Film

As Disney readies the sequels to its uber-grossing $1.75 billion Frozen franchise, Walt Disney Animation Studios Chief Creative Officer Jennifer Lee is segueing from her position to direct and write Frozen 3 and executive produce Frozen 4 with Marc Smith. Effective immediately, Oscar winning Encanto filmmaker Jared Bush has been named CCO of Walt Disney

Sony will be releasing Spyglass’ horror romantic comedy Heart Eyes on February 7, 2025, the studio said Wednesday. The Josh Ruben-directed movie stars Olivia Holt, Mason Gooding and Gigi Zumbado with Devon Sawa and Jordana Brewster. Pic’s blurb: When the Heart Eyes Killer strikes Seattle, a pair of co-workers pulling overtime on Valentine’s Day are

Blumhouse and the world’s No. 1 circuit AMC Theatres are kicking off BlumFest with movies from the genre production label running every Wednesday starting Sept. 25 in 54 cities and 150 AMC multiplexes. Blumhouse fans can attend special screenings, score one-time-only giveaways, be the first to see exclusive sneak peeks, and more. The national screening

Broadway added a couple shows and a 7% bump in receipts last week, with a roster of recent arrivals like McNeal, Yellow Face and The Roommate drawing considerable interest. Most shows saw an uptick in box office and solid business for the week ending September 15. McNeal, starring Robert Downey Jr. in his Broadway debut,

Paramount Animation and Hasbro Entertainment‘s Transformers One, the first animated Transformers movie in close to 40 years, looks to liven up the mid-September box office with a domestic start in the low-$30Ms with potential for upside. Transformers One will keep the domestic box office at its excellent clip. Through the last weekend of April, the

Universal Pictures’s Wicked: Part Two is going a few days earlier on Nov. 21, 2025 instead of the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, Nov. 26, 2025. The move is similar to what Universal did this year, getting Wicked: Part One off the Wednesday before Thanksgiving which has Disney’s Moana 2. Wicked: Part One is now going Nov.

Paramount Pictures has set a limited theatrical release for Tim Felbaum’s thriller September 5 for Nov. 27 after a great response for the movie out of the Venice and Telluride film festivals. The movie, which stars Peter Sarsgaard, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch and John Magaro is described as being akin to Oscar Best Picture winner

Refresh for latest…: Last week’s champ, and this week’s holdover winner, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, took in an estimated $28.7M overseas, keeping the momentum spurred by its recent world premiere in Venice. The offshore drop was 44% which is good for this sort of title. The international running cume is $76.3M; and the worldwide total is currently $264.3M through Sunday. Imax added $4.7M

A conservative and a faith-based film landed at nos. 4 and 10 at the domestic box office this weekend, with a solid showing for anime Dan Dan Dan: First Encounter and a nice limited opening for My Old Ass. Am I Racist?, the first theatrical release from Jeremy Boreing and Ben Shapiro’s The Daily Wire,

Blue Fox Entertainment has restructured under a new umbrella company called Blue Fox Entertainment Group, which will manage operations across verticals including domestic distribution and international sales company Blue Fox Entertainment, a minority interest in recently announced Blue Fox Entertainment Canada, digital genre label Red Hound Entertainment, and Blue Fox Financing. BFEG is currently in

Irish rap trio Kneecap is back in theaters at the start another U.S. tour, with Ian McKellen as The Critic, Aubrey Plaza in coming-of-age My Old Ass and handful of Indian films, and special events including GKids’ DAN DA DAN: First Encounter. The first three episodes of the show DAN DA DAN, which is shaping

EXCLUSIVE: After a strong reception on the fall film fest scene, Edward Berger’s Vatican thriller, Conclave, starring Ralph Fiennes is going one week earlier via Focus Features on Oct. 25. The pic was previously dated on Nov. 1. Coming away from the fests, Conclave currently scored 96% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Not to mention, Conclave,

If it’s Friday the 13th, and you’re a studio (especially Blumhouse), you don’t miss the opportunity to program a genre film, and that’s Speak No Evil this weekend. Directed, written and produced by James Watkins the movie made $1.3M from Thursday previews that began at 2 p.m. The Universal-distributed R-rated title is expected to do

The world premiere of Clint Eastwood‘s Juror #2 will close the 38th edition of AFI Fest on Oct. 27 at the TCL Chinese Theatre. Warner Bros. has also set a limited theatrical release of the movie for Nov. 1. The premiere of Juror #2 continues a long relationship between Eastwood and AFI as the filmmaker

Warner Bros.’ Todd Phillips sequel Joker: Folie à Deux hit tracking with a $70M+ projection. The studio, similar to what they did with the original 2019 movie, Joker, took the pic to the Venice Film Festival for a world premiere, however, critical reviews came back at 62% fresh. By the way, before we rush to

The Broadway debut of Robert Downey Jr. got off to an excellent start last week, with McNeal selling out all four previews at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater and grossing a whopping $746,230. Ayad Akhtar’s play, directed by Bartlett Sher, staged its first preview last Thursday, September 5, and stars Downey as a revered but

Documentary ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor! with Trey Parker and Matt Stone cleaned up on one screen only in Denver and Tamil-language revenge thriller The Greatest Of All Time is the latest Indian film to pop at the North American box office with over $2 million on 530 screens for the three-day weekend and a cume of

Refresh for latest…: Warner Bros unleashed Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice this weekend, as the ghost with the most tallied up a $145.4M global start. That’s in line with where we saw it ahead of the weekend, and includes $110M from domestic as well as $35.4M from 69 international box office markets. The launch gives the sequel

Columbia Pictures’ Venom: The Last Dance is essentially going day-and-date in China on October 23. The pic hits domestic theaters on Oct. 25. The first Venom in 2018 received a China grossing close to $270M unadjusted for inflation; the first Tom Hardy movie repping just over a third of the Marvel movie’s $856M global gross. The post-Covid

Docs are prominent among specialty releases this weekend with South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker renovating a massive Mexican restaurant and creative takes on psychics, oysters, Abraham Lincoln and Casablanca bread riots. The Thicket starring Peter Dinklage marks Tubi Films’ first non-day-and-date release. French Canadian chiller Red Rooms gets a U.S bow from