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Happy campers? More like dying campers.

Just in time for Halloween, Peacock has announced that it has gone straight to series on Crystal Lake, a prequel drama based on the hit horror movie franchise, Friday the 13th.

Bryan Fuller, the prolific television creator behind such shows as American Gods and Star Trek: Discovery, will write, showrun and executive produce the series, which will be produced by A24, the studio known for buzzy movies such as Everything Everywhere All at Once and this year’s horror one-two punch, X and Pearl.

Friday the 13th is the horror franchise that launched in 1980 and gave the world Jason Voorhees, the hockey-masked slasher who mostly kills in and around the verdant and idyllic grounds of Camp Crystal Lake (except for the rare jaunt to New York or outer space).

The movies birthed a TV series once before,

Marvel Studios’ Wonder Man series has found its lead in Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, per reports, marking the actor’s third foray into comic book territory following his roles in HBO’s “Watchmen” and DC’s “Aquaman.”

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A live-action Wonder Man show from Marvel Studios was announced back in June, with Andrew Guest (“Hawkeye”) serving as the head writer and executive producer for the series, along with “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton, who is also an EP and is co-developing the project as part of his overall deal with Marvel and Onyx Collective.

In the Marvel comics, “Wonder Man” centers on Simon Williams, an actor and stuntman who was a founding member of the Los Angeles-based West Coast Avengers. Williams inherited his father’s industrial munitions plant and fell on

“Stargirl” will come to an end at The CW with Season 3, Variety has confirmed.

The DC series is currently airing its third season, with the finale set to air on Dec. 7. This is the latest CW scripted series to announce it will come to an end following Nexstar’s completion of its acquisition of The CW in October. It was most recently announced that “Nancy Drew” would end with its fourth season, with both “The Flash” and “Riverdale” also coming to an end. The CW also canceled many of its scripted originals back in May.

“Stargirl has always held a

Refresh for latest…: Warner Bros/New Line DC’s Black Adam in its second offshore frame saw a strong hold, down just 45. It added 39M from 76 offshore markets to take the running international box office total to 139M for a global cume through Sunday of 250M.

While superhero movies are typically frontloaded, there were a number of Black Adam markets that saw only slight drops — school holidays helped in parts of Europe. Among the standouts are France (-19), Netherlands (-25), Germany (-27) and the UK (-38).

The Dwayne Johnson-starrer continued to rank No. 1 in 60 overseas markets including France, Germany, Spain, UK, Australia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Brazil and Mexico. In IMAX, it added 2.3M in its overseas haul this session for an offshore cume of 8.2M and 18M global in the format.

In like-for-like markets and using today’s exchange rates, the film is tracking 42 ahead of Shazam!

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Tom Hanks made yet another return to “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, suiting up as David Pumpkins in what is rapidly becoming a Halloween tradition for the long-running sketch show.

Per usual, the sketch followed a group of horror enthusiasts on a haunted-house style carnival ride that shows them different horror villains in each room. Classic film characters like Michael Myers, Freddy Krueger, and Pennywise the Clown all showed up in the sketch. But the ride quickly becomes saturated with appearances by David Pumpkins, a man in a pumpkin-patterned suit (who is apparently from Ibiza) and two dancing skeletons. Rather than try to scare the guests, he dances before cryptically asking if they have “any questions?” This time, Jack Harlow was on the ride. The rapper (and star of the upcoming “White Men Can’t Jump” remake) handled “SNL” hosting duties this week, and played a rider who actually enjoyed David Pumpkins.

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Everyone has at least one foodie in their life. Whether they’re an impressive home cook, a restaurant devotee, or a professional working in the industry these are the people who make our lives more delicious — literally, by filling our lives with tasty bites and superior sips, but also figuratively, with their infectious enthusiasm for the pleasures of wining and dining.

But gifting a foodie can be intimidating. You don’t want to give them a kitchen tool they already have or guess at a luxury treat that winds up not being to their taste. You can always play it safe with a gift card to their favorite cookware brand or fancy restaurant, but an actual hand-selected pick always goes

Warner Bros. alum Sue Kroll has been named head of marketing for Amazon Studios after leading the streamer’s extensive rollout campaign for the first season of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.”

As part of her new role, multiple series and films in production and development at Kroll’s Kroll & Co. Entertainment banner will move to Amazon under a first-look deal.

Kroll begins her position with Amazon Studios effective immediately. She will report directly to Amazon Studios chief Jennifer Salke.

Before launching her own production house in 2018, Kroll served a long tenure as the president

When “Banshees of Inisherin” cinematographer Ben Davis received the film’s script, his reaction was that while there were many interpretations to be had, it was the conflict that spoke to him. “Particularly men in conflict and how most wars are created and caused by men, and maybe they could have sorted that out, and they didn’t need to do that,” says Davis.

