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Refresh for latest…: There were two new Hollywood entries at the international box office this weekend as both Warner Bros/Village Roadshow/Heyday Films’ Wonka and Universal/Illumination’s Migration began early offshore rollout, though on different patterns. It was good news all around with Timothée Chalamet-starrer Wonka launching to $43.2M in 37 markets, well ahead of pre-weekend projections.
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The Eternal Memory chronicled the final years in the life of Chilean journalist Augusto Góngora. He died in June, five months after the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Director Maite Alberdi felt she not only captured his final years with wife Paulina Urrutia, but also the Chilean history that dictators like Augusto Pinochet
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French director Justine Triet’s Cannes Palme d’Or winning film Anatomy Of A Fall swept the awards at 36th European Film Awards in Berlin this evening, winning Best European Film, Director, Screenplay (with Arthur Harari) and actress for Sandra Hüller. There was a strong selection this year with other films and directors leading the nominations including
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2018 Everyone Is a Hero writer-director Jude Anthany Joseph was a victim of the 2018 Kerala floods in southern India, a catastrophic natural disaster that was the worst flood to hit the region in more than a century. “My house was flooded, and it happened so quickly that in the morning after it happened, I
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After one Japanese title delivered at the sleepy December box office last weekend, that being Godzilla Minus One, here’s another that’s set to dominate: Studio Ghibli and GKIDS’ Hayao Miyazaki‘s The Boy and the Heron which is looking at a No. 1 lead with $10M+ after $2.39M Thursday and early access previews. The comp here
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EXCLUSIVE: New York-based Women Make Movies has acquired U.S. rights for Palestinian Oscar entry Bye Bye Tiberias by Lina Soualem. The intimate work sees Soualem accompany her Palestinian-French actress mother Hiam Abbass back to the Arab village within Israeli borders, which she left in the 1980s to pursue her acting career in Europe. There, they
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They’ve collaborated onscreen before to varying degrees of success—truly, who could forget Gigli?—and now on-again, off-again power couple Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are partnering up yet again for an upcoming movie.  While at the 2023 Elle Women in Hollywood event on Tuesday, December 5, Lopez chatted with ET‘s Nischelle Turner about her upcoming studio
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EXCLUSIVE: Lighthouse Management + Media has signed buzzy writer-director Laura Kosann for representation in all areas. A fast-rising star, Kosann was a 2021 Academy Nicholl Fellow and has had three features on The Black List in the last two years. Currently, she is scripting Sony’s English-language remake of Hi, Mom, the Chinese film from director
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Leonard Bernstein — the composer of West Side Story and considered one of the world’s greatest conductors — has lived rent-free in Bradley Cooper’s head since 2018, when Steven Spielberg met with him about what was going to be a straightforward biopic of a musical genius. Somehow, Spielberg knew that Cooper had been obsessed with
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Actor Jonathan Majors was on top of the world before his recent legal issues, thanks to his acclaimed performances in both Creed III and Ant-Man 3. But back in March Majors was charged with assault in New York City, and accused of abuse by his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari. The trial has officially begun, and Majors’
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Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Creed III, the newest installment of the Rocky spinoff series that has Michael B Jordan at the helm both in front of and behind the camera. Keenan Coogler and Zach Baylin took writing credits on the screenplay for the film (Kennan’s brother
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In an intriguing move, yet retro, move for Disney on the 2024 theatrical release calendar which is starving for product, three Pixar movies –2020’s Soul, 2021’s Luca and 2022’s Turning Red –which were sidelined on Disney+ during the pandemic, are getting special engagement theatrical runs. We hear all three will receive moderate to wide theatrical
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