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It's now been 14 weeks since I last saw a film in a movie theater or screening room — anywhere, that is, other than on my home screen. We all know why. This certainly sets a record for any time since I was perhaps 10 years old, or maybe even younger, as going to the movies has been perhaps my most consistent sustained…

Blumhouse has made a small round of layoffs, in total eight roles across film and TV including executive assistants and mid-level executives. Those working in post production remain employed and some senior executives have taken pay cuts in the current COVID-19 climate which has shut down physical production and movie…

In an unprecedented crunch of the theatrical window as several markets across the U.S. close down in response to safety coronavirus along with worldwide, NBCUniversal’s Universal Pictures is officially making its current movies in cinematic release –Blumhouse’s The Invisible Man and The Hunt, and Focus Features’ Emma…

Sunday AM final w/chart: Another 25 theaters closed overnight, raising the number to around 109, with some big circuits shuttering in New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Boston, and Seattle. The fear among distribution is that number will only grow into the week. Some of these closures are due to city ordinances…

If predicting box office openings wasn’t worse enough for the industry, the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. has studios and exhibition at the edge of their seats as concerns swell about how bad the impact might be. This weekend’s wide entries — Sony’s Vin Diesel movie Bloodshot,  Lionsgate-Kingdom Story’s faith-based…

President Donald Trump condemned it sight unseen and Universal canceled its September release due to mass shootings in the news and perhaps some political heat. But thankfully the studio now is releasing The Hunt, a movie with origins going all the way back to The Most Dangerous Game in the 1920s (as does another of…

Following a barrage of criticism eight months ago from right-wing commentators and President Donald Trump, who called the movie one that will “inflame and cause chaos,” Universal-Blumhouse’s The Hunt is muscling its way back on to the release calendar with a March 13 date. It’s being billed in a new ad campaign as…

"I hope that we made something original, something surprising, something engaging, something worthy of discourse, something dangerous, something interesting, all the adjectives that I affix to the original Watchmen," declares Damon Lindelof of the HBO series that is set to make its world debut today at New York Comic…

I thought I'd figured out Hollywood's prevailing attitude toward firearms. Oscar winner John Legend seemed to sum it up at an appearance in Dayton this week when he said: "The NRA doesn't represent America," and "we're tired of bigotry and hate turning lethal because of easy access to guns." Then I saw the trailer for…

Updated with statement by Hilary Swank: Universal will not be releasing Blumhouse’s The Hunt on September 27 as planned. Deadline hears that a collective decision was made by Universal leadership, led by Donna Langley, with The Hunt filmmaking team. For this particular film, it’s better to…

Donald Trump is on the warpath against "racist" and "dangerous" Hollywood again today, but Tinseltown thinks this is just the latest straw dog in the incumbent's re-election efforts to ignite his base on the back of an upcoming thriller flick. "Pardon my French, but this guy is all bullshit all the time," a top…

Universal is putting the brakes on the marketing for their Blumhouse release The Hunt in the wake of recent mass shootings which have taken the lives of 34 people in El Paso, Texas; Dayton, Ohio; and Gilroy, California. "Out of sensitivity to the attention on the country's recent shooting tragedies, Universal Pictures…