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EXCLUSIVE: Illumination/Universal/Nintendo’s The Super Mario Bros Movie just landed on tracking this morning ahead of its Easter weekend release, and the animated film is shaping up to make at least $85M-$90M+ over its Wednesday through Sunday launch — and that’s on the conservative side. Given the fervent response by fans to trailers, it would not

Lindsay Lohan won’t have to do parenthood all on her own, ’cause she’ll have Mom and Dad to help bring up the baby around Lohan family members … so say her parents. Michael Lohan tells TMZ he plans to be in Lindsay’s kid’s life, one way or another. He says he and his daughter are

Sony has added one more release to the summer theatrical calendar, Stage 6 Films’ Knights of the Zodiac on May 12. Produced by Toei Animation and based on the international anime sensation, Knights of the Zodiac brings the Saint Seiya saga to the big screen in live-action for the first time. Seiya (Mackenyu), a headstrong street teen,

Play video content TMZSports.com Mark Wahlberg is a damn prophet — the actor’s long-standing prediction that Baker Mayfield would be Tom Brady‘s successor actually came true on Wednesday … with the quarterback signing with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in free agency. Wahlberg spoke highly of the former first-overall pick with TMZ Sports on three separate

New Line’s Covid-delayed DC sequel Shazam! Fury of the Gods finally will hit theaters this weekend in 77 offshore territories and the U.S. with a global outlook between $80M-$85M — $35M of that coming from domestic. The David F. Sandberg-directed pic previously had been scheduled to open on December 21, but Warner Bros decided in

UPDATE 1:24 PM PT — Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton are sending their well-wishes to the mom-to-be — we got the sisters leaving CBS Studios in NYC, giving some “congratulations” to Lindsay Lohan! UPDATE Play video content TMZ.com UPDATE 1:22 PM PT — Lindsay’s ex Sam Ronson tells TMZ … “I wish her all the

A raft of Broadway’s recent arrivals led by Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street helped push the industry’s total box office last week to $28,638,821, up 13.8% from the previous week. Total attendance was up commensurately to 229,771. Sweeney Todd, starring Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford, contributed a whopping $1.8 million to the

Australian–American actor Keir O’Donnell was 26 years old when he was cast as the hilarious Todd Cleary — the black sheep of the family who enjoys painting semi-nude portraits — in the classic comedy movie “Wedding Crashers” back in 2005. Joining Keir in the classic movie was Vince Vaughn as the wise wedding crasher and

Just about everyone in Hollywood was at the Oscars on Sunday, and just about everyone else was at one of these two after-parties … courtesy of Elton John and Vanity Fair. These were the biggest shindigs in town post-award show — and as you see, they were absolutely packed with star power. Not just actors,

The 2023 Oscars are underway, and so far — everything’s looking pretty kumbaya behind the scenes, with no signs of hostility and violence … just the way it should be. Check out all the hugging and embracing that’s going on between the stars inside the Dolby Theater — where it’s all good vibes and lifted

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