The galaxy has a new Jedi master. It’s Riley Howell, the student who died trying to stop a gunman who opened fire on the UNC Charlotte campus in April. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – The Visual Dictionary, a newly published book timed to coincide with the release of latest movie in the series,
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Christmas Eve Update: Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker took in $29.3M on Monday, -27% from Sunday for a 4-day + previews total of $206.7M. The film will remain undefeated with a second weekend in the $70M-$80M range, and the wide entries opening on Christmas Day won’t siphon off any grosses including Sony/Regency’s Little Women ($18M-$22M
After a confirmed $198.8 million international box office bow for Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker this past weekend, the Monday grosses have pushed Episode IX to $226.8M offshore. Globally, the JJ Abrams-directed flying Stormtroopers have hit $433.4M through yesterday. While the initial overseas weekend session was off 16% from Star Wars: The Last
11 minutes ago In a film that is as technically meticulous as director Sam Mendes’ 1917, there are bound to be all sorts of challenges. And just as the film itself was insanely difficult to film and script in its real time/continuous shot format, it was equally taxing when it came to the stunts that
James Corden says he still hasn’t seen Cats, but he’s heard a thing or two about his new movie and it’s not good. The British comedian made the admission Monday in a BBC Radio 2 interview, according to the UK’s Independent. “I haven’t seen it, but I’ve heard it’s terrible,” Corden told host Zoe Ball.
@jenelleriley Judi Dench really gave “Cats” the finger … in fact, she gave the audience 5 of them and a wedding ring to boot, in a major flub/oversight. If you dared to subject yourself to the 2-hour-long feline flick, you may have noticed a decidedly human feature on Dench … a human hand with a
Season 17 of Top Chef returns on March 19, 2020 for a brand new all-stars season. Fan favorites, front-runners, and finalists from the past 16 seasons risk it all for the Top Chef title. There will be 15 of the best contestants competing to prove why they deserved to win the first time, or even the second time. Everyone
The BBC and FX’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol scared off nearly a third of its audience in the UK — but it still just about beat the competition on other channels. The second episode of Scott Free London and Hardy Son & Baker’s reimagining of Charles Dickens’ classic tale was watched by 3.34M viewers
Broadway’s West Side Story and A Christmas Carol broke house records at their respective theaters last week as holiday business kept overall box office very sturdy. From the previous week, the 34 Broadway productions climbed 5% to a $40,645,773 box office total. The figure pushes Broadway’s season-to-date total past $1 billion. Total attendance of 302,372
Ford v Ferrari tells the true story of how Ford built a race car that defeated Ferrari at the 1966 Le Mans. The film’s cinematographer, Phedon Papamichael, during 20th Century Fox’s panel for the film at Deadline’s The Contenders New York, discussed some of the real race venues they used in the movie, and how
16 minutes ago We are still coming down off of the high that is the Quentin Tarantino, Volume 2 interview. (Did you guys listen? If not, here it is!) And yet, there’s so much to get to between now and the end of the year, we have to dive right back in with a new
Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Pete Wentz gives the third in the ‘Star Wars’ trilogy his stamp of approval, but after a 42-year journey amassing millions of fans and billions of dollars … he doesn’t expect everyone to agree. The Fall Out Boy bassist was out in Studio City, and we got him shortly after
His Dark Materials, the BBC and HBO’s ambitious retelling of Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights novel, came to a close in the UK with just over 4M viewers, as the season struggled to maintain the audience highs of early episodes. The final installment of Bad Wolf’s drama, starring Ruth Wilson, James Mcavoy and Dafne Keen, was
While many know Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks for his work on movies like Big, Forrest Gump, and the Toy Story franchise, he first got his start in the 1980 slasher flick He Knows You’re Alone. Hanks has since played a number of iconic roles. From starring as the eponymous lead in thriller-drama Captain Phillips to
If you watched Cats on opening night, you may have seen a different version than others who saw it later in the weekend as sources tell Deadline that Universal Pictures sent out a memo to theaters saying that they will be sending out a new version of the big-screen adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Weber Broadway musical
As we enter the holiday week, A24’s Uncut Gems starring Adam Sandler has a solid weekend in its second limited weekend on five screens in New York and Los Angeles. The Safdie Brothers crime thriller was the biggest per-screen average opening ever for A24 and, despite dropping from its limited opening last week, the film earned an
Marvel’s Kingdom of Wakanda, home of Black Panther, is not a U.S. trading partner, despite anything you might have read this week on the U.S. Department of Agriculture website. When a New York software engineer named Francis Tseng was doing research for a fellowship application, he clicked on a drop-down menu at the website, finding listings
6 minutes ago Man, what a weird week for The Eternals star Kumail Nanjiani. “Weird” is the word he used for it, anyway. It started when he showed off his newly ripped/jacked/shredded body for the upcoming Marvel movie. That led to a strip club offering him $15,000 for his “services” — !!! — and now
Disney/Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker powered up its light sabers in 46 material offshore markets through Thursday, grossing $59.1M at the international box office. That includes China where the force is, unsurprisingly, not strong with this final installment. Elsewhere, Episode IX has seen launches above Star Wars: The Last Jedi in most majors.
