‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ Louder With $30M+ Opening Day, $133M+ 5-day Debut In Sight – Update

‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ Louder With M+ Opening Day, 3M+ 5-day Debut In Sight – Update

THURSDAY AM: Universal and Amblin‘s dinosaur is a bit louder. Jurassic World Rebirth is coming in with $30.5M opening day, again without Tuesday previews, which is pointing toward a $133.5M 5-day weekend. More… WEDNESDAY: Universal’s fourth post-Covid July 4th stretch winner, Jurassic World Rebirth, is looking at a $28M opening Wednesday sans Tuesday previews. That’s…

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Netflix Renews Brazilian Crime Hit ‘Criminal Code’ For Season 3

Netflix Renews Brazilian Crime Hit ‘Criminal Code’ For Season 3

Netflix has cracked the Criminal Code, renewing the hit crime drama exactly one month after Season 2 dropped on the streamer. Coming out of Netflix Brazil, the series is produced by Heitor Dhalia’s São Paulo-based label Paranoïd. The current season of the show has performed strongly in the Netflix charts, making the top-ten on home…

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Great Scott! Secrets About Back to the Future Revealed

Great Scott! Secrets About Back to the Future Revealed

Plus, Lloyd originally passed on the chance to play Doc Brown, with a Jurassic Park actor nearly landing the iconic part before Lloyd changed his mind. And, great Scott! It turns out that Lea Thompson and Fox didn’t exactly have a maternal relationship.  “I remember specifically being really snooty ’cause there was a big division between…

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Italy’s Film Minister Resigns Amid Mounting Legal Scandals

Italy’s Film Minister Resigns Amid Mounting Legal Scandals

Nicola Borrelli, the General Director of Cinema and Audiovisual at the Italian Ministry of Culture, has resigned.  Borrelli’s resignation was reported this morning by Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore and follows mounting pressure in his office regarding two converging legal scandals recently reported in the international press and known colloquially as “the Kaufmann scandal”. …

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‘The Mandalorian’ & ‘Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Actor Simon Kassianides To Direct Thriller ‘The Walker’ With Warner Bros. Sweden

‘The Mandalorian’ & ‘Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Actor Simon Kassianides To Direct Thriller ‘The Walker’ With Warner Bros. Sweden

EXCLUSIVE: The Mandalorian and Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. actor Simon Kassianides is set to direct The Walker, a psychological thriller he also wrote and will produce through his Cyprus-based company, Plot Monster Productions, in partnership with fellow Cyprus-based banner Copper Island. The film is being co-produced by Warner Bros. International Television Production (WBITVP) Sweden, with US strategy…

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‘The Bachelor’ Couple Ashley Iaconetti & Jared Haibon, Madhouse Films And Talia Light Rake Team For Indie TV Pilot ‘Too Romantic’; Rivkah Reyes, Sam Vartholomeos & Ashley Ganger To Star

‘The Bachelor’ Couple Ashley Iaconetti & Jared Haibon, Madhouse Films And Talia Light Rake Team For Indie TV Pilot ‘Too Romantic’; Rivkah Reyes, Sam Vartholomeos & Ashley Ganger To Star

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s another independently-financed TV pilot in production – and this one has a famous reality couple among its makers. Writer-director Talia Light Rake and her Heavy Shovel Productions imprint have partnered with newly established production company Madhouse Films and The Bachelor couple Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon on Too Romantic. Rivkah Reyes (One of…

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