The Avengers almost featured Wasp as part of its roster, and Zooey Deschanel was the top choice to play the role. Introduced in Tales to Astonish #44 in June 1963 by creators Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Ernie Hart, Janet Van Dyne a.k.a. The Wasp, has been an integral part of the Marvel Universe and
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WarnerMedia’s virtual fanboy conference DC FanDome racked up 66 million global views this year according to the studio, a number that outstrips last year’s confab that drew 22 million views worldwide. The online showcase, which was held on Saturday from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. PT, dropped a multitude of fresh product from Warner Bros’ DC label
MGM/Eon/Universal’s No Time To Die is crossing $368M at the international box office and $474M worldwide with today’s business included — and that confirms something we’ve been expecting from Mr Bond. To wit: the 25th 007 movie is now the No. 2 Hollywood movie globally and overseas of 2021; both benchmarks, in studio terms, coming
Mexico has become the latest country to make its submission to this year’s International Oscar race, selecting Tatiana Huezo’s Prayers For The Stolen. The pic debuted at Cannes this year, receiving a special mention in the Un Certain Regard program. The film was also a multi-award-winner at the San Sebastian and Athens film festivals. Netflix
We’re in the midst of October or, as many of us call it, spooky season. It’s a time many moviegoers watch their favorite horror movie, including Wes Craven’s iconic franchise Scream. The villainous Ghostface recently joined TikTok, and both Drew Barrymore and David Arquette are all in. Ghostface is a mantle used by a total
Facebook Fined £50m By UK Competition Authority Facebook has been fined £50.5m ($69.6m) by the UK’s Competition Markets Authority (CMA) for breaching an order imposed during an investigation into the purchase of Giphy. The penalty should be a warning that no company is above the law, said the CMA, which claimed Facebook had failed to
Play video content TMZSports.com Watch out Diana Taurasi, there’s another G.W.O.A.T in town — so says Vivica A. Fox, who tells TMZ Sports Candace Parker should absolutely be in the conversation of being WNBA’s best ever. The Phoenix Mercury superstar was voted the greatest (by fans) before Game 1 of the WNBA Finals last week
3rd Update, 12:26 PM: Rob Zombie has shared the first images from the set of his reboot of The Munsters, thereby confirming three castings: Jeff Daniel Phillips as Herman Munster, his wife Sheri Moon Zombie as Lily Munster and Dan Roebuck as Grandpa Munster. The new images posted to Instagram on Monday show the cast members seated in
Animal Crossing New Horizons is getting a paid DLC called Happy Home Paradise that will allow players to decorate and customize all kinds of buildings. The premise of the DLC is that the player has a job at an archipelago resort where they will help various Animal Crossing characters create their perfect vacation homes. There are quite
Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios has hired Lorelle Lynch as Creative Executive in the company’s production team. Lynch joins from Range Media Partners. She was previously at John Wells Productions and Vox Media Studios. AGC has also promoted AGC’s Vice President of Acquisitions, Zach Garrett, to Vice President, Productions and Acquisitions. Garrett is currently on location
As Disney/Marvel’s Eternals is being aggressively buzzed to possibly open at $100M, and their co-production with Sony, Spider-Man: No Way Home even more, the Burbank, CA has just shifted their entire Marvel movie theatrical schedule for 2022 and beyond. We’re still making sense of this. DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS (Disney) previously dated on 3/25/22 moves to 5/6/22
EXCLUSIVE: The story of Black British boxing sensation Len Johnson is to be told in a feature film from Rush exec Guy East, written by the “godmother of Black British playwrights” Winsome Pinnock. Champion is the first major project from UK commercials producer MindsEye’s two-year-old film and TV division and is based on Rob Howard’s
Do you like scary movies? Unlike Scream’s lead final girl Sidney Prescott, Jason Blum loves them and has built a life and successful career out of them. As the founder of Blumhouse Productions, Blum has produced a large number of successful and recognizable horror films over the last 15 years. As his most recently released
Johnny Depp might be considered a pariah in the U.S. — but the guy’s still got the love and support of LOTS of fans outside the country, especially in Italy … where he’s a rock star. Check out these clips of JD showing up Sunday to the premiere of his new animated TV series, “Puffins,”
EXCLUSIVE: Whitney director Kevin Macdonald is to direct an ITV doc profiling the ferocious floods that have hit the UK in recent years. In It Takes A Flood, Academy Award-winning director Macdonald, who was also behind a recent ITV Coronavirus doc, will move from London, where historic levels of rain battered the capital last year,
