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Universal and Illumination have set on a title for the sequel to their hit 2015 animated film Minions, itself a spinoff of the Despicable Me franchise. The latest film, now titled Minions: The Rise of Gru, had already set a July 3, 2020, release date.
The title suggests the plot could be an origin story of sorts…
EXCLUSIVE:Marlon Wayans has been set to host the 20th annual Golden Trailer Awards, which recognize the year’s best in movie marketing trailers, commercials and posters. This year’s ceremony is May 29 at The Theatre at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
Netflix leads this year's nominations announced last week…
With the Cannes Film Festival now lining up in front of the Palais for the world premiere of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Sony Pictures has dropped the full trailer for the starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt and set in 1969 Los Angeles.
The most anticipated screening of the fest in recent…
EXCLUSIVE: Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired world rights to Eco-Terrorist: The Battle for our Planet, Peter Jay Brown's follow-up to his 2010 feature documentary Confessions of an Eco-Terrorist. The deal, made at the Cannes film market, has the film targeting a September theatrical release in the U.S.
The pic (see…
The producer of Cirque du Soleil and Dan Lin’s Rideback have made a deal to develop feature films based on the stories and characters from the catalog of the iconic global live entertainment franchise.
The movie projects will be spearheaded by Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group president and CEO Daniel Lamarre and…
Universal has set a March 13, 2020 release date for The Invisible Man, the Blumhouse-produced take on the Uni monster franchise that will star Elisabeth Moss. Leigh Whannell is aboard to write and direct the pic, which now will begin production in Sydney in July.
The pic’s release date had been bookmarked for an…
John Oliver used part of the opening segment of Last Week Tonight on Sunday to take a swipe at Meghan McCain, the co-host of The View and daughter to the late Sen. John McCain. He also saved a shot for her husband, Ben Domenech.
Both were in Oliver’s crosshairs following McCain’s appearance last week on Late Night With…
Saturday Night Live didn’t miss the chance to tip its hat to Game of Thrones, which wraps its eighth and final season a night from now. Several references were made to the HBO epic throughout the night of SNL‘s Season 44 finale hosted by Paul Rudd.
After Rudd’s opening monologue in which he called the show “hands down…
With another potential delve into merger talks with Viacom on the horizon, CBS is looking to bulk up and has expressed an extemporary desire to acquire Starz.
The whisper of such a deal certainly was an immediate boon for the premium cabler's parent company Lionsgate. News of the offer, first broken by the site The…
Tony nominees Hadestown, The Ferryman and Bryan Cranston for his performance in Network took top honors at the 85th annual Drama League Awards, which were unveiled at a gala luncheon Friday at the Marriott Marquis Times Square. The awards, the nation’s oldest theatrical honors, recognize the year’s best distinguished…
Saban Films has acquires U.S. distribution rights to Come to Daddy, the horror comedy starring Elijah Wood that marks the directing debut of producer Ant Timpson. The pic, which had its world premiere last month at the Tribeca Film Festival, will now get a theatrical release though no date has been set.
Wood stars as…
