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. [...]
The show is about to go on. Despite facing over $2 billion dollars in debt and still navigating possible bankruptcy, AMC Theatres has officially announced plans to reopen all of its multiplexes nationwide by July. (An official date was not given, but mid-July would likely be the latest.) With competitor Cinemark already in full-swing with [...]
Being the biggest doesn't necessarily mean being the strongest. Cinemark isn't the former but they're proving to be the latter. Cinemark Theaters is the third biggest multiplex chain in the nation, trailing (in order) AMC Theatres and Regal Entertainment. Of the three, however, Cinemark is in the strongest financial position of the Top 3 by [...]
Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing isn't just relevant, it's prescient. In the 90-second short 3 Brothers that Lee tweeted out in the wake of the George Floyd killing (see below), Lee draws a striking, disturbing parallel between Floyd and Eric Garner -- two innocent African-American victims who lost their lives to police brutality -- [...]
The Snyder Cut is real. All of it. And it's about to be released. Long rumored but consistently dismissed by the studio as being true, there is indeed a complete version of director Zack Snyder's 2017 DC Universe blockbuster Justice League, the DCEU mega-tentpole follow-up to Batman V Superman. After suffering a family tragedy during [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyzxu26-Wqk Tom Hanks is back in World War II, but this time he'll be fighting by sea rather than by land. And rather than the action exploding on the big screen, now it will stream straight to the small. Originally, Sony Pictures had slated Greyhound for a Father's Day weekend release in June. But now, [...]
Are you not entertained? Russell Crowe is about to ask (and answer?) that question again when Unhinged opens in movie theaters on July 1, 2020. Originally slated for a Labor Day weekend release, the indie thriller's new distributor Solstice Studios saw a way to raise its profile: release the first new movie when many theaters [...]
First, Universal Studios ticked off AMC. Now, Justin Timberlake is mad, too. Following the straight-to-PVOD success of NBCUniversal's Trolls World Tour (PVOD = Premium Video On Demand), making $100 million in its first three weeks of at-home play, the studio announced that they would start to release more first-run movies to the PVOD platform, bypassing theaters [...]
In the age of the Coronavirus, what's old is new again. At least when it comes to our entertainment options. With all of Hollywood on pause along with the rest of us, original content is at a minimum. As a result, content providers are having to dig deep into their archives. One thing that always [...]
AMC Theatres just took a stand. They went out on a limb to do it, too, completely on their own. Now, others are following. Even in the face of possible bankruptcy due to the Coronavirus shutdown, AMC Theatres released a statement saying that they would no longer screen any movies distributed by Universal Studios. What [...]
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