Film News

Knoxville, Tenn.-based Regal, said it’s completed a $250 million capital raise to improve and digitally enhance its theaters as the box office rebounds. Construction has started with over 30 locations to be completed in 2025. The upbeat news comes as Regal’s parent Cineworld, which emerged from bankruptcy last summer, is facing the tough decision of

Glen Powell seems to be everywhere right now. While the actor wasn’t a big name even a few years ago, following his success in Top Gun: Maverick Powell is clearly “in demand” among many Hollywood directors and studios. He’s so omnipresent that some believe audiences are being “forced” to accept him by Hollywood, and such

Being a film actor is a job that generally requires a lot of patience. On a set, any given shot has a lot of people performing specific tasks, and there is a great deal of repetition thanks to both multiple takes and multiple angles that ensure the director gets everything they want before taking the

It’s safe to say that Nicolas Cage is a one-of-a-kind actor. If you look back at Cage’s best movies, he has the talent to transform himself into any character that no performer can replicate. However, would all of that change with the rise of artificial intelligence in the entertainment industry? The veteran actor expresses how

For some in Hollywood, there’s a sigh of relief in Skydance’s $8 billion takeover of Paramount: A legacy motion picture studio and entertainment conglom will largely remain standing. This versus if Sony had actually won Paramount, in which case we’d be looking at a potential reduction in theatrical releases, a maneuver that would greatly impact

There are few franchises quite as popular as Harry Potter. What started with J.K. Rowling‘s novels have grown into theme parks, stage plays, and (of course) movies. The eight original Potter movies (which are streaming with a Max subscription) are re-watched by fans, who spent years watching the Harry Potter cast grow up. Padma and

UPDATED: The global and international box office were extra animated this weekend with the expansion of Illumination/Universal’s Despicable Me 4 to domestic as well as another 52 overseas markets. At the same time, Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 continues to jump for joy having reached $1,216.9M globally. It’s also now the No. 5 animated film of

Before it officially hit the 2024 movie schedule, the highly anticipated Bad Boys: Ride or Die’s Hollywood red carpet premiere was the place to be. Stars of the excellent action movie series and key figures from the franchise gathered for a night filled with excitement and nostalgia. One standout among the crowd was the original

Margot Robbie‘s dominant streak in Hollywood as one of its top leading actresses may go on pause in the near future, and we’ll have to watch her best movies on Max until she’s back at it again. Widespread reports have emerged claiming the A-lister is pregnant with her first child with husband Tom Ackerley, and

There wasn’t a lot new opening this weekend specialty-wise but few notable holdovers continued to crank in moderate release, namely Kalki 2898 AD, which is on fire, as well as Thelma and Kinds of Kindness. Kalki will end at No. 8 on 925 screens in week two, the second weekend in the top 10 for

The writing was on the wall for months that the summer 2024 box office was going to be slower than normal. The Hollywood labor battles last year forced significant changes to the release schedule, making it a challenge for the film industry to put together a follow-up to the season that brought us Barbenheimer. In

Can you imagine the Beverly Hills Cop movies without their most hilarious scenes? Believe it or not, the 1984 original — one of the absolute best ‘80s movies — was, at one point, going to be a gritty crime drama starring Sylvester Stallone before SNL star Eddie Murphy stepped in as Axel Foley, ensuring it

If there is anything the internet is always obsessed with, it is Ayo Edebiri. Between her critically acclaimed projects, her style and her long-running bit about being Irish, it seems like she’s always trending. And since both Dune Part 2 and The Bear Season 3 premiered this year, we got an unexpected crossover moment between

In 1961, a key architect of the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann, was tried in Israel and sentenced to death. An odd thing happened. Officials didn’t want to bury him and risk creating a shrine, so they decided on cremation. That is strictly against the Jewish religion and there were no crematoria in the country. So Shlomi

While Anthony Mackie has been working for a very long time, there’s no question that when he joined Captain America: Winter Soldier as Falcon he achieved a new level of fame. Between his performances in the MCU and projects like The Hurt Locker and Twisted Metal, he’s proven himself as a brilliant performer and a

Families will not stop heading to the cinemas this week as Illumination/Universal‘s Despicable Me 4 storms into summer with what’s looking like a $110M-$120M 5-day U.S./Canada opening at 4,000 theaters. This as Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 remains strong after a third No. 1 weekend, that pic heading to half-billion stateside before the week is up.

