The Mandalorian is the spiritual successor of George Lucas’ plans for Star Wars: Underworld, a TV series he was never able to make due to budget constraints. The Star Wars franchise is changing shape, and moving from the big screen to the streaming service. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is the final chapter in the Skywalker Saga,
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Exhibition giant Cineworld, which acquired U.S. chain Regal Cinemas in 2018 for $3.6B, is adding another group to its portfolio with a proposed $2.1B (C$2.8B) purchase of Canada’s Cineplex. The deal would see Cineworld pay C$34 per share in cash and would make Regal the largest cinema circuit in North America by number of screens.
Refresh for latest…: As global turnstiles start greasing up for next week’s Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, audiences are continuing to warm up to the two current titles in wide release: Sony’s Jumanji: The Next Level and Disney’s Frozen 2. Expanding to another 34 offshore hubs after an early rollout last weekend, The Next
Character Media (formerly known as Kore Asian Media) hosted the 18th annual Unforgettable Gala on Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles to honor and recognize Asian American icons and changmakers in the entertainment industry, who are representing the API community through their creativity and excellence. Among the top winners of the evening
5 minutes ago As it marked the end of an era in the MCU, Avengers: Endgame had some pretty emotional moments. But it also offered a bit of much-needed levity. And according to Karen Gillan, one of the funniest moments in the film actually came as a result of some improvisation with her co-star Robert
Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com “21 Jump Street” star Richard Grieco doesn’t react well when the cuffs are getting slapped on him, as proven by this video of his DFW airport bust for public intoxication. Police body cam footage, obtained by TMZ, shows Grieco angrily storming away from the American Airlines ticket counter in Dallas
Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad actress Laura Fraser and Bodyguard star Anjli Mohindra are set to make guest appearances in Doctor Who season 12. As is usually the way with Doctor Who, the BBC did not reveal any details about their characters because it will give away plot points before the series premieres on
Parks & Recreation’s final episode included different time jumps so fans could get a glimpse at the characters’ lives in the future – and here are all the timelines that were shown. Created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, Parks & Recreation debuted on NBC in 2009 and came to an end in 2015 after
Francesca Reale (Stranger Things, Haters Back Off), Jaboukie Young-White (The Daily Show, Someone Great), Catherine Cohen (High Maintenance), and Brian Muller (The Deuce) star in Dating in New York, an indie comedy from first-time feature helmer Jonah Feingold. Set in New York, the film explores modern dating tropes such as ghosting, orbiting, and profound concepts
2nd Update, Friday Midday: Jumanji: The Next Level per industry estimates is on its way to $17.5M-$18M for a 3-day of $46M-$50M, well ahead of the previous installment’s 3-day of $36.1M which was actually a 6-day opener through the then Christmas holiday of $71.9M. Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle was boosted by early Amazon sneaks of $2M; the
A new and unnerving red-band trailer for The Grudge has just arrived from Sony Pictures Entertainment and Screen Gems and, if you’re anything like cast member John Cho, it’s going to be hard to get the thing out of your head. The project from producer Sam Raimi is a twisted new take on the Japanese horror classic Ju-On: The
22 minutes ago Can you believe it has been 20 years since Big Daddy? The comedy is a classic among Adam Sandler’s filmography and was released at the height of the actor’s big-screen success, smack dab in between The Waterboy and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love. The movie starred Sandler as Sonny Koufax, a lazy
South Park and the NBA may have gotten there first – figuratively if not literally – but Samantha Bee is heading to China. And she has some questions. In a special episode of TBS’ Full Frontal With Samantha Bee taped earlier this month and set to air next Wednesday, Bee travels to Hong Kong to
8:22 AM PT — Cher just tweeted about Danny’s death, saying, “Goodbye Dear Danny Aiello. Danny was a great actor, but a genius comedic actor. We laughed so much. Making Moonstruck … It was one of the happiest times in my life & He was a part of that happy time. Goodbye Johnny Cammareri. *Kiss*
The International Feature Film Oscar shortlist is due out on Monday, with an expanded 10 titles up from the traditional nine. Preliminary voting closed in the category on Wednesday with the first seven films determined (although still held under wraps) and the Executive Committee will meet Monday morning to decide on the three so-called “saves.”
