The rightness of the Tom Hanks-as-Mister-Rogers casting seemed a no-brainer from the start, and the first trailer for Sony’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, released today, seems at the very least to confirm those initial reactions.
“Hello, neighbor,” are, appropriately enough, the first words spoken in the first…
This year’s Venice Film Festival will close on September 7 with the world premiere of director Giuseppe Capotondi’s feature The Burnt Orange Heresy, starring Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, Donald Sutherland and Mick Jagger.
The Out Of Competition screening will be held in the Sala Grande after the festival’s awards…
For faux heiressAnna Sorokin, crime may not pay.
The scam artist who became a hot Hollywood commodity after she was profiled in a New York Magazine article, How Anna Delvey Tricked New York’s Party People by Jessica Pressler, signed a lucrative deal with Netflix for her story. An estimated dozen producers were…
UPDATE, writethru: With a mighty roar, Disney's The Lion King was the No. 1 movie in all of its opening markets this weekend, adding $269.4M at the international box office. The adaptation of the classic animation debuted in 51 new hubs, which joined China after its early bow last week. Through 10 days, the Jon…
UPDATED with more numbers and analysis. Specialty newcomers are mostly wilting in the heat this weekend. Meanwhile, though, second-week holdover The Farewell from A24 packed a wallop with an expansion and Bleecker Street's The Art of Self-Defense jumped to well-over five hundred runs for a seven-figure, three-day…
SAG-AFTRA said Sunday it will codify and implement guidelines for on-set intimacy coordinators, addressing a workplace issue that has become increasingly conspicuous in the #MeToo era.
"The guidelines will seek to establish new, relevant policies for nudity and simulated sex; define the duties and standards for…
Pop Oscars. Off-screen awards. A host-free ceremony. What will they think of next at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences?
In truth, it's hard to know, because the Academy has been fairly successful in dropping a veil of secrecy over its internal deliberations. The next agenda, who backs whom, and who…
WRITETHRUÂ after 5:27PM post: If you’re a major motion picture studio that skipped Comic-Con this year, that might have been a good idea.
After skipping San Diego Comic-Con last year, and in the wake of wrapping up what is billed as “The Infinity Saga” across 23 movies, the Marvel Cinematic Universe returned in raging…
This fall Netflix will begin streaming Sound & Fury, an anime film based on a story by Grammy-winning country artist Sturgill Simpson, the singer-songwriter announced tonight during a Comic-Con panel.
The movie is produced by Simpson and set entirely to music from his forthcoming album, also called Sound & Fury. The…
Marvel's standalone Black Widow took Hall H by storm with director Cate Shortland as well as star Scarlett Johansson and cast members Rachel Weisz, David Harbour, Florence Pugh and O.T. Fagbenie.
The movie will have Scarlett Johansson reprising her role as assassin-turned-Avenger Natasha Romanoff, who, as we all know…
The cherry on top of the MarvelComic-Con session Saturday was news that two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali is set to play Blade in a reboot from Kevin Feige’s MCU. No other details were revealed.
The original from New Line Cinema starred Wesley Snipes. It was an R-rated film, so it will be interesting to see if…