Warning: spoilers for MaXXXine are in play. If you haven’t seen the latest entry in Ti West’s horror franchise, you’ve been warned. Mia Goth’s Maxine Minx has been through hell and back over the course of two films that plunge the star of X into some quite harrowing experiences. The 2024 movie MaXXXine seems to

Zac Efron rose to fame in the aughts thanks to his role as Tory Bolton in one of the best Disney Channel original movies, High School Musical. His career has only skyrocketed since then, landing him in critically acclaimed movies like The Iron Claw and getting his very own star on the Hollywood Walk of

Gory Hindi action film Kill opens on 827 screens via Roadside Attractions this weekend. It’s the distributor’s first foray into Indian film, which is having another moment after two pics hit the top 10 in North America last week. This is a crowded theatrical market with wide releases piling in and some high-profile indie holdovers.

To the outside observer, being famous looks pretty cool. Sure, celebrity often means that there’s a lot that you can’t do in public without being mobbed by fans, but that’s always seemed to me like a small price to pay for all the perks that come with fame. Kevin Bacon agrees, and he would know

NRG, Screen Engine and other three-week-in-advance box office tracking services are reporting a domestic box office opening for Disney/Marvel Studios‘ first R-rated movie, Deadpool & Wolverine, at $160 million-$165 million, which would not only be the best opening year-to-date but also a record start for a R-rated movie. The first Deadpool released in 2016 owns

For the better part of the past two decades, Samuel L. Jackson has appeared in several of the best Marvel movies, all kinds of family-family animated movies, and some of the best action movies in recent memory. The highest-grossing actor of all time has the right to take a break and enjoy life, but slowing

A new film from Halle Berry may have left us longing last year, but when it comes to the 2024 movie schedule, the Oscar-winner has not one, but two films to promote! The actress is leading a Netflix action movie this summer and a super creepy horror movie this fall. When Berry called on her

Making the most of the fact that Deadpool & Wolverine is the first original film of the franchise to land a China release date, stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, along with director Shawn Levy, appear to have had a grand time promoting the Disney/Marvel pic in Shanghai this week. During the trip, which was

With the exception of Clue and possibly Dirty Work, there’s not a single movie I’ve watched more times in my life than Joe Dirt. To paraphrase This Is Spinal Tap, it finds that fine line between stupid and clever and rides along it in a Rambler Wagon for 93 glorious minutes of mullets, meteors and

The 39th edition of France’s reduced-price movie ticket scheme, La Fête du Cinéma, has blasted through all previous records with 4.65 million admissions across the four-day event. The promotion sees movie tickets discounted to 5 euros each for all showings in participating cinemas (excluding premiums for 3D and other special screenings). French exhibition org, the

Dua Lipa popped off both as a musician and a fashion icon at the Glastonbury Festival. We’ve seen the pop star rock memorable outfits, like the fully sheer pink number from the Barbie premiere, many times, and when she took the stage as a headliner at the festival, she wore multiple fun punk-rock ensembles that

Mark Wahlberg’s latest movie has him involved with actor/director Mel Gibson in the thriller Flight Risk. He’ll be playing a pilot who reveals himself to be a hitman sent to kill a fugitive on a flight. With Wahlberg showing himself in character with a newly shaved head, actor Joe Pantoliano led a chorus of fun

So, surprise, surprise, but Minions are the lords of Independence Day. Illumination/Universal’s Despicable Me 4 is looking at $28M today, sans Tuesday previews (they weren’t held), which is high enough to get the movie to $120M over its first five days of Wednesday to Sunday. That’s where tracking was spotting it, and it’s an amount

As anticipation builds for the release of the upcoming MaXXXine, the final installment in Ti West’s gripping horror trilogy, it’s clear that the director’s innovative approach to filmmaking is as much a part of the buzz as the final (or, maybe not so final) entry in the series. Still, the behind-the-scenes strategy truly sets this