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Marcia Gay Harden is still known for her role in the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise, in which she played the adopted mother of Christian Grey. The trilogy is, of course, notorious for the BDSM scenes that took place between Christian (Jamie Dornan) and his lover Anastasia (Dakota Johnson). Those scenes had an interesting effect
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After delivering the time-twisty Tenet to the moviegoing public to 2020, Christopher Nolan is back to covering World War II following his previous exploration of the conflict in Dunkirk. This time around, the filmmaker is chronicling the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who’s been credited as “the father of the atomic bomb,” with Cillian Murphy
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On the final weekend before Avatar: The Way of Water dominates screens globally, Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever continued to lead the worldwide and international box office. The fifth session for the sequel added $11.8M in 50 overseas markets, lifting the offshore cume to $358M and global to $767.8M. BP2’s international drop was just 43%
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From its triumphant world premiere (with seven-minute standing ovation) at the Venice Film Festival, A24 opens Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale in theaters this weekend amid a whirl of Oscar buzz around star Brendan Fraser. The former action star carries the psychological drama as Charlie, a reclusive and severely obese English teacher trying to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter. Deadline critic
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Video game movies don’t have the greatest track world, as there have been countless disappointing projects released over the years. But there have been some winners recently, including Detective Pikachu, the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, and Uncharted. The subgenre is getting a new installment with The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which features a killer cast
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In some shocking DC movies news, The Hollywood Reporter claimed “Wonder Woman 3” (which would have starred Gal Gadot and been directed by Patty Jenkins) was reportedly being shelved in “its current incarnation.” It was also said that DC is mulling shuttering the DCEU continuity in favor of starting a new shared universe, among numerous
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Editor’s note: Deadline presents the 43rd episode of its video series Take Two, in which Pete Hammond and Todd McCarthy tackle the artistry of films just opening in theaters every weekend. Each has reviewed and written about the craft for decades and built a remarkable breadth of knowledge of films past and present. What we hoped for
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There’s been a lot of hype surrounding Brendan Fraser in his upcoming movie The Whale. The Darren Aronofsky movie was already generating 2023 Oscars buzz when it received a six-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival that had the actor “smiling so hard my face leaked” (it was quite the emotional reaction), and then
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M. Night Shyalaman has plenty of iconic movies, but some of this most recent entries filled out his Unbreakable trilogy: namely, Split and the crossover threequel Glass. The latter two movies starred James McAvoy as Kevin Wendell Crumb and his various personalities. And the X-Men alum recently revealed how he broke his hand in M.
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NBC Universal chief Jeff Shell was coy yet clearly jazzed today about the possible merger of prolific horror producers Jason Blum and James Wan’s respective companies — Blumhouse and Atomic Monster – saying “I can’t confirm it,” but, “If that should happen, we are going to be in an absolutely impregnable position.” He spoke at the UBS media conference today. The two
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