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The first trailer for director George Clooney’s Christmas Day release, The Boys in the Boat, dropped today. The Boys in the Boat is based on Daniel James Brown's #1 New York Times non-fiction bestseller about the 1936 University of Washington rowing team who competed for gold at the Summer Olympics…

Amazon MGM Studios and Miramax have released the trailer for The Beekeeper, the action film that teams star Jason Statham and director David Ayer. The film hits theaters January 12, 2024. Statham stars as a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as "Beekeepers." He…

EXCLUSIVE: Cord Jefferson’s feature directorial debut American Fiction is changing up its release plan, shifting from a November 3 limited opening to December 15. The MGM/MRC theatrical release, which stars Jeffrey Wright, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown, Tracee Ellis Ross and Skyler Wright and just…

Peter Oillataguerre has been appointed to the new role of Head of Feature Film Production at Amazon MGM Studios, studio head Jennifer Salke announced to staffers via email on Friday. Related Stories Breaking News…

The specialty market had a Shah Rukh Khan-nice weekend as Yash Raj Films' Jawan pulled in an estimated $6.2 million in 813 theaters — a per-theater average $7.6k — taking the no. 4 spot at the North American box office. That's a $7.56 million cume for the Bollywood action thriller including Thursday shows…

In its second weekend in theaters, MGM and director Emma Seligman's teen comedy Bottoms broke into the top ten films for the weekend (no. 7) on 715 screens, a major North America expansion from a 10-theater opening last week. An estimated $3 million gross for the three days, and $3.6 million for the…

EXCLUSIVE: Emerald Fennell likened making Saltburn, her dangerously dark comedy of class and lack of manners, "to taking your clothes off and exposing yourself." The filmmaker, who won an Oscar and BAFTAs for her debut feature Promising Young Woman, clarified that the "transgressive" material that…

Emma Seligman's Bottoms is looking at an estimated weekend gross of $516k on ten screens with a possible leading $51,625 per-theater average for the raunchy, teenage high school girl take on Fight Club. That's a win for MGM, its Orion Pictures label and Brownstone Productions, producers on the…

Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy franchise) and Jason Momoa (Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom) are teaming with Blue Beetle director Ángel Manuel Soto on The Wrecking Crew, the buddy action comedy that they’ve set up at MGM, Deadline can confirm. Related Stories …

Neon's re-release of Park Chan-Wook's 2003 Oldboy grossed an estimated $495k on 250 screens this weekend for a total cume of $880k over five days. It's set to cross the $1 million in its first week back – surpassing a cumulative North American gross of $707k with original distributor Metro Tartan Film…

Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation (WRMPPF) is honoring one of their biggest champs this year with a posthumous recognition: late MGM and United Artists Distribution Boss Erik Lomis. The honor will be recognized at the October 4 dinner at The Beverly Hilton. Lomis, who was a force in…

Another 2023 theatrical release gets moved due to the SAG-AFTRA strike as MGM is pushing the Zendaya-led tennis romance Challengers to April 26. The R-rated pic from director Luca Guadagnino was scheduled to open stateside on September 15, working off the heat of its Venice Film Festival opening-night…