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Pantelion’s animated film Un Rescate De Huevitos (An Egg Rescue) is a rarity in the specialty box office as a Spanish language animated film. And its opening weekend success will certainly come as no surprise in Mexico where the franchise is its highest-grossing film series to date. The Spanish-language animation…

Together, the lockdown drama from Bleecker Street, opens on 250 screens this weekend in a specialty market treading water and with little visibility on box office amid daily Covid headlines. The trend continues of specialty films going wider faster and narrowing the window from theatrical to VOD in a nod to the chunk…

These were five words that roughly zero percent on the population wanted to hear: “They’ve just announced the lockdown.” And for one couple with a rocky marriage, it’s the beginning of the end. Or just the start of the beginning. “I hate your face,” he says. “You’ve got the same level of charm as diarrhea,” she says.…

James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan are to star in a lockdown relationship drama for the BBC, which will be helmed by Emmy and BAFTA-winning director Stephen Daldry (The Crown, Billy Elliot). Written by Dennis Kelly (Utopia), Together is billed as a hilarious and heart-breaking story of a husband and wife who are forced to…

STXfilms has closed the rights for an English-language remake of the hit French thriller My Son, with James McAvoy and Claire Foy set to star. The film will be directed by Christian Carion, who also directed the French film. The pic is eyeing a November start in Scotland. STX has locked distribution rights for North…

James McAvoy is to narrate Channel 4 Entertainment reality competition show The Bridge. The show will see 12 strangers come together on the banks of a picturesque lake in the British countryside where they will need to work together to build a bridge in 20 days to an island 250 meters away. Each person in the winning…

X-Men and Glass star James McAvoy has donated £275,000 ($340,000) to a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for protective equipment for NHS staff treating coronavirus. In a video message in support of the Masks 4 Heroes campaign, the actor said “the situation is truly urgent and time is off the essence”. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Shameless creator Paul Abbott is rebooting his award-winning BBC One drama State of Play, which inspired the Russell Crowe movie of the same name. Deadline can reveal that 16 years after the original show aired, Abbott is in active development on a new series of the political thriller having previously…

When your movie makes $700 million, it inevitably is going to trigger a sequel. In the case of the 2017 film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel It, the second film is not a sequel by definition but rather the final chapter of a two-part movie. At least that is what Warner Bros says. It makes sense because only about…

HBO introduced Hall H attendees today to its upcoming fall fantasy series His Dark Materials from the famed Philip Pullman series, kicking off the evening session with a fresh trailer. The first season of His Dark Materials follows Lyra (Dafne Keen, the little girl silent mutant from Logan), a seemingly ordinary but…

After 12 films in 20 years including sequels, prequels and spinoffs, we are now told this is the end of the road for the enormously successful, sometimes good, sometimes not-so-good X-Men franchise. Of course, in the Marvel world you should learn to never say never, but following the Avengers: Endgame finale and now…

Saturday Night Live last night, with host James McAvoy, musical guest Meek Mill and appearance by Steve Martin as Roger Stone, averaged a 4.1 Live+same day household rating in the metered markets and a 1.7 adults 18-49 rating in the markets with local people meters. That was off from last week’s show hosted by The Marv…