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Sunday AM: Disney was able to keep Eternals intact throughout the weekend hitting a $71M opening amid mediocre audience exits, and the worst reviews of all-time for an MCU title. But know that when this film first landed on tracking four weeks ago, many had it in the $80M-$85M three-day range. Of those attending in…

Sunday AM Writethru after Saturday AM update: The first full Halloween celebration in two years is taking its toll on the domestic box office, a grey cloud which many saw coming, with many trick-or-treating or attending parties last night. Essentially, whenever the holiday falls on a Sunday, it’s poised to gut the…

Focus Features presents Edgar Wright's Last Night in Soho, a twisty psycho-thriller with a great soundtrack, as Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch goes wider, testing the appeal of a director whose films have been called the arthouse equivalent of Marvel. Last Night, a time-bending genre tale, unspools on just over…

The first look clip for Searchlight Pictures' Antlers is out, featuring some creepy creature action from director Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Out of the Furnace, Black Mass and Hostiles) and horror maestro Guillermo del Toro. In an isolated Oregon town, a middle-school teacher (Keri Russell) and her sheriff brother…

Mess with imposing figures in the mythical lore of the ancient Native American tribes at your great peril —that would seem to be the message of Antlers, a classy horror outing that's perceptively cast and particularly attentive to the dead-end realities of a once-prosperous Oregon mining town. Searchlight no doubt…

Searchlight Pictures has set the world premiere of Scott Cooper's new horror thriller Antlers on Oct. 11, Closing Night selection of the 2021 Beyond Fest. The premiere will launch a series of events leading up to the Oct. 29 domestic theatrical release of the film, that includes a "Fantastic Fest Presents" Special…

Searchlight Pictures, ever the believer in theatrical, has dated four releases for 2021. Their Sundance horror pickup The Night House will turn its lights on July 16. The David Bruckner directed titles which Searchlight shelled out a reported $12M for last January follows a widow (Rebecca Hall) who begins to uncover…

During the Comic-Con@Home panel for the upcoming Searchlight movie Antlers, two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro shared some of the seismic COVID-19 safety protocols impacting his next Searchlight movie Nightmare Alley, which is readying for a restart after Disney’s mid-March pause. Nightmare Alley…

UPDATED with FULL SCHEDULE: Fanboys and fangirls may not be traveling en masse to San Diego for Comic-Con this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the confab is set to swing into people’s homes like Spider-Man with its first virtual edition, dubbed Comic-Con@Home. The event will take place July 22-26 and is…

Searchlight Pictures is bringing its upcoming horror thriller Antlers to Comic-Con@Home on July 25, and producer Guillermo del Toro and filmmaker Scott Cooper will be there virtually to tease. On tap for discussion: how they designed the Wendigo-inspired monsters and their approach to the pic’s visual style. The…

Today Scott Cooper issued an open letter, applauding the Senate’s passage of the $2.2 trillion relief bill as a “much-need positive news to an industry I cherish”, particularly in regards to how it’s primed to help movie theaters during this time when they have fixed costs to maintain over several months, and zero…

EXCLUSIVE: If exhibition couldn’t be further beaten down more today, Disney has just moved Mulan (March 27), 20th Century Studios/Marvel’s The New Mutants (April 3) and Searchlight’s horror pic Antlers (April 17) off the release schedule. Disney says that it’s looking at potential 2020 dates in regards to where the…