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Warner Bros/DC’s Wonder Woman 1984, as expected, landed at No. 2 in its China debut on Friday, coming in behind local actioner The Rescue. The Patty Jenkins-helmed sequel to 2017’s Wonder Woman grossed an estimated RMB 44.2M ($7M, including sneaks). This portends a weekend in the mid $20M range for the Middle Kingdom, lower than

After the Russo Brothers gave us arguably the most exciting chapters in comic book movie history with the last two Avengers films, they have a seriously impressive lineup ahead of them. Joe and Anthony Russo have been flip flopping between writing, directing and producing a number of big-name projects, including Extraction early this year and

Leading the charge this week in streaming and specialty titles is Netflix with two films that have been garnering awards season buzz with their star wattage and prestige storytelling. First up, is the highly anticipated Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom adapted from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson’s play of the same name. Set in 1920s

While it wasn’t intentionally done, this practice is now pretty commonplace in cinema – especially in superhero blockbusters. It’s not always the case that exact tracks are used from movie to movie, but films frequently reuse themes that were created for previous titles in a franchise, even in cases when there are different composers doing

Warner Bros/DC’s Wonder Woman 1984 begins offshore rollout today in such markets as Indonesia, Portugal and the UK — though on a very limited basis in the latter where London cinemas have been re-shuterred as the capital moves into a Tier 3 Covid lockdown. In total, there will be 32 markets open through Friday with

Although $77 million is great given the circumstances, the last time a Croods movie hit theaters, it made $586 million worldwide. Years and years of work and detail goes into the making of these movies, and chances are The Croods really hasn’t made anyone any money yet. So enter Ryan Reynolds, descending from the Hollywood

Searchlight’s Venice Film Festival Golden Lion winner Nomadland starring Frances McDormand, is opening on Feb. 19, 2021 limited. The movie was previously set to open on Dec. 4. Also Disney took the 20th Century Studios drag queen teenage musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie off its Feb. 26, 2021 release date and has designated the feature to being unset for

According to Patty Jenkins, Rogue Squadron is already moving right along. The movie is currently in the pre-script writing process, with the treatment being finished right now. A script treatment is a shorter form of the script that gets into the character descriptions, overarching plot points and key elements of a movie. So it sounds

Warner Bros. is doing a minor massage to its release schedule for 2021. New Line’s Mortal Kombat, which I hear isn’t finished, is going on April 16, 2021 instead of Jan. 15. The Simon McQuiod directed feature adaptation of the videogame will have access to Imax screens. In response to the move, Warners is talking Westworld co-creator Lisa

Considering how Cats’ feline characters turned out, it sounds like Patty Jenkins made the right decision incorporating practical effects alongside the CGI augmentation, rather than going all digital with Cheetah in Wonder Woman 1984. Again, only a few seconds of footage have been shown of Barbara Minerva in her full Cheetah form, so we can’t

Refresh for latest...: The international box office continues to provide welcome surprises during the pandemic era. Where movie theaters are open and people feel safe, they turn up for new or enduringly exciting product that’s on offer. To wit: Japan’s Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train has perhaps become the story of the year. A

It was in 1961 that the first John le Carre novel was published – specifically Call For The Dead, which was the book that introduced the author’s most famous character: George Smiley. Ultimately the book was one of 10 novels about Smiley that le Carre got published – the most recent being A Legacy of

Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg is back in the Oscar race with Another Round (Druk), a film whose star, Mads Mikkelsen, calls “an embracement of life.” The drama has an intriguing premise: four weary high school teachers test the theory that a constant level of modest inebriation opens our minds to the world. The friends experience

Emily Blunt was alleviated by the lower pressure of simply singing the song on the stage after some seriously huge movie scenes on her shoulders. In our interview, she talked about how Mary Poppins and Into the Woods were helpful in terms of her easing some nerves she used to have about singing on film.

