Sony Pictures Animation The post-President’s Day holiday weekend box-office is usually a slow one, but this year it was a bit better – even if some films got hit pretty hard. Sony Pictures Animation’s “Goat” took the top spot with $17 million, dropping just 38% compared to last week’s winner “Wuthering Heights” which fell 57% […]

BBC, Disney+ As previously reported, the future of “Doctor Who” remains in limbo. Disney’s attempt to bring the franchise to a wider global audience saw the budget increase, but it failed to find an audience in the UK or on the Disney+ service internationally. The show ended its run with Ncuti Gatwa’s The Doctor regenerating […]

Ubisoft Ubisoft has been struggling as a company in recent years with job cuts, studio closures, game cancellations and declining revenue. Despite all that, they recently announced major restructuring for the company, which will see its creative teams restructured into autonomous ‘creative houses’. That includes the Tencent-backed subsidiary Vantage Studios, which will shepherd the company’s […]

HBO Nightwing“Nightwing: Year One” co-writer Scott Beatty has endorsed a casting suggestion from a recent Instagram posting by “Heated Rivalry” star Hudson Williams holding up a copy of that comic’s 20th anniversary edition. The photo is captioned with Williams asking James Gunn to grab a coffee with him, which fans have interpreted as Williams wanting […]

Universal Pictures Last year, Universal Pictures released “Jurassic World Rebirth” to some solid success. Gareth Edwards directed the project, coming on board relatively late in the process, which meant he had little input in pre-production as David Koepp’s script was set and both production and release dates were in place. Despite those limitations, the title […]

Universal Pictures Oscar winner Tom Hanks will both produce and play former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in the film adaptation of George Saunders’ bestselling novel “Lincoln in the Bardo” at Starburns Industries. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Duke Johnson (“Anomalisa”) will direct and produce the project, which Hanks’ Playtone label and his regular collaborator Gary Goetzman will produce. […]

Netflix Lily Collins (“Emily in Paris”) is set to play iconic actress Audrey Hepburn in a film about the making of 1961 classic “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” at Case Study Films and Imagine Entertainment. The film is based on Sam Wasson’s bestselling book “Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the Dawn of […]

The Funko Collectibles brand, creator of those Pop Vinyl figurines, has struck a deal with production companies Rideback and Spuree to develop film, TV and animated content. The two companies will serve as Funko’s content partners for original Funko-driven projects across animation, hybrid, live-action, scripted and unscripted formats. Funko’s brands – namely Funko, Loungefly and […]

BAFTA Enterprises Limited. Courtesy of Alamy. Discussion about this year’s BAFTA Film Awards ceremony has been dominated by an incident that made it into the broadcast. During the ceremony, “Sinners” stars Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were presenting an award when a racial slur was shouted at them from the audience. The pair carried […]

BAFTA Enterprises Limited. Courtesy of Alamy. Discussion about this year’s BAFTA Film Awards ceremony has been dominated by an incident that made it into the broadcast. During the ceremony, “Sinners” stars Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were presenting an award when a racial slur was shouted at them from the audience. The pair carried […]