Sony’s animated sequel to the Oscar winning movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is moving from Oct. 7 this year to June 2, 2023. The news is breaking just before the studio’s presentation at CinemaCon next week. Meanwhile, the pic’s sequel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Part II, is dated for March 29, 2024. The
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For nearly two decades now, Johnny Depp and his Pirates of the Caribbean character Jack Sparrow have remained synonymous. Out of the many iconic film roles Depp has taken on, including Sweeney Todd, Edward Scissorhands and The Mad Hatter, the swashbuckling Pirates lead has ascended all the others. And yet, the actor behind the role
Is it truly a marketplace for branded tentpoles and uber low-budget fare at the box office as the pandemic eases? And is everything in between just future programming for a streamer? Surely if you ask any filmmaker, established or budding, they truly don’t want their art lost to obscurity in a streaming queue, or worse,
For an actor, taking on someone like Weird Al Yankovic might seem like a rousing time filled with wackiness and jokes galore. But taking on a storied life and career can be serious business. That’s exactly the approach Daniel Radcliffe took after being cast as the comedy musician in Roku Channel’s Weird: The Al Yankovic
Mark Mylod’s dark comedy will be available for moviegoer consumption on Nov. 18 in theaters, Searchlight has just announced. In the Seth Reiss-scripted movie, a couple (Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult) travel to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef (Ralph Fiennes) has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Liam Neeson has been known for throwing punches in a number of action films. Neeson’s best movies include action flicks like Taken, The Commuter, and Non-Stop. It has been an ongoing inner battle with The Grey star in whether or not his time with action films has come to an end. As of right now,
Six had its best week ever, Mrs. Doubtfire was back and several new shows joined the Broadway roster last week as box office climbed a total of 23% to $34,729,295. Compared to the previous week, Broadway total attendance was up about 16% to 261,835 for the 34 productions. The attendance figure indicates that about 87%
Last July, M. Night Shyamalan delivered Old to the public, five months after it was originally supposed to arrive. The following October, we learned what the filmmaker would tackle next: Knock at the Cabin, which will be among the many upcoming movies to look forward to in 2023. Now after months of casting reports and
In an unusual feat for really any Monday at the box office, the No 2 movie from this past weekend beat the No. 1 opening pic. Specifically, Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog 2 made $4.5 million yesterday, compared with Warner Bros’ The Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore‘s $3.68 million. Essentially, 41% of K-12 schools were out
It’s been a little over three weeks since the 2022 Academy Award winners were announced, but the ceremony is still being talked about. While Amy Schumer has garnered some attention for her controversial bit with Kirsten Dunst and a scrapped joke involving Alec Baldwin, the chief topic that remains on many minds is Will Smith
It takes a lot of confidence to wear a white suit to a fight in an open-cut mine. It takes something else — maybe an Avengers-style superpower, to repel dirt — to come out of said fight still gleaming, shirt collar tidily spread across those snowy lapels, shades on. Rocky, outlaw hero of KGF, has
Once Jason Momoa was best known for his roles on TV shows like Stargate Atlantis and Game of Thrones, but now he’s a full-blown movie star. From his outings as Aquaman in the DC Extended Universe to playing Duncan Idaho in Dune, this man is among the cream of Hollywood’s crop, and we learned back
It’s All Coming Back to Me will be hitting theaters on February 10. The Sony Screen Gems movie formerly titled Text for You centers on a woman who, after tragically losing her fiancé, starts to send romantic texts to his old cell. It turns out the number has been reassigned to a man across town suffering
It’s not uncommon for fast food restaurants to craft promotional tie-ins for high-profile film and TV productions. At some point in our lives, many of us have possessed a cool Disney-related kids’ meal toy, sipped from a limited edition Batman mug or even chowed down on a Darth Vader burger (yes, that last one exists).
