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Bam Margera is headed in the right direction … getting released from a psychiatric hospital, and going straight into treatment at Lamar Odom‘s rehab center. Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ the former “Jackass” star was released from a psych hospital Wednesday, and Lamar was there to greet him as he exited the facility.

Summer’s tentpole rumble continues this weekend with Paramount’s seventh Transformers movie, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, which is heat-seeking $155 million at the worldwide box office for its opening frame, $100M of that offshore. The movie reps a concentrated reboot by the studio of the long-in-tooth robots-in-disguise franchise, which has suffered in latter installments from

Before this youngin’ with her blunt bangs and beaded hair ties turned into an A-list celebrity and actress, she was just playing soccer, competing in gymnastics and singing in the local plays in Boulder, Colorado. This star has been in a hand full of iconic shows and movies like playing Lara in “Rules of Attraction,”

D. Barry Reardon, former longtime Warner Bros. President of Sales and Distribution, has died at 92. The exec known as “The Dean of Distribution” among industry peers and filmmakers passed May 27 in Vero Beach, FL. Reardon was the head of theatrical distribution at Warner Bros from 1978-99, and was known for breaking the mold

Play video content Pete Davidson is going to war with PETA over the new dog he bought, and he fired the latest shot via a profanity-laced voice mail for the animal rights group — a move he doesn’t regret, but says came from a place of grief. PETA says the actor left the heated message

After the massive weekend success of Sony Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, many rival studios are looking at executing their comic book IP differently on the big screen. Quite often, animated superhero projects are released directly to the home (think Warner Bros-DC’s myriad superhero toon movies like 2010’s Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam and

Play video content SplashNews.com Michael J. Fox says his battle with Parkinson’s disease is getting worse … and that seemed evident during a ‘Back to the Future’ event this weekend where he took a fall, but still played it off pretty well. The beloved actor was on hand Sunday for a ‘BTTF’ fan expo in

Julie Benko, who has built a devoted following as the Funny Girl understudy and alternate Fanny Brice, will originate her first Broadway role this fall in the new musical Harmony by by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman. Benko will play the role of Ruth, producers Ken Davenport, Sandi Moran and Garry Kief announced today. The

Pete Davidson getting his new dog from a pet store and not from an animal shelter comes as a disappointment to the folks over at PETA. Daphna Nachminovitch, the Senior VP of Cruelty Investigations over at PETA, tells TMZ … “It’s tragic that Pete didn’t seek out a borough-born mutt from a city animal shelter,

Celine Song’s Past Lives from A24 is very much here and now, grossing $232k on four screens for over $58k per location, a nice number for Song’s debut film as the second-biggest limited opening of the year so far. A24 also had the highest in April with Beau Is Afraid at $80k per theater at

Jonathan Majors and Meagan Good are going strong overseas … popping up in Morocco, where they’re shopping for pottery. TMZ obtained these photos of Jonathan and Meagan perusing a pottery shop in Fez, Morocco. Folks who were there tell us the couple stopped by a shop called Art Naji, where they appeared to take an

Columbia Pictures’ and Sony Pictures Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Universe is casting its web in international box office markets with  $13.5M through Thursday. That’s 2.5x the original in like-for-likes.  Notable in early reporting, India broke the local all-time opening day record for an animated movie with $610K while releasing on a non-traditional Thursday. The launch day gross is higher than

Galyn Susman — the longtime Disney producer who’s credited with saving “Toy Story 2” — just got the boot alongside several other Pixar employees … and fans are pissed. The news came down Saturday from Reuters, which reported Susman was one of 75 Pixar workers who recently gotten the axe in mass layoffs. She was

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that the George Clooney directed MGM title, The Boys in the Boat, is set to hit theaters on Monday, Dec. 25, as a wide release. The studio, I understand, were ecstatic over the test scores and landed on the pic’s release date in an effort to grab families. Pic is based on

Adele is completely gutting the home she purchased from Sylvester Stallone … and while she’s starting over at the lavish Beverly Hills estate, one famous feature remains. As you can see, the pricy renovations are in full swing, and the main house is getting a total transformation — she’s sheared off the whole 2nd story

A24 follows You Hurt My Feelings last weekend with dual-language romance Past Lives, starting a platform release on four screens in New York and LA including Q&As led by talent who have been champions of the film, including Steve Buscemi, Jodie Turner-Smith and Lulu Wang. Expanding this month. The Sundance premiering pic by Celine Song,

Drake made a cherry-on-top cameo for the season finale of Lil Dicky‘s “Dave” series — an episode that also boasted Brad Pitt and Rachel McAdams appearances!!! As fate would have it, Drake’s actually a superfan of the show — which just wrapped its third season — and he said exactly that to Dicky, in person.

