Can cinemas play day-and-date releases from Warner Bros after continually refusing to show Netflix films? The big circuits have to be feeling really stupid now: If they had only made a deal with Netflix last year on Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman at a 45-day window instead of emphatically rejecting one, perhaps this looming apocalypse brought on
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Nicole Kassell, the Emmy-winning Watchmen director, has inked a deal to become the lead director on HBO and Sky’s dark horror comedy The Baby, which is housed at Chernobyl producer Sister. Kassell will also serve as an executive producer on the series, which marks a debut for screenwriter Siân Robins-Grace, who is the co-executive producer
While recently promoting his new movie Archenemy, Joe Manganiello informed Yahoo that the now-scrapped Ben Affleck-led The Batman would have have had a “strong David Fincher vibe,” with Affleck (who also would have directed) specifically being influenced by Fincher’s 1997 film The Game. The movie would have seen Deathstroke, whose real name is Slade Wilson,
Johnny Depp may have lost the battle, but he still thinks he can win the war. Depp is heading to the UK Court Of Appeal in a bid to overturn a High Court verdict last month that The Sun did not libel the Pirates of the Caribbean actor by describing him as a “wife beater.”
Natalie Desselle-Reid — a prolific actor known for roles in “Eve,” a ‘Madea’ film and ‘B*A*P*S’ — has died after a battle with cancer … one she’d kept private. The veteran comedic actor passed away Monday morning. A family member tells TMZ she died of colon cancer after having been diagnosed earlier this year. We’re
EXCLUSIVE: The Ready Or Not gang of filmmakers Radio Silence and scribes Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy, are coming back together to work on the MGM horror high school movie Reunion. Radio Silence, composed of Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett and Chad Villella, will direct and produce off a screenplay and story by Busick, who
Apple‘s AirPods Max are the first headphones to carry the company branding. Apple claims these over-ear headphones provide high-fidelity audio, and are priced accordingly. Being a new form of AirPods, they do come with all of the best features associated with Apple’s earbuds, including computational audio, active noise cancellation (with Transparency mode) and Siri interaction. In 2014,
EXCLUSIVE: Quiver Distribution has landed U.S. rights to Falling, the directorial debut of Oscar-nominated actor Viggo Mortensen that had its world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. A theatrical, digital and on-demand release is set for February 5. Mortensen penned the script, composed the score, produced and stars alongside Laura Linney and Lance Henriksen
The Independent Cinema Alliance, a volunteer alliance of independent cinemas operating in North America, has responded to WarnerMedia’s theatrical-HBO Max 2021 slate day and date release strategy and they’re not pleased. They’re calling on studio of Stanley Kubrick, Clint Eastwood and Harry Potter to recommit to theatrical exclusivity, for that is what drives value to movies, not
Chuck Yeager, a World War II fighter pilot, the first person to break the sound barrier and one of the subjects of Philip Kaufman’s The Right Stuff has died. He was 97. Yeager’s wife, Victoria, confirmed the death on the pilot’s official Twitter page on Monday, noting that the historic WWII vet died just before
The young person you see in the above photo is named Danny Sheehan, and through some celebrity magic, he’s now become a keeper of Aquaman’s trident. Captured on his Instagram account, Jason Momoa was able to hook up Danny with a bunch of awesome merch from Sideshow Collectables’ line of Aquaman products. But of course,
EXCLUSIVE: AMC’s genre streaming service Shudder has picked up all rights to Brit supernatural chiller The Power for North America, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. The Power marks the feature directorial debut of writer-director Corinna Faith (The Innocents) and stars rising actress Rose Williams, whose credits include The CW’s Reign, Sky original Curfew, Netflix’s
Exclusive Zak Bagans has all the makings of the dollhouse from hell … he just threw down more cash for one of the famous Chucky dolls from “Child’s Play.” The “Ghost Adventures” star tells TMZ … he dropped a cool $11,000 at an auction, and scored one of the creepy dolls used in the first
EXCLUSIVE: Kat Graham (The Vampire Diaries), Alex Pettyfer (I Am Number Four) and singer and actress Macy Gray (Change In The Air) are set to star in romance-thriller Forget To Remember. Filmmaker Michael Dinh (Prodigal)’s feature, currently in pre-production, will follow an emotionally vulnerable young man who gets tricked into fulfilling a mysterious young woman’s
Played by Jeff Goldblum in the multi-billion dollar Jurassic Park franchise, Dr. Ian Malcolm is a noted mathematician who is brought in to assess the viability of the dinosaur theme park on the remote Isla Nublar, off the coast of Costa Rica. When things go famously wrong, he’s associated with the issue of dinosaurs living
