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It’s a bird! It’s a plane!! No, it’s a … comet heading right toward us!!! Adam McKay’s star-laden Don’t Look Up leads the Netflix Top 10 movie list for the week ending December 26, as viewers sat tight and assessed to the tune of 111 million minutes in the pic’s first week. In the film, astronomy

There’s no way in the world that The Matrix Trilogy would have happened without the ingenuity of The Wachowskis, as only Lana and Lilly could have created that lightning in a bottle phenomenon. The same could be said to a certain extent for the latest entry, The Matrix Resurrections, as the film we got could

English actor Rachel Weisz was in her twenties when she uncovered her breakout role as the Egyptologist Evelyn “Evie” Carnahan — who goes on an epic adventure in the sands of the Sahara Desert — in the iconic 1999 action movie “The Mummy” and the 2001 follow-up film “The Mummy Returns.” Rachel Weisz shared the

The NHL confirmed today that it will resume play Tuesday after being shut down since December 20 amid the global surge of Covid and its omicron variant. The league also postponed three more games set for this week — bringing the overall number to 70 — and is bringing back the “taxi squads” that were

In the midst of everyone’s holiday planning and festivities, Amazon Prime released a brand new show: With Love. The comedy-drama series centers on Jorge and Lily Diaz, two incredibly close siblings, who are trying to navigate love and their families around various holidays. The series also features storylines about Jorge and Lily’s cousin Sol and their own

“Today…we make history in New York City. We lead the nation with the strongest vaccine mandate anywhere —- private sector vaccine mandate — reaching hundreds of thousands of businesses,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday. The mandate, which takes effect today, applies to all “workers in New York City who perform in-person work or

Online ticket retailer Fandango polled more than 6,000 ticket-buyers this month and asked which theatrical tentpoles they’re the most excited about in 2022. Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever topped the list followed by Sony/Marvel’s animated feature Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One). Even though Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is on a production hiatus as star Letitia Wright

The Matrix has long been a divisive franchise. While the original released in 1999 is almost universally hailed as a modern cinematic masterpiece, the two sequels released in 2003 – The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions – didn’t get anywhere near the same kind of response, and the last 18 years have seen movie-goers

“The worst TV adaptations are slavishly devoted to the [original] text,” according to The Stranger creator Harlan Coben, who said he “hopes to continue” working with Netflix as his five-year deal draws to a close. Coben was speaking in a Q&A for his latest Netflix project, Red Production Company’s Stay Close starring Cush Jumbo, Richard Armitage and

Mark Rylance‘s turn as a deranged tech CEO in ‘Don’t Look Up’ is a clear dig at our country’s leading billionaire visionaries — but the question … who’s it actually aimed at??? You’ve probably heard about this new Netflix flick — but what you may not have known … Rylance portrayal as chief of a

Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers opened to an estimated $41,076 this weekend on three screens for a PSA of $13,692 over three days. Distributor Sony Pictures Classics co-president Michael Barker calls that cume conservative, anticipating $42-$43K for the Penelope Cruz-starrer that he said has been attracting a diverse new audience to Almodóvar, including younger moviegoers. “We’re thrilled

In the early seasons of New Girl, Nick Miller is writing a zombie novel with a remarkable number of similarities to the Twilight series. Created by Elizabeth Meriwether, New Girl was a sitcom that ran on Fox from 2011 to 2018, centered around the dynamic between an eclectic group of roommates in their 30s sharing

The Los Angeles tour production of Hamilton now playing at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood had to shut down its performances Friday and through the Christmas weekend because of breakthrough Covid-19 cases among the cast, a blow to those who might have gotten tickets in their stockings this morning. The news impacted Friday’s Christmas Eve

Three members of the famed K-pop group BTS tested positive for Covid-19.  Big Hit Music management company told the press that Rappers RM, Suga, and Vocalist Jin all tested positive upon their return to South Korea from touring in the United States. These are considered breakthrough cases as all three members received both doses of

The new musical sequel Sing 2 has been out in theaters for just a few days now, but apparently star Reese Witherspoon got to experience it in a theater full of children prior to the movie’s release. Speaking to Drew Barrymore on the 2021 movie’s release date, December 22, Reese Witherspoon recalled the experience and

