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Chinese authorities will allow further leisure venues, including cinemas, to gradually re-open now that the coronavirus pandemic has largely been controlled in the country, the top administrative body said on Friday. This comes after movie theaters were shuttered nationwide in January, ultimately dealing a $2.5B+ loss to the box office in just the first quarter.

What Exactly Is A Snozzberry? Halfway through Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, our title character introduces the remaining children to lickable wallpaper, where the oranges taste like oranges, the pineapples taste like pineapples, the strawberries taste like strawberries, and the snozzberries taste like snozzberries. Ultimately, the candymaker doesn’t offer an explanation for what a

Producers of Deadpool 2 have been hit with a $300k fine for the on-set death of a stuntwoman back in August of 2017. Deadpool 2 was the sequel to Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool, and it was helmed by director David Leitch. The followup proved to be another successful venture with the film earning just below the original’s box office gross

Paddleton (Andy) For my money, Paddleton might very well be Ray Romano’s best performance yet. While he’s terrific in The Irishman‘s ensemble and his performance in The Big Sick was more commonly celebrated, Paddleton finally gives Romano the dramatic lead role he’s been due for years. Not surprisingly, Romano’s character portrayal is excellent, as it’s

The actual Space Force Chief responds to Steve Carell’s new Netflix show Space Force. The upcoming series is a cheeky response to President Trump’s actual Space Force. The new show has Carell donning a far different uniform than the one he had on his days on The Office as Michael Scott. However, fans of The Office will likely be thrilled that

As exhibitors in major European markets begin eyeing potential openings at the end of June and through mid-July, some smaller hubs are returning to operation this week, albeit under strict social distancing guidelines and at reduced capacities. Overall, a somewhat clearer picture is beginning to emerge with regard to restarting the business in Europe —

At this point, we don’t know enough about the collaboration between Tom Cruise, SpaceX and NASA to speculate what’s coming in Hollywood’s first movie in outer space. This project will let the actor to continue to push the limits of action on the big screen and allow audiences to spend extended time in the actual

There’s a pervasive stigma around mobile games. The entire mobile gaming market has been viewed in a less-than-positive light for many years now since many so-called ‘free’ games are little more than free trials trying to hook addictive personalities into a never-ending loop of grinding and spending. What’s particularly insidious about this market isn’t just the

Universal has set aside a number of release dates for event pics the studio plans to program in 2022. Disney and Warner Bros. do this all the time, and its a way of letting the competition know that there’s a title coming down the road. First date is MLK weekend, Jan 14 against 20th Century

Dead Girl You know, there was actually a moment in 2009 when Emma Watson was the victim of a celebrity death hoax, which were, sadly, all the rage at the time. She is probably over it by now but, if I were to recommend a unique way to get back at those wretched internet pranksters,

Every fan of the wizarding world fantasized about living in the Harry Potter universe while growing up. Many were even so desperate to live in the magical world that a bit of a temper tantrum may have been thrown when no owl arrived with a Hogwarts letter on that vital 11th birthday. Who wouldn’t want to live in a universe with Quidditch, flying cars,

Paramount has given a date for a new Transformers movie of June 24, 2022. The studio is in development on two different projects: one by Murder Mystery scribe James Vanderbilt and the other by John Wick Chapter 3 EP and Army of the Dead scribe Joby Harold. The Vanderbilt project, from what we’ve heard, is based on Transformers spinoff Beast Wars which are robots that transform into robotic

As Christopher Lloyd explained, it was kind of payback for all the times the studio’s early films traumatized him as well. I mean the part in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs when the poor Disney princess enters the dark forest was absolutely terrifying, for me, as a kid. Or how about when Pinocchio turned

Star Wars: The Clone Wars freshens up Hayden Christensen’s Anakin Skywalker dialogue from Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. The eleventh episode of season 7, “Part III: Shattered”, continues to overlap with the events of the third prequel film. Anakin’s fall to the dark side and the command of Order 66 are well underway, meaning

