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 […]
Paramount Pictures has pushed back its scheduled release of the long-awaited Top Gun: Maverick from late June to Christmas 2020, due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. The movie studio is hoping that will be enough time for the pandemic to run its course and allow theaters around the world to reopen. Tom Cruise reprises his […]
Kathy Griffin’s mother Maggie, who had been a popular mainstay on the stand up comedian’s reality TV show My Life on the D-List on the Bravo network, has died at the age of 99. Griffin shared the news with her fans via Twitter And Instagram Tuesday night: In January 2019, The Reelness reported that Griffin had shared […]
By Abb Jones The Reelness In a bold move to combat a plunge in box office revenues due to the current coronavirus pandemic, Universal Pictures will start streaming movies currently available in theaters to viewers at home. Starting Friday, films currently playing in theaters – the Elizabeth Moss thriller The Invisible Man, the satirical thriller […]
Nicole Kidman is teaming up with director Susanne Bier (Bird Box, The Night Manager) and writer David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies) in the upcoming HBO psychological thriller, The Undoing. The seven episode series is based on the 2014 New York Times bestselling novel “You Should Have Known” by Jean Hanff Korelitz. In The Undoing, Kidman […]
by Abb Jones The Reelness The release of A Quiet Place II, the highly-anticipated sequel to the popular 2017 Emily Blunt/John Krasinski sci-fi/thriller, is now being delayed due to the current coronavirus pandemic. Krasinski, who also directs the film, made the announcement Thursday, just a week before the film was to premiere internationally. The film […]