Depending on who you talk to, the world is either in crisis, on fire, at war and/or simply lurching toward a frankly deserved final judgment. So what can be done to save it? Why, a carefully worded provisional statement, of course, from the global leaders currently in possession of both the gas canister and the lit match, but not a surfeit of great ideas for the future. The ineffectiveness of rhetorical politics and symbolic diplomacy — best represented by the Group of Seven, the intergovernmental forum keen on expensive meetings that could have been emails — is kookily but ruthlessly skewered in “Rumours,” a wildly entertaining shaggy-dog satire that sees a stuffy G7 summit devolve into a murky, muddy and strangely isolated zombie apocalypse.
As comedy subgenres go, political satire can often veer closer to the wryly clever than the baldly hilarious. But “Rumours” — the third feature collaboration between veteran Canadian...
As comedy subgenres go, political satire can often veer closer to the wryly clever than the baldly hilarious. But “Rumours” — the third feature collaboration between veteran Canadian...
- 5/19/2024
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Babes by Pamela Adlon, co-written and starring Ilana Glazer, debuts in limited release with films by Hang Song-soo and Bertrand Bonello and docs on a controversial Venice Biennale, ground-breaking female clerics, and the Blue Angels Navy Squadron. A trio of festival favorites expand. While eyes now are on fare at Cannes — where Neon has been making high-profile moves — each week Stateside remains a test of indie film’s theatrical boundaries in a post-Covid, streaming-centric marketplace.
There have been notable hits. A24’s I Saw The TV Glow by Jane Schoenbrun is having a nice run so far as is Evil Does Not Exist — Sideshow/Janus Films’ second outing with Ryusuke Hamaguchi after Oscar-winning Drive My Car. (That 2021 Japanese film about a...
There have been notable hits. A24’s I Saw The TV Glow by Jane Schoenbrun is having a nice run so far as is Evil Does Not Exist — Sideshow/Janus Films’ second outing with Ryusuke Hamaguchi after Oscar-winning Drive My Car. (That 2021 Japanese film about a...
- 5/17/2024
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Big news for little ones (and their parents): A long-missing episode of Bluey is now available to watch Stateside.
“Dad Baby,” a Season 2 installment of the beloved animated series, can be viewed at Bluey‘s official YouTube channel (or via the embedded video above) as of Wednesday. It’s currently the only Bluey episode missing from Disney+’s offering of the series.
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“Dad Baby,” a Season 2 installment of the beloved animated series, can be viewed at Bluey‘s official YouTube channel (or via the embedded video above) as of Wednesday. It’s currently the only Bluey episode missing from Disney+’s offering of the series.
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- 5/2/2024
- by Rebecca Iannucci
- TVLine.com
The Doctor will be travelling with two companions come 2025, when the sci-fi series serves up its second season starring recently introduced front man Ncuti Gatwa.
Two-and-a-half months after word leaked out of the UK that Andor standout Varada Sethu had joined Doctor Who as a new companion — seemingly “replacing” franchise newbie Millie Gibson (who in the latest holiday special debuted as Ruby Sunday) — showrunner Russell T Davies has announced that Sethu and Gibson will both have a non-seat on the Tardis for the season airing in 2025.
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Two-and-a-half months after word leaked out of the UK that Andor standout Varada Sethu had joined Doctor Who as a new companion — seemingly “replacing” franchise newbie Millie Gibson (who in the latest holiday special debuted as Ruby Sunday) — showrunner Russell T Davies has announced that Sethu and Gibson will both have a non-seat on the Tardis for the season airing in 2025.
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- 4/12/2024
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Image: Carnivalesque Films
As any cinephile well knows, the physical places that serve as meaningful ports of entry to our love affair with cinema can often take on swollen, totemic value. It’s fitting, then, that one of the most legendary independent American video stores of all time gets its...
As any cinephile well knows, the physical places that serve as meaningful ports of entry to our love affair with cinema can often take on swollen, totemic value. It’s fitting, then, that one of the most legendary independent American video stores of all time gets its...
- 4/5/2024
- by Brent Simon
- avclub.com
IFC Films’ Late Night With The Devil topped the specialty market in its second week, as a Tollywood and a Bollywood film both made the top ten in a rare occurrence. Strong horror and Indian fare have helped buoy the box office since Covid. They continue to fill in the top ten, including this week, which boasts a monstrous hit in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire — but is a neighborhood with fewer overall wide release due to Hollywood strikes.
Scary first: Late Night With The Devil by Australian duo Colin and Cameron Cairnes stars David Dastmalchian, perfection as a late 1970s talk show host whose quest for ratings on a Halloween night broadcast goes nowhere good, unleashing evil into the nation’s living rooms. It grossed $2.2 million on 1,442 screens in week two, for a cume of $6.2 million. The film is in the top ten again, at no. 7.
A pleased...
Scary first: Late Night With The Devil by Australian duo Colin and Cameron Cairnes stars David Dastmalchian, perfection as a late 1970s talk show host whose quest for ratings on a Halloween night broadcast goes nowhere good, unleashing evil into the nation’s living rooms. It grossed $2.2 million on 1,442 screens in week two, for a cume of $6.2 million. The film is in the top ten again, at no. 7.
A pleased...
- 3/31/2024
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s a g’day to be a fan of NCIS: Sydney.
The well-watched NCIS franchise’s first international offshoot, which is set and films in Sydney, Australia, has been renewed for Season 2 on CBS, TVLine has learned.
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Production on Season 2 will begin in the next few months (during what we yanks call “spring”).
The renewal news...
The well-watched NCIS franchise’s first international offshoot, which is set and films in Sydney, Australia, has been renewed for Season 2 on CBS, TVLine has learned.
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Production on Season 2 will begin in the next few months (during what we yanks call “spring”).
The renewal news...
- 3/19/2024
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Indies in moderate-wide release claimed the nos. 6, 8 and 9 spots at the domestic box office led by Love Lies Bleeding. Kristin Steward toplines the Berlin-premiering film by Rose Glass that expanded nationwide, grossing $2.5 million for the weekend on 1,362 screens (up from five theaters opening week). The steamy crime thriller from A24 also stars Katy O’Brian with an ensemble featuring Ed Harris, Anna Baryshnikov Dave Franco and Jenna Malone. It’s 88% Certified Fresh with audiences on Rotten Tomatoes (92% critics score).
