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Cinema Owners Group Says Theaters In NYC Need To Be At 75% Capacity By July To Survive

April 6, 2021 1:48 pm

You probably know by now that theaters in major metropolitan areas such as New York City and Los Angeles, which make up a large portion of the box office, are finally reopening. Unfortunately, for cinema owner...

Oscars Now Setting Up London & Paris Hubs For Overseas Nominees

Gregory Ellwood

March 30, 2021 2:20 pm

Awards, Awards Campaign, News

Many Americans, in particular, are excited about a chance to return closer to normal with the widespread distribution of vaccines over the past few months and moving forward. It appears the producers of the 93...

‘The Last Cruise’ Trailer: HBO Documentary Remembers The Nightmarish Early Days Of The Pandemic

Brynne Ramella

March 17, 2021 1:19 pm

News, Trailers

March 2021 has been full of reminders of the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. "The Last Cruise" trailer invokes one of the earliest indicators that something was about the cha...

‘Benedetta’ Director Paul Verhoeven Suggests That Cannes 2021 May Have A Fallback Date Of October

Christopher Marc

February 9, 2021 12:02 pm

News

It's starting to look like the Cannes Film Festival could see yet another delay as Dutch director Paul Verhoeven suggested last week on a radio interview with NPO Radio 1 (in Dutch) that the event could be del...

COVID Stimulus Includes Law That Makes Illegal Streaming A Felony That Could Result In 10 Years In Jail

Charles Barfield

December 22, 2020 2:07 pm

News, Television

Unless you’ve been avoiding social media like the plague that it is over the past few days (and bravo, if you have!), then you probably already know that Congress has approved a new stimulus package that aims ...

Jude Law Was Warned By Experts Working On ‘Contagion’ That Real Pandemic Was Inevitable

Rafael Motamayor

November 29, 2020 1:19 pm

News

Back in the early days of the pandemic, we saw a rise in the popularity of movies dealing with pandemics and infectious diseases. Key among them was the 2011 movie "Contagion," which shared an eerie resemblanc...

George Clooney Reveals Why He Had To Drop Out Of Steven Soderbergh’s ‘No Sudden Move’

Charles Barfield

November 23, 2020 2:13 pm

News

Back in May, we reported that George Clooney was set to collaborate with Steven Soderbergh yet again on a new film “No Sudden Move” (then titled “Kill Switch”). News of these two reuniting for a film was excit...

Regal Shuts Down Remaining Theaters In The US But IMAX CEO Claims COVID-19 Vaccine Is A “Game Changer”

Charles Barfield

November 10, 2020 1:52 pm

Box Office, News

Remember last month when Cineworld, the parent company behind Regal Cinemas, announced that it would be closing the bulk of its theaters in the US and the UK? At the time, the reason was the fact that New York...

Ron Howard Isn’t Sure What The Theatrical Release For Netflix’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Will Look Like: “It Is What It Is”

Charles Barfield

October 30, 2020 1:52 pm

Box Office, News

Having not seen the film, “Hillbilly Elegy,” and only watching the trailer, it’s clear that Ron Howard’s new drama starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close is a clear Oscar front-runner. The trailer features extreme...

‘Songbird’ Trailer: The World Is Being Ravaged By The COVID-23 Virus In The Michael Bay-Produced Thriller

Charles Barfield

October 29, 2020 1:00 pm

News, Trailers

Are you ready for a thriller about an unstoppable pandemic (dubbed COVID-23) that is wiping out millions of humans and forced people to stay in lockdown for four years? Maybe it’s a bit too soon? Well, the peo...

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