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Juli Goodwin has joined Amazon MGM Studios‘ Marketing Team as Head of Awards Campaigns, Strategic Activations, and Talent Management, the studio said Tuesday. The announcement was made by Head of Global Marketing, Film and Series, Sue Kroll, to whom Goodwin will report. Goodwin is “known throughout the industry for her strategic precision and ability to earn the trust of talent, filmmakers, and internal stakeholders alike,” said Kroll in an internal memo (read it in full below). “Juli’s experience, vision, and collaborative leadership will be instrumental as we continue to build ambitious campaigns and activations that reflect the caliber of our…

Alan Tudyk reflected on his career and revealed that there’s a reason why not many people know he played Sonny in the 2004 sci-fi action film I, Robot. During an appearance on Toon’d In with Jimmy Cummings, Tudyk said that with test screening audiences, he tested higher than the film’s star Will Smith. “They were doing test audiences with the movie and they score the characters and I got word back, ‘Alan, you’re testing higher than Will Smith,’” Tudyk recalled on the podcast from June 15. “And then I was gone. I was gone. There was no publicity and my…

SPOILERS: This post contains details about Weapons As Alden Ehrenreich got into uniform for Weapons, he was determined to get this detail about the character just right. The actor, who plays Officer Paul Morgan in the horror movie that opened atop the box office, admitted that he and director Zach Cregger were torn over whether his character should have a mustache. “When we first started talking about the character, we were like, ‘There’s no f—ing way we’re going to do a mustache. We’re not doing a mustache! It’s super trope-y. Every cop in every movie has one. We’re not doing…

Oh, Hi! may be some young couples’ worst nightmare, but star, co-writer and producer Molly Gordon was adamant the project not be a horror film. During a recent appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Gordon explained that as she was attempting to get the Sophie Brooks-helmed project off the ground, those she was pitching to suggested she change the genre and tone of the movie. “It’s interesting. We were discussing that it’s such a dark time [in the industry], but horror’s kind of the only thing that’s working,” she said. “But yeah, people would go, ‘I love the movie,…

A pair of music documentaries and a live concert from Jin of BTS on his first solo tour join indie animation, a searing look at Sudan, a serial killer horror and Kristin Scott Thomas’ directorial debut at the specialty box office as independents spot another window with fewer new studio releases. Roman Polanski’s 2019 historical drama on the Dreyfus Affair opens in New York. The widest this weekend is Roadside Attractions’ horror-thriller Strange Harvest written and directed by Stuart Ortiz on 771 screens. Detectives are thrust into a chilling hunt for “Mr. Shiny,” a sadistic serial killer from the past…

No surprise but David Ellison and team are exploring a sale of National Amusements, the movie theater chain that launched the Redstone family media empire and was run in its heyday, quite successfully, by Shari Redstone. The asset sat alongside the Redstone’s stake in Paramount inside NAI, the family’s holding company. Paramount’s merger with Skydance closed today and the first step was Skydance acquiring NAI from Redstone for $2.4 billion, inheriting the Norwood, Massachusetts-based exhibitor along with the controlling interest in Paramount Global. The future of National Amusements has been a question mark but it’s on the block. New Paramount…

Brian Robbins has made official his departure from the Melrose Lot as co-CEO of Paramount Global and President and CEO of Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon. Robbins joined Paramount in 2017. He became President and CEO of Nickelodeon in October 2018, then was raised to President and CEO of Paramount Pictures in September of 2021 and co-CEO of Paramount Global in April 2024. In the latter role, he was part of a team that launched and scaled Paramount+ During his tenure at Paramount Pictures, Robbins saw 17 No. 1 releases at the box office, and this was coming off Covid when…

So the poster for the new horror film Weapons shows a bunch of kids running down a suburban street with the ad line saying: “Last night at 2:17 am every child from Mrs. Gandy’s class woke up, got out of bed, went downstairs, opened the front door, walked into the dark … and they never came back.” Immediately I start thinking, “Yeah, a Children of the Corn or Children of the Damned kind of riff.” But look closer at the credits and the writer-director is none other than Zach Cregger, whose debut feature film Barbarian was one of the most…

Burning and Secret Sunshine director Lee Chang-dong is returning to directing after eight years. He’ll reunite with Secret Sunshine star Jeon Do-yeon on Possible Love (WT), a feature for Netflix. The film will follows the ntertwined lives of two married couples leading completely opposite lives. As their worlds collide, fractures begin to appear in their daily existence. Jeon, who won the Best Actress award at Cannes in 2007 for Secret Sunshine, will play Mi-ok and Sul Kyung-gu A Normal Family, Idol) is her husband, Ho-seok. The second couple is played by Zo In-sung (Moving, Escape from Mogadishu) as Sang-woo and Cho Yeo-jeong…

Theater owners waited a long while for a robust and reliable release schedule, for a variety of films at the box office to attract more moviegoers and hopefully keep them coming back. Mission accomplished again this weekend where there’s something for everyone from kids fare to comedy to superheroes to Neon’s Together, an original horror, the first feature by Michael Shanks, and the sole independent film in an otherwise big studio-dominated top ten. Together premiered at Sundance and Neon has been riding a wave of strong reviews ever since with a first teaser in February and stream of well received…