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Todd Phillips’ 2019 Oscar-winning Joker did not release in China, but his sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux, has been confirmed for October 16 in the market. Warner Bros’ and DC’s official Weibo accounts confirmed the date. Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival

Much to my chagrin, Andrew Garfield didn’t get an Oscar nomination for his legendary turn as Eduardo Saverin in The Social Network back in 2011. However, his performance in the film about Facebook is one of the elements that is still taking the internet by storm. For example, his laptop smashing scene went super viral

When The Sixth Sense was released in 1999, it was an instant hit. The psychological thriller made M. Night Shyamalan one of the most talked about directors in Hollywood, and Bruce Willis’s sentimental performance has stayed with audiences even after all these years. It’s been 25 years since the film was released, and Haley Joel

EXCLUSIVE: Abramorama and Zeitgeist Media are unspooling David Smick’s documentary America’s Burning with a set of special screenings at Regal Cinemas on Monday, Oct. 7 and Oct. 14. This comes following a special return engagement at the Angelika Film Center in NY, and ahead of the documentary’s debut on AppleTV, Amazon and Google Play on

Imagine not only discovering the musical masterpiece that is the Mamma Mia! movies for the first time, but your own mother being Sophie Sheridan. That was recently the experience of Amanda Seyfried’s seven-year-old daughter, Nina, who is apparently now super into her mommy’s most popular films. This is the most wholesome news, especially for fellow

Indie distributors are fretting about the current marketplace, specifically a glut of films vying for precious theater space and hard-to-snare audiences who, with exceptions of course, still seems mostly willing to come out for big ticket films. While there are fewer wide studio releases than pre-Covid, theaters are giving them more space, up to 60%-70%

Voice acting is an art that is both lucrative and underappreciated. Many of our favorite animated characters wouldn’t be possible without iconic voice actors like Mark Hamill, Frank Welker, Grey DeLisle, and EG Daily. However, Black voice artists can be marginalized and unrecognized for their contributions to the art. Of course, there are notable voice

We understand the value of movie reboots and, in some cases, even support them, recognizing that they have been known to improve on their source material. However, those kinds of remakes, sequels, and “requels,” as some have been called, are few and far between, as far as we are concerned. See for yourself as we

DreamWorks Animation/Universal’s The Wild Robot grossed $1.95M yesterday from showtimes that began at 2PM in 3,000 theaters. The Lupita Nyong’o voiced movie is expected to lead the box office with a $20M+ take, and that preview take indicates that given previous DWA comps, read it’s higher than Trolls Band Together ($1.3M) which resulted in a

When it comes to Florence Pugh’s best fashion moments over the years, many instances have included the Dune Part Two actress going for it in a sheer look that has definitely led to chatter about her on the red carpet. Last week, Pugh even got real about how internet comments about her body have affected

Close to 40 AMC, Cinemark and Regal multiplexes are closed throughout Florida as the state braces for Hurricane Helene to hit landfall as a Category 4 with a force of 130 mph. Theaters from as far south as Fort Myers, Florida to as far north as Tallahassee, are shuttered. Their tentative re-opening date is tomorrow,

As the Saturday Night release date approaches this October, writer/director Jason Reitman showed the movie to the world for the first time at the 51st Telluride Film Festival last month. The world premiere was an especially sweet moment for one of the latest upcoming 2024 movies because he got Bill Murray on stage to help

While the majority of filmmakers who make Stephen King movies have a history of being one and done, there is a special list of names who have had much more significant impacts on the history of adaptations. This is a list that includes George A. Romero, Mick Garris, Rob Reiner, Frank Darabont, and Mike Flanagan,

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema marketing agency PaperAirplane Media has hit another milestone with 1 million digital assets downloaded from their proprietary platform The Hangar.  PaperAirplane via The Hanger which launched in October 2020, connects movie theaters, studios and theatrical media ad agencies, creating and fostering in-theater promotions. Essentially exhibitors don’t have to go distributor-by-distributor in obtaining marketing materials

When Stephen King novels get adapted as feature films, the name of the game is always compression. Even the longest of the long King movies (Frank Darabont’s 189 minute adaptation of The Green Mile and Mike Flanagan’s 180 minute director’s cut of Doctor Sleep) feature composite characters and skip over subplots from their source material.

