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What a treat. The most heartwarming part of the Superman trailer back in December got an extended look Tuesday night at CinemaCon, that being the Man of Steel and his dog Krypto. In the footage for audiences at CinemaCon, Superman dropped to Earth bloodied near the Fortress of Solitude. He whistles for Krypto, who jumps […]

“See you at the Oscars,” Richard Brener, President & Chief Creative Officer of New Line Cinema, joked Tuesday at CinemaCon, where Warner Bros showed an extended seven-minute look at Final Destination: Bloodlines. “Two brother think they have to figure out a way to thwart Death,” Brener said. “What could go wrong?” Oscar maybe not, but […]

Apple Original Films might be looking at its first blockbuster in F1 coming out via Warner Bros on June 27. We’ve been hearing that the movie has been testing well, and even if there’s a bit of hurdle in U.S. audiences not being fans of the sport, the bet is that F1 rallies overseas. From […]

Rumors raced around Hollywood today that the script Quentin Tarantino planned to make his last film but abandoned will see the light of day. It started with a wild report about a Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood sequel that originated in The Playlist. Being this is April Fool’s Day, it required some vetting. So here […]

The $100 million feature take The Bride from Maggie Gyllenhaal showed off its first footage at CinemaCon on Tuesday, with the filmmaker and star Jessie Buckley in attendance. Logline: In 1930s Chicago, Frankenstein asks Dr. Euphronius to help create a companion. They give life to a murdered woman as The Bride, sparking romance, police interest […]

What is Zach Cregger’s Weapons about? We finally found out. “It’s a twisty, turny movie,” said Cregger onstage during Warner Bros’ CinemaCon presentation Tuesday in Las Vegas. “If you saw Barbarian, it’s pandering, it worked a little bit,” he added. Praising the wonder of horror films, Cregger said: “There’s an undeniable amplification when you go […]

Warner Bros kicked off its CinemaCon presentation Tuesday with its two biggest swings yet: Paul Thomas Anderson’s $140M rebel Leonardo DiCaprio feature One Battle After Another and following that with a look at Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! It was a smart and shrewd move by Warner Bros motion picture co-chiefs Michael De Luca and Pam […]

Wicked made Universal in the neighborhood of $100 million on PVOD, cash it can use to make more movies, which will ultimately help exhibition, said Peter Levinsohn, Chairman, Global Distribution, NBCUniversal Entertainment & Studios as the debate over exclusive theatrical windows dominates CinemaCon. “We are a theatrical first company,” he said at at an industry panel […]

The scene shocked the world: President Donald Trump inviting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the Oval Office on February 28, only to verbally attack him in front of the media and accuse him of fomenting World War III. Vice President J.D. Vance, eager to please his boss, dressed down Zelensky over what he considered his […]

EXCLUSIVE: Kate Hollowell, the Sundance-winning multihyphenate creator, is coming on board to direct Something Murdered for Amblin Entertainment. The project is an original idea written by Liz Benham that Amblin picked up last year. Hollowell will rewrite to direct as a feature. Amblin is producing alongside Chad Villella, with Benham, Tyler Gillett and Matthew Bettinelli-Olpin […]

Lionsgate saved the best for last — Jenna Ortega and The Weeknd — to tubthump their May 16 movie Hurry Up Tomorrow from Trey Edward Schults. The Weeknd lit Caesars Colosseum ablaze with a performance of two songs from the movie, “Cry for Me” and “Open Hearts,” as well as his classic “Blinding Lights,” and […]

CinemaCon is currently underway, with presentations from Sony Pictures, Warner Bros., Lionsgate, Paramount, Universal/Focus, Disney, Angel, and Neon highlighting their upcoming film releases. Lionsgate’s presentation today kicked off with an extended look at Ballerina from director Len Wiseman starring Ana de Armas. Francis Lawrence and Mark Hamill teased the adaptation of Stephen King’s The Long […]

Ben Wang and Ralph Macchio took the stage at CinemaCon with an extended look at Karate Kid: L.egends from Sony Pictures, out May 30. The film features young Wang with the legendary Jackie Chan and Macchio, the original Karate Kid. After a family tragedy, kung fu prodigy Li Fong (Wang) is uprooted from his home in Beijing […]

CinemaCon attendees got a first look at a trailer for the Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell-starring event pic A Big Bold Beautiful Journey during Sony’s presentation on Monday evening here in Las Vegas. The romance drama is billed as an original tale of two strangers and the extraordinary emotional journey that connects them. The footage […]

A sexy high-gloss sizzle reel for the new I Know What You Did Last Summer movie turned up the heat during Sony’s CinemaCon show in Las Vegas this evening. The follow-up to the 1997 hit features returning cast members as well as new players. Jennifer Love Hewitt is back alongside former co-star Freddie Prinze Jr. while […]

Leave it to Tom Rothman to tee up CinemaCon, ever the philosopher, with the ultimate sermon that waves the flag for moviegoing. Acknowledging the elephant in the room at this year’s confab — windows — Rothman told the Caesars Palace full of exhibs, “Cost and windows can work for us or against us. Theatrical needs […]

Sian Barbara Allen, a Golden Globe-nominated TV actress who appeared in such hits as The Waltons and L.A. Law, died today at the age of 78 in Chapel Hill, N.C. The cause of death was Alzheimer’s Disease. A prolific television performer of the ’70s and ’80s, Allen was born on July 12, 1946 in Reading, […]

While The Social Network star Jesse Eisenberg might not want be involved in the same conversations as the Facebook founder, it seems Mark Zuckerberg, on whom the protagonist/antagonist is based, has no problem continuing the association. On a recent episode of The Colin and Samir Show, whose podcast includes interviews with tech CEOs and delves […]

Sydney Sweeney is in final negotiations to star in the live-action Gundam movie coming together at Legendary, sources have confirmed to Deadline. Details as to the part Sweeney is playing are under wraps for now, as is the film’s plot. Reps for Legendary declined to comment. As we were first to tell you last fall, Sweet […]

In a 10-page comment directed to the White House Office of Science and Technology earlier this month, the Motion Picture Association said AI “can, and must, coexist with a copyright system that incentivizes the creation of original expression and protects the rights of copyright owners.” The trade group repping members Amazon Studios, Netflix, Paramount Pictures, […]

Warner Bros Discovery said Monday that it plans to add veteran tech investor Anton Levy as an independent director on its soon-to-expand board of directors. The company’s existing board, which consists of 13 directors, today approved an expansion to 14 timed to the annual shareholder meeting later this spring. The move follows a report in […]

UPDATE, 1:47 PM: A New Mexico judge has ruled that police bodycam footage or photographs of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa’s dead bodies shall remain out of the public sphere, but the couple’s autopsy reports and images of the couple’s home and animals will be released. After a hearing this morning in the Santa Fe […]

EXCLUSIVE: Hamdan Ballal and his fellow No Other Land filmmakers are thanking top members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for signing a letter that pushed AMPAS leadership to take a firmer stance condemning an attack on Ballal by Israeli settlers. Palestinian filmmakers Ballal and Basel Adra and Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham […]

The major story in Hollywood, says Jeff Goldstein, president of Global Distribution for Warner Bros. Pictures, is how expensive it’s getting to make movies and to market them to a fragmented audience even as technology sends first reactions to a film around the world in a “nanosecond.” “That’s the bigger story here,” he said on […]