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The Lionsgate earnings call this afternoon would not have been proper without addressing the elephant in the room: the studio’s deal with AI research firm Runway. Announced on September 18, it was a first-of-its-kind partnership between a major Hollywood studio and Runway, which would create and train a new AI model customized to the studio’s portfolio of […]

As Wicked makes the long-awaited leap from the stage to the screen, Ariana Grande is contemplating a return to her roots. The 2x Grammy winner recently opened up about the “healing” experience of portraying Galinda Upland in director Jon M. Chu‘s adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical, which made her consider “reconnecting” with her love […]

EXCLUSIVE: Count John Wick: Chapter 4 actor Scott Adkins in on Joe Carnahan’s movie RIP at Netflix. RIP follows a team of Miami cops whose trust begins to fray when they discover millions in cash in a derelict stash house. As outside forces learn about the size of the seizure, everything for the team is […]

After nearly 20 years, Channing Tatum might finally get his solo Marvel outing, thanks to a little help from pal Ryan Reynolds. Following Tatum’s appearance as Gambit in Deadpool & Wolverine, Reynolds teased that Marvel executives are “obsessed” with the performance and he has “hope” for Gambit’s onscreen future. “I honestly don’t know what goes […]

Lionsgate’s Motion Picture segment saw revenue nose up 3% to $40 million last quarter on more theatrical wide releases, but profit fell to $2.8 million as those movies underperformed, especially Borderlands. “In a transitional, disrupted and difficult year for our industry, we reported disappointing financial results in the quarter,” said Lionsgate Studios CEO Jon Feltheimer after […]

EXCLUSIVE: Now that 96th Oscar show producers Raj Kapoor and Katy Mullan are officially on board to return for the 97th annual Academy Awards after winning an Emmy in September for their efforts, the search for an Oscar host(s) continues, with the Academy reaching out to stars — and even as I noted in my […]

Streaming platform Mubi has cancelled its long planned Mubi Fest Istanbul at the eleventh hour after the city governor banned a screening of Luca Guadagnino’s LGBTI+ themed movie Queer, which was to have been the opening film. The film festival, which ran in Istanbul for the first time in 2023 after editions in São Paulo, […]

EXCLUSIVE: After she picked up the Best Actress prize at Cannes for her global breakout turn in 2021’s The Worst Person in the World, Renate Reinsve returned to the Croisette last May with Armand. From first-time feature director Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, the psychological drama won the Camera d’Or trophy on the Riviera, and is now […]

EXCLUSIVE: Doug Liman, the filmmaker behind recent streaming hits Road House and The Instigators, is throwing his support behind If You See Something, an indie immigrant romance marking the U.S. debut of celebrated Iraqi director Oday Rasheed, which he’s boarded as executive producer. Word of his involvement comes following the film’s world premiere at the […]

Nearly 30 years after his screenwriting and directorial debut, Tom Hanks appreciates That Thing You Do! (1996) for its cult status. But the 2x Oscar winner jokingly used some colorful language to describe critics of the film about a 1960s small-town boy band who makes it big with an uptempo pop song that draws the […]

Top movie theater owner AMC Entertainment unveiled what it calls its “GO Plan” — short for “go on offense” — a set of major improvements to seating, projection and auditoriums during the next few years. CEO Adam Aron laid out details of the initiative during a quarterly conference call with investors and analysts, adding that […]

Taiwan, like other countries around the world, is wondering what Donald Trump’s return to the White House augurs for U.S. foreign policy. It’s not a matter of idle speculation for Taiwan. The willingness of the U.S. to defend the island nation’s independence from mainland China – which claims Taiwan as its own – could prove […]

UPDATE, with additional reactions: As Hollywood and New York wake up this morning to confirmation that Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States, the mood among many celebrities is one of deep disappointment, even despair. Lexi Underwood, star of Little Fires Everywhere and Cruel Summer posted a swatch of data breaking […]

For a cool million-dollars-plus, a pair of the famed and rare Ruby Slippers from The Wizard of Oz can take a hallowed place on your very own shoe rack. The slippers, worn on-screen by Judy Garland in the 1939 classic MGM musical, are up for auction at Heritage Auctions, with the current bid at $812,500. […]

How does Nicholas Hoult even have time to sleep? This fall alone he will be seen in Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2, the real-life thriller The Order opposite Jude Law, Robert Eggers’ new take on Nosferatu opening Christmas Day, and coming up in 2025 he is Lex Luthor in DC/Warners’ reboot of Superman. That is quite […]

Getting a head start on the holiday season, Warner Bros begins overseas release on Amazon MGM Studios’ Red One today in such majors as the UK, Korea and Spain. Through Friday, a total 75 international box office markets will be on board. The rollout comes one week before domestic on the $200 million Dwayne Johnson […]

EXCLUSIVE: Blue Fox Entertainment Canada has inked a deal to acquire the assets of Unobstructed View Inc. and its U.S. sister company Unobstructed View LLC in a move that expands its distribution footprint across North America. The announcement was made Wednesday by Blue Fox Canada’s president David Hudakoc and EVP Ian Goggins during the American […]

EXCLUSIVE: Buffalo 8 has acquired worldwide distribution rights to mystery-thriller-dark comedy Atrabilious, directed, written, and produced by William Atticus Parker (Forty Winks). The neo-noir stars Leon Addison Brown (The Knick, Forty Winks) and features Oscar winners and nominees, including Whoopi Goldberg (Sister Act, The Color Purple) and Alec Baldwin (Glengarry Glen Ross, The Departed, Beetlejuice), […]

EXCLUSIVE: Highland Film Group has taken international sales for Standing on the Shoulders of Fate, a behind-the-scenes documentary by Adam Davis on the making of Jonathan Baker’s feature Fate, which was set to star Donald Sutherland. The iconic actor died last summer before production started. A highlight of the film is its portrayal of Baker’s year-long […]

EXCLUSIVE: Alliance Media Partners (AMP) had taken world sales rights on the supernatural thriller You Don’t Belong Here from filmmaker Chris McGowan.  AMP will be selling the film AFM in Las Vegas. The film follows a group of amateur crime solvers as they take a trip to an infamous campsite to investigate an unsolved murder. […]

EXCLUSIVE: Lil Rel Howery (Get Out) is set to direct and star in comedy-horror Haunted Heist, alongside Tiffany Haddish (Girls Trip). The Coven, fresh off the theatrical success of Terrifier 3, has signed on to represent the feature from a script by Carl Reid, writer of Hulu horror Mr. Crocket. It will mark Howery’s directorial […]

You can watch a seven-minute free excerpt of Paramount’s new horror flick Smile 2 online — but the grin you’ll need to plaster on your face is not included. That’s right: The studio has pulled out yet another ad stunt, requiring watchers to hold anywhere between a light smile to a full-out Cheshire Cat leer […]

Josh Gad is working on a sequel to Spaceballs alongside Josh Greenbaum and Mel Brooks. The actor will produce and star in the film for Amazon MGM Studios and recently revealed that the script’s first draft had been completed. “Without MGM taking me into their Culver prison cells, I can tell you that the draft […]

Jason Reitman was born into the movie business, almost literally: He has a photo being held as a baby on the set where his father Ivan Reitman was making National Lampoon’s Animal House. He has been on a clear path to join the family business ever since, even directing a 2021 reboot of his dad’s […]