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Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway furious with Serenity distributor over marketing campaign

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Last week saw the release of Serenity, the new film from director Steven Knight (Locke, Peaky Blinders), and despite an A-list cast headed up by Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, the film tanked at the U.S. box office, grossing just $4.4 million in its opening weekend for an eighth-placed finish. According to Deadline, both McConaughey […]

So You Want to Be a Movie Scooper?

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Gary Collinson on the Art of the Movie Scoop… The movie scoop. In the early days of the internet, it was a glorious thing to behold, with an online writer unearthing a golden nugget of information and dropping it to the masses, leaving studio executives scratching their heads and wondering just how this super top secret […]

Venom passes $700 million at the global box office

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Thanks in no small part to a bumper opening weekend in China (the second-biggest for a superhero movie after this year’s Avengers: Infinity War), Sony’s Venom has now taken its global box office haul beyond the $700 million mark. It’s certainly an impressive feat for the Tom Hardy-headlined film, considering the heavy criticism that Sony […]

Netflix announces new slate of animated movies and original series

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Streaming giant Netflix has announced a new slate of upcoming animated feature films and original series, including six previously unannounced titles in Maya and the Three, My Father’s Dragon, Go! Go! Cory Carson, Kid Cosmic, Trash Truck and The Willoughbys. “We know that there is no one type of family. We embrace all kinds of […]

Ridley Scott moving ahead with Gladiator sequel

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Deadline is reporting that Ridley Scott is moving ahead with the long-discussed sequel to his 2000 Best Picture winner Gladiator, with the filmmaker tapping Peter Craig (The Town) to work on a script. The original Gladiator starred Russell Crowe as Maximus, a Roman General who is betrayed by Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), the son of the […]

Scrapped Boba Fett movie would have featured the bounty hunters from The Empire Strikes Back

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Over the weekend it was reported that Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy had confirmed that the long-planned Boba Fett Star Wars Anthology movie is “100% dead”, with the studio opting instead to focus its efforts on Jon Favreau’s live-action series The Mandalorian. Talk of a Boba Fett movie has been circulating since 2013, with Josh Trank […]