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Ti West's "Ebenezer," the PG-13 Scrooge picture starring Johnny Depp, opened Friday in 3,535 theaters, per Deadline, with a $20M+ opening weekend projected on a net $38M budget. The comeback narrative has been running since Comic-Con, where Depp showed up in f…
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According to TMZ, citing Puck, the search for the next James Bond is closing in on Robert Pattinson after the early screeners failed to impress, and his deal was reportedly sweetened to three films at a much bigger payday. The next James Bond is being picked l…
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Per Variety, eagle-eyed Marvel fans combed through the Writer's Guild of America directory and spotted the screenwriting credits for Avengers: Doomsday, which list Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman among the 10 writers who worked on the film. We'll call the ten-w…
Johnny Depp's gothic A Christmas Carol, "Ebenezer," premiered in London Monday and opens Nov. 13 in U.S. theaters, and per Variety Depp is taking a $5 million salary, a fraction of his old fee, for his first big studio role in eight years. Cinema owners are be…
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According to Variety, Godzilla Minus Zero opened to $14.5M on Friday and is tracking to a $32M weekend, a record for a live-action foreign-language opening, while The Cat in the Hat brought in $6M. Deadline puts the Warner Bros. Animation film at $17M to $20M …
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Advance tickets for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping are reportedly the best Lionsgate has seen post-Covid for any title, running ahead of Universal's Wicked, per Deadline. The prequel opens Friday, Nov. 20, and the studio's opening forecast now has an…
Matthew Vaughn and Cristiano Ronaldo's stuntman action comedy “Stuntnuts” gets its first market screening at AFM and a new Matt Damon cameo, per Deadline. The film, which features Chris Hemsworth and Sam Rockwell playing themselves, was shot a couple of years …
Universal set international release dates for Alex Gibney's documentary “Musk” on Friday, per Variety, after the studio reportedly wavered on an overseas rollout following legal threats from the film's subject. Asked what had happened, Gibney said, “Were they …
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Keanu Reeves has officially closed a deal to voice John Wick in Lionsgate's animated prequel, per Variety. The film tells the Impossible Task story. He kills all of his rivals in one night to free himself from the High Table and earn the right to be with Helen…
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According to Variety, Glamnetic and Warner Bros. launched a "Dune" press-on nail collection of nine sets today, priced $21.99 to $23.99, timed to the Dec. 18 release of "Dune: Part Three." The franchise's merch pyramid is full height now. Top tier: the Hamilto…
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According to Variety, Grimes has a few minutes of cameo in "Gods Don't Give Gifts," the R-rated AI-generated feature from YouTuber Gossip Goblin that hits theaters Dec. 4, and the studio is running a Times Square ad campaign built around her appearance. The di…
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Maya Hawke is set to star in "Magic: The Gathering," a live-action movie from Legendary Entertainment and Hasbro Entertainment, per Variety. Matt Johnson, who directed "Blackberry," will direct. Her role is undisclosed and the plot is "under wraps," though the…
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According to Variety, Guy Ritchie is writing, directing, and producing a seventh film with Jason Statham, "Dogfight," which Netflix has announced as a "stylish revenge actioner" set in the London criminal underworld. Production starts in the UK in early 2027, …
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According to Variety, while out promoting his Christmas Scrooge movie "Ebenezer," Johnny Depp told Entertainment Tonight that he would return for "Pirates of the Caribbean 6" for one reason only: to "send them off on a better note." "Send them off on a better …
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A24's Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything and DC's Clayface finished the Halloween weekend nearly level at about $10.5 million apiece, one of the slowest weekends of the year, according to Variety. Final numbers Monday. The mechanism is the mat…
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On Oct. 31, Taika Waititi posted on Instagram that the critics who gave Sony's "Klara and the Sun" a 26 percent Rotten Tomatoes score are "sad lost souls" who "became critics," signing off with "Irrelevant. Out of touch. Obsolete. In the bin." Per Deadline, th…
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Sunrise on the Reaping, the Hunger Games prequel, premiered in London on Wednesday with a red carpet that felt like a fashion show, per E!, and the franchise's original two leads are returning for the first time in over a decade. The franchise has now cast its…
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A24's Alex Garland "Elden Ring" adaptation is headed to the American Film Market next week, and per Deadline it will be the biggest-budget movie ever sold at a market. Amazon MGM already scooped up a chunk of international streaming rights. Indie darling A24 n…
