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EXCLUSIVE: Following news last week that Stage Mother, Thom Fitzgerald’s comedy starring Jacki Weaver and Lucy Liu, had sold to Momentum Pictures for North America and Altitude for UK, sales agent Film Mode Entertainment has inked a series of further Cannes deals on the title. The pic has now gone to Australia and New Zealand (Madman),

Solstice Studios had said that it wasn’t going to move Unhinged if Tenet moved, but the company had second thoughts and now is jumping the Russell Crowe road-rage movie from July 1 to July 10. That means no movie over the Fourth of July weekend. I’ve heard that AMC is planning an early-July opening, post-Independence Day, and it

SK Global (Crazy Rich Asians, Hell or High Water) will finance and produce Oscar winner Charles Randolph’s (The Big Short, Bombshell) screenplay. It’s being called the Untitled Wuhan Project, and examines the dramatic weeks in China as the heroic medical community confronts a mysterious virus, soon to become a global pandemic. Randolph will make his

Ana Lily Amirpour One of the most intriguing breakout voices in horror within the past decade was Ana Lily Amirpour, who helmed the Iranian vampire western (yes, you heard that right) A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, which was a film festival hit. The film led to Amirpour’s current career directing for Jordan Peele’s

It’s the end of the trek for Vagrant Queen. Syfy has canceled the space drama, a live-action adaptation of the Vault Comics series from Blue Ice Pictures, after one season, Deadline has confirmed. The series struggled ratings-wise, averaging 417,000 total viewers and just 131,000 among the P18-49 demo in Live+7. Created by Jem Garrard, who

Play video content Breaking News @cinemark/Twitter Cinemark Theatres is dispatching essential workers to sanitize seats between movie screenings … and it looks like hazardous labor to say the least. Check out this video from the theater chain’s location in West Plano, Texas … where a very essential employee is spraying down each and every seat

UPDATE, 08:06AM PST: A ray of sunshine after a dark day for the supporters of Kirill Serebrennikov, the respected Russian filmmaker who has been found guilty on fraud charges by a Moscow Court. Sentencing has just been read out and Serebrennikov has been given a three-year suspended sentence, which means he won’t be heading to

Although he is one of the oldest consistent enemies in Spider-Man‘s rogue’s gallery, the Rhino has never been one of the brightest. But in the “Flowers for Rhino”,  Rhino was given the chance to become a super genius which allows him to achieve great success as a person and criminal than he could have ever imagined although

In what has been one hell of an election year, Jon Stewart is cutting through all of it with his biting political comedy Irresistible starring Steve Carell, Rose Byrne and Chris Cooper. The Focus Features film was originally set to hit theaters on May 29, but like all films impacted by the pandemic, it pivoted to

Warner Bros. is moving its Christopher Nolan action thriller Tenet again — this time from Friday, July 31, to Wednesday, August 12. Nolan’s 10th anniversary reissue of Inception now will open on July 31 instead of July 17. The decision comes in the wake of COVID-19 cases spiking to a new national high of 45K on Wednesday, and

These days, so many big-budget movies are constantly running on an impossible deadline to meet before they hit theaters. If there’s a glass-half-full approach to this situation in terms of the movie industry, a ton of filmmakers have had extra time to look at their work and polish it, including with Hans Zimmer’s upcoming work.

EXCLUSIVE: Impact Australia, the entertainment accelerator launched down under by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Tyler Mitchell’s Imagine Impact back in February, has named 10 projects that will take part in its debut talent program. The eight-week initiative, run in collaboration with Gentle Giant Media Group and Screen Australia, was originally slated to take place in Melbourne but will

Breaking News “Gone with the Wind” is gone no more … HBO Max is restoring the film to its library after a 2-week hiatus, but this time the streaming platform’s adding a disclaimer. The 1939 classic will return to HBO Max with historical context that includes 2 videos — the first showing TCM host and

Here’s the first trailer for Gerard Butler action-sci-fi Greenland, which is due for theatrical release in multiple markets – including U.S. and UK, in August. Directed by Ric Roman Waugh (Angel Has Fallen) and co-starring Morena Baccarin (Deadpool), the film follows a family’s dangerous journey for survival as an unstoppable comet hurtles towards a devastating collision with Earth.

