With Miranda July, either you get it or you don’t. The actress also is a critically acclaimed writer-director whose third feature, Kajillionaire, had critics going to their thesaurus to find new words with which to heap praise on her adventurous quirkiness. Not everyone will get the joke, but if you are on board with this certified
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This week, Scott Disick from Keeping Up with the Kardashians left another flirty comment on one of Sofia Richie’s Instagram posts. The couple has been broken up since May, but Scott and Sofia continue to interact. Sofia and Scott began their relationship in 2017. They started dating after 34-year-old reality TV star Scott ended his relationship with
HBO Max has called in the Peacemaker – ordering a TV spin-off of James Gunn’s upcoming Suicide Squad movie starring John Cena. The streamer has handed Peacemaker an eight-episode straight-to-series order for its first season with The Suicide Squad director writing all episodes and directing a number of them. The show will explore the origins
EXCLUSIVE: Good news, movie theaters. Open Road Films’ Liam Neeson action-thriller Honest Thief, which was set to go wide, is going really wide now at 2,000 theaters. However, you’ll have to wait a week later than anticipated. The movie from Ozark co-creator and producer Mark Williams, which was set to open on Oct. 9 will
Hostile Planet producer Plimsoll Productions has taken full control of international distribution company Magnify Media. The company, which was set up by former RDF USA chief Grant Mansfield, took a minority stake in Magnify, which was established by Andrea Jackson, in 2016. Jackson set up the company in September 2015 and it represents global rights
Personally, I didn’t think it was necessary to have him come back, but it did bring the franchise completely full circle and add immense stakes for Rey and the Resistance. If Rey was a Kenobi, the franchise could have focused entirely on Rey vs. Kylo Ren as the rest of the trilogy was doing, but
UK companies Fred Films and Powder Keg Pictures have secured the sought-after rights to British national treasure and World War II hero Captain Tom Moore’s inspirational story. The former British Army Captain raised £39M ($50M) for the National Health Service by walking laps of his garden in the run-up to his 100th birthday during the
Most Hollywood types say, “Let’s do lunch” … but for Tom Cruise, it’s “Let’s do LAUNCH” — and now he knows when he’ll make his virgin voyage to space to film a movie. Tom’s hitching a ride on a SpaceX Crew Dragon rocket and capsule to the International Space Station in October 2021 to start
EXCLUSIVE: After a star-making turn in HBO’s hit series Lovecraft Country, Jonathan Majors is now ready to make his mark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a big way. Majors has been tapped for one of the lead roles in the next Ant-Man movie opposite Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lily. The studio had no comment, but
Fans rallying behind Justice League: The Snyder Cut have raised a massive amount for suicide prevention. When Joss Whedon’s Justice League first released into theaters, there was immediate pushback from fans. As it turns out, Whedon had completely redone a significant portion of Justice League after Zack Snyder left the project upon his daughter Autumn’s death. As a result of Whedon’s changes, fans
Sony Classics has taken Venice Film Festival movie The Duke for the U.S., Latin America and Scandinavia. Directed by Roger Michell from a script by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman, the comedy drama stars Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren in the story of a 60 year-old taxi driver who steals Goya’s portrait of the Duke
UPDATE,Writethru: Christopher Nolan’s Tenet handily passed $200M overseas this weekend with a $25M offshore frame to bring the international box office cume to $214M. Including domestic, the global to-date total is now $250.1M. Boosting play overseas, as we noted yesterday, was the Japan bow which came in at a strong $4.3M in the No. 1
It should be no surprise to see executive producer Alexander Payne and producers Albert Berger’s and Ron Yerxa’s names on the credits for the new film The Last Shift, set in an ignored and decaying midwestern American town and focusing on a man retiring after 38 years working the same job in a greasy drive-thru
Of course, Tom Holkenborg is no stranger to scoring major motion pictures. In the last half decade alone, his music credits have included Mad Max: Fury Road, Deadpool, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Tomb Raider, Terminator: Dark Fate, Alita: Battle Angel and Sonic the Hedgehog. Still, the fact that he now gets to leave
Having a hot streak of a night at the 2020 Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Watchmen capped it with an Outstanding Limited Series win and a call to meet the challenges of history and today. “History is mystery, it is broken into a million puzzle pieces and many are missing,” said series creator Damon Lindelof
