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Claiming Justin Baldoni has nothing but “clickbait” falsehoods and “hurt feelings” on him, Ryan Reynolds wants out of the It Ends With Us star’s $400 million defamation and extortion against the Deadpool leading man, Blake Lively, the New York Times and Vision PR’s Leslie Sloane. “The entirety of Plaintiffs’ defamation claim appears to be based on two times that Mr. Reynolds allegedly called Mr. Baldoni a ‘predator,’” a memorandum of law filed today in federal court by Reynolds’ attorneys declares of an amended complaint by Baldoni and others earlier this year “But, the FAC alleges no plausible facts that suggest…

EXCLUSIVE: After winning practically every single award out there for his turn in The Penguin, Colin Farrell is looking to get back in business with DC: and that’s to star in the title role of Luca Guadagnino‘s Sgt. Rock. Note, this is a different part of the DC-verse, with The Penguin attached to Matt Reeves’ The Batman sphere, whereas Sgt. Rock is part of DC bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran’s oversee. The two worlds shall never overlap. Scheduling for the film, which Farrell wants to do, we hear, has to be balanced with his busy fall that includes the…

Refresh for latest…: A generally quiet weekend at the international box office, amid holdover play for the major studio titles and the start of staggered release for newer entries, nevertheless included another milestone for Chinese phenomenon Ne Zha 2 which has moved up to become the 5th highest-grossing movie ever worldwide. The Ne Zha 2 total in China through Sunday, according to Maoyan, is a little over RMB 14.86B ($2.054B using today’s exchange rate). Adding grosses in excess of $31M from markets outside China, and the global total rises to more than $2.085B. That places the animated sequel just above…

Bill Maher returned to the topic of the Best Picture Oscar winner Anora on Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher. Last week, Maher posited that Sean Baker‘s indie hit winning the big prize on Oscar night was helped by the Karla Sofía Gascón controversies that tainted her leading Oscar nominee Emilia Pérez. This week on his HBO show, Maher held up Anora in a “New Rules” segment about “whores having a moment,” questioning when the term “sex worker community” became the norm, playing clips of both Mikey Madison and Baker thanking the group during their Oscar acceptance speeches. Comparing the…

One of the unexpected pleasures of this year’s vast SXSW slate of movies is Bunny, a kind of zany comic throwback to extreme indie NYC-centric movies that find a manic energy and rhythm that lets them exist on their own breathless cloud with a cast full of wacky characters moving in and out of frame in action that takes place almost entirely in an East Village tenement, or outside just in front of it. In some ways Bunny is an oddball cross of Weekend At Bernies, Abbott & Costello, Cheech & Chong, and a new age Marx Brothers movie, plus…

EXCLUSIVE: Kelsey Asbille (Yellowstone), Nicholas Alexander Chavez (Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story), Ben Platt (Theater Camp), Emma Roberts (The Blackcoat’s Daughter), Laura Harrier (BlacKkKlansman) and Noomie Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) will star in psychological thriller The Technique. The film is the feature directorial debut of Brian McGreevy, who wrote an original script. Plot details are being kept under wraps. Miles Skinner of Hypothesis and Andrea Bucko of Raised By Wolves are producing alongside Jordan Drake, David Duque-Estrada, Chadd Harbold, and Russ Posternak. Zak Williams of Hypothesis, Jordan Claire Robbins, and Nini Le Huynh of Raised…

Magnolia Pictures has released the trailer for One to One: John & Yoko, the documentary from Oscar winner Kevin Macdonald that has been on the festival circuit since bowing at last year’s Venice Film Festival. It is set to premiere exclusively on Imax screens April 11 before a wide release the next week. The feature-length documentary is shot through with archival footage including previously unseen home movies and clips from the famed August 1972 “One to One” benefit concert at Madison Square Garden, featuring John Lennon backed by guest musicians and collaborators alongside his and Yoko Ono’s Plastic Ono Band…

MAGIC HOURSection: Narrative Spotlight Director: Katie AseltonScreenwriter: Katie Aselton, Mark DuplassLogline: Erin and Charlie escape to the desert to navigate an unexpected and challenging new phase of their relationship.Panelists: Katie Aselton, Daveed DiggsSales Agent: CAAPremiered: March 7, 2025Key Quote: “When Mark and I were hatching this idea, we were sort of talking about the idea of what would happen if we lost each other. And I was like, ‘Well, I’m still gonna be there, and we’re still gonna make fart jokes.’ I feel like you would continue laughing with someone even after they’re gone, and the idea that a part of…

Title: LifeHack Festival (section): Narrative Spotlight Director: Ronan Corrigan Logline: LifeHack is a gripping cyberheist thriller following four teenage slackers as they plot to steal £24M from a tech billionaire’s crypto wallet. Armed with hacking skills, social engineering tactics, and cryptocurrency expertise, they attempt the heist of the century from their bedrooms. The film is packed with tension, suspense, and unexpected twists as they face countless obstacles to execute their daring plan. However, the aftermath proves just as dramatic, exploring the impact of their actions. Beyond the thrilling heist, LifeHack offers a raw and compelling look into the lives of teenagers in today’s tech-driven…

Refresh for latest…: After beginning offshore release last frame in Korea, director Bong Joon-ho’s home market, Warner Bros expanded Mickey 17 to a further 66 international box office hubs this session. The new overseas plays, along with the sophomore Korea frame, came in at $24.5M which is in line with pre-weekend projections, and lifts the international cume to an estimated $34.2M through today. Combined with domestic, the global weekend is $43.6M for a running worldwide total of $53.3M. The original sci-fi feature is an expensive swing (see Anthony’s deep dive on that here). It gave Parasite Oscar winner Bong his…