Author: Deadline

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…

A month after his death at age 67, one of Michael Madsen‘s most prolific collaborators paid tribute to the late actor in Los Angeles. On Friday, Quentin Tarantino hosted a private memorial for Madsen at the filmmaker’s Vista Theatre, where he recounted earning Madsen’s respect on the set of their 1992 film Reservoir Dogs after firing co-star Lawrence Tierney in the first week. “It was the last hour of the last day of the first week of shooting. So, I had never directed a movie before,” Tarantino noted on stage in a video shared by TMZ. “And Lawrence Tierney was…

FRIDAY PM UPDATE: A bit of a calm spell before the Freakier Friday-Weapons double bill happening next weekend, with The Fantastic Four: First Steps eyeing around $12 million today for a $40M-$45M second weekend, which gets it close to $200M+ (or $198M on the low end). On the low side, that’s a 66% decline in the vicinity of Captain America: Brave New World (-68%), but harder than Thunderbolts* (-56%) which indicates the front-loaded rush to Marvel’s first family. The pic is booked at 4,125 theaters. Marvel / © Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection DreamWorks Animation’s The…

Apple’s chief executive had a film to tout on a quarterly call fro the first time in a while, telling Wall Streeters the company was “thrilled to release F1 in theaters around the the world” and calling it “one of the summer’s most unforgettable blockbusters.” F1: The Movie released June 25 with Warner Bros. distributing has grossed over $500 million globally. The Brad Pitt-starring film by Joseph Kosinski capitalized on the growing popularity of the sport in the U.S. has seen Apple reportedly poised to win actual F1 rights away from Disney/ESPN. Cook wasn’t asked and didn’t address that on a…

Jason Momoa is getting ready to get back into character for Dune: Part Three and filmed himself shaving his facial hair. In a new video posted on social media, the Aquaman actor said the last time he had shaved was for the first film. “Only for you, Denis,” Momoa says in the video, giving a shoutout to Dune director Denis Villeneuve. After Momoa shaved off his facial hair, he looked at himself and said, “Goddamnit, I hate it!” Dune was first released in 2021, where Momoa played the role of Duncan Idaho, a swordmaster of House Atreides and a mentor…