Nick Castle, who played Michael Myers, credited as “The Shape” in the original 1978 “Halloween” movie, will return to reprise the role in the upcoming Blumhouse movie, an individual with knowledge of the casting told TheWrap. David Gordon Green is directing the film that will also star original cast member Jamie Lee Curtis and also Judy Greer. Laurie Strode (Curtis) will have her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she barely escaped his killing spree four decades ago. David Gordon Green and Danny McBride are scripting the new “Halloween” film, due in theaters Oct.

Sony’s “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” is off to a solid start with an estimated $7 million to $8 million on its opening day at 3,765 North American sites, early estimates showed Wednesday.

The first numbers point to a six-day gross between $45 million and $55 million range for the six-day period that runs through Christmas Day. Studio projections that have been in the $45 million range for several weeks.

Initial estimates for Fox’s Hugh Jackman musical drama “The Greatest Showman” showed a first-day number of about $3 million at 3,005 locations — which would probably leave “Showman” with a six-day total of about $20 million, in line with recent forecasts.

Disney-Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” is expected to continue to dominate domestic moviegoing. The tentpole took in $20.3 million domestically on Tuesday at 4,232 locations for the ninth-highest Tuesday of all time, down just 5% from Monday’s take. The North American total has hit $261.9 million in its first five days.

Disney's Artemis Fowl has found it's lead with newcomer Ferdia Shaw, who will play the 12-year-old genius that runs his family's criminal empire.

Shaw, who will make his big screen debut in the Kenneth Branagh-helmed adaptation, was cast as the lead after an extensive search, which included more than 1,200 possible candidates.

The movie will was adapted for the screen by playwright Conor McPherson from Eoin Colfer's bestselling book series, which follows the intelligent Artemis as he attempts to uncover a hidden race of fairies who may be behind his father’s disappearance.

Disney announced Thursday that Josh Gad, who starred in the studio's live-action Beauty...

Dark, the eerie, stylish time-travel mystery show from Germany, just got the go-ahead for season 2 on Netflix. The series was marketed as a kind of German Stranger Things, and while it certainly shares some connections with that other Netflix hit, Dark is a bit more cerebral and a lot less nostalgic. Overall, it’s a creep-tastic show […]

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Disney-Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” has sped through the half-billion dollar mark in box office grosses at $536.7 million worldwide in a week, with $42.1 million on Tuesday.

The tentpole took in $20.3 million domestically at 4,232 locations for the ninth-highest Tuesday of all time, down just 5% from Monday’s take. The North American total has hit $261.9 million in its first five days.

Tuesday’s international gross totaled $21.8 million for a foreign total of $274.8 million, led by the U.K. with $46 million, Germany with $27.6 million, France with $21.6 million, Australia with $19.8 million, and Japan with $18.3 million. “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” began opening internationally on Dec. 13 and 14. China will open on Jan. 5.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi is a hit, but The Force may not be as strong for Disney when it comes to merchandise sales this year.

Panjiva, a data company that tracks the giant shipping containers that arrive at U.S. ports, says 6,587 of them with Star Wars gear were shipped in the seven months leading up to The Last Jedi, but that’s down 47 percent from the seven months leading to Rogue One in 2016 and off 56 percent from the same time period ahead of The Force Awakens in 2015. Once the containers land in the U.S., these products go to Walmart, Amazon.com and every other...

Hiep Thi Le, the actress known for her acclaimed role in Oliver Stone’s 1994 film Heaven and Earth opposite Tommy Lee Jones, died December 19 of complications from stomach cancer, Deadline has learned. She was 46. Born in Da Nang, Vietnam, an 8-year-old Le and her younger sister were put on a fishing boat by her mother in 1979 to try and reunite with their father in Hong Kong. After a difficult journey, they eventually met him in there and ultimately reunited with her…

(Note: This post contains spoilers for “The Last Jedi” and “The Force Awakens.”) If there’s a major difference between “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” and its predecessor, “The Force Awakens,” it’s that “The Last Jedi” moves a whole lot slower. That’s definitely not a criticism. “The Force Awakens” sprints from scene to scene, its characters barely able to take a breathe before they’re off to their next adventure, their next crisis, or their next problem to be solved. Moments in which newfound buddies Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Finn (John Boyega), or de facto mentor Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and potential apprentice.

Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born will hit theaters during awards season.

Warner Bros. announced Wednesday it is moving the film from May 18, 2018 to Oct. 5, 2018, a prime corridor for more serious, adult-skewing fare. Insiders say the decision was made after executives saw a locked cut of the film, which Cooper directed and stars in with Lady Gaga.

A Star is Born was originally set to debut Sept. 28. Several months ago, however, Warners relocated it to summer.

Cooper's film, marking his feature directorial debut, continues Hollywood's love affair with the 1937 film of the...

Jacob Tremblay may only be 11 years old, but the “Wonder” actor has already learned an important life lesson: to always be kind. Coincidentally, that’s also the message conveyed in his new film, “Wonder.” The touching story follows a young boy, Auggie Pullman, who suffers from Treacher Collins syndrome, which affects the development of bones and other facial tissue and therefore causes differences in his face. “When I heard the message of the film, I was just like, ‘I gotta be a part of it,” Tremblay — who rose to fame in the 2015 thriller “Room” — told TheWrap. “If you...

