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Three months after the death of its longtime CEO Brian Goldner, Hasbro has named his successor. Chris Cocks, who served as president and COO of the company’s Wizards of the Coast and digital gaming division, has been promoted to chief executive officer. Cocks, who joined Hasbro in 2016, will take over from interim CEO Rich
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Nicolas Cage has been ingrained in Hollywood for decades given his illustrious career and family connections. Like many actors in the film industry, Cage has experienced triumphs and failures over his five-decade career. Unfortunately, his failures seemingly left a bad taste in Hollywood’s mouth. The Oscar winner reflected on how being marginalized by his Hollywood
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Arizona-born child actor Mika Boorem was barely a teenager when she was cast as the braid-wearing baby sister Penny Chadwick — who tags along with her ocean-loving big sister and her North Shore surf friends — in the 2002 wave-riding movie masterpiece “Blue Crush.” The surf film’s line-up was filled with other ripping stars including
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Aaron Sorkin tells Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene to go to Hell after she uses the iconic quote from his 1992 legal drama, A Few Good Men. Greene, having recently been permanently banned from Twitter, has attracted notoriety in her time as a representative for the state of Georgia for promoting conspiracy theories and misinformation, particularly relating to
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Before the pandemic, if there was something studio executives rubbed their hands about, it was the near total eclipse of the theatrical window. In 2021, for some studios that dream came true, and as far as 2022 goes, hopefully they’ve learned their lesson from this nightmare that, in Deadline’s annual survey, shows largely diluted box
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eOne Strikes Mega Content Deal With NENT Group Entertainment One (eOne) has struck its largest ever deal with NENT Group to bring 700 hours of content to the major Nordic player including The Newsreader, Family Law and Moonshine (pictured). NENT’s services in the Baltics, Poland and the Netherlands will have access to the wealth of content, which also
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Los Angeles local Penelope Ann Miller has had an impressive stretch of almost 40 years in the entertainment biz but it was her cute (and crazy) role of the egg salad sammy making girlfriend Winnie — who gets dumped for the Italian carny who’s passing through town — that stands out in the iconic 1988
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Refresh for latest…: Happy New Year, Peter Parker! In its third weekend, Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home has lifted its global cume to $1.37B, becoming the 12th highest-grossing film of all time worldwide. Slinging up another $78.3M in 61 international box office markets this session, Spider-Man: No Way Home now has an offshore cume of
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Numbers, those longtime pillars of the entertainment business, determiners of pay scale and quantifiers of the hot and the not, are vanishing from public view. Streaming’s inexorable takeover of the industry has altered the once-straightforward process of measuring the performance of TV programs and movies. Of course, there has been grumbling for decades about Nielsen’s
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Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, the producer/caretakers of the James Bond movie franchise including this year’s No Time to Die, and its star Daniel Craig were among the entertainment and media figures recognized Friday on the UK’s New Year’s Honours List. Other British arts and media figures named today included Oscar winner Vanessa Redgrave and
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Warning: This article contains spoilers for Spider-Man: No Way Home. Molina was the first star from the Andrew Garfield and Toby Maguire Spider-Man movies to confirm his appearance in No Way Home, despite rumors of returning characters from Spider-Man‘s past circling long before Molina’s involvement was established. Of course, many of the rumors turned out to be true, as No Way Home boasted
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FRIDAY AM UPDATE:Thursday box office figures Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home now ranks No. 11 on the list of highest grossing movies at the domestic box office with $557.19M collected during its first two weeks in release. The MCU title outpegs Jon Favreau’s 2019 version of The Lion King with $543.6M. The 14-day gross for No Way
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Asian media giant CJ made one of the entertainment industry’s biggest plays in 2021. CJ ENM’s acquisition of 80% of Endeavor Content’s scripted business valued the firm’s drama offering at almost $1BN. Focus now shifts to the mega deal’s next steps, as Parasite distributor CJ ENM takes control of a portfolio featuring Once Upon a Time…
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