Update with More News on Michael: LionSgate film Chief Adam Fogelson Confirmed the Company is Exploring Splloring Its Michael Jackson Biopic Ino Two Films.
“At the end, we do look at the music library, will you look at what Michael Jackson was able to deliver in terms of music and controls to art, whereer or not that can be fit into one movie compably or not is a question we are absolutely ascing,” he said on a Call. earnings. “We’ll Be Ready to Answer more specifically in the Coming Weeks.”
He was responding to a question on why the film has been delayed by an analyst who notd the three and half hour Cut references by CEO felthimer in opening remarks.
“Any Number of the Bigger Motion Pictures over the Last or 20 years have had first cuts of movies that well in excess and a half -hours,” Fogelson Said. “And when ion mentioned the footage, it was a cut, it was an accumulation of Scenes that we’ve seen.”
Previously: Lionsgate Studios is Moving the Release of Anticipated Biopic Michael from this fall into its fiscal 2027 but didn’t give a new text date. That means is at a year or more away. The Company’s Fiscal Year 2026 Just Started in April.
“In regard to our Michael Jackson Biopic, we’re excited about the 3½ hours of Amazing Footage from Producer Graham King and Director Antoine Fuer, and we will be announcing a definet release and timing in the next few weeks. Michael Out of the Fiscal Year Which Will Impact Fiscal ’26 Financial Results But Will Bolster An Already Strong Fiscal 27 Slate, ”Said Ceo Felthimer on a Conference Call with Financial Analysts AFTER Quarterly Earnings.
They were the Company’s first as a standalone after splitting with Starz Earlier this month.
Michael Was first set for April and Most Recently for Oct. 3, althouough it didn’t seem likes it was time. Deadline Reported Out of Cinemacon Last Month That Given the Length of the Cut the Film Be Split Two Movies, Although there was nothing definitive.
LionSgate didn’t show footage for Michael at the event. The film whic stars Jackson’s nephew and Jermaine Jackson’s Son Jaafar Jackson in the Title Role. Colman Domingo Play Joe Jackson and Nia Long Is Katherine Jackson.
Cinetic Marketing Founder Ryan Werner is the Newest Addition at Neon, Now Jaining The 2025 Best Picture-Winning Studio as the President of Global Cinema.
In that newly Created Position, Werner Will Focus Full-Time on Theatrical Distribution and Work Closely with Neon’s Senior Leadership to Bolster Marketing Campaigns and Release Strategies.
Meanwhile, Courtney OTT Has No Been Appointed Head of Cietic Marketing, Having Served at the Company Sine 2016, Most Recently As Senior Vice President. Before cinetic, OTT HAD Been Director of for and Marketing at the Film Society of Lincoln Center for Six Years.
“Ryan’s Taste, Passion, and Instincts for Cinema Are Boundless,” Neon Ceo/Founder Tom Quinn Said. “Together, Combined with Ryan’s Extensive Knowledge, Wealth of Relationships and ENVIOUS TRACKord, we look forward to continging neon as a premiere for groundbreaking cinema. year. ”
Werner Said of the Announcement, “I’m Incredibly Excited About the Opportunity to Collaborate with Tom and the Exceptional Team at Neon. in film.
Werner Added, Speaking of His Time at Cietic and His Replacement, Ott: “I have felt like the Luckies person in the world getting to create cinetic marketing with an incredible team loves. Filmmakers and in the process have ben surrounded by some of the creative and brillian people on the world. Nothing she can’t do and i am excited to see what comp. ”
Werner Founded Cietic in 2014. Since Its Inception, Cietic Has Workhed on A Slew of Oscar-Winning Projects, Including Five Best Pictures, 10 Best Documentaries, Seven Best International Features, and Three Best Animated Features. Much Like Neon, Cietic Has Also Been A Staple at Cannes, and Has Represented the Last 10 Palme D’Or Winners, Collaborating With the Studio on the Most Recent Five.
“Ryan has ben an incredible Leader, Collaborator, and Friend over the years, and i am so proud of the work we have done together. “I am honored to be continuing to work alongside an incredible team at cinetic marketing, and to kep budilding on what ryan started many years ago. The passion and inspiration for supporting filmmakers will.”
