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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 remains #1 at the box office

By Reel 360 May 15, 2023

In its second weekend, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 maintained its reign at the box office as the #1 movie in America, amassing a staggering $60.5 million in just three days....

Year in Review

2021 in Review: The biggest stories of Reel 360

By Colin Costello Dec 30, 2021

Some of the words which come to mind when describing 2021 include frustrating, maddening, wow (in a bad sense), terrifying, astounding, and wow again in a very good sense. When...

Summer Movie Preview

Jungle Cruise: Disney releases new trailer

By Reel 360 Jun 4, 2021

Dwayne Johns and Emily Blunt fans can now get a look at the new trailer for Disney’s Jungle Cruise. The film will release simultaneously in theaters and on Disney+ with ...

REEL PRO

COVID-19 forces filming to record low in Los Angeles

By Reel 360 Jan 27, 2021

Sobering news for the Los Angeles production community. FilmLA today issued a pair of reports illuminating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Los Angeles film economy. ...

Indie Film

French Riviera Film Fest partners with PlayPlay.tv

By Reel 360 Sep 8, 2020

The French Riviera Film Festival (FRFF) and PlayPlay.tv, premier digital video streaming service for the performing arts, have partnered to prese...

REEL PRO

Interview: The team behind ‘Before/During/After’

By Colin Costello Aug 26, 2020

Getting divorced when you're middle-aged sucks. I mean, getting divorced at any age, blows. But when you're middle-aged with kids, mortgages and savings, it can be a next level...

Film

U.S. Regal Cinemas to reopen August 21

By Reel 360 Jul 28, 2020

In response to the recent changes in the upcoming theatrical release schedule, Cineworld, parent company of Regal, today announced that its theatres will begin to reopen U.S. l...

Film

‘Mulan’ seems destined for another delay

By Laura Day Jun 25, 2020

Those of us eagerly anticipating Disney’s live action Mulan will have to keep waiting. The live-action film, based on the animated classic, directed by Niki Caros and star...

Pixar’s ‘Onward’ to arrive early on Disney+

By Reel 360 Mar 23, 2020

Walt Disney Studios has announced that Disney and Pixar’s Onward will be available to buy digitally and on Movies Anywhere beginning today at 5 p.m. PST/8 p.m. EST and on D...

Film

Could ‘Wonder Woman 84’ end up premiering on VOD?

By The Geek Mar 20, 2020

Perhaps only Wonder Woman's golden lasso of truth wrapped around Warner Bros execs can get us the real truth here, but according to The Wrap, the studio is possibly having dis...

Film

Disney to adapt ‘Hamilton’ into musical film

By Reel 360 Feb 14, 2020

Lin-Manuel Miranda has announced that Disney will be adapting Hamilton, the 11-time-Tony Award-, Grammy Award -, Olivier Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning stage musical, into a...

Film

WB renames ‘Harley Quinn’ film to boost box office

By Reel 360 Feb 11, 2020

That was fast. Although box office tracking for Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) initially came in at $50 million domestically before Thur...

Academy Awards

2020 Academy Awards ratings anything but gold

By Reel 360 Feb 11, 2020

Whether it was the lack of host or a lack of female director nominations or a lack of diversity in general (except for the presenters and performers) ABC’s telecast of the A...

Five reasons ‘Birds of Prey’ didn’t soar at box office

By The Geek Feb 10, 2020

Despite resting at an extremely respectable 80% on Rotten Tomatoes, Warner Bros Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) opened well below its expec...

Academy Awards

From ‘Parasite’ to Pitt, the complete 2020 Oscar winners

By Colin Costello Feb 10, 2020

Parasite, Bong Joon Ho's (who also won Best Director) twisted tale that was at the top of Reel 360's Best Films of 2019, won top honors last night at the 92nd Academy Awards, b...

Academy Awards

‘ESSENCE’ Black Women in Hollywood Awards re-cap

By Reel 360 Feb 7, 2020

To kick off Oscar weekend, ESSENCE celebrated extraordinary Hollywood visionaries and culture shifters during its 13th annual Black Women in Hollywood Awards, held Thursday,...

Film

‘Matrix 4’ begins filming in San Francisco, Chicago next

By The Geek Feb 6, 2020

The Matrix is officially back. Keanu Reeves who reprises his role a Neo has posted on his Twitter from the set. How he is dressed only adds to the mystery surrounding the upcom...

INTERVIEW

Kantemir Balagov, Director of Russian film, ‘Beanpole’

By Colin Costello Jan 18, 2020

28-year-old Russian director Kantemir Balagov’s powerful new film Beanpole is a haunting piece of work that has stayed with me long after watching it at last year's AFI. T...

Trailers

Warner Bros releases trailer for Nolan’s ‘Tenet’

By The Geek Dec 19, 2019

Has Christopher Nolan (Dark Knight, Inception) gone and made a time travel movie? From the looks of the first teaser for Tenet, his new thriller starring John David Washington ...

Awards Season

Iconic Nancy Meyers to receive WGAW laurel Award

By Reel 360 Dec 19, 2019

Trailblazing screenwriter-director-producer Nancy Meyers is getting an early present. Known for such memorable hit films as Private Benjamin, Something’s Gotta Give...