There is a discounted GOG bundle that is offering every Witcher game and Cyberpunk 2077 for less than $90.  Those interested should act quickly, as this steeply discounted publisher bundle this won’t last forever. The Witcher game series is a crowd-pleaser, with its last entry, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, winning countless accolades from critics. Fans of

Just hours after Disney Television Studios unveiled their Comic-Con@Home slate for next month, corporate cousin Hulu is now bringing the heat to the virtual fanfest. The streamer announced that the dark and horror-filled Marvel’s Helstrom is among its offering coming to the coronavirus created online version of the annual SDCC. With The Walking Dead franchise

While Disney insiders remain optimistic, it would not be a shocker if the studio moves the first big event movie after exhibition’s COVID-19 shutdown off its July 24 date. There’s just too many gloomy signs out there. Even though the Niki Caro-directed movie built up a great degree of awareness in its marketing earlier this

The BBC will reduce the number of Strictly Come Dancing episodes it broadcasts this year as part of its plans to get the show on air amid the coronavirus crisis. The UK broadcaster has committed to Season 18 of the smash-hit dance competition this year, but producers at BBC Studios are working feverishly to make

Sandra Dewey is the president of productions and business operations for WarnerMedia Entertainment, which includes working on HBO Max. The new streaming service has plenty of quality content, including a handful of originals. But perhaps the most exciting prospect coming down the pipeline is The Snyder Cut of Justice League, including the myriad deleted scenes

Filmmakers Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah (Bad Boys For Life) have been set to direct Rebel, a coming-of-age story about a family torn apart over a little boy’s future. Wild Bunch International is handling international sales and will introduce the project to buyers at the virtual Cannes market. CAA Media Finance will represent the

The father of tennis’ most famous female players is being sued by folks who claim they bought the rights to his life story before Will Smith produced his own movie with himself as Richard. Richard Williams, the father and coach of tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams, is being sued, along with Warner Bros. Entertainment

Deadline has confirmed that Michael Keaton, who first played the big screen version of Batman in 1989 for Warner Bros. and its 1992 sequel Batman Returns is in early talks to return to the role once again. Keaton would play Batman in a Nick Fury-like role starting with Warner Bros. The Flash starring Ezra Miller, and could continue to play

Microsoft has launched new family and friends features for its group chat and video calling app, Teams. This move from Microsoft is a clear sign that the company is looking to transition Teams into more than just a tool for professional communications, and at a time when many personal users have suddenly found themselves needing to

Bill Murray and Anne Hathaway are set to star in canine pic Bum’s Rush, for which Rocket Science is launching sales at the Cannes virtual market. CAA reps domestic. Aaron Schneider (Greyhound) is directing, and Robert Duvall is in talks to join the cast. C Gaby Mitchell (Blood Diamond) penned the screenplay, which focuses on the

EXCLUSIVE: Steven Spielberg’s 1993 movie Jurassic Park was No. 1 for the fourth time in its release history this past weekend as movie theaters tried to have a semblance during the COVID-19 pandemic over what is typically a big moviegoing weekend, Father’s Day. While 2020 fare like Universal/Dreamworks Animation’s Trolls World Tour had been leading at a

Netflix and Pearl Studio have released the first trailer for family feature Over The Moon, the animated musical retelling of the classic Chinese myth. The film’s voice cast has also been revealed, including Phillipa Soo, Ken Jeong, John Cho, Ruthie Ann Miles, Margaret Cho, Kimiko Glenn, Artt Butler, Sandra Oh and newcomers Cathy Ang and Robert G

Thunderball (1965) Several times in the history of the James Bond franchise, the cold open entails someone’s death or funeral; with Bond being “killed” several times himself. Thunderball uses a funeral for one Col. Jacques Bouvar as the grist for its adventure mill, as Bond attends the proceedings to bury this particular foe in this

Indie Rights has acquired domestic distribution rights to Unbelievable!!!!!, the Steven L. Fawcette-helmed sci-fi film that stars Snoop Dogg and over forty former Star Trek cast members from the movies and TV series. The company will also launch foreign sales at the Virtual Cannes Film Market on June 24. The pic stars Kirk Stillwood, a

Joel Schumacher — the famed director behind “Phantom of the Opera” and a series of ‘Batman’ films — has died. Schumacher died Monday morning in New York City after a long cancer battle … according to a rep. The American director rose to stardom with “St. Elmo’s Fire,” “The Lost Boys” and “Flatliners.” He also