After a landmark year when several new billion-dollar streaming services jockeyed for attention, there is a big question greeting the new class as 2021 begins: Where from here? Apple, Disney, NBCUniversal and WarnerMedia, the most prominent new players in the streaming game, have all made a solid go of it, to varying degrees. (Alas, poor
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Alyson Reed (Ms. Darbus) As Ms. Darbus, East High School’s stern and, well, dramatic drama teacher, Alyson Reed played a prominent adult role in Disney Channel’s High School Musical. A stage performer since childhood, Reed has performed in a number of Broadway productions, including Dancin’, Dance a Little Closer, A Grand Night of Singing, Marilyn:
New York City native Rachel Ticotin shot to stardom in in the early ’90s after she took on the role of the martian-based sidekick, Melina — who helps Douglas Quaid defeat Vilos Cohaagen from blowing up Mars — in the 1990 spacey action film “Total Recall.” Rachel Ticotin starred in the high-budget film alongside Sharon
If 2020 began with promise, all that changed as every industry tradition we took for granted was stripped away without warning. The pandemic has seen nearly 20 million positive cases in the U.S. alone, and soon 350,000 will be dead. Every facet of entertainment was impacted: live theaters and movie theaters closed, production in TV
The Patty Jenkins-directed DC sequel has grossed more than $100M worldwide according to Warner Bros. Wonder Woman 1984 opened to $16.7M domestic last weekend in the U.S. and Canada where 60% of 5,5k theaters are shutdown. The film is also available on the studio’s streaming service HBO Max which is only available stateside, but will expand
A word for stocks in 2020: epic — as in monumental, as a bona fide crash in the spring alternated thereafter with convulsions of angst and optimism reflecting a world turned upside down by the first global pandemic in a century. Major indexes from the Dow Jones to the Nasdaq, S&P 500 and Russell 3000
#9. One Night In Miami Average Score: 4.1/5 Regina King has been on an incredible roll in the last few couple years, following up her Oscar-winning work in If Beale Street Could Talk with the awe-inspiring Watchmen on HBO, and applause is only growing louder now that she’s followed up those projects with her directorial
Exclusive Details Louis Gossett, Jr. can tell you how bad COVID is … he has it, was hospitalized for it, but left because it’s a s*** show inside. Sources connected to the Oscar-winning actor tell TMZ … the 84-year-old tested positive and was so sick he couldn’t even stand. He was taken to a Georgia-area
Heat on U.S. social media platforms is now blowing from Russia whose lower house of parliament inked a series of bills this week cracking down on sites that Moscow says discriminate against its media. Twitter labels some Russian media ‘state-affiliated,’ for instance, which Moscow objects to, according to news reports. Backers of the new Russian
Long before former Hulu chief Jason Kilar became disruptor in chief at WarnerMedia and put the entire 2021 Warner Bros slate on HBO Max, Fredric Rosen began changing the way concert tickets were sold as the Ticketmaster president/CEO, when the service became the leading computerized ticketing company in the world. He would become co-CEO of
The specialty box office and streaming space is ringing in 2021 with a peppering of new titles starting with Shadow in the Cloud starring Chloë Grace Moretz, which opens in select theaters and drops on VOD and digital starting January 1, 2021. Directed by Roseanne Liang who co-wrote the script with Max Landis, Shadow in the
In 1997, just five years after he debuted in the Image Comics pages, Spawn made the jump to the big screen, with Michael Jai White starring as the demonic character and his original persona, Al Simmons. Alas, Spawn did not perform critically or commercially, and creator Todd McFarlane has spent more than a decade trying
Adolfo “Shabba-Doo” Quiñones, the famous breakdancer and star of the 1984 movie, “Breakin’,” has died. Shabba-Doo’s family announced his sudden passing in L.A. Wednesday, only a day after he had posted an image of himself in bed, saying he was feeling sluggish but had tested negative for COVID-19. So far, no cause of death has
Alto Reed, who played saxophone for multiplatinum Bob Seger’s Silver Bullet Band for nearly half a century, died Wednesday of colon cancer. He was 72. Seger posted a note about his “lifelong friend and bandmate” on social media: “He was amazing – he could play just about anything,” he wrote. “In our band, he was
AMC Entertainment filed to sell up to 50 million more shares in an ongoing quest to stay solvent as it outruns the pandemic. The nation’s largest theater chain registered the shares in an SEC filing this morning, adding to the 200 million it previously registered. It said it’s raised $104 million as of December 28
