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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

Play video content TMZSports.com “I just feel the world should see a different part of Floyd Mayweather. I think the people should see a different part of me.” That’s Floyd Mayweather telling TMZ Sports why he decided to open his vault of hundreds of hours of home video documenting his legendary career … and now

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary got ahead of the scrum and pre-emptively acquired Fight Fast, a spec script by Chris Sparling. The project is a high-concept take on underground fighting that has franchise potential.  Sparling most recently wrote and produced the Phillip Noyce-directed thriller The Desperate Hour, and his other credits include Intrusion, which he wrote and produced

Predictions are always a hazardous thing. And I truly hope this one is wrong. But it sure looks like the movie box office, disastrously low in September, will be stuck on the bottom again this month. September is rarely a great month for ticket sales, but last month is better left undiscussed. Putting aside the

Christian Bale is not your typical GQ coverboy, but that’s exactly where he’s landed this month, in part because he cares about his newest collaboration with David O. Russell, Amsterdam, on which Bale is also a producer. The $82-million film has an uphill battle in its first week of release. Despite being booked in 3,000

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s defamation trial may be over, reaching its verdict in favor of Depp back in June, but as you’ve likely read before, it’s not about the destination, but the friends one makes along the way. In Depp’s instance, his team of lawyers helped bring the actor to victory and perhaps even

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Emma Thompson, who plays Miss.Trunchbull, the horrible headmistress who bullies a book-loving schoolgirl and her classmates in Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical, has revealed how she had trouble getting her child co-stars to loathe her. ”They thought I was Nanny McFucking McPhee,” she said referring to the stern-looking but soft-hearted nursery nurse she

Alec Baldwin‘s gotta be breathing sighs of relief over settling the “Rust” wrongful death lawsuit, and his first stop after the announcement is the Bronx Zoo … with most of his kids. Alec’s pulling major dad duty Wednesday … getting in some QT at the world-famous zoo with 4 of his 7 children he shares

Janet Pierson, the longtime VP and director of the SXSW Film & TV Festival, is stepping down from her role running the annual Austin festival, the organization said Wednesday. Her longtime deputy Claudette Godfrey, the Film Festival Programming Director, will take over beginning with the 2023 edition. Pierson, who was head of SXSW’s film and

Don’t underestimate the second weekend of Paramount’s horror movie Smile. The Parker Finn directed and written title, which has provided many in town that horror remains a bankable genre for the big screen after a $22.6M opening, has a shot of possibly upsetting Sony’s family movie Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile and 20th Century Studios/New Regency/Disney’s upscale

In 1994, two years after Quentin Tarantino made his filmmaking debut with Reservoir Dogs, the writer/director delivered an even bigger hit to the masses with Pulp Fiction. Among the movie’s starring actors were Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman, who respectively played Jules Winnfield and Mia Wallace. Nearly three decades after Pulp Fiction’s release, these

EXCLUSIVE: Three decades ago Michael Ball (Les Miserables) had teeny-bopper groupies waiting for him at the stage door — in London and on Broadway — thanks to a heartthrob role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Aspects of Love. It didn’t hurt that Ball got to belt out “Love Changes Everything,” which was a hit on

Play video content Velma’s into women — the character’s been confirmed as lesbian after years of fan theories — in a new cartoon ‘Scooby-Doo’ movie … and the LGBTQ+ crowd is all about it. Velma’s sexual orientation was revealed in a new clip from the animated flick “Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!” which hit streaming services

EXCLUSIVE: For his next act, Ryan Kavanaugh, in tandem with Proxima Media and Lifeboat Productions’ Amy Kim and Jaime Burke, is launching production label The Quad, which will focus on 3-5 genre films per year in the $3 million-$12 million range. Matt Weaver and Triller’s Jason Barhydt will also serve as producers with the company,

A Pulitzer Prize can be a burden, one must assume, trumpeting expectations and pumping reputations from a distance. Martyna Majok‘s Cost of Living won the trophy in 2018, and that victory has been mentioned often in the lead-up to the play’s opening on Broadway tonight in a Manhattan Theatre Club production at the Samuel J.

Disney has released a new trailer for its highly anticipated Marvel sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which opens November 11. The original film, released in 2018, was a global smash. It earned more than $1.3 billion in box office along with almost universally positive notices. The release marked a milestone in terms of a film

Warning: SPOILERS for Blonde are ahead! There has been a lot of talk about how unsettling the film adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ book Blonde has been to watch scene after scene. This historical fiction perception of Marilyn Monroe’s life is about the abuse that was speculated the Hollywood starlet endured. But after months of

The Singapore Film Commission has selected He Shuming’s Singapore-Korea co-production Ajoomma as its submission to the best international feature category at the Oscars. The film, which is He’s feature directorial debut, traces a middle-aged widow’s obsession with Korean pop culture and her journey to self-discovery on a trip to Korea. Chen is a director-producer, with

Niners wideout Ray-Ray McCloud will channel Bow Wow‘s Calvin Cambridge for “Monday Night Football” — TMZ Sports has learned he’s copped a pair of custom “Like Mike” cleats for the big contest against the Rams!! The 25-year-old receiver hit up Joe Castro to get the movie-themed spikes done … and we’re told after the Cali

EXCLUSIVE: Jaylin Webb, the young star of James Gray’s autobiographical period drama, Armageddon Time, has signed with Innovative Artists for representation.  Armageddon Time, starring Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Strong, and Anne Hathaway, is a coming of age story, written and directed by Gray (The Immigrant, Ad Astra) inspired by his life, set in Queens, New York during

Well, that’s that. After all the controversies and badly handled original castings and headlines and backstage bruisings and firings or resignations or whatever they were, Funny Girl is, as so many suspected all along, the musical that Lea Michele was born to lead. Broadway’s new Fanny Brice is, to put is simply and without exaggeration,

The Jackass gang has pretty much always seemingly been tight — and they’d pretty much have to be to be, given what they do. They’ve inflicted such devastating pranks on each other (and themselves) dating back to the original show, which ran in the early 2000s. Of course, that team dynamic may have changed amid