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AMC Abandons Plan to Charge More Money For Better Seats at its Movie Theaters

AMC Entertainment will not be moving forward with its program that charges customers variable prices depending on which seats they prefer in its movie theaters, CNBC is reporting. The chain announced yesterday that the program would end at participating locations in the coming weeks. The decision comes after the company initially announced its Sightline pricing…

Benny Safdie Confirms He Won’t Serve as Co-Director with Brother Josh on Adam Sandler’s Upcoming Netflix Movie

Acclaimed filmmaker Benny Safdie, who, along with his brother, Josh, directed Adam Sandler in the hit crime thriller Uncut Gems, won’t be reuniting with the duo on their upcoming Netflix movie. Benny, who will next be seen on screen as an actor in writer-helmer Christopher Nolan’s anticipated biographical thriller, Oppenheimer, shared the news during an…

Film at Lincoln Center Announces Sofia Coppola’s PRISCILLA as Centerpiece for the 61st New York Film Festival

Film at Lincoln Center announces Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” as the Centerpiece selection for the 61st New York Film Festival, making its North American premiere at Alice Tully Hall on October 6. Never has there been a more obsessed-over American pop icon than Elvis Presley, yet no one knew him more tenderly during his superstar years than…

Dwayne Johnson Rakes in the Green for ‘Red One’

Dwayne Johnson’s new film “Red One” is set to debut this Christmas, but perhaps The Green One might be a more suitable title. Despite some recent box-office hiccups, Johnson is poised to be the highest-paying actor of all time. According to reporter Matthew Belloni in Puck, the Rock is being paid a whopping $50 million…

Greta Gerwig Planned ‘Barbie’ Cameos For Her ‘Lady Bird’ and ‘Little Women’ Stars Timothée Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan

Director Greta Gerwig has revealed that she initially planned on reuniting with Timothée Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan on her latest feature, Barbie. However, the reunion between the filmmaker and the actors, who appeared in her previous two Oscar-nominated films, Lady Bird and Little Women, ultimately didn’t pan out. The Golden Globe-nominated filmmaker opened up about wanting…

Actor Tom Cruise Lobbies on Behalf of Striking SAG-AFTRA Performers

As the SAG-AFTRA strike drags on, Mission Impossible star Tom Cruise has been lobbying on behalf of the unions, says The Hollywood Reporter.Cruise has been particularly piqued by the issue of whether the studios should be permitted to use artificial intelligence (AI) in future productions. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) wants…

Kenneth Branagh Set to Direct Live-Action Gargoyles Movie

@Photo by Photo courtesy of 20th Century S/Photo courtesy of 20th Century – © 2022 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved. Renowned Northern Ireland filmmaker Sir Kenneth Branagh has signed on to direct a new live-action Gargoyles movie, the Belfast Telegraph is reporting. The upcoming feature film will be based on the animated 1990s television series…

Studios Vs. SAG-AFTRA & WGA

For the first time since 1960, the Screen Actors Guild has declared itself in solidarity with the screenwriters who have been on strike against Hollywood studios since May. The twin walkouts have crippled production of most film and television projects and show no signs of early resolution. Principals on both sides of the picket line…

Actress-Singer-Fashion Icon Jane Birkin Dies in Paris at Age 76

Acclaimed actress-singer Jane Birkin died earlier today in her Paris home, ABC News is reporting. The British-French entertainer, who also became known as a fashion icon later in her career, was 76. The César Award-nominated actress moved to France in the late 1960s, after she was born in London in December 1946. She was the…

Lena Dunham Reportedly To Create ‘Too Much’ for Netflix

@Girls, Full Disclosure  According to Comingsoon.net, Lena Dunham is planning to write and direct Too Much for Netflix, a romantic comedy about “an American woman in London.” Few other details are known about the project. Dunham had come to wide public attention back in 2012 with the premiere of the HBO smash hit Girls. The…

Miyazaki’s ‘How Do You Live?’ To Be Titled ‘The Boy and the Heron’ in North American Release

How Do You Live?, the final work by iconic Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, had its much-anticipated premiere in Tokyo this week. The film will be titled The Boy and the Heron when it is released in U.S. theaters later this year, according to Gkids, the distributor that has acquired North American theatrical distribution rights. The…