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The vampire genre has survived innumerable indignities over the decades — Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter or Dracula 2000, anyone? — so it will surely emerge largely intact after the abuse is must now endure courtesy of Day Shift. The premise isn’t half-bad, with a leading-man vampire attempting to go straight for the sake of his

Sorry Sean Bean, Emma Thompson begs to differ. In the latest reaction to Bean’s recent controversial remarks criticizing the use of on-set intimacy coordinators, Thompson said on an Australian radio show that such coordinators are “fantastically important.” Although she didn’t mention Bean by name, Thompson, when told of the actor’s statement that the use of

One ballsy man’s spectacular real-life scam that endured in the UK for nearly a decade makes for pulse-quickening escapism in Rogue Agent. This is a story so far-fetched that you’d have trouble buying it in a film unless it really happened, and such is the case here in a yarn that intrigues from the very

UPDATED, 8:10 a.m.: Searchlight Pictures has released the official trailer for its starry horror film The Menu, from director Mark Mylod (Succession), which bows in theaters on November 18. The darkly comic feature follows a couple (Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult) as they travel to a coastal island to eat at the exclusive restaurant Hawthorne, where Chef

Reports of the Golden Globes resurrection on NBC might be premature. A January 2023 broadcast of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association-organized shindig is “not a done deal,” according to a well-placed source. While talks have been going on between the longtime Globes broadcaster and the Helen Hoehne-led HFPA, no final agreement has been reached as

The 47th Toronto International Film Festival has selected the Mary Harron directed movie Dalíland as the closing night movie, which stars Ben Kingsley as the older Salvador Dalí and Ezra Miller as the younger Dalí . However, the TIFF press release left Miller’s name off the cast credits. It’s been public knowledge that Miller is in

Neve Campbell is expounding on her reason for opting out of reprising her role of Sidney Prescott in Scream 6. The actress reiterated that “as a woman in business” it’s really important “to fight to be valued” and she ultimately didn’t feel that way. “I did not feel that what I was being offered equated

China has set an August 19 release date for Universal/Illumination’s Minions: The Rise Of Gru. This will be the first major tentpole from Hollywood to hit the market since Universal’s own Jurassic World Dominion which has grossed $157.4M there through Sunday and during an extended nine-week run; it is the biggest studio import of 2022.

Kevin Smith has weighed in on Warner Bros. Discovery scrapping the Batgirl movie starring Leslie Grace. The move made by the conglomerate has caused shockwaves in the industry and Smith, who is a comic book aficionado and writer, shared his thoughts on his YouTube series Hollywood Babble-On. “It’s an incredibly bad look to cancel the Latina Batgirl

EXCLUSIVE: Fidel Castro’s daughter, Alina Fernández, has emphasized to Deadline her endorsement of James Franco playing her Cuban leader revolutionary father in the upcoming independent feature, Alina of Cuba. She is also proud that “the project is almost entirely Latino, both in front and behind the camera.” “James Franco has an obvious physical resemblance with

The Predator franchise is the ugly step-child of horror monster canon. Fans know about it, are aware of it, but don’t necessarily give it the credit it deserves. With the original film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the sequel with Danny Glover, a bunch of Alien vs. Predator crossover films, and an attempt at a reboot in

Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival’s kicked off Friday night with documentary film Descendant, from Netflix and Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions, and the former President and First Lady were the opening night’s surprise guests. Directed by Margaret Brown, Descendant, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, follows members of Africatown, a small

Actress Anne Heche has been hospitalized with burns after crashing her car into a Los Angeles home, Deadline has confirmed. The news was first reported by TMZ. The crash occurred at 10:55 AM Friday in the Mar Vista area of L.A., according to police. “The vehicle was heading east on Preston Way at a high

EXCLUSIVE: XYZ Films has taken North American rights to Low Life, the cat-and-mouse thriller from director Tyler Michael James starring Marriage Story’s Lucas Neff. Pic will be released later this month in North America. Scroll down for trailer. Low Life follows Benny (Wes Dunlap), a small-time YouTube star who catches predators online and experiences a night from hell when he

Speaking on CinemaBlend’s ReelBlend podcast yesterday, Quentin Tarantino held forth on the experience of seeing Top Gun: Maverick. “Normally I don’t talk about new movies that much because I’m only forced to say only good things, but in this case I f***ing love Top Gun, the Maverick movie. I thought it was fantastic,” Tarantino said.

Paramount+ is performing “above expectations”  in the UK, Ireland and South Korea, according to Bob Bakish, who forecast a “big year” for Western Europe to come and talked up local language content. The streamer, which added nearly 5M worldwide subs in Q2 per Paramount Global’s results earlier today, launched in the three territories around six

EXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA has collected more than $1 billion in dues and “agency fees” from its active members and financial core non-members since its founding 10 years ago with the merger of SAG and AFTRA, according financial reports the union files with the U.S. Department of Labor. In a sign of their relative strengths at the

After being ousted by Disney/Pixar, John Lasseter, the man many credited with that studio’s resurgence as an animation powerhouse, is back in luck with the appropriately titled Luck, his first venture into feature film animation as head of Skydance’s ‘toon division. He is a producer on the new film, which starts streaming Friday as an

The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) has selected Colm Bairéad’s debut feature The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin) as its entry for the best international film category for the 2023 Oscars, in the first announced submission of the upcoming awards season. The Irish-language work swept the IFTA Awards last March to become the first debut

Right from the start, you know exactly what you are in for with Bullet Train, a non-stop mix of violence, comedy, and more violence, Japanese-style, as filtered through the lens of director David Leitch, a stuntman turned filmmaker whose past credits of Atomic Blonde, Fast & Furious: Hobbs And Shaw, and Deadpool 2 pretty much