Imax CEO Rich Gelfond doesn’t see the Warner Bros.-induced sound and fury in Hollywood subsiding anytime soon as talent joins theaters to protest the studio’s 2021 theatrical windows – nor does he think Warner will stick it out for a full year. “I don’t this is a storm that’s going to blow over in a

See her? This photoshop proves the point quite well because of how well she fits into this group shot of the Volturi. Some fans took the outfit as a way for the singer to show her secret love for the series, and well, who can blame her? She’s clearly had enough time to write two

Even though a combined 100 movie and TV series titles were announced today during Disney Investor Day, with 80% of them going to Disney+, let it be noted that the Burbank, CA studio didn’t burn down its 2021 theatrical release schedule, like WarnerMedia did last week, in order to keep the fire going on its

Announced during the Disney Investor Call event , Star Wars: Rogue Squadron is obviously light on plot details at the moment. But there was still plenty of fuel for the imaginations of Star Wars fans to dine out on. And that came from the official logo for the film, as well as a personal message

The Independent Cinema Alliance, a volunteer alliance of independent cinemas operating in North America, has responded to WarnerMedia’s theatrical-HBO Max 2021 slate day and date release strategy and they’re not pleased. They’re calling on studio of Stanley Kubrick, Clint Eastwood and Harry Potter to recommit to theatrical exclusivity, for that is what drives value to movies, not

Well, in Byron Bay, New South Wales to be specific. The location has been a celebrity haunt for a while now and it’s all really thanks to Chris Hemsworth, but more on that later. According to the most recent piece of information, Ben Affleck is also looking to jump into the housing market in Byron

Can cinemas play day-and-date releases from Warner Bros after continually refusing to show Netflix films? The big circuits have to be feeling really stupid now: If they had only made a deal with Netflix last year on Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman at a 45-day window instead of emphatically rejecting one, perhaps this looming apocalypse brought on

Why A New Subscription Tier Doesn’t Make Sense While I certainly think there’s a lot of appeal to this idea, and there’s a decent chance we could see this, or something like it, revealed on Thursday, there are certainly reasons why it might not happen. While Disney and Warner Bros. are both major movie studios

Monster Hunter director Paul W.S. Anderson has weighed in on the controversy surrounding the film, which was pulled from Chinese cinemas during its opening weekend amid backlash over a line of dialogue that has been perceived as racist by local audiences. In a statement provided to Deadline, Anderson says he is “devastated” and “mortified” that

For those of you who haven’t had a Star Wars movie marathon lately, following his tussle with Obi-Wan Kenobi, both on Kamino and out in space, Jango Fett regrouped with Count Dooku, a.k.a. Darth Tyranus, the man who hired him to provide his genetic material to the Kaminoans, on Geonosis. When Mace Windu and the

It goes without saying that the domestic box office is struggling. That said, it feels that we are trying to find different ways of framing that story every week.  At the end of the day, it’s a win to report any numbers at all considering the circumstances — especially for the specialty box office space

Len Testa, a computer scientist, has been measuring the percentage of Disney World visitors that wear masks since he noticed a patron try to fool security during a visit to Disney Springs. Through his business, Touring Plans, he found that between 94% and 98% visitors wore their masks correctly, based on a count of 10,000

An online backlash that swirled in China on Friday over a scene in Monster Hunter has resulted in the movie being pulled from the country’s cinemas. The Paul WS Anderson-directed feature game adaptation had been eyeing the market as one of its biggest plays, but a short exchange in the film has been perceived as

Be that as it may, there have been five films that told the story of Robin Hood since 1990, and the bulk of them didn’t bring much to the table creatively. The one that did, Robin Hood: Men In Tights, was pretty divisive amongst critics, though mostly because the movie was measured against director Mel

Movie theater stocks were mixed Friday as the industry absorbed shock waves from Warner Bros.’ window-smashing announcement the day before when the cinema group collectively plunged by double digits. The smaller publicly-traded U.S. chains have lower debt and are in better financial shape. Third and fourth ranked circuits Cinemark and Marcus both rose by more

When I first arrived as a Latin American here, I very quickly realized that I was seen as a race not as a culture, being Latino. I lived in England and I could do an American accent or speak like an Englishman, but it was like, ‘What are you doing? You’re meant to speak as