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The Barbie filmmaker is 2024’s Pioneer of the Year recipient. Greta Gerwig will be bestowed with the 75th honor at the September 25th ceremony at the Beverly Hilton by the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation (WRMPPF).  The Pioneer of the Year Award is bestowed upon esteemed and respected members in the motion picture industry whose

Lots of rumors have been circulating about the state of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s relationship, and none of them are very positive. After canceling her world tour, JLo seems to be leaning on her friends, as she went on vacation without her husband amidst speculation that the couple is headed for divorce. While Affleck’s

UPDATED: Animation domination continues at the global and international box office with Universal/Illumination’s Despicable Me 4 leading the pack this frame, and Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 still positively on fire after five sessions. At the same time, we’re seeing encouraging numbers for all major titles in release. And that’s a great thing; yes, there is

Hollywood vet Greg Berlanti has delivered many great movies and TV shows over the years, and his latest flick, the critically well received Fly Me To The Moon, just released as part of the 2024 movie schedule. The triple threat (director, producer and writer) has worked on a number of successful productions across both the

Doing an impression of Robert De Niro is almost ritual at this point in pop culture, with Matthew McConoughey a close second favorite. But according to Zac Efron, who has worked with the Taxi Driver himself, no one does a better De Niro impression than Dave Franco. Efron was able to see Franco’s impression first

A24’s drama Sing Sing starring Colman Domingo turned out the third highest limited opening and per screen average of the year so far, and Touch from Focus Features by Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur has a nice opening. Indian 2 marks the third straight week with one or more Indian films in the top ten. It’s

There was no doubt that Chris Renaud and Patrick Delage’s Despicable Me 4 was going to repeat at the top of the box office this weekend. The animated movie from Illumination Entertainment made a whole lot of money during its first Friday-to Sunday ($75 million), and even if the blockbuster experienced a 60 percent weekend-to-weekend

Merrily We Roll Along, the Tony-winning mega-hit musical revival starring Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez, went out on a very high note last week, selling out with a $2,766,127 weekly gross that the production hails as the biggest ever for a Stephen Sondheim musical on Broadway. Meanwhile, on its way to this Thursday’s

For decades, Pixar was a studio synonymous with top quality, and even Walt Disney Animation Studios spent years trying to produce originals that were comparable to the best Pixar movies. While the global pandemic was perhaps even less kind to the Toy Story studio than anybody else, it now looks poised to come back in

We’ve seen Zendaya and Margot Robbie method dress time and time again, and now it’s Blake Lively’s turn. It Ends With Us is set to release on the 2024 movie schedule on August 9, and you better believe that as the press tour for it begins, she’s already bringing her A-game to her outfits. To

As Illumination/Universal’s Despicable Me 4 continues global rollout, and with its Friday numbers included, the latest from Gru and the gang has helped propel the Despicable Me/Minions franchise across the $5B mark (to $5.025B through Friday) at the worldwide box office. This makes it the first animated franchise ever to reach the milestone. It was

Since cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died after a prop gun misfire back in October 2021 on the set of Rust, the movie’s star and producer Alec Baldwin has been hit with a series of charges and court dates to determine whether he should serve time for the incident. On Friday, Baldwin could be seen crying and

The bananas obsessed creatures won’t stop: Universal Pictures will release Illumination’s Minions 3 on Wed, June 30, 2027. The news comes in the wake of Despicable Me 4 clearing $255M at the global box office following its July 3 opening stateside. Minions 3 is written by Brian Lynch (Minions, The Secret Life of Pets films) and directed

Inside Out 2 instantly became one of the year’s biggest movies when it hit the box office in June, and audiences have continued to flock to theaters to experience Pixar’s new flood of emotions. One of the things that makes Inside Out 2 a good movie is how viewers of all ages can relate to

Alec Baldwin has been in and out of the spotlight over the past few years for tragic reasons, following the shooting on the set of his film Rust that resulted in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in New Mexico in 2021. After some back and forth over involuntary manslaughter charges going back to early

