UPDATE, WRITETHRU: Sony's Men In Black: International performed in line with pre-weekend industry projections, landing $73.7M at the international box office. Added to domestic's fizzle, the global launch crossed the century mark with $102.2M. Offshore tracking is on par with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and 19%…
Chernobyl actor Alex Ferns claims his uncle contracted cancer from rain tainted by the nuclear disaster that’s depicted in the HBO show.
In an interview with the Daily Record, Ferns claimed his uncle, Robert Stephenson, was working for the Scottish Water Board in the rain in the Killearn area of Scotland shortly after…
Netflix’s first Arabic original series is causing an upset among some Jordanians, with a prosecutor asking the country’s cybercrimes unit to investigate it and take action.
The show, Jinn, is a young adult supernatural drama about magical genies in the ancient city of Petra. They must try and stop Jinn from…
Franco Zeffirelli, the Italian director whose visionary interpretation of Romeo and Juliet was nominated for an Academy Award, has died. He was 96 and passed at his residence in Rome.
Zeffirelli was prolific in film, theater and opera over his long career, and was known for his epic scale in his productions. He staged…
In one corner, we have President Donald Trump, coming into the ring at 6’3 inches. On the opposing side of the squared circle we have ABC news anchor George Stephanopoulos, who measures 5’5 inches in height. Obviously, there’s a bit of a vertical difference.
The President subtly pointing that out during his interview…
Fans of K-drama in Singapore will soon have a new lineup from Netflix's ensemble of Hallyu's best content this summer and fall seasons.
"There's just so much love for Korean content in this region, especially in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Netflix started adding Korean titles three years ago, and we've seen…
EXCLUSIVE:Â Disney's The Lion King is being tipped for a July 12 China release, one full week before the film's domestic debut, multiple sources tell me.
Getting a jump in China is not unprecedented — Universal's Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom did it last June, albeit in step with other offshore launches. What would be…
The 2020 Cannes Film Festival will take place from Tuesday, May 12 to Saturday, May 23, the festival has confirmed. The dates for the Cannes market will be Tuesday, May 12 to Thursday, May 21.
This keeps the 2020 festival in line with its recent Tuesday-Saturday schedule after previous editions ran Wednesday-Sunday…
The Shanghai International Film Festival has made an abrupt and surprising change to its program, pulling Huayi Brothers’ big-budget Chinese war drama The Eight Hundred from its lineup on the eve of the event’s kick-off. The $80M epic was due to open the proceedings tomorrow and has been expected to be the 800 lb…
New Regency, Film4 and Warp Films are teaming on a feature version of UK stage musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, which will star Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?), Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe), Sarah Lancashire (Happy Valley), and newcomer Max Harwood as the lead. Fox will release worldwide.
Inspired…
EXCLUSIVE: UK distribution outfit Blue Finch Films has boarded UK/Ireland rights to Karen Gillan's (Avengers: Endgame) directorial debut The Party's Just Beginning, which she also wrote and stars in.
Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle and Doctor Who actress Gillan plays Liusaidh, a young woman living in Scotland with her…
Pedro Almodóvar will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at this year’s Venice Film Festival (August 28 – September 7, 2019).
The decision was agreed by the board of the Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, which confirmed the proposal made by the festival director Alberto Barbera.
Accepting the…
