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Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Regina Hall’s Rh Negative production company has signed a six-picture slate with ViacomCBS.Under the pact, the Girls Trip and The Hate U Give actress will executive produce six movies-of-the-week for the Paramount Network or other ViacomCBS-owned brands. Three of these she will executive produce with Jesse Collins Entertainment.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Jim Gaffigan and Rhea Seehorn are starring in the upcoming sci-fi comedy drama feature Linoleum which recently wrapped production in New York under COVID-19 safety guidelines.The film, written and directed by Colin West, is about the host of a failing children’s science TV show who attempts to fulfill his childhood dream of being an astronaut by building a rocket ship in his garage, all the while connecting surreal clues that

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Cameras are already rolling in Northern Rivers, Australia on Seriously Red, the musical dramedy that reps the first feature from Rose Byrne’s Dollhouse Pictures.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: It’s been said that some movies aren’t necessarily born, rather they fight their way to life.A lot of that responsibility falls on the shoulders of a film’s producer, who well after the cameras have turned off, and the set striked, sees a movie through to its endgame.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEros STX’s acquisition Songbird will be skipping theaters in exchange for a PVOD release starting Friday, Dec. 11.STX picked up the KJ Apa and Sofia Carson Invisible Narratives’ pandemic thriller back in August.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorParamount last night made some nudges on their theatrical release calendar. Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse, starring Michael B.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorSATURDAY AM UPDATE: Refresh for updates: Universal/Blumhouse’s genre body swap comedy Freaky starring Vince Vaughn took in $1.45M yesterday, including Thursday night previews ~$200K, on what looks to be a $4M opening at 2,472. Universal, the only major Hollywood studio putting out consistent fresh wide product during the pandemic, can claim a three-week streak at No.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorChris Pratt’s Guardians of the Galaxy character will be in Taika Waititi’s upcoming Marvel sequel Thor: Love And Thunder. This is not a shocker given how Thor is aboard Star Lord’s spaceship at the end of Avengers: Endgame. The movie is currently in pre-production at Fox Studios in Australia for a 2021 start date.Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman and Tessa Thompson return to the franchise in addition to Christian Bale.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE:  Two time Grammy winner and Oscar nominee Kenny Loggins is receiving the Career Achievement honor at the next Hollywood Music in Media Awards (HMMA) which will be held on Jan. 27, 2021 in a hybrid awards show.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: The Goodbye Girl Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss and 3x SAG ensemble winner Taryn Manning are joining the Mike Hatton action thriller production Every Last One of Them, which the latter Green Book actor will also star in with Paul Sloan.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorCohen Media Group and Curzon have jointly taken all US, UK and Eire distribution rights to Uberto Pasolini’s drama Nowhere Special. A theatrical release next year is being eyed.James Norton (Little Women and Grantchester) plays John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, who has dedicated his life to bringing up his four-year-old son, Michael (Daniel Lamont), after the child’s mother left them soon after giving birth.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorNEON has taken U.S. rights to Andrei Konchalovsky’s Dear Comrades!, which made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival where it won the Special Jury Prize.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorWarning: This recap has spoilers about today’s Disney+ drop of The Mandalorian Chapter 11: The Heiress, directed by Bryce Dallas HowardFinally, three episodes in on season two of The Mandalorian, we return to some serious Star Wars mythology following two standalone adventures for Mando.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorA decision from Warner Bros. on Wonder Woman 1984’s Christmas Day theatrical fate is imminent, I hear, either tomorrow or by Monday at the latest.The internet is in a tizzy over a Bloomberg article tonight that the sequel to the $821M-plus grossing 2017 DC hit, which broke several records for women at the box office, is headed for an HBO Max play a week or two following its Christmas Day theatrical run.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorIf you’re dying to know what the total revenue reap was from Disney’s combined PVOD/Disney+-overseas theatrical release experiment of Mulan, well, we just have to wait for the studio’s investor day on Dec. 10.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorSolstice Studios will release a new cut of Mark Wahlberg’s latest film under the new title Joe Bell on Feb. 19, 2021, timed to the delayed 2020-21 awards season.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Verve Ventures and UTA Independent Film Group have come together to represent domestic sales on the feature film What We Do Next, from filmmaker and playwright Stephen Belber.The movie, starring Corey Stoll, Karen Pittman (AppleTV’s The Morning Show) and Michelle Veintimilla (Netflix’s Seven Seconds, Fox’s Gotham as Firefly) was shot in Louisville, Kentucky during the pandemic and wrapped last month.The emotional drama follows a

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorGrammy and three-time SAG ensemble winner Danielle Brooks is joining HBO Max’s Peacemaker, the spinoff series to James Gunn’s upcoming The Suicide Squad movie.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorTwo time Primetime Emmy nominee and SAG Ensemble winner Millie Bobby Brown is reteaming with Netflix on the fantasy film Damsel, following the success of her recent fall hit Enola Holmes with the streamer.Brown will star and executive produce Damsel, which is set to be directed by 28 Weeks Later and Oscar nominated Spanish filmmaker Juan Carlos Fresnadillo off a screenplay by Dan Mazeau (the $302M WW grossing feature Wrath of the Titans

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorFilmLA reports that monthly applications saw a 23.7% surge in October to 880 permits over September’s 711 permits.Since film and TV productions commenced during the pandemic in June on-location, FilmLA has received roughly 2,565 film permit applications spanning 1,967 unique projects over the last 20 weeks.FilmLA’s daily intake now averages around 40 new applications per business day.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorUniversal Pictures’ Jennifer Lopez music fueled romantic comedy Marry Me is moving from Presidents Day-Valentine’s Day weekend on the theatrical release calendar next year, Feb. 12 and going to May 14, 2021.Marry Me will take the place of DreamWorks Animation’s Untitled Spirit Riding Free movie which has now been title Spirit Untamed.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE:  Cinema Guild has picked up all U.S. distribution rights to Jia Zhangke’s documentary Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue.The Chinese film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February and made its U.S.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE:  Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and two-time Oscar nominee Mikael Salomon has inked with Buchwald.Salomon directed episodes of HBO’s Emmy and Golden Globe-winning series Band of Brothers from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, for which he won an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie or Dramatic Special.Having worked as a cinematographer early on in his career on such movies as Backdraft, Far and Away, Always,