In anticipation of its release this coming week, Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever continued its promotional tour with a historic premiere in Lagos, Nigeria on Sunday evening. This was a major event — and the first time a Marvel movie has held a premiere locally — with a large group of talent, filmmakers and press
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Ever since Knives Out came out Chris Evans’ cream cable knit sweater has remained a viral fashion moment, so much so the actor won’t wear this type of sweater anymore. In 2019 fans witnessed Evans give a fantastic performance as the wicked Ransom in the whodunnit, and while the film was shocking and the actor
Rock documentary Meet Me In The Bathroom grossed $85,683 in four locations for a per screen average of $21,421 in week one, a milestone for the indie distributor. Two of four screenings were one night only, sold-out events at The Fonda in LA and Webster Hall in NY (live performances by The Moldy Peaches, Adam
Stephen King is having a bit of a renaissance of late. Some of the most high-profile upcoming horror movies are ones based on the writer’s work. Thanks in part to the success of Andy Muschietti’s brilliant first installment in his two-part IT adaptation in 2017, roughly three film or television projects based on the horror
Marcus, the fourth largest U.S. movie chain, said a trickle of films for the three months ended in September impacted earnings but were offset by the recovered Marcus Hotel & Resorts, which surpassed pre-pandemic revenues. Both businesses were up from last year but theaters saw a slowdown from Q2 to Q3. “This not only highlights
The odds are in our favor. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes has wrapped production in Europe after a four-month shoot. One of its stars, Rachel Zegler, shared the news along with a heartfelt message about her time working on the upcoming 2023 movie. Rachel Zegler, who will play District 12 tribute
In the near future, it’s pretty simple what the new Warner Bros Discovery will zero in on: “We’re going to have a real focus on franchises,” President and CEO David Zaslav said on this afternoon’s Q3 earnings call. RELATED: Warner Bros Discovery Q3 Earnings: Deadline’s Full Coverage “We haven’t had a Superman movie in 13
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have been married for a few months now and, honestly, it’s still somewhat hard to believe due to their long and winding road to the altar. Most of the public has mainly been focusing on the two becoming man and wife, but there’s another aspect of their relationship to consider
Indie distributor Utopia, currently in theaters with Holy Spider, anticipates music documentary Meet Me In The Bathroom will be its biggest weekend opening to date. It’s holding onto numbers for Sunday from one-night premieres this past week in LA at the Fonda and in NY at Webster Hall with live performances by The Moldy Peaches,
While Chris Evans’ Instagram is typically full of adorable photos of his dog Dodger, he recently took a small break from that to post a fun BTS photo from his movie with The Rock, and a seemingly innocent photo of two jack-o-lanterns over the course of October. The reason why the pumpkins are more important
Michaela Coel revealed her pride to be joining the cast of Wakanda Forever, as she took her place on the red carpet in London for the film’s European premiere. Coel, who previously became the first Black woman to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Limited Series for her work on I May
There used to be a time when Jennifer Lawrence was in two to three movies a year, including the likes of The Hunger Games and X-Men franchises. But her latest film, Causeway, is one of two major roles she’s had in the past four years. The actress has been shifting focus lately on her personal
A little over a month after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued two former top execs at MoviePass and its parent company, Helios + Matheson, for fraud, the Justice Department today unsealed an indictment charging those same executives, Theodore Farnsworth and J. Mitchell Lowe, each with one count of securities fraud and three counts of wire
When asked about social media recently, Zoë Kravitz shared that she thinks it’s a “big experiment that we’re all participating in” that we all pretend to understand. Those comments are just one point of a few regarding the complicated relationship she has about being online, especially after taking to said experiment to share her take
Friday Afternoon: It’s not anime that will have the upper hand at the weekend box office, but the People’s Champion. Dwayne Johnson’s New Line DC movie Black Adam is looking to bring in a third Friday of $3.7M-$4.3M for what looks to be a $14M-$16M third weekend at 3,985 theaters, -45% for a running total
2022’s incredible year of horror all began in January with the first Scream movie in over a decade. After Ghostface returned with a vengeance and for a new generation, Scream 6 has been in production ahead of a March 31, 2023 release date. But the latest news about the next Scream installment is that it
The nation’s third largest theater chain saw sales jump 50% and losses narrow sharply last quarter, underscoring the rebound of moviegoing despite a sluggish release schedule in August and September. “We have high confidence in the ongoing recovery of content and box office as delays caused by Covid fully subside, and studios derive increasing promotional
One of the biggest pieces of news currently dominating conversations online and IRL is Elon Musk’s recent acquisition of Twitter. Half of the social media outlet’s staff is expected to be fired, as he makes changes to the way the site is used. And fans noticed that Amber Heard has deleted her Twitter account as
If anyone is having a great autumn, it’s Harry Styles. His Love on Tour jaunt, now in its second leg, boasts a reported running total of $233.5M and it’s still running. It’s the type of tentpole cash that any motion picture studio would envy. Breaking this down: The singer’s 15-night residency at Madison Square Garden
Although the Wizarding World film franchise has been kept afloat in recent years through the Fantastic Beasts movies, it’s been over a decade since the final installment in the main Harry Potter film series, The Deathly Hallows — Part 2, was released. Aside from a sequel play called The Cursed Child being premiering in 2016,
Publicly-traded in-theater advertising network National CineMedia may be delisted from the Nasdaq stock market if its share price doesn’t perk up. An SEC filing said the company has received written notice from Nasdaq that it’s not in compliance with the $1 minimum bid price required for listing and has 180 days or risks being booted
After a six-week, very public defamation trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, the jury greatly sided with the Pirates of the Caribbean actor at its conclusion. In the Depp v. Heard verdict, Heard was found guilty on three counts of defamation and owed her ex $15 million, but Depp was also found guilty on
Sienna Miller says in a new interview with British Vogue that she once was told by an “extremely powerful” Broadway producer to “f*ck off” when inquiring about why she was “offered less than half” the salary of a male co-star. The actress, who did not name the play, says she told the producer, “It’s not
Though he’s cemented his future in the realm of DC movies, Henry Cavill is still someone that people like to mention when it comes to who could play the next James Bond. After all, a past bid saw Cavill as a runner-up to Daniel Craig, and betting odds continue to stoke support for his potential
From the moment it was announced that Chris Pratt is voicing Mario in Illumination’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie, that casting decision has been embroiled in controversy. Many people piped in on social media to share their belief that Pratt wasn’t the right actor to voice the Nintendo icon, and that backlash hasn’t died down
Sony has moved Love Again, the romantic comedy starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Sam Heughan and Celine Dion, to May 12, 2023. It previously had a released date of February 10. Logline for the Jim Strouse-directed movie: What if a random text message led to the love of your life? Mira Ray, dealing with the loss
Terrifier 2 has recently received a lot of attention from horror fans for its original storytelling, and for being a non-stop gore-filled circus (no pun intended). The small independent film was unlikely to happen for a long time, as the script for the second film was a bit more ambitious than the first. The filmmakers
Lindsay Lohan has been a part of Hollywood’s fabric for nearly 30 years now (so nearly her whole life), and with that has seen her share of glamorous moments over the years. The actress got her start as the twins in Disney’s The Parent Trap remake and quickly soared to teen fame after that. Ahead
EXCLUSIVE: Comic monologist Mike Birbiglia has made an early Broadway splash with his new show The Old Man & the Pool, selling out his first four previews last week – the only other production with all seats filled was The Phantom of the Opera – and, Deadline can report exclusively, getting a two-week extension of
Mads Mikkelsen got noticed by many Americans thanks to the NBC series Hannibal. The show was produced by Brian Fuller, who has had a successful career on the small screen, being behind several well regarded shows from Pushing Daisies to Star Trek: Discovery. But now Fuller has his sights set not on a new series,