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UPDATE, writethru: Paramount’s Sonic The Hedgehog raced to a $100M worldwide opening this weekend, including $43M from the international box office, and a domestic record for a videogame pic. The adaptation of Sega’s globally popular property is playing in 40 offshore markets, repping 60% of the overseas footprint. Directed by Jeff Fowler, Sonic had his […]

Nikita Pearl Waligwa, a co-star of Disney’s 2016 film Queen of Katwe, has died, according to a Deadline report citing Ugandan media. Waligwa reportedly died due to a brain tumor. [caption id="attachment_2303869" align="alignnone" width="720"] Nikita Pearl Waligwa, as Gloria in Queen of Katwe.[/caption] Queen of Katwe told the true story of Phiona Mutesi, a Ugandan chess prodigy rising from the poverty of the slum her family lived in.

Samuel L. Jackson has been tapped to play a retired hitman in a currently untitled feature, which will be directed by Focus and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot helmers John Requa and Glenn Ficarra. The project re-teams Jackson with Soul Men co-writer Matthew Stone, who penned the script. John Davis (The Predator franchise) is producing.

EXCLUSIVE: Francis Annan, whose Daniel Radcliffe-starring feature Escape From Pretoria is released in March, has signed with ICM Partners for representation in all areas. Annan has also inked with Sue Latimer of UK agency ARG, becoming her first directing client and joining a roster of actors including Radcliffe, Lesley Manville, Richard E.

The entertaining e-ride created by Margot Robbie and a team of women scored upbeat reviews and previews before it stumbled in theaters.

More than 50 Chinese delegates and international executives have withdrawn from the celebrated festival.

The beloved writer-director was awarded the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on "Jojo Rabbit."

George MacKay (1917) and Lily-Rose Depp (The King) are attached to star in UK genre film Wolf, which Bankside will launch sales on at the EFM. Budgeted between $2-3M, the film comes from rising UK writer-director Nathalie Biancheri (Nocturnal). The project, which has corralled an impressive lead cast, is in pre-production.

While the fans and critics have all weighed in on Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker to divisive results, there are many who have been waiting to hear what The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson thinks of the film. Now, the wait is over. Johnson spoke to MTV while walking the red carpet for the 2020 Academy Awards and shared how he felt after watching JJ Abrams complete the Skywalker Saga. “I had a blast, man,” Johnson said.

The $25 million production is expected to world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

EXCLUSIVE: Feature documentary Abducted in Plain Sight, which airs on Netflix and covers the kidnappings of actress Jan Broberg when she was a kid, is getting a podcast spin-off. Obsessed With: Abducted In Plain Sight, which will be hosted by the film’s director Skye Borgman, is itself a spin-off of true crime comedy podcast True […]

For a minute there, it seemed like we were in for #OscarsSoPredictable with Oscars 2020. Awards season had up ’til now been a slow march to the inevitable, with the same four actors (Renée Zellweger, Joaquin Phoenix, Brad Pitt and Laura Dern) and two films (“1917” and “Once Upon A Time in … Hollywood”) scooping

'Parasite' had a legendary night, as the South Korean film racked up Oscars left and right and made Academy Awards history for Bong Joon-Ho and Korea.