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Comcast chief financial officer Mike Cavanagh said the conglom was “pleased” with the weekend PVOD debut of Pete Davidson-starrer The King Of Staten Island – its latest film to go directly on-demand — and reiterated that while the company’s very eager for theaters to reopen it is likely the distribution model may have permanently changed

Editor’s note: Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, veteran South African producer Anant Singh, whose films include Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom and 2004 Oscar nominee Yesterday, has penned an open letter on the 44th anniversary of the historic student uprising in Soweto, South Africa. The anti-Apartheid uprising was a series of demonstrations led

One is a very simple line, it’s only four words, but I like the way it came to be in the movie in that people liked it. I was finishing Death Becomes Her when I was writing Jurassic Park, and we had an ending that was really disastrous at first from one of these horrible

EXCLUSIVE: Ordinarily, the Cannes Film Festival would have wrapped a few weeks ago after two weeks of glamorous red carpets, packed cinemas and deal-making. But this is anything but an ordinary year. Instead, due to coronavirus, the world’s leading film festival only announced its Official Selection ten days ago and a Cannes virtual market will

Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Treach believes his new movie about police brutality and tensions between cops and communities can provide common ground for everyone … and even be used as a training tool in the future. The Naughty by Nature rapper and actor joined “TMZ Live” Monday to break down his new crime drama

Twitch is currently experiencing issues across several different site features, but the most noticeable is that Twitch chat is no longer working properly. The broadcast platform has been the most popular gaming streaming service across its entire existence, but one of its most divisive elements has always been its chat function, which can play host

UPDATED at 10.25AM with a statement from producers: Former The X Factor contestant Misha B has spoken candidly about her experience performing on the Simon Cowell-created talent show, saying that producers foist an ‘”angry black girl narrative” on her. Misha B took part in the 2011 season of The X Factor, at which time Cowell

Sony’s Oscar winner, Little Women, originally began offshore rollout back in late December 2019, but continued to show off its grit at the international box office this weekend. The Greta Gerwig-directed update on the classic opened in Japan at No. 1 with $495K. In total, currently playing on 440 screens in 13 offshore markets, the

EXCLUSIVE: Niamh Algar (The Virtues), Tom Felton (Harry Potter), Dianna Rigg (Game Of Thrones), Tom Glynn-Carney (Dunkirk) and Ian Hart (God’s Own Country) are attached to star in WWII thriller Burial, which Altitude will launch world sales on at next week’s Cannes virtual market. Set in the last days of WWII, writer-director Ben Parker’s (The

Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (Netflix) The painful distance between Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) and his father, Dr. Henry Jones, Sr. (Sean Connery), is more metaphorical than the relationship between Roy McBride and his father, Clifford, in Ad Astra. Yet, it is equally relatable, especially when the famed archaeologist must track down his missing,

Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Jason Derulo is feeling accomplished — and full — after eating 20 burgers in 2 hours … and now he’s challenging The Rock to a hot dog eating showdown on the Fourth of July!!! The “Cats” star and “Swalla” singer just set the stage for what could be the biggest

Author and screenwriter Colo Tavernier O’Hagan has passed away. France’s Institut Lumiére shared the news that the former wife and collaborator of Bertrand Tavernier died of cancer on June 13. A César Award winner for Tavernier’s 1984 drama Un Dimanche A La Campagne, she also worked with such filmmakers as Claude Chabrol and Pierre Granier-Deferre.

When Avatar fans watched the first episode of The Dragon Prince, the moment Callum started speaking an image of Sokka immediately popped up at the recognition of Jack DeSena’s voice. Understandable, but not all voices are quite so obvious, even to super-fans. Sometimes, even if we do recognize the voice we can’t quite remember who it

Dennis “Denny” O’Neil, a legendary comic book writer who worked for both Marvel Comics and DC Comics has died, He was 81. O’Neil passed away Thursday, his alma mater Saint Louis University, shared on social media. A cause of death was not given. DC Comics also posted a tribute on its official Twitter account, saying

