Sometime after the screening began, the sound system broke down. The audience, until then attentive, quickly exited. When the film resumed after 20 minutes, no more than 10 or 12 people were still in their seats. “The breakdown was deliberate, you know,” Patwardhan told me later that night, over dinner. For a moment I was […]

“Now, here is the issue. It didn’t matter anymore. It was me and my parts up there. I had decisions to make,” she writes. “I went to the projection booth, slapped Paul [Verhoeven, the director] across the face, left, went to my car, and called my lawyer.”

First Run New Hollywood Movies To Be Shown Daily Featuring Exclusive Food Partnerships with Mendocino Farms, Tocaya Organica Ben Chou, CEO of Welcome Entertainment Inc.’s WE Drive-Ins, Santa Monica, has announced an exclusive lease of the historic Santa Monica landmark Sears parking (The Mark 302, 302 Colorado Avenue Santa Monica, CA 90401) lot to show Hollywood’s […]

Saints Sinners: Judgment Day sees vengeance running rampant and family loyalty ceasing to exist in the small town of Cypress when Mayor Ella Johnson (Vanessa Bell Calloway) is arrested for killing Malik Thompson (Karon Joseph Riley) whose body is found at the bottom of her empty pool. Simultaneously, Ella’s mother Leona (Donna Biscoe) steps in to […]

“We hope that Shaolin Master can win favor with our audience as previous PVOD titles have. Going forward, iQIYI’s Ultimate Online Cinema section will continue streaming a slate of high-quality films, providing premium new offerings for our subscribers. At the same time, we also hope that the PVOD mode will achieve sustainable development, as we […]

Universal Pictures has signed on to be the home for a biopic of iconic singer Madonna, who will direct her own story from a script she is writing with Oscar-winning Juno scribe Diablo Cody. Madonna will produce the film with Pascal Pictures’ Amy Pascal. Madonna will not act in the film, but she will lead […]

Neflix says it’s “kicking 2021 off with a bang” — and it appears that momentum will last all year. The streaming service is set to release a new movie every single week of 2021, the company announced on Tuesday. “Netflix will bring you a new movie every week featuring the biggest stars including Leonardo DiCaprio, […]

Aamir Khan met Turkish first lady earlier this month. New Delhi: Bollywood actor Aamir Khan has been targeted in the mouthpiece of the RSS, the ideological parent of the ruling BJP, more than a week after he met Turkish first lady Emine Erdogan. He has been questioned over the meeting and his endorsement of Chinese […]

When movies first began to see delays early last year, there was a hope that things would get back to normal before too long. Some films were only pushed back a couple of months in hopes they could be the first back in theaters. As time went on, it became clear that mass theatrical distribution […]

One issue some people are facing amid the boom in email newsletters is staying on top of all the ones they’re interested in while managing their inboxes. Substack, one of the most prominent newsletter platforms, is trying to remedy that by rolling out a newsletter reader. Substack Reader, which is available in beta, already includes […]