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Ukraine War in Karlovy Vary Focus as Oleh Sentsov Meets Czech President Before ‘Real’ World Premiere
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Box Office: ‘Inside Out 2’ Wins With $57.4M as ‘Quiet Place’ Prequel Scores Record $53M Start and ‘Horizon’ Bombs
Pixar's 'Inside Out 2' is also celebrating crossing the $1 billion mark globally. Joy is the last thing Kevin Costner's 'Horizon' is feeling after biting the dust with an $11 million start.
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Box Office Milestone: ‘Inside Out 2’ Crosses $1 Billion Globally in Record Time
The Pixar sequel is the 11th animated film to achieve this feat and the first movie to do so since 'Barbie' almost a year ago.
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Viggo Mortensen on Respecting Audiences, How Scripts Are Key “Unless I’m Broke,” New ‘LOTR’ Films
At the Karlovy Vary film festival, the star also discusses feminism and diversity, shares why Hollywood tends to "over-explain things" and the emotional screening of 'The Dead Don't Hurt' in Ukraine.
By Georg Szalai
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Orson Welles to Steven Soderbergh: Karlovy Vary Curators on Hollywood’s “Kafkaesque” Cinema
When it comes to celebrated Czech writer Franz Kafka, filmmakers the world over have long been inspired to either adapt his work outright or make movies that are decidedly “Kafkaesque,” filled with the kind of angst, alienation and absurdity the made the novelist one of the most prominent and distinctive figures in 20th century literature. […]
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‘Big Daddy’ Turns 25: How Adam Sandler Proved His Star Power With the Comedy Hit
Twenty-five years ago, Adam Sandler’s Big Daddy wiped the floor with the competition. Sony released the comedy feature from director Dennis Dugan (Happy Gilmore) on June 25, 1999. The film opened to $41 million domestically en route to collecting $234 million globally ($442 million today) and holding the title as Sandler’s highest-grossing title domestically until […]
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Amazon Prime Video’s New Releases Coming in July 2024
Amazon originals like Tyler Perry’s Divorce in the Black, My Spy The Eternal City and Space Cadet are just some of the titles hitting Prime Video in July. Features like all the Rocky 1-5, several Star Trek titles, Dances With Wolves, Gladiator, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Saving Private Ryan, Taxi Driver, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The […]
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What ‘A Sacrifice’ Director Jordan Scott Learned from Father Sir Ridley
As she gets set to release her second movie, A Sacrifice, in theaters this weekend, Jordan Scott (IFC’s Cracks) recalls the best advice she received from her father, Sir Ridley Scott, from one director to another. “I’m very lucky that I can pick up the phone and ask his advice on anything and I’m going […]
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‘Trans Memoria’ Director Victoria Verseau on How the Film “Saved Me” and Everyone Is in “Transition”
Swedish artist Victoria Verseau, born in 1988 and based in Stockholm, explores themes such as body, memory, identity and social structures via a range a media, from sculptures and installations to performance art and short films. “The works are often based on her personal experiences of being trans and a new woman,” her website highlights. […]
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Kevin Costner’s Moment of Truth: With ‘Horizon,’ Has the Gambler’s Luck Finally Run Out?
Kevin Costner has been defying the odds for more than 40 years. After filming numerous flashback scenes for 1983’s The Big Chill, the movie that was poised to be his big break, he learned he had been cut out of the film entirely… but then that film’s director, Lawrence Kasdan, decided to give him another shot, […]
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Kevin Costner Says He Makes “Movies for Men” But Always Strives to Include “Strong Women Characters”
Kevin Costner knows his audience. The Oscar-winning director attended a live taping of Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, alongside his Horizon: An American Saga co-stars Sam Worthington, Abbey Lee and Luke Wilson. During the wide-ranging conversation, Costner opened up about writing fully fleshed-out characters, particularly […]
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10 Movies and TV Shows Like ‘The Hunger Games’
While fans of The Hunger Games await the new new Hunger Games film from Lionsgate and Suzanne Collins’ forthcoming fifth novel in the saga (titled The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping), there are a myriad of movies and TV shows that volunteer as tribute to fill the void. Whether seeking stories about similar dystopian worlds, young protagonists trying to […]
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Comic-Con: Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment Teams with Heidi MacDonald’s Comics Beat for Daily News Show (Exclusive)
This year’s San Diego Comic-Con is getting a spotlight though a journalistic lens via award-winning website Comics Beat and OTT app and FAST channel ElectricNOW. The comics news site, run by longtime comics journalist Heidi MacDonald, has partnered with the division of the media company created by Dean Devlin to produce Con Daily Powered by […]
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Ryan Coogler, Mattson Tomlin Team for ‘A Vicious Circle’ at Universal (Exclusive)
Universal Pictures has landed the rights to A Vicious Circle, a Boom! Studios graphic novel series created by Terminator Zero showrunner Mattson Tomlin and artist Lee Bermejo. Tomlin will write the screenplay adapting his own work while Ryan Coogler, the filmmaker behind the Black Panther movies, will produce via his Proximity Media banner. Also producing are […]
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‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ Director Michael Sarnoski Interviewed Only About the Cat
Sarnoski answers all our burning questions about Frodo the cat (like why he never hisses at the aliens), plus teases a potential sequel.
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Denis Villeneuve’s Next Film Gets 2026 Release From Warner Bros.
Denis Villeneuve’s next feature is getting a holiday release, though it’s uncertain what that project will ultimately be. Warner Bros. announced Friday that the filmmaker’s next “event film” will hit theaters Dec. 18, 2026, and that it hails from Legendary Entertainment, home to his Dune movies. Plot details have not yet been shared, but Villeneuve, […]
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