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Refresh for latest…: Paramount/Skydance/Fox’s Terminator: Dark Fate found little salvation in its wider offshore rollout this weekend. Handled overseas by Disney, it came in below pre-weekend projections, grossing $72.9M in 48 material markets (including a soft $28M from China where Tencent Pictures is handling). Along with the early releases and holds from last session, the
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Apple TV Plus only launched yesterday, but the tech giant’s new streaming service is already home to some awards-contending films. Hala, from writer-director Minhal Baig, tells the story of a Pakistani-American girl named Hala (Geraldine Viswanathan), who struggles to forge her own identity and explore her sexuality while growing up in a traditional Muslim family
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The one-two punch from Martin Scorsese and Francis Coppola about how superhero movies aren’t cinema did not reflect what Coppola meant to say when he was quoted in Lyon, France, while being awarded the country’s Prix Lumière honor for career achievement. That is how Coppola now feels about it, after watching his comments fuel so
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Paramount/Skydance Media/Fox’s Terminator: Dark Fate drew $2.35M from 7 p.m. shows on Halloween night. Last night we were hearing early estimates between $1.5M-$1.7M, so this definitely is an improvement on that. That’s on par with the Tuesday night previews of its previous chapter, Terminator: Genisys which made $2.3M back on June 30, 2015. In fact it is pretty
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Bernard Slade, a versatile writer who created one of Broadway’s most successful plays and several hit TV shows, has died. He passed Wednesday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. at age 89 of complications from Lewy body dementia, according to his daughter. Slade began his career as a theatrical producer and stage actor in
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Striving to get the sixth and likely final Game of Thrones book finished, George R.R. Martin is rather juiced about HBO’s recent announcement of a straight-to-series order for prequel The House of the Dragon and sanguine about the fiery death of another prequel to the Emmy-winning blockbuster. “It goes without saying that I was saddened
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Ray Liotta, who co-stars as a bulldog divorce lawyer in Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, praised the director for creating a calm set, joking that he’s previously worked with some “maniac” directors. “Noah is great to work with and he’s very calm because I’ve worked with some maniacs,” Liotta said recently at Deadline’s The Contenders London, where
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This weekend, Paramount/Skydance Media/Fox’s Terminator: Dark Fate opens in what is hoped as a complete re-invigoration of the franchise, bringing the pic back to its original James Cameron roots. After the PG-13 rated Terminator: Genisys four years ago registered the series’ lowest grosses stateside with $89.8M since the original 1984 pic’s $38.3M and was critically slammed at 27%
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24 minutes ago When Sean Bean plays a character, you typically know they’re not long for the world. Whether it’s fantasy, drama, action escapism, comedy, horror, or what-have-you, there’s always a safe bet that Sean Bean’s character is likely not going to make it out alive. It has become such a common, reoccurring part of
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Sony’s reboot of Charlie’s Angels starring Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, and Ella Balinska has landed a China release date of Nov. 15 which is timed exactly with its domestic release. While the pic was originally scheduled to go during the first weekend in November, which is where the first 2000 movie bowed, Terminator: Dark Fate elbowed its way
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