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According to Page Six, Keanu Reeves is attached to star in the Netflix action film "Maelstrom," a "Die Hard"-style project first sold as a spec script to Warner Bros. in 1993, taking over the lead from "Reacher" star Alan Ritchson, who dropped out. Directed by…
During World Series Game 1, MLB aired an exclusive Avengers: Doomsday preview on Fox, with Pedro Pascal's Mister Fantastic throwing the ceremonial first pitch to Joseph Quinn's Human Torch. The ceremonial first pitch was the one ritual in baseball you could no…
Clayface opened to $10.4M on Friday (previews included) across 3,458 theaters and is tracking a $24M to $25M weekend for the No. 1 spot, according to Deadline. An R-rated DC villain movie with no IMAX and a social diagnostic 47% below the studio average, and i…
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Quentin Tarantino surprised an AFI Fest crowd at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Friday night by screening the first 17 minutes of The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, the script he wrote that David Fincher is directing, according to Deadline. The film is due…
Amazon MGM Studios is setting final screen tests for the next James Bond as early as Friday, with at least four test offers out and three names expected in front of the camera: Jack Lowden, Callum Turner and Josh O'Connor, according to Deadline. The spy who ki…
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Greta Gerwig's Narnia: The Magician's Nephew trailer pulled more than 481 million views in its first week, more than the first week trailers for Barbie and Wonka, Deadline reports after Netflix's earnings call. The mechanism is the trailer count. Netflix neede…
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BFI Imax, the UK's largest screen, sold 33,000 advance tickets for Dune: Part Three in 24 hours, a new presale record for the venue, per Deadline. The film does not open until December. The record is a preorder, and the PR machine is reporting it like a box of…
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According to Variety, director Lance Oppenheim says Robert Pattinson only agreed to star in A24's "Primetime" after the director shipped 200 canisters of Zyn nicotine pouches to his Los Angeles home alongside the script, addressed "Dear Chris Han-Zyn." The fil…
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According to Deadline, Amazon MGM has set Dwayne Johnson's Lizard Music for Christmas Day 2027, which is the slot a studio hands to the movie it believes will make the whole family sit down. The live-action/CGI hybrid is directed by Benny Safdie from his own a…
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Deadline reports that the first trailer for Greta Gerwig's "Narnia: The Magician's Nephew" shows Emma Mackey as the White Witch in a metallic dress, a world being born, and Aslan, who will be voiced by Meryl Streep, ahead of a February 12 theatrical bow and an…
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According to Deadline, Scarlet Stallone's SRYN Productions has optioned the Fears To Fathom horror video game franchise for film and television, teaming up with the creator who goes by Rayll. The game is an anthology of standalone psychological horror entries …
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According to Deadline, Street Fighter, the video game reboot from Paramount, Legendary, and Capcom, pulled in $4 million in Thursday previews, with the studio projecting a domestic opening north of $30 million and about $70 million worldwide. The film is the f…
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According to Variety, Warner Bros.' "Dune: The Experience" opens November 20 in downtown Los Angeles, a one-hour walkthrough of Arrakis with a giant sandworm, and the $250 tier gets you a seat inside the real ornithopter. The movie comes out December 18. The e…
via The announcement: Deadline · The math: A.V. Club · The Q&A format: ScreenRant · The wine empire: World of Reel
According to Deadline, Megalopolis returns to theaters October 24 in a limited run from New York to Hawaii, with the audience texting questions to Francis Ford Coppola and him answering the best ones live. The $120 million self financed epic that took in $14 m…
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The Daily Wire revealed details Tuesday of "Confession," its under-the-radar prestige drama set in Stalin's 1938 Moscow, written by Ben Shapiro and starring Rob Lowe, James Franco, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Nick Nolte, with a world premiere at the Warsaw Film F…
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The math is the story. A $19 million budget, a $27.5 million opening, an 18 percent critics score, a D+ from the audience. The movie is winning the weekend while losing every review, which is a specific flavor of box office success the marketing team never ask…
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The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin's "Social Network" sequel, opened to $6 million this weekend against a budget around $30 million, according to Deadline. Jeremy Strong is playing Mark Zuckerberg after Jesse Eisenberg turned down the role. Sorkin went back to…
