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Box Office: ‘Garfield’ Wins Sluggish Weekend With $14M as ‘Furiosa’ Runs Out of Gas

'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga' also got beat by 'IF.' And with no new Hollywood event pics, weekend revenue is down 69 percent from last year, when 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' opened to $120.5 million.

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Mitchell Block, Oscar-Nominated Documentarian, Dies at 73

Mitchell Block, the executive and Oscar-nominated documentarian who was behind such powerful films as Poster Girl, Big Mama and The Testimony, has died. He was 73. Block died Thursday night of natural causes at his home in Eugene, Oregon, his daughter, Anja Block, told The Hollywood Reporter. Block was a consultant for Sheila Nevins at […]

Martin Starger, ‘Nashville’ and ‘Mask’ Producer, Dies at 92

Martin Starger, who shepherded Roots, Happy Days and Rich Man, Poor Man as the first president of ABC Entertainment before producing such films as Robert Altman’s Nashville and Peter Bogdanovich’s Mask, has died. He was 92. Starger died Friday at his home in Los Angeles, his niece, New York-based casting director Ilene Starger, announced. “He […]

Paul Walter Hauser Admits Past ‘Fantastic Four’ Missteps Weighed on Him Before Joining New Movie

It was not lost on Paul Walter Hauser that previous film representations of the Fantastic Four did not exactly set the world on fire. During a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, the in-demand actor reveals that those poorly received movie adaptations of Marvel’s superhero team made him give some extra thought before joining director Matt […]

Kristen Bell on Why She Initially Didn’t Want Her Daughters to Become Actors

Kristen Bell may have dozens of acting credits under her belt but that doesn’t mean she was initially fond of the idea of her children following in her footsteps. The Veronica Mars alum recently spoke to People magazine at the opening night of Reefer Madness: The Musical at The Whitley in Los Angeles about her daughters — […]

Doc Nonprofit Video Consortium to Bring Video Journalism to Local Newsrooms

As the nonfiction space continues to weather larger difficulties in the entertainment and journalism industries, a global nonprofit focused on helping documentarians connect is expanding its reach with some help from the Knight Foundation. With an investment from Knight Foundation, Video Consortium will partner with local newsrooms to help build out and strengthen their video […]

‘BlackBerry,’ ‘Little Bird’ Dominate Canadian Screen Awards

Matt Johnson’s BlackBerry satirical comedy earned the best movie honor at the Canadian Screen Awards on Friday, which also tapped the Canadian Indigenous TV series Little Bird as the best TV drama. In earlier prize-giving this week, BlackBerry picked up hardware for best adapted screenplay, cinematography and a best supporting comedy performance trophy for Glenn Howerton. The fact-based […]

‘Captain America: Brave New World’ Reshoots Underway With New Pages, New Mystery Character

Sam Wilson is back in action this week in Atlanta, where Captain America: Brave New World began a round of additional photography, with a new actor now in the cast. Giancarlo Esposito, who for a few weeks had hinted at his involvement in a Marvel Studios project, is officially on the call sheet in an […]

‘Gladiator’ Scribe John Logan Pens Fan Letter to His “Horror Hero” Martine Beswicke

A playwright-turned-screenwriter, John Logan made a name for himself — and earned three Oscar nominations — working with some of the biggest names in the business, in genres ranging period dramas, sword-and-sandal epics and spy thrillers. His credits include Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator, Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd, Oliver Stone’s Any Given Sunday, Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, […]

Xochitl Gomez Starring in Horror Short ‘Hive’ (Exclusive)

Xochitl Gomez, best known for playing Marvel heroine America Chavez in the studio’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, is shooting Hive, a horror short from rising Colombian-American filmmaker Felipe Vargas. Written and directed by Vargas, Hive stars Gomez as a teenage babysitter who loses the young girl she’s taking care of at an […]

‘Young Woman and the Sea’ Director Joachim Rønning on the Film’s Theatrical Upgrade: “Jerry Bruckheimer Is Relentless”

Young Woman and the Sea allowed Norwegian director Joachim Rønning to return to his roots in more ways than one.  As he was helming Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) for Disney, Rønning was in development on a biopic about Olympic swimmer Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle, […]

‘Riders of Justice’ Remake From ‘Peanut Butter Falcon’ Filmmakers in The Works

Peanut Butter Falcon filmmakers Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson have been tapped to adapt and direct the remake of Riders of Justice for Lionsgate.  Schwartz and Nilson also directed the feature Los Frikis, which earned the top jury prize at the Miami Film Festival. Their previous film, The Peanut Butter Falcon, a modern day take on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn […]

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence Aren’t Ready to Pass ‘Bad Boys’ Torch: “The Back Ain’t Went Out Quite Yet”

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence showed up to the Bad Boys: Ride or Die premiere in Hollywood on Thursday ready to put on a show. Arriving on top of a double-decker bus, Smith quickly took on the role of hype man, yelling into a microphone, “When I say, ‘bad,’ you say ‘boys'” to the crowd […]