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Kevin Costner’s ‘Horizon’ Box Office Boondoggle: ‘Yellowstone’ Fans Are (Largely) a No Show
The fifth-season of Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone — made famous in no small part because of its lead star Kevin Costner — enjoyed the top scripted series premiere of 2022 with 12.1 million viewers. Just as impressive, the show saw double-digit gains in all demos, including a growth of 52 percent among adults 18-34 for a […]
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Donald Glover Battles for Survival in ‘Bando Stone & The New World’ Movie Trailer
Donald Glover as both rapper and actor comically battles for his life in a post-apocalyptic world in the trailer for Bando Stone & The New World, his latest movie. Actor-writer-producer Glover, in the role of Bando Stone, has to outrun gigantic animals and sci-fi lasers in a tropical Jurassic Island-like setting in the teaser trailer […]
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Noaz Deshe on Creating His New Film ‘Xoftex’ With Asylum Seekers and Europe’s “Right-Wing Shift”
Syrian and Palestinian asylum seekers in a Greek refugee camp awaiting updates on their status. That is the world director Noaz Deshe (White Shadow, which was executive produced by Ryan Gosling) chose as the setting for his second feature film Xoftex, which had its world premiere at the 58th edition of the Karlovy Vary International […]
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Snoop Dogg-Produced ‘1992,’ Starring Tyrese Gibson, Lands Summer Release
Lionsgate is going back to the early 1990s this summer, with help from Tyrese Gibson and Snoop Dogg. The company announced Monday that it will release director Ariel Vromen’s crime thriller 1992 in theaters Aug. 30. Snoop Dogg has boarded the feature as executive producer through his Death Row Pictures production company, with Gibson (known […]
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Chad Stahelski’s 87Eleven to Remake Bollywood Action Thriller ‘Kill’ for Lionsgate
John Wick filmmaker Chad Stahelski is set to produce an English-language remake of the action thriller Kill for Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions. Nikhil Nagesh Bhat wrote and directed the 2023 Indian Hindi-language film. The original Kill movie took place during a train trip to New Delhi, and saw a pair of commandos battle an army of […]
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Sean Penn’s Ukraine Documentary ‘Superpower’ Debuts for Free on YouTube
Sean Penn’s Superpower is free. The Oscar winner’s two-hour documentary on Ukraine has entered a one-year contract to stream free of charge beginning today — in the United States and its territories including Bermuda — on the Paramount+ YouTube channel. The Paramount+ original doc Superpower chronicles Ukraine’s fight for freedom from invading Russian military forces […]
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Steven Soderbergh on Struggles for Control, Why Sex Scenes Are “Ridiculous” and Taylor Swift
Steven Soderbergh has been all over the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary in recent days. On Monday, he shared his takes and insights on such topics as AI, sex scenes, movie release windows, Hollywood’s current “correction,” new projects and even the success of Taylor Swift with a group of reporters. The prolific director, producer, screenwriter and […]
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Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson Lead Steve McQueen’s ‘Blitz,’ Set to Open London Film Festival
The world premiere of Steve McQueen‘s Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan and Harris Dickinson, will open 2024’s BFI London Film Festival (LFF) this October. The Apple original film — directed, produced and written by Oscar-winner McQueen (12 Years a Slave) — follows the journey of nine-year-old George, played by newcomer Elliot Heffernan, in London through the […]
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French Police Question Directors Benoît Jacquot, Jacques Doillon on Sexual Assault Allegations
French police have taken directors Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon into questioning on accusations of sexual assault made against them by actress and activist Judith Godrèche. Godrèche filed official complaints against Jacquot and Doillon in February, accusing both men of sexual assault in alleged incidents decades ago, when she was a teenager. She accused Jacquot […]
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Mia Hansen-Love’s Next Film Will Be a Period Drama on the Life of Pioneering Feminist Mary Wollstonecraft
The next film from French director Mia Hansen-Love (Things to Come, One Fine Morning) will be a period drama on the life of ground-breaking English writer and activist Mary Wollstonecraft. Hansen-Love is writing and directing If Love Should Die on the visionary 18th-century writer, considered one of the founder philosophers of feminism. Filming is planned […]
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Crunchyroll to Release ‘Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle’ in Theaters as Film Trilogy
Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures Entertainment are giving the blockbuster Demon Slayer anime franchise an appropriately grand finish. The partners revealed Sunday that they will release Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle, the last episodes in the hit anime franchise, as a trio of theatrical films in cinemas worldwide. The three-part installment represents the final […]
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Ukraine War in Karlovy Vary Focus as Oleh Sentsov Meets Czech President Before ‘Real’ World Premiere
World politics took center stage in the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary on Sunday. Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov world premiered his documentary Real from the trenches of the Ukraine War at the 58th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. But beforehand, he met with Czech president Petr Pavel who expressed the Czech Republic’s support for […]
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Box Office: ‘Inside Out 2’ Wins With $57.4M as ‘Quiet Place’ Prequel Scores Record $53M Start and ‘Horizon’ Bombs
Pixar’s Inside Out 2 stayed atop the domestic box office chart in its third weekend with a hearty $57.4 million, enough to scare off Paramount’s prequel A Quiet Place: Day One after a closer-than-expected race. Moreover, Inside Out 2 is celebrating crossing the $1 billion mark in global ticket sales in record time for an […]
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Box Office Milestone: ‘Inside Out 2’ Crosses $1 Billion Globally in Record Time
Talk about feeling joyful. Pixar and Disney’s Inside Out 2 has crossed the $1 billion club at the global box office in record time for an animated film after playing a major role in reviving the summer box office. The movie achieved the feat on Sunday, it’s 19th day in release. That’s faster than any […]
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Viggo Mortensen on Respecting Audiences, How Scripts Are Key “Unless I’m Broke,” New ‘LOTR’ Films
Viggo Mortensen seems tireless. On Friday night, he opened the 58th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) in the Czech Republic with his feminist western The Dead Don’t Hurt after being honored with the fest’s President’s Award. On Saturday, he discussed the film at a press conference and introduced another screening in […]
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Orson Welles to Steven Soderbergh: Karlovy Vary Curators on Hollywood’s “Kafkaesque” Cinema
When it comes to celebrated Czech writer Franz Kafka, filmmakers the world over have long been inspired to either adapt his work outright or make movies that are decidedly “Kafkaesque,” filled with the kind of angst, alienation and absurdity the made the novelist one of the most prominent and distinctive figures in 20th century literature. […]
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