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Refresh for latest…: James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water is close to the $1B global box office mark, having more than handily crossed $900M worldwide through its second Monday. This is the latest benchmark for the long-in-the-works sequel and comes just 13 days after its global rollout began. With $955.1M through Monday, The Way

Stephen Greif, who played Speaker of the House Sir Bernard Weatherill on Season 4 of “The Crown,” has died. Greif’s reps announced his death Monday, but did not disclose the cause. With great sadness we announce the death of our wonderful client Stephen Greif.His extensive career included numerous roles on screen and stage, including at

Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race. On June 23, 2018, a young Thai soccer team and their coach became trapped in a cave when an early monsoon hit. Director Ron Howard became entranced by the harrowing 18-day ordeal to rescue

Damien Chazelle’s $80M 1920s-set Hollywood epic Babylon went up in a blaze of fire at the domestic box office this past weekend with an awful $5.3M four-day start. Say what you will about harsh winter conditions impacting moviegoing across the country, however, this movie, which was greenlit by a previous Paramount regime and greatly supported

While Top Gun became a massive hit in its day due to the incredible action sequence using real jets, that was far from the only thing about the movie that became iconic and memorable. The volleyball scene in the original film has lived on in infamy as much as anything else and the sequel was

It’s been another year of format fun in television, with Dutch mystery competition series The Traitors emerging as a new global hit, especially in the UK on the BBC, while the likes of Big Brother and Survivor have fronted a reboots commissioning revival that has divided entertainment producers, buyers and sellers. As the year comes

Margot Robbie‘s latest film bombed at the box office, marking the second such flop she’s been in this year … both of which were huge ensemble numbers with top A-list talent. Of course, we’re talking about ‘Babylon’ — which hit theaters this holiday weekend … and only raked in a meager $3.5 million domestically through

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has released a Christmas-themed video comparing the fight against Russia to the 1988 Bruce Willis-starrer Die Hard. The clip features an edited version of a trailer for the 1988 action pic, with Ukraine touting its new Himars system (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) and insisting the “underdog” will win. “This

New Yorkers braved the cold this weekend for Corsage at two theaters ( IFC Center, Film at Lincoln Center) as Marie Kreutzer’s biopic of Empress Elisabeth of Austria starring Vicky Krieps grossed an estimated $32,000 over the three-day weekend for a robust $16k per screen average. The four-day estimate for the IFC Films biopic of

When she made her breakthrough role as Penny Lane in Almost Famous, Kate Hudson wasn’t the first person from her family to enter the entertainment industry. In fact, she’s the daughter of Housesitter actress Goldie Hawn and musician Bill Hudson, and the stepdaughter of actor Kurt Russell. Since articles have been rolling out recently about

TV host Jeremy Clarkson opened a can of royal whoop-ass upon himself for his comments about Meghan Markle in a recent column for the UK’s The Sun tabloid. On Saturday, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan dismissed an apology by the newspaper for running the column, calling it as “PR stunt” and saying they had

The Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree — and in Gwyneth Paltrow‘s case … we mean that literally, especially after seeing these shots of them hitting the beach for the holidays. The actress flew down to Barbados just ahead of Christmas this week, and it seems she and her brood are enjoying a sun-kissed

Coming out of its second weekend, James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water has banked an estimated $855.4M globally through Sunday. The sophomore session added $168.6M at the international box office in 52 markets for a $601.7M running cume. Also overseas, 20th Century Studios/Disney’s highly-anticipated sequel passed Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and

Patti Smith hosted a New York screening of Corsage last week, one of many showings since the Oscar-shortlisted Best International Feature contender premiered to a warm welcome in Cannes, where it won Best Performance, Un Certain Regard, for star Vicky Krieps as the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Sisi for short. It’s fitting that Smith, royalty

Maggie Thrett, the actress and singer who most memorably played Ruth in the “Mudd’s Women” episode of the original Star Trek, has died her family announced. She was 76. “Mudd’s Women” is one of the most memorable episodes of the 1960s Star Trek, in no small part because it featured three stunningly beautiful women (Thrett,

