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Perhaps last week’s Tony Award nominations started paying off at the box office quicker than expected, at least for a few productions: Figures for last week, while down overall, indicate a nice bump upwards for Some Like It Hot, Shucked, Summer, 1976 and Good Night, Oscar. Some Like It Hot, the musical adaptation of the

Play video content TMZ.com Here’s Imagine Dragons showing support for striking writers in Hollywood … bringing a guitar, microphone and speaker up to the picket line and performing some of the band’s biggest hits. Imagine Dragons lead singer Dan Reynolds and guitarist Wayne Sermon provided some entertainment Tuesday outside Netflix headquarters in Los Angeles …

Comedy is back; Super Mario Bros has proved that laughs are good for a half billion dollars. The antihero business is intact. Both Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 and John Wick: Chapter 4 hit their marks. But affairs of the heart are still suffering at the movie box office. Love Again is the latest

Chris Pratt is showing off his pinky toenail, even though nobody asked to see it … and a famous foot surgeon is diagnosing him with toenail fungus!!! The ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ star posted a photo of his toenail on social media, calling it his “Met Gala Look,” and folks were quick to point out

With Universal pushing R-rated comedy Please Don’t Destroy from Aug. 18 to Peacock, another R-rated movie, Strays, featuring the voices of Will Ferrell & Jamie Foxx is back-filling that date. Originally, Strays was to open on June 9, a month from now. The WGA Strike is partly the reason for Strays‘ movie; an original bawdy

Amber Heard is still in Spain, which is only a big deal now since it’s being claimed she’s relocated there … this after supposedly putting Hollywood in her rearview. The actress was photographed over the weekend in Madrid, where she’s been since last year … when her defamation trial against Johnny Depp wrapped, which she

Indian films are a box office mainstay and one, Jodi, from Rhythm Boyz Entertainment, hit big this weekend Stateside, grossing $734,000 on just 125 screens. In April, the film set a record as the most viewed Punjabi trailer in 24 hours (over 12 million views on YouTube). “This has been happening more and more —

Richard Dreyfuss says the new rules mandating inclusivity for future Oscar nominations make him wanna barf — and we mean that literally … ’cause the dude says so himself. The legendary actor, who’s an Academy Award winner himself, made some eye-opening comments in a recent interview on PBS’s ‘Fine Line with Margaret Hoover’ — where

The James Gunn Marvel Studios title is spotting $47M-$48M today, including $17.5M previews, for what will hopefully be a $110M start at 4,450 theaters. One analyst tells us that dollar for dollar that Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is looking a lot like Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Both movies did about $37M in

Play video content TMZ.com Kevin Costner is shooting his shot in the middle of his divorce drama … he was spotted taking some solid swings at a driving range in Utah while he shoots his latest movie project. The actor was at BigShots Golf in St. George Tuesday night, just hours after TMZ broke the

Refresh for latest…: Disney/Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is rocketing off to a strong start at the international box office. Having debuted on Wednesday in such markets as the UK, France, Germany, Korea, Italy and Japan; and then adding Spain, Australia, Brazil and Mexico among others on Thursday, it has grossed an estimated

The MTV Movie & TV Awards are going on without a host … and now there won’t be a live audience anymore either. The upcoming award show, set to air Sunday on a bunch of TV channels, is pivoting away from a live audience … according to Paramount Global exec Bruce Gillmer. Bruce, who is

EXCLUSIVE: Longtime Lionsgate Film Distribution Head David Spitz is exiting, Deadline has learned, with former STX distribution vet Kevin Grayson getting named President of Domestic Distribution of the studio’s motion picture group. Spitz came to Lionsgate via its absorption of Blair Witch Project studio Artisan. Before that, Spitz was at Reservoir Dogs distributor, Live Entertainment

Play video content BACKGRID Leonardo DiCaprio and Gigi Hadid definitely aren’t doing a good job of snuffing out dating rumors … they were at the same event in NYC, and juuust happened to leave 3 minutes apart! The actor and model hit up a celeb-packed event Thursday night at Cipriani SoHo, and while it’s unclear

AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron said the giant movie theater chain will start making its own candy line that will be cheaper for patrons, and for the company, given price hike by sweets manufacturers post-Covid. “We noticed, as a result of the pandemic and supply chain shortages, that candy manufacturers had increased their prices to

Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde are firing back at their former nanny — the same woman who has allegedly been going after them for a while — ripping her for airing dirty laundry in the media and seeking to have her lawsuit against them moved to a private arbitrator. According to new legal docs, obtained

UPDATED, EXCLUSIVE: We heard whispers about this at CinemaCon last week and sources have solidified for us: Hollywood’s famed and historic Cinerama Dome’s reopening is looking more and more like 2024. Essentially, there’s still more work to be done on the Sunset Blvd venue.  The delay will come as a great upset to those indie

Play video content The Howard Stern Show/Sirius XM Priyanka Chopra says she fell into a “deep, deep depression” after a botched nose procedure and thought her career in entertainment was totally over. Chopra made the revelations during an interview with Howard Stern on his Sirius XM show, going into detail about the dark period earlier

Sony is determined to bring moviegoers back to comedies in theaters and they just dated their Will Gluck directed Anyone But You for Dec. 15. The trailer dropped last week during the studio’s presentation at CinemaCon. The screwball comedy, which stars Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell, follows two people who loathe each other so much —

Billie Lourd is calling out her aunts and uncles — Carrie Fisher‘s siblings — saying “they know why” they didn’t get invited to Carrie’s Walk of Fame ceremony … and it’s all about money and alleged exploitation. Billie tells TMZ … she’s seen what her mom’s brother and sister — Todd Fisher and Joely Fisher

The Broadway box office report won’t register the impact of this morning’s Tony Award nominations for a week or two, but today’s news certainly comes as welcome and promising signs for Shucked, Kimberly Akimbo, Fat Ham and other well-reviewed productions doing their best to compete against blockbusters like Sweeney Todd and Parade. Shucked in particular

Kevin Costner‘s wife is pulling the plug on their marriage … we’ve learned she just filed for divorce. The actor’s wife, Christine Costner, filed Monday to end their 18-year marriage. It’s unclear what led to the split. Christine cited the usual “irreconcilable differences.” Kevin’s rep tells TMZ, “It is with great sadness that circumstances beyond

Filmmaker James Gunn’s Marvel Studios swan song, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, is blasting off this weekend, the de facto start of the summer box office, with an eye at $250M worldwide. Of that $110M is coming from domestic, and $140M from overseas. Wrinkling some box office sources brows is how the threequel’s start

Police knocked on Keanu Reeves‘ front door after getting a call for a welfare check on a  woman … but when the actor answered, they discovered it was apparently all a mix-up or a prank. Law enforcement tells TMZ … cops recently responded to Keanu’s L.A.-area home after someone called police, worried about a 27-year-old

Global audiences have been gaga for Baba Yaga with Lionsgate/Thunder Road Films/87 Eleven’s John Wick: Chapter 4 now having passed the $400M mark worldwide. The Keanu Reeves-starrer jumped out of the gate in late March, scoring a $137.5M global debut in a best-ever for the franchise. JW4 in mid-April then became the top-grossing film in

Here’s Katy Perry, Austin Butler and Sia making fashion statements worthy of a Met Gala appearance … only they’re not in New York, they’re at a Bev Hills mansion party. The guest list for a Sunday dinner party at investor Michael Kives‘ $14 million Bev Hills estate rivaled Anna Wintour‘s annual fundraiser … with Katy,

Refresh for latest…: It was just a matter of time. With estimates through Sunday, Illumination/Nintendo/Universal’s The Super Mario Bros Movie is expected to cross $1B global tomorrow, becoming the first release of 2023 to the milestone, and the fifth of the pandemic era. It is getting there in 26 days. Wahoo! The Aaron Horvath/Michael Jelenic-directed

Mario just joined an exclusive club that started forming in 2020, when the pandemic started — one that includes 10 figures at the box office … which a rare feat in this day and age. Indeed … the ‘Super Mario Bros. Movie’ crossed a major milestone over the weekend — having now racked up over

Sideshow/Janus Films is estimating a $36k gross or $18k per theater average for The Eight Mountains on two NYC screens, the strongest opening weekend to date for the team behind Drive My Car and EO. The Cannes co-Jury Prize-winning film by Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeesch follows the profound friendship over decades of Pietro

Play video content TMZ.com While AI is sparking intellectual property debates, funnyman Bill Bellamy‘s making it clear … he’s not down with the tech using his jokes — and the fact is, he’s still feeling some kinda way about a different financial loss. We linked with Bill out in NYC and tackled the ongoing discussion