Month: June 2024

Bob Odenkirk will return in an upcoming sequel to the John Wick-style action-thriller Nobody, and we’ve learned this morning that Timo Tjahjanto (The Night Comes for Us, May the Devil Take You, V/H/S/94) will be taking over as the director of Nobody 2! Variety reports that Universal Pictures will kick off production this August. Alongside Bob
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The filmmakers behind Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey are expanding their public domain horror universe with a handful of upcoming “Poohniverse” movies, including Bambi: The Reckoning, Pinocchio: Unstrung, and Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare. Bloody Disgusting has exclusively scored the poster art for Neverland Nightmare today. Scott Jeffrey directs Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare, now in post-production. Find the poster below
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Trans-formative After ending last month with Lisa Brühlmann’s female coming-of-age tale Blue My Mind (listen), we’ve spent June discussing Danny Boyle’s Sunshine (listen) and Brian Trenchard-Smith’s 1997 sequel Leprechaun 4: In Space (listen). Now we’re back in YA territory with Brad Michael Elmore‘s trans vampire tale Bit, but the 2019 film is quite a bit more fun
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Next year marks 50 years of Steven Spielberg’s industry-changing horror classic Jaws, and Deadline reports today that a 50th anniversary documentary is currently in the works. From National Geographic, the documentary’s working title is Jaws @ 50, and what’s particularly exciting about the project is that Spielberg’s company Amblin is producing. Deadline details, “Laurent Bouzereau
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Next year marks 50 years of Steven Spielberg’s industry-changing horror classic Jaws, and Deadline reports today that a 50th anniversary documentary is currently in the works. From National Geographic, the documentary’s working title is Jaws @ 50, and what’s particularly exciting about the project is that Spielberg’s company Amblin is producing. Deadline details, “Laurent Bouzereau
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News A$AP Rocky Announces Release Date for New Album Don’t Be Dumb The long-teased follow-up to 2018’s Testing lands on August 30 By Matthew Strauss June 21, 2024 Facebook X A$AP Rocky, February 2024 (Daniele Venturelli/WireImage) Facebook X A$AP Rocky has announced the release date for his long–teased album Don’t Be Dumb. The new project,
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News Ms. Lauryn Hill and the Fugees Announce 2024 Tour Dates Celebrating the anniversaries of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and The Score By Jazz Monroe June 24, 2024 Facebook X Ms. Lauryn Hill, April 2024 (Scott Dudelson/Getty Images for Coachella) Facebook X Ms. Lauryn Hill has announced a new run of tour dates with
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News First and Final Posthumous SOPHIE Album Announced The self-titled LP is led by a new song with BC Kingdom and Kim Petras called “Reason Why” By Matthew Strauss June 24, 2024 Facebook X SOPHIE, photo by Renata Raksha Facebook X The first posthumous SOPHIE album has been announced. SOPHIE, produced by the late artist
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News Shaboozey Announces North American Headline Tour The “Bar Song (Tipsy)” singer and Beyoncé collaborator will play shows in September and October By Matthew Strauss June 24, 2024 Facebook X Shaboozey, photo by Daniel Prakopcyk Facebook X Shaboozey has announced a headlining tour of North America. The shows take place in the United States and
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For those keeping track of such things, nearly 10% – or $3,239,838 – of Broadway‘s total $36.8 million box office last week was earned by productions directed by Taymors: The Lion King‘s Julie Taymor and her niece, The Outsiders director Danya Taymor. And that’s before The Outsiders‘ big Tony-winning night on Sunday. Two of the
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Paramount went all in on Gladiator II at CineEurope today, showing off an exclusive extended look at Ridley Scott’s sequel to his 2000 Best Picture Oscar winner. Introducing the footage in a video clip, Scott promised that Gladiator II, coming nearly two-and-a-half decades after the original, is “well worth the wait”; the audience today agreed.
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In the wake of Inside Out 2’s massive $295M worldwide debut last weekend, Disney Head of Global Theatrical Distribution Tony Chambers kicked off the studio’s CineEurope presentation this evening thanking exhibitors in attendance for their part in the historic start — and was met in kind by enthusiastic and clearly appreciative applause. He noted too that midweek numbers have been
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Whoever wrote that the theatrical business is dead may want to run a correction as Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2 is potentially headed to a historic second weekend for an animated movie, topping Illumination/Universal’s Super Mario Bros Movie‘s $92.3M. Rival projections see $95 million for the second frame of the Kelsey Mann-directed sequel, while insiders see
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