Robinhood, a commission-free stock and crypto trading app, has announced that they will soon launch their own fractional shares service. That means people can buy shares of stock in increments as low as just one cent. Robinhood is not the first to do this, however, and is now competing with other financial service companies and apps.
EXCLUSIVE: What started with a viral short will become a shortform series. Quibi said today that it is developing a Code 8 spinoff series starring cousins Robbie Amell and Stephen Amell, who also topline the independent sci-fi thriller that hits theaters Friday. The film’s director Jeff Chan will helm the Quibi series and write it with the
Warner Bros. had more release date changes and announcements today in the wake of yesterday’s avalanche of news with dates for Matrix 4 and The Flash. New Line’s DC Shazam! 2 will open on April 1, 2022 taking the place of an RSVP that the studio had for an untitled WB Event Film. There are no other major
To be quite honest, I would rather have back surgery than sit through Terrence Malick’s previous three films ever again, or recommend that anyone submit themselves to the experience of To the Wonder, Knight of Cups and Song to Song. They were all excruciating, indulgent and pointless exercises for Malick, who in 2012 had a big
26 minutes ago Three weeks into Frozen II’s release, the latest Disney musical preparing to join the 2019 billion dollar club, alongside six other Disney movies (one of which was co-produced by Sony) and Joker. Since the movie comes right in time for the holiday season, fans will be shopping online for merchandise made to
EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Universal Pictures is developing Tapping the Source, based on the novel by surf noir writer Kem Nunn. Nunn you’ll remember is the co-creator of David Milch’s HBO series John From Cincinnati which ran for one season and followed the dysfunctional surfing family the Yosts In Imperial Beach, California who encounter two new
Post Malone‘s already racking up hit songs and awards, but now he can hang his cowboy hat on something else — getting shot at in a movie by a huge action star. The “Circles” singer is getting deeper into the acting world, starring opposite none other than Jason Statham. Based on these pics from the
UPDATED, 12:33 PM: Amid a slew of changes to its release calendar today, Warner Bros has bumped up the theatrical debut of its Mortal Kombat by seven weeks to Martin Luther King Day weekend in 2021. The action reboot had been set to hit screens on March 5 that year and now will launch on January 15.
The 1994 movie adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic 1869 novel Little Women, directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Winona Ryder, is the seventh movie adaptation of the work, and it contains major differences from the source material. The beloved 1994 Little Women movie is often considered by fans to be the definitive version in a long line
Chinese filmmaker Wong Kar Wai has boarded upcoming buddy film One For The Road from helmer Nattawut (Baz) Poonpiriya, the director behind 2017 Thai crime comedy hit Bad Genius, which grossed more than $40m in China. Wong Kar Wai’s Jet Tone Films has attached to the pic as a producer, and the Chinese filmmaker’s Block 2
Warner Bros has set a slew of release dates for its movies next year and beyond, including dating the fourth installment of The Matrix for May 21, 2021, and its DC superhero stand-alone The Flash for July 1, 2022. Among the 12 titles in the mix as the studio lines up its slate for 2020
EXCLUSIVE: Chad Stahelski, the former stuntman who debuted as co-director on John Wick and has subsequently helmed three Keanu Reeves hits with a fourth coming along with film and TV spinoffs, is ramping up 87eleven Entertainment, a new offshoot of the overall company he formed years back with his John Wick co-director David Leitch. To
1 minute ago Either Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart are truly good friends, or the two must be really sick of each other by now. The pair are about to appear in their fourth film together in three years in Jumanji: The Next Level and it seems a foregone conclusion this won’t be the last
Marvel Television as we’ve known it the past decade will be no more. With its slate dwindling over the past year and its head Jeph Loeb set to depart, the television-focused Marvel division will be phased out. The Marvel TV projects that are currently in production will continue but any further development is being scrapped.
TMZ/Alamy President Trump’s reelection campaign apparently likes to think of their boss as an equal to the destroyer of worlds, the villainous Thanos … but the ‘Avengers’ character’s creator is NOT having it. A Twitter account managed by Trump’s reelection team posted a super-produced clip in which DT’s head is superimposed over Thanos’ body from