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When it comes to making blockbuster movies, there are few things more important than managing spoilers. Major tentpole releases go to extreme lengths to try and avoid details being leaked out before they are ready. When it came to the newest of the Harry Potter movies, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, Eddie Redmayne thought

Faizon Love is responding to Jay-Z‘s bars on Pusha T’s “Neck & Wrist” with a healthy mix of sarcasm, jokes … and a sprinkling of confusion added in there, too. Pusha T recently grabbed Hov for a track on his upcoming album, “It’s Almost Dry,” and in true Jay fashion, his verse included a clapback

Warner Bros.’ Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore whirled up $6M in Thursday previews that started at 2PM at 3,350 venues. The David Yates directed J.K. Rowling co-scripted movie is expected to make between $45M-$50M over the Easter holiday weekend stateside; 73% of all K-12 schools off today according to Comscore. Dumbledore is also expanding into 44 more offshore

Spoilers for The Secrets of Dumbledore can be found within this story, so if you want the surprise to remain magical, please hop to something less spoilery, like questions we have after Fantastic Beasts 2.  When the first trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore released, of course people were talking about Mads Mikkelsen

Quavo‘s hopes to ball up with Jack Harlow again — after their NBA All-Star Weekend victory — are officially dashed. 20th Century Studios says it’s picked a costar for Jack in its reboot of “White Men Can’t Jump” … and it won’t be Quavo filling the role of hustler Sidney Deane, which Wesley Snipes played

Warner Bros, which has traditionally ruled the Easter weekend box office, is back, a year after Godzilla vs. Kong brought bread to reopening cinemas during the pandemic. The stateside arrival of J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, and further expansion abroad into 44 markets, arrives days after the Warner Bros. Discovery merger went public.

Michelle Yeoh has been raking up the roles and acclaim in recent years. Lately, she’s been riding high off of her acclaimed performance in the trippy sci-fi film Everything Everywhere All at Once (which CinemaBlend gave 5 out of 5 stars). Now she’s getting ready for another career milestone – appearing in James Cameron’s Avatar

Play video content BACKGRID Ben Affleck may be a Leo, but his sign on Tuesday was Starbucks … a sign preventing him and his fiancee from their daily fix. Ben and Jen were driving to Starbucks in West L.A. Wednesday when he got a sign stuck in his back rim while navigating a tricky turn.

Several Broadway shows impacted by the uptick in New York City Covid cases last week are still feeling the effects this week: Plaza Suite has canceled performances at least through tomorrow, Paradise Square has canceled most of this week, and A Strange Loop is off until Thursday. Macbeth, starring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga, returned

In Father Stu, star Mark Walhberg tackles the story of boxer-turned-priest Stuart Long, who went from destruction to redemption, inspiring many along the way. Based on true events, this faith-based film carries an R-rating, which is pretty atypical for movies of the genre. The cast members themselves pushed back against the sometimes-polarizing label, saying it’s

Play video content TMZ.com “The Flash” star Ezra Miller was catching looks at a lounge in Hawaii over the weekend, dancing wildly just weeks after their arrest at a nearby bar. Eyewitnesses say Ezra was all over the place at the Hilo Axe lounge in Hilo, HI Friday night … their moves caught the attention

Warner Bros’ Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore, which released in China this past weekend, did so without references to the same-sex relationship between two of the threequel’s lead characters. The Chinese censors requested a cut, which Warner Bros, according to a studio spokesperson, “accepted… to comply with local requirements,” adding, “the spirit of the film remains

You know about Spirit Halloween, right? It’s that pop-up retailer that takes up empty store space to sell costumes and other Halloween-related products during the fright-filled season, then leaves when all the trick or treating and costumed shenanigans are done. Well, later in 2022, Spirit Halloween will be getting more than just retail attention from

The strippers weren’t the only ones takin’ it off at a popular Miami strip club this weekend — Antonio Brown went topless too while he raged with Jamie Foxx! It all happened at Booby Trap On The River (greatest name) … where the 54-year-old actor/singer was hosting a party with Bitcoin Rodney on Saturday. The

On WhatsApp, users can change their chat wallpaper for both individual and group chats. Setting up a chat wallpaper is pretty easy. Users can use this feature to distinguish between conversations from within the chat. Since WhatsApp is being used by people of multiple demographies and for varied purposes, it is a good idea to set

