Sing Street, the sold-out Off Broadway musical that was set to begin performances at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre just as the COVID-19 shutdown hit, is now targeting an opening sometime between winter 2021 and winter 2022. The announcement was made Monday by producers Barbara Broccoli, Brian Carmody, Patrick Milling Smith, Michael Wilson, Orin Wolf and Frederick
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Expedition Everest Disney’s Animal Kingdom was a unique theme park idea from its inception. Rather than simply being another theme park full of rides, the idea was to focus on the natural world and to include as many attractions surrounding actual animal life as traditional theme park rides and shows. The problem is that building
EXCLUSIVE: Arturo Sampson will be the new Head of Production at Isaac Lee’s Exile Content Studios, which focuses on acquiring and developing premium original content for audiences across the U.S. and Latin America. Based in Mexico, Sampson will oversee scripted and unscripted projects in Mexico, Spain, Colombia and the U.S. With Sampson on board, Exile
Shia LaBeouf doesn’t need a bumper sticker to show his support for Joe Biden … a face covering will do just fine. The actor was out Monday morning in L.A. arriving at a film set while also doing his part to stem the spread of the coronavirus. But, Shia’s face mask is doing double duty
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is finalizing an acquisition deal that will move The Woman in the Window out of Disney-owned 20th Century Studios and into a new window, as a global Netflix event film. The thriller, which stars Amy Adams and is directed by Joe Wright, is the last of the splashy book-based movie projects left behind
Brand new Marvel fan-art imagines Captain America and Tony Stark’s first meeting after the events of Avengers: Endgame. The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s banner heroes had a tumultuous relationship during their time as Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Due to their differences in world view, they often butt heads, but they typically found common ground for the greater
IFC’s Dave Franco-directed horror movie The Rental continued to hold its lease atop the box office for a second weekend in a row, grossing $317,823 from 242 locations. Pic’s 10-day gross stands at $916,333. The Rental reps the first No. 1 movie for the indie distrib (My Big Fat Greek Wedding, if you remember, only got up
Microsoft said Sunday evening it will continue to pursue a takeover of TikTok in the U.S. as President Donald Trump backs off of threats to ban the service, a development that could see the software giant running the hugely popular video sharing app by mid-September. The Redmond, Washigton-based company announced its intentions following a conversation
As one of the first major motion pictures to re-enter production, Jurassic World: Dominion will more than likely help to set the standard for studio practices for the foreseeable future. Things are sure to get challenging at times, as it was even wrongfully reported that the film had shut down production just shortly after starting
The Warner Bros. Burbank, CA lot has been a ghost town for the last four-and-half-months, with employees working from home in quarantine. But somebody left Annabelle behind, and the below video shows what happens when the evil doll is left to her own devices, all alone, in the New Line offices. Back in late July,
Exclusive Zac Efron is formulating a plan to escape from Los Angeles … and he’s got his eyes set on a big move down under!!! Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … Zac plans on listing his L.A.-area home in the very near future, and he wants to move full-time to the Byron Bay area
“The End Is The Beginning” declares some rough graffiti scrawled on a wall in the just released trailer for Season 6 of Fear the Walking Dead – and the end is looking very rough. Kicking off the zombie apocalypse mega-panel at the virtual Comic-Con@Home today, the first TWD spinoff aimed to give the people what
Bernie Wrightson and Len Wein’s green creation returns to print this Halloween for a 48-page one-shot titled Legend of the Swamp Thing Halloween Spectacular. Among the increased roll-out of new material being solicited as the comics industry tries to move past the COVID-19 pandemic, DC Comics’ 2020 Halloween plans appear right on track because this
SATURDAY UPDATE: Since cinemas reopened in China’s low-risk areas on July 20, the market today had its biggest day yet. Box office was $5.74M (RMB 40M) overall for the day, according to Maoyan figures. That reps a 38% jump from Friday. After leading last weekend and the midweeks, then dropping to No. 2 on Friday,
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced 69 more coronavirus-related fatalities on Friday. That’s much higher than the average number of daily COVID-related deaths reported last week, which was about 38. The new deaths increased the countywide death toll related to the pandemic to 4,624. County health officials have been warning about an
China’s second Friday with cinemas back to business in low-risk areas rang up another $4M at local turnstiles, a 39% increase versus the same day last week. About 60% of movie theaters are now operating, with capacity limits and social distancing still in place, so all numbers are to be taken with a grain of
It may be “the end of the world,” according to the Whisperers’ advancing horde, but Maggie is coming back to hopefully help save the day and The Walking Dead’s Survivors. Along with a premiere date, that’s just some of what a peek at the delayed Season 10 finale of AMC’s original zombie apocalypse splashed on
Dune is based on the 1965 landmark science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, which was previously adapted in 1984 by David Lynch. Jason Momoa joins a massive cast including what seems like half of Hollywood, with Timothee Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, Javier Barderm, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac and Stellan Skarsgård among his co-stars.
