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All Quiet on the Western Front scooped the Best International Feature Film Oscar this evening, after earlier taking the Cinematography trophy and then winning for Production Design and Original Score. Such categories in which it is also nominated, including Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay and Sound are still to be unveiled. This is the first time a
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Refresh for latest…: Paramount/Spyglass Media’s Scream VI has slashed its way to a franchise-record opening at the global box office with $67.1M, topping Scream 3 for the best in the bunch of this long-running Kevin Williamson-created series. At the international box office, it also set a franchise-best start with $22.6M from 53 markets, a whopping
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Written, produced, directed, and starring Jake Johnson, Self Reliance follows Tommy (Jake Johnson), a man accomplishing nothing else in life except to exist, and attempts to spice up his life lead to some near-death encounters. Along with Johnson, the film stars Anna Kendrick, Natalie Morales, and Emily Hampshire.  Tommy is a lonely man coasting through
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Hollywood production payroll company Wrapbook is among those affected by this week’s collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), which has now been taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. SVB, the 16th-largest bank in the US, was a financial hub for technology companies and venture capital, but also had several Hollywood companies as clients,
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SATURDAY AM: Quick update on Paramount/Spyglass Media’s Scream VI as it continues to shatter franchise opening records: The Radio Silence-directed horror pic clocked an estimated $19.5M yesterday, including those $5.7m previews, for what’s shaping up to be a $43.5M opening, per industry figures this AM. The pic gets a B+ CinemaScore, just like the last
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Shout! Studios presents The Magic Flute by Florian Zigl, executive produced by Roland Emmerich, at 325 theaters with expansion likely. A reimagining of the Mozart opera, it follows a present-day teen sent from London to the Austrian Alps on singing scholarship at the legendary Mozart boarding school. There, he discovers a century old forgotten passageway
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Amazon Studios and MGM boss Jennifer Salke and Citadel star Priyanka Chopra Jonas sat down Friday in what is one of few entertainment-business discussions this year at SXSW. They interviewed each other on an array of topics including pay parity for lead actresses and launching a tentpole series for a global audience. Spy series Citadel,
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Play video content TMZ.com Versace’s fashion show was an absolute hit — despite a last minute call to move it up one day — with some of the biggest names in Hollywood dressing to the nines to attend. The fall/winter show wound up getting rescheduled from Friday to Thursday due to rain — it was
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EXCLUSIVE: Conqueror Entertainment, the L.A. and Beijing-based production outfit launched by former Legendary Entertainment executive Vasco Xu, has set a Chinese-language adaptation of leading sci-fi author Liu Cixin’s Supernova Era as one of it first projects.  The company is also planning to simultaneously produce an English-language movie and TV series in the U.S., based on
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Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company is still being “very careful” with developing Star Wars feature films in the wake of Solo‘s soft box office, while Marvel is also getting a rethink in terms of how many sequels characters get. In an appearance at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference, Iger was
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Oscar-nomination afterglow for this year’s Best Picture contenders was largely felt more in the home than it was at the box office, with a majority of titles already available to be viewed on the couch except for 20th Century Studios/Disney’s 3D title Avatar: The Way of Water. Since noms were first announced on January 24
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EXCLUSIVE: There is a disturbance in the Force. On the same day it became public that Star Wars projects from Kevin Feige and Patty Jenkins are now dormant, Lucasfilm has been hit with a breach of contract lawsuit over the upcoming The Acolyte. Ballers executive producer Karyn McCarthy has taken the Kathleen Kennedy-run Disney division
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BBC Comedy Director Jon Petrie has said his team would be “happy to talk” with John Cleese about the upcoming Fawlty Towers revival, as he unveiled the next generation of “very British” shows. Cleese has already said that the surprise revival, which he is making with daughter Camilla Cleese and Rob Reiner’s Castle Rock Entertainment,
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The revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, with Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford in previews at the Lunt-Fontanne, is firmly in Broadway’s $1 million club, with receipts for the week ending March 5 at a bloody good $1,526,254. And that’s just for six performances. The Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical filled every
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EXCLUSIVE: There’s nothing genteel about Afghanistan’s national sport, called buzkashi. It’s a contest between powerfully-built men on powerful horses packed onto a field, skirmishing to score goals with an animal carcass. It’s almost rugby on hooves. Buzkashi is the backdrop to the film Riders on the Storm, directed by Jason Motlagh and Mark Oltmanns, which
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American actress Cozi Zuehlsdorff was just 12 years old when she was first cast as Hazel Haskett — the bubbly and talkative little girl who works at her father’s aquarium — in the family/adventure movie “Dolphin Tale” back in 2010. Zuehlsdorff shared the big screen with Harry Connick Jr. as Cozi’s protective father and the
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Paramount/Spyglass Media’s Scream VI is headed to a franchise-record opening of $50M+ worldwide from roughly 50 offshore territories including domestic. The most recent Scream pic opened to $48M WW, $30M from U.S./Canada last year. The highest opening for the Kevin Williamson-conceived horror series was Scream 3, which opened to $34.7M domestic in 2000. Scream VI,
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The family of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya has said an upcoming film inspired by her life is “grossly inaccurate” and misrepresents her work in a statement sent to journalists Tuesday afternoon. In the statement, the family said it is “very concerned” by the film’s preliminary script, which they say contains “significant inaccuracies” and misrepresents Anna’s
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