Leonardo DiCaprio is enjoying a night out on the town.
28.07.2023 - 21:33 / deadline.com
Major Sony release date changes here, a bulk of them due to the actors strike.
Let’s start with the good news: The Culver City lot is dating Bad Boys 4, which recently wrapped production for Fathers’ Day weekend, June 14, 2024. It’s going up against Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2. Through three movies, the Will Smith and Martin Lawrence cop series counts over $841M worldwide.
Sony is also dating Venom 3 for July 12, 2024. Sony always had that date on reserve, and it’s up against a New Line horror movie. Through two movies, the Venom movies have grossed $1.36 billion.
Now for the bad news which is impacting the Q3 and Q4 schedules due to the SAG-AFTRA strike:
—Gran Turismo, originally dated for Aug. 11, is now going to sneak preview over that weekend and Aug. 18, officially opening on Aug. 25 wide. Said a Sony spokesperson on the unique last minute, promo shift, “The stars can’t promote the film, but the audience can.”
–Sony/Marvel’s Madame Web goes a little earlier on Valentine’s Day, Wednesday Feb. 14, instead of Feb. 16 next year.
–Sony/Marvel property, Kraven the Hunter, originally set for Oct. 6, is now moving all the way to Aug. 30, 2024, Labor Day weekend. The studio needs to blast this one out on a global tour and Aaron Taylor Johnson need to be in the mix for this frosh franchise. What’s left on Oct. 6? An untitled Focus Features movie and the limited launch of Apple Original Films and Paramount’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Kraven the Hunter currently sits alone on Labor Day weekend, a place where Disney/Marvel posted a record opening for the 4-day holiday with Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings ($94.6M).
–The Ghostbusters: Afterlife sequel, though finished shooting, still needs actors, I hear, in
Leonardo DiCaprio is enjoying a night out on the town.
Sony’s Craig Gillespie-directed comedy, Dumb Money, about the GameStop meme investors isn’t going wide anymore on Sept. 22. Rather, the Culver City lot has opted to go exclusive with the ensemble movie on Sept. 15 in LA and NYC, then a limited break on Sept. 22, followed by a moderate release on Sept. 29 and a final wide on Oct. 6. You’ll remember, Sony moved Kraven the Hunter off of that first weekend of October to Labor Day weekend 2024.
teaser trailer for the docuseries entitled “Heart of Invictus” dropped Wednesday and will premiere on the streamer on Aug. 30.The sporting games were founded in 2014 by the Duke of Sussex, 38, as an Olympic-style tournament for injured men and women who served in the armed forces.The show will involve the royal meeting with different players, as well as interviews with wounded participants who want to share their inspirational stories.“The Games doesn’t focus on what causes the injury but really about the recovery and how to be part of a community again,” Harry said in the teaser.“Everyone is going to struggle at some point,” he went on.In the clip, footage of Harry speaking during a previous Invictus Games’ opening ceremony is shown.Shots of veterans talking about their service and the pain from their ailments are also featured.
EXCLUSIVE: After announcing new docs on NFL Hall of Famer Mel Blount and MLB icon Tommy John in Whatever It Takes and The Bionic Man, respectively, Winter State Entertainment has unveiled The Hitman: A Tommy Hearns Story as its latest sports documentary.
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Netflix has confirmed the release date for the final season of gripping crime drama Top Boy.
Things got a little chilly at Bravo with the trailer drop of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season 4. The network revealed that the show will be premiering on Tuesday, September 5 at 9 p.m. ET/PT with episodes available the next day on Peacock. Watch a preview of the new season in the video posted above.
Robbie Robertson, who was the lead guitarist and songwriter for Canadian-American group The Band, has passed away, Variety reports. He was 80 years old and had been combatting a long illness.
A.D. Amorosi Long before Robbie Robertson became Martin Scorsese’s go-to film composer or music supervisor, the Canadian singer-songwriter-guitarist had a cinematic, storytelling edge to his songwriting.
Martin Scorsese, whose collaborations with The Band guitarist Robbie Robertson included directing the 1978 documentary The Last Waltz about the group’s final show to several soundtracks for Scorsese’s movies including the upcoming Killers of the Flower Moon, reacted Wednesday after it was announced Robertson died in Los Angeles at age 80 after a long illness.
Robbie Robertson, The Band guitarist, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 80.
Robbie Robertson, the brilliant founding guitarist of The Band who also wrote many of its most famous songs and whose final farewell show with the group was memorialized in Martin Scorsese’s landmark documentary The Last Waltz, died today in Los Angeles. He was 80.
Chris Morris Music Reporter Guitarist-songwriter-singer Robbie Robertson, who led the Canadian-American group the Band to rock prominence in the 1970s and worked extensively with Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese, has died. He was 80.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Will Smith told Kevin Hart on a new episode of Peacock’s “Hart to Heart” talk show that he “went too far” as an actor while portraying a slave in the Apple drama “Emancipation.” The film, Smith’s first release after the notorious Oscars slap, centered on the true story of a runaway slave named Peter, a photograph of whom became a rallying call for the abolition of slavery as it depicted his mutilated back scars from several whippings. “I went too far in ‘Emancipation,’” Smith said. “Just bringing it up, I start to get teary.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire are continuing their summer vacation around Europe.
premieres on August 11. Based on the New York Times bestselling novel of the same name by Casey McQuinston, the romantic comedy follows a complicated and unexpected journey from distain to friendship to love.You won't want to miss this entertaining rom-com that's perfect for movie night when it comes to Prime Video on August 11. To watch, you'll just need an Amazon Prime membership or a membership to Prime Video.
Having a super famous family isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Will Smith has described the Hollywood actors and writers’ strikes as a “pivotal moment” in the industry.In an Instagram post on Friday (July 28), Smith expressed his support for the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) strikes.“I wanna talk for a second about ACTING,” Smith wrote. “As some of yall mighta heard, my guild, @SAGAFTRA are on strike along with our writer colleagues in the WGA.
Will Smith is speaking out in support of the SAG-AFTRA strike. The 54-year-old actor took to Instagram on Friday to call the SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild of America strikes «a pivotal moment for our profession.»«I wanna talk for a second about ACTING.
Sony is making some big changes to their release schedule in the face of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA and writers strikes.