Like all things, the MTV Film & TV Awards pivoted to a different kind of ceremony this year because of the pandemic and opted to air a retrospective that spotlighted the Greatest of All Time (GOAT) in TV and film from the 1980s until the present. Hosted by Vanessa Hudgens, the ceremony continued the grand
It goes without saying that the domestic box office is struggling. That said, it feels that we are trying to find different ways of framing that story every week. At the end of the day, it’s a win to report any numbers at all considering the circumstances — especially for the specialty box office space
Joss Whedon is leaving HBO drama The Nevers. Whedon was set to co-write and direct the science fiction drama about a gang of Victorian women who find themselves with unusual abilities, relentless enemies and a mission that might change the world. The drama is still set to air in summer 2021. It was handed a
Extraction introduced a lot of interesting characters, each with different shades of grey. With this, there’s definitely plenty of room to flesh them out. When it comes to spinoffs, David Harbour’s Gaspar is definitely a prime candidate. It would be nice to see a prequel film that chronicles his life before the events of the
An online backlash that swirled in China on Friday over a scene in Monster Hunter has resulted in the movie being pulled from the country’s cinemas. The Paul WS Anderson-directed feature game adaptation had been eyeing the market as one of its biggest plays, but a short exchange in the film has been perceived as
Play video content Matthew McConaughey is not into extremes, at least not in politics … and that’s why he’s saying the intolerance and condescension has got to stop, and he has a solution. M.C. jumped on Russell Brand‘s podcast, ‘Under the Skin,’ and they were talkin’ politics … both here in the States and across
“This account doesn’t exist” and a blank page is what Twitter users will encounter when they try to search Black Panther star Letitia Wright on the social media platform. Just a days after the Small Axe actress shared a link to a 70-minute YouTube video by a coronavirus vaccine skeptic, Wright deleted both her Twitter
A new poster for Riverdale season 5 teases a bloody mess and a 911 phone call. The teen horror-drama based on Archie Comics has garnered a passionate fanbase since premiering on the CW in 2017. Season 4 aired from October 2019 to May 2020, but production was cut short when someone on set was exposed to
EXCLUSIVE: A team member working on the CW series The Flash in Vancouver has tested positive for Covid-19, Deadline has learned. The asymptomatic diagnosis was confirmed through the rigorous testing protocols implemented by The Flash studio Warner Bros. TV for all of its production employees. Out of an abundance of caution, production on The Flash
Movie theater stocks were mixed Friday as the industry absorbed shock waves from Warner Bros.’ window-smashing announcement the day before when the cinema group collectively plunged by double digits. The smaller, publicly-traded U.S. chains have lower debt and are in better financial shape. Third- and fourth-ranked circuits Cinemark and Marcus both rose by more than
Cineworld Group, owner of Regal Cinemas in the U.S. and the world’s second largest exhibitor, has reacted to Warner Bros’ bombshell Thursday announcement that its entire 2021 film slate will debut on HBO Max day-and-date with cinemas domestically. In a statement, Cineworld said the company believes that when cinemas make a comeback, Warners “will look
Outside of Snake Eyes serving as an origin story, no specific plot details have been revealed yet. That said, along with the aforementioned individuals, the movie also stars Peter Mensah as Blind Master, Úrsula Corberó as Baroness and Samara Weaving as Scarlett, and Haruka Abe, Takehiro Hira and Steven Allerick have been cast in undisclosed
After three separate Covid-19 stay-at-home orders in the past week, many Los Angeles residents are understandably confused. Very briefly, the orders emanate from the State of California, L.A. County and L.A.’s mayor. Counties and cities may be more restrictive than the state mandates, but not less restrictive. For the most part, the California order is
Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Warner Bros’ plan to stream new movie releases will not only rock the theater industry, but also impact the U.S. economy … according to Daymond John. The “Shark Tank” star joined “TMZ Live” Friday to break down Warner’s game-changer — streaming its blockbuster 2021 films on HBO Max, while also
Ava DuVernay is doubling down on DC Comics IP for her latest television project: an adaptation of teen superhero story Naomi. DuVernay, who is set to direct the feature film adaptation of DC’s New Gods, is developing the drama for the CW. She has teamed with Arrow writer and co-exec producer Jill Blankenship to write and