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Fresh product continued to rule in a distressed exhibition marketplace as RLJE Films’ Tax Collector grossed an estimated $317K at 129 theaters. Tax Collector is the third new title after Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls World Tour and IFC’s The Rental to top the box office since the pandemic began in mid-March. We’ll know for certain which film is No. 1 tomorrow, but it’s

Disneyland Resort has been closed since March, and at this point, there isn’t even a hint of when that might change. However, it doesn’t appear that the area of Anaheim, CA surrounding the park is entirely without vacationers, as last week there was apparently a brawl in a hotel near the park that ended up

Exclusive The Rock owns the XFL and former L.A. Wildcats head coach Winston Moss has a message for DJ … GIVE ME A JOB!!! Moss lost his head coaching gig when the 2nd iteration of the XFL went under — largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic — leaving the former NFL player and coach without

Whenever a superhero movie is being worked on by a major motion picture studio, the casting process is always one of the most crucial parts. As there have been an endless amount of superhero films in the last 20 years alone, multiple actors have been trying to get their shot at playing some of these

China’s third Friday back to the movies scored a slight increase on last week’s comparable day at $4.38M. It’s short of the $7.6M generated last Sunday which was boosted by Warner Bros’ reissue of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, but still a jump on last Friday, while midweeks were solid. Play today was led by DreamWorks/Amblin/Universal’s 1917

Monsters And Men (Zyrick) Monsters and Men is a drama from the perspective of several different characters. It’s about the murder of an unarmed black man, Darius Larson (Samel Edwards) by police officers. Monsters and Men is clearly inspired by Eric Garner’s death. Kelvin Harrison Jr plays Zyrick, a young man with a bright future

Brooklyn-based singer and actor Ellen Greene is best known for her role as the blonde-bob babes and shop assistant, Audrey — who is the love interest (and meal interest) of the skid row plant shop — in the plant-based 1986 musical, “Little Shop of Horrors.” Ellen Greene was cast alongside an epic group of actors

Ryan Reynolds is rumored to appear as Green Lantern in the upcoming Justice League Snyder Cut, but could there be any truth to these rumors? After its official announcement back in May, the Snyder Cut has been the subject of an unending stream of anticipation, speculation, and fan theories. Still, however out of the ordinary

A court ruling that dropped today allowing movie studios to buy theaters (whether or not they want to — and they probably don’t) is the latest snub to an industry that’s been rattled by change for years, in particular since March and COVID-19. Exhibition hasn’t been this pressured in a century. When the 1918 Spanish

Granted, the interest in the Schumacher Cut of Batman Forever isn’t anywhere near the level of Snyder Cut fervor, but there’s definitely a solid amount of DC fans would sound like they’re game to watch it, assuming all that deleted footage is intact. It would have been nice to have this version of the movie

Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Garner have a long past together, and judging by the photos they may also have a present. The former “Alias” stars hit up Malibu beach Wednesday, along with a little girl who appears to be Bradley’s daughter, Lea De Seine Shayk Cooper. Bradley and Jen have something in common … they’ve

A Dirty Dancing sequel is in the works with original cast member Jennifer Grey involved. Released in 1987, the film directed by Emilie Ardolino featured Grey as the young, naive woman Frances “Baby” Houseman who falls in love with dance instructor, Patrick Swayze’s Johnny Castle, during a summer holiday at a resort. Earning over $214

Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated Tenet has been set for a September 4 release date in China. This will come on the heels of Warner Bros launching the event picture’s rollout in a host of offshore markets beginning on August 26 and in the U.S. in select cities on September 3. As international box office has

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Hulu, Peacock) Released in 2008, Nicholas Stoller’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall, quickly became a must-watch in terms of breakup movies, but not because of a depressing and heart-wrenching telling of infidelity and heartbreak (though those are both featured here). Instead, the movie, which stars Jason Segel (who wrote the screenplay) as composer Peter

Exclusive Daisy Coleman — one of the teenage girls featured in “Audrie & Daisy,” the Netflix documentary about multiple rape cases — has died by suicide … according to her mother. Daisy’s mom, Melinda, says her daughter took her own life Tuesday night. Her body was discovered after Melinda called the police to do a

