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More than three years after Reed Hastings said Netflix wants to be on BARB, the UK ratings agency has its wish. BARB will begin reporting streaming ratings data, which includes Netflix, in the same way it reports local UK broadcasters, digital channels and pay-TV platforms from November 1. BARB subscribers will be able to see

Play video content Instagram / @johnnyknoxville Johnny Knoxville was left looking like a real jackass for challenging a track phenom to a race … because when they finally met up for an epic showdown — he was left eating her dust!! Here’s the deal — the stunt legend has been playfully trolling 13-year-old Junior Olympian

EXCLUSIVE: Brett Haley is on board to direct 3000 Pictures’ adaptation of People We Meet on Vacation, which is based on Emily Henry’s New York Times bestseller. Yulin Kuang is adapting the screenplay, with Temple Hill’s Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey and Isaac Klausner producing. Laura Quicksilver is overseeing the project for Temple Hill, with Erin Siminoff

While tentpoles resuscitated moviegoing this past summer with pics like Top Gun: Maverick, it’s true that more adult-skewing fare is having a much harder time now. Nowhere was this more true than with David O. Russell’s Amsterdam, which rivals believed had a shot at opening to $12 million-$15 million this past weekend based on the

“Never a dull moment,” proclaims Star Trek: Discovery’s Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) in the just released trailer for the upcoming fifth season of the Paramount+ series. Revealed today at the Discovery panel at New York Comic Con, the peek at the 2023 premiering fifth season pushes the final frontier of the Gene Roddenberry created

M. Night Shyamalan is a film director famous for his surprise twists and windy storytelling. He has experimented within the horror genre in recent years, which has been a success for the director, as Split was a fan favorite for many. His latest return to the genre, Knock at the Cabin is already receiving buzz

EXCLUSIVE: Ava DuVernay’s Array Releasing has acquired Ivan Herrera’s drama Bantú Mama for distribution in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. The company will be presenting the film — which has been named as the Dominican Republic’s 2023 entry for the Best International Feature Film Oscar — on select screens and

Play video content Twitter / @Chiefs JuJu Smith-Schuster just arrived to “Monday Night Football” drippin’ in vibranium — he rocked a “Black Panther”-inspired fit … that was completed with a sick car and some sweet kicks!!! The Kansas City wideout rolled up to Arrowhead Stadium in a “1-of-1 Black Panther” Lexus … and when he

Kenneth Branagh has set another A-list ensemble for his next Agatha Christie adaptation with Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin, Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey, Jude Hill, Ali Khan, Emma Laird, Kelly Reilly, Riccardo Scamarico and Michelle Yeoh joining the cast of A Haunting In Venice for 20th Century. Branagh is set to reprise his role as Inspector Hercule

Colm Bairéad’s The Quiet Girl, which is Ireland’s entry in the Best International Film Oscar race this year, has punched through the €1m ($971,000) box office ceiling in a record-breaking performance for an Irish-language feature. “We are truly humbled by the manner in which audiences in Ireland and the UK have embraced our film. To

“Greetings old friends,” threatens Professor Moriarty (Daniel Davis) in a new look at the upcoming third and final season of Star Trek: Picard that just rocked New York Comic-Con. The likely last appearance of the Sir Patrick Stewart-led series on the Starfleet legend was packed with The Next Generation throwbacks, new additions and a new

When John Carpenter’s original Halloween was released in 1978, no one could have anticipated it would be one of the best horror movies of all time or the cultural phenomenon it has become. Across thirteen films, two remakes, and three reboots, Michael Myers has been stalking all of our collective nightmares for 44 years. While

A beloved children’s novel is turned into a charming animation in My Father’s Dragon, which is world premiering at the BFI London Film Festival. Oscar-nominated director Nora Twomey (The Breadwinner) helms a story of childhood friendship based on the 1948 novel by Ruth Stiles Gannett, with animation from Cartoon Saloon (The Secret of Kells, Song

William Shatner called Jeff Bezos‘ Blue Origin space flight a profound experience upon landing back on Earth — but now, he’s saying … it was actually a huge bummer. The ‘Star Trek’ OG has a new book coming out — titled “Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder” — and Variety obtained