The latest update to Animal Crossing: New Horizons was just announced on October 15, and there’s plenty of exciting new content coming to the game in the near future, including a wide range of fashionable hairstyles that can be obtained through multiple methods. The update is scheduled for November 5 and will be free for
EXCLUSIVE: In addition to a host of previously set worldwide territories, Netflix, in a deal with Entertainment One, has acquired rights to Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter in the UK, Benelux and Germany. Gyllenhaal’s feature directing debut will bow on the streaming service on December 31. Adapted by Gyllenhaal from Elena Ferrante’s best-selling 2006 novel,
A24’s Lamb hit the top ten for the second week running (No. 8) at the North American box office, surging past $2 million. The Rescue expanded to 552 theaters, the widest documentary screen count since Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, said distributor Greenwich Entertainment, anticipating it will ultimately top $1M. Holdovers outperformed newcomers this weekend,
“By the end of this trilogy, in 20 years, you’re going to look back at these movies as the greatest history lesson of our times, and yet they’re slasher movies,” Halloween Kills star and actress in six pics in the franchise Jamie Lee Curtis tells us on Hero Nation today. The movie has already beat the preview
Things seem to happen grudgingly slow or frighteningly fast in Hollywood, and in Timothée Chalamet’s case, it certainly seems to be the latter as of late. The Dune star has picked up an awesome number of major roles in a short amount of time, pandemic be damned. Chalamet is currently filming as a young Willy
Refresh for latest…: Sony’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage chomped on a big chunk of the international box office this weekend as it swallowed a $62.3M mouthful from 44 overseas markets. This follows from the symbiote’s record-breaking Russia and Latin America starts over the past few weeks. The Tom Hardy-starrer has now cumed $115.6M overseas
Michael Caine ain’t hanging it up just yet in the acting department — this despite the fact that he strongly suggested he would be … doing a 180, which has fans sighing with relief. The legendary British actor clarified what his future professional plans were Saturday … saying he is NOT retiring, while his rep
Refresh for updates…Early exuberance in Hollywood surrounding news of a new IATSE contract has dimmed somewhat, as more details about the deal negotiated with the AMPTP have emerged. Among those walking back or contextualizing their initial reactions on Saturday evening was Yvette Nicole Brown, who initially tweeted “#UnionStrong!”, along with emojis depicting a raised fist
Various members of the Keeping Up With the Kardashians family have reportedly continued to work with Lou Taylor, Britney Spears’ former business manager, within the year 2021. The Kardashian-Jenner family has had business ties with Lou throughout Britney’s conservatorship battle. Members of the Kardashian-Jenner clan have made supportive statements regarding Britney, but connections to Lou and others
A year after the inaugural DC Fandome revealed the first The Batman trailer from filmmaker Matt Reeves, we now get a second before the pic’s theatrical release on March 4, 2022. And we finally get to see the villains: Paul Dano as The Riddler, Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman, and Colin Farrell as a very unrecognizable Penguin
AMC Theatres guests can now find select showtimes utilizing an open caption format at 240 AMC locations, in more than 100 U.S. markets. The offering of some open caption showtimes for all new release movies is intended to expand the overall movie-going audience, especially intended for those with hearing difficulties or where English is a
A day after the European premiere of season three of his HBO series Succession at the London Film Festival, the show’s creator, Jesse Armstrong, took to the stage with comedian Nish Kumar to discuss the art of screenwriting. In between dispensing pearls of wisdom for aspiring comedy writers (“Don’t write any jokes,” was especially memorable),
Oh, these two. Who knew X-Men Origins: Wolverine would spawn so many sequels? Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman have a running “feud”/bromance raging over on social media, and it’s continued through to Jackman’s 53rd birthday. The Aussie actor celebrated his big day on Tuesday and has been receiving a lot of well wishes from family,
NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ+ film festival, kicks off tonight with one of the most prominent documentaries of the fall. Mayor Pete, directed by Jesse Moss, goes behind the scenes and on the stump with Pete Buttigieg as he became the first openly gay major presidential candidate, vying for the Democratic nomination. Buttigieg’s campaign was unusual
Sean Penn‘s actress wife just waved the white flag on their union … because she filed for divorce after just over one year of marriage. Sean’s wife, Australian actress Leila George, filed divorce docs Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court … according to online records. Sean and Leila, the daughter of actor Vincent D’Onofrio,