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- Jason Blum: “It’s Spike Lee’s Time” If Oscar Voters Do The Right Thing January 18, 2019Jason Blum minted his reputation as a Hollywood producer with wildly lucrative genre franchises like Paranormal Activity, The Purge and Insidious, so it feels unexpected to find him in the thick of things this awards season with a legitimate contender. But, really, how unexpected can something be if it keeps happening? A Blumhouse production has been […]
- ‘AJ And The Queen’ Casts Matthew Wilkas; Christopher Naoki Lee Joins ‘The Terror’ January 18, 2019Matthew Wilkas (Top Five) is set for a recurring role on AJ and the Queen, Netflix’s upcoming comedy series starring RuPaul Charles, from Charles, 2 Broke Girls co-creator and former Sex and the City showrunner Michael Patrick King and Warner Bros. TV. Written by King and Charles, the series stars RuPaul as Ruby Red, a bigger-than-life but […]
- Paramount Buys Kyle Rideout & Josh Epstein’s Pitch ‘Astrid’s Death List’ January 18, 2019EXCLUSIVE: Paramount has snapped up Kyle Rideout and Josh Epstein’s feature pitch for Astrid’s Death List which di Bonaventura Pictures is producing. The storyline is being kept under wraps. Erik Howsam and Stephen Shafer brought the project into Paramount and will be overseeing for di Bonaventura Pictures. The duo wrote the comedy Adventures in Public School, which Rideout directed, and […]
- M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Glass’ Shattering $50M+ Over 4-Days, Besting Debut Of ‘Split’; ‘Aquaman’ Swimming Past $300M January 18, 2019FRIDAY Midday Update: As we expected based on last night’s preview figures, Universal/BVI/Blumhouse’s Glass is headed for a $50M-$52M four-day weekend, and a $44M three-day. Both figures are higher than what Split made respectively (even though it didn’t launch on an MLK weekend), which was $40M over three days, $42.9M over four days. Today, with last night’s $3.7M, looks […]