Pikmin 3 released on the Nintendo Wii U in 2013 and has been lauded as a great game by the people who actually played it. However, the Wii U was an underperforming system that sold only about 13.5 million units worldwide (as opposed to well over 100 million units for the original Wii). Because of

Right now Universal and AMC are looking like saints in the exhibition business after taking a kicking in the teeth by rival circuits for their controversial deal last week to crunch the theatrical window to 17 days with an option for PVOD thereafter. Disney’s announcement after the market closed to bring Mulan to their 60.5M Disney+

Clearly it’s inspired by the body of a crab, but can it also bring in its legs and act as solely as a submersible. One has to wonder if its legs work at the bottom of the ocean somehow. Can it also work on shore? The Crabsuit’s place in the franchise itself is yet to

The friendly neighborhood home of the Boggs family in “Edward Scissorhands” is on the market, and though there’s no sign Edward’s been trimming the hedges … there’s still plenty to like about the place. The outside of the Florida house — featured in the 1990 Tim Burton cult classic, starring Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder

As the market gears up for the release of the newest console generation this winter, gamers are beginning to get a clearer and clearer picture of what the environment will look like when the PS5 and the Xbox Series X finally launch. One interesting detail is that in all the upcoming games we’ve seen thus

IFC’s Dave Franco-directed horror movie The Rental continued to hold its lease atop the box office for a second weekend in a row, grossing $317,823 from 242 locations. Pic’s 10-day gross stands at $916,333. The Rental reps the first No. 1 movie for the indie distrib (My Big Fat Greek Wedding, if you remember, only got up

CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links. With a little over two months under its belt, HBO Max is finally delivering its first original film later this week: An American Pickle, starring Seth Rogen in dual roles: Herschel Greenbaum, an

Exclusive Zac Efron is formulating a plan to escape from Los Angeles … and he’s got his eyes set on a big move down under!!! Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … Zac plans on listing his L.A.-area home in the very near future, and he wants to move full-time to the Byron Bay area

An epic new fan video highlights all the visual parallels found in the Star Wars franchise. Following the original six films, the Star Wars universe spent several years relegated to books, animated shows, and video games. It wasn’t until Disney bought Lucasfilm that the franchise saw a resurgence on the big screen, starting with 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

SATURDAY UPDATE: Since cinemas reopened in China’s low-risk areas on July 20, the market today had its biggest day yet. Box office was $5.74M (RMB 40M) overall for the day, according to Maoyan figures. That reps a 38% jump from Friday. After leading last weekend and the midweeks, then dropping to No. 2 on Friday,

Steve Barron Was “Basically Cut Out” Of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles During Post-Production Despite director Steve Barron’s cruciality to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles getting made, especially with his ties to Jim Henson from the original The Dark Crystal, Golden Harvest, the studio backing the production, was not too happy with his vision for the film,

Child actor Kelley Parker gained fame at a very young age after she was cast to play the little, blonde homeless girl, Katie — who follows Michael Jackson around the city, dodges lethal injections from Mr. Big (played by Joe Pesci) and watches MJ turn into an epic, flying robot — in the ground-breaking 1988

Thor has used countless means to defeat his foes throughout the Asgardian’s comics history, but another may be needed in order to topple Asgard’s All-Father Odin Borson. Thor, under the current guise of Jane Foster, engages in battle with the All-Father of the Gods himself Odin in Jason Aaron and Russell Dauterman’s Mighty Thor #5,

China’s second Friday with cinemas back to business in low-risk areas rang up another $4M at local turnstiles, a 39% increase versus the same day last week. About 60% of movie theaters are now operating, with capacity limits and social distancing still in place, so all numbers are to be taken with a grain of

Arnold Schwarzenegger Was A Prankster On The Set Of Terminator 2 He gave, arguably, the finest performance of his career as an emotionless machine, but on the set of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Arnold Schwarzenegger had quite the sense of humor. While filming an early scene when the freshly transported, and freshly naked, T-800 walks