Kong” hovered just below $100 million for some time before finally scraping together the final $220,000 needed to cross the coveted box office milestone. Paramount’s nearly silent sequel “A Quiet Place Part II,” which debuted over Memorial Day weekend once a greater number of theaters had reopened, smashed that benchmark in 15 days. That’s notably […]
However, the film cost nearly $70 million to produce and even more to market so it will need to have a long, lucrative run in theaters in order to turn profit. Opening weekend crowds were mostly older men, with 55% of ticket buyers identifying as male and 66% over the age of 25. Falling not […]
European film-TV group Studiocanal is teaming with Imperative Entertainment to make psychological thriller “Cat Person,” based on the short story by Kristen Roupenian which was published by The New Yorker in 2017. Owned by Vivendi’s Canal PLus Group, and traditionally one of the strongest sales operations at Cannes, Studiocanal will fully finance the feature – […]
I had to do a lot of improv, and he let me bring a lot of that into the experience. I said, “If you want, I can burp.” I was able to give them so cool sound bites, and they ended up using my burp in the film. Living in Vancouver, we have the ocean, […]
A World Cinema Grand Jury Award-winner at Sundance and best Nordic documentary winner at Göteborg, “Flee” was described by Variety’s Peter Debruge as a “sophisticated refugee story.” “Flee” is the true story of Amin, about to get married, who decides to share his hidden past, a secret he has been hiding for over 20 years […]
As this weekend’s only new nationwide release, there isn’t too much competition for the action comedy, which stars Salma Hayek, Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. This would bring the silent thriller’s total up to $124.5 million, the highest domestic gross of any film in the pandemic era. “Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway” hopped up to […]
On Thursday, June 17, HBO Max “mistakenly sent out an empty test email to a portion of our HBO Max mailing list,” according to the service’s customer help account on Twitter. Among those weighing in with words of support for the anonymous intern thrown under the bus: Monica Lewinsky, one of the world’s most famous […]
The street naming was revealed during an event on Saturday hosted by Motown Museum and Detroit City Councilman Roy McCalister, kicking off the Detroit Avenue of Fashion’s Juneteenth festivities. “Marvin Gaye left an indelible mark on the world, and honoring his meaningful work and his impact with the newly minted Marvin Gaye Drive ensures his […]
The untitled, half-hour series is inspired by the personal and professional dynamic between the family owners and front office team that together run one of the most iconic franchises in all of sports. Jeanie Buss, president of the Lakers, will also executive produce along with Lakers executive director Linda Rambis as well as Howard Klein […]
The movie will see Drac into a monster, they must work together to switch back before the change becomes permanent. “Hotel Transylvania” franchise creator Genndy Tartakovsky is the screenwriter and executive producer of the film, which is directed by Jennifer Kluska and Derek Drymon. …Read the full story
The only secured debt is a $6.4 million obligation to Bank of America, which means that all the unsecured creditors — including landlords, taxing authorities, former employees, vendors, various litigants, and gift card holders — will likely wind up with little or nothing. The parent company will also continue to own the ArcLight Hollywood and […]
After much fan speculation, Swift announced on social media Friday that the re-recorded version of her fourth studio album, “Red ,” will be released on Nov. The heartbroken might go through thousands of micro-emotions a day trying to figure out how to get through it without picking up the phone to hear that old familiar […]
Grammy-winner Sara Bareilles is honest about the “so many” experiences in the music industry where someone may be really having a moment and then they disappear from the zeitgeist. “There’s a lot of getting behind the curtain that I think in the show we do, but also we as people at our point in show […]
“I had asked a lot of my friends who were artists to donate pieces as prizes alongside the small cash prizes we were giving,” Rosenthal recounted to Variety. The story of Basquiat, as told admittedly by his friend and contemporary, is a parable of what happens to young artists when they’re sucked up into scenes […]
In the now-deleted screenshots, Teigen is shown as writing to Costello, “Racist people like you deserve to suffer and die. Instagram introduced verification in 2014, and Teigen was verified in early 2015, meaning these screenshots were purportedly taken in 2014. But the blue and purple message design was not implemented until 2020, and the video […]
Among the most-reported problems, about 39% were related to log-in, with server connections at 35% and video streaming errors at 24%. In an apparently unrelated issue, HBO Max on Thursday “mistakenly sent out an empty test email to a portion of our HBO Max mailing list this evening,” according to the @HBOMaxHelp account on Twitter. […]
Williams is playing a character loosely based on Spielberg’s mother, while Dano will play a stand-in for his father, and Rogen will play the role of his favorite uncle. Rechner is just 19. The untitled film is loosely based on Spielberg’s childhood growing up as a movie-loving kid in Arizona. Spielberg’s next movie is a […]
“Rick and Morty” returns for a 10-episode Season 5 on Adult Swim this Sunday, June 20. This episode gets exceptionally dark in the Rick and Morty plotline, as Rick allows Morty to choose the adventure for once, leading to a scene with a predatory jellybean that is not played for laughs. According to the episode’s […]
The film dramatizes the true story of Matt Logelin, who became a single dad when his wife Liz died unexpectedly shortly after the birth of their daughter Maddy. Paul Weitz, who mastered the tale of man meets child with the 2002 comedy “About a Boy,” first worked with Hart on “Little Fockers,” where the comedian […]
Eventually Romer discovered the correct instrumental seasoning: a bit of accordion, a little mandolin, a lot of acoustic guitar and pizzicato strings — just enough to hint at the locale and the period . The composer took inspiration from a playlist Casarosa gave him that consisted of classic Italian film music as well as folk […]