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Letterboxd, the social platform and crucial marketing tool for indie film, will soon be able to help its users find movies in nearby theaters. In collaboration with aggregator Assemble, the service is integrating cinema showtimes into its platform, offering an intuitive way for users to access real-time information about film screenings over the coming seven
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EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Entertainment in a competitive situation has won the theatrical distribution deals for two mega Apple Original Films movies –the George Clooney and Brad Pitt feature Wolfs and the Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum title Project Artemis. The news comes on the heels of Apple Original Films’ Ridley Scott-directed Napoleon rolling toward $200M
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Dwayne Johnson’s career is taking a turn as he gears up to star in his first A24 movie. Written and directed by one-half of Uncut Gems‘ directors, Benny Safdie, The Smashing Machine, will see The Rock playing legendary MMA fighter Mark Kerr. Honestly, it sounds like a fitting and fantastic next step in the wrestler-turned-actor’s
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First thing’s first: Happy birthday, Taylor Swift! Closing out a year that has seen the now 34-year-old superstar score nothing but touchdowns, the shindig beau Travis Kelce has planned Wednesday night in New York City promises to be quite the celebration. And well it should be. With a record-breaking tour that brought in more than
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SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. In recent weeks, moviegoers have finally been able to see the big-screen adaptation of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins’ prequel to her Hunger Games series. While the movie revealed how Coriolanus Snow went from hero to
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Broadway held steady as it continued through the holiday season, with a total gross of $30,723,247 for the 26 productions up a small 4% from the previous week, and attendance of 227,099 up about the same percentage. Year over year, though, the news isn’t quite so cheery. The $30.7M weekly figure is about 17% lower
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Lionsgate‘s 6x Oscar winning feature musical La La Land is returning to China via distributor JL Film on Dec. 22. The Damien Chazelle directed, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling picture starring minted $35M of its $470M global B.O. in China. The movie holds the record for an original live-action movie musical at the box office, and
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America Ferrera seems like she is in the midst of a career renaissance. With Barbie and the critical hit Dumb Money coming out just this year, the actress has been giving stand-out performances left and right. Ferrera has steadily been acting for years, starring in shows like Ugly Betty and Superstore. However, this new turn
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Bleecker Street said it’s extending the theatrical run of Waitress: The Musical through the holiday season after its “exceptional performance and sellouts nationwide.” The distributor had initially planned for a one-week run, releasing the film of the hugely popular musical on 1,214 screens across the U.S. and Canada last weekend. It grossed $3.5 million from Thursday to
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With awards shows’ ratings dropping annually, many have pinned that on mainstream viewers tuning out because their favorite tentpoles are overlooked in the Best Picture categories. Popular Best Picture candidates and hosts have traditionally been tied to Oscars’ ratings. However, the Golden Globes has continually had respect for popcorn pics between their drama and musical/comedy
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Jackass fans have watched Bam Margera battle addiction in recent years. He revealed earlier in 2023 that he was sober as he started making public appearances again, and he’s been marking his sobriety on social media. Now Margera gave fans a peek into one way he’s staying sober – skateboarding. The Jackass vet just can’t
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Searchlight Pictures’ Poor Things from Yorgos Lanthimos earned a stellar $72K per-screen average opening weekend at nine theaters in four markets, for an estimated three-day total of $644K. In a competitive season, this marks the fall’s best limited opening on ten or fewer screens and is in the year’s top three. The big two for
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Refresh for latest…: There were two new Hollywood entries at the international box office this weekend as both Warner Bros/Village Roadshow/Heyday Films’ Wonka and Universal/Illumination’s Migration began early offshore rollout, though on different patterns. It was good news all around with Timothée Chalamet-starrer Wonka launching to $43.2M in 37 markets, well ahead of pre-weekend projections.
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Viewers surely still remember that time Saturday Night Live took some jabs at James Cameron’s Avatar via a short starring Ryan Gosling. Truth be told, it still stands as one of the great SNL sketches featuring an A-list host. The 2017 skit hilariously started discussions about the blockbuster franchise using the font “Papyrus” as its
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Jason Statham has made a name for himself in the film industry due to his high-adrenaline movies. As you’ve probably noticed through Statham’s best action-packed films, he’s no stranger to playing characters who perform dangerous feats and throw fast-paced jabs at their enemies. Considering all of that, it should come as no surprise that the
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Not only are Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone known for starring in legendary movies together like La La Land and Crazy, Stupid, Love, but they also both made massive marks on the 2023 movie schedule with their own stellar projects. So, considering the love for Gosling’s absolutely hilarious Barbie and Stone’s wonderfully weird Poor Things,
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Yorgos Lanthimos’ Venice Golden Lion Winner Poor Things is here with Searchlight Pictures sewing up nine theaters in four major markets for leg one of the Emma Stone-starring surreal-period-comedy-horror. The film debuts in NYC (AMC Lincoln Square, Regal Union Square, Alamo Drafthouse, Brooklyn) and LA (AMC Century City, AMC The Grove, AMC Burbank 16) as
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Originally planned to release next year, Disney’s live-action Snow White was pushed back to 2025 as part of the release date two-step that was needed when the writers and actors’ strikes pushed a handful of productions back. As such, all we’ve seen from the film is a single image. That image now has many fans
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After one Japanese title delivered at the sleepy December box office last weekend, that being Godzilla Minus One, here’s another that’s set to dominate: Studio Ghibli and GKIDS’ Hayao Miyazaki‘s The Boy and the Heron which is looking at a No. 1 lead with $10M+ after $2.39M Thursday and early access previews. The comp here
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Among the 2023 movie releases, Illumination’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie was the biggest animated film of the year, undoubtedly because Nintendo’s video game franchise is such a major part of modern pop culture. One thing about the hit movie people can’t stop talking about is Jack Black’s Bowser bursting into song with “Peaches,” which
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