Regal Cinemas is catching the classics craze. The 2nd largest theater chain in North America, Regal Cinemas has joined AMC Theatres (the 1st) and Cinemark (the 3rd) as national multiplexes that will lean heavily on Hollywood's blockbuster catalog to woo patrons back to movie theaters in July. Regal also announced similar safety protocols, including 50% [...]
Life finds a way. And in the age of the Coronavirus, so does Steven Spielberg. Twenty-seven years after its original 1993 release, Jurassic Park was the highest-grossing movie in U.S. theaters over the third weekend of June 2020. That's more of a fluke than a legitimately impressive feat, given the pandemic circumstances, but it's still [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSCKfXpAGHc Disney+ will be the stream where it happens. On July 3, the stage production of Broadway's Hamilton will finally arrive on the digital service. Writer/Producer/Actor Lin-Manuel Miranda leads the full original cast in this taping of the stage show about Alexander Hamilton and the American Revolution. It won 11 Tony Awards as well as [...]
There’s a whole lotta Disney in mid-June of Summer Movie Season. Welcome to Week 8 of Summer Blockbusted 2020. Through the end of August, I am curating a weekly slate of movies from summers past, ranging from big blockbusters to small counter-programming indies, and dramas and comedies in-between. With most multiplexes still closed, these are [...]
Well that was fast. Less than 24 hours after announcing their reopening safety guidelines, AMC Theatres has reversed course on their most controversial one: now, they will require all patrons to wear a face mask. Previously, AMC only mandated that their employees must wear face masks. For their moviegoers, the was choice optional unless state [...]
It's the first cut from The Snyder Cut. Director Zack Snyder tweeted out the first new look of his original edit for Justice League (see video below), the DC superhero team-up movie that Snyder had to bail out of during post-production and reshoots due to a family tragedy. Avengers 1 & 2 guru Joss Whedon took [...]
Awards season just shifted from winter to spring, and the Oscars will essentially kick off the summer movie season. For most of its history, the Academy Awards were held primarily between late-March and mid-April. As the culture sped up in the social media age, so did the awards calendar; in 2004, the Oscars moved to [...]
They're going to make us wait even longer. On the same day, Warner Bros. announced the delay of its biggest 2020 summer tentpoles: Christopher Nolan's Tenet, Patty Jenkins' DC sequel Wonder Woman 1984., and Lana Wachowski's Matrix 4 which reunites stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss. Originally slated for release (respectively) on July 17 and [...]
Steven Spielberg is the father of the modern blockbuster, and the second weekend of June is the one he came to rule. Welcome to Week 7 of Summer Blockbusted 2020. Through the end of August, I am curating a weekly slate of movies from summers past, ranging from big blockbusters to small counter-programming indies, and [...]
Russell Westbrook is headed back to Oklahoma. No, that's not breaking news about a surprise NBA trade. The guard for the Houston Rockets and former superstar of the Oklahoma City Thunder is producing a new docuseries about the Tulsa Race Massacre, the nation's worst act of post-slavery violence against African-American citizens in United States history. [...]
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