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A court ruling that dropped today allowing movie studios to buy theaters (whether or not they want to — and they probably don’t) is the latest snub to an industry that’s been rattled by change for years, in particular since March and COVID-19. Exhibition hasn’t been this pressured in a century. When the 1918 Spanish

Granted, the interest in the Schumacher Cut of Batman Forever isn’t anywhere near the level of Snyder Cut fervor, but there’s definitely a solid amount of DC fans would sound like they’re game to watch it, assuming all that deleted footage is intact. It would have been nice to have this version of the movie

Chuck E. Cheese is distracting himself from his company’s ongoing bankruptcy filing, and he’s doing it on Twitch by playing Fall Guys. The chain of animatronic-filled pizza restaurants has an intrinsic link to video games. It was founded by Nolan Bushnell, the father of Atari and one of the driving forces behind the medium’s popularity in

Auditions make me nervous. Not for myself — I’m beyond the casting-call stage of life. But rather for anyone who still has the nerve to endure the almost always disappointing, sometimes humiliating, process of being screened, interviewed, tested and most probably rejected for a role in show business. Or journalism. Or politics, wherein the final

Seth Rogen is easily one of the busiest individuals in the entertainment industry. When he’s not playing the lead in major comedies, he’s at work writing and producing other projects, both for the big and small screens. Given this extreme productivity, however, you may not have noticed something: he and his regular filmmaking partner Evan

Pikmin 3 released on the Nintendo Wii U in 2013 and has been lauded as a great game by the people who actually played it. However, the Wii U was an underperforming system that sold only about 13.5 million units worldwide (as opposed to well over 100 million units for the original Wii). Because of

Right now Universal and AMC are looking like saints in the exhibition business after taking a kicking in the teeth by rival circuits for their controversial deal last week to crunch the theatrical window to 17 days with an option for PVOD thereafter. Disney’s announcement after the market closed to bring Mulan to their 60.5M Disney+

It was the first time Keanu Reeves had acknowledged a public relationship since he and his former partner Jennifer Syme lost their daughter during a stillborn birth, leading to a split for the couple. Sadly, Syme died shortly after in a car crash and while Keanu Reeves was seen with women including actress China Chow,

The DC Extended Universe and Arrowverse versions of the Flash cross over in fan art. On The CW, Grant Gustin has played Barry Allen/The Flash since his first appearance as the character in 2013. Meanwhile, Ezra Miller was introduced as the DCEU’s Scarlet Speedster in 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Each actor has put their own

AMC Entertainment announced Monday it’s officially concluded a complex, and controversial, restructuring of approximately $2.6 billion of its debt that included an exchange and fresh capital raise. The news came as iyd new distribution deal with Universal Pictures continues to roil the industry. Holders of more than 87% of senior subordinated notes participated in an

The Cast Of Solo Is Pretty Great There’s something to be said about the cast of Solo: A Star Wars Story when examining the overall quality, featuring a lineup including Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and Paul Bettany in addition to Alden Ehrenreich. This movie pulled some sizable star power,

Though it received a mixed response from critics and audiences upon its release, Fight Club is now considered one of the most influential movies of the 1990s. the movie also cemented David Fincher as one of the most visionary directors working in Hollywood. But people might ask themselves if this is really Fincher’s best film.

SATURDAY UPDATE: Since cinemas reopened in China’s low-risk areas on July 20, the market today had its biggest day yet. Box office was $5.74M (RMB 40M) overall for the day, according to Maoyan figures. That reps a 38% jump from Friday. After leading last weekend and the midweeks, then dropping to No. 2 on Friday,

The two actors are getting up in age, but they’re showing no signs of slowing down. The past few years have seen Dolph Lundgren star in plenty of high-profile projects like Aquaman, and he even reprised his famous role as Ivan Drago in Creed II. Meanwhile, Schwarzenegger has starred in several action films, including a

Marvel Comics has released early previews of the treats in store for fans of this year’s Halloween classic horror cover variants.  Part of the first wave of previews, Avengers #37, features monstrous versions of She-Hulk and Scarlet Witch attacking New York City as citizens scatter and flee from these gigantic versions of two of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. The Avengers,