Stewart plays a reclusive gym manager who falls hard for an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream as the pair is pulled into the web of Lou’s criminal family. Weekend breakdown: Friday, $1.1 million; Saturday, $790k; Sunday; $592k.
One Life by James Hawes pulled in a $1.7+ million debut 983 screens. The Bleecker Street film, starring Anthony Hopkins as a British stockbroker who helped rescued hundreds of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia,...
Stewart plays a reclusive gym manager who falls hard for an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream as the pair is pulled into the web of Lou’s criminal family. Weekend breakdown: Friday, $1.1 million; Saturday, $790k; Sunday; $592k.
One Life by James Hawes pulled in a $1.7+ million debut 983 screens. The Bleecker Street film, starring Anthony Hopkins as a British stockbroker who helped rescued hundreds of Jewish children from Czechoslovakia,...
- 3/17/2024
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Doctor Who‘s upcoming season premiere is bigger on the inside.
The adventures of the Fifteenth Doctor (played by Ncuti Gatwa) and his companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) will begin streaming Friday, May 10 at 7 pm Edt — on Disney+ in the U.S. and internationally (excluding the UK).
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In the UK, the season will kick off Saturday, May 11 at 12 am GMT (on BBC iPlayer,...
The adventures of the Fifteenth Doctor (played by Ncuti Gatwa) and his companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) will begin streaming Friday, May 10 at 7 pm Edt — on Disney+ in the U.S. and internationally (excluding the UK).
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In the UK, the season will kick off Saturday, May 11 at 12 am GMT (on BBC iPlayer,...
- 3/15/2024
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
The 11-Oscar nominated saucy absurdist comedy, Poor Things, from Disney’s Searchlight, is hitting Hulu on March 7 days before the Oscar ceremony on March 10.
The news comes in the wake of the movie crossing the $100M mark at the global box office. As Deadline told you, Searchlight co-head David Greenbaum became President, Disney Live Action and 20th Century Studios recently, taking over for Sean Bailey who is departing the studio. Stateside, Poor Things which is from director Yorgos Lanthimos has almost made as much stateside as his previous Searchlight Oscar winning title, The Favorite, $32.9M to $34.3M — pretty good for an R-rated arthouse movie nowadays.
The movie, which stars and is produced by Emma Stone, features her as Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking,...
The news comes in the wake of the movie crossing the $100M mark at the global box office. As Deadline told you, Searchlight co-head David Greenbaum became President, Disney Live Action and 20th Century Studios recently, taking over for Sean Bailey who is departing the studio. Stateside, Poor Things which is from director Yorgos Lanthimos has almost made as much stateside as his previous Searchlight Oscar winning title, The Favorite, $32.9M to $34.3M — pretty good for an R-rated arthouse movie nowadays.
The movie, which stars and is produced by Emma Stone, features her as Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking,...
- 2/28/2024
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Anime, the Japanese animation art form, has come a long way in the past few decades. Fans who once had little recourse but bootlegs and piracy to watch their favorite shows are now part of a global community, and a $20 billion market, that’s even more robust internationally than it is in Japan.
A major player in this market is Crunchyroll, the Sony-owned and anime-focused subscription streaming platform, which has long been a go-to destination for watching Japanese animation Stateside. It’s also become a rare success story amid media’s great streaming recession, with a clearly defined and diversified — and profitable — business model that serves a passionate and still-growing audience.
“If anime is a niche, it’s a gigantic niche. We have research that shows there’s about 800 million interested fans globally outside of Japan and China,” Crunchyroll president Rahul Purini explains on the latest episode of Variety‘s “Strictly Business” podcast,...
A major player in this market is Crunchyroll, the Sony-owned and anime-focused subscription streaming platform, which has long been a go-to destination for watching Japanese animation Stateside. It’s also become a rare success story amid media’s great streaming recession, with a clearly defined and diversified — and profitable — business model that serves a passionate and still-growing audience.
“If anime is a niche, it’s a gigantic niche. We have research that shows there’s about 800 million interested fans globally outside of Japan and China,” Crunchyroll president Rahul Purini explains on the latest episode of Variety‘s “Strictly Business” podcast,...
- 2/21/2024
- by Tyler Aquilina
- Variety Film + TV
After several years working in German TV and locally-oriented film projects, Julia von Heinz had a significant breakthrough with “And Tomorrow the Entire World” — a taut, punchy political thriller with a youthful spirit of anti-fascist revolt, vigorous enough to land a Venice competition slot. Its success evidently raised the status of the director’s long-held passion project, an adaptation of Australian novelist Lily Brett’s semi-autobiographical 2001 title “Too Many Men,” which reckoned thoughtfully with her parents’ experience as Auschwitz survivors, and the hereditary nature of trauma. It emerges here, in somewhat simplified form, as “Treasure,” a watchably meandering vehicle for Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry to wrestle out father-daughter conflicts both trivially universal and hauntingly specific to history. The urgency and dynamism that marked von Heinz’s last feature are largely absent; for a story of such particular and searing sorrow, it feels rather mild.
Premiering in an out-of-competition Berlinale slot,...
Premiering in an out-of-competition Berlinale slot,...
- 2/17/2024
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
World on Fire has come to an end after two seasons, Masterpiece on PBS executive producer Susanne Simpson revealed at the Television Critics Association winter press tour on Monday.
Simpson added that the BBC decided not to renews the British series for “many different reasons.”
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World on Fire was a World War II drama that...
Simpson added that the BBC decided not to renews the British series for “many different reasons.”
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- 2/12/2024
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
It’s a weekend of well-reviewed indie openings with Bleecker Street’s Out Of Darkness, The Monk And The Gun (from the directors of Lunana: A Yak In The Classroom) and limited openings for The Taste Of Things, Perfect Days (Best International Feature nominated), Anthony Chen’s Drift, Bas Devos’ Here and Ennio by Giuseppe Tornatore, which premiered in Venice in 2021 and is finally getting a U.S. release.
Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days, Japan’s official Oscar submission that nabbed a nom, opened at six locations in New York and LA Wednesday, adding additional cities next week. The film written by Wenders and Takuma Takasaki stars Hirayama, a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo who seems utterly content with his simple life until a series of unexpected encounters reveal more of his unearthed past. See Deadline review.
