Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Rian Johnson is just like the rest of us when it comes to the new ‘Star Wars’ movie … he hasn’t seen it yet, despite him directing its predecessor in the series. The filmmaker opened up to us this weekend in NYC about whether he’d gotten any sort of sneak
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When it comes to categorizing, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has been marching to its own beat. It nominated Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black in the drama field for the show’s first season in 2014, which was designated as a comedy at the Emmys later that year. The TV Academy re-classified the series as
Baby Yoda is dressed up as Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker in new fan artwork for The Mandalorian. The Mandalorian was one of the most anticipated shows that came to Disney+, and thankfully for most fans, it hasn’t disappointed. While fans were excited to see Pedro Pascal suit up as a Mandalorian, Baby Yoda has kind of stolen the spotlight.
Once again, the fans at CCXP proved that they are the world’s most passionate fans as they erupted with off-the-charts applause when Free Guy director Shawn Levy and actors Ryan Reynolds and Joe Keery took the stage to talk about the 20th Century Fox action-comedy about bank teller who realizes he is a background character
Refresh for latest…: Sony’s Jumanji: The Next Level is out in 18 early overseas release markets ahead of domestic next weekend, and in many, the movie is stepping up versus predecessor Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle. Overall, the Jake Kasdan-directed sequel opened to $52.5M at the international box office, slightly down on the last film’s
The 2019 edition of the International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM) closed its industry program last night (December 8), with the event’s Best Project Award going to Dear Wormwood, a supernatural horror from the Philippines. The project is in advanced development and has secured $85,000 of its planned $525,000 budget to date. It comes
Gal Gadot is hardly the first star to express antipathy towards wearing burden-some superhero outfits, and it’s definitely a personal sacrifice that actors perform in the effort of making these movies as good as possible while honoring the source material. Costume designers do everything in their power to try and make things as easy as
CCXP ended huge with a panel for Wonder Woman 1984 featuring director Patty Jenkins and the titular superhero Gal Gadot. Kicking things off with a crazy light show complete with illuminated “gauntlets” given to the crowd, the livestreamed event for Wonder Woman 1984 was a first for the Sao Paulo pop culture confab. When Jenkins came
Backgrid Ryan Reynolds put his action hero skills to use this weekend in Brazil — where he was almost flattened by a barricade that gave way to a massive swarm over overzealous fans. The actor was in Sao Paulo Saturday for CCXP 2019, a comic con event which had some heavy hitters from the States
When Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige announced that he was heading south of the equator to attend CCXP in Sao Paulo, there were rumblings of what he would unveil for phase four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. When the panel started, the crowd, once again, erupted with an ovation that rivals Hall H — and
Marvel Studios reveals The Falcon and the Winter Soldier TV show first look images at Comic Con Experience in Sãu Paulo, Brazil this weekend. At San Diego Comic-Con this summer, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige confirmed part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase 4 slate, which includes both movies and television series. Feige confirmed a number
Georgian filmmaker Zaza Urushadze, whose credits include the Oscar-nominated drama Tangerines, has died at the age of 53, according to local reports. The news broke last night (December 7) during the closing weekend of the Tbilisi International Film Festival, which ran in the Georgian capital throughout this week. Attendees at the fest took to social
The doldrums of December are here and is standard following the lucrative Thanksgiving-Black Friday period most major distributors abstain from opening any wide entries, except for STX which is handling animated feature Playmobil, which isn’t looking so hot with a 3-day of $905K, one of the lowest openings ever for a pic north of 2,000
We are mere weeks away from the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, but as Disney and Lucasfilm close the final chapter of this saga, director JJ Abrams as well as stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Oscar Isaac took the dais at CCXP to share the end of this adventure with the
32 minutes ago After a long and rough start, Matt Reeves’ The Batman has been surprising us on a pretty regular basis with casting info. And, Reeves himself has been using his Twitter feed to update fans on many of the casting decisions made so far. Just today he posted a welcoming gif of actor
