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Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Miss Virginia, which stars Orange Is the New Black Emmy winner Uzo Aduba in a drama inspired by a true story of a struggling inner-city mother who sacrifices everything to give her son a good education. R.J. Daniel Hanna directed the pic written by Erin…

Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures have shifted the release date for the forthcoming ninth installment to the Saw film franchise from October 23, 2020, to May 15, 2020. Long-time franchise fan Chris Rock came up with the idea for the still-untitled reimaging, which is being described as "Saw on steroids.” He’ll star…

Marvel finally unloaded news about their Gods vs. Gods movie The Eternals on Saturday at Comic-Con. Marvel boss Kevin Feige said the film is opening November 6, 2020. Feige trotted out the cast that included Richard Madden (Icarus), Kumail Nanjiani, Lauren Ridloff, Brian Tyree Henry (Fastos), and the leader of the…

Universal has confirmed that David Gordon Green and Danny McBride’s successful reincarnation of John Carpenter’s Halloween franchise from Blumhouse is indeed returning — with not one but two new films. The studio said Friday that Halloween Kills will bow on October 16, 2020, and Halloween Ends, is set for October 15…

It will be quite a few more sunny days before Warner Bros makes its trip to Sesame Street. The studio’s untitled film adaptation of the children’s TV classic has moved from its January 15, 2021, to that summer: The pic now will open on June 4, 2021. Warners also said today that its legal drama Just Mercy, starring…

Lionsgate and Saban Films are teaming with Fathom Events to release Rob Zombie’s upcoming horror film 3 From Hell, with a three-day rollout set for September 16-18 in almost 900 theaters. The pic is a follow-up to Zombie’s House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects and returns those pics’ Firefly family to the big…

American Factory, the documentary from Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions and Participant Media, will premiere on Netflix on August 21. The streaming service had acquired the pic from co-directors Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it won the U.S…

Disney announced this morning that its Pixar film for next summer is Soul. The studio already had June 19 RSVP’ed on the 2020 calendar for an untitled Pixar movie, and this is it. Soul will be the second original Pixar film next year after Onward, which bows March 6. The tagline for Soul: Ever wonder where your…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney's The Lion King is being tipped for a July 12 China release, one full week before the film's domestic debut, multiple sources tell me. Getting a jump in China is not unprecedented — Universal's Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom did it last June, albeit in step with other offshore launches. What would be…

Paramount is moving the next G.I. Joe movie from March 27 next year to Oct. 16, 2020. The Melrose lot is also pushing its feature adaptation of 1980s toy Micronauts from Oct. 16, 2020 to June 4, 2021. Both are Hasbro movies. G.I. Joe over two movies has grossed $678.1M around the globe. The last movie, G.I. Joe: Retali…

RLJE Films has acquired Satanic Panic, the latest pickup for the indie distributor of a pic from the recently relaunched Fangoria horror label. Hayley Griffith, Ruby Modine, Michael Polish, Jerry O'Connell and Rebecca Romijn star in the pic, which had its world premiere earlier this year at the Overlook Film Festival…

2nd UPDATE, 5:18 PM: Universal has moved the release date for The Hunt up by three weeks, from October 18 to September 27. Damon Lindelof-penned political thriller now will open against STX’s Chadwick Boseman actioner 21 Bridges, The Universal/DreamWorks Animation feature Abominable, Entertainment Studios’ drama All Ri…