Neon had a qualifying run in November.
Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days, Japan’s official Oscar submission that nabbed a nom, opened at six locations in New York and LA Wednesday, adding additional cities next week. The film written by Wenders and Takuma Takasaki stars Hirayama, a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo who seems utterly content with his simple life until a series of unexpected encounters reveal more of his unearthed past. See Deadline review.
Neon had a qualifying run in November.
- 2/9/2024
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Colin From Accounts has been a very good boy and earned himself a Season 2 renewal at Paramount+.
The streaming service has locked up Stateside rights for the romantic comedy’s sophomore run, which airs on Binge and Foxtel in its native Australia.
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The streaming service has locked up Stateside rights for the romantic comedy’s sophomore run, which airs on Binge and Foxtel in its native Australia.
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- 1/31/2024
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
Some cultural artifacts are so rigorously assembled that one hesitates to criticize them, expecting that the answer from the trufans will be something like “well, but you see, the figure at the top left of the back cover is obviously there to explain your complaint, and you are a churl for missing that, and therefore all of your complaints are invalid.” But here I go anyway.
The figure at the top left of the back cover, by the way, is a satyr. There isn’t one in the book itself. This is clearly A Clue. But this is the kind of book that makes you tired of Clues long before you reach the back cover.
Monica was Daniel Clowes’ new graphic novel for 2023; he reportedly had been working on it for five years, roughly since Patience . It’s told in nine chapters, all of which have Clowes’s standard mature...
The figure at the top left of the back cover, by the way, is a satyr. There isn’t one in the book itself. This is clearly A Clue. But this is the kind of book that makes you tired of Clues long before you reach the back cover.
Monica was Daniel Clowes’ new graphic novel for 2023; he reportedly had been working on it for five years, roughly since Patience . It’s told in nine chapters, all of which have Clowes’s standard mature...
- 1/31/2024
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
Can Anthony Ramos fix it? Yes, he can!
The Hamilton alum is attached to star in a feature-length Bob the Builder movie, based on the popular children’s series.
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The animated film will find Ramos voicing Roberto aka Bob, who travels to Puerto Rico for a major construction job. There, according to the project’s synopsis, “he takes on issues affecting the island and digs deeper into what it means to build.
The Hamilton alum is attached to star in a feature-length Bob the Builder movie, based on the popular children’s series.
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The animated film will find Ramos voicing Roberto aka Bob, who travels to Puerto Rico for a major construction job. There, according to the project’s synopsis, “he takes on issues affecting the island and digs deeper into what it means to build.
- 1/25/2024
- by Rebecca Iannucci
- TVLine.com
One of TV’s most successful franchises is headed north with the debut of Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent.
Canadian broadcaster Citytv has released a trailer for the international Law & Order spinoff, which is being made in partnership with NBC’s Universal Television. Comprised of 10 hour-long episodes, L&ot:ci will follow a familiar format as an elite squad of detectives investigate “high-profile crime and corruption” in Toronto, according to the official logline.
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Canadian broadcaster Citytv has released a trailer for the international Law & Order spinoff, which is being made in partnership with NBC’s Universal Television. Comprised of 10 hour-long episodes, L&ot:ci will follow a familiar format as an elite squad of detectives investigate “high-profile crime and corruption” in Toronto, according to the official logline.
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- 1/19/2024
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
Sunday Am Writethru: While the supply of movies was able to keep the two-week holiday box office up over 2022’s by 13%, the lack of a mega tentpole carrying over into the New Year — ala Avatar: The Way of Water — is being felt.
The first weekend’s box office of 2024 looks to be down -18% from the same period in 2023, with an estimated $87M. If we thought the fall box office was wonky, well, here comes 2024. Remember, last year at this time had M3GAN providing a cushion. However, Universal/Blumhouse’s Night Swim is not that hipster, young female YA movie, with a No. 2 debut at $12M (granted at the top of its projection range).
Warner Bros.’ Wonka won its third out of four weekends with $14.4M and a $164.6M running total. Overall, that’s a four-weekend No. 1 streak for Warner Bros. There are still kids off from school, with...
The first weekend’s box office of 2024 looks to be down -18% from the same period in 2023, with an estimated $87M. If we thought the fall box office was wonky, well, here comes 2024. Remember, last year at this time had M3GAN providing a cushion. However, Universal/Blumhouse’s Night Swim is not that hipster, young female YA movie, with a No. 2 debut at $12M (granted at the top of its projection range).
Warner Bros.’ Wonka won its third out of four weekends with $14.4M and a $164.6M running total. Overall, that’s a four-weekend No. 1 streak for Warner Bros. There are still kids off from school, with...
- 1/7/2024
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Who’s ready for a return trip to Cicely, Alaska?
After years stuck in streaming limbo, early ’90s classic Northern Exposure — the fifth most sought-after, non-streaming show in a July TVLine poll — is now available to binge Stateside on Prime Video. All six seasons (110 episodes) have quietly been uploaded to the service in high definition and retain their original 4:3 aspect ratio.
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At first glance, it appears two episodes were...
After years stuck in streaming limbo, early ’90s classic Northern Exposure — the fifth most sought-after, non-streaming show in a July TVLine poll — is now available to binge Stateside on Prime Video. All six seasons (110 episodes) have quietly been uploaded to the service in high definition and retain their original 4:3 aspect ratio.
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- 1/4/2024
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
The bittersweet travails of two not-very-successful Casablanca-based debt collectors as they traverse the arid villages of Morocco in search of loan deadbeats eventually intersects with a tragic love story in “Deserts,” the sixth feature from Moroccan writer-director Faouzi Bensaïdi. Boasting striking Cinemascope visuals, it’s a nonlinear drama spiked with ellipses that mixes moods and genres. Those that prefer straightforward cinema with dotted I’s and crossed T’s will be out of their comfort zone here, but it looks like manna for cinephiles. Bensaïdi, who has a parallel career as an actor and theater director, is an auteur who is overdue for a retrospective Stateside.
At the beginning, Bensaïdi gives viewers a clue to the film’s unconventionality as the map that wrinkled-suit-and-tie-clad Mehdi (Fehd Benchemsi) and Hamid (Abdelhadi Taleb) are examining blows away. As the two men make their way around some picturesque but impoverished villages, the stories...