Sing Sing, the powerful, poignant prison drama starring Colman Domingo, opens NY/LA, with indie love stories Dandelion and Touch debuting on hundreds of screens as distributors continue to tinker with release patterns. Martin Scorsese, eloquent as always, narrates (and executive produced) Made In England: The Films of Powell And Pressburger. Sorry/Not Sorry takes on comedian

The $2 billion lifetime box mark for all their movies is a major milestone for actors and only the most popular ones have reached that level. The full list, per The Numbers, includes a lot of names you’d expect, and a few you wouldn’t. Many on the list play major characters in the MCU, though

EXCLUSIVE: Everyone in distribution loves a surprise, and spurring a lot of chatter throughout today is the $2.5M-$3M previews for NEON‘s serial killer horror movie Longlegs. This is per box office sources tonight. For the specialty distributor with a penchant Palme d’Or winning movies, that’s the best take ever in Thursday night previews for their

Axel Foley is back. Three decades after a somewhat unceremonious third installment, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F has debuted for everybody with a Netflix subscription, and the general consensus from critics is that Axel F is pretty damn good. It’s been an overall impressive run for Eddie Murphy, which makes it all the more surprising

I know we’re still working our way through 2024, but I can’t help but get pumped about the upcoming 2025 movies as of late. And in addition to the highly anticipated three-quels of Paddington in Peru, Downton Abbey 3, and Tron: Ares, there are fresh-faced films like the Brad Pitt F1 movie heading to theaters

EXCLUSIVE: A lotta people around the world watched the official trailer for Paramount‘s Gladiator II in its first 24 hours after dropping on Tuesday, July 9. So much, that it outstripped the 24-hour post trailer debut traffic of the studio’s own Top Gun: Maverick which clocked 75M. You’ll remember Top Gun: Maverick posted a 3-day

After many years of difficulty, movies based on video games have started to get good enough that fans don’t automatically assume that a movie adaptation is going to be awful. However, a lot of fans of the upcoming video game movie based on the Borderlands franchise are far from certain the new film will be

As it continues its mind-blowing trajectory, and with Tuesday’s receipts now included, Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 has become the highest-grossing Pixar movie of all time at the worldwide box office. On Tuesday, it passed Pixar’s Incredibles 2 ($1.243B) to get to this latest milestone. The running global cume on Inside Out 2 through Tuesday is

There are plenty of movies coming out as part of the 2024 movie schedule – and Nicholas Hoult is a part of that and more.  When it comes to stars whose careers have certainly blown up over the last few years, there are plenty we could point to. We could bring up Jenna Ortega, who

Though the 2024 movie schedule will not see the release of the film adaptation of Michael Crichton and James Patterson’s best-seller Eruption, the gears are turning pretty fast behind the scenes. As the previous Eruption movie update saw Free Solo and Nyad directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi secured as the helmers, a pretty

Kevin Costner‘s Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2 is no longer coming out on Aug. 16. The news comes following the misfire of Chapter 1 over the July 4th box office frame. Still given the movie’s 50+ leaning audience and how they’re slow to come to cinemas, the filmmakers wanted to give that audience

Across the entire history of the James Bond movies, the actors playing 007 have been as compelling as the adversaries that opposed them on screen. In the spirit of those menacing performances, we’d like to highlight 32 actors who have played the villain in the Bond canon. (Image credit: Danjaq, LLC and MGM) Joseph Wiseman

A fifth Shrek film is in the works, with stars Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz set to return, DreamWorks Animation announced Tuesday via its social media channels. “Not too Far, Far Away…” wrote a spokesperson for the studio on X. “@Shrek 5 is coming to theaters on July 1, 2026 with Mike Myers,

Considering the phenomenon that was Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, it’s only a matter of time before its success is sought to be replicated somehow. And when the Mattel-produced blockbuster had just been out for one week last summer, it was announced that Lena Dunham was writing and directing a Polly Pocket movie with Lily Collins as

It can be pretty amusing when two celebrities look enough alike to confuse people. Jesse Plemons, for instance, has said he’s been mistaken for Matt Damon, and the Vampire Diaries cast has a whole running joke about Paul Wesley looking like Justin Bieber. The entertainment industry is full of pretty people, after all, so if