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UPDATED, 3:13 p.m.: Universal Pictures announced today that Steven Spielberg’s latest film The Fabelmans will open exclusively in L.A. and NY on Friday, November 11—expanding on the film’s previously announced release date of November 23rd. The film’s competition on the 11th will include Disney and Marvel’s Black Panth…

MONDAY AM UPDATE: Even more signs that moviegoing is shaking off all pandemic jinxs, business was bigger on Sunday for both Universal/Amblin’s Jurassic World Dominion and Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick.  Dominion‘s Sunday came in at $38.5M, vs. the forecasted $36.9M yesterday AM, putting its 3-day at $145M…

EXCLUSIVE: Lauren Abrahams has joined Amblin Partners as EVP of Production in the studio's film group. The Sony Pictures Entertainment/Columbia Pictures and Walt Disney Studios vet will report to Amblin's Presidents of Production for Film, Holly Bario and Jeb Brody. Canada-born and California-raised, Abrahams spent…

Editor’s Note: The original story included erroneous characterization of the Puerto Rican characters in West Side Story as immigrants, which has been removed. We regret the error.  Sunday AM Update: After Saturday update, refresh for more analysis, updated weekend chart The opening weekend of Disney/20th Century Studio…

After a year’s delay due to the pandemic, Steven Spielberg’s remake of the Broadway classic and 10x Oscar-winning 1961 movie, West Side Story, finally tunes up this weekend as the sole wide major studio theatrical release in 2,800 U.S./Canada theaters and offshore debuts in France, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Russia and…

EXCLUSIVE: Mateo Zoryon Francis-DeFord, Keeley Karsten, Birdie Borria, Alina Brace, and Sophia Kopera join the cast of Steven Spielberg’s next film The Fabelmans, based loosely on his childhood. Francis-Deford will play the young, aspiring filmmaker at the center of the story in his very early years, with the other…

Showtime Networks Inc. and Amblin Partners have renewed their exclusive output agreement for the latter’s theatrical films. While Universal releases Amblin’s titles theatrically, those movies won’t be going to Peacock in 2022 like the rest of Uni’s slate after four months in theaters. Amblin Partners films released…

Up-and-coming Australian actor Sam Rechner has landed a key role in Steven Spielberg's upcoming movie based on his childhood. Rechner will play a high school classmate of the young, aspiring filmmaker at the center of the story. He joins the growing ensemble which  includes Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Paul Dano…

Win, lose or draw, the frantic election cycle has already made one thing painfully clear: The movies will never catch up. They are too slow. A collaborative, deliberative medium like cinema can never keep pace with events—or more properly, with perceptions of and fascinations with seeming events—that change almost…

Universal/Amblin’s Bios is the first to move off Oct. 2 after Warner Bros. plopped Wonder Woman 1984 on that new date, and will now go on April 16, 2021. Uni already had April 16 on hold with untitled event movie. Already on that date is the Warner Bros. Lisa Joy-directed sci-fi film Reminiscence which stars Hugh…

Marty Cohen, a longtime editor and post-production chief who worked on more than a dozen Steven Spielberg films for Amblin and DreamWorks and whose producing credits include such hits as The Hunger Games and Godzilla, has died. He was 67. An Amblin spokesperson said Cohen died May 17 of natural causes after a long…

Maze Runner franchise filmmaker Wes Ball is set to direct the Hachette sci-fi Claire North novel The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August for Amblin Partners. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August follows a man who is repeatedly born into the same life, remembers all his past experiences, and seeks to save the world…