Broadway continued its 2022 rebound last week, with 92% of available seats filled and box office receipts climbing 5% over the previous week to $23,004,259. Total attendance for the 19 Broadway productions during the week ending Feb. 27 was 177,701, a 3% increase over the previous week. The average ticket price was a robust $129.
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While The Conjuring Universe is one of the most popular canons running in the horror world, it’s one of its spinoffs from the core series that has been the biggest hit. Corin Hardy’s The Nun is still the highest grossing entry in the entire Warner Bros./New Line franchise, despite some ranking it among the lesser
BBC Studios And Sky Deutschland Strike Factual Content Deal Sky Deutschland has become the pay-TV home for BBC Studios’ factual content in Germany after striking a deal unveiled at BBC Studios Showcase this morning. The network will host more than 150 hours worth of docs including Greta Thunberg A Year to Change the World, Louis
Ned Eisenberg, famous for his work on “Law & Order: SVU” and most recently, “Mare of Easttown,” has died after a battle with cancer. Ned died over the weekend, his wife, Patricia, tells TMZ, “As Ned would say, he was attacked by two very rare assassins — cholangiocarcinoma and ocular melanoma. Over the course of
Warning! Spoilers for Justice League Incarnate #5 by DC Comics Two of pop culture’s biggest villains are both fueled by tragic origins, as DC Comics just reminded readers that Darkseid’s past is just as sad as Darth Vader’s. In a new preview for Justice League Incarnate #5, Darkseid’s tragic past is revisited as readers see
U.S. audiences will be able to stream the BAFTA Film Awards as live for the first ever time in two weeks on BritBox. The 75th ceremony will stream from London’s Royal Albert Hall on the SVoD in the U.S., Canada and South Africa on Sunday March 13, with the BBC airing in the UK. U.S.
As Drive My Car sped from a best screenplay win and stellar reviews at Cannes to four Oscar nominations (Best Picture, International Feature, Director, Adapted Screenplay), distributor credits for the three-hour Japanese drama went to Sideshow/Janus Films – the former a little known new venture from Jonathan Sehring. The longtime head of IFC Films said
It was a night when the pundit-predicted Oscar-season frontrunners The Power of the Dog and Belfast came up empty, and longer shots like CODA and The Eyes of Tammy Faye won key races that promise to add a bit more suspense as we glide toward the Oscars. The big movie winner of the night, CODA, was one I saw coming and
While we’ve certainly heard of actors going doing a lot to learn skills for movies (like when Tom Holland worked as a bartender), usually they don’t end up using those skills later on in real life. Apparently, learning cattle ranching for The Power of the Dog really came in handy for star Benedict Cumberbatch, though.
Zoe Kravitz‘s good looks have nine lives. Here’s a 19-year-old version of the actor … and daughter of rock god Lenny Kravitz and looker Lisa Bonnet … at an after-party during the Tribeca Film Fest in New York City back in 2008 (left). This was shortly after Zoe’s acting debut in the film “No Reservations.”
Refresh for latest…: Sony’s Uncharted handily crossed the $200M mark globally this weekend, after adding $35M from 64 overseas markets and $23.3M domestically. The international box office cume is now $143M. Worldwide, the Tom Holland/Mark Wahlberg-starrer counts $226.4M. Sony also boasts another milestone of sorts with another Holland-starrer as Spider-Man: No Way Home reached $1.85B
FromSoftware (or FromSoft) is the Japanese video game development company behind popular video game titles such as Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro. The company is known for making incredibly difficult games that focus on punishing the players with strong bosses and tactical fighting. RELATED: 10 Dark Souls-like Games For Casual Players The games are notorious and
The 28th annual SAG Awards will air live Sunday at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT live from The Barker Hangar in Santa Monica in a simulcast on TNT and TBS. It will be made available the next day on HBO Max. The ceremony will be preceded by a red carpet — a somewhat return to
SATURDAY AM: Refresh for more analysis and chart Before a big tentpole comes into the marketplace, there’s typically a lull at the box office, but it’s an even bigger lull when the major studios don’t have any new wide entries. Everyone is waiting for Warner Bros. The Batman and many sources tell me it’s bound easily for
The anticipation surrounding Disney World’s newest hotel has been out of this world – and with good reason. Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser isn’t just a hotel. It’s a state-of-the-art — and expensive — immersive experience designed to plunge guests deep into the beloved cinematic universe. The opening has been years in the making, so all
The Ukrainian Film Academy, the membership body comprised of film professionals and cultural figures from across the country, has released a petition calling for an international boycott of Russian cinema. In a statement, the organization said that despite governments around the world imposing sanctions on Russia, the country remains active in the cultural field. “Several
Amanda Bynes just took a huge step on the path to personal freedom … because she officially filed to pull the plug on her conservatorship. And, it doesn’t seem coincidental she’s doing it on the heels of Britney Spears ending hers. The former child star filed docs in L.A. Wednesday to end her 9-year conservatorship.
