Marry Me is a return to form for Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson. Both stars haven’t appeared in a romantic comedy since 2012’s What to Expect When You’re Expecting for Lopez and 2015’s She’s Funny That Way for Wilson. Despite their rom-com pedigree, moviegoers didn’t see JLO and Wilson’s team-up coming. While the onscreen pairing
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Walt Disney Co. said it’s extended Christine McCarthy’s contract as senior executive vice president and chief financial officer by two years through June 30, 2024, The 22-year Disney veteran, one of the top women executives in entertainment finance, has served as CFO since 2015. She oversees the company’s worldwide finance organization, which includes brand and
Even when Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson look like they’re going to the movies like a normal couple, there’s nothing average about it … not when they’re renting out the joint for themselves. If it wasn’t clear before, things are definitely heating up between these 2, and there seems to be a common theme when
Keanu Reeves jokes about streaming The Matrix Resurrections on HBO Max. The Canadian actor originated the role of Thomas Anderson in 1999’s The Matrix, a computer programmer by day and hacker by night, known as Neo, who learns that humanity is unknowingly living in a simulated reality while machines use their bodies as an energy source. With the
Sayaka Kanda, a voice-over actress and singer who voiced Anna in the dubbed Japanese version of Disney’s Frozen, was found dead on Saturday at a hotel in Sapporo. She was 35. According to local media reports, Kanda, the daughter of actor Masaki Kanda and singer Seiko Matsuda did not show up for an afternoon performance
Canada, after delivering 7% of Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s $260M domestic opening weekend, will see its Quebec province shut down cinemas in addition to bars and gyms as public health officials look to slow the spread of the Omicron Covid variant. CBC reports that Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé made the decision to prevent a strain
EXCLUSIVE: Lightyear Entertainment has acquired two documentaries that made their world premieres at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival: Thomas Robsahm’s A-ha: The Movie and Eddie Martin’s We Were Once Kids. The former will open in theaters across the U.S. and Canada on April 8, with the latter set for release in May. A-ha: The Movie celebrates
Leonardo DiCaprio apparently doesn’t remember what happened the last time he jumped into frozen waters, because he dived right back in a frozen lake while filming Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up. This time, though, it wasn’t a drenched and freezing Kate Winslet he was saving, but one of his rescue huskies. And Titanic fans can’t
Bradley Cooper‘s newest movie did abysmally bad at the box office — and ticket sales were apparently so poor … theaters actually started bumping BC for Peter Parker. The flick — titled “Nightmare Alley” and directed by Guillermo del Toro — raked in just under $3 million over its opening weekend across a little over
The 15-strong shortlist for the Oscars’ International Feature Film category is due on Tuesday, so it’s time to run down my annual preview of titles that have a good shot at making the cut. Films from a total 93 countries are eligible in the race this year, and below we take a close look at
Warning! SPOILERS for The Witcher season 2 The dramatic ending of The Witcher season 2 saw Ciri reveal her true potential, while gaining a new dysfunctional family in Geralt and Yennefer. Based on the popular fantasy novels by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, Netflix’s The Witcher series explores a world of myths and monsters. The stories tap into popular legends
Holdovers Drive My Car, Red Rocket and The Scary Of Sixty First looked good in limited runs on a weekend with few new specialty releases and even fewer numbers. Streamers – which presented The Lost Daughter (Netflix), Swan Song (Apple) and The Tender Bar (Amazon), don’t reveal them and smaller distributors often report early in
Who says people love to stay home and stream movies? Proving that theatrical is still king, Sony/Disney/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home rang up a massive $50M, the third highest preview night ever, and the most money Sony has ever seen for a Thursday preview night that easily buries the previous high we’ve seen during the pandemic, that
In the wake of playing the wise and balanced god of the universe, Doctor Manhattan, in HBO’s Watchmen, a role which earned Yahya Abdul-Mateen II a Primetime Emmy for supporting actor in a limited series, the actor has accumulated a resume of socially philosophical protagonists including Bobby Seale in The Trial of the Chicago 7, Anthony
Lady Gaga has always been an intense artist. Whether that means she shows up in a meat dress on a red carpet, learning an elaborate dance number for one of songs or giving her all to a role, the talent goes all in on her work. House of Gucci was apparently the ultimate example of
