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Pablo Larraín’s Angelina Jolie-starring Maria was met with a 10-minute ovation following its Venice Film Festival world premiere Thursday night. The biopic of legendary opera singer Maria Callas, which is playing in Competition here in Venice, is a story about a woman who burned her voice and her life by doing what she loved. The

Christophe Riandee is leaving his post as Vice CEO of France’s Gaumont. In a short statement released this morning, Gaumont said that he was exiting today after 20 years to “devote himself to his personal projects.” “We wish him all the best for the future,” the statement added. Riandee joined Gaumont in 2003 after spells

Halle Berry is leaving the door open to reprising her Catwoman role, which she portrayed in the 2004 film directed by Pitof. The star of The Union hinted that there’s one way to get her to wear the catsuit again. “Maybe, if I could direct it,” Berry told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show after

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based Folivari International has acquired world sales rights for hit French animated series Samuel. The deal with French production company Les Valseurs follows the short format show’s runaway success in France, Germany and Spain. Consisting of simple black and white illustrations and a voiceover by creator and director Émilie Tronche, the show follows 10-year-old

Shares of Paramount Global are softer Tuesday after Edgar Bronfman Jr. exited the Paramount fray last night and shareholders hoping for a bidding war with Skydance were disappointed. “It was a long shot to begin with,” said one investor of Bronfman’s offer. “But you always want a competitive process with the hope that one or

Ryan Reynolds is celebrating Wesley Snipes on Deadpool & Wolverine and called for “more Blade.” The actor dedicated a social media post to Snipes, who made a cameo in the Marvel film, reprising the Blade role he first portrayed in the 1998 film directed by Stephen Norrington. “The reaction when @realwesleysnipes enters the movie is

EXCLUSIVE: Acclaimed actor Willem Dafoe, who recently starred in Oscar-nominated pic Poor Things and can next be seen in Tim Burton’s upcoming Venice opener Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, has just wrapped filming tycoon family drama The Birthday Party from Greek production house Heretic.  The project, which has been kept under wraps until now, is directed by Miguel Angel Jimenéz based on

Quentin Tarantino doesn’t want to play with Toy Story anymore. The famed director recently appeared on an episode of the comedy podcast Club Random with Bill Maher, where, among other things, he discussed the difficulties of wrapping up a trilogy in a satisfying manner for the audience. Because of his love for the initial Toy

UPDATED with rep statement: Rapper Travis Scott was arrested in Paris in the early hours of Friday morning following an altercation with a security guard outside the city’s swanky George V hotel. Per a Paris public prosecutor statement, police were called to the hotel after the rapper was violent to the guard. “The latter himself

It’s going to be a really special weekend at the box office, the kind that studios pray for, pine for, and wish for. For out of the blue, a feature adaptation of a femme driven novel, Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us, has a shot at possibly undermining Disney/Marvel Studios’ Deadpool and Wolverine in its

And so it begins. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has signaled the beginning of the race for the 97th annual Academy Awards, which will take place on Sunday, March 2, 2025. The Academy Screening Room made its first titles available Friday to membership, with Thelma from Magnolia Pictures; Shirley, Hit Man and

Ticket sales and fan excitement around It Ends With Us are really starting to swell. The movie took in more than $8M last night, roughly the same amount as Fifty Shades Of Grey during its Thursday night previews, and Hollywood insiders are starting to predict it’ll easily surpass its entire production budget in the first

Wesley Snipes recalls how the idea of reprising his superhero role as Blade in Deadpool and Wolverine came about. Snipes opened up about a call he got from Ryan Reynolds and how he questioned if it would ever happen. “It started with a text from Ryan Reynolds,” Snipes told Entertainment Weekly. Snipes joked that when he saw the text

Blake Lively is living the no-bra life across the pond … showing some serious side boob under her unbuttoned suit jacket. The actress was oh so close to freeing the nipple Thursday in London, where she’s promoting her new movie “It Ends With Us.” Blake’s looking pretty damn braless under her floral suit, and left

