Japanese anime master Hayao Miyazaki is revered in China as much as he is anywhere. The 83-year-old filmmaker’s Oscar-winning swan song The Boy and the Heron opened last Wednesday in China to take advantage of the country’s Qingming public holiday and by Sunday it had earned $73 million — more than its totals in both
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There was very little doubt what movie would win the box office this weekend. After all, last weekend’s Sunday report was all about how the latest MonsterVerse title managed to have the second best opening of 2024 thus far. Instead of wondering which title would land the #1 spot, the big questions instead have been
Woody Allen isn’t exactly sure what he wants to do next in the movie industry, as he feels “all the romance of filmmaking is gone.” In an interview with AirMail, published online Saturday, the director was asked about his latest film Coup de Chance, his 50th feature, and the delay it faced for release in
The list of upcoming video game movies just got a little bit longer and stranger, as The Sims, the popular life simulator where players essentially create a family and build a house around them, is getting a film adaptation. The sandbox game, which doesn’t have many set goals or storylines, could very well lead to
David Barrington Holt, who established and ran the first Creature Shop on the West Coast for The Jim Henson Company during his two-plus decades with the firm, has died. He was 78. Holt died March 13 of complications from cancer at his home in Los Angeles, his son, Chris Holt, announced. Holt started out with
Dev Patel’s film debut in one of the 2000s’ best movies, Slumdog Millionaire, was considered a Cinderella story in almost going straight to DVD, only to become a theatrically-released Best Picture winner. The British actor’s directorial debut almost tells the same story, as it was originally going to be a Netflix new release until Jordan
One year after Universal Pictures debuted the first look at footage from his upcoming two-part musical Wicked at CinemaCon, Jon M. Chu is heading back to Las Vegas for the National Association of Theater Owners’ official convention. Chu will be the guest of honor at an annual filmmaker luncheon during which he will receive a
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have been battling each other in court for years. While the two are legally no longer married, their divorce has never been finalized as issues regarding custody of their children were a major sticking point for years. Now the major focus is on the ownership of a French winery Miraval
Japanese anime master Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning swan song The Boy and the Heron has taken flight at China’s box office in a major way. The enigmatic Studio Ghibli hit opened in China on Wednesday and soared to $13.7 million (RMB 99.1 million), nudging aside Warner Bros and Legendary Entertainment’s prior box-office champ Godzilla x Kong:
In the past decade, there have been satanic movies a plenty. From The Conjuring franchise to an Exorcist reboot, we’ve been lucky enough to witness demons and the devil on screen in many forms (whether they’ve been hits or not). Now things are about to get even scarier and darker with the arrival of a
Here’s a free tip to any nuns out there, or any young women thinking of becoming one: Whatever you do, don’t go to Italy, especially Rome. It’s not going to end well. Especially if you wind up pregnant. Arriving swiftly on the heels of Sydney Sweeney’s bloody twist on virgin birth in Immaculate comes The
I can’t believe I’m actually about to type the following sentence, but here it goes. Director Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy has officially celebrated its 20th anniversary. It feels like only yesterday that the world fell in love with Ron Perlman’s incarnation of Mike Mignola’s legendary Dark Horse Comics character. But with my memories of two
Oh dear. The Poohniverse is expanding. Umbrella Entertainment has released the first teaser for the next installment of their B-movie horror franchise centered on horrifying versions of beloved children’s characters. In the teaser for Bambi: The Reckoning, two hunters are seen practicing shooting in the woods with a dead bird tied to a tree. “You
While comic book movies are everywhere, a few stand out as wholly unique from the rest of the genre. Todd Phillips‘ Joker (which is streaming with a Max subscription) was definitely in that category, as it wasn’t set within a shared universe and offered a new spin on the title character’s backstory. The movie was
It’s probably an overstatement to call writer-director Ryan Martin Brown’s feature debut, Free Time, a “generation-defining movie.” Shot in 10 days with a cast of relative unknowns, the micro-budget comedy has more or less passed under the radar, premiering at a bunch of midlevel festivals and receiving a limited release in select U.S. cities. (It’s