The Martin McDonagh helmed film stars Colin Farrell as Padraic and Brendan Gleeson as Colm. The two have been friends for years, but when Pádraic goes to call on Colm for their usual afternoon walk to the pub, Colm pretends he doesn’t see or hear him. When Colm finally makes his way to the bar, he tells Pádraic that he doesn’t like him anymore, and simply doesn’t want to be his friend anymore.

For Davis, the key to framing the story was distance.

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Producer Jon Peters will receive 185,000 as part of a settlement that resolves his lawsuit over what he alleges was an agribusiness Ponzi scheme.

Peters, whose credits include Superman Returns, Batman, A Star is Born and Caddyshack, in February 2021 sued Holli Gallun and Management 180. He alleged in his complaint that in 2019 and 2020 Gallun, who he’d known for more than 15 years, offered him “two unique agribusiness investments that produced risk-free returns, at higher rates than are available to the general investing public.” Peters wired her 450,000 and claimed that repayments became sporadic and then stopped altogether. When he asked for his money back, according to the complaint, she said the “funds were ‘already spent’ and ‘just sue me.'”

He did, and after about a year and a half of litigation the parties have settled. Peters in August had sought a default judgment of nearly 1 million against Gallun,

It began with 2008’s “Iron Man,” a film that introduced the world to Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark with the hint that he could be part of something greater. Twenty-five films later, the story of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is still being told, albeit with various tributaries and detours that introduce new characters and new worlds that may or may not cross paths one day. Each film in the MCU stands on its own to some degree, but like building blocks, they all connect as part of one interconnected universe. And in that way, watching the Marvel movies in order tells one grand story.

There are a couple of different ways to watch the MCU movies, but below we run down how to watch the Marvel films in chronological order. Indeed, some films like “Captain Marvel” and “Captain America: The First Avenger” are full-on prequels set in the 1990s and 1940s,

Imax is one of the exhibition companies that’s eager to return to Pandora and Wakanda. That’s the hopeful message being sounded after a lack of splashy new blockbusters and a faltering last-summer box office took a chunk out of Imax’s profits, leaving the company to tout the impending arrival of two upcoming releases.

“The blockbuster slate is reigniting with two of the most highly anticipated releases in years — ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ and ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ — leading into a strong blockbuster slate in 2023,” Imax CEO Richard Gelfond said on an earnings call.

But there’s still a few weeks to go before those films hit theaters. During its most recent quarter, Imax saw its quarterly losses widen to 9 million from 8.4 million in the prior-year period on the paucity of compelling content. However, things are still better than the worst of the Covid era. Revenue increased

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The box office is lousy, inflation is up and with a recession looming, economic prospects look poor. But judging by the breadth and depth of offerings at this year’s American Film Market, the indie movie business is still in rude health. Strong sales in Cannes and decent business in Toronto are giving producers and sales companies hope that AFM 2022 could be the post-pandemic restart that the industry desperately needs.

Global buyers descending on Santa Monica this week certainly won’t be lacking for choice, with a selection of projects big and small, mainstream and niche, to entice them to pull out their checkbooks.

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Buzz The 800 lb. gorilla among this year’s AFM packages, this World War II action spy thriller, initially in development at Paramount, has fallen back to the indies and

A former actor cried on the stand when testifying that Harvey Weinstein assaulted her two times, decades apart, during the Toronto International Film Festival.

The woman — identified by the court as “Kelly S.,” in order to protect her identity — went into graphic detail alleging Weinstein forced oral sex on her in 1991 and masturbated in front of her in 2008. Both alleged assaults occurred at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto.

“You’re going to love this. … It’s okay … it won’t be long,” Kelly S. remembered Weinstein saying when he allegedly assaulted her for the first time. She told the jury that she repeatedly asked him to stop. She recalls him saying, “I’m going to fuck you. It won’t take long. Just relax.”

Kelly S. is an uncharged witness, meaning the 11 charges Weinstein faces do not stem from her allegations. The jury will not deliberate on the assaults Kelly S.

Emma Corrin and David Dawson share some intimate moments with Harry Styles in “My Policeman.” To build that chemistry between the actors, director Michael Grandage introduced the three of them through a more musical approach.

In one scene in the movie, Corrin, Dawson and Styles get drunk at a bar and sing a song. “The first time the three of us got together, we were thrown into a sound booth,” Dawson recalled. “We got around the piano and we had to sing for each other, and that was a really clever way of breaking the ice.”

“Like a recording studio,” Corrin added. “Which is Harry’s natural habitat, but we both were scared shitless.”