Joe Clark Dead: High School Principal Who Inspired ‘Lean On Me’ Was 82 – Deadline Click to Skip Ad Closing in… You will be redirected back to your article in seconds Skip to main content December 29, 2020 7:16pm Services to share this page. Joe Clark, the inspiration for John G. Avildsen’s 1989 film Lean
It’s a film that you’re meant to let your mind get lost in, as what begins as a simple story about a young woman meeting her boyfriend’s parents for the first time devolves into a meditation on the subjects of identity, time, and life, all while being simultaneously freaky and funny. The outstanding cast including
The Marvel universe is coming fast and furious to Disney+ in 2021 with the much anticipated The Falcon and the Winter Soldier landing next spring. The second Marvel series to debut on the streaming service, the Anthony Mackie- and Sebastian Stan-starrer will launch on March 19, Marvel boss Kevin Feige unveiled Thursday at the Disney
Exclusive Actor Noah Jupe is super fond of three-letter connections … as in HBO = ATM. The kid, fresh off nailing the role of Henry on the HBO hit, “The Undoing,” is back to work for the network again … this time starring in the HBO Max film, “No Sudden Move.” The cast is not
Visionary fashion designer Pierre Cardin died Tuesday at age 98. After a career that spanned more than 70 years and began with costume design on Jean Cocteau’s 1946 Beauty and the Beast, the Italy-born, naturalized Frenchman passed away at the American Hospital outside Paris. Cardin’s family called this “a day of great sadness” and noted,
Universal and DreamWorks Animation have tweaked their 2021 release schedule, moving the sequel The Boss Baby: Family Business from March to September. The shift to the new release date, September 17, had been the spot for DWA’s The Bad Guys, which is unset for now and will get a 2022 release. Universal made the announcement
Cast has been set and shoot scheduled for the Arabic-language remake of Italian box office smash hit Perfect Strangers. Lebanese actress and filmmaker Nadine Labaki (Capernaum) has been cast alongside Egyptian star Mona Zaki (30 Years Ago), Adel Karam (The Insult), Eyad Nassar (The Looming Tower), Diamand Bou Abboud (The Insult) and George Khabbaz (Under
While most major markets remain closed, including Los Angeles and New York, Wonder Woman 1984 played in over 2,100 locations this past weekend in North America – albeit with theaters operating at limited capacity. The film also got a lot of eyeballs overseas where HBO Max isn’t available yet, and to date has made $68.3
Disney unveiled dozens of new films and TV shows for Disney+ during its investor day Thursday and confirmed several others. Here is a rundown of what is headed to the streamer in the coming weeks, months and years. The list is split up by division — ranging from Lucasfilm, Marvel and Pixar to Disney Animation,
As pollyannaish as it sounds, especially as the domestic 2020 box office crumbles to a historic all-time low of $2.27 billion due to the coronavirus pandemic, the global theatrical business is poised for a comeback in 2021. However, it might take a few months. How in God’s name can such a ridiculous projection be forecasted?
Sunday AM Update: Refresh for more analysis and chart We’ll have to wait and see what success WarnerMedia drums up in regards to Wonder Woman 1984‘s outcome on HBO Max, but from a box office perspective over Christmas with 60% of the 5,8K theater domestic market closed due to COVID, it posted better 3-day numbers than
Like the title suggests, Promising Young Woman brought a glimmer of promise to the specialty box office space. The Emerald Fennell-directed dramatic thriller starring Carey Mulligan debuted in 1,310 theaters in North America on December 25 earning an estimated $680K. Since making its world premiere at Sundance, the film has been getting tons of buzz and acclaim.
In Wonder Woman 1984, the Invisible Jet isn’t something that just exists, but instead something that Diana essentially creates. While attempting to steal a jet with Steve Trevor, the superhero winds up using the same kind of magic that helped the Amazons hide Themyscira from Man’s World on the planet, and, voila, the famed comic
The CW released the first full-length photo of the new Lois Lane and Clark Kent from the upcoming Superman & Lois series starring Tyler Hoechlin and Bitsie Tulloch in the title roles. The duo’s contemporary styling includes updated eyewear for Clark – no Buddy Holly spectacles in sight – and a brown suede-like jacket for
Breaking News Now, this is creative … a handful of Clubhouse users put on a live production of ‘The Lion King’ — complete with a full cast and choir — and THOUSANDS of people dropped in to listen live. Organized by executive producer and director Noelle Chesnut Whitmore — along with the assistance of a