Collaborate Disseminate
No R-rated film has ever earned as much in its opening weekend, reports the Hollywood Reporter — a whopping $205 million. (The previous record was $133.7 million, set in 2016 by the original film Deadpool…)
It’s also the very R-rated film eve… Continue reading Disney’s First R-Rated Movie Opening Sets an All-Time Record: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’
No R-rated film has ever earned as much in its opening weekend, reports the Hollywood Reporter — a whopping $205 million. (The previous record was $133.7 million, set in 2016 by the original film Deadpool…)
It’s also the very R-rated film eve… Continue reading Disney’s First R-Rated Movie Opening Sets an All-Time Record: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’
As Comic-Con hits San Diego, “part of the big news in 2024 is that the con won’t have a corresponding virtual or online event this year,” according to Polygon, “for the first time since 2019.”
But there’s still some big scifi media news, according to … Continue reading Comic-Con 2024: New Doctor Who Series, ‘Star Trek’ Movie, Keanu Reeves, and a Red Hulk
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, who has overseen the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s unprecedented success, has expressed his longstanding appreciation for sequels and world-building in cinema at a time when Disney’s top executive has admitted that t… Continue reading Marvel’s Kevin Feige Defends Sequels as an ‘Absolute Pillar of the Industry’
No creature in the history of planet Earth sparks the imagination quite like Tyrannosaurus rex. But how do we separate the movie-monster myth from the actual animal? Victoria the T-rex, a traveling exhibition currently visiting Melbourne Museum in Aust… Continue reading The life of Victoria the T-Rex, and what Jurassic Park got wrong
J. Michael Cline, the co-founder of Fandango, died from suicide this week after falling from the twentieth floor of a Manhattan hotel. The New York Times reports: Mr. Cline, who was 64, co-founded Fandango in 2000 and left the company in 2011, accordin… Continue reading Founder of Fandango Dies After Plunge From Manhattan Hotel
In Frank Herbert’s Dune novels, water is so scarce on planet Arrakis that it’s absolutely sacred to the desert-dwelling Fremen, who wear special ‘stillsuits’ that capture and recycle nearly all their body fluids. Now, a YouTuber has built one for real…. Continue reading Real-life ‘stillsuit’ recycles body fluids into drinkable water
At its I/O developer conference today, Google announced Veo, its latest generative AI video model, that “can generate ‘high-quality’ 1080p resolution videos over a minute in length in a wide variety of visual and cinematic styles,” reports The Verge. F… Continue reading Google Targets Filmmakers With Veo, Its New Generative AI Video Model
Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company is shrinking the MCU with a new mission to drop the number of Marvel TV series to two a year and the film output to no more than three movies per year. The comment follows Iger conceding last year that Marvel had di… Continue reading Marvel Will Release No More Than Three Movies and Two Shows Per Year, Bob Iger Says
Sony Pictures Entertainment and Apollo Global Management have made a bid to acquire Paramount for $26 billion and take it private. Variety reports: Sony and private-equity giant Apollo submitted a letter with the non-binding offer Wednesday to Paramoun… Continue reading Sony, Apollo Offers To Buy Paramount For $26 Billion