EXCLUSIVE: Despite recent, scattered press reports suggesting New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was snubbing Broadway by shutting the industry out of his New York Forward Re-Opening Advisory Board, the state and the theater industry are working closely on how to re-start, Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway League, tells Deadline. “We are completely aligned

Speaking to CinemaBlend while promoting A Quiet Place, Emily Blunt recalled how, during preparation for the famous and bathtub birth sequence, John Krasinski asked if she would rather shoot the potentially exhausting scene broken up into a schedule or all at once. For the purposes of authenticity, Blunt voted to film it in sequence to

When Smallville was still on the air, there was talk of Oliver Queen (Justin Hartley) getting his own TV series, so why did the CW create Arrow with Stephen Amell in the lead role instead? Long before Amell wore the green hood, the CW had Justin Hartley as its Green Arrow on Smallville. Introduced in

Directors Anthony and Joe Russo climbed the ladder again in Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament, winning for a second year in a row thanks to the all-time. record-breaking. $2.79 billion-grossing Avengers: Endgame, which netted close to a $900 million profit for Walt Disney Studios after all theatrical rentals, global home entertainment and TV profits. The

Plot details concerning The Matrix 4 are being kept under lock and key, but in addition to Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jada Pinkett Smith and Lambert Wilson all reprising their respective roles from the previous movies, the lineup of new faces includes Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Neil Patrick Harris, Priyanka Chopra, Jessica Henwick, Jonathan Groff, Toby

Michael Rosenbaum turned down a mystery role in The Suicide Squad. Rosenbaum has been acting for over twenty years, but really gained fan recognition when he became a series regular on Smallville as Lex Luthor. The actor has voiced several animated superhero movies and TV shows over the years, and also appeared as Martinex in Guardians of the Galaxy

AMC Boss Adam Aron has just fired off the following letter to Universal Studios Chairman Donna Langley in response to NBC Universal CEO Jeff Shell’s statements in the Wall Street Journal this morning about the $95M PVOD success of Trolls World Tour.  As Aron explains below to Langley, he initially got it: theaters were closed, and

Trolls Holiday Ffinally, if your kids just can’t get enough of Trolls, then there’s always the half hour Christmas special, Trolls Holiday. Queen Poppy (Anna Kendrick) wants to bring joy to her best friend, Bridget the Bergen (voiced by Zooey Deschanel), and she plans to do it by introducing the Bergens to their massive amount

Netflix’s Too Hot to Handle was the perfect show to binge-watch during this quarantine. The episodes moved quickly and there was barely a dull moment. Fans were left with somewhat of a cliffhanger though. The cast members have given some updates about their lives in interviews and on social media, but that’s not quite enough. The viewers

Talk about being in cahoots. Sony and Disney just made major changes on their release date calendars, particularly among their Marvel properties. Sony said Friday that it is moving their Spider-Man: Homecoming threequel to Nov. 5, 2021 instead of keeping their original July 16 date next year. Disney then announced that Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange in the

Professor Zoom Hailing from the 25th century, Eobard Thawne admired The Flash as an historical figure, to the point that he wanted to be just like him. Thawne eventually figured out a way to obtain super speed and traveled back in time to meet his idol, but upon learning he was destined to become Flash’s

A new fan-made poster for The Incredible Hulk imagines what it would look like if Red Hulk joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Red Hulk is a rather new Marvel character compared to Hulk (who debuted in 1962), with Thunderbolt Ross transforming into the character for the first time in 2008. Bruce Banner has been a main character

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn’t about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysterious end

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Netflix’s new reality series Too Hot To Handle features a competition between ten hot singles at the beautiful Casa Tau resort in Punta Mita, Mexico. Its premise is to promote meaningful romantic connections between the contestants. The kicker is that sexual intercourse is strictly prohibited. If rules are broken, it results in a reduction of all

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn’t about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysterious end