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Editors note: This review was originally published March 16 after its premiere at SXSW. It opens in theaters Friday. Deadites are everywhere in Lee Cronin's newest film Evil Dead Rise. Taking place in cosmopolitan Los Angeles, these wacky demons still…

Barbarian producer BoulderLight Pictures has secured a multi-year first-look feature agreement with New Line Cinema, Deadline has confirmed. BoulderLight is a production company founded by J.D. Lifshitz & Raphael Margules which specializes in high-concept, filmmaker-driven genre stories and last year…

New Line Cinema won a heated auction for Weapons, a film it will fast-track with the team behind the horror thriller Barbarian. Zach Cregger wrote the script and will direct, and he’ll produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight…

Ice Cube is fighting Warner Bros. for the Friday franchise rights and he is not willing to pay for the movie he created. In a new interview on Mike Tyson’s Hotboxin’ podcast, the actor and rapper revealed Warner Bros. has been holding up the process of continuing the franchise despite several scripts…

It's been a long wait — nearly a decade, in fact — since Dwayne Johnson first signed on to become an integral part of the DC universe. He's recently turned 50 (not that he looks it). But now, at last, he's launched a big-league entry in the cinematic…

Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema have unveiled the red band trailer for their House Party remake, marking the feature directorial debut of veteran music video helmer Calmatic, which Is slated for an exclusive release in theaters on January 13, 2023. (It had previously been believed that the film would bow…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros and New Line have joined Horizon, the epic period Western that Kevin Costner is directing, starring in and producing through his Territory Pictures. Costner co-wrote the script with Jon Baird. They first worked together when they co-wrote the 2015 bestselling novel The Explorers Guild. Horizon…

Seth Willenson, a longtime marketing and distribution executive and producer who pioneered the Midnight Movie marketing concept and mentored many industry leaders, died Friday at his home in Los Angeles after a long bout with heart disease. He was 74. Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery Willenson began his…

New Line Cinema has cast the ensemble comedy The Parenting for HBO Max with a murderers’ row of TV stars including Succession‘s Brian Cox, The Sopranos’ Edie Falco, Friends alum Lisa Kudrow and Breaking Bad‘s Dean Norris. Craig Johnson is directing from Kent Sublette’s script, which follows a young couple, Graham and…

New Line Cinema and HBO Max on Tuesday released the trailer for Kimi, Steven Soderbergh’s new cyber-thriller that stars Zoë Kravitz. The pic will stream exclusively on HBO Max beginning February 10. David Koepp’s script stars Kravitz as a voice-stream interpreter who believes she has intercepted audio of a murder…

With Halloween just around the corner, the house that inspired James Wan’s 2013 film The Conjuring is up for grabs.  Rhode Island realtor Mott & Chace Sotheby’s has put the Burrillville, RI property on the market for $1.2 million. The spooky 19th century home featuring three bedrooms and 1 1/2 bathrooms sits on eight…

Ever since Bob Shaye launched the company in 1967 to release arthouse, foreign language and cult films on college campuses, New Line Cinema had been a studio known for out-of-the box choices necessitated by being the last stop for good material. From the audacious early John Waters films like Pink Flamingos to Wes…