Paramount must release 30 films a year or sell Miramax, the label behind its biggest hit of the year
Twelve states have signed off on Paramount buying Warner Bros., and the price is a promise about cinemas: thirty films a year, every year. The enforcement mechanism is the part nobody saw coming, because the studio has put up a label most people had stopped thinking about.
Ben Affleck nearly cast ex Jennifer Garner as his wife in Animals — Kerry Washington got the role after a one-line veto
File this one under "movies that almost broke the internet before a single frame screened." Ben Affleck's kidnapping thriller Animals hits Netflix October 9, and it very nearly arrived with his actual ex-wife playing his fictional wife.
Avengers: Endgame Encore has two runtimes, and the cheaper ticket gets three minutes less
Disney puts Avengers: Endgame back in cinemas on Thursday with new footage the Russo brothers say builds a bridge to Doomsday. How much of that bridge you actually get to see depends on which ticket you buy, and the gap between the two versions has now been measured to the second.
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opening: what's inside the $1 billion building — Star Wars props, Frida Kahlo and 30,000 comics
Sixteen years, three cities, one very public breakup with San Francisco and Chicago, and roughly a billion dollars later, George Lucas's museum is finally, actually open. The man himself sounds like he barely survived it.
Where was Practical Magic 2 filmed? The locations, and why the Owens house had to be rebuilt from scratch
Twenty-eight years is a long time to wait for a sequel, but here we are: Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are back in theaters as the Owens sisters, and I have already mentally redecorated my apartment in Full Witch.
Sound of Falling ending explained: what happens on the farm in each of the four eras
Mascha Schilinski's Sound of Falling won the Jury Prize at Cannes — the first German director to pull that off since 1959 — and then spent its release making audiences feel like they'd been handed someone else's dream journal with the pages shuffled.
Picnic at Hanging Rock true story: readers once flooded the State Library of Victoria asking for records of the disappearances
There are literary hoaxes, and then there is whatever Joan Lindsay pulled off in 1967 — a novel so convincingly dressed as history that generations of Australians have marched into the State Library of Victoria demanding the police files.
The Dog Stars filming locations: Hig's hangar is a real working airfield, dressed to look abandoned
There's a specific flavor of movie magic I refuse to shut up about, and it's this: the loneliest place in Ridley Scott's The Dog Stars — the hangar where Jacob Elordi's Hig lives out the end of the world with his dog and Josh Brolin's trigger-happy roommate — is not a ruin at all.