At the beginning, Bensaïdi gives viewers a clue to the film’s unconventionality as the map that wrinkled-suit-and-tie-clad Mehdi (Fehd Benchemsi) and Hamid (Abdelhadi Taleb) are examining blows away. As the two men make their way around some picturesque but impoverished villages, the stories...
- 12/3/2023
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
Three very different movies, original, with arthouse cred and in theaters for weeks, are drawing audiences showing welcome depth and breadth in the specialty market as awards season kicks off. Nicolas Cage’s nerdy character sees his life collapse when he randomly starts appearing in people’s dreams as Dream Scenario has a solid expansion, Saltburn is attracting young crowds on the coasts, The Holdovers drawing elusive older demos to theaters.
Meanwhile, Bollywood’s Animal showcases the ongoing strength of Indian films Stateside. The revenge thriller starring Ranbir Kapoor racked up an estimated $6.14 million on about 700 screens over the three days, the second biggest opening weekend of all time for a Bollywood film in North America behind Pathaan, taking the no. 7 slot at the North. American box office.
A24’s Dream Scenario has an estimated weekend gross of about $1.69 million in a major expansion...
Meanwhile, Bollywood’s Animal showcases the ongoing strength of Indian films Stateside. The revenge thriller starring Ranbir Kapoor racked up an estimated $6.14 million on about 700 screens over the three days, the second biggest opening weekend of all time for a Bollywood film in North America behind Pathaan, taking the no. 7 slot at the North. American box office.
A24’s Dream Scenario has an estimated weekend gross of about $1.69 million in a major expansion...
- 12/3/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
The BBC is pumping the brakes on Top Gear.
The British public broadcaster announced Tuesday that the veteran car show — which airs Stateside on BBC America and was most recently hosted by Freddie Flintoff, Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris — is being put on “rest” for the foreseeable future.
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“Given the exceptional circumstances, the BBC has decided to rest the U.
The British public broadcaster announced Tuesday that the veteran car show — which airs Stateside on BBC America and was most recently hosted by Freddie Flintoff, Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris — is being put on “rest” for the foreseeable future.
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“Given the exceptional circumstances, the BBC has decided to rest the U.
- 11/21/2023
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
When Barbra Streisand’s “Yentl” opened on Nov. 18, 1983, directing was very much a man’s world. In the 1970s, there had been a few inroads for women. Italian director Lina Wertmuller was nominated for best director for 1976’s “Seven Beauties” Stateside, actress Barbara Loden, who was married to Oscar-winning director Elia Kazan, wrote, directed and starred in the acclaimed 1970 indie drama “Wanda,” which won best foreign film at the Venice Film Festival. She never followed up with another movie and died of breast cancer in 1980.
There was also Joan Micklin Silver (“Hester Street”), Claudia Weill (“Girlfriends”), Martha Coolidge (“Not a Pretty Picture”), Joan Tewkesbury (“Old Boyfriends”) and Joan Darling (“First Love”). But those filmmakers ran into brick walls when they tried to set up projects with the major studios. The late Silver told Vanity Fair in 2021 that a studio executive didn’t mince his word: “Feature films are expensive to make and expensive to market,...
There was also Joan Micklin Silver (“Hester Street”), Claudia Weill (“Girlfriends”), Martha Coolidge (“Not a Pretty Picture”), Joan Tewkesbury (“Old Boyfriends”) and Joan Darling (“First Love”). But those filmmakers ran into brick walls when they tried to set up projects with the major studios. The late Silver told Vanity Fair in 2021 that a studio executive didn’t mince his word: “Feature films are expensive to make and expensive to market,...
- 11/19/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: Getting a leg-up here on our Thanksgiving stretch preview, Apple Studios production of Ridley Scott’s Napoleon will invade the global box office via Sony this Wednesday, in what’s shaping up to be a $46M WW global start.
Split up for the Wednesday-Sunday stretch, that’s $22M 5-day domestic, and $24M overseas.
Note, it’s not the only wide release over the holiday: There’s Disney’s animated movie Wish, which we’ll tell you more about early next week and there’s the second weekend of everything that’s bowing today: Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Trolls Band Together, Thanksgiving and Next Goal Wins.
Napoleon, starring Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix, is on a 45 day-theatrical window, we hear, before it hits Apple TV+.
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We’re told the comp here both domestic and stateside is Scott’s House of...
Split up for the Wednesday-Sunday stretch, that’s $22M 5-day domestic, and $24M overseas.
Note, it’s not the only wide release over the holiday: There’s Disney’s animated movie Wish, which we’ll tell you more about early next week and there’s the second weekend of everything that’s bowing today: Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Trolls Band Together, Thanksgiving and Next Goal Wins.
Napoleon, starring Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix, is on a 45 day-theatrical window, we hear, before it hits Apple TV+.
Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani in House of Gucci
We’re told the comp here both domestic and stateside is Scott’s House of...
- 11/18/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro and Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
The Stateside premiere of NCIS: Sydney on CBS drew 5.6 million total viewers and a 0.3 demo rating on Tuesday night (per Nielsen finals), making it the most-watched series debut of the 2023-24 TV season thus far.
The NCIS franchise’s first international offering in turn led CBS to its most-watched Tuesday of the fall, with 3 million viewers — a surge of 34% week-to-week (when Big Brother opened the night) and +21% versus this season’s Tuesday average.
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The NCIS franchise’s first international offering in turn led CBS to its most-watched Tuesday of the fall, with 3 million viewers — a surge of 34% week-to-week (when Big Brother opened the night) and +21% versus this season’s Tuesday average.
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- 11/15/2023
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
TikTok is hoping that the next Grammy Awards ceremony will be a big night for vertical video. The app has recognized several Grammy nominees — including Miley Cyrus, Ice Spice, and Troye Sivan — whose songs have been used as the soundtracks for viral short-form trends.
The Recording Academy announced the 2024 Grammy nominees on November 10, and TikTok’s influence can be seen from the first category. Most of the tracks up for Record of the Year, including Billie Eilish‘s ‘What Was I Made For‘ and Coi Leray‘s ‘Players,’ inspired lasting viral fads. Cyrus’ ‘Flowers‘ is nominated in that category as well. The impact of the self-empowerment anthem stretched beyond TikTok; on YouTube Shorts, 600,000 videos have used ‘Flowers’ as background music.
