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THURSDAY UPDATE, Refresh for latest…: With numbers now in for the 44 overseas markets that opened on Wednesday, Illumination/Nintendo/Universal’s The Super Mario Bros Movie had a more than peachy debut with $34.7M through yesterday at the international box office. Combined with Wednesday’s domestic bow, the global one-day total is $66.4M. Several milestones/records were set in

Play video content TMZ.com John Leguizamo is again crying foul over “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” — complaining about the lack of diversity in the cast. The actor was in NYC Wednesday — the same day the new animated film hit theaters — and we got him to sound off on whether he’d changed his

Illumination/Nintendo/Universal’s Super Mario Bros Movie doesn’t need a mushroom to get bigger, it just organically is. Out of the gate today Wednesday, sans any Tuesday previews, the feature take of the classic game is looking at $26M, for what’s translating into a $86.2M 3-day, $127.5M Wednesday through Sunday haul. Interesting, even though its opening day

There’s a new Snapchat filter in town and it’s become a viral sensation … so much so, it’s been used over 1 billion times, making it one of the most popular ever on the app. The “disgust” lens depicts users looking — as the name suggests — totally disgusted at someone or something, and apparently

Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament took a hiatus during the pandemic as movie theaters closed for the majority of 2020-2021 and theatrical day-and-date titles on both the big screen and studio’s respective streaming platforms became more prevalent. Coming back from that pandemical brink, the motion picture studios have largely returned to their theatrical release models

Daz Dillinger is offering up yet another Suge Knight horror story from Death Row Records’ ’90s era, but Tha Dogg Pound rapper happens to be the boogeyman in this tale … claiming he once strong armed the bulky CEO straight outta $2.5 million!!! Tha Dogg Pound, and the late Nate Dogg, contributed to the 1996

Who says people don’t go to the movies? That stale cynicism coming out of the pandemic is about to get squashed this weekend as Illumination/Universal’s The Super Mario Bros Movie is about to run up a serious box office score. With a Wednesday opening before Easter around the world, inclusive of 70 offshore markets, the

Play video content TMZ.com Pras Michel has his game face on as his federal conspiracy case kicks into high gear in Washington D.C., with some huge names — including Leonardo DiCaprio — set to take the stand. We caught The Fugees rapper just as he arrived at the courthouse with his defense lawyer … ahead

AMC Entertainment has taken a big step forward on a few key fronts, announcing a settlement in a shareholder lawsuit that would allow it to issue stock, raise capital, convert its APE units and go ahead with a ten-for-one reverse stock split – basically a lifeline if it needs one. Shareholders had approved the much-needed

Lady Gaga is busting out her pipes for her role as Harley Quinn in the new ‘Joker’ sequel — and since they’re shooting out in the open … the whole world’s getting a sneak peak. The singer was on location in NYC this weekend shooting ‘Joker 2,’ and yes … she and the team revisited

Refresh for latest…: Coming in higher than expected, Paramount/eOne’s Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves took a $71.5M global bow this weekend; that includes $33M from 60 offshore markets which is nicely above the $25M+ projected ahead of the frame. Standout markets included the UK (where eOne distributes) at No. 1 with $4.3M; Mexico and

Chris Pine has the right stuff for movie magic — his latest flick, ‘Dungeons & Dragons,’ just swiped the top spot at the box office … stealing the spotlight from Keanu Reeves. The actor and his rag-tag team of costars — Michelle Rodriguez, Justice Smith, Rege-Jean Page, etc. — cleaned up this weekend in theaters

In the latest episode of Crew Call, we talk to Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves directors, scribes and EPs John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein about the vision they sold to Paramount to make the dark and dingy world of the role playing game, not just fun, but funnier. And even more so, a

Reese Witherspoon has officially filed for divorce from Jim Toth, citing irreconcilable differences … and dividing up the assets won’t be a problem. According to court docs, obtained by TMZ, Reese pulled the plug on her 12-year marriage to Toth in Nashville, Tennessee, where the couple was raising their 10-year-old child. In the docs, Reese

Saturday AM: Refresh for more updates and chart Though Friday was $15.3M, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is still looking at a $40M opening. This is the high end of tracking, and that is to be commended for the Paramount/eOne $150M production which the former studio was careful to lay off risk on. Though

