Saturday Night Live took shots at films like Ammonite, Portrait of A Lady on Fire and The World to Come in a sketch featuring Carey Mulligan and Heidi Gardner as secret lovers. The sketch, which took on a trailer format, called out a common trend featured in recent lesbian stories. While the recent titles have
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Kim Kardashian’s kids are all grown up in her latest family photos shared on Instagram. The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star shared her four kids with Kanye West. Their oldest, North West, is 7 years old while their youngest, Psalm West, will turn 2 years old next month. Kim and Kanye are currently working through their
Warner Bros. pandemic hit Godzilla vs. Kong grossed $3.88M on Friday, which will yield an estimated $12.9M second weekend at 3,084 theaters (+20), -60%, on its way to $69M domestic by the end of tomorrow. In the Legendary title’s first week, the monster movie has grossed $60M, making it the top grossing pic stateside during the pandemic
The UK’s major broadcasters trashed their schedules on Friday to bring audiences wall-to-wall coverage of Prince Philip’s death, but the output proved to be a turn-off for Brits in key evening viewing hours. Ratings data crunched by Deadline shows that the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 all suffered audience declines between the hours of 7PM
Jeremy Renner said one of his fans found the headshot, and from his own memory, he believes he got the picture taken before he decided to move to Los Angeles to pursue acting. The actor grew up in Modesto, California, which is a small agricultural town in Central California. In the early ‘90s, Renner left
A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. This weekend marks the first-ever movie awards season Deadline Contenders featuring only nominees. After first doing three different Contenders Film events in January, we are now narrowing it to those who made the cut at the Oscars, BAFTA, and various guilds. A total of 45
T.C. Williams High School in Virginia — famously featured in the movie, “Remember The Titans” — is getting a complete makeover … in an attempt to distance itself from its racist history. But, don’t worry, they’re still the Titans!!! The school was originally named after former superintendent Thomas Chambliss Williams — a known racist who
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Venom #34 In the latest issue of Marvel Comics’ Venom, one of the coolest hosts and versions of the Lethal Protector has come back from the dead during Marvel’s King in Black event. After Knull the Symbiote God killed Eddie Brock, Eddie found himself living as a collection of memories with the symbiote
The death of a senior member of the royal family is always a huge event in British life, whatever your view on the monarchy. And nowhere is the significance of these moments perhaps better captured than on the BBC. The public broadcaster has well-rehearsed procedures for reporting on royal deaths, and these protocols swung into
Universal Pictures has scheduled George Clooney and Julia Roberts’ next movie together, Ticket to Paradise, for Sept. 30, 2022. Uni already had the release date reserved for an event film on the theatrical release calendar. Ticket to Paradise currently follows the weekend after Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Puss in Boots: The Last Wish sequel on Sept. 23 and ahead of
Bizparentz Foundation, the nonprofit organization that’d been advocating for child actors and their parents since 2004, has relaunched its website, featuring more than 100 articles – and over 1,000 links to support them – on a variety of issues affecting child performers, including taxes, tips on avoiding talent scams, navigating union contracts and money held
In the same survey, 81% also felt that celebrity endorsements can influence public opinion. Aside from Dwayne Johnson and Matthew McConaughey, 22% were on the side of Tom Hanks running, 21% would vote for Will Smith and 17% would swing in George Clooney’s favor. Among women, Angelina Jolie nabbed 30% of the opinion and Oprah
If Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson does indeed run for U.S. President as he’s hinted he might, he nearly has all the votes needed to win already … at least based on a new poll. The former WWE superstar turned Hollywood A-lister has the support of 46 percent of adult Americans if he were to make
EXCLUSIVE: Poldark and The Hobbit trilogy star Aidan Turner has signed with ICM Partners for representation in all areas. Turner is best known for starring as the title character in BBC’s hit series Poldark, a role which has earned him multiple awards, including the Radio Times Audience Award at the 2016 BAFTA TV Awards. The Irish
The Jurassic Park franchise now has five movies under its belt, with at least one more coming. From the beginning, fans haven’t been able to get enough of the realistic-looking dinosaurs and the excitement that comes with imagining a world where the creatures return. RELATED: 10 Things For Jurassic Park That Kids These Days Won’t Understand While