The César Awards ceremony held tonight in Paris included a poignant tribute by Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan to late actor Gaspard Ulliel who died in January at age 37 following a skiing accident. Ulliel, a star of Marvel’s upcoming Moon Knight series, previously won the Best Actor César for 2016’s It’s Only The End Of
Filming for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton’s new Disney+ series, American Born Chinese, has begun. The Disney+ series is an adaptation of Gene Luen Yang’s 2006 graphic novel of the same name. The series stars Michelle Yeoh, Ben Wang, Yeo Yann Yann, Chin Han, Daniel Wu, and Jonathan
“I don’t want to be that person who lives in a town and says, ‘I used to remember when that was a movie theater,’ ” Arianna Bocco tells Deadline as the IFC Films president and New Jersey native formally joins Bradley Lab — a subsidiary of theater developer/manager Cinema Lab. The group is planning to
Russia has been banned from this year’s Eurovision Song Contest following pressure from state broadcasters from a range of surrounding countries. After initially stating that they wouldn’t ban the nation, which has launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Eurovision’s Reference Group recommended Russia be banned due to the rules of the event and the values
It was never just a phase! The emo kids are alive and thriving in this current punk resurgence that includes Twilight fans binging the saga again, Robert Pattinson’s emo eyeliner Batman and artists like My Chemical Romance, Avril Lavigne and Paramore coming together for a sold-out festival later this year. That being said, fans are
The Centers for Disease Control is expected tomorrow to relax its masking guidance in most indoor spaces tomorrow, according to the Associated Press. CDC director Rochelle Walensky also hinted at changes, writing on Twitter this afternoon: “At @CDCgov, we have been analyzing our #COVID19 data and shifting our focus to preventing the most severe outcomes
Sally Kellerman — famous for playing Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in ‘M*A*S*H’ — has died. The Oscar-nominated actress died early Thursday morning at an assisted care facility in Los Angeles, following a battle with dementia … according to her son, Jack Krane. We’re told Sally was diagnosed with dementia around 2017 and wasn’t doing well
Samsung shipped over 100 million smartphones with a dangerous security flaw, a new report has uncovered. The loophole affected several Samsung devices, including flagships going back to the Galaxy S8 series. It’s worth noting that Samsung is among the top Android OEMs when it comes to delivering regular security updates. The brand has promised a minimum of
The Toronto Film Festival said Thursday that it is planning a return to an in-person festival for this year’s edition, which it confirmed will run September 8-18. The festival had been all but virtual the past two years because of the global pandemic. Plans call for a return of TIFF’s networking and events as well
Wall Street Journal reporter Erich Schwartzel’s book, Red Carpet: Hollywood, China and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, warns in its prologue: “China’s pressure on Hollywood and its own entertainment industry have the potential to challenge the American film industry as the chief narrator of the twenty-first century.” The book overall looks at the history
Imax CEO Rich Gelfold says the chain hopes to have 200 screens wired for live events by year end, up from 79 currently as it experiments with content beyond music, and with ticket pricing. He spoke to Deadline after the company reported strong quarterly earnings and the day after a live stream of Kanye West’s
Back in 2018, Hollywood brought back the shark movie in a big way with the summer release of The Meg. The big-budget blockbuster starring Jason Statham is set to become a franchise with its upcoming sequel, Meg 2: The Trench. Now that filming is underway for the megalodon flick, we know more about the movie’s
Spider-Man stars Tom Holland, Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield have re-created the iconic pointing meme to promote the upcoming digital and Blu-ray release of No Way Home. Sony Pictures/Marvel released a photo of the three on social media Wednesday, with the caption “Of course, we got THE meme. #SpiderManNoWayHome swings home on Digital March 22