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With the 97th Oscars now seven weeks in the rearview mirror, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is turning its attention to 98th Oscars, which will take place on Sunday, March 15, 2026. On Monday, the organization’s board of governors announced other key dates pertaining to the coming season — for the announcements of shortlists, nominations and more — and also released rules and campaign promotional regulations that will govern the way contenders compete, including a number of new policies that, on the surface, seem fairly benign, but in practice could have a major impact. In a major departure from…

Gary Jensen, a stunt coordinator who collaborated with Bryan Singer on The Usual Suspects and the first two X-Men films and with Kevin Smith on Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and four other movies, has died. He was 74. Jensen recently spent two months in the hospital for back surgery and died April 11 at his home in Acton, California, his daughter-in-law Laura Jensen told The Hollywood Reporter. He did stunts on films including Tron (1982), The Beastmaster (1982), Independence Day (1983), Hoosiers (1986), Peacemaker (1990), The Rookie (1990), In the Line of Fire (1993) and Due Date (2010).…

Ryan Googler’s highly anticipated new movie Sinners, starring Michael B. Jordan, is finding redemption at the Easter weekend box office. Ditto for Warner Bros. The critical — and audience darling — topped Friday’s chart with $19.2 million from 3,308 theaters, including Imax screens. That put the supernatural period vampire pic ahead of fellow Warner’ release A Minecraft Movie, although the latter is expected to pull ahead of Sinners sometime on Saturday. Based on Friday numbers, Minecraft is expected to stay atop the chart for its third consecutive weekend with $45 million from 4,032 locations as it nears the $350 million…

The time it takes to produce a feature film can span studio heads, a pivot to streaming and a merger or two. As original movies take longer and longer to work their way through the studio machinery, the pace of change at studios, from strategies and shifting priorities, has sped up. Even the most veteran filmmakers have been entrapped in that antagonistic push and pull. Sinners, the latest from filmmaker Ryan Coogler, landed at Warner Bros. at the top of 2024. A year and some change later, is hitting theaters this weekend. As for how Coogler ended up anomalously pushing…

Ryan Coogler went through a period of “complicated grief” after Chadwick Boseman’s death while he was working on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.  At the time of Boseman’s 2022 passing, the second Black Panther installment was in the works. His death not only halted the film’s production but left the crew devastated in the wake of his death.  During a Thursday interview with The Guardian, Coogler said the crew got through the devastation by working on the sequel. “Sometimes it’s actually a relief having something to do, so you can’t sit in that terrible feeling,” he added. However, the Sinners director…

Regal Cineworld Group has tapped Brooks LeBoeuf to serve as head of film content in the U.S. In the new gig, he’ll manage all acquisition, distribution and programming responsibilities for Regal Cinemas in curating a lineup of films, events and experiences. That means working closely with the company’s internal teams to schedule content across the circuit’s thousands of cinemas across the country. He’ll also work to grow the company’s relationships with film studios and content providers. The announcement was made by Adam Rymer, Regal Cineworld’s chief U.S. commercial officer, to whom LeBoeuf will report. His official title is senior vp of U.S.…

Florence Pugh took a literal leap of faith while filming Thunderbolts*.  When it came time to shoot the MCU’s latest installment, the Academy Award nominee practically had to beg the president of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, to allow her to perform a stunt that would see her jump off the second-tallest building in the world. “It was in the script, and then slowly as we got closer and closer to shooting, they were like, ‘Yeah, we don’t think it’s gonna happen, it’s just gonna be a crazy insurance ordeal, and obviously we’re not going to throw FP off the second-tallest…

Keep your popcorn to yourself. That was Jack Black‘s instruction to moviegoers attending a screening of A Minecraft Movie over the April 11-13 weekend at AMC Century City in L.A. following days of headlines about young moviegoers engaging in rowdy behavior and hurling handfuls of popcorn into the crowd when Black’s character exclaims, “chicken jockey!” As Black entered the auditorium unannounced, he initially disguised his voice when he intoning: “For today’s presentation of A Minecraft Movie, please no throwing popcorn.” When he began speaking in his own voice and was recognized, the crowd went nuts as he waved his main…

There’s no slowing down A Minecraft Movie, which hurtled past the $550 million mark at the global box office on its way to likely becoming the first title of 2025 to join the $1 billion club. The Warner Bros. family event pic easily stayed No. 1 in its second weekend with a huge domestic haul of $80.6 million. It has now earned $281 million in North America and $296.6 million overseas for a worldwide total of $550.6 million. The foreign tally includes $20.5 million from China, one of the best showings in recent memory for a Hollywood title (Legendary East…

The Breakfast Club stars Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy and Anthony Michael Hall united publicly for the first time since the film’s 1985 release on Saturday, taking part in a 40th anniversary conversation at the C2E2 convention in Chicago. “I feel really very emotional and moved to have us all together,” Ringwald told the crowd, noting that while the rest of the group had previously reunited, it was the first time Estevez had joined them. “We don’t have to use the cardboard cutout anymore because he’s here. I feel really moved that we’re all together.” Estevez joked…