Corrin, Dawson and Linus Roache sat down for a post-screening Q&a on Friday at New York City’s Ipic Theater.

Set in 1957 Brighton, “My Policeman” follows a complicated love triangle between closeted policeman Tom Burgess

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Imax kept up its pandemic-era box office recovery in the third quarter, despite a lull in the Hollywood movie pipeline.

Overall revenue at the giant screen exhibitor came to 68.8 million, up 21 percent from a year-earlier 56.6 million, as Imax was impacted by partial Covid-related theater shutdowns in China. And Imax recorded a loss of 9 million, which widened a year-earlier loss of 8.4 million.

During the latest quarter, Imax recorded a 4.3 million valuation allowance against its deferred tax assets, and 1 million in acquisition-related expenses. The adjusted net loss per share in Q3 came to 3 cents, which compared to a 7 cents loss per-share in Q2 owing to a film investment writedown, and was better than a per-share loss of 5 cents a year ago.

Global box office at Imax during the latest quarter hit 177.1 million, up 25 percent from 141.9 million last year. Around 30 percent of the global box office

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An extra-inning contest to open the World Series helped Fox draw its biggest game one audience in three years.

The network averaged 11.48 million viewers for its broadcast of the Philadelphia Phillies’ 6-5, 10-inning victory over the Houston Astros on Friday. That’s up 6 percent over last year’s first game (10.81 million) and the best for a World Series opener since 12.19 million watched game one of the 2019 series. Fox also got a 2.9 rating among adults 18-49 for the game, up about 15 percent year to year.

On the flip side, Friday’s telecast is still the third-lowest opening game on record for the World Series, ahead of only the previous two years. (The 2020 series, played after a pandemic-shortened season, holds the all-time low for average viewers across the full series and for each of its six individual games.)

Elsewhere Friday, CBS’ Fire Country continued its

Another Jane Doe took the stand in the criminal rape trial of Harvey Weinstein on Monday, opening a second week of accusers’ testimony by telling the jury she went up to Weinstein’s room in 2008 to confront him about a 1991 sexual assault – and that 17 years later, he did it again, this time while her husband and children were waiting downstairs.

The witness, dressed in black pants and a patterned blue shirt with long blond hair, told the jury she first met Weinstein at the Toronto Film Festival in 1991, when the aspiring actress was 24 years old. She said friends introduced her to the producer, recalling that “we got along very well. He as very intelligent.”

Harvey invited her to a patio bar, where they had “a few glasses of wine … he was affable, we were bantering about art and film. We were having a nice time.” After an hour or so,

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The Halloween talk-show tradition continued on Monday as the broadcast network morning and daytime hosts donned pop-culture-inspired ensembles.

The hosts of NBC’s Today, the syndicated Live With Kelly and Ryan and ABC’s The View all dressed up for the holiday, with movie and TV show characters and popular musicians among the inspirations.

Still, not every show that traditionally participates in the festivities went all out this year. ABC’s Good Morning America, which skipped dressing up for the holiday in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic continued ahead of a high-stakes presidential election, saw its hosts once again mostly pass on dressing up. The show, which featured live interviews with Friends star Matthew Perry and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever director Ryan Coogler and actress Danai Gurira, instead celebrated the holiday by showing off some last-minute costume ideas and with a candy cooking contest

Poorna Jagannathan has been cast in “Deli Boys,” Abdullah Saeed’s comedy pilot for the Onyx Collective on Hulu.

The series will follow a pair of pair of pampered Pakistani-American brothers named Mir (Asif Ali) and Raj Dar (Saagar Shaikh) who lose everything when their convenience-store magnate father suddenly dies. They and are forced to reckon with their Baba’s secret life of crime as they attempt to take up his mantle in the underworld. Alfie Fuller also stars.

Jagannathan will play Lucky, Baba’s right-hand woman. She can be very caring or a badass business boss lady, depending on what’s needed.

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Killing Eve star Sandra Oh is reteaming with director Ann-Marie Fleming for the sci-fi thriller Can I Get a Witness.

Canadian distributor Mongrel Media is shopping the Canadian indie now in development at AFM via its Mongrel International banner. Can I Get a Witness, also written by Fleming, is set in the near future in which, to save the planet, death is everyone’s job. And while 50-year-olds make the sacrifice, teenage artists have to document the deaths.

Oh is set to star, while Eric Mussolum and Jayme Pfahl share producer credits.

Canadian-born Oh voiced a key role, Rosie Ming, in Fleming’s 2016 animated feature Window Horses, about a young Canadian-Chinese poet discovering her family history in Iran. Elliot Page, Shohreh Aghdashloo and Navid Negahban also offered their voices for roles in the indie feature, which Oh also produced in the wake of