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And he’s not wrong that Nightmare would likely require plenty of voice over work paired with CGI. In the comics, Nightmare, who also happens to be one of Doctor Strange’s earliest villains, is a Fear Lord and ruler of the Dream Dimension. He torments people in their dreams and, in order to become more powerful,

A court ruling that dropped today allowing movie studios to buy theaters (whether or not they want to — and they probably don’t) is the latest snub to an industry that’s been rattled by change for years, in particular since March and COVID-19. Exhibition hasn’t been this pressured in a century. When the 1918 Spanish

Play video content @ryusei416japan/Instagram Bruce Lee might be dead, but his spirit is very much alive in this little boy from Japan … who knows one of the legend’s insane nunchuck movie routines like the back of his hand. Meet Ryusei — a legitimate Kung Fu prodigy who’s obsessed with all things Bruce … including

Although he hasn’t revealed too many details about the cut, he has shared occasional updates on his work. Most recently, he took to Instagram to post an outtake from the film, which occurred during the tense press conference for Rocky Balboa and Ivan Drago’s fight. In the clip, Stallone can be seen both playing his

China’s third Friday back to the movies scored a slight increase on last week’s comparable day at $4.38M. It’s short of the $7.6M generated last Sunday which was boosted by Warner Bros’ reissue of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, but still a jump on last Friday, while midweeks were solid. Play today was led by DreamWorks/Amblin/Universal’s 1917

Brooklyn-based singer and actor Ellen Greene is best known for her role as the blonde-bob babes and shop assistant, Audrey — who is the love interest (and meal interest) of the skid row plant shop — in the plant-based 1986 musical, “Little Shop of Horrors.” Ellen Greene was cast alongside an epic group of actors

What Are The Paramount Consent Decrees? In 1948, the Supreme Court Decision United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. ended three key practices when it came to theatrical exhibition. The decision agreed with the accusations that major studios, like Paramount and Warner Bros, had an unfair advantage when it came to releasing films to the general

On today’s earnings call for the No. 1 financially challenged exhibitor AMC, CEO Adam Aron took the high road in not damning Disney for their recent seisimic-shifting choice to take Mulan to Disney+ instead of theaters where the streaming service is available. “You might thing I’m disappointed that Mulan is moving, but AMC has no bigger friend

Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Garner have a long past together, and judging by the photos they may also have a present. The former “Alias” stars hit up Malibu beach Wednesday, along with a little girl who appears to be Bradley’s daughter, Lea De Seine Shayk Cooper. Bradley and Jen have something in common … they’ve

Gwyneth Paltrow took the conversation a step further by asking Cameron Diaz how she felt about dropping into a lower profile role in Hollywood and Cameron Diaz really opened up about what life was like for her when she was constantly on movie sets and being fawned over by those working for productions. It’s fewer

Auditions make me nervous. Not for myself — I’m beyond the casting-call stage of life. But rather for anyone who still has the nerve to endure the almost always disappointing, sometimes humiliating, process of being screened, interviewed, tested and most probably rejected for a role in show business. Or journalism. Or politics, wherein the final

Exclusive Daisy Coleman — one of the teenage girls featured in “Audrie & Daisy,” the Netflix documentary about multiple rape cases — has died by suicide … according to her mother. Daisy’s mom, Melinda, says her daughter took her own life Tuesday night. Her body was discovered after Melinda called the police to do a

Since Dune is a science fiction epic on a grand scale, it certainly needs all of the things Denis Villeneuve mentioned. In Dune, Paul Atreides is on a coming-of-age journey, training and following in the footsteps of his powerful father, Duke Leto Atreides. However, his journey will not be everything he expects.

