‘Dune’ Heaps $41M Domestic Opening After Near $10M Sunday; Highest For Denis Villeneuve & HBO Max Day/Date
Posted on Monday October 25, 2021

Monday AM: A bit of positive news that HBO Max didn’t completely wipe out the weekend box office on Denis Villeneuve’s Dune. Warner Bros. reports this morning that Dune had a much better Sunday than anticipated: $9.78M, -29% from Saturday’s $13.7M instead of $8.9M, -35%. This will send the pic’s revised opening to $41M. Warners has a hold on […]

Facebook Warns Anonymous Content Against “Recklessly� Proceeding With ‘An Ugly Truth’ TV Adaption
Posted on Monday October 25, 2021

Facebook may be pelted of late by revelations from whistleblowers and damning internal documents made public, but the Mark Zuckerberg co-founded social media giant has decided to draw the line when it comes to the upcoming Doomsday Machine TV series. “AC can seek to create the Series without reliance on the absurd characterizations and false […]

Mike Schur & Shea Serrano Comedy ‘Primo’ Ordered To Series At IMDb TV
Posted on Monday October 25, 2021

Primo, a coming-of-age comedy from The Good Place creator Mike Schur and The Ringer writer Shea Serrano, has been ordered to series at IMDb TV. It is the first greenlight from a tranche of developments, including projects from All American showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll and CSI: New York star Melina Kanakaredes, that the Amazon-owned AVOD service unveiled at its NewFronts in […]

Broadway’s Acclaimed ‘Is This A Room’ & ‘Dana H.’ Will Close Early; Producers Cite “Challenging� Box Office Environment
Posted on Monday October 25, 2021

The first clear sign that Broadway’s road to recovery will be a very bumpy one came today with the announced early closings of Is This A Room and Dana H., two critically acclaimed plays performing on alternative nights at the Lyceum Theatre. Producer Matt Ross, speaking for himself and partners Sally Horchow and Dori Berinstein, […]

‘Mr. Harrigan’s Phone’: Joe Tippett Joins John Lee Hancock’s Netflix Film Based On Stephen King Short Story
Posted on Monday October 25, 2021

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Tippett (Mare of Easttown, The Morning Show) has boarded Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, a film adaptation of the short story by Stephen King, which writer-director John Lee Hancock (The Little Things, The Founder, Blumhouse and Ryan Murphy Productions are making for Netflix. Tippett, who last worked with Blumhouse on Peabody Award-winning limited series The Good […]