Illumination/Nintendo/Universal’s The Super Mario Bros Movie doesn’t need a mushroom to get bigger, it just organically is. Out of the gate Wednesday, sans Tuesday previews, the feature adaptation of the classic game is looking at $26 million, for what’s translating into a $86.2M three-day total and a $127.5M Wednesday-through-Sunday haul.
Interestingly, even though its opening day was a Friday, Paramount/Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog 2 had a $26.3M first day a year ago (including Thursday previews). That film currently holds the three-day opening record for a video game feature adaptation with $72.1M, a benchmark Super Mario Bros. looks set to squash. >>>95% Audience Score |
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Showtime Slate Shift - Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance’s film Heist 88, which had been earmarked for Paramount+, will be moving to Showtime. Additionally, the network has made decisions on two of its three comedy pilots, handing a six-episode series order to Seasoned, starring Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody. >>>Fate Of Two Other Series
The Write Stuff - The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities scribe Tom Wolfe is the subject of new documentary Radical Wolfe, an adaptation of a 2015 Vanity Fair article by Moneyball and The Big Short author Michael Lewis, who was a longtime personal friend of Wolfe's. >>>Kino Lorber Distributing
All Wrapped Up - Sony‘s second trailer for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has set a viewership record, coming in not only as the highest-viewed Spider-Verse franchise trailer, but also as the most-viewed second trailer for any recent Marvel film within a 24-hour period and, maybe most impressive, the most-viewed superhero film trailer of the summer. >>>148 Million Views
In Brief - 20th Century is adapting Emily Henry’s popular novel Beach Read with Yulin Kuang set to direct...Former Bron Exec Anjay Nagpal will launch a podcast network called Entropy Media with five shows including Brokers, Bagmen & Moles... Jimmy Fallon pulled in strong first-quarter ratings for NBC with The Tonight Show & That’s My Jam.
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When director Peter Sohn and producer Denise Ream began working on Elemental, they started with the idea of bringing the elements to life. This led to the creation of Element City, a sprawling metropolis filled with residents made of fire, water, earth and air. Here, Sohn and Ream talk about working on the project, discovering how difficult it is to animate fire and water and to imbue them with emotion. >>>Read The Interview |
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Exclusive Ahead of the global debut of the AGBO spy series Citadel, Priyanka Chopra Jonas is getting into business with Amazon Studios again, this time opposite John Cena and Idris Elba in Heads of State. Cameras roll in May. Exclusive Orlando Bloom is set to play an American linguist in a series based on Maggie O’Farrell’s This Must Be the Place. Bloom is also set as an exec producer on the project, which is in the works at Amazon, where the Pirates of the Caribbean star has a first-look deal. Exclusive Regina Hall has closed a deal to star alongside Sadie Sink, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Murray Bartlett in O’Dessa, Searchlight Pictures' original rock opera from writer-director Geremy Jasper which commences production in May. Exclusive Jack Harlow has rounded out the cast of the all-star ensemble of Apple Original Films’ The Instigators, starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck. The cast also includes Hong Chau, Paul Walter Hauser, Ving Rhames, Ron Perlman, Alfred Molina and Michael Stuhlbarg. Doug Liman is directing. In Brief - HBO Max's It prequel series Welcome To Derry welcomed Taylour Paige, Jovan Adepo, James Remar & Chris Chalk to its cast...NBC's comedy pilot St. Denis Medical has added Josh Lawson, Kahyun Kim & Mekki Leeper. |
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🍿 A judge has rejected a swift settlement reached by top exhibitor AMC and meme stock investors. The investors had sued over the company's plan to convert its preferred equity shares, which it dubbed APEs, into common stock. The move is one of several aimed at reducing debt on the theater chain's balance sheet as it navigates an uncertain box office climate.
🔱 Warner Bros has moved James Wan’s Aquaman & The Lost Kingdom five days earlier to Wednesday, December 20 this year instead of Christmas Day. Blitz Bazawule’s feature take of the Broadway musical The Color Purple swaps to Christmas Day.
🚨 A year and a half after The Wire star's death, the man who sold Michael K. Williams’ the drugs that killed him has pleaded guilty. Irvin Cartagena faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years and up to 40 years on the charges.
🚀 Donald Glover told GQ that he has been talking to Lucasfilm about playing Lando Calrissian again saying, "Lando is definitely somebody I’d like to hang out with — we’re talking about it, that's as much as I can say without Kathleen Kennedy hunting me down."
🤦♂️ NPR objected to Twitter’s decision to label the network "state-affiliated media." When the Elon Musk-owned social media platform slaps that label on accounts, it does not amplify them or recommend them to people, potentially impacting online traffic. NPR, which is editorially independent, says that less than 1% of its operating budget comes from federal sources.
In Brief - Blumhouse’s Five Nights At Freddy's is going day & date in theaters and on Peacock...CBS locked in record viewership for its ambitious three-hour FBI crossover on Tuesday night, garnering its largest audience of the season with an average of 6.19M viewers across primetime. |
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Trending  Johnny Depp’s comeback got a big boost when his movie Jeanne Du Barry was tapped to open the Cannes Film Festival.
🔻 Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch lost their bid to block a judge's ability to compel them to testify live in the Dominion defamation case. |
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On the Radar
Thu - The Masters tees off
Fri - Star Wars Celebration Europe begins
Sun - Easter
Tue - Danny Masterson retrial begins |
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In The Beginning... - The original Warner Brothers West Coast Studio was built in Hollywood in 1923, and the storied studio will celebrate its centennial — which officially passed on Tuesday — with a candlelight ceremony in Burbank tonight. |
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