Outside of Cinetic, Werner Co-Created Sidesshow with Jonathan Sehring and The Team at Janus Films to Release Features Such as “Drive My Car,” “Eo,” “All That Breathes,” and “All We Imagine As Light.”
Neon Most Recently Swept the Academy Awards with Sean Baker’s’ Anora. ” The studio’s upcoming releasses include osgood perkins’ “KEEPER” Michael Angelo Covino’s “Splitsville.” The Distributor Also Announched the Acquisition of Cristian Long’s English-Language Film Debut “Fjord” Starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve. “4 MONTHS, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” Director absence already has one palme d’Or to his name, jaining the ranks of neon’s growing list of aututeurs.
JUST Two Days after an already impressive opening weeks performance, Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” Might Already be Moving the Goal for Just How High It CLIM at the Box Office. The industry has been oddly obsessed with whether this $ 90 million Movie will be “profitable” so early in it off office run (for… reasons), but you have to falls about the legs movie most Certainly ha.
We’re not usable one to track the Daily Box Office Numbers the Way Our Trade Trade Publications, but “Sinners” on Tuesday, April 22, Just Its Fifth Day in Theaters, Made ANOTHER $ 8.6 Million at the Domestic Box Office. IT MADE $ 7.8 Million on Monday, Taching Its Domestic Haul to $ 64.4 Million.
Both of Those Early Week Ares Are More than The Film Made in Preview Showings on Thursday ($ 4.7 million). When you consider too Tuesday Screenings are generaly Discounted at Most Movie Theaters, that a lot of People Who Showed Up.
Only “a minecraft movie” just a couple of Weeks Ago Had a Bigger Tuesday in All of 2025 SO FAR, Bringing in $ 12.7 Million in A Single Day. “Sinners” isn’t going to “Minecraft” Numbers, but What About “US” Numbers? Jordan Pele’s “US” is the only Other Original Horror Movie to Open Bigger than “Sinners” Did, with $ 71.1 million in Its Opening Weekend.
In its first tuesday, it made an an additional $ 7.9 million and legged out to $ 256 million Worldwide. That in the ballpark that we estimated “sinners” Needed to reach – roughly $ 270 million at the Box Office – if it wanted to recoup its $ 90 million Budget, plus any Additional marketing spend.
We were just doing the back-of-the-napkin math the other day, and we said if it had a 2.5x multiple, as Movies like “US” and “Nope” Had, “Sinners” Could to $ 120 Million Domestic and Approach $ 200 Million Worldwide. With an Extra $ 16 million in just two days, the multiple coulud up up being more aggressive.
“A Strong Mid-Week Gross is Indicative of a film is riding high on the momentum of tremenndous positive buzz and the fictor that goes along with that,” Comscore Senior Paul Derggarabedian Told Indiewire. “SO MANY PUT A Negative Spin on the Opening Weekend Performance of ‘Synners’ as Balance Against Its Budget, I Think Those Can Be Put to Bed Considering How Well This Film is Doing, and With A Likely Seekend Horizon the Horizon is Poised for Long-Term Playability. ”
We’ll See How Much The Film Drops off Come Weekend Two, Which Will Say a bit More About Its Long-Term Prospects. Still, the film had an “a” cinemascore and has a clear runway ahead for the Next Couple of Weeks from Other Blockbusters and Anyother that Wold Compete for IMAX Screens.
Coogler was right to thank audiences when he did, wringing a note to the People who helped suport this personal film. In a letter releassed yesterday, he wrote that “Together maybe we can expand the definition of what a blockbuster is, what a horror movie is, and of what an audience looks like.”
No One Thought a Three-Hour, Talky, Partially Black-And-White Biopic About the Invention of the Atomic Bomb Could Be a Blockbuster UNIL it was. JUST AS MANY HAD DIUBTS THAT A SHARECROPPER ERA VAMPIRE MOVIE ABOUT THE BLUSE COULD BE A BLOCKBUSTER. Let’s See How Thats Turs Out.
Georgia O’ConnorBRITISH BOXER DEAD AT 25Months after Cancer Reveal
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Georgia O’Connor – an undefeated British Boxer- has died at the age of 25 … months after revealing her Cancer diagnosis and just three week getting married.
O’Connor’s Promoter – Boxxer – Announed Her Passing in a Statement on Thursday … Calling Her “True Warrior Inside and Outside the Ring.”