Michael Haneke‘s “Happy End,” which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May, lacks the historical heft of “The White Ribbon” or the emotional through-line of “Amour,” both winners of the festival’s Palme d’Or prize. It’s a more austere and enigmatic work about — among many other things — existential malaise among France’s top 1 percent. The compelling film is like the Austrian director’s answer to the age-old question, “What do you get for the man who has everything?” And though his answer is simple, one must put in the work to get there. The film follows the Laurents (as all.

After five films together, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are close friends. However, Hanks also serves in another essential, unpaid role on Spielberg’s sets: acting coach.

Spielberg is infamous for not rehearsing his cast, expecting them to turn up on set fully prepared to step in front of his camera. This was especially true on “The Post,” which was on a fast track, even for the efficient filmmaker: Production began May 1, less than eight months before its December 22 release date. Hanks decided to take the newsroom gang aside for some much-needed prep.

“I knew how Steve worked,” Hanks said. “I had to figure out in different circumstances how this guy made movies. So just a little forwarding could go a long way. ‘Look, let’s get together off the books over pie and coffee and read through the stuff we have. I will try to explain to you the

Be careful what you wish for. As Joe Wright started working on “Darkest Hour” in January of 2016, he thought about one day hoping to make a topical film. But Brexit, the American election and the British election weren’t far behind. So surprise! When you’re making a movie about a world leader with immense, populist presence as an orator in a time of global crisis, your movie’s bound to be topical. Wright’s choice to portray Winston Churchill in the film, Gary Oldman, was drawn to finally play the legendary wartime Prime Minister because of this specific, defining moment in Churchill’s.

TheWrap has partnered with Canvs, the emotion measurement company, for a weekly look at some of the characters and personalities that have TV viewers the most worked up on social media. The data below covers Dec. 13-19 and is drawn from the most emotionally reacted-to television programs, including broadcast, cable, streaming and PPV. A Patriots tight end, “The Voice” winner and a beloved Christmas icon had viewers talking passionately on social media over the past seven days. The NFL matchup between the New England Patriots and the Pittsburgh Steelers, broadcast on CBS, was the most emotionally reacted-to program of the period.

It’s been a bumpy week for T.J. Miller.

On Tuesday, the same day that “Silicon Valley” alum Miller was accused of sexually assaulting a woman in college, porn actress Dana DeArmond came forward to accuse Miller of harassment. In a tweet published Tuesday morning, Dana DeArmond said that Miller harassed her during the filming of the Comedy Central offering “Mash Up,” which Miller hosted.

DeArmond also accused “Mash Up” director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, whose credits also include “Kong: Skull Island” and “You’re the Worst,” of harassment.

Magic Leap — the much buzzed about augmented reality startup with backing from Google, Andreessen Horowitz, and Warner Bros. — has finally unveiled its “Creator Edition” Ar system. Three years in the making, the package comes with a (semi-bulky) headset, handheld controller and a disc-shaped external computer, dubbed the “Lightpack,” that attaches at the hip like a new wave beeper. (Rolling Stone mentions there will be two sizes of goggles available.) The product tease comes after years of speculation about what the Florida-based startup is even up to; it raised nearly $1.9 billion, according to Crunchbase, at a $6 billion valuation — and...

Kids love The New Day, and WWE loves their merchandise sales — it’s a (wrestling) match made in Booty-o’s Heaven. Over their three-year history as a hugely successful three-man tag team, Big E, Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods have sold unicorn horns, cereal and ice cream pops (among other goodies, which we’re told may soon include pancake mix) primarily to children, so presenting the trio as “the “good guys” is good for business. And to a publicly traded corporation in the midst of its “PG Era,” well, you do the math on how valuable all of that family friendly twerking.

With all the buzz over woman-directed films this year — from Patty Jenkins’ blockbuster “Wonder Woman” to Greta Gerwig’s indie darling “Lady Bird” — you’d think female filmmakers would have a better shot at the Oscars this year. Far from it. Of the 274 narrative, English-language features eligible for the Academy Awards this year, only 18 percent have a female director or co-director, according to an analysis by TheWrap. Similarly, just 19 percent of 26 eligible animated features have at least one woman at the helm. The odds are twice as strong for women in documentary features, where 35 percent of...

Jazz guitarist Bill Frisell is a player distinctive enough to make fans even among music lovers who think they could happily die without ever hearing another guitar solo. From all indications, he's also that very rare genius who's a lovely guy — a soft-spoken, readily smiling man who is endearing company for the nearly two hours of Emma Franz's Bill Frisell: A Portrait. Less a biography than a hangout film interspersed with well-recorded in-studio performance footage, the documentary will play well in one-off bookings to those of us who've kept Frisell in demand both on stages and on record.

Fans hoping...

A website that has broken the news of Coachella’s headliners for the last two years reports that 2018’s stars will be Eminem, Beyonce and The Weeknd. Consequence of Sound notes that this would be the first time in the nearly two decades of the Southern California desert festival that a rock band won’t headline. The site first reported in October 2015 that the New York-based dance-punk outfit LCD Soundsystem would headline Coachella 2016 as the start of a reunion tour. The site was lambasted by the band’s representatives but ultimately were proven correct when James Murphy and company joined the semi-reunited Guns.