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Disney’s Frozen has become Broadway’s first long-running casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic and industrywide shutdown. The production, which opened March 22, 2018 at the St. James Theatre, announced today that it will not return when Broadway reopens – whenever that might be. In the closure announcement, producers said the musical will not re-open “as a
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EXCLUSIVE: We’ve learned and confirmed that some exhibitors will be sharing in this weekend’s revenues for the Warner Bros. digital and PVOD release of Scoob! Warner Bros. opted to take their Tony Cervone-directed animated release into homes this Friday instead of theaters given the continued near nationwide exhibition shutdown during COVID-19. Scoob! will be available for
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EXCLUSIVE:  Vertical Entertainment has acquired the North American distribution rights to the Bella Thorne feature Infamous, Deadline has learned. The distributor has set a virtual cinema and VOD release date of June 12 for the pic which was written and directed by Joshua Caldwell. The deal was negotiated by Peter Jarowey and Josh Spector at Vertical
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Though the Marvel Cinematic Universe ended the Infinity Saga with Avengers: Endgame, which included the destruction of the Infinity Stones in the main MCU timeline, there is still a chance that the stones could return in Marvel’s Phase 4 movies and TV series. Avengers: Endgame shows the defeat of Thanos (Josh Brolin), and the elemental crystals that were the MacGuffins of
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Will Wonder Woman 1984 Keep Its August Release Date? Back in March at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was some question as to whether or not shelter-in-place protocols would wind up impacting the set June release date for Wonder Woman 1984, but then that thinking went out the window when theaters across the
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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
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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 —
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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