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Jun162024 by cineverseNo Comments

Box Office: ‘Inside Out 2’ Jumps for Joy With $62 Million Opening Day — the Biggest of 2024

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By J. Kim Murphy According To The Daily) Don’t be afraid to catch feelings. Disney and Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” just scored the biggest box office opening day of the year so far, earning a spectacular $62 million across Friday and preview screenings from 4,440 locations. It will have no trouble blasting past the $82.5 million debut earned by “Dune: Part Two” to overtake it as the biggest domestic opening of 2024. It’ll also be the first release to notch a nine-figure domestic opening in nearly 11 months — the last one to get above $100 million was “Barbie” last summer. It’s a welcome bounce back for Pixar Animation Studios, which has struggled at the box office in recent years after Disney sent films like “Turning Red,” “Soul” and “Luca” directly to Disney+ during the COVID p...

Jun152024 by cineverseNo Comments

Charles Barkley Says He Will Retire From TNT After Next Season, Complicating Warner’s NBA Bid

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By Brian Steinberg (According To The Daily) Charles Barkley is blocking Warner Bros. Discovery‘s drive to the net. The basketball legend added a new wrinkle to Warner’s ongoing efforts to retain media rights to the NBA late Friday evening by announcing he would retire from his announcing duties on “Inside the NBA,” the influential TNT program he has co-hosted for years. “I have made the decision myself,” Barkley said during televised remarks on NBA TV following Game 4 of the NBA Finals. “No matter what happens, next year is going to be my last year on television.” Barkley said he would not move to another network, no matter how the NBA decides to parcel out a new package of rights it has largely negotiated with NBCUniversal, Disney and Amazon....

Jun152024 by cineverseNo Comments

Shanghai Film Festival Jury Weighs in on Unique Process of Moviemaking: ‘Each Film Is a Rejection of the Previous One’

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By Patrick Frater According To The Daily) Along with a red-carpet opening ceremony, a press conference with the members of the main competition jury is a staple event of major film festivals and the 26th edition of the Shanghai International Film Festival kicked off in traditional form on Friday. Along with Vietnam-French director Tran Anh Hung, previously revealed as jury president, the other members of the decisive committee this year are: Australian director and screenwriter Rolf de Heer; German director Matthias Glasner; Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Ka Fai; Argentinian director Santiago Mitre; Chinese director Sonthar Gyal; and, the jury’s only woman, star actor Zhou Xun. A packed audience lobbed familiar questions about the criteria they jurors wou...

Jun152024 by cineverseNo Comments

Monte-Carlo Television Festival Chief Talks Morgan Freeman, ‘Fabulous Highlights’ of 63rd Edition, ‘Fan Favorite’ Awardee

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By Marta Balaga )According To The Daily) Monte-Carlo Television Festival has rolled out the blue carpet welcoming star guests for its 63rd edition, but it also has an eye on the future. “We’re always working towards expanding and developing the festival. Each year, we get better and better,” executive director Cécile Menoni says. Listing “fabulous highlights,” Menoni gushes over this year’s Crystal Nymph winner: Morgan Freeman. The award recognizes the “stellar body of work” of the veteran actor, who recently exec produced “The Gray House,” which celebrated its world premiere Friday at the opening ceremony. Mary-Louise Parker, Daisy Head, Amethyst Davis and Ben Vereen attended. “It’s such a thrill for us to honor him,” Menoni says. The fest will also t...

Jun132024 by cineverseNo Comments

Indie Film Musical ‘Heart Strings’ Get Los Angeles Premiere at American Cinematheque

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By Jack Dunn (According To The variety) Indie musical “Heart Strings” will have its Los Angeles premiere June 30 at American Cinematheque‘s Loz Feliz Theater. Director Ate de Jong (“Drop Dead Fred”) co-wrote the film with Steven Gaydos, Variety executive VP, Global Content, who is also co-producing. “It’s a great honor to screen at the American Cinematheque. And especially to play the film at their Los Feliz location where ‘Heart Strings’ first began as a screenplay decades ago when I lived there after working on a Roger Corman film in Georgia,” Gaydos said. “Fans of 1970s American indie cinema might be surprised to find that Ate de Jong has just made an audience-engaging film with the subversive spirit and maverick attitude of that time. It only took 50 years to get t...

Jun132024 by cineverseNo Comments

Emmys Update Submission Rules Ahead of Voting, Lowering Threshold Required for Nom and Invites Members to Join Jury for Scripted Variety

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By Clayton Davis (According To The variety) Ahead of the Emmy nomination voting on Thursday, the Television Academy has revised its Emmy rules regarding submissions and nominee numbers. This update will significantly impact the scripted variety category, which includes “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” and “Saturday Night Live.” The new Rules and Procedures document on the Emmys website, updated on May 22, details changes under the Nominations Procedures section. Previously, categories with fewer than 20 submissions required contenders to be screened by a peer group, with nominees needing at least 90% approval. If no submissions met this threshold, the highest vote-getter would be declared the winner. The updated rules have lowered the nomination threshold from 9...

Jun132024 by cineverseNo Comments

Kartik Aaryan on Physical and Mental Transformation for Bollywood Sports Drama ‘Chandu Champion’: ‘It’s all About Willpower’

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By Naman Ramachandran (According To The variety) Bollywood star Kartik Aaryan has undergone a remarkable transformation for his latest film “Chandu Champion.” Directed by Kabir Khan (“’83”), the film is a biopic of Murlikant Petkar, who became India’s first Paralympics gold medalist in 1972. Petkar served as a soldier in the 1965 India-Pakistan war and sustained injuries that left him physically impaired. He overcame these and became a champion sportsman across several disciplines. “There were so many skill sets that were required for the character, swimming, boxing, wrestling, and he [Petkar] was very good in all of them. I had problems going into the deep end of the swimming pool, because I didn’t know how to swim professionally,” Aaryan told Variety. “A...