As Kelsey Grammer says in his 2020 low-budget action movie Money Plane, “Whatever you want to wager on, the money plane has you covered. You want to bet on a dude f*cking an alligator? Money Plane.” Somehow, John Oliver, on his latest episode of HBO‘s Last Week Tonight, managed to use the film to highlight
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Radical with Eugenio Derbez built on its smash opening in Mexico to hit no. 5 at the U.S. box office with a super $2.7 million at 416 theaters. The Pantelion film had delayed its debut Stateside by two weeks to skirt The Eras Tour juggernaut, allowing word of mouth to build for the drama about
Kyle Richards has been at the center of drama during this weekend’s BravoCon as the star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills gets confronted with all the headlines she’s been making this past year. As the new season of RHOBH starts airing on Bravo, her marriage with husband Mauricio Umansky seems to be a
Cinemark CEO Sean Gamble said Apple and Amazon, two behemoths of the tech world but newcomers to the wide-release movie business, are so far “very pleased” with their results. During a conference call with Wall Street analysts to discuss third-quarter results, the major exhibitor boss said Cinemark’s conversations with the two tech firms indicate they
Arnold Schwarzenegger is hoping to be useful to Peyton and Eli Manning. The Terminator and FUBAR star is heading to Manningcast on Monday night as Justin Herbert’s Los Angeles Chargers take on Zach Wilson’s New York Jets. He is the latest big-name star to appear on the Omaha Productions show after the likes of Barack
EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros‘ highly anticipated Paul King-directed feature musical Wonka has hit early tracking six weeks before its release on Dec. 15 with box office analytics corp The Quorum predicting a $20M-$23M opening. Note it’s still early in the campaign, so there’s potential for upside. Unlike other tracking services which project three weeks before a
Andy Cohen was not exempt from getting thrown into the mess at BravoCon this weekend and was put in the hot seat while taping his late-night show. The Watch What Happens Live! host is taping a series of specials during the three-day convention in Las Vegas that will air throughout the week on Bravo. On
The ramifications of the actors strike at the weekend box office continues to be felt, as ticket sales this weekend plummeted to $58.3M, which is currently the third-lowest of 2023. Remember, Legendary/Warner Bros’ Zendaya-Timothee Chalamet-Austin Butler-Florence Pugh sequel Dune: Part Two was originally set to play this weekend, and with its departure, there’s at least
EXCLUSIVE: Today’s meeting between SAG-AFTRA and an expanded group of studio CEOs has just ended as the guild scrutinizes the AMPTP‘s long awaited response to their last comprehensive counter. On this 114th day of the actors strike, the top brass from Netflix, Disney, NBCUniversal, Paramount, Amazon, Sony, Warner Bros Discovery and more spoke with SAG-AFTRA
More theatrical release date changes due to the actors strike which is clocking 113 days, however, the good news is that it doesn’t impact 2024. Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s live action take of animated movie How to Train Your Dragon goes from March 14, 2025 to Friday, June 13, 2025. Uni had the latter date
In the mass of fresh appreciation for Matthew Perry and his work on Friends this week following his death last weekend, David Schwimmer’s generosity to his five castmates has come to light. Perry and his five fellow leads on the record-breaking sitcom that ran from 1994 to 2004 were a famously tight bunch, both on
Today, Universal/Blumhouse’s Five Nights at Freddy‘s is clocking past the $100M domestic mark, a box office milestone for the studio when it comes to its experimental theatrical day-and-date releases on its Peacock streaming service. That’s not only the highest that Uni has seen from a pic that’s been distributed via such means at the box
“Western civilization is what gave the word every goddamn liberal precept to adore,” Bill Maher thundered during his “New Rules” editorial on Friday’s Real Time. He went on to list religious freedom and other benefits. So, Maher contended, citing a recent statement from President Joe Biden, “The world would be a better place if we
A24’s Priscilla by Sofia Coppola catapults from four screens to 1,300, Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers from Focus Features expands to 60 from six and two new indies have wide debuts — What Happens Later from Bleecker Street, directed by and starring Meg Ryan, opens at 1,400 locations and Daisy Ridley-starring The Marsh King’s Daughter from Roadside
The reclusive Kate Bush will not be in attendance at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony tonight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Bush, who hasn’t toured since 1979, is set for induction along with Missy Elliott, Sheryl Crow, George Michael, Willie Nelson, Rage Against the Machine, and the Spinners. The
