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Refresh for latest…: Paramount/Spyglass Media’s Scream VI has slashed its way to a franchise-record opening at the global box office with $67.1M, topping Scream 3 for the best in the bunch of this long-running Kevin Williamson-created series. At the international box office, it also set a franchise-best start with $22.6M from 53 markets, a whopping

Play video content TMZ.com Maitland Ward says the adult film industry’s awards show is far superior TV than anything the Academy Awards is offering … and she thinks it boils down to who’s doing the voting. We got the former “Boy Meets World” actress-turned-porn star in Bev Hills and asked why she thinks traditional awards

Play video content TMZ.com Some of Hollywood’s elite hit up a pre-Oscars party Friday night … and they celebrated in old-world style at a Bev Hills mansion where an all-time classic movie was shot. Leonardo DiCaprio, Adam Sandler, Austin Butler, Travis Kelce, Brooklyn Beckham and Nina Dobrev were just some of the celebs on hand

Shout! Studios presents The Magic Flute by Florian Zigl, executive produced by Roland Emmerich, at 325 theaters with expansion likely. A reimagining of the Mozart opera, it follows a present-day teen sent from London to the Austrian Alps on singing scholarship at the legendary Mozart boarding school. There, he discovers a century old forgotten passageway

Play video content TMZ.com Versace’s fashion show was an absolute hit — despite a last minute call to move it up one day — with some of the biggest names in Hollywood dressing to the nines to attend. The fall/winter show wound up getting rescheduled from Friday to Thursday due to rain — it was

The Paramount/Spyglass Media release of Scream VI is off to a loud start with $5.7M in Thursday previews from its 5 p.m. fan event and and 5:30 p.m. previews at 3,125 theaters. It’s expected that the sixthquel is headed to a franchise-record domestic start of $35M-$40M this weekend. The latest Scream from Radio Silence also

The “Cocaine Bear” has company — a wild big cat found and captured far from its natural habitat of Africa … has cocaine in its system!!! In a scene that sounds like a sequel script … officials in Ohio say they responded to reports of a “leopard” stuck in a tree, and when they got

Oscar-nomination afterglow for this year’s Best Picture contenders was largely felt more in the home than it was at the box office, with a majority of titles already available to be viewed on the couch except for 20th Century Studios/Disney’s 3D title Avatar: The Way of Water. Since noms were first announced on January 24

Before this darling gal in her Minnie and Mickey Mouse bib turned into a pageant queen and model, she was just growing up with her four (also adorable) siblings in Cranston, Rhode Island. Within just one year, she was crowned winner of Miss Rhode Island USA, Miss USA and Miss Universe. And, if you haven’t

Hayden Panettiere is honoring her brother in a special way on the day of his funeral … wearing a custom jacket he designed to the service. The Panettiere family and friends gathered Wednesday at the Palisades Presbyterian Church in Nyack, New York to celebrate and remember the life of Jansen Panettiere. Hayden wore the colorful

Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell are havin’ some fun in the sun … all smiles while down under filming their latest project. The duo’s spending some time near Sydney, Australia for their latest film — a romantic comedy with “Easy A” and “Friends with Benefits” director Will Gluck leading the shoot. Not much has been

They’re back. RLJE Films presents the Stephen King reboot Children of the Corn by Kurt Wimmer on 500+ screens. It’s a redo of the classic 1984 slasher-horror film about kids possessed by a demonic spirit in a dying cornfield, with bloody, rampaging results. King’s iconic short story features a 12-year-old Nebraska girl who recruits the

SATURDAY UPDATE: MGM’s Creed III added another 19 overseas markets on Friday, taking the total to 75 now in release. Packing a punch, it grossed a further $10.1M yesterday, to lift the running cume to $17.1M through the first three days in offshore play. The Michael B Jordan-directed movie is now looking at a $35M+

SUNDAY AM: Amazon bought MGM –a motion picture studio–for $8.45 billion back in May 2021, and this weekend the streamer had their first taste of how wonderful a box office blockbuster is, as MGM/UAR’s Creed III opened to a franchise record of $58.6M. That’s also the highest debut ever for a sports movie. At this

UPDATE, writethru: MGM’s Creed III is enjoying a knockout opening weekend, punching up $100.4M globally. Of that, $41.8M is from 75 international box office markets. Domestically, the Michael B Jordan-directed movie opened to a franchise record and the best debut ever for a sports title. Internationally, this is also the biggest opening for the franchise.