TikTok’s influence on the Grammys goes far beyond Record of the Year. The Best New Artist category has become a haven for social media stars, and that trend is...
The Recording Academy announced the 2024 Grammy nominees on November 10, and TikTok’s influence can be seen from the first category. Most of the tracks up for Record of the Year, including Billie Eilish‘s ‘What Was I Made For‘ and Coi Leray‘s ‘Players,’ inspired lasting viral fads. Cyrus’ ‘Flowers‘ is nominated in that category as well. The impact of the self-empowerment anthem stretched beyond TikTok; on YouTube Shorts, 600,000 videos have used ‘Flowers’ as background music.
TikTok’s influence on the Grammys goes far beyond Record of the Year. The Best New Artist category has become a haven for social media stars, and that trend is...
- 11/14/2023
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Don’t get us wrong, the Australia-set NCIS: Sydney, premiering Stateside this Tuesday on CBS, boasts a terrific cast, and one that is 66% Australian (plus two Brits).
But Sydney native and CBS procedural vet Alex O’Loughlin was right there, people. (Well, somewhere. I’m not entirely sure what he is up to these days, three-and-a-half years after the Hawaii Five-0 reboot said aloha.)
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But Sydney native and CBS procedural vet Alex O’Loughlin was right there, people. (Well, somewhere. I’m not entirely sure what he is up to these days, three-and-a-half years after the Hawaii Five-0 reboot said aloha.)
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- 11/12/2023
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Festival and specialty fare releases crowded the top ten this weekend with Priscilla (A24) and The Holdovers (Focus Features) expanding to hit nos. 4 and 6 respectively. Yash Raj Films’ Bollywood thriller Tiger 3 is at no. 8, and world of mouth continued to buoy Radical (Pantelion/Participant) with Eugenio Derbez, rounding out the list at no. 10.
Meanwhile, Kristoffer Borgli’s dark comedy Dream Scenario had a strong limited opening — the latest in a string of them from A24. Orlando, My Political Biography, an erudite doc from Sideshow/Janus Films based on the Virginia Woolf novel, grossed an estimated $7.5k in one theater (Film Forum) with Friday and Saturday sellouts.
That’s a nice indie weekend. With The Marvels melting down and some wide releases having shifted due to the now-settled SAG-AFTRA strike, there’s been a window for independents on awards season runs.
The numbers: Sofia Coppola’s latest, Priscilla, starring...
Meanwhile, Kristoffer Borgli’s dark comedy Dream Scenario had a strong limited opening — the latest in a string of them from A24. Orlando, My Political Biography, an erudite doc from Sideshow/Janus Films based on the Virginia Woolf novel, grossed an estimated $7.5k in one theater (Film Forum) with Friday and Saturday sellouts.
That’s a nice indie weekend. With The Marvels melting down and some wide releases having shifted due to the now-settled SAG-AFTRA strike, there’s been a window for independents on awards season runs.
The numbers: Sofia Coppola’s latest, Priscilla, starring...
- 11/12/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Radical with Eugenio Derbez built on its smash opening in Mexico to hit no. 5 at the U.S. box office with a super $2.7 million at 416 theaters. The Pantelion/Participant release had delayed its debut Stateside by two weeks to skirt The Eras Tour juggernaut, allowing word of mouth to build for the drama about a dedicated teacher in a troubled Mexican border town.
Priscilla by Sofia Coppola is looking at an estimated $5 million weekend and a no. 4 box office slot in a major week-two expansion to 1,359 screens. The film with Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Presley and Jacob Elordi as Elvis now has an estimated cume of $5.3 million in one of the year’s best expansions and Sofia Coppola’s second best of her career. Ticket sales were led by a younger female audience — 75% under 35 and 65% female.
Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers from Focus Features, starring Paul Giamatti, grossed $600k on 64 screens.
Priscilla by Sofia Coppola is looking at an estimated $5 million weekend and a no. 4 box office slot in a major week-two expansion to 1,359 screens. The film with Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Presley and Jacob Elordi as Elvis now has an estimated cume of $5.3 million in one of the year’s best expansions and Sofia Coppola’s second best of her career. Ticket sales were led by a younger female audience — 75% under 35 and 65% female.
Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers from Focus Features, starring Paul Giamatti, grossed $600k on 64 screens.
- 11/5/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Taylor Swift really is in a class of her own.
The 33-year-old “Blank Space” pop titan’s new album 1989 (Taylor’s Version) is officially the the top-selling album of 2023. By hitting the top spot she surpassed her album Midnights, which previously held the record.
Her re-release moved an unbelievable amount of records within its first five days of release.
Read more about Taylor Swift’s impressive showing…
Billboard reported that 1989 (Taylor’s Version) moved more than one million copies Stateside. It hit that milestone in under five days!
In comparison, Midnights, which was originally released in late 2022, moved 778,000 units this year.
Taylor doesn’t just have the two top-selling albums of the year. Her re-released album Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) lands in third place with sales around 742,000.
This isn’t the first time that Taylor had beat her own records with her latest album. She also achieved some impressive milestones on Spotify.
The 33-year-old “Blank Space” pop titan’s new album 1989 (Taylor’s Version) is officially the the top-selling album of 2023. By hitting the top spot she surpassed her album Midnights, which previously held the record.
Her re-release moved an unbelievable amount of records within its first five days of release.
Read more about Taylor Swift’s impressive showing…
Billboard reported that 1989 (Taylor’s Version) moved more than one million copies Stateside. It hit that milestone in under five days!
In comparison, Midnights, which was originally released in late 2022, moved 778,000 units this year.
Taylor doesn’t just have the two top-selling albums of the year. Her re-released album Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) lands in third place with sales around 742,000.
This isn’t the first time that Taylor had beat her own records with her latest album. She also achieved some impressive milestones on Spotify.
- 11/2/2023
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
After 43 total seasons and a nearly 1,000 (!) combined episodes, does the NCIS franchise have anything new to offer…?
Created by an Australian (actor-turned-writer/producer Morgan O’Neill)… (originally just) for Australians… and starring/guest-starring maaany Australians, NCIS: Sydney (premiering Tuesday, Nov. 14 on CBS) suggests that a trip to the land Down Under shakes things up enough to warrant another offshoot.
