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Sony Executives Call Hybrid Theatrical and Digital Release Model Devastating for Film Industry

Sony executives have shared their criticisms on day-and-date releases during this week’s CinemaCon, which returned as an in-person event in Las Vegas this year. During their spot as the convention’s first presenters on Monday night, the studio’s leaders denounced the hybrid theatrical and digital distribution as devastating to the film industry, Deadline is reporting. During…

Rolling Stones Drummer Charlie Watts Died at 80

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts died in a London hospital Tuesday. He was 80. “It is with immense sadness that we announce the death of our beloved Charlie Watts,” his publicist said in a statement to Variety. “He passed away peacefully in a London hospital earlier today surrounded by his family. Charlie was a cherished husband,…

Top 3 Films That We Expected to See This Year!

Now, Toronto Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, and New York Film Festival are coming up, around this time of the year, we start to see some Oscar contenders, so we decided to pick Top 3 movies that we expected to see this year. Abe Friedtanzer Dune West Side Story Parallel Mothers 2021 has been a…

Christian Bale Signs on to Play a Drug-Smuggling Preacher in The Church of Living Dangerously

Christian Bale has signed on to star in a feature adaptation of writer David Kushner’s Vanity Fair article, The Church of the Living Dangerously, which follows the life of a drug-smuggling preacher. Deadline is reporting that the Academy Award-winning actor will play John Lee Bishop, the former pastor of the Portland, Oregon megachurch, The Living…

Marvel Chief Kevin Feige Gives Updates on the Next Avengers Movie, Loki Season 2, and Deadpool 3

It’s hard to turn around these days without hitting an actor who has starred in a Marvel Cinematic Universe project. Marvel Studios released an epic trailer for its Phase Four slate back in May, and though there was plenty to anticipate in that exciting preview, there are additional projects in development that have left fans…

‘Ghost in the Shell’ 4K Remaster Coming to IMAX in US and Japan on Sept 17th for the First Time

More than twenty-five years after its initial release, Mamoru Oshii’s acclaimed 1995 film Ghost in the Shell is getting a new theatrical showcase, this time in 4K. According to Anime News Network, the remastered version of the film is coming to both the United States and Japan on September 17th, including 76 IMAX theaters in…

Denis Villeneuve Wants to Make a Dune Trilogy That Includes Adaption of Frank Hebert’s Second Novel

Ahead of its official release next month, Dune director Denis Villeneuve has revealed his interest in turning his take on the franchise into a movie trilogy. Although the two sequels to the sci-fi movie haven’t been officially announced yet by its distributor, Warner Bros., the Academy Award-nominated filmmaker recently told CBC’s Radio Canada that he…

James Bond Film Producers Say There Will Be No 007 TV Series

The producers of the James Bond film franchise said there are no plans for the British secret agent to star in his own Amazon Prime Video series. “We make films. We make films for the cinema. That’s what we do,” Barbara Broccoli told Total Film. “We’ve resisted that call for 60 years,” added her professional partner, Michael…

Instagram and Facebook Have Removed Hateful Comments From Lizzo’s Accounts

Instagram and Facebook have removed hateful comments users posted on Lizzo’s accounts, after the pop singer emotionally revealed that she was a victim of what she describe as fat-phobic, racist and hurtful attacks. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed that the statements the Grammy Award-winning R&B musician received on her social media pages were deleted to The…

Actor Sonny Chiba Died at 82 from COVID Complications

Japanese actor and martial artist Sonny Chiba has passed away from pneumonia caused by COVID-19, his manager shared with Oricon News in Japan, as reported by Variety. Chiba had been in the hospital since August 8th. Born on January 22nd, 1939 in Fukuoka, Japan as Sadaho Maeda, he enjoyed a successful career training in Karate…

‘The English Patient’ TV Series Is Coming to BBC

The source material for the 1996 Oscar winner for Best Picture, The English Patient, is going to reimagined as a TV series. Deadline reports that the BBC is creating a series based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Michael Ondaatje, which will be a coproduction between Miramax Television and Paramount Television Studios….