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gizmodo.com - Cheryl Eddy - You Can Soon Say 'Wassup' to 'Scary Movie' on Paramount+
You Can Soon Say 'Wassup' to 'Scary Movie' on Paramount+
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

Even if Scary Movie —really Scary Movie 6, in the grand tradition of confusingly titled horror reboots — wasn't a cinematic masterpiece, it was certainly a crowd pleaser. It scored a franchise-best opening weekend, proving fans were…

gizmodo.com - Germain Lussier - People Scalping Movie Tickets Sucks, but Don't Be Too Worried
People Scalping Movie Tickets Sucks, but Don't Be Too Worried
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

When tickets for The Odyssey went on sale a year before the film was released, and months before director Christopher Nolan even finished the film, we knew things would change. And in the year or so since, they have changed, primarily for the…

bloomberg.com - John Gittelsohn - BlackRock, Oaktree Seize Movie Servicer With $900 Million Debt
BlackRock, Oaktree Seize Movie Servicer With $900 Million Debt
Bloomberg

BlackRock Inc. 's HPS and Brookfield Corp. 's Oaktree Capital Management took over a firm that provides lighting, rigging and other services for Hollywood productions, wiping out as much as $900 million of debt as the global entertainment industry…

businessinsider.com - Gabbi Shaw - All 89 movies based on Marvel comics, ranked according to critics
All 89 movies based on Marvel comics, ranked according to critics
Business Insider

'Fantastic Four' is the second on-screen iteration of the famed Marvel family consisting of Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic (Miles Teller), his love interest Sue Storm/Invisible Woman (Kate Mara), her brother Johnny Storm/Human Torch (Michael B.

gizmodo.com - Germain Lussier - Wildwood' Looks So Good, We Can't Believe It's a Real Movie
Wildwood' Looks So Good, We Can't Believe It's a Real Movie
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

You know how sometimes you watch something and it's such a huge advancement that you have no idea how it was done? Think back to 1995 and the original Toy Story. We'd seen computer graphics before, but never a full-length animated movie. How was…

theguardian.com - Ryan Gilbey - 'I love provocative stories': producer Christine Vachon on fighting for her 'offensive' movies
'I love provocative stories': producer Christine Vachon on fighting for her 'offensive' movies
The Guardian

Trailblazing producer Christine Vachon bestrides the world of US independent film-making like a colossus. She has championed idiosyncratic American cinema for more than 35 years, scoring hits such as the romcom Materialists, which starred three…

theverge.com - Jess Weatherbed - Amazon seemingly leaked Jason Statham's entire Mutiny movie
Amazon seemingly leaked Jason Statham's entire Mutiny movie
The Verge

The film isn't supposed to hit theaters for two days, but it's available to stream on Prime Video now. The film isn't supposed to hit theaters for two days, but it's available to stream on Prime Video now. Image: Amazon / Dominic…

theguardian.com - Ellen E Jones - Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing review - like a horror movie … only this is real life
Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing review - like a horror movie … only this is real life
The Guardian

It is unfortunate that a sequel was required to Rory Kennedy's 2022 documentary feature, which alleged that the profit-driven culture at a US aeronautics firm led to two plane crashes and the deaths of 346 people. But given the lack of corporate…

ign.com - It Ends Movie Review
It Ends Movie Review
IGN

It Ends will be released in select theaters on Friday, August 21, and enters wide release on August 28. Remember that Talking Heads song “Road to Nowhere” ? It stars with these lyrics: “Well, we know where we're going / But we…

perezhilton.com - Blind Item: Hollywood's Next Big Movie Star
Blind Item: Hollywood's Next Big Movie Star
Perez Hilton

What up-and-coming TV actress just booked a HUGE movie role? We hear the entire industry is gushing over the star power potential here, so much so that multiple studios had been seeking her out. A source tells PerezHilton.com: “When she…

foxnews.com - Brie Stimson - Shirley MacLaine makes rare video appearance, pokes fun at 1960s movie flop
Shirley MacLaine makes rare video appearance, pokes fun at 1960s movie flop
Fox News

Shirley MacLaine, who played the title role in 1969's 'Sweet Charity,' made a rare video appearance this week for a New York theater doing a screening of the musical. The 92-year-old actress told the Southampton Playhouse in Long Island in a video…

theweek.com - David Faris - The 9 best movies of the 1980s
The 9 best movies of the 1980s
The Week

Whether the '80s were “morning in America” or the beginning of the end for the post-war political consensus, there is no question that the decade produced its share of landmark cinematic achievements as well as seat-filling…

vice.com - Tony Alpsen - Disney Had to Rename This Movie in Italy Because of a Famous Porn Star
Disney Had to Rename This Movie in Italy Because of a Famous Porn Star
VICE

The animated Walt Disney musical Moana tells the story of a young girl named—you guessed it—Moana (Auli‘i Cravalho), the daughter of a Polynesian chieftain, who sets out to find the demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson) in the hopes of…

vice.com - Luis Prada - The 'Worst Animated Movie Ever' Is Somehow Becoming a Box Office Hit
The 'Worst Animated Movie Ever' Is Somehow Becoming a Box Office Hit
VICE

If any lesson can be taken from the extremely, laughably ugly animated film Niu Lai, as it dominates the Chinese box office, blowing Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey out of the water, it's probably that people will always love a viral, memeable…

wral.com - LINDSEY BAHR — AP Film Writer - Movie Review: Gen Z gets a moody, existential horror in 'It Ends'
Movie Review: Gen Z gets a moody, existential horror in 'It Ends'
WRAL News

Every generation deserves its own postgrad malaise movie. Not every attempt is going to be “The Graduate” or “Frances Ha,” but even when they're mediocre, they're also often a pure expression from a young filmmaker about…

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