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Oprah Winfrey made a guest appearance on CBS This Morning on Monday to announce her pick for her re-activated book club: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates. (See video above.) Her interview with Coates will stream on Apple TV+ when the subscription service launches on November 1, under the title Oprah’s Book Club…

STXfilms has released the official trailer for POMS, its retirement-community comedy starring Diane Keaton, Jacki Weaver, Pam Grier and Rhea Perlman. The pic, directed by Zara Hayes and written by Shane Atkinson, opens nationwide May 10, just ahead of Mother’s Day weekend. The plot centers on Martha (Keaton), who…

In the midst of the Viacom-CBS merger melee, Paramount Pictures is turning itself around and can celebrate the fact that their low budget horror thriller A Quiet Place has bested Universal/Blumhouse’s Get Out at the domestic box office, $176.5M to $176M. And the John Krasinski-directed movie which stars himself and…

UPDATED, Sunday 7:33 AM: 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool 2 has slowed, but not in the worst way, and certainly not because moviegoers lost interest. While many yesterday morning predicted a weekend north of $130M for the sequel, Saturday turned out to be not so high, coming in at $40.5M instead of the $45M+ that many were…

The #MeToo movement notwithstanding, I've been worried about women lately, perhaps because I've been seeing too many movies. At a time when women are achieving more muscle in managing their lives and careers, the female characters they portray in movies lack both muscle and self-esteem. Women need a movement – any…

For that part of the moviegoing audience that might be over age 25 — or even, say, 50 — it just doesn’t get much better than having a quartet like Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen and Candice Bergen together in one smart, funny, warm and wonderful movie. Book Club, as I say in my video review (click the link…

After Disney’s Avengers: Infinity War jumpstarted summer three weeks ago before it fell asleep this past weekend, along comes Fox/Marvel’s Deadpool 2 to get moviegoers’ adrenaline pumping again. Fox has been banging the drum on this movie going all the way back to March 2017 when Logan opened with a surprise teaser for…

EXCLUSIVE: Bill Holderman and Erin Simms, who collaborated on Paramount’s upcoming Book Club starring Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen, have signed with WME. Holderman directed the comedy and co-wrote the script with Simms, and both produced the pic that hits theaters May 18. The pair…

After cashing in with left-field horror hit A Quiet Place earlier this spring, Paramount is hoping to keep the mojo working with the May 18 release of Book Club. Today’s release of the new, “final” trailer for the women-of-a-certain-age comedy gets straight to the point (see video above). “Every so often,” the…

Wait till they see the movie. In this new trailer for Book Club, four lifelong friends are shocked – no, really shocked – when they read Fifty Shades of Grey. Sound a little, well, dated, given that the movie trilogy has already come to an end? No matter, when the four pals are played by Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candi…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. Martin McDonagh finds himself in rarefied territory this season after the Academy’s directors branch rather shockingly “snubbed” him and failed to nominate him in their category for his much-acclaimed Golden Globe winner and Oscar Best Picture…

EXCLUSIVE: In the big American Film Market deal so far, Paramount Pictures is closing a $10 million deal for North American, UK and France rights to Book Club, sources said. In a pact being brokered by Endeavor Content, the studio has committed to a wide release in 2018. The June Pictures film is being called a First W…