The rise of the ‘surprise drop’ movie is lockdown’s greatest unexpected gift

If you’re hoping to see Tenet at your local drive-in movie theater on September 3, you might be out of luck.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticLagging a few weeks behind the rest of the world (where Russell Crowe road-rage thriller “Unhinged” released in several territories late last month), the United States is slowly seeing cinemas reopen in anticipation of Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” — still optimistically dated for Sept. 3.But that doesn’t mean film fans don’t have options, opening on drive-in screens, virtual cinemas and subscriptions services.With more than 30 new movies releasing in the U.S.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterSeth MacFarlane and Chadwick Boseman are teaming as executive producers on a limited series about the Little Rock Nine that is currently in development at Universal Content Productions (UCP).The untitled series is set in 1957 after the landmark Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education.

The North American box office is resuming after an unprecedented five-month shutdown due to the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic. The major circuits in Canada reopened in earnest over the weekend to welcome Paramount’s The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run and the Russell Crowe road-rage thriller Unhinged, from Solstice Studios.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This weekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

According to Seth Rogen, the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is making it tougher to launch big-screen comedies.

There’s a charming weirdness at the core of An American Pickle, the latest Seth Rogen star vehicle. It’s a movie that sounds like it could be either amazing or terrible, depending on the execution.

Seth Rogen has scripted and starred in any number of movies that have pulled inspiration from his life, but he says, the HBO Max time-travel farce adapted from a short story by Simon Rich, is perhaps the story he relates to most.The film stars Rogen as Herschel Greenbaum, a ditchdigger living in a fictional Eastern European country circa 1919.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has put together a monstrous package around the satirical Simon Rich New Yorker short story Everyday Parenting Tips that has Rich scripting for Ryan Reynolds to star and Paddington‘s Paul King to direct.

Walmart Drive-in experience will bring movie nights to 160 Walmart Supercenter locations across 26 states. Of the 320 showings, 94 will be hosted in Texas.The movie lineup is subject to change, but currently includes nine flicks like recent blockbusters “Black Panther,” “Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse” and “Wonder Woman,” early 2000s hits “Friday Night Lights” and “Spy Kids,” and vintage classics “Space Jam,” “E.T.

HBO Max film An American Pickle goes to Seth Rogen, who plays dual roles as a 30-something app developer and his 30-something great-grandfather (more on how that comes to be in a bit), but the better name to pay attention to to get a feel for An American Pickle's essence is Simon Rich, whose short story is the basis for the movie (Rich also wrote the screenplay).

Brad Paisley sure knows how to plan a sweet surprise.

Based on an utterly ridiculous premise—a man who is preserved in pickle juice for 100 years and comes out of his hibernation unscathed in modern-day Brooklyn—it’s kind of unbelievable that Seth Rogen’s “An American Pickle” is a film at all, and a movie that someone actually greenlit.

William Earl administratorThis year Variety’s annual Power of Young Hollywood party will be replaced by a one-hour program that will premiere on Facebook on Thursday, Aug. 6 at 6 p.m.

Diddy just gushed over Beyonce and shared the following post on his revolt TV Twitter account. Fans went crazy with excitement as expected.

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