Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch did what a glum arthouse market was waiting for, revved it up with a smashing three-day average. “If Wes builds it, they will come,” said an elated Searchlight Pictures after a two year wait to get the film into theaters. It opened in 14 markets and in a total of
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Refresh for latest…: There were milestones aplenty this weekend at the global and international box office with three Hollywood heavy-hitters reaching important new benchmarks. Among them, MGM/Eon/Universal’s No Time To Die crossed both $400M overseas and $500M worldwide while Sony’ Venom: Let There Be Carnage topped $350M globally. The weekend leader, however, was Warner Bros/Legendary’s
Dune is cruising to a successful opening weekend at the domestic box office, and the sci-fi epic is staking its claim as the next big franchise to rival the greats. Director Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s influential book is a jaw-dropping spectacle that’s seemingly amazed not only audiences but the film’s stars as well.
EXCLUSIVE: Last Kingdom fanatics gearing themselves up for next year’s fifth and final season have something extra to smile about, a Netflix feature film is in the works. Delivering the announcement at today’s London MCM Comic Con, Alexander Dreymon, who stars as protagonist Uhtred and exec produces the historical drama, unveiled Carnival Films’ Seven Kings
Simon Monjack isn’t the monster he was portrayed to be in HBO’s newest Brittany Murphy doc, so says his brother, who feels he was duped into participating in the whole thing. The two-part series investigates the life, relationships and death of the actress … but mostly focuses on her bizarre marriage to Simon Monjack —
Robert Downey Jr. didn’t want to film Iron Man’s iconic final scene in Avengers: Endgame at first. In 2008, Jon Favreau kicked off the MCU with Iron Man, debuting the actor as Tony Stark. Since then, Downey has played the role ten times over the course of 11 years. He capped it off in 2019 in Joe and Anthony Russo’s Avengers:
Costa Rica on Friday selected Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s debut feature Clara Sola to as the country’s submission to the 2022 International Feature Oscar race. The pic, which made its world premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, was later scooped up by Oscilloscope Laboratories which will release it in theaters
Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic Dune hit China today with an estimated RMB 42 million ($6.5 million) on 28,274 screens and a 34.3% share of the market. While we do not yet have a social score, Friday’s estimate would portend a weekend in the $20M+ neighborhood as we noted coming into the session. Handled in China
Responding quickly to the on-set tragedy that took the life of cinematographer Halyna Hutchens yesterday, the AFI has established a memorial scholarship in her name for female cinematographers. Hutchens graduated from the AFI Conservatory in 2015 and was selected as one of American Cinematographer’s Rising Stars of 2019 as well as a cinematographer for the
Guilty Party‘s Kate Beckinsale has proven herself to be a versatile actress over the years, but her bread and butter has been starring in multiple action films over two decades, including her time as Underworld heroine Selene. After doing so many action films, you would think the actress would be quite limber with all her
The gun handed to Alec Baldwin before the fatal shooting on the “Rust” movie set was loaded with a live round … according to a warrant from the ongoing police investigation. The warrant says an assistant director handed the gun to Alec and told the actor it was safe to use before the deadly incident
Come Fall In Love, a new musical based on the acclaimed 1995 Bollywood blockbuster film Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, will open on Broadway during the 2022-23 season after a world premiere at San Diego’s Old Globe Theater in September 2022. Widely known by its initials DDLJ, the film was directed by Aditya Chopra, who will
Bachelor In Paradise fan favorite Tia Booth revealed her new boyfriend to her Instagram followers in a video montage detailing their relationship. Known for being unlucky in love, Tia seems to have finally found someone to make her happy. After watching her three stints with the Bachelor franchise, Tia’s co-stars and fans are thrilled to see
UPDATE: Director Joel Souza is out of hospital, we have confirmed with the filmmaker’s reps. PREVIOUS STORY: Rust director Joel Souza is now out of hospital, according to one of the film’s stars Frances Fisher. During a Twitter conversation with Patricia Arquette, veteran actress Fisher Tweeted that Souza told her he was out of hospital:
It’s quite clear that the availability of Warner Bros. theatrical slate on HBO Max day-and-date this year has impacted the studio’s U.S. box office results. This has either led to a film seeing a big drop in weekend 2 at the B.O. after a solid first weekend or in the case of New Line’s Sopranos prequel
People have had many questions about the rekindled romance of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck since the duo reconnected back at the end of April, just a few days after Lopez and ex-fiancé, Alex Rodriguez, officially announced their split. One of those questions, of course, is why the relationship would work out this time, when
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount’s genre division Paramount Players has tapped Night Teeth and I See You filmmaker Adam Randall to direct the horror pic Curfew. The former Blood List entry follows a rebellious teenage girl who is sent to stay with her grandmother in a sleepy town whose quirky traditions include a curfew banning anyone from going
Kate Beckinsale had a super-interesting chit-chat with Howard Stern Wednesday … she said her off-the-charts IQ has actually damaged her career. Howard did an excellent job of mining for gold, knowing that Kate was extremely brainy. He pushed to know where Kate landed on the IQ spectrum, and Kate either didn’t remember or didn’t want
Sweden is sending Ronnie Sandahl’s Tigers to this year’s International Oscar race. The film is a coming-of-age drama about the world of professional sports, telling the true story of 16-year-old football prodigy Martin Bengtsson (played by Erik Enge). It was written and directed by Ronnie Sandahl, based on Martin Bengtsson’s autobiographical novel In the Shadow
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
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