We bring you the list of all movies now playing in theaters. How many 2018 Movies In Theaters are there? Between January 1 and December 31, there are over five hundred movies in theaters. The most popular movie released in U.S. theaters in 2018 is Black Panther, which took in exactly $700 million. The movie […]
Kevin Hart stepped down as 2019 Oscars host just two days after the Academy announced he would take on the high-profile gig. The move came amid a mounting controversy after old tweets surfaced in which Hart expressed anti-gay sentiments and used homophobic terminology and slurs. In a tweet late Thursday, Hart officially withdrew from hosting the […]
The 2019 Golden Globe Nominees have been announced. What used to be the laughingstock in Hollywood, The Hollywood Foreign Press, the group who bestow the Golden Globes to the winners, today is something that Universal Pictures, especially, is hoping will help their season’s awards hopeful, Green Room, get a jump-start at the movie box office. […]
Film fans can take a yearlong journey through Hollywood history in 2019 when Fathom Events and Turner Classic Movies (TCM) come together for the fourth annual TCM Big Screen Classics, presenting 14 film favorites throughout the year, spanning seven decades. From the Golden Age of Hollywood to groundbreaking movies from the seventies, eighties and nineties, […]
Disney Animation Studios’ Ralph Breaks the Internet stayed a big winner in its second outing, earning another $25.8 million from 4,017 theaters to top the box office chart in North America. The weekend after Thanksgiving is one of the quietest of the year in terms of fresh studio offerings, and this year was no exception […]
The 2019 Oscars ceremony will be held on February 24, 2019 at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. Kevin Hart is hosting the 2019 Oscars. Stay tuned to see who will replace the disgraced Kevin Hart. The 2019 Oscar nominations will be announced on Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 8:38 AM EST. The movies The Favourite, Green […]
Tim Nasson’s Top 10 Movies of 2018 list is almost ready. Suffice it to say, Green Book, Roma, Bohemian Rhapsody and A Star Is Born will all make appearances on the Top 10 Movies of 2018 list. But where will they appear on the list? Stay tuned. In addition, the Wild About Movies lists of […]
Tony Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen is making its way to the big screen. Universal Pictures has acquired film rights to the Broadway hit, with Wonder director Stephen Chbosky set to handle filmmaking duties. We hear that Ben Platt, who originated the role and won a Tony for his performance, is stepping back into his […]
The New York Film Critics Circle has named Roma the best film of 2018, with the film’s helmer, Alfonso Cuarón, taking best director. Ethan Hawke (First Reformed) and Regina Hall (Support the Girls) received the group’s top acting honors, while Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) and Regina King (If Beale Street Could […]
The National Board of Review (NBR) has announced its picks for the best films and performances of 2018. The organization is made up of film enthusiasts, industry professionals, academics, and filmmakers. The NBR is one of the first organizations to announce its end-of-the-year selections, followed closely by the New York Film Critics Circle (November 29). […]
Cyber Sale. iPic gift card sale. Click here! iPic Theaters are, by far, the United States’ best movie theater experience. The chain has 15 locations, nationwide, with more on the way. iPic Scottsdale is completely renovated and iPic’s founder and CEO, Hamid Hashemi, tells WildAboutMovies.com founder Tim Nasson that all the changes are “plotted and calculated and curated, with hospitality at […]
Sony Pictures is taking their Spider-Man universe into a new direction in a #metoo moment where Wonder Woman is being followed by a growing number of female superheroes. The studio is working on an animated Spider-Women film that will focus on three generations of women with Spidey powers. Bek Smith is writing the script. One […]
Bernardo Bertolucci, the Italian director and screenwriter whose films include Last Tango in Paris and The Last Emperor, for which he won the Academy Award for best picture, director and adapted screenplay, died Monday in Rome. He was 77. A spokeswoman said the filmmaker, who became known for movies with a colorful visual style and […]
The feast at the 2018 movie box office continued over the Thanksgiving week as a pair of sequels — Ralph Breaks the Internet and Creed II — powered record holiday revenue, not accounting for yearly inflated ticket prices, in North America. Ralph Breaks the Internet topped the Wednesday-Sunday chart with a hefty $84.5 million from […]
Julie Andrews is heading to theaters in December, but not in Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns. Aquaman producer Peter Safran told Entertainment Weekly that Andrews has voiced a role in the DC superhero movie that opens December 21, two days after Mary Poppins hits theaters in a revival of a character Andrews made famous. She is […]
By Dylan Tracy: In a world filled with wonder and knowledge at our fingertips, it’s arguably one of the greatest inventions ever known to man. It’s a vast wonderland of fun, shopping, personality and image enhancement, and even money making that we can’t seem to get enough of. It’s a world that never sleeps, and […]
The second in JK Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts series, which incorporates the world of Harry Potter, not surprisingly, took the #1 spot at the box office, both in the United States and worldwide. Its combined gross, worldwide, after just three days in theaters is $253 million. Also new in theaters this past weekend, and featuring in […]
Black Panther returns to the big screen with free screenings at nonprofit art house theaters nationwide on Tuesday, November 27 at 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET. Presented by Film Comment, a publication of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and supported by the Art House Convergence, the event will feature a post-screening Q&A with director Ryan Coogler, […]
By Tim Nasson The movie Green Book, which takes its title from the book of the same name, “a travel guide to safe lodging, dining and business options for the Negro,” during the era of segregation and Jim Crow laws, is set against the backdrop of a country grappling with the volatility of the Civil Rights […]
By Dylan Tracy According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 45 journalists have been killed delivering the news to the world. Before hearing about the film A Private War, I had never once heard the name Marie Colvin before. Now I’m an avid news follower, and a woman with a story as extraordinary as this would […]
By Dylan Tracy On November 16, 2001, J.K. Rowling’s written masterpiece Harry Potter graced the big screen for the first time, opening the floodgate for a roughly $6.5 billion dollar on-screen franchise. Now, exactly seventeen years later, her magical world is still at large with the release of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the second installment in […]
Stan Lee, the legendary writer, editor and publisher of Marvel Comics whose fantabulous but flawed creations made him a real-life superhero to comic-book lovers everywhere, has died. He was 95. Lee, who began in the business in 1939 and created or co-created Black Panther, Spider-Man, X-Men, The Mighty Thor, Iron Man, The Fantastic Four, The […]
By Dylan Tracy From the moment I saw the trailer for Boy Erased, I had a strong feeling in my gut that the film would be a stand out amongst every other film in theaters this year. Boy is one of the most powerful films of our generation, and will strike at every emotion. It teaches extremely valuable […]
Shrek and Puss in Boots are getting rebooted and Chris Meledandri, the man behind Despicable Me, is overseeing their revival. Universal Pictures has tasked Meledandri (of Illumination) with finding some fresh story lines to reintroduce the lovable ogre and the sword-wielding feline to new generations of moviegoers. One thing the animation guru doesn’t want to […]
First, it was a book. Then a hit movie, earning 11 Oscar nominations, and famously winning zero. Then it became a Broadway musical. And now, the musical version is going to be adapted for film. The Color Purple, the Alice Walker novel turned into a Steven Spielberg drama and later into a Broadway musical, is […]