British comedy Stath Lets Flats is the little show that could. The Channel 4 comedy has had a pretty good few weeks – beating Fleabag twice at the BAFTA TV Awards on Friday. The show follows an incompetent rental agent, played by creator Jamie Demetriou, who runs a Greek-Cypriot letting agency in London, owned by
Happy Friday … here’s a filthy, but happy, Jason Momoa getting hosed down after riding on a dune buggy. The Hollywood hunk and star of the upcoming “Dune” remake flaunted his hot bod in a series of photos … where he’s caked in mud … giving a thumbs up while trying to clean him off.
Disney Channel Original Movies have been a family staple since Tiger Town first premiered, and 2020 isn’t breaking with tradition despite the current chaotic state of the world. After giving the musical crowd a treat in Zombies 2, the House of Magic is now bringing in the fantasy crowd with Upside-Down Magic. Starring newcomer Izabela Rose as the
The 11th season of The Walking Dead is unsurprisingly not coming this October, but there will be more of Season 10 next year, says showrunner Angela Kang. Having revealed that the coronavirus delayed Season 10 finale will air on October 4 earlier today at Comic-Con@Home during the prerecorded TWD panel, Kang just told fans that
The hope for NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell in the studio’s new unprecedented 17-day theatrical window collapse-PVOD deal with AMC Theatres is to make more money in the post theatrical windows which have waned in recent years. “Movies are our lifeblood,” said the NBCUniversal pro-PVOD exec, “Over the last couple of years, it’s become more increasingly
Netflix is underway in France on Jean-Claude Van Damme action-comedy The Last Mercenary from director David Charhon (The Other Side Of The Tracks). Also starring are Alban Ivanov, Assa Sylla, Samir Decazza, Patrick Timsit, Eric Judor and Miou-Miou. Van Damme will play a mysterious former secret service agent who must urgently return to France when
Nowadays, comic book films don’t mind leaning into their roots more and more because the genre has become so popular. Risks in every direction have been made in Marvel films, whether it be through the beautifully colorful costumes of a movie like Captain Marvel, or the gritty realism of Logan. When X-Men was being made,
One day after reaching an all-time high of 197 coronavirus-related deaths, California’s pandemic accounted for another 194 new deaths on Thursday. So far, COVID-19 has taken in 8,909 lives statewide. Deaths have dramatically increased from the near-flat levels in June. As of Thursday, the 14-day daily average of deaths attributed to coronavirus was 112. Two
Play video content @scottderrickson / Twitter Benedict Cumberbatch knows how to make friends and influence Marvel fans — try walking off the street into a comic book store while in his full Doctor Strange costume. Scott Derrickson, who directed the movie, posted a never-before-seen clip of the lead star popping into a Manhattan comic book
As the 2020 Emmy nominations loom, multiple Emmy winner and former longtime The Simpsons composer Alf Clausen has called out Disney, 20th Century Fox TV and Films and James L. Brooks’ Gracie Films for their alleged “lies and deceit” over his 2017 termination. “Through Defendants’ own documents and subterfuge of lies, Mr. Clausen can demonstrate
The Animal Crossing: New Horizons summer update trailer launched and confirmed that an old character is being re-introduced to the franchise, and it’s none other than Luna. The adorable little Tapir will allow players to visit other islands through their dreams, opening up a world of opportunities. The summer update trailer revealed that many exciting
ITV has commissioned ITV Studios-owned South Shore to make Don’t Rock The Boat, an ambitious competition series in which 12 celebrities row the entire length of Britain from Cornwall to Scotland. The format will go into production next week and will be hosted by Top Gear presenter Andrew Flintoff and AJ Odudu, who currently fronts