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While the Oblivion Song movie doesn’t have a director attached yet, Jake Gyllenhaal will produce through his Nine Stories film banner with Riva Marker, while over at Skybound Entertainment, Robert Kirkman will produce alongside David Alpert, Bryan Furst and Sean Furst. Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer are also producing through New Republic Entertainment, which optioned
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“Thank God for each and every one of you,” MGM Motion Picture Group chairman Michael De Luca told theater owners and managers in the crowd at CinemaCon on Tuesday. “There is no industry without all of you. There is no Hollywood without all of you.” Today’s kickoff to the MGM reel presentation repped the studio’s
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Of course, any kind of day and date release puts exhibitors in competition with the studios’ streaming services, and no doubt there’s a loss of cash in the collapse of the theatrical and PVOD window. However, the worst takeaway from dynamic windows is piracy, plain and simple. Such was the message from CinemaCon’s first panel
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New Jersey native Laura San Giacomo was fairly new to Hollywood when she landed the role of the street-walking best friend Kit De Luca — who helps Vivian Ward navigate her way through Bev Hills while mixing business with true love — in the classic 1990 romantic comedy “Pretty Woman.” The C with some A-list
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Hide Your Eyes (TBA) Also in 2017, as reported by Deadline, David Dastmalchian and producers Steven P. Wegner and Mali Elfman tapped filmmaker Laura Moss to direct a movie that the actor actually wrote himself, supposedly inspired by his own past struggles with addiction. The horror film is called Hide Your Eyes and follows a
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The Delta Variant, streaming wars and surging piracy loom large as CinemaCon launches Sunday at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, the first in-person gathering of theaters owners and Hollywood studios since the pandemic struck 18-months ago. The virus has slashed registered attendees to circa 2,000 from 3,500 pre-pandemic, with a sizeable European contingent entirely shut
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United Artists Releasing opens Flag Day, directed and starring Sean Penn, in a uneven specialty market where the Delta Variant spike has theaters in key cities requiring proof of vaccination, theaters are hard to book, and hits have been rare since the industry reopened. Eventually “We’ll crack the code, because good movie and good stories
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For those who are unfamiliar with Planet of the Vampires, the Italian movie follows the surviving crew members from two spaceships that have crash-landed on an unexplored planet called Aura. The survivors soon find themselves hunted by the spirit-like inhabitants of Aura that have possessed their cohorts’ corpses. It’s been speculated that Ridley Scott was
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EXCLUSIVE: Landmark Theatres has entered into a long-term lease for the Scottsdale Quarter luxury multiplex in Scottsdale Arizona which was previously occupied by dine-in-cinema iPic Theatre. This is Landmark’s first theatre in the market. The eight-screen plex will reopen this fall after being shuttered since the end of the January 2020. “We are very excited
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As we first told you, Sony’s fourthquel Hotel Transylvania: Transformania was heading to a streamer. Turns out, that’s bound to be Amazon in what we hear are early talks. While Disney has been doing rather well with the theatrical component of its day-and-date family movie Jungle Cruise with subsequent weekend holds of -55% and -43% for the pic’s
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Shawn Levy had a fantastic weekend at the box office. Not only did his long-awaited 20th Century Studios Ryan Reynolds film Free Guy overperform in the face of a daunting pandemic with a $28.3M domestic start, the videogame-inspired romantic comedy repped a huge win for original tentpole material on the big screen. “This is the first
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