Awards Season recently came to a close with the annual Academy Awards. And while all anyone could talk about was the infamous Slap incident, there were also some notable wins, losses, and (of course) snubs. And Dune actor Josh Brolin can’t stop, won’t stop complaining about Denis Villeneveue’s not being nominated for Best Director at
Warner Bros/DC’s The Batman has winged its way past three-quarters of a billion dollars at the worldwide box office, maintaining its spot as the highest-grossing film of the year, globally and domestically. The worldwide cume through Sunday is $751.1M with the Matt Reeves-directed spin on the Caped Crusader counting $386.1M at the international box office
The Jackass crew just graced us with another installment of their reckless stunt franchise earlier this year in the form of their new film release, Jackass Forever. A lot of fans may have thought it would be the last time the now-middle-aged stars would indulge in their wild antics. However, franchise star Steve-O is apparently
The Tale Of King Crab, a cinematically striking fable shot in rural Italy and Argentina, opened to a three-day gross of $5,120 at Film at Lincoln Center this weekend — the first in a string of Italian offerings set to arrive on the specialty scene through the summer. “In today’s challenging arthouse market, we count
Nicolas Cage has had a whirlwind of a career. Whether he’s terrifying fans by playing a sociopath who switches faces with his enemy in Face/Off or making them fall in love with him by finding his stolen pig in Pig, the man does not shy away from taking on a wide range of roles. While
Refresh for latest…: It’s no secret that Warner Bros’ Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore had a less than magical opening domestically this weekend, coming after early overseas rollout began last frame. Still, offshore this weekend, the threequel was again the top movie and ranked No. 1 in 52 markets, including 41 of the 44
The comedy community and public at large continues to mourn the loss of Gilbert Gottfried, who died this past week at age 67. The comic’s death was confirmed by his family and, since then, fans and celebrities like Jon Stewart and Seth MacFarlane have paid loving tribute to the late performer. Comedian Jeff Ross is
To say that Nicolas Cage has had a great run in Hollywood would be an understatement. During the 1980s and 1990s, he starred in hits like Moonstruck, Raising Arizona and Leaving Las Vegas, which are among Cage’s best movies. We’ve seen him do it all, making us laugh, cry, and scream with excitement while doing
A little over a week ago, it was announced that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are officially engaged (again), after prior rumors, and we’re so happy for them. The actors reignited their relationship in early 2021 after previously having a high-profile romance in the early ‘00s, during which they co-starred in Gigli and Jersey Girl.
For the past several decades, Jim Carrey been has been known for playing wacky slapstick roles, using the most extreme facial contortions and amping up his energy levels up a thousand in the process. Carrey’s best movies, like Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask, and Liar, Liar are perfect examples of his talents. Given his
Although the main talking point from the 2022 Academy Awards continues to be Will Smith slapping Chris Rock onstage (which subsequently led to Smith resigning from the Academy and later being banned from attending the Oscars for the next 10 years), Amy Schumer has also been getting a fair amount of attention for her role
“I see nothing happening on a major scale to try to get the older audiences back to theaters,” griped Sony Pictures Classics’ co-president Tom Bernard. Ideally, Bernard wants NATO to trumpet cinema safety in a big public campaign. (A NATO rep says not in the cards.) He’d like that campaign alongside a creative marketing push
When it comes to making blockbuster movies, there are few things more important than managing spoilers. Major tentpole releases go to extreme lengths to try and avoid details being leaked out before they are ready. When it came to the newest of the Harry Potter movies, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, Eddie Redmayne thought
Warner Bros.’ Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore whirled up $6M in Thursday previews that started at 2PM at 3,350 venues. The David Yates directed J.K. Rowling co-scripted movie is expected to make between $45M-$50M over the Easter holiday weekend stateside; 73% of all K-12 schools off today according to Comscore. Dumbledore is also expanding into 44 more offshore
Every British and Irish actor under the age of 50 has been thrown into the contest to replace Daniel Craig. Of course, frontrunners like Bridgerton’s Regé-Jean Page, Henry Cavill, and Tom Hardy have kept a steady lead with some surprise names popping up recently. Another name still in the mix is Belfast’s Jamie Dornan. He’s
Indie distributor Kino Lorber has hired Kate Patterson as its new Director of Press & Publicity. She joins from Metrograph, where she headed publicity and communications. Patterson will lead multi-pronged PR efforts to support Kino Lorber’s continued growth in the digital space and manage campaigns for its 25+ yearly theatrical releases. She reports jointly to