Saturday Night director Jason Reitman and music composer Jon Batiste said at Deadline Contenders Film: Los Angeles that music is the “villain” of the Columbia Pictures film. Batiste said during Saturday’s panel that after several conversations with Reitman, “it became very clear” that Saturday Night’s…

Jason Reitman was born into the movie business, almost literally: He has a photo being held as a baby on the set where his father Ivan Reitman was making National Lampoon’s Animal House. He has been on a clear path to join the family business ever since…

In a weekend of wide releases, indies included, A24's Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh-starring We Live In Time popped on five screens with the third best limited opening of the year after Yorgos Lanthimos' Kinds Of Kindness and Jason Reitman's Saturday Night. The romance by John Crowley grossed…

SUNDAY AM FINAL: In one of the year’s second-best triumphs for indie genre cinema after NEON’s Longlegs, Cineverse’s under $5M investment, Terrifier 3, is screaming to an estimated $18.3M+ 3-day after an $8.2M Friday, $5.9M Saturday and $4.2M Sunday. That Sunday hold -30% is on account of the Indigenous…

Cory Michael Smith had some big shoes to fill with his latest role. The Saturday Night actor recently opened up about the “terror” of mastering his portrayal of Chevy Chase and his “very compulsive” process to prepare for the film, which premiered Friday on the 49th anniversary of Saturday Night Live…

As Saturday Night Live marks a landmark season, the NBC sketch comedy show threw it back to 1975. Celebrating the 49th anniversary of SNL‘s first broadcast, with Season 50 continuing this weekend, the show shared its original opening credit sequence Friday on social media. “SNL premiered on…

Saturday Night is now in theaters, and at least one person who was there has given his seal of approval. After seeing the Jason Reitman-helmed film about the 90 minutes before the first Saturday Night Live broadcast in 1975, OG cast member Dan Aykroyd took to social media with a rave review on…

Theaters are brimming over with an army of well-reviewed and buzzy indie films. But, in an unusual state of affairs, pretty much all of them are in wide release, meaning Terrifier 3, Piece by Piece, Saturday Night and The Apprentice, as well as animated My Hero Academia: You're Next. Limited openings are…

"What is the show?" That's what a nervous NBC kept asking about its newly conceived Saturday Night Live 50 years ago. Its young producer, Lorne Michaels, never answered. Nor is he likely to now: Saturday Night, a movie about his show, opens wide this week and Michaels says he hasn't found time to see…

Who the hell saw this coming? In what’s expected to be a David-vs.-Goliath situation at the weekend box office between indies and a major Hollywood studio, Cineverse’s unrated gory slasher horror movie Terrifier 3 is looking to gross $11 million+ this weekend if not more, completely pushing Warner Bros…

With Jason Reitman's Saturday Night now out in theaters, many viewers may find themselves on the edge of their seats and wanting to see what happened in the very first episode of Saturday Night Live. Related Stories …

Sam and Colby: The Legends Of The Paranormal from popular ghost-hunting YouTubers Sam Golbach and Colby Brock scared up a no. 6 spot at the domestic box office. Also this weekend, Mubi continued a series of firsts for the indie distributor with The Substance. And Columbia Pictures' Saturday Night saw…