The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health confirmed a decrease in new coronavirus-related deaths, but an increase in new cases on Saturday. Public Health’s latest count shows a total of 29 new deaths and 1,177 positive cases. Saturday’s update brings Los Angeles County numbers back to around those confirmed before the Labor Day Weekend.
Movies
Mulan, Disney’s live-action update on its 1998 animated classic grossed an estimated RMB 52.5M ($8.26M) on its opening Friday in China. The figure includes midnights, and portends a three-day weekend around $26M. This is a disappointment for the Niki Caro-directed movie which has faced mounting controversy in recent days, and will have suffered from piracy
Okay, so they look incredible as the iconic DC duo. The digital artist fit Batfleck in the character’s blue suit from the 2002-2003 Hush storyline, where the Dark Knight and Catwoman explore a romance in between his run-ins with the Batman family and Superman. Ana de Armas has not yet nabbed a comic book role,
EXCLUSIVE: Trace Lysette (Hustlers), Oscar nominee Patricia Clarkson (Sharp Objects), Oscar winner Anna Paquin (The Piano) and Oscar nominee Adriana Barraza (Babel) are attached to star in the feature film Monica, from Italian filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro. The Exchange is launching world sales during the Toronto Film Festival on the drama, which will chart the story
Dame Diana Rigg — the legendary actress with epic roles in “Game of Thrones” and the UK’s ‘Avengers’ TV series — has died. The British actress rose to prominence in the 1961 TV series, “The Avengers,” and became a worldwide phenomenon as a Bond girl in the 1969 Bond film, “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.”
As everyone knows , at least for the past several years, the Fall Festival circuit (Venice, Telluride, Toronto, NY) has been the quartet that sets the template for the movie awards season, leading all the way up to Oscar. It is known as the six month season , a wearying ride for those in major
Content creators, influencers, and notable gaming authorities have been sent scale models for the Xbox Series X and Series S by Microsoft, but one of the flaws in the Xbox Series X’s design doesn’t allow for the circular stand to be removed. The Xbox Series X gives players the option to the console stand straight
In the wake of the announced reopening of OC earlier this week, AMC is officially throwing the doors open to four locations in the greater Los Angeles area this weekend, followed by the AMC Woodbridge 5 on Sept. 18. The AMC Anaheim GardenWalk 6, AMC Orange 30, and AMC Tustin 14 will open on Friday,
Here you can watch footage from Deadline’s virtual event Face To Face With German Writers: Serious About Stories, which was held yesterday in partnership with German Films. Joining us were Christian Ditter, Hanno Hackfort, and Philipp Käßbohrer, three of the country’s most successful recent show creators and writers, all of whom have worked with the
The Elvis film is Baz Luhrmann’s first movie since 2013’s The Great Gatsby, and along with producing, he also co-wrote the feature with Sam Bromell, Saving Mr. Banks’ Kelly Marcel and Moulin Rouge’s Craig Pearce. The Visit’s Olivia DeJonge will portray Priscilla Presley, and Maggie Gyllenhaal and Rufus Sewell will play Elvis’ parents.
Paramount Pictures president of production Elizabeth Raposo has exited the studio. This has been a rumor around town ever since Wyck Godfrey exited after Emma Watts became president of the Paramount Motion Picture Group in late June. Godfrey and Raposo worked closely together. Here is the internal memo just sent out at Paramount by Watts.