The Phantom of the Opera might not have left the London theater scene for good after all, assures composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Responding to a newspaper column written by Phantom producer Cameron Mackintosh stating that both the London and UK touring productions are “permanently shut down” due to the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic,

Nowadays, comic book films don’t mind leaning into their roots more and more because the genre has become so popular. Risks in every direction have been made in Marvel films, whether it be through the beautifully colorful costumes of a movie like Captain Marvel, or the gritty realism of Logan. When X-Men was being made,

DC Universe subscribers will finally get to stream the entirety of the Krypton TV show when season 2 makes its debut on the service on August 11. The DC show, which was created by Man of Steel writer David S. Goyer, aired on Syfy and focused on Superman’s grandfather Seg-El, and it set on the superhero’s

EXCLUSIVE: Those in town assuming that one of the other big exhibition circuits will fall in line with AMC and seek their own 17-day theatrical window-PVOD deal with Universal will soon realize that it will be a cold day in hell. Cineworld CEO Mooky Greidinger, who oversees the world’s second largest chain, exclusively tells Deadline

I can’t say the thought of Solid Snake crossed my mind while watching The Old Guard, but now that Hideo Kojima has brought it up, he certainly wouldn’t be a bad choice. He proved his action movie chops in the new Netflix film, and as Kojima says, throw a bandana on him, and the look

Developer Obsidian Entertainment, best known for RPGs like The Outer Worlds, is set to branch out – or rather – shrink into, the survival adventure genre with their upcoming title Grounded. In the game, players are shrunk down to about one centimeter tall and must traverse their way through a backyard filled with hungry insects as they try

EXCLUSIVE: We’ve just heard that Cineworld, in response to the recent changes on the theatrical release schedule with Tenet, is reopening its U.S. circuit Regal, on Aug. 21. “Welcoming theatergoers back to our cinemas will be a celebration for not only our team and our industry, but most importantly for the fans who have been

Now middle-aged and with kids of their own, Bill and Ted Face the Music sees the eponymous protagonists being warned by a visitor from the future to create their long-heralded epic song in less than two hours in order to save all life on Earth and across the universe, requiring them to go on yet

A promising YouTube fan project that saw Grand Theft Auto San Andreas remade in Unreal Engine 4 to create trailers has been taken down by Rockstar Games’ parent company, Take-Two Interactive, according to reports and the status of that project’s YouTube channel. GTA San Andreas is one of the most popular entries in the franchise and has been

On their first Friday back to operations, Chinese cinemas did roughly $2.92M worth of box office business — more than tripling Thursday’s figures and making a sizable jump from Monday when theaters opened to about $501K in low-risk areas across the country. There was growth throughout the midweeks which is encouraging since less than 40%

And that’s because all the movies on this list are PG-13 and practically bloodless. What makes them scary then? Well, a number of things really, be it tone, atmosphere, storylines, you name it. But while I know a popular horror convention these days is jump scares, I’ve tried to steer away from movies that only

Bill & Ted Face the Music stars Brigette Lundy-Paine and Samara Weaving reveal they hadn’t seen the first two movies in the franchise before auditioning. The upcoming third film will reunite Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves as the titular Bill and Ted. However, as the movie comes almost 30 years after Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, this time around,

EXCLUSIVE: According to box office figures we’ve gotten our hands on this morning, IFC’s Dave Franco-directed horror feature The Rental is leading at the weekend box office, having logged roughly an estimated $130K yesterday at 251 locations. The movie should rake in north of $400K for the 3-days. The Rental, Franco’s feature directorial debut, is also available in

In just a few short years, we’ll be hitting the 30th anniversary of the “Death of Superman” storyline, which saw the Man of Steel meeting his demise in battle against Doomsday. Of course, as is often the case in superhero comics, the death didn’t stick, and when Superman did return to the land of the

Amazon Studios is reportedly in final negotiations to purchase the worldwide rights to the film adaptation of Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse from Paramount Pictures starring Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther, Creed). Studios have been trying to have the movie made since 1995 with several failed attempts before filming began on this iteration in 2019. Related: Michael