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The premise for NCIS: Sydney,...
Created by an Australian (actor-turned-writer/producer Morgan O’Neill)… (originally just) for Australians… and starring/guest-starring maaany Australians, NCIS: Sydney (premiering Tuesday, Nov. 14 on CBS) suggests that a trip to the land Down Under shakes things up enough to warrant another offshoot.
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The premise for NCIS: Sydney,...
- 11/1/2023
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
A trio of Indian films led by Leo: Bloody Sweet, at no. 8, and two Fathom events bulked up the specialty box office this weekend as The Persian Version debuted, Anatomy Of A Fall entered week two and Dicks: The Musical expanded nationwide.
Prathyangira Cinemas opened Tamil-language thriller Leo: Bloody Sweet in 720 locations to a hefty weekend debut of $2.14 million and a domestic cume through Sunday of $4.68 million, according to Comscore. Directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj, the film, with prints in Tamil, Hindi and Telugu, did huge numbers this week in Toronto, Seattle, Dallas, Austin, San Francisco, New York and Montreal. It’s the latest Indian film since Jawan last month to leap Stateside. Jawan, by Atlee Kumar and starring Shah Rukh Kahn (Srk) opened Sept. 8 on 800 screens to a $6.2 million weekend and $7.56 total.
Fans have been looking forward to the pairing of Kanagaraj and star Thalapathy Vijay in a film that...
Prathyangira Cinemas opened Tamil-language thriller Leo: Bloody Sweet in 720 locations to a hefty weekend debut of $2.14 million and a domestic cume through Sunday of $4.68 million, according to Comscore. Directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj, the film, with prints in Tamil, Hindi and Telugu, did huge numbers this week in Toronto, Seattle, Dallas, Austin, San Francisco, New York and Montreal. It’s the latest Indian film since Jawan last month to leap Stateside. Jawan, by Atlee Kumar and starring Shah Rukh Kahn (Srk) opened Sept. 8 on 800 screens to a $6.2 million weekend and $7.56 total.
Fans have been looking forward to the pairing of Kanagaraj and star Thalapathy Vijay in a film that...
- 10/22/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated: Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour may have missed the century mark in regards to a domestic opening, but the 12x Grammy winner was always guaranteed that number worldwide, with AMC reporting this Am that the Sam Wrench-directed concert pic has racked up $126M-$130M. The international box office opening is estimated at $31M-$33M. AMC is reporting a range à la North America; this the first time the circuit has handled a global theatrical-day-and-date release of this magnitude. Note, we never saw this hitting $200M WW; overseas was always going to be light and at this point remains at the lower-end of expectations.
AMC is calling the domestic opening between $95M-$97M today, however, rival studios see it lower at $94.3M. At the latter level, it’s the second best opening for October Stateside. Anything north of Joker‘s $96.2M stateside debut is an October domestic opening record.
AMC is calling the domestic opening between $95M-$97M today, however, rival studios see it lower at $94.3M. At the latter level, it’s the second best opening for October Stateside. Anything north of Joker‘s $96.2M stateside debut is an October domestic opening record.
- 10/15/2023
- by Nancy Tartaglione and Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey (2011-2016), set that upstairs-downstairs series at a palatial British estate on the eve of World War I. He moved his newest costume drama Stateside to the streets of New York City. Set in the late 1800s, The Gilded Age, which has its second-season premiere on Sunday, October 29 on HBO (streaming on Max), pits the new money of railroad barons against the old money of New York society. The powerful fight for control of the city and use their wealth to measure social success. And dressing for success was its own full-time occupation. When researching women’s fashion in 1800s New York, the show’s costume designer Kasia Walicka-Maimone saw one thing clearly: “Their life was a catwalk. There was this enormous excitement” when the ladies trekked the bustling, dusty streets of Manhattan. Her job was to recreate that excitement for contemporary viewers of The Gilded Age.
- 10/9/2023
- TV Insider
In the latest TV show ratings, CBS’ Survivor easily led Wednesday both in total viewers and in the demo.
CBS | Survivor drew 4.7 million viewers and a 0.7 rating, down week-to-week in both measures; read recap. The Amazing Race (2.7 mil/0.4) however was steady.
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CBS | Survivor drew 4.7 million viewers and a 0.7 rating, down week-to-week in both measures; read recap. The Amazing Race (2.7 mil/0.4) however was steady.
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NBC | Quantum Leap launched Season 2 with 2.9 million viewers and a 0.3 rating,...
- 10/5/2023
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Canadian comedy series Sort Of, which airs Stateside on Max, will end with its previously announced third season, TVLine has confirmed.
Series co-creators Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo first announced the news in a lengthy Instagram post on Thursday.
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“We want to thank you for welcoming this show so graciously into your worlds and for celebrating our work with generosity,...
Series co-creators Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo first announced the news in a lengthy Instagram post on Thursday.
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“We want to thank you for welcoming this show so graciously into your worlds and for celebrating our work with generosity,...
- 10/5/2023
- by Rebecca Iannucci
- TVLine.com
PBS Masterpiece has booked Stateside viewers a trip to MaryLand, as in the three-part ITV miniseries starring Suranne Jones (Gentleman Jack), Eve Best (House of the Dragon) and Stockard Channing (The West Wing).
MaryLand, which streamed across the pond this past March, will premiere Stateside on PBS on April 7, 2024 at 9/8c. Watch a trailer above.
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MaryLand is described...
MaryLand, which streamed across the pond this past March, will premiere Stateside on PBS on April 7, 2024 at 9/8c. Watch a trailer above.
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MaryLand is described...
- 9/26/2023
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Disney’s Hercule Poirot film “A Haunting in Venice” debuted atop the U.K. and Ireland box office with £2.1 million ($2.7 million), according to numbers released by Comscore.
In its second weekend, in second place, Warner Bros.’ “The Nun II” collected £1.1 million for a total of £3.8 million.
In its third weekend, in third place, Sony’s “The Equalizer 3” took in £874,709 for a total of £6.2 million.
Shah Rukh Khan’s Bollywood blockbuster “Jawan,” distributed by Yash Raj Films, earned £480,243 in its second weekend for a total of £2.3 million.
