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All those Hollywood New Year’s Eve parties might as well keep the lights on, as they will be followed closely by the annual shindigs surrounding the 77th Golden Globe Awards. NBC will air them live Sunday, January 5 at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT at the Beverly Hilton, with Ricky Gervais returning to host. The
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Stacy Spikes founded The Urbanworld Film Festival in 1997. The festival curates films representing the broadest lens of diversity across stories, characters, themes and cultures. Urbanworld is a five-day festival, anchored in film, showcasing narrative and documentary features, short films, spotlight screenings and conversations and live staged screenplay readings. Among the founding sponsors are HBO
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Refresh for latest…: Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker has climbed to $724.8M globally after 12 days in release. The split is $363M from the international box office and $361.8M domestic. This is after a $94.3M offshore weekend, which is above projections and reps just a 43% drop from the debut frame in 52
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Avengers: Endgame has a subtle, yet brilliant, reference to Back to the Future Part II during its epic climax. After the devastating ending of Avengers: Infinity War, the remaining Avengers try and fail to resurrect the dusted victims of Thanos’ snap, locating the Mad Titan only to discover that he has destroyed the Infinity Stoes. Five years later, after the world
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Another big day for Disney’s Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker with a Dec. 26 estimated gross of $30.7M, -4% from Christmas Day. Industry sources are forecasting that through the ninth-quel’s first ten days by Sunday, the J.J. Abrams directed movie will hit $380.9M, pacing 3% ahead of Last Jedi at the same point in time. Pretty impressive for
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1917 director Sam Mendes and Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight are among the Brits to score a prestigious award as part of the New Year’s Honours List 2020. The distinguished awards are handed out once a year and recognize the outstanding achievements of 1,097 people across the UK. Neal Street co-founder Mendes, whose one-hit war
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The Chicago Indie Critics announced their nominees Saturday for the group’s fourth annual film awards, with Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Little Women leading with eight nominations, including Best Studio Film and Best Director. Following next with seven nominations each were The Irishman, Marriage Story, 1917, and Parasite. Winners will be announced on January 4, at
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Rami Malek says that his work on Bohemian Rhapsody influenced his villainous role in No Time To Die. The release of the 25th Bond film is quickly approaching, with Daniel Craig returning as 007 for one final time and director Cary Joji Fukunaga taking a stab at the series. Malek began acting in 2004, with the actor taking on small roles, including Ahkmenrah in
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Broadway’s 2019 was one of lofty highs: the sumptuousness of Hadestown, the twin shocks of Oklahoma! and Slave Play, the marvelous risk-taking of What The Constitution Means To Me and Gary: A Sequel To Titus Andronicus, the belly laughs of Tootsie, the star-making arrival of Tina‘s Adrienne Warren and the star-confirming stands of American Utopia‘s
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Sony’s long-awaited Will Smith and Martin Lawrence re-team Bad Boys for Life arrived on tracking today with a $40M-$45M 4-day opening projection. Among action comedies launched over the holiday, that forecast is around where Ride Along ($48.6M) and Ride Along 2 ($41M) opened. 2014’s Ride Along starring Kevin Hart and Ice Cube was the record opening over MLK until Clint Eastwood’s
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A scene that featured the first same-sex kiss in Star Wars franchise history has been cut in Singapore, Deadline has confirmed. In Singapore, gay sex is illegal and the government does not recognize same-sex marriage. A spokesperson for the country’s media authority the Infocomm Media Development Authority told the BBC that the scene was removed
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Who is the most-enduring character in screen history? Well, to quote the old holiday song: “It must be Santa, Santa Claus…” Yes, the right jolly old elf has the longest history of any screen character. It was 121 years ago that early U.K. filmmaker George Albert Smith gave the world the short film Santa Claus (in the
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90s kids will always love the movies that came out in that decade. When it comes to a cross-comparison between movies made in the ’90s and the 2000s, you’ll find a true ’90s kid choosing the former over the latter. And why not? Hollywood at the time was smart, funny and groundbreaking (looking at you Home Alone).
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