It’s not officially the holidays until you’ve sat back with a tall glass of Ovaltine and a plate of smiling duck to take in the 1983 Xmas classic, “A Christmas Story.” You’ll say “Oh, Fudge” after you see what your favorite cast of 9-year-old troublemakers including the day-dreaming, Red Ryder Air Rifle lover, Ralphie, his
Just Mercy isn’t easy to watch at times, but it is an admirable film about one lawyer’s efforts to free prisoners on Alabama’s Death Row who have been served up a heap of injustice and an impending date with the grim reaper for crimes they didn’t commit. It is all the true story of Bryan
Alfred Pennyworth is the single best thing through the entire Batman franchise. It’s safe to say that the Batman movies have had their ups and downs, and in fact, have oscillated between the two extremes in a way seldom seen in most A-list series. 1997’s Batman and Robin nearly killed comic book movies altogether, while 2008’s The Dark Knight serves as
The knives have been out for Rian Johnson again as Star Wars fans react to the release of Disney-owned Fox’s The Rise of Skywalker by revisiting the debate over the space saga’s preceding installment, Johnson’s polarizing The Last Jedi from 2017. Today, Johnson defended himself and his version of the franchise’s central protagonist, Luke Skywalker. When a Twitter
EXCLUSIVE: The dark force from critics isn’t keeping Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker down with the Lucasfilm finale to the George Lucas-created saga seeing between $44M-$48M per Deadline sources tonight. At that level, Rise of Skywalker will wind up being either the third or fourth best preview night ever with the current top three being last
Sheffield Doc/Fest senior programmer Adam Cook has resigned from his role following allegations made on Twitter by his former fiancé. The festival, which investigated the matter this week, said today, “Sheffield Doc/Fest informs that as of yesterday, Adam Cook, our Senior Programmer, handed in his resignation, with immediate effect, which we accepted. “The artistic direction
5 minutes ago After a series best for the Mission: Impossible franchise when Fallout made $761 million worldwide last year, Christopher McQuarrie is gearing up to continue placing his stamp on the espionage action flicks by shooting 7 and 8 back-to-back. The writer/director has been assembling an impressive cast to join Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt.
On Sunday, Yellowstone star and Oscar winner Kevin Costner will appear at a town hall event in Indianola, Iowa, to endorse Pete Buttigieg for president. Earlier this week, Donald Glover was announced as the “creative consultant” for Andrew Yang’s presidential campaign, and he appeared with the candidate at a pop-up store of Yang merchandise. We
Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Jason Derulo‘s got his claws out, pushing back against critics who ain’t feline fine about his new movie, “Cats” … saying they don’t know crap about making movies. We got Jason in New York City and asked how the “Cats” cast is handling all the negative reactions to the movie
Christopher Nolan took the Hollywood heist film into dreamland with the cerebral thriller Inception. Now, with Tenet, he might be introducing an espionage thriller where time itself is the ticking bomb. That’s one way to interpret the just-arrived trailer for the sleek Warner Bros film that hits theaters worldwide on July 17, though there’s little
Warning: Minor SPOILERS related to The Witcher‘s content ahead. Netflix’s The Witcher might be a fantasy series, but it’s not family-friendly. With plenty of violence, gore, strong language, sexual content and mature themes, the show is suitable only for adults and older teens. The Witcher stars Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, a monster-slayer who