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As theme park attractions reopen across Southern California, Warner Bros. announced on Tuesday that its massively revamped Studio Tour will welcome back guests on June 26. Five years in the making, the expanded set tour utilizes a new building devoted completely to the tour center, in addition to a lot tour and a stop at

Kino Industries has entered into a creative and co-financing partnership with Rocketman financier Starlings Entertainment. As part of the deal, Starlings will establish a fund for film and TV development, also meeting co-financing and P&A commitments on projects shared with Kino. To this point, Kino Industries has been best known for creating CtrlMovie, a “pioneering, interactive technology”

The Oscar-nominated 2002 animated feature Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron begat the Emmy-winning 2017 Netflix cartoon series Spirit: Riding Free, which now has begotten the animated feature Spirit Untamed. DreamWorks has a way of maximizing potential of its various properties by turning them into franchises one way or another, so instead of the beautifully 2D-animated original feature film,

Illumination Entertainment and Universal’s Despicable Me mobile game spinoff Minion Rush, has surpassed 1 billion downloads across iOS, Android and other devices.  Video game publisher Gameloft generated the game in 2013 in collaboration with Illumination and Universal Games and Digital Platforms. That makes it the first mobile game based on a film property to reach

South African actor Sharlto Copley, Iyana Halley and Leah Sava Jeffries have joined the Idris Elba Universal-Will Packer movie Beast, which started production in South Africa. Elba stars as Dr. Nate Samuels, a recently widowed husband who returns to South Africa, where he first met his wife, on a long-planned trip with their teenage daughters to a

Here’s the first image from Aisha, the drama starring Letitia Wright and Josh O’Connor that recently wrapped filming in Ireland. Cornerstone has boarded worldwide sales rights ahead of the Cannes virtual market this month. Frank Berry (Michael Inside) directed and wrote the pic, which charts the experiences of a young Nigerian woman as she seeks

Romy Walthall, who starred in 1989’s The House of Usher opposite Oliver Reed and Donald Pleasence, was a regular on Steven Bochco’s Murder One and appeared on Hotel Malibu opposite Jennifer Lopez, has died at 57. Her son, Morgan Krantz, confirmed Walthall’s passing on Twitter. Often going by the stage name Romy Windsor, the actress

Cinemas in Tokyo and Osaka will be allowed to reopen from June 1, as local authorities ease restrictions on large-scale facilities. The central government of Japan is extending a state of emergency, however, until June 20. Meanwhile, Universal Studios Japan is also set to open its doors on Tuesday, at reduced capacity and on weekdays

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has your first look at short documentary Kata, which is set to premiere at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival on June 10. From director and writer James Latimer, the film follows the journey through the mind of 13-year-old Mahiro Takano, a long-time undefeated national kata karate form champion, who comes face-to-face with her

The L.A. County Department of Public Health released new data on Covid-19 on Saturday, reporting 7 new deaths and 220 new positive cases. While data from the County showed that hospitalizations continue to decrease, case numbers and deaths reported may reflect delays in weekend reporting. Today’s numbers bring L.A. County to a total of 24,338 deaths, and

During an MSNBC interview on Saturday, Regina King learned, live on the air, that she is perhaps being considered to direct an upcoming Superman film for Warner Bros. and DC. It was Tiffany Cross, of The Cross Connection, that first made King aware of the rumor. “I’m curious, because this is a little bit of gossip. You’re rumored

Abby Miller (Home Before Dark) will star in Jess Plus None, the directorial debut feature from writer and director Mandy Fabian. The film centers on Jess (Miller) who goes to her best friend’s wedding in the middle of nowhere, where she will be confronted by her ex, her happily coupled friends from college, and the

Hollywood Boulevard was shut down Friday morning between Highland and Orange as a man threatened to jump from a ledge near the entrance to the Dolby and the TCL Chinese Theaters. That, according to a report and video from ABC7. The Los Angeles Fire Department reported the rescue operation at 6801 Hollywood Blvd, which is

We hear from sources that Danai Gurira will be returning as Okoye, general of the Dora Milaje, in Ryan Coogler’s upcoming Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as well as reprising the character in an origin spinoff series for Disney+. Disney didn’t have any comment about today’s report. It would not come as a shock if Gurira

Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer said Thursday that two media merger deals in as many weeks are “resounding affirmation of the value of content, IP and brands,” but that the company wants to keep its head down and “not get distracted by this concept of scale.” “Obviously we will talk to everyone, we listen to everything,”

Roku and Saban Films have added the latest twist to fast-evolving movie release strategies, setting a pay-1 rights deal for several titles that will stream on the Roku Channel. The pact will deliver films from Saban’s 2021 slate to Roku Channel viewers in the U.S. and Canada within as few as three months after theatrical

Lionsgate said Wednesday that Roland Emmerich’s sci-fi pic Moonfall will be released on February 4, 2022. Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, John Bradley, Michael Peña, Charlie Plummer, Kelly Yu, Eme Ikwuakor, Carolina Bartczak and Donald Sutherland star in the big-canvas pic, which at a reported budget of $140 million is the biggest-budget “independent” movie to shoot

Right off the bat I can tell you I am really rooting for the success of F9, the latest addition to the Fast & Furious franchise, because if this one doesn’t floor it in theaters the pandemic may have claimed the multiplex as its latest victim. Designed to be seen with a raucous crowd applauding

EXCLUSIVE: Not a happy day in Stamford, CT, today as WWE had a round of layoffs that impact its film, TV and social media divisions in Connecticut and Los Angeles. Trying to find out the exact number, but WWE Studios saw layoffs in features, TV and digital/social media division Advanced Media Group. All of these

Control filmmaker Anton Corbijn has boarded Dancer II, a follow-up to the documentary Dancer again starring ballet superstar Sergei Polunin. The second film will be a visual exploration of dance and will include multiple extended performance sequences as well as an intimate look into how those are crafted. Producers are Gabrielle Tana (Dancer) in association