Author: Hollyood rep

[This story contains spoilers for Sinners.] In the spring of 2024, Wunmi Mosaku and her Sinners castmates kept hoping that people would embrace Ryan Coogler’s story in the same manner they were on set. Fast forward to the present day, the film is now the Black Panther filmmaker’s second cultural phenomenon, sporting the decade’s strongest reviews from critics and audiences, as well as the biggest opening weekend ($48 million) for an original film in the 2020s.  The vampire horror-thriller chronicles Smoke, Stack and Sammie Moore’s quest for freedom and how their individual ambitions impact their Mississippi Delta community in 1932.…

[This story contains spoilers for Sinners.] It’s not often that a movie comes out of the gate and instantly feels essential to the art form, filling a void in our culture that many weren’t even aware they were missing. But Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is that film. Sinners is more than a great vampire movie, though that is a feat itself, given how well-mined the subgenre is. It is simply a great movie, a new American classic that can stand among all the others that have earned that label over the decades. Why? It puts stakes down, so to speak, in…

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…