Rounding off the top five was Warner Bros.’ “Barbie,” which grossed £456,329 in its ninth weekend for a mighty total of £94.5 million. The film is the highest grosser of the year and remains in seventh position on the territory’s all time chart, within nudging distance of “Spectre” (£95.2 million). “Barbie” is likely to surpass or at least come within martini-shaking distance of James Bond as for one week only,...
In its second weekend, in second place, Warner Bros.’ “The Nun II” collected £1.1 million for a total of £3.8 million.
In its third weekend, in third place, Sony’s “The Equalizer 3” took in £874,709 for a total of £6.2 million.
Shah Rukh Khan’s Bollywood blockbuster “Jawan,” distributed by Yash Raj Films, earned £480,243 in its second weekend for a total of £2.3 million.
Rounding off the top five was Warner Bros.’ “Barbie,” which grossed £456,329 in its ninth weekend for a mighty total of £94.5 million. The film is the highest grosser of the year and remains in seventh position on the territory’s all time chart, within nudging distance of “Spectre” (£95.2 million). “Barbie” is likely to surpass or at least come within martini-shaking distance of James Bond as for one week only,...
- 9/19/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Jawan, a Hindi action thriller with Bollywood royalty Shah Rukh Khan set opening day records in India that are echoing Stateside. The Yash Raj Films release grossed more than $1.36 million on Thursday at 764 locations, meaning it was the no. 2 movie across North America behind wide release The Eoqualizer 3 with Denzel Washington. It edges up to 827 screens today.
The film directed by Atlee Kumar — about a man driven by a personal vendetta to rectify the wrongs of society and keep a promise made years ago — had some Imax screens too, including NYC’s AMC Empire in Times Square.
Shah Rukh Khan has now broken his own record in India. He also starred in Pathaan, released in January, which topped the local box office for a Hindi-language film.
Indian fare, long a staple of the U.S. theaters, has been even more crucial since Covid given the reliability of audiences that stream...
The film directed by Atlee Kumar — about a man driven by a personal vendetta to rectify the wrongs of society and keep a promise made years ago — had some Imax screens too, including NYC’s AMC Empire in Times Square.
Shah Rukh Khan has now broken his own record in India. He also starred in Pathaan, released in January, which topped the local box office for a Hindi-language film.
Indian fare, long a staple of the U.S. theaters, has been even more crucial since Covid given the reliability of audiences that stream...
- 9/8/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
NCIS and the Afp have a bit of a surf-and-turf war in the first trailer for NCIS: Sydney, the well-watched franchise’s first international production.
(As announced, well, just yesterday, NCIS: Sydney‘s eight-episode season will premiere Stateside on CBS on Monday, Nov. 13 at 10/9c, and also be available live and on demand that night for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers. “Regular” Paramount+ Essential subscribers can stream each episode the day after it airs.)
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(As announced, well, just yesterday, NCIS: Sydney‘s eight-episode season will premiere Stateside on CBS on Monday, Nov. 13 at 10/9c, and also be available live and on demand that night for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers. “Regular” Paramount+ Essential subscribers can stream each episode the day after it airs.)
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- 9/6/2023
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Director Ira Sachs and lead Franz Rogowski discussed their film “Passages” at an exclusive screening in London on Friday.
The screening was the first of a series of exclusive Q&a events curated by Variety in partnership with brand and culture consultancy Bsbp targeted at BAFTA and AMPAS voters as well as key players in the showbiz community in the U.K., taking place at London’s The Cinema at Selfridges. Variety and Bsbp teamed with film distributor, global streaming service and production company Mubi for the first screening in the series, “Passages,” written and directed by Sachs.
The screening was accompanied by a Q&a conducted by Variety critic Guy Lodge with Sachs and Rogowski. The sexually frank relationship drama, about a polysexual Parisian love triangle, also stars Ben Whishaw and Adele Exarchopoulos, and premiered to great acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival, also playing at the Berlinale. It...
The screening was the first of a series of exclusive Q&a events curated by Variety in partnership with brand and culture consultancy Bsbp targeted at BAFTA and AMPAS voters as well as key players in the showbiz community in the U.K., taking place at London’s The Cinema at Selfridges. Variety and Bsbp teamed with film distributor, global streaming service and production company Mubi for the first screening in the series, “Passages,” written and directed by Sachs.
The screening was accompanied by a Q&a conducted by Variety critic Guy Lodge with Sachs and Rogowski. The sexually frank relationship drama, about a polysexual Parisian love triangle, also stars Ben Whishaw and Adele Exarchopoulos, and premiered to great acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival, also playing at the Berlinale. It...
- 8/28/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Variety has partnered with brand and culture consultancy Bsbp to curate a series of exclusive Q&a screenings in London of some of the industry’s most anticipated films. The screenings, which are targeted at BAFTA and AMPAS voters as well as key players in the showbiz community in the U.K., will take place at London’s The Cinema at Selfridges.
Variety and Bsbp have teamed with film distributor, global streaming service and production company Mubi for the first screening in the series, which will be for “Passages,” written and directed by Ira Sachs. The screening will be accompanied by a Q&a conducted by Variety critic Guy Lodge with Sachs and leading actor Franz Rogowski.
The sexually frank relationship drama, about a polysexual Parisian love triangle, also stars Ben Whishaw and Adele Exarchopoulos, and premiered to great acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival, also playing at the Berlinale.
Variety and Bsbp have teamed with film distributor, global streaming service and production company Mubi for the first screening in the series, which will be for “Passages,” written and directed by Ira Sachs. The screening will be accompanied by a Q&a conducted by Variety critic Guy Lodge with Sachs and leading actor Franz Rogowski.
The sexually frank relationship drama, about a polysexual Parisian love triangle, also stars Ben Whishaw and Adele Exarchopoulos, and premiered to great acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival, also playing at the Berlinale.
- 8/24/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Neon’s re-release of Park Chan-Wook’s 2003 Oldboy grossed an estimated $495k on 250 screens this weekend for a total cume of $880k over five days. It’s set to cross the $1 million in its first week back – surpassing a cumulative North American gross of $707k with original distributor Metro Tartan Film. The classic revenge thriller came out in 2003 and was released Stateside in 2005. It was the first South Korean film to win the Grand Prix in Cannes in 2004 and took in $15 million worldwide.
