Super Bowl – to spend or not to spend. For some motion picture marketing heads, it’s a no brainer in the bang for buck before a near 128 million-plus viewers; this year’s Super Bowl LX single ad rate hitting a record $10 million up from last year’s estimated $7.5M-$8M for a 30-second spot. As…

Was it packed houses or empty auditoriums juiced by group sales? That’s the obsession over the opening of Amazon MGM Studios’ $75M First Lady Melania documentary from director Brett Ratner, which debuted to $7M, the biggest opening for a non-fiction feature in the last decade, outstripping…

EXCLUSIVE: 308 Enterprises is mounting Known Associate, a feature take of the Jay Dobyns and Nils Johnson-Shelton book No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels with The Notebook filmmaker Nick Cassavetes attached to direct. Published in 2009 to…

“I don’t want to put the power into other people’s hands as to what can be made,” says director Jay Duplass, talking about the perseverance of indie filmmaking at a time when the motion picture industry is being squeezed by conglomerates. Duplass was joined by fellow filmmakers Tamra Davis…

EXCLUSIVE: Theo Rossi, Mario Van Peebles and Derek Wilson are headlining the vampire island movie Young Blood, written and being directed by Ari Schlossberg and currently shooting in Key Largo, FL. The trio join previously announced Myles Truitt, Madison Wolfe, Marley Aliah, Genneya Walton, Alex…

Vin Diesel just announced that the next film in Universal’s Fast & Furious franchise, which now is titled Fast Forever, will hit theaters on March 17, 2028. Louis Letterier returns as director. Letterier directed the last pic, Fast X, in 2023 with Diesel back in the Domenic Torreto role. The…

Beth de Araújo’s drama Josephine starring Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan, about an 8-year-old girl who accidentally witnesses a heinous crime in Golden Gate Park, took both the U.S. Dramatic Competition Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival Awards. In a tearful…

Paul Feig’s highest-grossing movie ever, The Housemaid, arrives on premium digital and premium video on demand on February 3, Lionsgate said Friday. By the way, that’s a 46-day theatrical window. The movie clicked past the $300 million mark at the global box office earlier this week, and last…

The WNBA’s Indiana Fever star Sophie Cunningham has inked with 3 Arts Sports. 3 Arts Sports will work with Cunningham to expand her career beyond the court into storytelling, brand partnerships and entertainment-driven opportunities. She will continue to be repped by her agent Perry Rogers, CEO…

EXCLUSIVE: Cameron Diaz and Stephen Merchant are starring in an upcoming Amazon MGM Studios romantic comedy movie that Merchant will direct off a screenplay he co-wrote with John Butler.   The as-yet-untitled film follows a workaholic Brit (Merchant) employed at an upscale New York hotel who…

Amazon MGM Studios’ Brett Ratner documentary, Melania, has been nixed from South African theaters, which sources inform us were political reasons. That said, the pic’s South African distributor, Filmfinity's head of sales and marketing, Thobashan Govindarajulu didn't provide reasons for the…

Focus Features is releasing the Working Title and StudioCanal movie Pressure on May 29, ahead of the annual D-Day day of remembrance, setting the stage for a major theatrical event tied to one of the most consequential moments in modern history.Featuring an all-star ensemble led by Andrew Scott…