Month: June 2022

The Mutual Friend is a stylized, laugh-out-loud funny social satire with devastating aim. Like his long-running sitcom, “How I Met Your Mother,” Carter Bays’ debut novel is a New York City-set ensemble comedy with plenty to say about the discontents of modern life and the difficulty of connection, with one character who acts as a
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Johnny Depp is the most popular man in England … is what you’d have to assume once you see the insane scene outside his latest rock star gig. An absolute wall of fans pressed up against barricades in Newcastle, England Thursday night, desperately trying to get a piece of Depp after his latest appearance with
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Image Source: Netflix While “Stranger Things” viewers are loving Argyle (Eduardo Franco) and Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn), another season four newcomer has been met with suspicion. In episode one, we meet Ms. Kelly, the Hawkins High School guidance counselor played by Regina Ting Chen. At first, she seems genuinely interested in helping Max Mayfield (Sadie
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Talk about a hold. Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick‘s Mach 10 momentum at the domestic box office continued into Wednesday with $14.8M, repping a 6% dip from Tuesday’s take; a great weekday take. The Tom Cruise movie’s cume now stands at $191.1M, having already bested the 1986 original film’s domestic box office ($180.2M), and Cruise’s Mission: Impossible ($180.9M).
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Multi-hyphenate actor, writer, producer, comedian, and Instagram chef Mindy Kaling has added another item to her resume: publisher. Kaling has partnered with Amazon Studios to launch her own imprint–er, “story studio,” which is apparently what we’re calling book publisher and film production combo houses–Mindy’s Book Studio. Mindy’s Book Studio will publish Kaling-selected titles across genres,
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Fox is developing Felonious Monk, a one-hour drama based on William Kotzwinkle’s novel, from writer Michael Brandon Guercio (Treadstone) and Fox Entertainment. Written by Guercio, Felonious Monk, based on the novel, is about a disgraced cop with anger issues-turned-monk who returns to his hometown to take care of his dead uncle’s outstanding business debts, and
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Universal/Amblin Entertainment’s Jurassic World Dominion stormed into Mexico on Wednesday with $3M worth of previews. That’s the best opening preview performance in the rebooted franchise, overtaking 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom by 53% and 2015’s Jurassic World by 81%. Both of the earlier films had sneaks on a holiday. As we noted yesterday, the Colin Trevorrow-directed Dominion is putting
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Amber Heard‘s lawyer has spoken out about the defamation lawsuit between her client and Johnny Depp, claiming the actor publicly “demonized” Heard, successfully turning the courtroom into “a zoo.” In an exclusive interview with NBC’s Today show on Thursday, Elaine Charlson Bredehoft claimed that Depp and his legal team were successfully able to suppress “an
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