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The Fast Five: It’s a Small World After All as Disney Takes Over Television

August 19, 2019

Do you like Disney? I sure hope so, because one day, there will be nothing but Disney. It will eventually own us all. There was so much fun Disney news that AMC merging with AMC was barely a blip—a story which is only the second largest and most-conf...

Write On with Matt Dy of Lit Entertainment Group

August 13, 2019

Literary manager Matt Dy discusses his tenure at Austin Film Festival as their contest director, why he made the move to Los Angeles to join the team at Lit Entertainment Group and more.

Hobbs & Shaw' Still Dominates the Box Office, 'Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark' Follows Close Behind

August 13, 2019

This weekend’s box office results offered up a variety of takeaways, some good for the health of big screen storytelling, some not so much.

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw' Open to a Hefty Box Office

August 5, 2019

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw opened to a hefty box office take that accurately reflected the bulking biceps of its two leading men—arguably the last two great action stars of a waning era where brawn alone was big screen worthy: Dway...

Fast Five: Film and TV News

August 5, 2019

Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Fast Five. If you’re thinking this may lead to that elusive copy of the Fast Five script, apologies in advance. This is not that place. Here for a mix of major and under-the-radar TV news that’s hot off the pre...

Quentin Tarantino has Biggest Opening Weekend with 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'

July 29, 2019

Disney Dominates the Box Office with 'The Lion King'

July 22, 2019

To the surprise of precisely no one, Disney dominated the box office again over the weekend with its "live-action" remake of The Lion King, which took in a gargantuan $192 million. It's a new July record by a country mile, and represents the best-eve...

Spiderman: Far From Home' Takes the Reins from 'Stuber' & 'Crawl'

July 15, 2019

Over the weekend, for the second time in three months, a Marvel Cinematic Universe film in its second weekend has squashed two original movies on their opening weekend, hobbling their chances of breaking out. Two films that reasonably thought they'd ...