Chalk one up for Netflix. At least for now. Kind of. The mega-streamer has long been frustrated by one of the Academy's requirements for Oscar eligibility. To compete for Oscar gold, a film must debut in theaters and play exclusively on that platform (in New York or LA) for at least one week. In other [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5iQambZAfk The one-hit Oneders are back. Tom Everett Scott, Steve Zahn, Johnathon Schaech, and Ethan Embry (the original cast band members from Tom Hanks' 1996 directorial debut) are reuniting for a That Thing You Do! watch party via a Live Zoom Moviecast on Friday, April 17, at 6:00 PM EST -- and everyone's invited! In [...]
The next movie theater you walk into may be run by Cinemark. While AMC Theatres fights to avoid filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and other national chains have remained quiet, Cinemark Theathres had announced a tentative plan to re-open their multiplexes on July 1, 2020. Speaking to investors via conference call, Cinemark CFO Sean Gamble [...]
(Click here to see more images and coverage for Dune, from Vanity Fair.) Dune is happening. Here's the photo to prove it. Vanity Fair has published the first look of Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides (see full image below), the son of a powerful family who finds himself in the midst of a power struggle on [...]
Now this is game changer. Or is it? In the wake of the national shutdown to contain the spread of COVID-19, a.k.a. the Coronavirus, Universal Studios announced that they will forego an exclusive theatrical release for their new animated sequel Trolls World Tour on April 10 and, in addition, make it available for Video-On-Demand rental [...]
The bullwhip has officially been passed. In an unexpected blindside, Steven Spielberg has decided to bow out from directing Indiana Jones 5. Variety reports that his likely successor will be James Mangold (Ford V Ferrari, Logan); negotiations are currently underway. Harrison Ford remains attached to star, and Spielberg will stay on as a producer. The [...]
We may not have witnessed the biggest upset in Oscar history (that still goes to 2016’s Moonlight), but the 92nd annual ceremony ended with what was arguably the Academy Awards' biggest breakthrough. Right there with Kathryn Bigelow’s glass-ceiling shattering first female win for Best Director with The Hurt Locker, Bong Joon-ho’s South Korean thriller Parasite became the [...]
It's always nice to have a working thesis (and, frankly, common sense) confirmed by data, and now the firm Ernst & Young has done just that. Their new study, commissioned by the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO), shows that 62% of people are more likely to stream a movie that has first had a [...]
(Click here to read the details of Colin Trevorrow's Episode IX screenplay.) (Click here for the first batch of Leaked Concept Art for Colin Trevorrow's Episode IX.) First the leaked screenplay. Then the Concept Art. Now -- Concept Art, Round 2. The original Star Wars: Episode IX that writer/director Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World) had been [...]
In October of 2021, you can be in the theater where it happens. Broadway superstar Lin-Manuel Miranda and Walt Disney Studios have announced that they will be bringing the Original Cast Production of Miranda's musical sensation Hamilton to movie theaters nationwide on October 15, 2021. This is not a new film version of the Best [...]
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