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Mortal Kombat II was not yet finished with selecting its ideal release date. Warner Bros. is now set to release director Simon McQuoid’s sequel movie in theaters May 15, 2026, after it was previously slated for release in two months on Oct. 24. The film will now be part of the launch of next year’s summer season and avoids the crowded landscape of this October. Earlier this year, Sony’s Final Destination: Bloodlines found success in a similar May slot. Hailing from New Line and based on the popular video game franchise that dates back to the 1990s, the film stars Karl Urban as Johnny Cage,…

Ridley Scott has revealed that he turned down a $20 million offer to direct Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker recently told The Guardian, “I’m proud about this. I turned down a $20M fee. See, I can’t be bought, dude.” While the 2003 Arnold Schwarzenegger-led pic was ultimately helmed by director Jonathan Mostow, Scott admitted he did inquire about the lead star’s pay for the third installment before officially declining the offer. “Someone said: ‘Ask what Arnie gets.’ I thought: ‘I’ll try it out.’ I said: ‘I want what Arnie gets.’ When they said yes, I thought:…

One of the world’s biggest movie stars is feeling under the weather on the eve of his Venice Film Festival world premiere. The Hollywood Reporter has learned that George Clooney unexpectedly had to scale back his festival itinerary Wednesday by cutting short a press junket for his competition film Jay Kelly from Noah Baumbach and skipping a dinner with the film’s talent. According to multiple sources close to the film and its press schedule, Clooney started to feel unwell Wednesday and was advised to head straight home and rest up ahead of a packed Thursday, which will deliver the official…

The Venice Film Festival has no official market — no Marche du Film, no European Film Market — meaning the deals on the Lido tend to happen quietly, in hotel suites at the Excelsior and over spritzes along the Lungomare. But sellers still see the festival as a prime launchpad, using it to float prestige projects to the right buyers, banking on critical heat to position art house titles that could otherwise vanish in a crowded marketplace. “It’s a different kind of hustle,” says one veteran European sales agent. “You’re not going to Venice to presell a title and close…

Frank Price, the writer-producer who emerged from the world of TV Westerns to preside over the television and movie divisions at Universal and serve two terms as the head of Columbia Pictures, died Monday. He was 95. Price died in his sleep of natural causes at his home in Santa Monica, his son Roy Price, the former president of Amazon Studios, told The Hollywood Reporter. As a movie boss, Frank Price had a hand in such critical successes as the Oscar best picture winners Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Gandhi (1982) and Out of Africa (1985) and huge money-makers including Tootsie…

The sing-along version of KPop Demon Hunters is officially heading to Netflix. KPop Demon Hunters Sing-Along will drop on Netflix on Monday. Over the weekend, the sing-along version of the hit Netflix animated movie hit theaters, with more than 1,300 sold-out screenings across the U.S. and Canada, according to a release. The film topped the U.S. box office, grossing $18 million to $20 million over the Aug. 22-24 weekend. It was a big weekend for the film. In honor of the one-weekend-only theatrical engagement, voice cast members Arden Cho, May Hong, Ken Jeong, vocalists Rei Ami and Kevin Woo, directors…

Hundreds of Italian and international filmmakers, artists and cultural figures have signed an open letter calling on the Venice Film Festival to take a “clear and unambiguous stand” against what they describe as genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. The appeal, organized under the banner of Venice4Palestine (V4P), was sent on Friday to the Venice film festival umbrella organization the Biennale di Venezia, as well as the festival’s independent sections Venice Days and International Critics’ Week. In the letter, the group accuses the Israeli government and military of carrying out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing across Palestine, and urges…

Though Charlie Day and Jennifer Aniston‘s characters were often at odds in the Horrible Bosses films, they’re both aligned in wanting a third film in the R-rated comedy franchise. After Aniston recently revealed that she wants to revisit the project, the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia actor told The Hollywood Reporter that he, too, “absolutely would be up for another” Horrible Bosses‘ film. In addition, speaking to THR at a recent New York screening of his latest movie, Honey Don’t!, now in theaters, Day said that he “had some conversations about it with some people involved in front and behind…

In 2013, David Mackenzie reset his career. That’s when the Scottish filmmaker shot the prison drama Starred Up with Ben Mendelsohn and Jack O’Connell at a real prison in Belfast, Ireland. It was a palate cleanser for his 2011 sci-fi romantic drama, Perfect Sense, in which Eva Green and Ewan McGregor’s characters fall in love amid a global epidemic that causes people to lose their sensory perceptions. Mackenzie felt he may have been “bullshitting” his way through that film’s heightened themes, and so the grounded nature of Starred Up provided him a welcomed change of pace, as well as an…

The Creed of Violence is hitting the dusty trail once again, with a new feature adaptation of the 2009 Boston Teran novel in the works. The Last Samurai and Blood Diamond filmmaker Ed Zwick will direct, and will also write and produce with creative partner Marshall Herskovitz for High Top Productions, the banner owned by Creed of Violence publisher High Top Publishing. The novel is a revisionist Western set amid the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution. Per High Top, it follows “the unlikely partnership between a ruthless assassin and a young government agent — who share a hidden past — as they…