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race. Oscar-winning screenwriter William Monahan (The Departed) admits that after he agreed to adapt author J.R. Moehringer’s memoir into the feature film The Tender Bar a wave of apprehension struck him, he said,

The Grinch will be making its way to the NFL this Christmas … courtesy of Indianapolis Colts running back Nyheim Hines‘ super furry cleats!! TMZ Sports has learned … Hines hit up his go-to guy, artist Rodney Jackson, to make some cleats that will get him in the holiday spirit before taking on the Cardinals

The Polar Express offers a great message for everyone at Christmas time, with this festive movie bringing a lot of joy throughout, and the fantastic story and train journey being full of awesome whimsical moments. However, while it’s full of happiness and fun, there are also a lot of emotional moments and clear lessons for people

Where is the next Squid Game, Line of Duty or The Bridge coming from? These are questions we frequently pose at Deadline and, hopefully, we’ve identified some key contenders below. From World War Two epics, to Boris Johnson biopics, to the first ever original from the Faroe Islands, here are seven dramas we think are going to make

Refresh for latest…: Spidey has done it again, logging yet another milestone as he swings past $800M global. Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home now has a worldwide total of $813.9M through Wednesday. This pushes it past No Time To Die and makes it the No. 3 movie of the year, and the top Hollywood release.

“This is what Christmas is all about,” wrote Arnold Schwarzenegger on Twitter yesterday after personally donating 25 “tiny homes” to Los Angeles-area homeless veterans. Schwarzenegger was on hand at the unveiling, tweeting photos and his own thoughts on the process. “All of you have the power to do something for someone else this holiday season,”

The holiday release A Journal For Jordan has made a lot of headlines recently. First of all, it’s a true story about a father and son, as well as a love story between a man and his wife. Second of all, it stars none other than Michael B. Jordan, and it marks the first time

Warning: the following interview contains spoilers from Disney+/Marvel’s season one finale of Hawkeye, “So This Is Christmas?”: “The people need to be reminded that this city belongs to me,” Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk aka Kingpin tells his loyal henchman Kazi at the onset of the Hawkeye season one finale. As Hawkeye hands off to its spinoff

New York native Bobcat Goldthwait (real name Robert Francis Goldthwait) gained fame while in his mid-twenties after he parlayed his successful stand-up career into big-screen acting gigs while keeping his signature squawky voice on iconic ’80s movies. BG’s recognizable roles include the zany Zed on “Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment,” Fred Chaney on the

Apax Capital Group, a new film fund backed by the Italian government, an Italian insurer and a consortium of other investors, says it plans to spend €1.5 billion (about $1.7 billion) over 10 years on films shot and/or completed in Europe, primarily Italy. The venture is led by producer Yona Wiesenthal (Shtisel, Footnote, Beaufort, Allegiance,

Content Warning: This article contains PLOT SPOILERS for the Disney+ show Hawkeye. If there’s one thing that differentiates Disney+’s Hawkeye from the rest of the MCU series released this year, it’s the show’s brutally honest portrayal of Clint Barton’s experience as a superhero. This approach doesn’t sit well with some fans who have expressed their unpopular

“Deliver a good entertainment, and the audience will come.” That’s what the venerable director Robert Wise told me after defying Hollywood doubters with his hit musical West Side Story (yes, the 1961 version). Courtly and gracious, Wise also was a tough realist who, following his success, decided to turn to disaster movies like The Hindenburg and

Three big event movies –Illumination/Universal’s Sing 2, Warner Bros’ Matrix Resurrections, and 20th Century Studios’ The King’s Man– were no match for Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home which continued to dominate Wednesday with an amazing $27.8M. The Jon Watts-directed MCU title has a running U.S/Canadian total of $356.5M over six days, which is the third best for that

If you sat around for the end credits sequence on Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, you’ve already seen this trailer for Disney/Marvel’s Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness and know what will be happening to Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) after casting that nasty spell for Peter Parker that messes with the multiverse. It’s clear that the