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Seven months after landing the coveted top jobs at Warner Bros Motion Picture studios, co-chairpersons Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy were bestowed with the PGA Milestone award Saturday night. The pair paid respect for their mega industry mentors; remembered emotionally their cinematic New York City and…

EXCLUSIVE: The obvious question in David Zaslav’s reveal today that Warner Bros/New Line intend to to head back into Middle-earth with rights owner Embracer and expand the Lord of the Rings franchise is this: What do the Kiwi creatives who architected the Oscar-winning, billion-dollar-grossing franchise…

New Line Cinema and Warner Bros Pictures have hammered out a new multi-year agreement with Embracer Group AB’s Middle-Earth Enterprises to team on new The Lord of the Rings movies. Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav dropped the news Thursday during the company’s call to discuss its Q4 2022 earnings res…

Warner Bros/New Line/DC’s sequel Shazam! Fury of the Gods hit early tracking Thursday and surprised many with a low projection of $35 million, which is under the first installment’s $53.5M opening in 2019. Related Story ‘Shazam! Fury Of The Gods’: Zachary Levi Debuts New Trailer At Comic…

In taking on the story of Elvis via the Warner Bros drama of the same name, filmmaker Baz Luhrmann and DP Mandy Walker looked to “perfectly reproduce already existing imagery” of the King of Rock and Roll, for what Walker terms “trainspotting” sequences. Their uncannily precise recreations of Elvis…

When cinematographer Mandy Walker boarded Elvis, one of her principal goals was to make the camera "dance with" the King of Rock and Roll, as played by Austin Butler.  This vision on the part of the DP and filmmaker Baz Luhrmann dictated that the camera would often be right up in the actor's face, as…

It's BAFTA weekend here in London, and that means it's time for our annual rundown of the festivities in store for nominees, execs and other well-heeled invitees. Notably in 2023, there's a new venue for the Film Awards ceremony and dinner, while the roster of pre-awards events includes a new host. All…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros Pictures Group has inked a multi-year first-look directing and producing agreement with two-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, whose movies have grossed $3.3 billion at the box office. In a career spanning four decades, Shyamalan has the rare distinction of…

Director Todd Phillips unveiled the first look at Lady Gaga in character for the film Joker: Folie à deux. “Happy Valentines Day,” Phillips captioned the image on Instagram. In the photo, Gaga is pictured in a scene with Joaquin Phoenix’s the Joker. Gaga is reportedly playing Harley Quinn in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Britain’s biggest film studios are preparing for crunch talks with a government agency amid fears that a so-called “studio tax” could “torpedo” the UK’s booming production industry. Pinewood is among an informal task force of UK studios that has been working with the British Film…

Warner Bros/DC’s newest superhero movie The Flash starring Ezra Miller got a trailer Sunday during coverage of the Super Bowl. The long-in-the-works film hits theaters June 16. Miller reprises their role in the DC Universe as Barry Allen/The Flash, after originating it in Justice League. They have…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros Pictures VP Production Peter Dodd is joining Netflix as a Director on the film team. He'll be part of VP Niija Kuykendall's group focused on midsize features. Since joining WB in June 2018, Dodd assembled a diverse slate of features to be released theatrically and on HBO…