by Abb Jones The Reelness The world’s major movie theater chains are unveiling plans to reopen in mid-July – if they can reassure nervous moviegoers they will be safe from the coronavirus pandemic and if they get some new content. For those of you ready to venture out, for now it appears the first new […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness Less than a day after the inspiring, COVID-19 impacted, season finale of We’re Here, HBO has ordered another season of the show starring Shangela, Bob the Drag Queen and Eureka – three alums from RuPaul’s Drag Race – as they travel America’s Heartland, helping small town drag queens celebrate individuality, acceptance […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness AMC Theatres, the world’s largest movie theater chain, says it has “substantial doubt” its more than 1000 theaters in the United States and Europe can remain in business due to its current closure during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a regulatory filing Wednesday, the theatre chain, which has 661 theaters in […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness HBO Max, the latest big league streaming service, launched overnight, packed with double the amount of TV shows and movies than its regular service, and just in time to help entertain weary Americans stuck at home through the current COVID-19 pandemic. Sorry rest of world, HBO Max’s first international expansion […]
Director Lynn Shelton, who directed several episodes of the hit drama series Little Fires Everywhere on Hulu, has died at the age of 54. The Hollywood Reporter quotes her publicist as saying she died Friday in Los Angeles of a previously unidentified blood disorder. “She collapsed yesterday morning after having been ill for a week. […]
Irrfan Khan, one of India’s most beloved movie stars who also starred in such Hollywood hits as Life of Pi, Slumdog Millionaire and Jurassic World, has died at the age of 53. Khan, who was diagnosed in March 2018 with a rare neuroendocrine tumor, was hospitalized in Mumbai with a colon infection earlier this week. […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness NBCUniversal just added another weapon to its arsenal in the escalating battle for the online home media business. Walmart announced Monday that NBCUniversal’s Fandango movie ticketing/video rental business has acquired the mega retailer’s Vudu streaming service. Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, FandangoNOW had more than 60 million visitors each month […]
Quibi, the much-hyped, but for now, “mobile only” streaming service, launched Monday with its line-up of original movies and shows. Founder and movie mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg has maintained that delivering premium content in shorter-than-ten-minutes episodes – hence Quibi’s name, a play on “quick bites” – will set it apart from other video-on-demand providers like Netflix […]
Honor Blackman, the actress best known for her iconic role as Pussy Galore in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger, has died of natural causes at the age of 94 at her home in Lewes, England. Blackman, a judo expert, abruptly quit her role as the leather-clad Cathy Gale in the the hugely popular British […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness Disney is the latest movie studio reshuffling release dates of its upcoming blockbuster films, based on the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Confused by what’s opening and when? Let’s sort out this mess! Mulan, the story of a brave young Chinese girl who takes her ailing warrior father’s place in the Imperial Army […]