A revival of Kander and Ebb musical Cabaret was the big winner at Sunday’s Olivier Awards in London. Cabaret At The Kit Kat Club scooped seven of the prestigious trophies, including Best Musical Revival and Best Actor and Actress in a Musical for Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley, respectively. Redmayne plays the Emcee while Buckley

Living in the age of the internet, smartphones and social media is a fact of life many of us simply accept and prescribe to, but believe it or not, there’s a number of people who are not spending hours glued to screens. One of those people seems to be Star Trek actor Chris Pine, who

Zoe Saldana‘s hot looks over the years are on point! Here is 23-year-old Zoe at the premiere of the ballet film “Center Stage” in New York City back in 2000 (left). This was Saldana’s breakout movie role and the start of her now-impressive movie career. And, 20 years later … the stunning mom of three

Vin Diesel announces that Fast & Furious 10 will include Brie Larson. Over 20 years after the original Fast and Furious hit theaters, the franchise is still going strong, with the tenth film releasing sometime next year. Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Nathalie Emmanuel, Sung Kang, and many other franchise veterans are returning for the sequel. However, like each past installment, Fast

FRIDAY PM: No, family moviegoers were never gone. Do you hear that Disney CEO Bob Chapek? (Admit it: it was always about the seasonal churn rate for Disney+; that’s why Turning Red skipped theaters). Families turned Spider-Man: No Way Home into the third highest movie of all-time with $803M, and they kept Sing 2 in the

When you think of Mean Girls, Lindsay Lohan is probably one of the first people that comes to mind. As the star of the 2004 comedy, she is front and center for many of its most unforgettable moments. In many ways, the film made Lohan the poster child for that awkward transitional period so many

Will Smith finally got his punishment for slapping Chris Rock at The Oscars — the Academy of Motion Pictures has made him persona non grata for a decade for that slap. The Academy’s Board of Governors met Friday and after the vote the Academy President and CEO said, “The Board [of Governors] has decided, for

Warning: contains spoilers for “Secret Meeting” in Batman #122! The true first meeting of Batman and Deathstroke has been revealed. In the story “Secret Meetings,” appearing as a backup in Batman #122, readers learn of how the Dark Knight first crossed paths with the deadly assassin. He has come to Gotham to kill Robin—and Batman must

The face of five-year-old Aline looks weirdly mature and toothy as she crawls from under a table at a family wedding to belt out a song early in the film of the same name. French comedian and actress Valérie Lemercier, 58, wrote, directed and stars in Aline and it’s her head on a body altered

SPOILERS are ahead for 2021’s Halloween Kills.  Last year’s Halloween sequel once again proved something about the horror franchise we’ve been reminded of over the past four decades: Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode is still the ultimate final girl. David Gordon Green’s slasher film shockingly killed off Laurie’s daughter, Karen, played by Judy Greer, and

Mark Wahlberg is getting out of Beverly Hills — his massive estate there just hit the market … and he is going to turn a HUGE profit considering what he first paid for it way back when. The actor has listed his BH compound — which includes a main mega-mansion with 12 bedrooms and 20

On 1000-lb Sisters, Tammy Slaton has had to deal with a lot of tabloid rumors, and the reality star recently shared that she was still alive, after a rumor circulated that she had died. She has struggled with her fair share of health issues, so it’s not a surprise that fans have been concerned about her. Recently, the

Sonic the Hedgehog 2, the sequel to the last big blockbuster before the pandemic, opens this weekend, keeping a steady stream of dollars into the theatrical marketplace with an estimated opening of $50 million-plus, and possibly $60M. The first movie in February 2020 broke the video game feature adaptation curse for the genre, opening to $58M

Having boosted his profile playing Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones, Aquaman in the DC Extended Universe and Duncan Idaho in Dune (among other projects), Jason Momoa is now gearing up to join another major franchise. His lineup of upcoming movies includes Fast & Furious 10, and Momoa confirmed in early March that he’ll star

Music legend Bobby Rydell, one of the first teen idols back in the 1960s, is dead. Bobby, whose famous songs include “Volare” and “Wild One,” died Tuesday. A person close to Bobby tells us he had some health issues over the last few months and was recently diagnosed with pneumonia … which is believed to