It was a small night for previews, but it’s a small weekend for wide entries with two thrifty budgeted movies. Sony/Screen Gems’ Deon Taylor Black and Blue starring 007’s Naomie Harris as a rookie New Orleans police officer who witnesses her fellow cops committing a murder drew $675K at 1,962 venues that began at 7PM.
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36 minutes ago What should the DC movies do with the Joker moving forward? It might seem like a strange question to ask, after all, Todd Phillips’ Joker is still in theaters, and despite all the controversy prior to its release, it has become an unmitigated success. So why worry about what’s next when we
Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Brandon T. Jackson says he was on “thin ice” with God for playing a gay character in “Tropic Thunder” … but says wearing a dress in “Big Mommas” was worse for him. Jackson famously played Alpa Chino in the 2008 Ben Stiller flick — a closeted actor who accidentally revealed
Rainbow Six Siege has begun an all-new Halloween event called Doktor’s Curse. Although the game had a rocky start due to unrefined player progression systems and a lack of extra content, developer Ubisoft has kept fans of the series both happy and growing by constantly adding new, free content updates to the game. Thanks to these
After going on sale last night during the halftime of ESPN’s Monday Night Football, Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has turned out to be the second first day bestseller for mobile ticket retailer Atom Tickets, behind this year’s Avengers: Endgame. That movie literally shut down many exhibitors’ online ticket sites during their first day sales
5 seconds ago Mark Hamill is one of the most prolific, dependable and hard-working actors in the business today. The multi-talented veteran has worked in various different genres across different platforms and mediums, and he has amassed an astonishing and perpetually-growing portfolio filled with a wide array of noteworthy turns. There’s a good chance that
Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is all for “Joker” putting a spotlight on a local NYC attraction she’s known her whole life, but it sounds like she’d like to keep it a neighborhood secret. We got AOC Tuesday on Capitol Hill and she dished on the famous Bronx stairs featured in the
Dolemite Is My Name had an uphill journey to development, which is ironic because it’s about a film with its own uphill battle. Keegan-Michael Key and Wesley Snipes play the writer and director of Rudy Ray Morris’ fateful film, helping to bring Dolemite to life. The actors spoke with Screen Rant about the reverential atmosphere
EXCLUSIVE: Another casualty of China’s crackdown on potentially sensitive local films this past summer has been given a lifeline. Derek Tsang’s Better Days will release this Friday in the Middle Kingdom after being okayed just this week. Well Go USA has the movie domestically and was forced to postpone the release this summer when Better
10 seconds ago We may be a few months away from Awards Season, but there is already some solid buzz surrounding certain performances. Joaquin Phoenix has been praise for his role in Joker, while both Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson’s names have been tossed around for The Lighthouse. Early reviews indicate that Renee Zellweger might
Exclusive Jeremy Allen White from “Shameless” got married last week — and Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin kinda stirred the pot themselves by attending. The actress and the Coldplay frontman were spotted together Friday morning hitting up the Beverly Hills courthouse, where tons of famous folks go to get hitched, or at the very least
The Client List ended its second season on a cliffhanger but will there be a season 3? Based on the 2010 Lifetime movie of the same name, The Client List aired for two seasons on the Lifetime network between 2012 and 2013. The series starred Jennifer Love Hewitt (I Know What You Did Last Summer)
Todd Phillips’ DC movie Joker is poised to become the highest grossing R-rated U.S. release of all-time heading toward a potential $900M in global ticket sales. In its third weekend, the Warner Bros./Village Roadshow/Bron Studios’ release made $107M worldwide sending its overall total to $737.5M. The pic, which has won Joaquin Phoenix high praise for his turn
15 minutes ago James Gunn has become a leading voice to defend Marvel movies, which is a wee bit ironic considering he was briefly fired from one, but never mind. The Guardians of the Galaxy director was saddened when Martin Scorsese said Marvel movies weren’t cinema and theaters shouldn’t be invaded by them. Now Francis
Jennifer Lawrence is hours away from saying “I do” on the Eastern Seaboard — but until then, the meat and potatoes of her wedding venue are still being worked out … literally. Preparations for J.Law’s nuptials were underway early Saturday morning at the historic Belcourt of Newport estate-turned-museum in Rhode Island — where the actress
Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight radically altered how superhero movies were made and perceived but that spirit was never carried forward – at least, not until the release of Joker. After plenty of low-key hype and a marketing campaign hampered (or possibly fueled) by controversy, Joker released earlier this month to an eclectic response, with some tipping Todd Phillips‘ movie for
In similar fashion to Disney’s previous Skywalker Star Wars installments, tickets for the finale of the 9-title franchise which kicked off back in 1977 will go on sale on Monday, Oct. 21. Tickets for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will become available following the halftime of ESPN’s Monday Night Football game between the New England Patriots
25 minutes ago Quentin Tarantino is no stranger to controversy. And his latest big screen endeavor has already weathered its fair share of detractors. But despite an apparent boycott from Chinese cinemas, the director is standing firm, and will not re-cut Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood brings several
Exclusive SplashNews.com Jennifer Lawrence is not so single, but very ready to mingle with her wedding guests after her private jet touched down safely in Rhode Island. JLaw and art gallerist Cooke Maroney arrived Friday after a short flight from NYC … one day ahead of their wedding. Far from a bridezilla, Jennifer carried her
Naomie Harris is in talks to play the villain Shriek in Venom 2. Sony is moving forward with their plans for a sequel to 2018’s surprise hit movie Venom, which earned over $800 million worldwide and kicked off plans to launch a new cinematic universe with their Marvel characters. Tom Hardy will be back to star as Eddie
‘Zombieland 2’ Sees $2.85M, ‘Maleficent Mistress Of Evil’ Posts $2.3M – Thursday Night Previews – Deadline Click to Skip Ad Closing in… You will be redirected back to your article in seconds Skip to main content October 18, 2019 7:59am CORRECTED: Sony’s Zombieland: Double Tap made $2.85M last night, while Disney’s Maleficent: Mistress of Evil came
10 minutes ago While Joachim Ronning’s Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil reassembles most of its core cast from the original for its new adventure, there is one notable bit of recasting. While Brenton Thwaites played love interest Prince Philip in the 2014 predecessor, the sequel sees that role now played by Harris Dickinson. It put the
Exclusive TMZ/Getty Composite Jennifer Lawrence is about to walk down the aisle this weekend — but the big scoop here is what she and her guests will feast on … a smorgasbord of fancy eats and drinks. We got some deets on JLaw’s wedding — which is going down Saturday at a swanky venue in
The latest episode of Batwoman confirmed that Robin does indeed exist within the Arrowverse – but with a vast array of different incarnations, who last held the mantle in the show’s timeline? The CW’s latest DC offering saw its titular heroine attempting to prove that the villainous Alice was her long-lost sister, Beth. Kate Kane’s
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences certainly isn’t short on documentarians. Atop its existing 400 or so documentary branch members, the Academy in July invited almost 100 additional doc-makers to join. Despite some internal concern that a few invitees might need help with the dues, now $450 a year, it seems safe to
31 minutes ago The Matrix has now joined the ranks of properties and franchises that Hollywood has decided to resurrect and/or revitalize. Although there’d previously been talk several years back about returning to this sci-fi world through a spinoff or prequel, it was announced in August that a direct follow-up, i.e. The Matrix 4, is
Exclusive TMZ/Getty Composite Pete Buttigieg is nipping at the heels of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren when it comes to campaign donations — thanks, in no small part, to Mayor Pete’s strong celebrity backing. We combed through 2019 Federal Election Commission filings to find which celebs keep cutting checks for Pete, Bernie and Liz …
The Oxford English Dictionary might be the bastion of the English language, but it just added the Star Wars word lightsaber and managed to spell it wrong. In the Star Wars universe, a lightsaber is an energy sword that has a luminescent plasma blade of varying colors. The lightsaber is a melee weapon most often
The sequel to Disney’s live-action spinoff of Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil, will not spread gloom and doom, rather box office boom, around the world this weekend with what is looking to be the third best October start of $165M-$175M after Joker ($248.4M) and Venom ($207.4M). The movie in which Oscar winner Angelina Jolie reprises her role
5 minutes ago Ever since a red-wigged Woody Harrelson appeared as incarcerated serial killer Cletus Kasady in the Venom mid-credits scene, fans have been expecting that the character will transform into the bloodthirsty Carnage in the upcoming Venom 2, and that’s been all but confirmed at this point. However, now it’s being reported that he