Apple TV+ dropped "Matchbox The Movie" today, a two-hour John Cena and Jessica Biel action comedy "inspired by the iconic Mattel toys," according to 9to5Mac. The cast walked the New York red carpet for the world premiere on October 5. The whole deal fits in on…
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Anne Hathaway posted her first-ever Letterboxd review: five stars on Tom Cruise's Digger, the Alejandro G. Iñárritu film now projected to cost Warner Bros. up to $200 million. "Loved this brilliant film," she wrote. "It's smart, trippy, aggressive, funny, and …
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According to GeekTyrant, YouTuber Gossip Goblin, aka Zack London, dropped a trailer for "Gods Don't Give Gifts," a 104-minute AI-generated sci-fi horror film. It opens in limited theaters December 4, and the team has announced it will campaign for a Best Anima…
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Tom Cruise's "Digger," Alejandro G. Iñárritu's satirical black comedy about an oil tycoon whose malfunctioning Antarctica drilling rig sends an ice cap hurtling toward Europe, opened to $8 million in North America and $20 million worldwide, and Cruise said in …
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Universal Pictures Content Group, LW Entertainment, and Cameron Mackintosh are producing a live recording of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera for a 2027 cinema release, via Deadline. The film will capture the production's 40th anniversary gala at His…
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According to Deadline, Paramount has dropped the first full trailer for "Ebenezer," the Ti West-directed Dickens adaptation starring Johnny Depp as Scrooge, in theaters November 13. The film was already promoted in person last July, when Depp appeared in full …
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According to Variety, Jack O'Connell and Odessa A'zion will star in "The End of the World as We Know It," about "a pair of star-crossed loners who meet on an epic pilgrimage to prove the earth is flat." The film is written and directed by Ross White and Tom Be…
Christopher Abbott, cast as Professor X in Marvel Studios' X-Men movie, told Entertainment Tonight that he "hasn't read anything yet. Nothing," as Deadline reports. He's "not even being coy." He has not read anything, but he "can't wait," because the film isn'…
via The focus group story: Variety · The No. 1 weekend: Variety box office · Rival coverage: ScreenRant · Rival coverage: ThoughtCatalog
Colleen Hoover's "Verity," the erotic thriller starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson, opened at No. 1 this weekend, and Variety reports the film's original "dark phoenix" ending was scrapped after focus group screenings rejected it. The ending they cut was…
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Paramount dropped the first full trailer for "Ebenezer" on Thursday, a Ti West "supernatural revenge thriller" adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" with Johnny Depp as Scrooge, per The Hollywood Reporter. The marketing did not pick a role, it picked a plot. The w…
via The tracking story: Page Six · The "decide for yourself" promo: EW · The July influencer press event: Page Six · The zero-star review: NY Post
The $135 million apocalypse satire "Digger" starring Tom Cruise is tracking an $8 million to $12 million opening this weekend, according to Page Six. The studio's new "decide for yourself" promo opens with a quote from a film influencer with 4,895 TikTok follo…
via The announcement: Deadline · The confirmation: Variety · The cut scene: THR
According to Deadline, "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" is getting a re-release with new footage. The film is now the highest-grossing domestic movie of all time at $950.7 million and the third biggest of all time worldwide at $2.495 billion. The re-release is not …
via The exclusive announcement: Deadline · Rival coverage of the cast: Hollywood Reporter · The studio's own press: Netflix Tudum · The Mean Girls reunion angle: EW
Netflix announced today that Lindsay Lohan will star in and produce a new romance feature, "Return to You," starring Henry Golding, according to Deadline. The film, directed by Mark Waters, the man behind Freaky Friday and Mean Girls, is set in 2008 and follow…
The biggest YouTube channel on earth, 517 million subscribers, showed up to a Mumbai promo event for Ramayana on Saturday, and the press event that was supposed to be a two-hour spectacle ran about fifteen minutes, according to Hollywood Reporter India. The me…
via The recap: Deadline · The 2012 record it beat: Box Office Mojo · The 2012 opening report: TheWrap · The numbers: The Numbers
Zach Cregger's Resident Evil reboot opened to $60.1 million from 3,684 theaters and $108.3 million worldwide last weekend, per Deadline. That worldwide number is being billed as the biggest opening in the 24-year-old franchise's history. Box office PR runs on …
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According to Deadline, Zach Cregger's Resident Evil opened at number one this weekend with an estimated $60 million in North America and $108.3 million worldwide, the biggest opening in franchise history by Sony's Sunday estimate. The franchise was already dea…