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Ron Howard, Joe Russo, John Carpenter and More Pay Tribute to Roger Corman: “Profound Loss to Cinema”
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Cannes Workers Turn Pre-Fest Meet into Strike Rally
Festival workers cheered on the Sous les écrans la dèche collective, which has called for strike action ahead of this year's festival.
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Box Office: ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ Shows Heat With $56.5M U.S. Opening, $129M Globally
The second event pic of summer 2024 came in ahead of expectations — along with scoring the second-best domestic debut of the series — as 'The Fall Guy' continued to struggle.
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Susan Backlinie, the First Victim of the Shark in ‘Jaws,’ Dies at 77
Steven Spielberg said he needed a stuntperson and expert swimmer who "knew how to endure what I imagined was going to be a whole lot of violent shaking."
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Roger Corman, Giant of Independent Filmmaking, Dies at 98
Roger Corman, the fabled “King of the B’s” producer and director who churned out low-budget genre films with breakneck speed and provided career boosts to young, untested talents like Jack Nicholson, Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Demme, Gale Anne Hurd and James Cameron, has died. He was 98. The filmmaker, […]
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John Krasinski on Getting Bradley Cooper, George Clooney, Ryan Reynolds to Join ‘IF’: “Most Yeses of My Career”
Perhaps one of the most impressive aspects of John Krasinski’s upcoming film, IF, is the all-star voice cast he lined up for it. The multihyphenate stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Friday to discuss the project, and the late night host couldn’t help but ask about how the writer-director managed to get […]
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‘The Mummy’ at 25: Director on the Enduring Hit, Brendan Fraser’s Mishap and the Tom Cruise Reboot
The Mummy director is unwrapping his memories of the popular action film that starred Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz as it hits its 25th anniversary. Universal Pictures released the movie May 7, 1999, and it collected $409 million at the global box office ($767 million today) and spawned two sequels, along with the 2002 Dwayne […]
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‘Star Wars’: Sigourney Weaver in Talks to Join ‘The Mandalorian & Grogu’
Sci-fi legend Sigourney Weaver has gone up against face-hugging aliens and squared off against colonizers on lush green planets, but she has never faced stormtroopers and galactic bounty hunters. Until now. Weaver is in talks to join the cast of The Mandalorian & Grogu, the first Star Wars movie to go into production since 2019’s Star […]
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’28 Years Later’ Set for 2025 Release Date from Sony
The third installment of Danny Boyle’s 28 franchise is coming. 28 Years Later will release in summer 2025, Sony Pictures announced Friday. The film, directed by Boyle with a script by Alex Garland, will be a follow-up to 2002’s 28 Days Later and 2007’s 28 Weeks Later. When news of the film first made headlines […]
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‘The Fall Guy’ Writer Drew Pearce Talks That A-List Cameo and the ‘Mission: Impossible’ Death He Considered
[This story contains spoilers for The Fall Guy.] After the many industry-wide challenges of the last four years, The Fall Guy screenwriter Drew Pearce just wanted to make a feel-good Friday night movie, and based on various metrics, the consensus among critics and audiences is that he and the rest of his collaborators succeeded. In […]
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‘Godzilla x Kong’ Follow-Up Enlists ‘Shang Chi’ Scribe Dave Callaham to Write (Exclusive)
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings screenwriter Dave Callaham is going from the Marvelverse to the Monsterverse. The scribe, known for his action acumen, has been tapped to pen the next installment of Legendary’s Godzilla/Kong monster movie series. The hiring comes in the wake of the box office success of Godzilla x Kong: […]
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Jerry Seinfeld Wanted Chris Rock to Parody Will Smith Oscars Slap in ‘Unfrosted’
Jerry Seinfeld wanted Chris Rock to parody Will Smith slapping him at the 2022 Oscars for his Netflix movie Unfrosted. While appearing on Dana Carvey and David Spade’s podcast Fly on the Wall this week, Seinfeld said he initially wanted to cast Rock in the role as the host of the Bowl & Spoon Awards, […]
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Jeff Bridges, Dave Bautista to Star in Live-Action Monster Movie ‘Grendel’ from Jim Henson Company
Jeff Bridges is set to star as classic monster Grendel in a new live-action movie from the storied Jim Henson Company and director Robert D. Krzykowsk. Palisades Park Pictures is set to launch sales at Cannes for Grendel, which is billed as the “tale of the legendary monster at the heart of the Beowulf epic […]
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Kevin Daniels on What Tyler Perry Might Think of ‘Not Another Church Movie:’ “I Hope He Gets the Joke”
When Kevin Daniels got a call from his agent’s mom that she’d pitched him for the lead role in a film she was producing, it didn’t take much for him to say “yes.” “We had a zoom meeting and we kind of laughed and told some jokes and they were like, ‘Hey, you want to […]
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How ‘Putin’ Will Test Audience Appetite for AI
Putin, a new political biopic being shopped to international distributors at next week’s Cannes film market, could test the waters for how much AI the film industry, and the audience, is prepared to accept. The drama from Polish director Besaleel, also known as Patryk Vega, recreates Russian leader Vladimir Putin using artificial intelligence that was […]
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Joel Edgerton on Failing ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Audition: “The World Is a Much Better Place”
The Guardians of the Galaxy could’ve looked a little different. In an upcoming episode of The Playlist’s Bingeworthy podcast, Joel Edgerton revealed that he auditioned for the role of Star-Lord, which eventually went to Chris Pratt, in James Gunn’s Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise. “I, unlike Chris, didn’t quite sort of understand the tone of it […]
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