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James Gunn‘s Superman has taken flight at the box office. The highly anticipated superhero tentpole, from DC Studios and Warner Bros., is on course to top Friday’s domestic box office chart with $55 million, including a record $22.5 million in Thursday previews and sneak Imax screening earlier in the week, according to early returns. Superman’s opening has been the subject of intense scrutiny. Heading into the weekend, Warners and DC remained conservative in suggesting $100 million-plus, while Hollywood’s leading tracking service predicted the pic would open to $130 million. It appears DC and Warners were right to manage expectations. Despite the…

Guy Ritchie has exited as the director for Amazon MGM Studios‘ sequel movie Road House 2. Jake Gyllenhaal is set to return after starring in Amazon’s 2024 remake feature Road House that Doug Liman directed. In last year’s remake, Gyllenhaal plays Dalton, a former UFC fighter who takes a job as a bouncer at a roadside bar in the Florida Keys. Screenwriter Will Beall, whose recent credits include Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F and Bad Boys: Ride or Die, is penning the script for Road House 2. Producers include Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven and Alex Gartner, along with Gyllenhaal and Josh…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. The latest Wes Anderson film The Phoenician Scheme stars Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera and others. And though the movie is still in select theaters nationwide, you can now watch it at home. Before it streams on Peacock, The Phoenician Scheme is available to buy or rent online on digital in 4K Ultra HD starting at $19.99 at Prime Video, Apple TV and elsewhere. At a Glance: How to Watch The Phoenician Scheme Online Below, watch…

Film directors, like the characters they depict on screen, can sometimes learn from their mistakes. This is certainly the case with French DP turned filmmaker Laurent Slama, whose new feature A Second Life vastly improves on his Netflix debut Paris Is Us, which he made under the pseudonym Elisabeth Vogler. Both movies showcase similar styles and premises, following a young woman around Paris and employing tons of real people and locations, clearly without full authorization from the city. A Second Life The Bottom Line Paris Belongs to Her. Venue: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Special Screenings)Cast: Agathe Rousselle, Alex Lawther,…

Navigating a familiar subject with delicacy and an eye for emotional detail, Czech writer-director Ondrej Provaznik delivers a subtly powerful adolescent drama with his latest feature, Broken Voices (Sbormistr). Inspired by the true story of the Bambini di Praga (Children of Prague), a renowned Czech youth chorus whose director was convicted in 2008 of sexually abusing dozens of teenage girls, the film follows a rather foreseeable path but does so with plenty of honesty and heart. After premiering in competition at Karlovy Vary, it could echo across more festivals as well as arthouse distributors throughout Europe. Broken Voices The Bottom…

Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades of Grey, Black Mess, Suspiria) got feted at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) on Saturday as the audience for one of her latest movies showered the Hollywood star with enthusiastic applause and love, and she received one of the Czech fest’s honors. On a summer-y and warm evening of day three of the 59th edition of the festival in the spa town, its streets were full of activity, with people rushing to and from movie screenings, grooving along to concerts, and eating and drinking in outdoor restaurants and bars. Meanwhile, inside a cinema in the Grandhotel Pupp, which James…

Julian McMahon‘s former co-stars and more of Hollywood are mourning his loss. The Australian actor died on Wednesday in Clearwater, Florida, following a battle with cancer, The Hollywood confirmed. He was 56. McMahon was known for portraying villain Doctor Doom in 2005’s Fantastic Four and the 2007’s sequel, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. He also played Christian Troy in Ryan Murphy’s Nip/Tuck and Cole Turner in Charmed. His more recent credits were in The Residence and The Surfer. Ioan Gruffudd, who played Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic in the superhero films posted a tribute on Instagram: “Even though we played each…

What is the Hollywood Foreign Press Association without the Golden Globes? We may soon find out. For 80 years, dozens of Los Angeles-based print and photo journalists for non-American publications comprised and ran the HFPA, a nonprofit best known for its annual awards ceremony. But in 2023, the HFPA — having faced widespread criticism for its ethics, financial practices and lack of diversity since a 2021 Los Angeles Times exposé, which resulted in the loss of the TV broadcasting deal that provided the organization with most of its revenue — sold the Globes to Dick Clark Productions (which shares a parent…

F1: The Movie may have just released, but it seems like it won’t be the last time Brad Pitt stars in a sports movie. Pitt was a guest on a Wednesday episode of the New Heights podcast, hosted by Kansas City Chiefs’ tight end Travis Kelce and former Philadelphia Eagles’ center Jason Kelce. During their conversation, Jason asked the Oscar winner if he wants to do another sports film after watching his “very cinematic” film, F1. The actor responded, “I love a sports movie when they work … It’s the greatest. I look back at Gene Hackman and Hoosiers and…

The biggest pleasure in Maa (Mother) is watching Kajol kick ass. While the actor has spent over three decades playing everything from the girl every boy wanted to take home to mother (as Simran in Diwale Dulhania Le Jayenge) to a straight-up unhinged villain (as Isha in Gupt), we’ve rarely seen her in action mode. Maa The Bottom Line More interesting in theory than in execution. Cast: Kajol, Ronit Roy, Indraneil SenguptaDirector: Vishal FuriaScreenwriter: Saiwyn Quadras 2 hours 15 minutes Here, she becomes the savior mom — think Liam Neeson in Taken, except that since Maa is billed as mythological…