For the movies, is global inclusion possible? Utopian as that might sound—the idea of letting the whole world in– it is clearly a goal of the newly awakened Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The introduction to the Academy’s RAISE platform, an online portal used to screen Oscar Best Picture contenders for inclusiveness, states
Matt Reeves really said “come as you are” to Robert Pattinson for his new Batman movie — and he meant it in every sense of the word … because Kurt Cobain is on his brain. The ‘Batman’ director spilled the beans this week in a new Empire interview about the inspiration behind his version of
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association is voting Saturday on the best films and performances of 2021. The group, made up of L.A. area print and digital journalists, is deliberating winners and runners-up throughout the morning in 14 categories including Best Picture. The first winner announced was for Best Cinematography. Ari Wegner captured the honor
It could be there is a true story behind the decades-old Christmas classic, It’s a Wonderful Life. Having become nearly synonymous with the Christmas holiday, viewers return year after year to watch George Bailey come to terms with his beautiful, normal, small-town life in the fictional town of Bedford Falls, NY. While the set of
The Cinerama Dome isn’t opening anytime soon, so hold off on reserving those seats. Despite news about the Dome’s owners renewing a liquor license at the 58-year old Sunset Boulevard movie house, Deadline has learned there is absolutely no re-opening date set for the venue. Not 2022, maybe 2023. Here’s why: The entire Cinerama Dome
Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home grossed an estimated $5.28M in Korea on its first day today. This is significant for a number of reasons: Korea has been extremely soft of late, yet the launch day is 11% over the first day of 2019’s pre-pandemic Spider-Man: Far From Home and is the biggest day-one figure for
It’s a story that’s been told before, that the amazing career of Chadwick Boseman was launched thanks to another great Black actor, Denzel Washington. The Journal For Jordan director happened to sponsor Boseman and pay for him to attend an acting program, but once Boseman made it big, it seems Denzel was (jokingly) looking for
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) today announced the nominees for its 11th AACTA International Awards with Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast and Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog leading the pack, at seven and six mentions, respectively. Each is up for Best Film, along with Dune, Being The Ricardos, Nitram and Licorice
Alec Baldwin‘s phone might contain crucial evidence in the “Rust” shooting investigation … at least cops think so, and that’s why they now have a warrant to comb through it. The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Dept. got a New Mexico judge to sign off Thursday on a search warrant for Alec’s mobile phone … a
Kingsman director, Matthew Vaughn, has revealed he is developing the first R-rated quiz show. Vaughn is the director behind the Kingsman franchise, which has released two films, Kingsman: Secret Service and its sequel, Kingsman: The Golden Circle. A third film, The King’s Man, is set to be a prequel to the first two films and will release
The majority of the BBC’s £1BN ($1.3BN) annual savings are set to come from content cuts this year, a five-fold increase since 2016/17, as the leading UK audit body raises significant concerns about the impact on viewers. The National Audit Office’s (NAO) latest BBC report found £402M ($535M) is projected to be saved on “cuts
National CineMedia, the nations’ biggest in-theater advertising firm, had a tough 2020 but is unspooling a reimagined Noovie Preshow this weekend timed to the record eyeballs awaiting Spider-Man: No Way Home. A consortium of the nation’s biggest theater chains, National CineMedia’s preshow, the cornerstone of its business, runs on 2,100 screens, about 75% of the
EXCLUSIVE: The Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment and Janet Yang Productions today announced that they’re partnering for a new Short Film Challenge, which will provide production grants of $15,000 to four AAPI women or non-binary filmmakers. Those looking to take part in the inaugural challenge supported by Julia S. Gouw must identify as an AAPI
The horror genre has been in a renaissance for years, to the delight of fans. In addition to new and thrilling properties, a number of fan-favorite franchises have also returned to theaters. The new Scream movie is the latest of these projects, and a chilling new poster has me nervous to return to Woodsboro. The
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez don’t seem the least bit fazed by all the backlash for him laying, at least, some blame for his bouts with the bottle on Jennifer Garner — in fact, he’s getting ready to talk even more. Bennifer 2.0 looked happy as clams Wednesday on Hollywood Blvd as they strolled into