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For the second time in two weeks, a previous #1 VOD release, still at premium price, returned to #1 after a week in a lower position.

“The Wild Robot” (Universal), still #4 in theaters this weekend parallel to home availability, repeats the move “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” (Warner Bros. Discovery) managed last week.

The rise comes for two reasons. First, a lack of competitive new releases, including disinterest in “Joker: Folie à Deux” (Wbd). Second is likely its rental price reduction from an initial premium at $24.99 to the more standard $19.99 PVOD cost.

After over three weeks where five different original movies took the top daily spot, Will Smith, whose “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” was his last studio #1, returned with his 2015 mid-level success “Focus.” But for most of the week, “Meet Me Next Christmas” led their list.

Fandango (which ranks by revenue) and iTunes (by transactions) both also list the “Beetlejuice” sequel and “Deadpool & Wolverine...

Mélanie Laurent’s follow-up to last year’s Wingwomen sees the actress-turned-filmmaker going for the Bonnie and Clyde-style caper in Freedom, a true-crime drama inspired by Bruno Sulak. Dubbed “the gentleman robber”, he earned that nickname since he doesn’t resort to violence and killing his victims upon committing a robbery. Played by the charming Lucas Bravo, best known for his role as Gabriel in TV’s Emily in Paris, his character is first seen robbing a grocery store with the help of his friend and accomplice Drago (Steve Tientchier). His girlfriend Annie (Léa Luce Busato) is responsible for driving as she sits and waits in the getaway car.

Here, Laurent opens her movie with a sensual close-up shot of Annie as the camera rotates while focusing on her pouty red lips and beautiful face, showcasing the director’s firm grasp on magnetic visuals. There’s a buoyant energy during the opening robbery scene,...

After a few weeks without any studio wide releases, Apple Original Films’ $200M Argylle via Universal is hoping to entice moviegoers back, but it won’t be in a big way. Last night’s previews for the PG-13 Matthew Vaughn directed action movie made $1.7M, which is below the $2.4M previews clocked by Amazon MGM’s The Beekeeper a few weeks ago. That movie posted a $16.5M opening, so any hope that Argylle will get to that $20M+ some exhibitors were seeing — I don’t think so.

Argylle was booked at 3,100 theaters last night and has all the cinema upcharges this weekend of Plf and Imax, etc. Reviewers at 34% on Rotten Tomatoes already are screaming ‘Don’t Go’. This despite the fact that the Marv, Cloudy production has an all-star cast of Henry Cavill, John Cena, Oscar winner Ariana DeBose, Grammy winning pop superstar Dua Lipa, Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Bryan Cranston,...

The 2023 Clio Entertainment Awards, recognizing creative excellence in entertainment marketing, were handed out Thursday night in Hollywood, with Barbie, Tár, Wednesday and Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story among the big winners.

During the ceremony, Netflix was announced as network of the year, Activision/ Blizzard as game publisher of the year, Universal Pictures as studio of the year and Av Squad as agency of the year.

“In a year that brought whiplash to the industry — with a summer where entertainment marketing captivated the popular culture and had Barbenheimer audiences flocking to theaters, only to be mostly shut down by two strikes — creativity was the key to converting consumers into fans,” Ashley Falls, executive director of Clio Entertainment, said in a statement. “It’s no surprise that the Barbie integrated campaign by Warner Bros. Pictures took home top honors in the form of a Grand Clio Entertainment Award, but our...

Derek Hough continues his reign as one of the lords of the dance, scoring three nominations for the just-unveiled World Choreography Awards (sister Julianne Hough also makes a showing this year).

His nominations include ABC’s “Step Into…the Movies” special as well as their long-running “Dancing with the Stars,” and also Hough’s work on the music video for Michael Bublé’s “Higher.” However, married choreographers Phillip and Makenzie Chbeeb, also scored three noms each, including one with Hough for the “Higher” video, as well as for the “Zed Ramadan” TV commercial and ABC’s recent “Beauty and The Beast” anniversary special.

Jamal Sims, nominated for three Emmys this year in the choreography categories for his various projects—including Paramount+’s “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies“—garnered two nods, including his work on Netflix’s “13 the Musical” and the live “Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl.”

Familiar faces also...

Omd — aka Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark — are back, and this time, they’re getting political. On Wednesday, the beloved synth-pop pioneers announced their 14th studio album, Bauhaus Staircase, due out October 27th via White Noise. As a preview, they also shared the album’s title track as its first single.