Play video content TMZSports.com The Miz — host of WrestleMania 39 at SoFi Stadium this year — believes Seth Rollins and Logan Paul‘s match on “The Grandest Stage of Them All” will be nothing but fireworks … telling TMZ Sports, “This is going to be a match to be remembered.” We spoke with Miz at

National CineMedia said today it’s negotiated a second extension of the grace period on interest payments originally due Feb. 15. A one-month grace period for a payment said to be about $6.6 million ended March 15, when the company announced lenders had agreed to another 17 days. Big ratings agencies Moody’s and S&P Global declared

Play video content TMZ.com “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” star Sophia Lillis says it was a dream come true to be a part of the tabletop game-based movie … because she’s been rollin’ d20s for quite a few years now. We got the actress Thursday at LAX — hours before her new movie with

Refresh for latest…: It was a bow-wow-wow! start for Lionsgate/Thunder Road Films/87 Eleven’s John Wick: Chapter 4 with $137.5M global this session. Of that, $64M is estimated from 71 international box office markets. All were No. 1 starts and cumulatively are 73% above John Wick 3 – Parabellum’s 2019 launch. This is a fantastic debut

Play video content BACKGRID Rihanna‘s doing it all … embracing motherhood while also working overtime on her career — no easy feat when you consider the hours she’s putting in, but her son’s along for the ride. Mama Rih was cradling her baby boy Thursday morning, fresh out of a photo shoot that lasted from

Broadway’s The Phantom of the Opera had yet another smashing, down-to-the-wire week at the Majestic, grossing more than $3 million for the second consecutive week as the countdown to its April 16 closing continues. Meanwhile, another villainous character – the bloodthirsty killer of the ecstatically reviewed Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street –

DJ Drama is using his all-time favorite film to promote his upcoming album, and he’s literally doing his best Tupac Shakur impression to bring attention to the project!!! On Wednesday, Drama unleashed the Jim Jones-directed video teaser to his “I’m Really Like That” album promo, recreating the testy apartment scene from the hip hop classic

Paramount and Hasbro eOne with the greatest of intentions have created an extremely fun, broad-audience appealing feature take on the classic roleplaying game, entitled Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, which already is 90% certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes –not an easy feat with a genre movie of this caliber– and 94% with moviegoers. Paramount

Jeremy Renner says he’d go through his horrific snow plow accident experience again, if it meant saving his family … getting emotional while opening up for the first time about the January 1, near-fatal accident. The “Hawkeye” actor is laying it all out there in a trailer for his April 6 interview with Diane Sawyer

An attorney for bankrupt movie theater chain Cineworld said today it has “several” interested parties eyeing its business in “rest of world” — meaning Europe outside the UK, and Israel — but nothing pending for the entire company, or, it seems for Regal in the U.S. Final bids are due April 10, said Joshua Sussberg

Brad Pitt has just sold an estate he’s owned for almost 3 decades … an estate he used to sharpen his pretty amazing architectural skills. Real estate sources tell TMZ … Brad sold the property for $39 million … pretty impressive since he bought it from Elvira (aka Cassandra Peterson) back in 1994 for $1.7M.

Disney’s live-action take on The Little Mermaid has been cleared for theatrical release in China, as has Fast X — the penultimate installment in Universal’s long-running Fast & Furious action franchise. Dates are still to be set for both films in the market which has increasingly been handing out day-and-date releases for Hollywood titles even

2 lovers have officially become 1 with the help of a famous drug-sniffing black bear — and we’ve got the wedding day photos so you can bear witness to the special occasion. TMZ broke the story, Kentucky natives Alexandra and Armando were set to say “I Do” Monday at the KY for KY Fun Mall

EXCLUSIVE: Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, Hollywood swore off the booming and lucrative box office territory, with the first studios, Disney and Warner Bros, respectively pulling their big movies out of the country, Turning Red and The Batman. However, this past weekend, Lionsgate’s John Wick: Chapter 4 made it through

Play video content TMZ.com Nicolas Cage is set to portray Count Dracula in a new horror-comedy flick that’s coming out next month — but it seems he might still be in character in the Big Apple … take a looksy. The legendary actor hit the town in NYC Sunday, where an eyewitness tells us he