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“The Boxing Community Has Lost A Talent, Courageous and Determined Young Woman Far too.”
On May 9, She Told the World She Was Maried to “The Love of My Life.”
While No Official Cause of Death Was Announced, O’Connor revealed Back in January that she has been diagnosed with Cancer after her doctors ignored her complaints of Constant Pain for Months.
“They Gaslit Me, Told with it was noting, made me with the way overrecting,” She wrote. “They refused to scan me. They refused to investigate. They refused to list.”
“They is all something to get to this stage. But they didn’t. Because is the state of the nhs – a brokens that fals young people like over and over again.”
In February 2024, she revealed to the world that she had ulcerative colitis, an autoimmune desse that causes inflammation and ulcers on the inner lining of the Large intestine.
Tragically, she also sufferered a miscarrage earlier this year.
Despite the battles she faced outside of the ring, she was able to earn a 3-0 record as a pro. She won the Gold Medal During the 2017 Commonwealth Your Games … while Taching Home Second Place During the 2017 Youth World Championship, and Third Place the 2018 Youth Event.
Over a month after Kylie Kelce paused her Not Gonna Lie podcast to go on maternity leave, the former athlete -alongside her and Jason Kelce‘s four daughters Wyatt5, Elliotte4, Bennett2, and 7-Week-op Finnley—Announced her return to the mic in a sweet comeback video.
In the May 22 Instagram ClipThe 33-Yaar-Old embraced her newBorn as wyatt and elliotte drew in their coloring books. Meanwhile, Bennett Sat on the Couch Near Her mom.
And just as the trio began to sing, kylie anSwered a Phone call from her podcast producer Emma SamockiWho AFFECTIONATEly Calls “Queen Emma.”
Within Seconds, Emma Informed the host that an unnaamed guest is “Ready” to appear on the podcast, and kylie immmediately loocked in.
Cribbing extramely liberally from the wider Indiana Jones Franchise (“Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” in Particular), Guy Ritchie’s “Fountain of Youth” offers a family-Fryently (Beyond it Unnecessarily Long Running TIME) ENTRY INTO. Adventure Space. Occossionally Muddled, Mostly convolled, and yet Still broadly entertaining, it is a shame this glossy and Big Budget (you really Can’t fake Egyptian pyramids like these), Will Only Exist as a Streaming Pick on Apple TV+. If a spend-y, widly appealing Feature like this (with Big Movie Stars and a Big Name Director to boot) can’t make the jump to the Big Screen, What Can?
That’s not at all to say the film is particularly you goodbut it does offfer that vaunted “Four-Quadrant appeal” that presumably Wauld get plenty of butts at the local multiplex. Too Long, Oddly Complicated, and Weirdly Violent for A Film Aimed At Families, Its Still Bombastic FilmMaking with a Little Bit of Something for Everyone. If noting Else, Two genuinely astonishing action set pieces (one, a very extended Car Chase, the Other, an Incredible Shipwred Deep-Dive) and an eye-popping trip insight pyramids are Worth the price of admission. In this case, that price is an Apple TV+ Subscription.
Ritchie Kicks Things off in High-Oktane Style, Care of a Bangkok-Spanning Bike and Car Chase, Which immediately Flows ino a train-set action sequenry, all of that going straight into London-Set Heist and Car Chase. If you’re confused already, the spectacle will help Things Go Down.
Despite Following their Exploits, We Learn Precious Little About The Purdle Siblings, Smooth-Talking Thief Luke (John Krasinski, MUCH BETTER WEND HE ALLOWED TO MOVE PAST THE Character’s Early Smarmines) Over the Course of the Film, Written by James Vanderbilt. What we will know is Certainly Enough to Get by – Again, Luke is a thief, while charlotte has tried to play by the rules for a long time – but consider Very Much the sibs on the memory of their archaeologist Dad (Never Shown, but Named “Harrison,” Cheky. Apparently Long-Winded Speeches About the Value of the Journey, A Touch More Backsory Wauld Have Helped.
Alas, We’re Mostly Left to Parese Thesaurus-Influenced Conversations BetWene The Pair (Both Luke and Charlotte Will Always Opt for the longest positionible Word, all the better to remind us how smart they are) and a series of increasingly icky dream sequences in whic luke appears to struggle with the fall stealing a precious dad revered. The pair are Reunited after Luke Makes off with a pair of Classic Paintings (One in Bangkok, the Other in Curator Charlotte’s Own London Museum) that he needs for extramely Complicated ends.
