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As she prepared to dress the members of a Swedish commune for A24 horror pic Midsommar, costume designer Andrea Flesch took a deep dive into Scandinavian folklore, finding seeds of inspiration with which she could help build a singularly terrifying and uniquely designed world. The second feature from up-and-coming…

2019 will go down as the year of Florence Pugh, for in quite a short time, the Oxfordshire, UK native has blown us away with quite a range. Some have called a Florenaissance. It's a breakout year reminiscent to when Edward Norton strode into the 1996 award season with Everyone Says I Love You, The People vs. Larry Flyn…

Spoiler Alert: This podcast contains major spoilers about the A24 film Midsommar. Too often awards season prognosticators will count the rebel filmmakers out in a given year, easily declaring “Oh, the Academy will never go for this.” Such a silly thought when you consider the amount of mavericks that AMPAS has lauded…

People left their homes and went to the movies this summer, shelling out $4.86 billion through Labor Day, +1% from the same period last year, which started at the end of April and lasted through Labor Day, and a few dollars shy of 2013’s $4.872B all-time record, per Comscore. True, close to 50% of this summer’s ticket…

We had just one movie grabbing attention over the holiday weekend, Spider-Man: Far From Home. which had Spidey and his high school friends taking on a European summer excursion that turns pretty lethal at points. But there was another opening that I just caught up with a couple of days ago that also is about some…

FINAL SUNDAY AM UPDATE: w/chart Sony is calling the 6-day opening of Sony’s Spider-Man: Far From Home at $185M which reps a record for a 6-day Independence Day launch and the Culver City studio’s best opening over that number of days. Both records were previously held by Sony’s 2004 Spider-Man 2 which made $180M over…

SATURDAY AM Writethru after Friday 10:37PM and midday updates: In its fourth day of release, Spider-Man: Far From Home has minted its second-best day yet with $32.7M, way up from the $26.5M we saw yesterday afternoon. Friday jumped 30% over July 4 with a four-day running total now at $124M for the Sony release.  3-day…

EXCLUSIVE: Ari Aster’s follow-up movie to Hereditary, Midsommar from A24, is moving up from its Aug. 9 release date to the Independence Day frame of July 3, which has been a prime counter-programming launch pad for horror pics, i.e. last year’s The First Purge ($69.4M) and 2016’s The Purge: Election Year ($79.2M). We…