With Warner Bros./Legendary’s Godzilla vs. Kong stomping away from its Nov. 20 release date, MGM’s 007 feature No Time to Die will take over that slot in the states. No Time to Die is also going earlier in the UK on Nov. 12 in the UK. News broke on social media this morning. Deadline was the first to report that due

Bios, from Universal Pictures, was originally slated to hit theaters that day but, per THR, it has now been pushed back to April 16, 2021. The sci-fi film, which also stars Caleb Landry Jones, Laura Harrier, Skeet Ulrich and Samara Wiley, tells the story of the last man on Earth, an inventor who builds a

Harry Potter franchise co-star Rupert Grint has joined his castmates Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson in defending trans rights after comments made last weekend by J.K. Rowling. Grint, who played Ron Weasley in Warner Bros’ Harry Potter series of films, released a statement Friday in the UK, saying: “I firmly stand with the trans community

Breaking News “Gone With the Wind” is gone no more … HBO Max is bringing back the 1939 classic but it’ll do so by adding historical context and denouncing its racist depictions. The streaming platform made an about-face mere hours after announcing it would temporarily pull the film from its library. The move came after

I’d never laid eyes on Pete Davidson before, nor have I ever set foot on Staten Island in all the time I’ve spent in New York City; nobody has ever remotely recommended it, although I must say that one scene in The King of Staten Island shot at the local minor league baseball park affords

The Dark Universe movie Bride of Frankenstein is still in development. Right from its earliest days, Universal has been one of the most successful Hollywood studios. Part of this success can be attributed to decades worth of beloved monster movies. Beginning in the 1920s and maintaining momentum well into the ’50s, not only did Universal’s

Disney has announced a round of release date changes, including another title, the Thea Sharrock-directed action/CGI hybrid pic The One and Only Ivan, which will go straight to the studio’s streaming service on Aug. 21. The One and Only Ivan is the third title to be pulled off Disney’s theatrical slate and sent to Disney+ after Artemis Fowl,

Following today’s announcement that the Academy is planning to introduce representation and inclusion criteria that films must meet to be eligible for its awards, BAFTA has confirmed it is looking to expand its own standards to cover all of its prizes (they presently cover just two categories), with both bodies aiming for their 2022 ceremonies.

Marcus Theaters, the fourth largest circiut in the U.S., Thursday announced plans to reopen six theaters on June 19 with enhanced protocols in accordance with current local health and safety guidelines that will be used help fine-tune future phases of theatre reopenings in weeks ahead, in time for summer blockbusters based on when studios release

EXCLUSIVE: Doug Williams, the first black quarterback to win the Super Bowl, is to be the subject of a new sports movie biopic from Night School and Girls Trip producers Will Packer Productions. The ground-breaking LA-based production company has secured exclusive rights to the life story of ground-breaking QB Williams, who hoisted the Lombardi trophy

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Harry Potter star Emma Watson has become the latest figure to weigh in on the controversy provoked by the book series author J.K. Rowling’s series of tweets about trans people. “Trans people are who they say they are and deserve to live their lives without being constantly questioned or told they aren’t who they say

Matthew McConaughey‘s mission to do more to defeat racial injustice led him to an interesting chat with Emmanuel Acho … where they broke down something referred to as “white allergies.” Matthew told the former NFL linebacker he recently learned of the term … which he describes as white people’s inherent prejudices — ones they likely

Halloween 2018 helped save the franchise, and while it was praised for its choice to ignore sequels and follow Carpenter’s original story 40 years later, there was initially a different approach that would have taken Michael Myers only ten years forward to 1988. John Carpenter’s Halloween helped set the mold for modern slasher films and

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has performed a u-turn over clips of Australian comedian Chris Lilley in blackface, quietly deleting them from its website on Wednesday. Deadline asked the BBC twice earlier today if 10 clips of Lilley playing character S.mouse in Angry Boys would remain on its website, and twice the BBC stood by the content.

In the wake of California giving the green light for movie theaters to open as early as this Friday, exhibition will be thrilled to hear that more product will become available on the marquee. Tri-Star Pictures is scheduling the Selena Gomez executive produced romantic comedy The Broken Hearts Gallery on July 10, ahead of Warner Bros.’