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UPDATED with TIFF exit: Clifford the Big Red Dog, Paramount’s CG/live-action movie that was unset from its planned September 17 release, will also not world premiere at next month’s Toronto Film Festival. It had been set as a Gala Presentation via the pic’s Canadian rightsholder eOne, which confirmed the news today that it was removing
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Sara Bareilles won’t be the only Waitress cast member with prior stage-diner experience when the musical reopens on Broadway in September: Producers announced today that Waitress vets Eric Anderson, Charity Angel Dawson, Christopher Fitzgerald, Caitlin Houlahan, Dakin Matthews and Joe Tippett will be back for at least part of the show’s limited engagement. Producers Barry
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The Mandalorian’s Rosario Dawson gets in a lightsaber fight as her character, Ahsoka Tano, on the set of the HBO miniseries, DMZ. Disney+’s first live-action Star Wars series, The Mandalorian, has gone to great lengths to connect the films and animations. Season 2 introduced Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Rebels’ Bo-Katan Kryze (Katee Sackhoff) and Ahsoka Tano (Dawson), setting
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Sony Picture Classics and Neon fared well in their small releases this week with Nine Days and Ailey respectively, running across 6 total locations in New York, Los Angeles and Irvine – both notching heavy per screen averages with the former leading to its wider release next week. Nine Days hit NYC (Angelika, AMC Lincoln Square)
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Tribes of Midgard, is an interesting mashup of a few different genres of games. While the setting is clearly inspired by Valheim, it also borrows from top-down ARPGs and base defense games. Similar to Valheim, the game does encourage a cooperative multiplayer experience, but the game differs by providing players with an initial village and objective to defend,
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Refresh for updates…Disney is reporting $2.7M for its Dwayne Johnson-Emily Blunt family adventure movie Jungle Cruise off 7PM shows. A24’s Dev Patel fantasy movie Green Knight came up strong with $750K at 2,790 theaters. The NY-based indie distrib’s previous preview highs include Ari Aster’s Midsommar (which started on a Tuesday) with $1.1M and the filmmaker’s Hereditary which did a $1.3M Thursday. Green Knight has
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Peter Parker’s choice to marry Mary Jane was of the worst decisions Spider-Man ever made, and their marriage was doomed from the start. Fans demanded the two get married, but long before the demon Mephisto dissolved their marriage in 2007, Peter was having second thoughts about the entire wedding. The proof can be found in 1987’s Amazing Spider-Man
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To date, Disney has tried to play an original animated film, a Marvel title, and an Emma Stone 101 Dalmatians villainess movie in theaters and on the PVOD tier of the studio’s streaming service simultaneously, and this weekend they’ll accelerate windows again on the Dwayne Johnson-Emily Blunt theme park-inspired title Jungle Cruise. Given how we’ve seen
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Refresh for latest…: As with domestic, a pair of new studio offerings opened at the international box office this weekend. However, the biggest grosses came from local pics in China where upcoming release dates for Hollywood continue to be a frustrating question mark. Getting to the studios first, in a 23-market rollout, Universal’s M Night
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FRIDAY AM Update: Refresh for updates Universal’s Old grossed $1.5M on Thursday night from 2,750 theaters that began showtimes at 7PM. This topped the Thursday night results for Paramount’s Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins which did $1.4M, also starting at 7PM at 2,662 theaters. Both titles are respecting a theatrical window. As far as who wins at the
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Halloween Kills will reportedly pick up right after 2018’s Halloween, on the same night that Laurie, her daughter Karen (Judy Greer) and her granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) left Michael Myers up in flames in Laurie’s basement. We know that the killer will survive her trap and continue his rampage. This time they will be joined
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The highly anticipated science-fiction blockbuster adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal novel tells the story of warring families and factions seeking power and control over valuable resources, namely that of spice melange, which has mysterious powers and effects when consumed by humans. The main narrative follows Paul Atreides, a young man, and son of Leto, who has
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