A follow-up to their well-received 2017 album, The Punishment of Luxury, Bauhaus Staircase was forged during the Covid-19 pandemic, and wears the influence of the time period on its sleeve loud and proud. Isolating themselves, Omd’s members dove into their back catalog of unfinished ideas, using them as launching pads to thematically explore the unfolding turmoil of the world.

The lead single, “Bauhaus Staircase,” captures this dynamic, placing lyrics about artistic freedom, 20th century art movements, and “kicking down” fascism in a crescendoing soundscape of drums, synths, and electronic textures. The single also arrived with an animated music video,...

The Japanese selection of Skip City International D-Cinema 2023, despite the fact that the diversity in terms of selection was significant, proved, essentially, the obvious. When Japanese filmmakers try to follow the recipes of the festival-favorite local directors the result is films that are either repetitive, or dull, or both, and most of the times much worse than the works of the aforementioned, with the lack of tension in particular bordering on the rather annoying. However, when they let their imagination free, both in terms of context and cinematic techniques, the result is surprisingly good, definitely in terms of the former, but frequently also of the latter. In that fashion, and considering the fact that I did not manage to watch every film, the ones that stood out where “My Mother's Eyes”, “Alien's Daydream”, and “Don't Go”

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1. Film Review: My Mother's Eyes (2023) by...

Daichi Amano was born in Tokyo in 1988. He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts. My God Never Dies (19) was screened at the Ji.hlava Idff in Czechia. Pain of the Anonymous (21), Grand-prix winner of the 5th Moon Cinema Project, was selected for the 39th Busan International Short Film Festival and the 40th Caam Film Festival, and won the Best National Short and the Japan Premiere Award at the 17th Sapporo International Short Film Festival & Market.

Don't Go is screening at Skip City International D-Cinema Festival

The story takes place in a world where, through a special device actually provided by funeral homes people can see the memories of the dead. The Imais, mother, daughter and son, decide to enter the memory of the father, who has been killed in a car accident in a seaside town, to learn why he had to hide his destination from them. In road trip in time fashion,...

The 20th edition of Skip City International D-Cinema Festival had been physically held from July 15 to July 23 (and virtually from July 22 to July 26), and wrapped at the Closing Ceremony, Sunday July 23. Jury and Audience award winners were announced at the Ceremony.

For the International Compeition, an Asian Premiere film, When the Seedlings Grow (Syria), directed by Rêger Azad Kaya, received the Grand Prize. I Woke Up with a Dream (Argentina, Uruguay), directed by Pablo Solarz, won the Best Director and Six Weeks (Hungary), directed by Noémi Veronika Szakonyi received the Special Jury Prize. This year's jury members were Masao Teshima, President of the Jury and a renowned producer from Asmik Ace, Naomi Akashi, the producer of Egoist (Dir. Daishi Matsunaga) and Patrice Nezan, a French producer, who produced the festival's 2019 winner The Tower (Dir. Mats Grorud). In addition, Midwives (France), directed by Léa Fehner, was chosen for the Audience Award.

Skrillex has surprised fans with another new album, just a day after releasing his Quest for Fire.

The Edm-pop superstar previously revealed that a follow-up LP, dubbed Don’t Get Too Close, was on the way, and during Skrillex’s performance Saturday at New York’s Madison Square Garden, he informed the crowd that the album is out right now; the Msg gig also featured specially made “bootleg CDs” of the new album, which won’t be available anywhere else.

Like Quest for Fire, Don’t Get Too Close is a star-studded affair,...

Following a string of releases in 2023 and the announcement of his upcoming album Quest For Fire, Skrillex dropped the single “Don’t Get Too Close” on Monday. The new track features his own vocals (credited as Sonny Moore) and German singer Bibi Bourelly.

The song’s video shows a singing porcupine using Bourelly’s voice and later Skrillex’s voice. “I’m on my PC/I see famous people/I think they’re like mе/So why aren’t we equal?” sings Skrillex. Soon, he’s joined by Bourelly for...

After spending the first weeks of 2023 torridly releasing singles, Skrillex has revealed that his new album, Quest for Fire, is arriving very soon.

The producer/DJ made the surprise announcement Saturday night on Instagram, adding that the LP will be released this Friday, Feb. 17, and sharing himself performing a “basement set” of the album’s 14-song track list.

In addition to the already-unveiled singles “Rumble” with rising DJ/producer Fred Again.. and grime Mc/producer Flowdan, “Way Back” with Trippie Redd and Pink Pantheress, “Leave Me Like This” with Bobby Raps...