Exclusive Chuck Norris is going after a company that’s using his iconic action star status and masculine reputation to sell boner pills … according to a new lawsuit. The “Walker, Texas Ranger” star’s suing a company he believes goes by a couple different names — Bio-Molecular Solutions and Biogenetics — claiming it’s using his famous
“Indie Smash Bros.” sounds like a perfect idea if done well, and Bounty Battle’s animated intro sequence builds excitement for this very notion, as characters from all over the 2D indie spectrum leap into the ring. Otus from Owl Boy and Juan from Guacamelee are sucked into a portal along with heroes and villains from a slew of other games,
Studiocanal will be launching sales at Toronto for The Jonsson Gang, the latest pic from Tinker Tailor Solider Spy filmmaker Tomas Alfredson. SF Studios is handling the project’s Swedish release, which is set for December 2020. The pic is a reboot of a successful Swedish film comedy series. Following a failed heist, a man ends
Imax CEO Rich Gelfond anticipates streamers will become more active in exhibition as the post-COVID business shakes out and said his team is turning gray at the stress of constantly shifting release schedules — even as Deadline reports that Warner Bros. is thinking of pushing Wonder Woman 1984 to late December. “One of the reasons
“Tonight we are here together to roll out innovations,” said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Wednesday. “When it comes to stopping COVID in its tracks,” he said, “information is power.” The mayor then went on to announce a new initiative with a private company called Citizen that would use the company’s app, installed on
In Bill and Ted Face the Music the modern-day versions of the characters are finally forced to write the song that is supposed to unite all of time and space, but since the two have had no success writing the song previously, they decide the only way to do it is to use time travel
Jason Momoa has waded into the fracas between his Justice League co-star Ray Fisher and Warner Bros., siding with the former today on Instagram, posting “#IStandWithRayFisher.” Fisher’s fight with Warner Bros. escalated on Friday after the Cyborg actor posted on Twitter, “So you can better understand how deep this goes: After speaking out about Justice League, I
Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com The guy who helped invent Jelly Belly jelly beans is going full Gene Wilder in these dark times — promising to give one lucky person their own candy factory if they play his game. David Klein has kicked off a Willy Wonka-esque treasure hunt that’s open to anyone in these
UK producers Dominic Buchanan (The End of The F***ing World) and Bennett McGhee (Mogul Mowgli) are launching film and TV firm Home Team with a focus on development and production of high-end features and TV series. The company is aiming to identify and develop under-represented creatives and new voices – primarily, but not restricted to,
It has been reported that Borat 2 is going to happen and has already finished shooting. Sacha Baron Cohen’s 2006 film Borat is largely considered to be one of the defining comedies of the 2000s. The film is a mockumentary following the style created and developed in Cohen’s earlier work Da Ali G Show. Borat sees Cohen play the titular character –
As promised when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its Academy Aperture 2025 initiative in June, new standards of representation and inclusion have been announced by AMPAS today that will gradually be put in place for the 94th (2022) and 95th (2023) Oscars, but in full effect beginning with the 96th Academy
Refresh for updates: Warner Bros. long-awaited Christopher Nolan movie Tenet finally opened in the U.S., and together with its Canadian run, which began last weekend rang up $20.2M to date at 2,810 theaters. All in, the time travel, 2 1/2 hour spy thriller has clocked almost $150M to date. Since movie theaters closed down nationwide due to
The Beyonder On the other hand, if a rich complexity would be an especially important trait to convince Noah Centineo to play a villain, he should look no further than the Beyonder, who even bears a slight resemblance to the actor. Most may cite Galactus as the natural successor to Thanos as the MCU’s next
EXCLUSIVE: Here you can watch the first trailer for Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai’s Laila In Haifa, which is set to premiere in Venice Film Festival’s Competition program today (August 8). The Arabic and Hebrew-language pic features an ensemble cast of both Israeli and Palestinian actors. It interweaves the stories of five women. Set over a night in
“Guardians of the Galaxy” star Michael Rooker just revealed his struggle with coronavirus … and it was real bad. Rooker, who also stars in “The Walking Dead” and the upcoming “Suicide Squad,” says the virus took over his body. He said, almost clinically, “…there ain’t a whole heck of a lot one can do externally,
Regina King and the stars of her feature directorial debut One Night In Miami piped into the Venice Film Festival this afternoon to discuss the very timely picture that’s inspired by a real-life 1964 meeting of friends Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke. The press screening I attended this morning was as
2020’s Marvel’s Avengers brought the Marvel universe to video game consoles, and players have been thoroughly enjoying the impressive story campaign. But the excitement doesn’t just end with the completion of the main story in Marvel’s Avengers. There’s also a post-credits scene at the end that provides a bit of insight into what the future of
Refresh for latest…: Christopher Nolan’s Tenet added a further estimated $58.1M at the international box office this weekend, taking the overseas cume on the Warner Bros title to $126M after two sessions. With the time-bending film debuting in the U.S. this frame, the estimated worldwide total is $146.2M. The global weekend figure of $78.3M includes
EXCLUSIVE: A serious incident took place this week on the set of AGC Studios’ pic Geechee in the Dominican Republic when police opened fire on a convoy of cars containing crew. One unidentified international crew member was shot several times, but only suffered minor injuries and has now left hospital and been flown home. No