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Jul
27
2021
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By Troy Warren
Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt in ‘Jungle Cruise’: Film Review

Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt in ‘Jungle Cruise’: Film Review

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BY DAVID ROONEY | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT The perennial Disneyland theme park ride goes the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' route with Jaume Collet-Serra's big-screen adventure, in which Amazon explorers encounter threats both human and supernatural. Of all the longtime favorite rides of the Disneyland theme parks, the Jungle Cruise, introduced in 1955, is among the most enduringly captivating. Sailing on a 1930s British steamer down the major rivers of Southeast Asia, Africa and South America through lush vegetation, accompanied by a skipper with a weakness for bad puns while Audio-Animatronic animals pop up in the waterways or on the riverbanks,…
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Jul
26
2021
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By Troy Warren
‘The Morning Show’ Season 2 Delays Trigger $44M Lawsuit

‘The Morning Show’ Season 2 Delays Trigger $44M Lawsuit

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BY ERIQ GARDNER | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT Producers sue Chubb National Insurance over the interruption caused by COVID-19. When you have top notch stars like Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carell in a show, you want to insure their presence on set. The production vehicle behind The Morning Show has $125 million in cast coverage, plus more for imminent peril to their shooting location. But the Apple+ series is now finding it difficult to get any of that money over COVID-19-related delays to the production of the second season. According to a new suit filed in California federal court, Chubb…
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Jul
25
2021
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By Troy Warren
Matt Damon Talks Co-Writing ‘The Last Duel’ With Ben Affleck Almost 25 Years After ‘Good Will Hunting’

Matt Damon Talks Co-Writing ‘The Last Duel’ With Ben Affleck Almost 25 Years After ‘Good Will Hunting’

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BY ABBEY WHITE | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT Their upcoming film, directed by Ridley Scott, is just the second time the actors have teamed to write a script since their work on the 1997 movie that earned Damon and Affleck an Oscar for best original screenplay. Matt Damon is sharing details around how he wrote The Last Duel alongside his friend and fellow actor Ben Affleck, the first time the two have written together since their Oscar-winning work on Good Will Hunting. While appearing on The Tonight Show Friday night, the writer, actor and producer briefly spoke about how he and Affleck had come back together to…
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Jul
24
2021
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By Troy Warren
Box Office: ‘Old’ Slithers Past ‘Snake Eyes’ to Win Slow Weekend

Box Office: ‘Old’ Slithers Past ‘Snake Eyes’ to Win Slow Weekend

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BY PAMELA MCCLINTOCK | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT Both new films are beating 'Space Jam: A New Legacy,' which is falling off steeply in its second outing amid the challenged box office recovery. M. Night Shyamalan is scoring another No. 1 win at the domestic box office, where his thriller Old is slithering past fellow new offering Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins to win the spoils of an overall quiet weekend. Old — about a family whose tropical vacation turns into an age-accelerating nightmare — grossed $6.9 million Friday from 3,355 locations, including $1.5 million in Thursday evening previews. At this pace, the film is expected to…
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Jul
23
2021
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By Troy Warren
Why Barry Diller Thinks 10 Percent of Theaters Will Remain In the Next Few Years

Why Barry Diller Thinks 10 Percent of Theaters Will Remain In the Next Few Years

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BY J. CLARA CHAN | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT "What we think of as a movie is evolving and no longer means what it did just a couple of years ago, pre-pandemic," the former Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox chairman says. Barry Diller doesn’t think the movie business is “dead,” as a recent NPR story declared, but the traditional moviegoing experience will continue to transform, resulting in a loss of about 90 percent of theaters worldwide. “Because of streaming, because of the pandemic, because of the enormous production of long-form content … the word movies — what we think of as a…
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Jul
22
2021
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Warner Bros. to Produce 10 Movies Exclusively for HBO Max in 2022

Warner Bros. to Produce 10 Movies Exclusively for HBO Max in 2022

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BY ETAN VLESSING, GEORG SZALAI | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar told analysts that his studio's streaming service will continue to stand out from the competition and attract subscribers with day-and-date and exclusive movies. WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar insists his studio won’t abandon exclusive releases of tentpole pics at the local theater, but will also produce 10 movies next year exclusively for HBO Max to drive subscriber growth at the streaming service. “The motion picture format absolutely matters,” Kilar told analysts on an AT&T earnings call as he returned to a familiar theme for WarnerMedia: the studio will release certain epic…
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Jul
22
2021
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By Troy Warren
Going Mobile: Netflix Wants to Be the Everything App

Going Mobile: Netflix Wants to Be the Everything App

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BY ALEX WEPRIN, J. CLARA CHAN | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT Forays into games, podcasts and TikTok-like shorts suggest the streaming giant is thinking about new ways to present content beyond TV screens. Despite its reputation as the king of subscription streaming video, Netflix understands it has never had the dominance on mobile devices that it has on TV screens. When a subscriber plops down on the couch and opens the Netflix app on their TV, they are welcomed with an array of content the service thinks they will want to binge-watch. On mobile, when a user may only have 30 seconds or a minute…
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Jul
22
2021
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Peacock’s Subscriber Bet: Can Streamer Stick Landing at Tokyo Olympics?

Peacock’s Subscriber Bet: Can Streamer Stick Landing at Tokyo Olympics?

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BY ALEX WEPRIN | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT NBCUniversal views the Games’ yearlong delay as "an advantage" since it now knows the platform’s user base, but even with a "big event" boost it has a long way to go to catch up to rivals. One of the most anticipated events at the Tokyo Olympics, at least for U.S. viewers, will be women’s gymnastics, with Simone Biles looking to add to her 2016 haul of four gold medals. But if Americans want to watch Biles live, they will have to do so on NBCUniversal streamer Peacock. NBC is betting that Biles and…
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Jul
22
2021
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Atlanta: Georgia film business bounces back from pandemic with record-setting 12 months: $4 billion in direct spending

Atlanta: Georgia film business bounces back from pandemic with record-setting 12 months: $4 billion in direct spending

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By Rodney Ho, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for CNT   The state drew $2.2 billion in fiscal year 2020. The Georgia film and TV business quickly shook off the pandemic the past fiscal year, generating a record-setting $4 billion in direct spending, according to the Georgia Department of Economic Development. For the year ending June 30, 2021, film and TV production companies spent nearly twice as much as they did in fiscal year 2020, when they generated about $2.2 billion. The previous record was fiscal year 2019, when the number hit $2.9 billion. The film business was effectively shut down for…
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Jul
21
2021
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By Troy Warren
Broadway’s Reopening Fears Amid COVID-19: “There’s So Much We Still Don’t Know”

Broadway’s Reopening Fears Amid COVID-19: “There’s So Much We Still Don’t Know”

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BY SETH ABRAMOVITCH | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT As blockbuster shows like 'Wicked' and 'The Lion King' plot a September return to the New York stage, rising Delta variant cases and unclear cast-testing protocols create uncertainty. The July 19 shuttering of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s production of Cinderella just hours ahead of its world premiere in London is the latest major setback to that city’s once-thriving theaterindustry, decimated by the pandemic. A strict government contact-tracing program has led to a string of high-profile show closings, The Prince of Egypt and Hairspray among them. Closely watching the fallout unfolding across the pond are the producers, performers and publicists who…
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