Journey’s new LP Freedom is arriving on July 8, and they’ve just shared their new single “You Got The Best of Me.”

“I wanted kind of a punky rendition of ‘Any Way You Want It’”, guitarist and Journey founder Neal Schon said in a statement. “I usually don’t go in saying I’m going to look for something like that, but then it just came to me, like “Wheel in the Sky” did years ago. It just kind of flew out of my mouth.”

Freedom is their first...

Skrillex has enlisted longtime collaborator Justin Bieber and Don Toliver for new single, “Don’t Go.” The trio also appear in the accompanying video.

In the new Salomon Ligthelm-directed visual, the trio become live art in a number of exhibits, including an enclosed neon-lit area and a nature setting, and paintings drip tears on the walls. Bieber and Toliver trade verses and later in the song take turns on the lines: “Girl I need to see your face/Hit the gas to win the race/30 pounds of loaded bass/Move...

Exclusive: Signature Entertainment is launching global sales on Australian family-adventure film Don’t Go Below ahead of the virtual Cannes market.

Signature has acquired global rights (excluding Australia and New Zealand) to the fantasy film which is written and directed by Dinosaur Island and My Pet Dinosaur filmmaker Matt Drummond and produced by Matt Drummond and Megan Drummond.

Currently in post-production, the movie is one of the first independent features to employ Unreal Engine to create all the VFX and animation.

The film tells the story of anxious Peter (12) and his sister Verity (9), taken underground by a garrison of armoured pangolin. They soon learn that Peter is their prophesied King, who must reunite five sacred lost artefacts that will give him the power to destroy an ancient enemy called the Shroud.

Starring are Sam Everingham as Peter and Alayla Browne (Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers) as Verity, with additional voice cast due to join soon.

Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched the second season finale of “His Dark Materials.”

Fans of Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy, Lin-Manuel Miranda included, have known all along that Lee Scoresby was sailing his balloon towards certain death. But that didn’t make his and Hester’s (Cristela Alonzo) demise any less difficult to watch.

In Monday night’s finale, Lee and his faithful dæmon went down all guns blazing under a hail of fire from Magisterium troops, giving Jopari (Andrew Scott) just enough time to find the bearer of the knife and pass on his crucial message.

With Lyra (Dafne Keen) kidnapped, Will (Amir Wilson) resolved to rescue her, and Lord Asriel (James McAvoy) gathering angels on his side for the coming war, Miranda says the season-ender should leave viewers reaching for the tissues, but that it also provides the perfect set...

Khruangbin have dropped their cover of the Kool and the Gang classic “Summer Madness” from the Texas psych-rockers’ upcoming Late Night Tales compilation, the latest installment in the artist-curated mix series.

The cover features exclusively on the Late Night Tales comp, due out December 4th, alongside other artists’ tracks handpicked by Khruangbin.

“‘Summer Madness’ became a staple in this medley that we play,” Khruangbin drummer Donald “DJ” Johnson said in a statement. “Specifically, one of my favorite things about it is the tone of the bass, which really reminds me...

Isabela Merced's music career may be young, but it's already mighty. After making waves a year ago with the release of her first single "Papi"—which would go on to earn over 5 million streams on Spotify with a music video viewed over 12 million times on YouTube—the Peruvian-American actress has taken her time and made sure her subsequent releases lived up to the hype. First came excellent EP the better half of me in May. (Lead-off track "apocalipsis" is a bona fide bop.) And now, she's upped the ante with her new single "Don't Go," a joint effort with Danna Paola, the Mexican singer and star of Netflix's Elite. Co-written with frequent collaborators...

Washed Out, a.k.a. Ernest Greene, has released “Time to Walk Away,” the lead single from his upcoming record Purple Noon, out August 7th via Sub Pop.

Directed by Riley Blakeway, the video features a relationship disintegrating as a couple painfully reflects on their past together as they try to move on. “I just wanna go back, start it all again,” Greene sings over dreamy instrumentation, as the man (Jae Overton) bashes his skateboard against a wall and the woman (Teresa Oman) sulks at a party. “Is it time to walk away?...

The screenplay was written by Conor Ryan and the project is in receipt of development support from Screen Ireland.

Irish production company Mixed Bag Media has partnered with Us outfit The Kennedy/Marshall Company to develop a film based on the true story of two Irish boys who stowed away on a flight to New York in a bid to meet The A-Team star Mr T.