EXCLUSIVE: Leaders of the Directors Guild of America have sent a direct appeal to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, urging him to withdraw his support for the state’s restrictive new voting law, saying it “threatens to undermine the pillar of our democracy – the right to vote.” The 18,000-member guild has more than 400 members who
We first told you that Skydance sold the Chris Pratt sci-fi film The Tomorrow War to Amazon Studios for $200M, and now that deal has closed with the streamer setting a July 2 drop date in 240 countries and territories. It’s the second Paramount release that Amazon has picked up after Coming 2 America which
CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links. It’s no secret that comic book movies are everywhere. And given how popular certain heroes like Batman are, there’s been numerous film adaptations over the years. The next actor to wear the cape
ViacomCBS’s UK network Channel 5 has dropped the first trailer for its hotly-anticipated Anne Boleyn series, in which Jodie Turner-Smith stars as the beheaded wife of King Henry VIII. The teaser trailer features Turner-Smith walking through the King’s court with some trepidation. The three-part series, first revealed by Deadline, will examine the downfall of Boleyn
Paul Ritter — best known around the globe for playing Eldred Worple in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” — has died. A rep for the British actor says Paul died of a brain tumor Monday night. He died peacefully at home with his wife Polly and sons — Frank and Noah — by his
On Tuesday, actor Zachary Horwitz (known professionally as Zach Avery) was arrested on charges of wire fraud, as reported by the Los Angeles Times. The FBI and SEC allege that Horwitz ran a Ponzi scheme through his company, 1inMM, which defrauded investors of $227 million. Allegedly, Horwitz told investors that his company invested in film
Thomas Jane, star of the 2004 Punisher film is teaming up with the writer of Logan as well as comic book veteran Mike Carey for a new series titled Lycan, from AfterShock Comics. The series will be produced by Jane’s production company, Renegade Entertainment. Comic fans know Jane not only as the star of the
New York exhibitors had their hopes dashed Monday as Gov. Andrew Cuomo made no move at a press conferences to boost capacity at movie theaters in the five boroughs from 25% to a hoped-for 50%. The Godzilla vs. Kong weekend box office stampede ($285 million globally) shows that movie fans want back in theaters but
Oscar-winner Helen Mirren (The Queen) will portray Israel’s iconic and only female Prime Minister, Golda Meir, in new feature biopic Golda. Produced by BAFTA-winner Michael Kuhn (Florence Foster Jenkins), Golda will be directed by Oscar-winner Guy Nattiv (Skin). Embankment will represent international sales with CAA Media Finance and ICM jointly handling the domestic rights. Production
Interestingly enough, Ghostbusters 2 wasn’t originally considered a priority under Columbia Pictures president David Puttnam’s tenure, as in 1986, he was more interested in the studio delivering smaller-scale movies. However, by the following year, Ghostbusters 2 was given the green light, although this was before director Ivan Reitman had been able to review the unfinished
“Hopefully we will continue to see a decrease in cases and qualify for the Yellow tier three weeks from now,” said Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer on Monday. As Deadline outlined on Friday, California is set to meet a vaccination metric this week that will drop thresholds for counties to progress to
Jared Goff is officially dating a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model — the Detroit Lions QB’s longtime GF, Christen Harper has landed a spot in S.I.’s newest swimsuit issue!! 26-year-old Harper made the announcement minutes ago … saying it’s always been her lifelong dream to sport a bikini in the iconic S.I. issue — and now
A new set of challenges have been made available in Fortnite. This guide will show players where they can find the Artifacts for Tarana. Recently, the game introduced a new group of events with the Spire Quests. Similar to weekly challenges, players can complete them to earn experience for their battle pass. Considering the season has
Refresh for latest…: After logging the best pandemic-era start for a Hollywood movie at the international box office last weekend, Warner Bros/Legendary’s Godzilla Vs Kong has punched up $285.4M worldwide through Sunday. The overseas running total, which added $76.1M this weekend, is $236.9M, giving GVK bragging rights as the quickest studio movie released during Covid
The Vaughn Stein-directed psychological thriller Every Breath You Take made its theatrical premiere this weekend on 106 screens and added some coins to the specialty box office piggy bank. The film, which also landed on VOD this weekend, is on track to earn an estimated $35K with its debut. Written by David K. Murray and starring Casey