Back in 1989, a ten-year old boy, Joshua Dennis from Kearns, UT, was lost in an abandoned mine. He spent five days beneath the Earth, hungry and cold. However, his cry was heard — and a rescue took place. John Skinner, a historian who had familiarity of the mine, and who had premonitions, traveled hundreds

Even though Hollywood is still considered the center of the entertainment industry, tons of big stars don’t even live in California these days. While Florence Pugh held up residence in Los Angeles for a few years, the star of one of the biggest 2024 movies, Dune: Part 2, recently spoke about moving out of the

Chris Evans is famous for many things: being one of People’s Sexiest Men Alive, a top contender among Hollywood’s best Chrises, and, of course, if you’ve watched the Marvel movies in order, you know him for playing Captain America across 11 Marvel films. But did you know he’s also known for something a bit more

The second highest grossing movie of the year, Marvel Studios’ Deadpool & Wolverine, will hit digital on Oct. 1 and 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD on Oct. 22. In regards to digital, that’s a 68-day window and in regards to DVD it’s an 89-day window. Disney post Covid has been providing long theatrical windows of play

There has been a lot of talk in recent years about the importance and value of “the theatrical experience.” If there is one thing that Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis does right, it reminds one that there is nothing quite like the theatrical experience, especially when watching one of the most unique pieces of cinema in

More family films hitting cinemas this weekend with DreamWorks Animation/Universal’s feature take of Peter Brown’s New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot, however, unlike Paramount/Hasbro’s Transformers One last weekend, this one is mom/female leaning. Opening weekend at 3,900 theaters is pegged at $20M+. That’s around the average start for an animated major studio movie in September and

Transformers One is finally playing on the 2024 movies schedule has been well received by critics and audience alike, although it had a rough opening weekend going up against Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The animated Transformers movie is also one of the tentpole releases to get the popcorn bucket treatment, although obviously it’s not NSFW like the

Horror fans are gearing up for one of the most exciting upcoming 2025 movie releases as director Leigh Whannell brings his highly anticipated upcoming Wolfman reboot to life under Blumhouse Productions. With Leigh having previously breathed new life into The Invisible Man, a character rooted in Universal’s classic monster legacy, many are eager to see

EXCLUSIVE: A24 has set Q4 theatrical releases for its Venice Film Festival acquisitions, Queer from Luca Guadagnino, and The Brutalist from Brady Corbet. Queer, which holds a 78% fresh grade with critics on Rotten Tomatoes, will go limited on Nov. 27. The pic, which is adapted from William S. Burroughs’ novel of the same name

The desire to change one’s less-than-perfect attributes has long been a staple for fictional plotting, and is at the heart of several 2024 features – such as Demi Moore’s body horror tour de force The Substance and Netflix’s YA novel adaptation Uglies. But no film, TV series or workplace instructional video has taken the concept

UPDATED: Paramount/Hasbro Entertainment’s Transformers One is out of the gate with a $39M global start. From just 50 international box office markets (representing only 40% of the overseas footprint), the first animated Transformers movie in close to 40 years grossed $14M. The Josh Cooley-directed origins story came in below projections domestically and international is off

On a special point that lands towards the end of the 2024 movie schedule, strength and honor await a new generation. As Gladiator II is getting set to step back into the Colosseum this fall, there’s going to be a lot of stories about director Ridley Scott’s skills behind the camera. But if there’s any

At the age of 62 Tom Cruise isn’t only one of the biggest movie stars in the world, but one who is known above all for his impressive stunt work. Cruise and his stunts are certainly an inspiration to many, but perhaps none more so than Jackass alum Steve-O, who is apparently inspired by Cruise

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired all U.S. rights to The Shrouds, written and directed by David Cronenberg (Crash, Crimes Of The Future) and are planning a spring 2025 theatrical release.  The film world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where it screened In Competition. It played the Toronto International Film Festival as a Special

It goes without saying that James Cameron is considered one of the most revolutionary filmmakers of all time. Cameron’s best movies demonstrate how he constantly pushes the envelope by effectively taking advantage of technological developments. Ahead of the upcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash, leading man Sam Worthington is speaking about being the “guinea pig” on