Ten-year-old Keith Byrne and his 13 year-old friend Noel Murray took a train to the ferry port of Dun Laoghaire, near Dublin, and travelled to London via Holyhead in 1985. They managed to evade security to...

Nineties R&b outfit En Vogue shared a rare Japanese-only B-side, “Mover,” that will appear on the upcoming 30th-anniversary edition of their debut album, Born to Sing, out digitally April 3rd via Rhino.

“Mover” is a captivating cut that boasts nothing more than En Vogue’s stellar vocals and some crisp snapping. The tune starts with the swoon of a heavy spiritual before settling into a much saucier groove as En Vogue belt in harmony: “Because he’s a mover, all his moves right/That’s what all the ladies...

Exclusive: David Kerr, the comedy director whose credits include Johnny English Strikes Again and Inside No. 9, has signed to helm Irish Christmas story Joy To The World.

Script comes from Irish scribe Ronan Blaney, who wrote the 2014 Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning short Boogaloo And Graham. Blaney has also penned three produced features: 2012 comedy-horror Love Bite, 2018 mystery feature Don’t Go, which was released in the U.S. by IFC Films, and 2019 crime thriller A Good Woman Is Hard To Find, which closed this year’s FrightFest.

In coming-of-age pic Joy To The World, after a bank robber dressed as Santa Claus holds up a bank, a child disillusioned with Christmas encounters a man in the woods who, also dressed as Santa, claims to have fallen out of his sleigh. The pair strike up a friendship and go on an adventure.

Producers are Kate McColgan for Irish outfit Calico Pictures and...

Jussie Smollett has hard evidence to support his claim the Chicago Police Superintendent got it wrong when he told the media the actor paid $3,500 to Abel and Ola Osundairo to stage an attack. TMZ has obtained documents that on the surface back his claim the $3,500 check he wrote to Abel was for training. The check was written to Abel on January 23, 2019, six days before the "attack." The memo line reads, "5 week Nutrition/Workout program Don't Go.

"I don't know what I'm supposed to do!!" IFC Films has debuted an official Us trailer for an Irish horror thriller titled Don't Go, originally titled Don't Let Go, the latest from filmmaker David Gleeson. Devastated by his daughter's death in a terrible accident, Ben becomes convinced that he can bring her back through a recurring dream on a beach. But is it only a dream? Or is Ben really losing his mind? Ben & Hazel end up pulled deep into a mystery far beyond their understanding. Stephen Dorff and Melissa George star as Ben and Hazel, along with Simon Delaney, Gavin O'Connor, Grace Farrell, and Aoibhinn McGinnity. The film features a score composed by popular Edm musician Ferry Corsten. This looks like an engaging, emotional, psychological horror that will really mess with your head. Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for David Gleeson's Don't Go, direct from IFC's YouTube...

IFC Films has nabbed U.S rights to David Gleeson's Don't Go, an Irish mystery thriller in which Stephen Dorff and Melissa George play a grief-stricken couple struggling to cope with the loss of their child from a devastating accident.

IFC plans an Oct. 26 theatrical release for the indie, which also stars Simon Delaney and Charlotte Bradley. Co-written by Gleeson (Cowboys & Angels, The Front Line) and Ronan Blaney, the film follows the couple as they relocate to a small beachside town in Ireland, where Hazel (George) begins to fear for her husband’s sanity as he ...

IFC Films has nabbed U.S rights to David Gleeson's Don't Go, an Irish mystery thriller in which Stephen Dorff and Melissa George play a grief-stricken couple struggling to cope with the loss of their child from a devastating accident.

IFC plans an Oct. 26 theatrical release for the indie, which also stars Simon Delaney and Charlotte Bradley. Co-written by Gleeson (Cowboys & Angels, The Front Line) and Ronan Blaney, the film follows the couple as they relocate to a small beachside town in Ireland, where Hazel (George) begins to fear for her husband’s sanity as he ...

Stephen Dorf and Melissa George are grief-stricken in this exclusive first-look image from Don't Go, Irish filmmaker David Gleesen's upcoming mystery thriller about a loving couple who struggle to cope with the loss of their child from a devastating accident.

Co-written by Gleeson (Cowboys & Angels, The Front Line) and Ronan Blaney (Boogaloo and Graham, upcoming A Good Woman Is Hard to Find), the film follows the couple as they relocate to a small beachside town in Ireland, where Hazel (George) begins to fear for her husband’s sanity as he begins to have vivid, mysterious dreams about his lost little...