Warning: SPOILERS for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire are ahead! With the exception of Rebecca Hall’s Dr. Ilene Andrews, Kaylee Hottle’s Jia and Brian Tyree Henry’s Bernie Hayes, every human cast member in the Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire cast is comprised of new people, although only one character has as prominent a
CBS and the Golden Globes have set Jan. 5 as the date for the 82nd annual ceremony. The show will air live coast to coast from 8-11 p.m. ET/5-8 p.m. PT on CBS and stream on Paramount+ in the U.S. (live and on-demand for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers, or on-demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the
Jack Black is known for many terrific contributions to pop culture – from his unforgettable comedic performances to his excellent musicianship as part of Tenacious D – but one special area of focus for him in recent years (whether purposeful or not) has been in the realm of video game movies. He’s played Professor Sheldon
Zoe Saldaña doesn’t think Marvel‘s Guardians of the Galaxy franchise is gone for good. The actress said this week it would be a “huge loss” for the MCU to say goodbye to its ragtag group of intergalactic heroes. “I would think it would be a huge loss for Marvel if they didn’t find a way
While the ongoing divorce battle between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is mostly centered around the ownership of a winery in France, there has been another element of contention that has caused the divorce to drag on for years: the custody of the couple’s children. But in a couple of months, there will be one
Tim McGovern, a visual effects veteran who earned an Oscar for his work on 1990’s Total Recall, died Saturday. He was 68. His wife, Reena NeGandhi, posted the news on Facebook. “Today is the saddest day of my life,” she wrote. “My Husband Tim McGovern, an Oscar winner for the VFX in 1990’s for Total Recall
The energy in Manhattan was electric when Sony rolled out the red carpet for the world premiere of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the newest installment in the series. The major moment which was celebrated with a grand event that took place at the AMC Lincoln Square, where stars from the iconic 1984 movie and its latest
Enemies-turned-frenemies proved just what the Easter weekend box office needed. Warner Bros. and Legendary’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire opened a monstrous $80 million at the domestic box office, well ahead of an expected $45 million to $55 million. The tentpole scored the second-best opening in the MonsterVerse Universe, no small feat for a
Zach Galifianakis‘ Alan Garner in The Hanger is easily one of the funniest characters of the 21st Century, and probably in all of cinema history. In a movie that is full of hilarious moments, no one comes close to matching the number of amazing lines that Alan has. So far, there have been three movies
Amazon originals like Música, Fallout and THEM: The Scare are just some of the titles hitting Prime Video in April. Features like Pet Sematary: Bloodlines, The Exorcist: Believer, The Holdovers, Age of Adaline, Chaplin, Neighbors, Saturday Night Fever, Rosemary’s Baby, The Big Short, The House Bunny, The Notebook and more will also be coming to
Get ready for chaos! Sonic The Hedgehog 3 has been in production since the latter part of last year, and now the cast and crew can celebrate the sequel racing to the finish line. Director Jeff Fowler just announced that filming has wrapped on the third Sonic live-action/CGI hybrid movie, and he teased the arrival
Screenwriter Tony Spiridakis wasn’t familiar with the Museum of the Moving Image’s Marvels of Media Festival — which celebrates the work of mediamakers with autism — before penning his star-studded film Ezra, about parenting a child on the spectrum. But he quickly became a supporter after MoM founder and former AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan
The Harry Potter cast almost always seems up for revisiting the famed past of the Wizarding World’s cinematic adaptations. And if you’re lucky enough, you just might be able to spot such moments in the wild, thanks to actors being present at fan cons all over the world. The latest instance of this phenomenon is
Recently, Christopher Nolan made an interesting admission: The most famous line from his fan-favorite Batman film, 2008’s The Dark Knight, wasn’t his creation and was a line that he initially didn’t quite get. Nolan said his brother, frequent collaborator and co-writer Jonathan came up with the prophetic line, “You either die a hero, or you
Amidst The Omen getting a prequel and more entries from A Quiet Place and Alien franchises among upcoming horror movies coming out soon, another spooky franchise is set to make a comeback: Final Destination. The movie that has been development at New Line Cinema since 2019 is reportedly currently in production in Vancouver, Canada, and