Exclusive Cops are calling John Marshall Jones a hero … not only for rushing out of his house in his underwear to douse a fire, but for chasing down the alleged arsonist behind the blaze. John, who played special agent Jay Griffin on the Amazon hit “Bosch,” tells TMZ … he was watching TV early
The UK could see 50,000 new coronavirus cases a day by mid-October without further action, the government’s top scientific adviser has warned in a press briefing. Sir Patrick Vallance said that outcome “would be expected to lead to about 200 deaths per day” a month after that. UK PM Boris Johnson is said to be
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier is now confirmed to release in 2021. Marvel Studios is officially expanding the MCU through small-screen projects exclusively for Disney+. Unlike previous projects from Marvel TV, these upcoming shows will have significant ramifications to the bigger franchise moving forward as they star mostly established characters. That includes Steve Rogers’ (Chris Evans)
The Bobcat Fire in the Angeles National Forest grew from 72,000 acres on Saturday to an estimated 99,428 acres Sunday with just 15% containment. That containment number has not moved since Wednesday as firefighters have struggled to contain the blaze. Officials warned that the flames would continue to spread from the Antelope Valley foothills into
The majority of the specialty box office has shifted to virtual debut, streaming and digital-only since theaters have shuttered due to the pandemic, but as physical theaters begin to open their doors, titles have returned to the big screen, slowly pumping life into the long-dormant specialty space. Bleecker Street’s post-WWII thriller The Secrets We Keep opened
There has been quite a bit of mystery and intrigue (or, more accurately, uncertainty and frustration) surrounding the DCEU in recent years. While at least one question has been answered with the confirmed existence and upcoming release date of the Snyder Cut, we cannot say the same about a once proposed film about Cyborg, which
EXCLUSIVE: Christopher Nolan’s Tenet added a handful of markets this weekend after beginning overseas rollout in August. While the domestic performance has been hampered by the coasts being closed, offshore markets have had a bit more leeway, and in some ways been robust even with capacity restrictions. This is yet another sign that offshore differs
Breaking News Whaddaya do when the power is out, you have to get to work and your electric-powered gate won’t open?? If you’re Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, you channel your inner ‘Black Adam,’ rip that MFer right off the brick wall and slam it to the ground!!! Seriously!!! Johnson — who was recently cast to
Upon discussions about reopening Los Angeles County, Public Health has confirmed 1,343 new COVID-19 positive cases and 13 deaths on Saturday. The latest update, which also shows 732 in current hospitalizations, comes after Barbara Ferrer said the county is seeing its lowest average testing-positivity rate of the pandemic. While the numbers may show a small
Did Rey become the new Chosen One in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker? When George Lucas launched the prequel trilogy with 1999’s Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, he reinterpreted the entire saga as being oriented around Anakin Skywalker. To emphasize the point, he added a new Messianic element to the franchise, a mysterious
EXCLUSIVE: Break, which is one of Rutger Hauer’s finals movies, will be getting a multiplatform release via Conduit Presents, the distribution division of Conduit Now. Conduit Presents acquired the Michael Elkin-directed crime sports drama and has set a release for Jan. 5, 2021. Break follows a young inner city kid who is wasting his talents on petty crime.
British perfumer Jo Malone has slammed her namesake former company for its treatment of John Boyega, the Star Wars actor who resigned this week as the brand’s global “ambassador.” “I am so horrified and disgusted about what has been done to John,” Malone said today on UK’s ITV program Lorraine. “How dare somebody treat him
As The Rock detailed, he was dealing with a power outage at his home and the electronic gate that usually allows him to leave the premises was not budging. Dwayne Johnson said he tried to override the hydraulic system, but it was not going to open for him for another 45 minutes. The actor was
Betsy West and Julie Cohen, who directed RBG, the feature-length documentary about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, reacted Friday to Ginsburg’s death Friday at age 87. “Like so many Americans, we are crushed by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” West and Cohen said in a joint statement. “Even had she not become
Play video content CoreResponse/Facebook Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt got reacquainted in a virtual wet dream, and if you think that’s awesome … wait until you see how Julia Roberts, Sean Penn and Shia LaBeouf reacted to it. The exes everyone wants to reunite actually did get together Thursday for a table read of “Fast