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is doing some serious business tonight according to box office sources, accumulating $16M off previews that began at 3PM at 3,562 theaters. That’s the second best preview night ever for an animated movie after Disney/Pixar’s Incredibles 2 ($18.5M) from June 2018. Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 4, with $12M, is

“Snowfall” star Damson Idris is admitting he tapped into the forces of darkness to help his actor’s block … and says he damn near needed an exorcism after the terrifying experience!!! During The Hollywood Reporter’s 2023 TV Drama roundtable, Damson made the shocking confession to Pedro Pascal, Jeff Bridges, Kieran Culkin, and others … harkening

Last night at the world premiere of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse there was a huge sigh of relief from the mass of animators inside Westwood’s Regency Village Theater: the $100M budgeted sequel to the Oscar winning animated movie, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, was done; having completed post-production literally just ten days ago after a five-year

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have FINALLY bought a house after 2 years of looking … and it’s amazing. The house boasts a cinema, wine room, whiskey lounge and a spa with a hair and nail salon, and a sauna and massage room. And get this, there’s also a separate, 5,000-square-foot sports facility, which includes

In a rare situation for a Disney tentpole, particularly a live-action title based on a treasured classic animated musical, The Little Mermaid looks to bank more at the domestic box office ultimately than overseas, with $300M-$350M U.S./Canada to $260M abroad. At that level, per finance sources, off a reported $250M production cost and $140M global

Bam Margera is desperate to develop a relationship with his son, Phoenix … but the former “Jackass” star says his estranged wife isn’t having it. Bam’s attorney, Peter W. Thompson, tells TMZ … Nikki is not allowing Bam to talk to his son through FaceTime or phone calls, and she’s completely cut off all contact.

Talk about legs — or, more appropriately, wings: Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick is still playing in Japanese cinemas a full year on from its debut. Continuing on from a stratospheric and super-leggy run, the sequel, on its 365th day of release, became Tom Cruise’s biggest film ever in the market. In doing so, it overtook

Play video content Instagram / @olympiaohanian Safe to say Serena Williams‘ 5-year-old daughter is a big fan of “The Little Mermaid” … Olympia LOST IT after she got a Halle Bailey “Ariel” doll, and the entire adorable reaction was captured on video! The video, which was shared on Olympia’s Instagram, shows dad Alexis Ohanian handing

Refresh for latest…: Disney’s live-action take on The Little Mermaid is doing swimmingly at the domestic box office, with a three-day opening of $95.5M and a four-day projection of $117.5M. Factoring in the international box office bow of $68.3M, that makes for an estimated $163.8M global debut through Sunday. The offshore launch is lower than

Something about the new live-action version of “The Little Mermaid” isn’t sitting right with singer Paloma Faith … who says the movie’s plot is a really hard one to explain to her kiddos. Paloma took to social media over the weekend, first congratulating Halle Bailey for her performance in the new Disney flick — before

Refresh for latest…: Apart from big new opener The Little Mermaid, which we detailed here, this weekend was notable for propelling Universal’s Fast X past the $500M mark globally, and Disney/Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 to over $730M worldwide. The Fast & Furious franchise had, earlier this week, crossed $7B globally while the

Jodi Benson‘s looks over the years are out of this world! Watch and you’ll see … a 38-year-old version of the first ‘Little Mermaid’ looking absolutely fin-tastic at the premiere of “The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea” in Hollywood, California back in 2000 (left). This was over a decade after the release of

A24’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus-starrer You Hurt My Feelings will top an estimated $1.7 million in limited nationwide release for the four-day holiday weekend, at the high end of expectations on 912 screens. That puts it at no. 8 at a domestic box office where Little Mermaid is making all the waves. Breakdown: Friday – $474k; Sat.