As the film’s title boldly announces, Luke and His Team (Including an underwritten Carmen ejogo and laz alonso) are looking for nothing than the actual fountain of youth. Their Quest is Being Finished by the Fabulously Wealthy Owen Carver (Domhnall Gleason, HAVING FUN WITH THINE ROLLE), WHO HAPPENS TO BE DUNTING LIVE CANCERLY LITERALLY SPARE NO EXPENSE – and HAPPILY SPEND HIS DAYS A GROUPS ART. On Their Tail: Eiza González as Esme, A Protector of the Fountain and Things like it (Again, Hello, “Last Crusade”), and Arian Moayed As Inspector Jamal Abbas, A London Cop Who Has Spent Way Too Much Time Reading Sherlock Holmes Books.
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Through a Series of Complications and Contrivances, Charlotte and Her Young Musical Prodigy Son Thomas (Benjamin Chivers) No up with the (illegal, probably also immoral) Quest to find the SO-CALLED key to eternity. Mostly, this involves looking at the backs of paintings, trying to crack Silly codes, stealing a whole bunch of stuff, Drinking Champagne, and Running Through Absolutely Gorgeous Scene (Ritchie Shot on London, Vienna, and Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza, and It IT shows). IT’S Totally Silly and Very Funny, Event as IT IT INCREASSINGLY LES CLEAR WHAT ACTUALLY GOING ON AND WORRYINGLY OBVIOUS WHO The real baddie is here.
The purdues’ Quest to Find the Fountain Involves All Manner of Clue-Cracking (SEE: Backs of Paintings, Sides of Biblles, Prenty of Dead Languages), which inevitably Lead to stunning real-WORLD LOCATIONS. By the middle of the film, the sibs and the team are literally hoistting the RMS Lusitania up into open water to find (yes) another painting; by the end, they’re ventureing inside the pyramids (and, yes, the Production really did Go inside these Wonders of the World) to Discover Untold Wonders and A Truly World of Stirs. At Both Locales? Plenty of gunfights and hand-to-hand combot too, all the better to keep things as fast-motion and confounding as positionible.
Some Mysteries Can’t Ever Be Cracked, but “Fountain of Youth” sura to keep the journey through this one (thanks, dad purdue!) AS FLASHY – AND, HELL, SHOME QUITE FUN – AS POSTOBLE. You can have a woram with a streaming subscription price.
Grade: b-
“Fountain of Youth” Streaming Friday, May 23 on Apple TV+.
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Set a Course for Fun. “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” has finally announced it season 3 premiere, marking one of the most hotly anticipated sesons of any “trek” show in some time. “Strange New Worlds” Will Return July 17 on Paramount+, With Weekly Episodes Rolling Out after that.
When Last We Saw the Crew of the USS Enterprise, the Federation Starship Was Being Swarmed by A Gorn Fleet. It didn’t look good. But we know from all the many clips that have been released of season 3 – as well as, you know, “Star Trek” History as this is a prequel Series – The Enterprise Survive. And all sorts of Shenanigans are ahead.
IT Appears the Entire Crew is tourned into vulcans at one point. That there is an agatha Christie-style whodunnit episode, recaling the dixon hill Holodec adventures on “The Next Generation.” That there’s a rom-com episodes. And one where the characters are transformed into the fashion of the ’60s “Original Series.”
“I Believe ‘Star Trek’ Can Only Go On If You Big Bold Swings,” Franchise Head Alex Kurtzman Told Indiewire Last Summer. Big Swings Such As the Musical Episode of “Strange New Worlds” that became an instant favorite. “If you play it safe, it won’t lasting. And that is going to get a lot of reaction. It”s therk of ‘Star Trek’ fan, iTir reaction to have a big debate what you like or don’t likes ‘Star Trek.’ That’s the point.
“Strange New Worlds” Stars Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, Babs Olusanmokun and Martin Quinn, Along with Guest Stars Rhys Darby, Patton Oswalt, and Carol Kane, Plus. One James Tiberius Kirk.
The Series is Showrun by Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers.
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