Director Damien Chazelle’s latest film, Babylon, focuses on a time of significant change and turmoil in Hollywood history. The movie (see what Eric Eisenberg thought of the epic) tells the story of the transition from silent films to “talkies” and how the change upended some actors’ lives. So naturally, while doing press for the movie,

As soccer great Pelé’s condition has deteriorated, his daughter Kely Nascimento has been sharing the journey with fans via social media. On Friday, Nascimento posted a photo of herself hugging her 82-year-old father in his hospital bed. The caption, written in Portuguese, reads: “We continue to be here, in the fight and in faith. One more

We’ve all heard of No Shave November, but this ‘Decembeard,’ we take a look at some of your fave stars and ask … are they better off with a buzz or a little fuzz? Fans might remember Jonah Hill with no facial hair, but things have certainly changed. He’s been rockin’ a full-blown blonde beard

Mayor Karen Bass rescinded former Mayor Eric Garcetti’s final executive directive that would have created a program to illuminate the Hollywood sign, a representative for Bass confirmed today. The Los Angeles Times first reported that Bass shut down the directive on Wednesday, citing a memo she wrote to city department leaders stating that there would

FRIDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE: Close to eighty cinemas have shuttered today as Winter Storm Elliott tears up the Midwest, 1.3M lose power, and many cities such as Atlanta, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Tallahassee set to see record cold Christmas Eve temperatures per the National Weather Service. Multiplexes in such cities as Cleveland (16 turning off the lights),

Ryan Coogler has revealed the complicated backstory on what his film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was supposed to be before the tragic death of the original film’s star, Chadwick Boseman. Speaking to the New York Times, Coogler said the original intent was to make the film’s center about the relationship of fathers and sons. The

Top 10 lists are a common occurrence around this time of year. As the ranks of what were once upcoming movies are evaluated by critics and audiences alike, the winners and losers of 2022 are starting to shake out in greater detail. Which makes one recent study measuring the most popular titles of the year

UK newspaper The Sun on Friday explained why it has removed a column from Jeremy Clarkson that slammed Meghan Markle. Clarkson’s “comment article,” which published last Friday, “provoked a strong response and let to a large number of complaints to IPSO, the independent press regulator,” the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper wrote in a post on its

Bono‘s daughter is clapping back at New York Magazine’s owners after putting “nepotism babies” on blast  – because she says the president of the entire company fits the bill, too. In a beautiful turn of events, I have just been informed that Pamela Wasserstein, the CEO of @NYMag , is a nepo baby herself. Her

Edward Berger caused a splash in 2015 with the sleeper-hit TV series Deutschland ’83, a slow-build spy drama set in the deep freeze of the cold war. This year he went even further back into Germany’s history for All Quiet on the Western Front, a brutal retelling of Erich Maria Remarque’s First World War novel,

With strong and consistent mid-weeks, James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water has crested the $600M mark worldwide. This comes after it rapidly passed $500M global earlier this week, following its $441.6M opening weekend. The current worldwide total through Wednesday is $609.7M including $426.8M from the international box office. The offshore cume lifts Way of

Considering Tom Hanks originated some of the most beloved characters in movies, such as Toy Story’s Woody, the lead of Forrest Gump and Meg Ryan’s leading man in Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail, he’s long been America’s sweetheart. No one hates Tom Hanks, and why would you? It’s just a bad take. However,

Tokyo-based production executive Bill Ireton is stepping down from his role at Sony Pictures International Productions, Japan, where he oversaw local production, to launch an independent production venture effective January 1, 2023. The new venture will develop and produce content for multiple platforms, primarily based on Japanese I.P. for audiences around the world.  During his time at

Actress Charlbi Dean died of a bacterial infection and other complications … it was announced 4 months after her sudden passing. The NYC medical examiner released Dean’s cause of death Wednesday night, using the more official term, “Bacterial (Capnocytophaga) Sepsis.” Waiting for your permission to load the Instagram Media. According to the Center For Disease