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Exclusive Details Christopher Dennis — a street performer known for portraying Superman on Hollywood Blvd. for more than 25 years — has died … TMZ has learned. Law enforcement sources tell us … Dennis was found dead Saturday in the San Fernando Valley. We’re told his body was discovered lying headfirst in a bin that’s
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In May, South Korea’s leading filmmaker Bong Joon-Ho made history at the Cannes Film Festival when his clever, entertaining and socially important Parasite made history by becoming the first Korean film to win the Palme d’Or. Now it is poised to become the film Korean film ever to be nominated in the Best International Feature Film category
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UPDATED with comments from the earnings call: Lionsgate’s beleaguered stock price rebounded after hours on the strength of a solid second-quarter earnings report. The company on Thursday reported earnings per share of 22 cents, 2 cents ahead of Wall Street analysts’ consensus, with revenue of $983.5 million, also surpassing expectations. Domestic subscriptions to Starz set
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EXCLUSIVE: In competitive bidding, Netflix has landed the landed feature film rights to The Unsound, based on the BOOM! Studios’ graphic novel by Cullen Bunn (The Sixth Gun, Harrow County) & Jack T. Cole. Shazam! director David F. Sandberg is poised to return to the horror genre, where he helmed Lights Out and Annabelle: Creation,
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Just days before Disney+ launches with the Star Wars series The Mandalorian and more, the Walt Disney Co today finds itself again on the receiving end of a potential pay-equity class action lawsuit that could make digital dreams disappear in a fog of legal smoke. “Well-supported claims must be investigated, not dismissed,” declares the opposition
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Last weekend didn’t start the fire at the November box office after Paramount/Skydance Media/Fox’s mechanical breakdown with Terminator: Dark Fate, which is set to lose $130 million off an estimated combined $325M production and global P&A cost and $29M stateside opening. This weekend, Warner Bros in a rare move for its genre product opens Doctor
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EXCLUSIVE Spring Awakening, the 2006 emotionally powerful, sexually frank and Tony-winning musical by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, has been staged around the world, and now for the first time is heading to China. Yes, the South Park-hating, frequently censoring and much in the news China. Set for a limited 13-performance Shanghai engagement in January
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Writer-director Noah Baumbach has mined his own life for some sort of inspiration in many past movies including his college days in Kicking and Screaming, his parents’ divorce in The Squid and the Whale and turning 40 in While We’re Young. But now I have to use the “M-word” to describe his latest, and that would be,
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Director Tim Miller claims that the Kitty Pryde movie will never happen. After a few short films in the early 2000s, Miller made his directing debut in 2016 with Deadpool. David Leitch replaced Miller for Deadpool 2, but last year it looked like Miller might be returning to the mutant universe. Two years after the release of Deadpool, it was reported
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EXCLUSIVE: Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson, and Maggie Q are set to star in The Asset, an action-thriller from The Foreigner and Casino Royale director Martin Campbell and The Expendables outfit Millennium Media. It’s a package to warm the hearts of AFM action aficionados. Arthur Sarkissian of the Rush Hour franchise will produce, along with Moshe Diamant (The Hurricane
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Fox Searchlight has announced that its pre-TIFF acquisition, Armando Ianucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield, will be opening on May 8. Pic reps Iannucci’s third outing as director, after directing the Oscar-nominated In The Loop and The Death of Stalin, and also created the award-winning HBO series Veep.  Iannucci adapted the film with frequent collaborator Simon Blackwell from the Charles
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EXCLUSIVE: New Pictures co-founder and chief operating officer Richard Nelson is leaving the Catherine The Great producer after more than five years. Nelson joined New Pictures in 2014 and is listed as the company’s co-founder alongside Charlie Pattinson, Elaine Pyke, and Willow Grylls. He played an important role in New Pictures’ sale to All3Media in
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Apple TV+’s For All Mankind cast includes a strong ensemble of notable actors and actress, though there are some people viewers may not recognize. Inspired by historical events, the drama explores an alternate history and what might’ve happened if the real-life “space race” had gone differently. For All Mankind mostly takes place during 1969 and 1970. The Apollo 11 mission
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At today’s The Contenders L.A. panel on STX Entertainment’s Hustlers, writer director Lorene Scafaria said Jennifer Lopez was the first choice to portray stripper Ramona in the film, based on a 2015 New York magazine story about a group of strippers who turned the tables on their corrupt Wall Street customers by drugging them and
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All was fairly quiet on the specialty box office front for the first weekend of November when it came to new releases, which gave the opportunity for Neon’s critically-acclaimed Parasite to flourish even more and the Fox Searchlight’s World War II satire Jojo Rabbit to shine brighter. However, things didn’t turn out so well for this weekend’s
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The second trailer for the hotly anticipated Disney+ series The Mandalorian doubles down on the Old-West-in-space ethos of the first trailer and confirms the spreading suspicion that the Disney+ streaming service will be the unlikely home of the grittiest screen experience in the Jedi universe (at least outside the video game sector). Fans sentiment spreading across
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6 seconds ago Two of the year’s most acclaimed films feature same-sex relationships between their protagonists. Booksmart and Rocketman have been commended for their positive, nuanced portrayal of these characters. So fans were disappointed to learn that romantic scenes in both films had been edited out of the versions shown on Delta flights. The airline
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