It’s rare for re-releases to top $1 million at the domestic box office. Others that have include Studio Ghibli fare and James Cameron’s Avatar and Titanic.
The restored and remastered version of Oldboy opened last Wednesday at $235k, landing in the top ten alongside summer tentpole including Barbie and Oppenheimer.
Top-performing cities include San Francisco, New York City, and Los Angeles at Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. An...
It’s rare for re-releases to top $1 million at the domestic box office. Others that have include Studio Ghibli fare and James Cameron’s Avatar and Titanic.
The restored and remastered version of Oldboy opened last Wednesday at $235k, landing in the top ten alongside summer tentpole including Barbie and Oppenheimer.
Top-performing cities include San Francisco, New York City, and Los Angeles at Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. An...
- 8/20/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Clockwise from top left: John Wick: Chapter 2 (Lionsgate), Enter The Dragon (Warner Bros.), Rush Hour 2 (Warner Bros.), Bloodsport (Warner Bros.), Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings (Disney)Graphic: AVClub
Hollywood was not ready for Bruce Lee. When Enter The Dragon hit theaters 50 years ago, in...
Hollywood was not ready for Bruce Lee. When Enter The Dragon hit theaters 50 years ago, in...
- 8/19/2023
- by Eric Francisco
- avclub.com
Robert Carlyle (Once Upon a Time), Jodie Whittaker (Doctor Who) and Aimee Lou Wood (Sex Education) are all set to star in Netflix’s Toxic Town, our sister site Deadline reports.
Penned by His Dark Materials scribe Jack Thorne, the four-part drama series centers on the Corby poisonings — one of the UK’s biggest environmental scandals of all time.
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The cast also included Rory Kinnear (Penny...
Penned by His Dark Materials scribe Jack Thorne, the four-part drama series centers on the Corby poisonings — one of the UK’s biggest environmental scandals of all time.
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The cast also included Rory Kinnear (Penny...
- 8/10/2023
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
The Israeli spy thriller Tehran is the second TV series to be granted a waiver to continue filming amid the recently launched SAG-AFTRA strike.
As reported by our sister site Deadline, Tehran has about a week left to film on Season 3, in Israel. And whereas the Jesus drama The Chosen (now airing Stateside on The CW) scored its own waiver this week by being a truly independent, crowdfunded production not tied to any of the big, AMPTP companies, Tehran has ties to Apple, which streams the drama on Apple TV+.
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As reported by our sister site Deadline, Tehran has about a week left to film on Season 3, in Israel. And whereas the Jesus drama The Chosen (now airing Stateside on The CW) scored its own waiver this week by being a truly independent, crowdfunded production not tied to any of the big, AMPTP companies, Tehran has ties to Apple, which streams the drama on Apple TV+.
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- 7/21/2023
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
At a time when Hollywood is suffering through historic dual strikes by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA, the motion picture industry is poised to see an enormous weekend at the box office with Warner Bros/Mattel’s long-awaited toy feature adaptation Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s three-hour World War II-era drama Oppenheimer reaping a combined $260 million-plus global start.
Barbie, which has presales far exceeding that of Disney’s The Little Mermaid ($95.5M), has a crazy range of projections stateside, from $90M-$125M. Warners is safely calling for $75M at 4,200 theaters, but rivals are confident this doll of a comedy starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling will have gorgeous receipts. Worldwide, Barbie is eyeing around $165M: $60M-$65M from 69 offshore markets including France and Korea among majors on Wednesday, followed by Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia and all of Latin America on Thursday, and then the UK and China on Friday.
Meanwhile, Universal’s first Nolan feature,...
Barbie, which has presales far exceeding that of Disney’s The Little Mermaid ($95.5M), has a crazy range of projections stateside, from $90M-$125M. Warners is safely calling for $75M at 4,200 theaters, but rivals are confident this doll of a comedy starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling will have gorgeous receipts. Worldwide, Barbie is eyeing around $165M: $60M-$65M from 69 offshore markets including France and Korea among majors on Wednesday, followed by Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia and all of Latin America on Thursday, and then the UK and China on Friday.
Meanwhile, Universal’s first Nolan feature,...
- 7/18/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro and Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
The Chosen, a TV series about Jesus’ revolutionary life and teachings which this weekend began airing Stateside on The CW, has received a waiver to continue filming its fourth season even amid the recently launched SAG-AFTRA actors strike.
The series’ official Twitter feed shared the Good News on Sunday night, saying that after having to pause production on July 14 as they awaited a ruling, “We just received word from SAG that we have been approved for a waiver. We’ll continue shooting on Monday.”
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The series’ official Twitter feed shared the Good News on Sunday night, saying that after having to pause production on July 14 as they awaited a ruling, “We just received word from SAG that we have been approved for a waiver. We’ll continue shooting on Monday.”
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- 7/17/2023
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Jane Birkin, the English-French star who collaborated with Serge Gainsbourg on the risqué hit “Je T’aime… Moi Non Plus,” died July 16, French media reported. She was 76.
She and Gainsbourg were married from 1968-80 and worked together on “Je T’aime… Moi Non Plus,” released in 1969 – and recorded the year before, six months after they met on the set of the film Slogan. The song topped the UK chart and was Top 5 in several other European countries and Mexico but was not a hit Stateside.
The song, originally written by Gainsbourg for Brigitte Bardot, caused a scandal on its release for its sexual content. It was banned by radio stations across the UK, Italy and Spain, but became an enormous and instantly recognisable hit across the world.
Although born in London and a leading light of “the London scene” of the 1960s, Birkin found fame singing in French — and she...
She and Gainsbourg were married from 1968-80 and worked together on “Je T’aime… Moi Non Plus,” released in 1969 – and recorded the year before, six months after they met on the set of the film Slogan. The song topped the UK chart and was Top 5 in several other European countries and Mexico but was not a hit Stateside.
The song, originally written by Gainsbourg for Brigitte Bardot, caused a scandal on its release for its sexual content. It was banned by radio stations across the UK, Italy and Spain, but became an enormous and instantly recognisable hit across the world.
Although born in London and a leading light of “the London scene” of the 1960s, Birkin found fame singing in French — and she...
- 7/16/2023
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
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