The power of a wide theatrical release was realized this weekend by streamer Amazon in its pivot back to the big screen with MGM/United Artists Releasing’s Creed III. It easily minted the best opening ever for the Seattle-based parent, as well as for the Rocky franchise, with $58.6M domestic, $100.4M worldwide. While Amazon has snapped

Aniplex and Crunchyroll of America’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – To the Swordsmith Village grossed $10.1 million this weekend in 1,780 theaters. That’s a fourth place finish at the domestic box office but still half the opening of Demon Slayer:  Kimetsu No Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train which opened to a smash $21

UPDATED: Simon & Schuster has announced that it will cease distribution of The Book of Animal Secrets by Dr. David B. Agus amid allegations of plagiarism. The Los Angeles Times reports that it found at least 95 separate passages in Agus’ book that appeared almost word for word in other publications that can be found on

EXCLUSIVE: A24 has mapped out three films for summer release: the Nicole Holofcener-Julia Louis Dreyfus reteam You Hurt My Feelings, the Celine Song directed/written title Past Lives and the distributor’s hot Sundance horror pick-up Talk to Me. You Hurt My Feelings, which played to great laughs at the Eccles Theater, will go wide nationwide over

The revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, with Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford in previews at the Lunt-Fontanne, is firmly in Broadway’s $1 million club, with receipts for the week ending March 5 at a bloody good $1,526,254. And that’s just for six performances. The Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical filled every

Paramount/Spyglass Media’s Scream VI is headed to a franchise record opening of $50M+ worldwide from roughly 50 offshore territories including domestic. The last Scream opened to $48M WW, $30M from U.S./Canada. The highest opening for the Kevin Williamson conceived horror series was Scream 3 which opened to $34.7M domestic. Scream VI, which sees the return

Play video content TMZ.com Pete Davidson‘s love for Chase Sui Wonders is universal … as in, he couldn’t stop kissing his new girlfriend on a date to Universal Studios. The “Bodies, Bodies, Bodies” stars hit up Universal Studios Hollywood on Thursday … and TMZ obtained video of the two smooching on an escalator. Pete and

Regal parent Cineworld is rejecting the leases of three dozen more theaters as part of its ongoing bankruptcy proceeding, including some major locations. In filings this week, the theater chain requested, and was granted by a bankruptcy court judge, the right to walk away from nearly 40 unexpired leases including at Union Square in New

Jennifer Lopez is a staple of the entertainment world, thanks to her wildly successful career as both a pop star and actress/producer. She’s made headlines for her real-life marriage to Ben Affleck, but has also made a few wedding-themed movies lately. The most recent of these is Amazon’s action/comedy movie Shotgun Wedding, which is gearing

Julian Sands, a British actor with dozens of movie and TV credits over four decades in Hollywood, is missing … and he was last seen hiking a mountain outside Los Angeles. Law enforcement identified Julian as the missing hiker who vanished after going for a hike in the Mt. Baldy area, which is currently blanketed

Nothing to be alarmed about — as we told you, M3GAN 2.0, was inevitable and Universal just set a Jan. 17, 2025 release for the sequel to the Blumhouse and Atomic Monster hit film. The pic, now in its second week, has racked up $92M around the world off a $12M budget. M3GAN opened to

The horror genre was built on long-running franchises, usually containing an iconic signature killer. Wes Craven’s Scream is no exception, with Ghostface and the denizens of Woodsboro remaining beloved over the years. The property will once again return to theaters with Scream VI, directed by filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. And a new image from the

Jeremy Renner is still on the road to recovery after his nasty snowplow accident … but at least that road’s led him back home to continue recuperating. The “Hawkeye” star tweeted Monday night, “Outside my brain fog in recovery, I was very excited to watch episode 201 with my family at home” — referring to

It’s been a long time coming, but it looks like China’s unofficial ban on Marvel is lifting. Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania have both secured release dates in China, ending a three-and-a-half year period during which movies featuring Marvel characters did not gain entry to the world’s second largest