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Specialty box office is ready for liftoff.

Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd are reuniting for a new limited series!

The Sparks Brothers, a documentary about a cult band by a brand-name director in Edgar Wright (Baby Driver, Shaun of the Dead) hits big screens this weekend, a felicitous one as New York and LA drop most capacity restrictions in theaters. The film about musician brothers Ron and Russell Mael of Sparks premiered at Sundance this year, notching a 100% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes — all of which could hopefully give the arthouse market some long-term traction through the summer

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterFox Entertainment and its animation studio Bento Box Entertainment are getting into NFTs — non-fungible tokens — and launching a $100 million creator fund through its newly created business unit, Blockchain Creative Labs.Blockchain Creative Labs will be based in Los Angeles and operate under the Fox Entertainment banner, with Bento Box CEO Scott Greenbreg serving as chief executive of the lab.

Cinemark CEO Mark Zoradi and CFO/COO Sean Gamble both praised the pending mergers of MGM and Amazon and Discovery and WarnerMedia, saying they would help strengthen film production.

John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place Part II reportedly became the first film to surpass $100 million in US ticket sales since the onset of the pandemic.According to Variety, A Quiet Place Part II surpassed the $100 million milestone in just 15 days since it was released exclusively in movie theaters on Friday, May 28.

Hidden Empire Film Group’s comedy/horror romp The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2 scared up a $1.064M opening weekend (per screen average of $2,533) with writer-director Deon Taylor and his team huddling right now over where and how much to expand the run — but expand it they will. Taylor’s thrilled with the $$ although he and others in the indie space acknowledged Sunday that ongoing distancing restrictions in key New York and LA is a major bummer.

Paramount Pictures is going all-in on filmmaker Jeff Nichols as they secured him to direct the third film in the successful “A Quiet Place” franchise with the first two installments helmed by actor-turned-director John Krasinski.

It’s time to go to the movies and enjoy all the latest new movie releases out now in theatres!In a city as big and bountiful as Philly, there are so many local movie theaters near you to choose from that it can be hard to know where to start.

The box office in the US is buzzing! With a series of film releases in the US over the last one month, the battle for the box office collection war has begun and is going neck-to-neck. Over the last few weeks, John Krasinski's film's A Quiet Place Part II has dominated the US box office.

British-born Emily Blunt has forged an acting career and life for herself in the States, living in New York with her husband and actor John Krasinski and their two daughters Hazel, seven, and four-year-old Violet. And although she may be hundreds of miles away across the pond, the 38-year-old enjoyed the joys of homeschooling during lockdown like we all have.

While theatres in India are far from opening any time soon due to the deadly second wave of the Covid 19 pandemic, North America is back to the movies. This past weekend two big budget films, namely John Krasinski's A Quiet Place Part II and Craig Gillespie's Cruella, opened to audiences across the US and various parts of North America.

John Krasinski and Emily Blunt's A Quiet Place Part II is making the pandemic box office look happier and brighter. After a lull at the cinemas for over a year, the release of A Quiet Place Part II has been off to a spectacular start in North America and the box office results seem to be a huge boost amidst the pandemic.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterYou can almost hear the collective sigh of relief from studio executives across Hollywood.After a brutal year and change for the movie theater business, the North American box office is finally showing signs of life again.That’s mostly thanks to John Krasinski’s thriller “A Quiet Place Part II,” which has collected $48 million between Friday and Sunday — the biggest three-day haul of the pandemic era.

John Krasinski has wrapped up his cross-country tour of movie theater pop-ins with two stops in Texas!

It’s always amazing to learn what crazy behind-the-scenes production details go into the making of infamous TV and movie scenes!

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterAudiences are going to be confronted this weekend with something they haven’t seen in a long time: New movies they may actually want to watch in theaters.In the first box office battle in ages, Paramount’s “A Quiet Place Part II” and Disney’s “Cruella” are expected to heat up an ice-cold domestic box office and kick off a delayed summer movie season.The sequel to 2018’s “A Quiet Place,” starring Emily Blunt and directed by her husband John Krasinski, is

Emily Blunt is looking back at her performance in A Quiet Place.