Lionsgate Motion Picture Group executive Helen Lee-Kim has inked a new long-term deal as President, International. The news comes before Lionsgate takes over the world this holiday season with the highly anticipated prequel, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes on Nov. 17, which was cleared for a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement; one of
EXCLUSIVE: The first call Stephen Garrett made after acquiring the rights to suspense-fuelled book Culprits: The Heist Was Just the Beginning was to writer and director J Blakeson, who he hailed as “the real deal.” Blakeson “has seen every crime movie and thriller. You can’t catch him out really,” Garrett pronounced sagely. He was ideal, then, to
Let the feast begin: Thanksgiving releases and awards season contenders, Disney‘s Wish and Apple Original Films and Sony‘s Napoleon are set to open over the Wednesday to Sunday holiday stretch with respective grosses of $50M+ and $24M+. Both movies open on Thanksgiving eve, Nov. 22. Wish, if it hits its projection, would rep the biggest
He’s always on country music fans’ minds, and now they’ll have a chance to celebrate him. Willie Nelson’s 90th Birthday Celebration concert special was announced tonight during Nelson’s appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The two-hour show will air Sunday, Dec. 17 on CBS at 8:30 PT/ET on CBS, with streaming live and
The world’s most valuable company saw another revenue dip with sales down about 1% at $89.5 billion (a hair above Wall Street expectations) for its fiscal fourth quarter. EPS at $1.46 was up 13% percent year-on-year for the three months ended in September, also a beat. But investor had hoped for a bit more from
It’s starting to seem like Suits may never give up its throne. The legal drama once again sat atop Nielsen‘s streaming charts for the week of September 25 to October 1. While viewership is still dropping steadily, the series clocked 1.3B minutes viewed across Netflix and Peacock during this interval, which indicates that it still
IMAX is continuing its expansion drive, this time in Australia and Germany via an agreement with Oz-based exhibitor EVT for five new state-of-the-art IMAX with Laser systems in the two markets. Under the deal, EVT will integrate a new IMAX screen in an Event Cinemas location in Sydney, as well as at four CineStar locations
HBO is to further explore the crimes of Robert Durst. The network is launching a second installment of The Jinx, its true-crime doc that caught Durst on tape confessing to murder. The miniseries first launched in 2015 and is considered one of the most groundbreaking true-crime docs. It came from Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling and
The number of factual TV shows in the UK directed by women has gone backwards over the past two years despite a weighty campaign to improve gender representation. According to research from the We Are Doc Women campaign, the proportion of UK factual shows directed by women fell slightly to 24% between April 2021 and
David Corvo, considered the driving force behind Dateline, NBC’s top-rated and longest-running primetime series, is stepping down as Senior Executive Producer at the end of the year. He will remain with NBC News as an adviser on various projects, reporting to Rebecca Blumenstein, President of Editorial at NBC News. Corvo will be passing the torch
EXCLUSIVE: Cohen Media Group will be releasing Driving Madeleine, the next movie from Oscar-nominated director Christian Carion’s (Joyeux Noel), on Jan. 12, 2024 in limited release. Written and directed by Carion, and starring Line Renaud (Dirty Money, Cop or Hood) and Dany Boon (Nothing to Declare, Family is Family, Murder Mystery), Driving Madeleine follows the
The trailer has dropped for David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived, Sky and HBO’s Daniel Radcliffe-produced documentary about the former Harry Potter stuntman who had an accident on set and is paralyzed from the waist down. Radcliffe and Holmes grew incredibly close during their time working on the movies and Radcliffe is EP-ing the doc.
John Stamos is the latest celebrity to pay tribute to Matthew Perry with a touching post on Instagram. The Full House alum recalled Perry’s generosity and kindness when he guest-starred on Friends. “Matthew and I had been friendly long before Friends. So, when I guest stared as Zach, the prospective sperm donor for Chandler and
EXCLUSIVE: Bleecker Street‘s survival horror thriller The Origin, which debuted recently at Fantastic Fest, is getting a title change, now known as Out of Darkness and will hit theaters on February 9. Directed by Scottish helmer Andrew Cumming (Radiance, Clique) and written by Ruth Greenberg (The Spark) in both of their feature debuts, Out of
Mary Lou Retton is making her first public statement since her hospitalization after suffering from a rare form of pneumonia. “I’m beyond blessed to have the opportunity to make this statement,” Retton said in a post shared on Instagram. “I am overwhelmed with all the love and support from the world as I fight. I