Who says people don’t go to the movies? That stale cynicism coming out of the pandemic is about to get squashed this weekend as Illumination/Universal’s The Super Mario Bros Movie is about to run up a serious box office score. With a Wednesday opening before Easter around the world, inclusive …

Today it was announced that Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, and Richard Madden are set to star in Killer Heat, from Amazon Studios. Philippe Lacôte is directing the film, which is based on Jo Nesbø’s short story The Jealousy Man, from a script penned by Roberto Bentivegna (House of Gucci), with revisions by Oscar and BAFTA-nominated screenwriter …

Saturday AM: Though Friday was $15.3M, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is still looking at a $40M opening. This movie is coming in at the high-end of tracking, and that is to be commended for the Paramount/eOne $150M production. Hasbro controlled the IP, brought Paramount the movie, and agreed …

EXCLUSIVE: Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, Hollywood swore off the booming and lucrative box office territory, with the first studios, Disney and Warner Bros, respectively pulling their big movies out of the country, Turning Red and The Batman. However, this past weekend, Lionsgate’s John Wick: …

The following interview contains spoilers from tonight’s season four premiere episode of HBO’s Succession, “The Munsters” It’s been roughly two months since Logan Roy’s son-in-law, Tom Wambsgan (Matthew Macfadyen) snitched on his wife, Shiv Roy (Sarah Snook), and her brothers Kendell (Jeremy Strong) and Roman (Kieran Culkin), that the trio …

Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Chair Joe Drake had much to celebrate this morning. The studio reaped a record global and domestic box office debut for the John Wick franchise, with John Wick: Chapter 4 making $137.5M WW and $73.5M. The fourthquel was the best-received John Wick of all-time with audiences …

No, there won’t be any finger-pointing at the box office this weekend over a franchise film failing to open. That’s because Lionsgate/Thunder Road Films/87 Eleven’s John Wick: Chapter 4 looks to not only reinvigorate a tentpole-heavy spring, but also debut to a franchise record of $115 million in worldwide box …

Friday afternoon: We’re hearing that New Line’s Shazam! Fury of the Gods is currently on its way to an $11M Friday, inclusive of last night’s $3.4M, for what’s looking like a $30M opening at 4,071 theaters. The pic cost $125M before P&A, $25M more than the first Shazam! While that’s …

Anybody lacking their Sunday sermon this morning in Austin, TX, utterly heard it in full from the 52nd former Speaker of the Home who made a pitstop right here at SXSW for The Atlantic session “The Future of Global Democracy”. Nancy Pelosi addressed a number of subjects impacting the nation’s …

Oscar-nomination afterglow for this 12 months’s Greatest Image contenders was largely felt extra within the residence than it was on the field workplace, with a majority of titles already out there to be considered on the sofa apart from twentieth Century Studios/Disney’s 3D title Avatar: The Means of Water. Since …

SPOILER ALERT: The next interview comprises particulars about The Mandalorian Season 3 episode 2, “The Mines of Mandalore” EXCLUSIVE: If there was one thing larger on at this time’s episode of The Mandalorian than droid R5-D4 lastly getting the talking half he lastly deserved 46 years after showing in Star …

The ability of a large theatrical launch was realized this weekend by streamer Amazon in its pivot again to the large display with MGM/United Artists Releasing’s Creed III. It simply minted the very best opening ever for the Seattle-based father or mother, in addition to for the Rocky franchise, with …