Taylor Swift fans are swallowing their disappointment and turning the streets of Vienna into a Swifties fan fest in the wake of her shows being cancelled by fears of terrorism. The pop star was set to play three shows at the Ernst Happel Stadium from Aug. 8-10. Now, fans gathering in the city and singing

Chris Aronson, Paramount Pictures’ president of domestic distribution, will be presented with the Career Achievement Award by Variety the Children’s Charity of Southern California for “his exemplary work in supporting and championing children, youth, adults, and families in need.”  “Chris is an admired and highly esteemed member in the motion picture industry whose steadfast leadership,

Cate Blanchett set the record straight on her pay for filming The Lord of the Rings. The star of the Peter Jackson-directed trilogy cleared up the misconception that it was a high-paying job. While appearing on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, Blanchett played “Plead the Fifth,” in which host Andy Cohen asks his guest three hard

As a film fan and patron of the internet, I love to follow random Reddit boards that come up in my key areas of interest. Sure enough, in this year of 2024 movies that have used large format to some exciting degrees, the thread of IMAX fans keeping track of the brand’s goings on is

An investigation into a sex trafficking ring at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con Convention has led to 14 arrests and 10 victims “recovered,”  California’s Attorney General said Wednesday. “Unfortunately, sex traffickers capitalize on large scale events such as Comic-Con to exploit their victims for profit,” Rob Bonta said toady, announcing the sting at the just-concluded convention. Along

Blake Lively didn’t have to break the bank for her Britney Spears tribute … because TMZ found out how much she paid for a Versace dress the singer famously wore back in the day. Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ … Blake spent a little more than $10,000 for Britney’s iconic outfit from the

“We did 11 hours to Munich, two hours to Milan, and then a two-hour drive,” veteran producer Stacey Sher explained this afternoon as she sat weary-eyed in a glass hotel suite at the Locarno Film Festival.  There are no direct flights from Los Angeles to the quaint Swiss town where Sher will be the guest

Deadpool & Wolverine is nearing the $900 million global box office mark as it enters its third week of worldwide play. With Tuesday’s grosses included, the current total on the Shawn Levy-directed smash is $879.2M, of which $421M comes from domestic and $458.2M from the international box office. When today’s figures are tallied, the global

Ahead of its exclusive streaming premiere on Paramount+ planned for this fall, the documentary We Will Dance Again examining Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on Israel has been slated for a two-day theatrical run nationwide in partnership with Iconic Events Releasing. The film will first open at Laemmle Encino in Los Angeles for a week-long

Right as Christopher Meloni was starting his work on Law and Order: SVU as Detective Elliot Stabler, the actor had another big acting gig in front of him. Meloni was cast as Julia Roberts’ fiancé in 1999’s Runaway Bride. This movie was a huge deal for many reasons. Not only was Roberts the queen of

Colin Farrell is starring in the HBO Original series The Penguin based on the DC Comics character. and the showrunner is comparing it to Scarface. Lauren LeFranc said in a recent interview that the spinoff from Matt Reeves’s The Batman focused on the villain Oswald Cobblepot is similar to the 1983 crime drama film directed

Here’s Blake Lively channeling Britney Spears at her movie premiere … with a nod to one of the singer’s most iconic looks. Blake turned heads Tuesday at the “It Ends With Us” premiere in New York … wearing a one-strap Versace dress once worn by Britney herself. The homage to Britney comes on the heels

As debate continues to rage around whether a scene featuring drag queens in the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony was inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, speculation is now mounting over details of the closing ceremony on August 11. Artistic director Thomas Jolly – who has received death threats amid claims the scene was

EXCLUSIVE: Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has picked up the North American rights to the twisty sci-fi thriller Things Will Be Different which made its world premiere in the Midnight section at SXSW. An Oct. 4 theatrical day-and-date release has been set. The feature directorial debut of Michael Felker, which he also

Alamo Drafthouse has added five new auditoriums to its Downtown Brooklyn cinema in a major upgrade of the chain’s first NYC location and highest grossing theater since opening in 2016. The eat-in, art house, first run and repertory chain, acquired by Sony in June, has also just purchased six theaters in Dallas-Forth Worth and Woodbury,