Movies

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen in the U.S., Universal Pictures is pushing a number of its upcoming horror films to new release dates. On Wednesday, the company announced that “Candyman,” a film produced by MGM and Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions, in association with Bron Creative, would move to Oct. 16. The film was originally slated for release on Sept. 25.  Blumhouse’s...

Action film star Scott Adkins discusses his upcoming thriller ‘Legacy of Lies,’ and how physical actors like Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan inspired him to want to pursue martial arts and film.

After the coronavirus shut down theaters, actor Eric Tabach contacted his friend, filmmaker Christian Nilsson, with a great idea — use the empty theaters to their advantage to launch a movie to the top of the box office. Nilsson explains how they pulled it off with a $0 budget.

Movie theaters are opening, but will people continue to watch this summer’s few new releases at home? Dr. Andy Draper, who hosts the Off Script Film Review podcast, explains how coronavirus is changing this year’s summer movie season.

“Jaws,” “Black Panther” and “Back to the Future” are just a few of the modern popcorn classics coming to the drive-in this summer

Michelle Amor co-chairs the Committee of Black Writers for the Writers Guild of America West. She said that Hollywood needs to do more to live up to its rhetoric about the importance of Black lives. That means hiring Black writers to write Black stories.

Cinemark, the third-largest movie theater chain in the U.S., is looking to have all of its more than 500 cinemas reopened by July 17. The company announced on Wednesday a phased reopening plan starting June 19 in Texas. The rest of its locations will open between July 3 and July 17 in advance of Disney’s “Mulan” on July 24 and Warner Bros. “Tenet”...

“Black Widow” was to kick off what promised to be a typically lucrative summer moviegoing season, which runs Memorial Day through Labor Day and generally accounts for nearly 40% of the yearly North American box office

Streaming services have seen a major surge in subscriber growth during the coronavirus pandemic, but the outbreak is also driving more people to use pirated movie websites.

Movie theaters may be closed, but friends are still finding ways to watch together while staying apart thanks to applications like Netflix Party

Faced with a lengthy shutdown due the coronavirus pandemic, movie theaters are requesting relief from the U.S. government

With few exceptions, movie theaters across North America are remaining open while Broadway theaters, sports arenas and museums close their doors to help curtail the spread of the coronavirus

We’re shaken and stirred that it’s Daniel Craig‘s birthday. Today, the English actor turns 52 years old and has blessed us with an epic return to the silver screen after a two-year hiatus. In the past year, we saw the celebrity in Rian Johnson‘s delightful 2019 whodunnit Knives Out, where the actor laid on a thick, comical Southern accent as a donut hole-loving...

Two “Bad Boys” were too good for one “Dolittle” at the box office. “Bad Boys for Life” starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence brought in $59 million in the U.S. and Canada to score a No. 1 debut entering the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. The action-packed, buddy comedy returned for the franchise’s third installment after a 17-year hiatus…

Every movie year offers up a parade of hits and flops. But in 2019, no winner was in the same galaxy as the Walt Disney Co. And the biggest loser might have been anyone less thrilled about the box-office domination of franchise films. When the year closes out Tuesday, the top 10 films in U.S. and Canada theaters will all…

The 2019 U.S. box office is headed toward the second-best annual haul in cinematic history. As of Sunday, the movies released this year garnered $11.26 billion domestically. Current estimates have the year’s final tally as high as $11.4 billion, but likely to fall between $11.36 billion and $11.39 billion, according to data from Comscore. In 2018, the U.S. box office…

Ahead of the holidays, fans were gifted with the best treat yet: a new trailer for the upcoming “Top Gun: Maverick.” The nearly three minute clip features jet engines roaring, heart-pounding flips and high-speed chases. And this time around, Cruise is the teacher.

Greta Gerwig says she wanted to make her adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women” “at the speed of life.” Gerwig’s film is the seventh big-screen version of the 1868 novel but one of the most vibrant. Gerwig says she wanted to tell the 19th Century story in present tense, and make it so lush that audience members would literally...

Olivia Wilde said Thursday she does not believe the real-life journalist she plays in the new film “Richard Jewel” “traded sex for tips” despite that insinuation in the movie. In a series of tweets, Wilde called late Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs bold, smart and fearless and the actress rejected headlines that suggested she thought Scruggs acted improperly. Wilde said…