Bomer (The Sinner, The Boys in the Band), Jonathan
The 25-year-old Bridgerton star has signed on to portray famous English ceramic artist Clarice Cliff alongside Discovery of Witches actor Matthew Goode. The movie, titled The Colour Room, will have Phoebe Dynevor starring in another period piece, but this time, it’ll center on Clarice’s rise to prominence in the 1920s, per Deadline.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage will now go on Sept 17 in stead of June 25. This comes in the wake of Universal’s F9 moving onto the Sony/Marvel summer date after departing Memorial Day weekend. Venom 2 will have the full suite of 3D, Imax and premium large format screens. Previously on Sept. 17, Sony had the Man From
Demi Lovato says she was sexually assaulted as a teenager and is opening up about it for the first time, publicly … because it’s taken her this long to process the trauma. The singer made the shocking revelation in her new documentary, ‘Dancing with the Devil’ … which premiered Tuesday night at SXSW. In the
EXCLUSIVE: Schitt’s Creek star Emily Hampshire is joining Amazon UK Original series The Rig, we can reveal. The six-part thriller, which will be directed by Line Of Duty and Bodyguard director John Strickland, is set to shoot in Scotland later this month on an oil rig and at FirstStage Studios in Edinburgh. It will be the
Actor Tom Budge recently took to Instagram to announce he had parted ways with Amazon after a year working on The Lord of the Rings television series, news which mirrors the recasting of Aragorn on the original fantasy trilogy. Amazon’s series, based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels and apocrypha, is set to be one of the biggest television shows ever
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated filmmaker Fernando Meirelles, known for hits including The Two Popes, The Constant Gardener and City Of God, is launching a slate of environmental films in association with UK production firm Make Waves. Four of the projects on the $20M documentary slate have already attracted talent and funding. Meirelles himself will direct Soil, a
Great news for AMC which threw open the doors to its Century City and Burbank locations Monday after a year of being shutdown due to Covid restrictions: The No. 1 circuit’s Burbank location sold out 22 of its 32 showtimes, while Century City sold out 18 of its 30 showtimes yesterday. Remember, capacity is capped
Fanboy heaven or hell. Which is it? How many hours, precisely, do you want to spend with Superman and Batman and a bunch of other superfigures in a world where all humor has been banned and portentous droning music is played ceaselessly with no off-switch available? Whose superhero movies do you prefer, the heavy, ponderous
The Naked Time A particularly fun storyline the Star Trek film franchise could reboot for the big screen is the fourth Original Series episode ever, “The Naked Time,” which had the Enterprise crew being infected with a virus that lowers the crew’s inhibitions, thus creating madness on the ship. Sulu famously went shirtless and behaved
“Fifty percent of all cowboys were Black — even the Lone Ranger was Black,” the kid is told. “Who’s the Lone Ranger?” he replies. Here is the first trailer for Concrete Cowboy, a drama that premiered at Toronto last year starring Idris Elba and Caleb McLaughlin set amongst the North Philadelphia urban cowboy subculture. When 15-year-old Cole
Elliot Page has revealed he’s undergone surgery to remove his breasts, and says it’s changed his life for the better … as he now feels like his true self. The actor — who recently came out as a trans man — is featured on the new cover of TIME Magazine, which does a deep dive
Amazon Studios has started production on its debut Italian original movie, the young adult comedy Dog Years (Annie Da Cane), which is being directed by Fabio Mollo (South is Nothing). Mary Stella Brugiati and Alessandro Bosi wrote the screenplay, which tells the story of Stella, a clumsy, cynical, imaginative and tormented teenage girl. After a
The thriller genre is one of the best in the world of movies. Filled to the brim with some of the most exciting scenes to have ever made their way to the big screen, twists to keep us guessing the entire length of every feature, and moments of tension sure to raise our heart rate
EXCLUSIVE: “Don’t be in a panic!” These are the sage words from Sony Pictures Classics’ Co-President Michael Barker about the future of independent films at the theatrical box office. While the pandemic and the proliferation of streamers has sent a number of awards season contenders into the home, he believes that arthouse fare will still
Isidore “Izzy” Mankofsky, a longtime cinematography who worked on such films as The Jazz Singer, The Muppet Movie and Somewhere in Time and enjoyed a prolific career in TV, earning three Emmy nominations, has died. He was 89. The American Society of Cinematographers said he died March 11 but did not provide details. He received the President’s
This morning, we focus on the folks who didn’t get the call, the Snubs that held Oscar hopes, only to have them dashed in the wee hours of the morning, Pacific Coast Time. These are movies, actors, directors and craftsmen who had been told at various stages of the race that this would be their
Nominations for the 93rd Oscars were revealed Monday morning, with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is announcing noms in 23 categories representing the best in cinema over the past year-plus — a span lengthened this year because of the coronavirus pandemic. Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas announced the nominations in a
WandaVision‘s final two episodes finally cleared up one of the most emotionally-charged debates of Avengers: Infinity War: the question of Star-Lord’s guilt. Vision’s beautiful line about grief being “love persevering” was easily a stand-out moment but it should also work as hard for Star-Lord as it does for Wanda. And it being used to seemingly justify Wanda’s
Refresh for latest…: As we first reported yesterday, James Cameron’s Avatar is again king of the all-time worldwide box office, having snapped the title back from Avengers: Endgame thanks to a very robust China reissue this session. The full three-day frame in the Middle Kingdom is estimated at $21.1M, also giving the sci-fi epic bragging