Right now Universal and AMC are looking like saints in the exhibition business after taking a kicking in the teeth by rival circuits for their controversial deal last week to crunch the theatrical window to 17 days with an option for PVOD thereafter. Disney’s announcement after the market closed to bring Mulan to their 60.5M Disney+

Exclusive The Rock owns the XFL and former L.A. Wildcats head coach Winston Moss has a message for DJ … GIVE ME A JOB!!! Moss lost his head coaching gig when the 2nd iteration of the XFL went under — largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic — leaving the former NFL player and coach without

It was the first time Keanu Reeves had acknowledged a public relationship since he and his former partner Jennifer Syme lost their daughter during a stillborn birth, leading to a split for the couple. Sadly, Syme died shortly after in a car crash and while Keanu Reeves was seen with women including actress China Chow,

Sing Street, the sold-out Off Broadway musical that was set to begin performances at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre just as the COVID-19 shutdown hit, is now targeting an opening sometime between winter 2021 and winter 2022. The announcement was made Monday by producers Barbara Broccoli, Brian Carmody, Patrick Milling Smith, Michael Wilson, Orin Wolf and Frederick

Shia LaBeouf doesn’t need a bumper sticker to show his support for Joe Biden … a face covering —  do just fine. The actor was out Monday morning in L.A. arriving at a film set while also doing his part to stem the spread of the coronavirus. But, Shia’s face mask is doing double duty

CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links. With a little over two months under its belt, HBO Max is finally delivering its first original film later this week: An American Pickle, starring Seth Rogen in dual roles: Herschel Greenbaum, an

IFC’s Dave Franco-directed horror movie The Rental continued to hold its lease atop the box office for a second weekend in a row, grossing $317,823 from 242 locations. Pic’s 10-day gross stands at $916,333. The Rental reps the first No. 1 movie for the indie distrib (My Big Fat Greek Wedding, if you remember, only got up

Breaking News Olivia de Havilland, the last surviving star of “Gone with the Wind,” has died. The actress played Melanie Hamilton Wilkes, who squared off with Scarlett O’Hara to gain the affection of Ashley Wilkes, played by Leslie Howard. The 1939 movie became one of the icons in cinema … played and replayed every year

SATURDAY UPDATE: Since cinemas reopened in China’s low-risk areas on July 20, the market today had its biggest day yet. Box office was $5.74M (RMB 40M) overall for the day, according to Maoyan figures. That reps a 38% jump from Friday. After leading last weekend and the midweeks, then dropping to No. 2 on Friday,

Exclusive Zac Efron is formulating a plan to escape from Los Angeles … and he’s got his eyes set on a big move down under!!! Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … Zac plans on listing his L.A.-area home in the very near future, and he wants to move full-time to the Byron Bay area

Steve Barron Was “Basically Cut Out” Of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles During Post-Production Despite director Steve Barron’s cruciality to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles getting made, especially with his ties to Jim Henson from the original The Dark Crystal, Golden Harvest, the studio backing the production, was not too happy with his vision for the film,

China’s second Friday with cinemas back to business in low-risk areas rang up another $4M at local turnstiles, a 39% increase versus the same day last week. About 60% of movie theaters are now operating, with capacity limits and social distancing still in place, so all numbers are to be taken with a grain of

Happy Friday … here’s a filthy, but happy, Jason Momoa getting hosed down after riding on a dune buggy. The Hollywood hunk and star of the upcoming “Dune” remake flaunted his hot bod in a series of photos … where he’s caked in mud … giving a thumbs up while trying to clean him off.

Dune is based on the 1965 landmark science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, which was previously adapted in 1984 by David Lynch. Jason Momoa joins a massive cast including what seems like half of Hollywood, with Timothee Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, Javier Barderm, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac and Stellan Skarsgård among his co-stars.

It’s a volatile time in our country. We are divided and there’s an extreme sense of civic unrest. As hopeless as many of us feel, there are heroes on the front lines who are protecting our constitutional freedoms when it comes to abortion rights, immigration rights, LGBTQ rights and voting rights — and those heroes

Child actor Kelley Parker gained fame at a very young age after she was cast to play the little, blonde homeless girl, Katie — who follows Michael Jackson around the city, dodges lethal injections from Mr. Big (played by Joe Pesci) and watches MJ turn into an epic, flying robot — in the ground-breaking 1988

Nowadays, comic book films don’t mind leaning into their roots more and more because the genre has become so popular. Risks in every direction have been made in Marvel films, whether it be through the beautifully colorful costumes of a movie like Captain Marvel, or the gritty realism of Logan. When X-Men was being made,