Peter Sarsgaard has been added to the cast of The Batman, Warner Bros and DC’s latest take on the superhero franchise. Director Matt Reeves tweeted out the news Friday, while not revealing any character information. But he does join a pic toplined by Robert Pattinson as Batman, Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman, Andy Serkis as Pennyworth,
Exclusive Getty Composite Meg Ryan‘s no longer an island girl … she’s unloaded her Chappaquiddick Island mansion, and it’s gotta connection with Barack and Michelle Obama‘s new island pad. Our Massachusetts real estate sources tell us Meg just closed the deal to sell her 6,600-sq-ft crib for $9.125 million. She’s been in the home —
The television business is becoming increasingly global, fueled by the rapid expansion of the major streaming platforms. That also goes for the major Hollywood talent agencies. Reps have always looked for opportunities beyond the U.S. But now, because of the increased demand for locally produced international content, they have stepped up their efforts. Also factoring
Alien vs. Predator finally happened in 2004, but 17 years earlier, Predator 2 featured an Alien Easter egg that served to tease the crossover. When it comes to sci-fi/horror, few franchises boast the credibility of Alien and Predator. Alien’s fearsome Xenomorph first appeared in 1979’s Alien, directed by Ridley Scott, and doing battle with Sigourney
In his early 20s Michael Apted began assisting on a film called Seven Up!, little realizing it would turn into the most ambitious documentary project ever undertaken. It focused on a group of seven-year-old British schoolchildren from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, and became such a sensation on British television that producers decided to return every seven
The last wide entries of 2019 hit tracking today with projections for the 5-day Christmas holiday as follows: 20th Century Fox/Blue Sky’s animated feature Spies in Disguise ($23M-$30M), Sony’s Greta Gerwig directed Little Women ($19M-$35M), and A24’s Adam Sandler crime thriller Uncut Gems ($15M). Distribution sources always say that people don’t begin to go to
EXCLUSIVE: NBC has given a script commitment with penalty to Fallback, a one-hour sci-fi thriller crime drama from Blindspot creator Martin Gero, his frequent collaborator Brendan Gall (Blindspot) and Warner Bros TV, where Gero and his Quinn’s House production company are under an overall deal. Written by Gero and Gall, Fallback is a sci-fi thriller
2 minutes ago Spoilers Ahead! If you have yet to see Frozen II, freeze where you’re reading and come back after you’ve checked it out! After six years of waiting and anticipating, the sequel to Frozen is finally here! Walt Disney Animation Studio’s latest epic continues the story of the sisters of Arendelle as Elsa
Prolific Japanese auteur Takashi Miike’s latest feature is First Love, the wild genre romp that follows a young boxer and a call girl who get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo. The pic premiered in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight program and has also played Toronto, Busan, London and
Backgrid Jenna Dewan is trading in birthday cake and candles for cardboard boxes and dollies … she’s moving into her new digs as she celebrates 39 trips around the Sun. Check out these pics of Jenna and her boyfriend Steve Kazee on her birthday … no celebrations, just business as they move into her new
ViacomCBS marked its first day as a merged company with a celebrity-studded appearance on the floor of the Nasdaq Market Site in New York’s Times Square and a town hall meeting overflowing with optimism. CEO Bob Bakish and chairman Shari Redstone smiled and clapped alongside Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, Gayle King, a SpongeBob SquarePants mascot
Episode 4 of the Disney+ live-action Star Wars TV series, The Mandalorian, transported the show’s protagonists, the lone bounty hunter “Mando” and his newly-acquired sidekick, “Baby Yoda” (as the internet calls him) to a whole new planet, far, far away from the Client and his presumably dastardly plans; yet, even on this quiet, sparsely-populated world, the duo are located by
Locke and Key, the high-profile television adaptation of the bestselling IDW Comics graph novels by writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez, will premiere on Netflix on Feb. 7. Locke and Key stars Darby Stanchfield (Scandal) as Nina Locke, Jackson Robert Scott (It and It 2) as Bode Locke, Connor Jessup (American Crime) as Tyler
Sony’s Jumanji: The Next Level opens early in 18 overseas markets this week, beginning today in France and including Netherlands, some of South East Asia and, notably, China, through Friday. This is a different rollout pattern to 2017’s reboot, Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, which went day-and-date with domestic in 53 offshore markets, landing No.
Mexican actress Elyfer Torres, who was the breakout star of Mexico’s Ugly Betty re-make Betty En NY, has signed with Ryan Muckenthaler and Ali Benmohamed at UTA for representation in all areas. Torres was also recently named Best New Actress at the Produ Awards at Mipcom Mexico. She is close to wrapping her second TV