Paramount’s Smile is positively grinning ear-to-ear as the horror pic from director Parker Finn saw a wild 19% upswing in holdovers at the international box office in its second frame. The weekend gross was $17.5M in 61 markets for a $40M offshore cume and $89.9M global to date. The overseas increase is quite literally gobsmacking

Universal/Working Title’s Ticket to Paradise, the latest big-screen collaboration for Julia Roberts and George Clooney, has led the duo to a new milestone. Five films in which the mega-stars worked together have now grossed a combined $1B at the global box office.  Those titles are 2001’s Ocean’s Eleven ($451.5M), 2003’s Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Weeks before The Walking Dead reaches its series finale, AMC’s zombie apocalypse series today offered a glimpse and a sort of premiere date for its forthcoming Lauren Cohan and Jeffery Dean Morgan-starring, New York-set spinoff at New York Comic Con. In fact, TWD fans were gifted several glimpses at the Eli Jorné-showrun The Walking Dead: Dead City,

Being the face of a franchise is not easy. In my lifetime book to movie, adaptations have skyrocketed actors to a level of fame that not many reach, like Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter or Kirsten Stewart in Twilight. This is also true for Jennifer Lawrence, who starred as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games

The Highlands of Scotland are the perfect backdrop for Andrew Cumming’s prehistoric genre piece The Origin, a survivalist horror that also works as a thoughtful human drama as its core cast of six fight for their lives against a violent, unseen creature. The Origin had its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival. The

Ryan Reynolds despises his one-time costar T.J. Miller — at least according to T.J. Miller … who’s kinda giving the guy even more cause to not like him after these spicy remarks. The ex-‘Deadpool’ star sat down for a chat on ‘The Adam Corolla Show’ — where he revealed part of the reason why he

“Franchises are so fun,” said Jennifer Lawrence today at the BFI London Film Festival. The 32-year-old X-Men and Hunger Games alum then drew a big laugh, interjecting, “I could never do one now cause I’m just too old and brittle.”  Lawrence is in fact making a return to her indie origins with Causeway, a drama

SATURDAY AM: Final with chart Some parts of the weekend box office are alive, and some are dead, and that which is vibrant is Paramount’s second weekend of Smile, which — as we mentioned during the weekend preview — was apt to steal No. 1 away from newcomers Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile and Amsterdam. The Parker

Just hours after Disney Parks announced that M’Buku from Black Panther would soon be make his debut at Disney California Adventure Avengers Campus, another Marvel character made a surprise appearance. Videos of a creepy-looking Werewolf by Night, who just happens to make his Disney+ debut in a Halloween special tonight, began popping up online. Gael

We already knew Vanessa Hudgens had moves since she got her start in the High School Musical movies on Disney Channel, but did you know Vanessa Hudgens knows her way around a pole too? Pole dancing has become a popular form of dance exercise as of late for many, including for Hudgens, who took up

Near the beginning of Sean Egan’s recently-published piece in the U.K. publication The Critic, are the following assertions: “new Scorsese films are routinely an hour too long…his directorial talent has never been as great as occasional masterpieces like Goodfellas (1990) tricked us into believing it was.” In the piece, Egan calls Scorsese’s Mean Streets “not just overly

Sorry, America … Dwayne Johnson will NOT be the next President of the United States, ’cause The Rock just slammed the door on a future political run for the most powerful office in the world. Remember, the actor and former WWE Superstar admitted he was considering running for the job after 46% of the people

With Black Panther: Wakanda Forever due to hit theaters next month, Disney is synergizing across its many corporate channels to promote the film. That includes its parks unit, which announced today the impending debut of M’Baku to Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure Park. Lord M’Baku — played by Winston Duke onscreen — is the

EXCLUSIVE: One of the most honored documentaries of the year is heading to the very big screen. National Geographic Documentary Films and Neon announced today they are bringing Fire of Love to select Imax locations on October 16 and 17, including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, and Washington D.C. The film, directed

Nintendo’s lush video game world is finally getting the big screen treatment in the form of Illumination Entertainment’s animated The Super Mario Bros. Movie, set to be among 2023’s upcoming movie releases. And finally, fans got a first look at it on Thursday when the first trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie dropped online

Following along in the not-too-distant footsteps of popular women’s suspense novels such as Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, Luckiest Girl Alive tells the tony yet unsavory tale of a successful career woman who struggles to once and for all come to terms with a highly traumatic youthful episode. The emotions expressed here