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Warner Bros/DC’s The Batman is just beginning to spread its wings overseas, and has a running international box office total of $5.3M across two days and from only eight markets. The Matt Reeves-directed Robert Pattinson-starrer is adding 47 markets today and a further 19 on Friday. After debuting to $1.7M in Korea on Tuesday —

It’s not everyday that an action comedy becomes breeding grounds for an iconic celebrity friendship, but that most certainly happened when Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart worked together on 2016’s Central Intelligence. What has since overshadowed the project itself is the electric chemistry between the actors, who have since reteamed for the Jumanji movies and

Johnny Brown, who played housing project superintendent Nathan Bookman on the massively hit show “Good Times,” has died. Johnny’s daughter Sharon Catherine Brown tells TMZ, he was at his doctor’s office in L.A. Wednesday getting his pacemaker checked out, and shortly after he left he went into cardiac arrest and collapsed. He was taken to

When trying to guess today’s Wordle answer, players may have come across a roadblock as it isn’t an easy word to guess. While the game offers visual hints to Wordle puzzle-solvers, these hints aren’t indicative enough to guess the solution. Today’s answer might be easier to guess if players are nudged towards the right direction

EXCLUSIVE: Sources are saying that the aorta of the weekend box office, Comscore’s Rentrak system, is down Friday. Talk about bad timing, coming on the opening day of Warner Bros’ The Batman. But I hear Comscore is feverishly working hard to get the system back up soon this afternoon. I’m told that there was an

Are we sleeping on Avatar 2? If we are, there are definite reasons. For starters, James Cameron’s sequel to his box-office busting Avatar feels like it has been delayed for far too long, so the concept of it actually opening in theaters one day strikes us as alien (no pun intended). Also, as financially successful

Run, don’t walk — except those holding sharp objects — to the iconic Florida house from “Edward Scissorhands” which is back on the market! Current owner Joey Klops tells TMZ … the house, which is 20 minutes outside of Tampa, went up for sale Wednesday for $699,900 — a big change from when he and

Job postings for positions in developing Star Wars Eclipse indicate that the upcoming game may not release for another five years. The new Star Wars game, which will take place in the period of the High Republic, was unveiled during The Game Awards 2021 December livestream event. Though die-hard Star Wars fans were delighted to hear

Marcus Theatres is transforming an auditorium at its Gurnee Mills theater outside Chicago into a sports bar with high-def monitors and food and drink starting with March Madness as chains experiment with new ways to attract patrons. “I can’t think of a better place to watch these games,” said CEO Greg Marcus. Plans call for

Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez have been friends since they were teens, which dates their BFF history back 15 years. That means the fellow pop singers have been there for each other for the career highs and lows. One of Swift’s unfortunate lows was when Scooter Braun purchased Big Machine Records (the label where she

Play video content TMZ.com Helen Mirren thinks the internet is jumping the gun over a possible film based on the war in Ukraine … saying it’s way too premature, because we don’t know how the story ends. We got Helen at LAX on Wednesday …  and talked to her about the prospects of a film

Jamie Dornan says The Tourist is his most difficult role ever. Arriving to HBO Max on March 3, The Tourist focuses on a man (played by Dornan) who wakes up in an Australian hospital. With absolutely no memory of who he is or what he knows, Dornan’s protagonist has to piece together the previous few clues he has

In the wake of Sony’s Spider-Man: No Way Home rattling box office records, and creating a gravitational pull toward cinemas with a $1.85 billion global gross, Warner Bros.’ The Batman is looking to keep this big screen rally going. Industry projections for the Robert Pattinson movie stand at $115M-$125M domestic, and another $110M-$120M overseas for a global reach

The movie theater industry is in a weird place right now. The pandemic has been delivering massive blows since March 2020, and while there is clearly a demand for huge blockbusters (hence the spectacular success of Spider-Man: No Way Home), just about everything else released by Hollywood enters what could be described as a depressed

Matthew McConaughey is taking offense to a surgeon who claimed to have restored Matt’s luscious locks via hair transplant … the actor says it’s all a big, fat lie! Matt fully acknowledges in the ’90s he had to shave his head because his hair was getting super thin. Something happened, because when he grew his

According to Patrick Stewart, the X-Men‘s Professor X would be deeply suspicious should he encounter Stephen Strange in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The multiverse lies at the heart of the MCU’s Phase 4 slate, offering an opportunity for superhero team-ups on a previously unimagined scale. Already that potential has been realized in Spider-Man: No Way

Hollywood hasn’t been the most bullish about taking an action that would dent its bottom line, but Disney today has taken the bold move of pulling its theatrical releases from Russia temporarily in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine. We hear that other studios were scrambling to formulate their own strategies today. Disney has

Money can’t buy complete happiness, but it just may be able to buy immortality. Keanu Reeves is at the center of a very serious fan theory that believes him to be immortal, and Paul Rudd is looking pretty ageless these days, too. Seth Rogen, who has a long history of working with Rudd, recently appeared

Jonathan Rhys Meyers has cut a deal in his DUI case … and he’s going to get the same treatment as an average Joe — no jail time, as long as he keeps his nose clean. According to new legal docs obtained by TMZ … the actor copped a plea deal and was sentenced to

Warning: contains spoilers for Amazing Spider-Man #89! Marvel’s Spider-Man is known by his many fans as a hero who can never catch a break, and this is true in both the Marvel Comics and Marvel Cinematic Universe variants. From the Spider-Man of the comics losing his ten-year marriage with Mary Jane to a literal deal

SATURDAY AM: Refresh for more analysis and chart  Before a big tentpole comes into the marketplace, there’s typically a lull at the box office, but it’s an even bigger lull when the major studios don’t have any new wide entries. Everyone is waiting for Warner Bros. The Batman and many sources tell me it’s bound easily for

There are some TV and film franchises that reach the point where they cease to simply be entertainment and become cultural phenomenons, and the James Bond franchise (and, comparably, the Doctor Who franchise) certainly fits that bill. The franchise has welcomed some big names over the years, including Michelle Yeoh, who starred in 1997’s Tomorrow

Sean Penn is in the thick of the Russian invasion of Ukraine … and he’s filming a documentary the Ukrainians say will tell the world the truth about what’s going down. Sean popped up Thursday in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, after the Russians invaded … and Ukraine’s government says Penn is there to capture

The red pill or blue pill is Neo’s biggest choice in The Matrix… but was it really a choice at all? After almost 20 years turning down a fourth movie, Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix Resurrections finally released in December 2021. Far from a conventional sequel, The Matrix Resurrections revisits the original 1999 movie from a fresh perspective, questioning

UPDATED, 12:55 PM: Sony today moved the release date of it Mark Wahlberg film Father Stu up by two days. The story of boxer-turned-priest Father Stuart Long now will open wide on Wednesday, April 13; it had been set for Friday the 15th. PREVIOUSLY, January 25: Sony Pictures has acquired global rights to Rosalind Ross’ feature directorial debut Father

Every year, Universal Studios holds the ultimate spooky season event in its Los Angeles and Orlando theme parks with Halloween Horror Nights. The main event is the rotating lineup of mazes the park meticulously chooses every year based on beloved franchises like Halloween or Texas Chainsaw Massacre, or through original concepts unique to HHN. We’re

Houston born hottie Shannon Elizabeth was only 25 years old when she was cast in her breakout role as the foreign exchange student Nadia — who is illegally recorded changing by the creepy high school classmate Jim — in the 1999 teen comedy “American Pie” and the 2001 follow up “American Pie II.” The high

The Grand Overture is the latest Exotic Machine Gun that players can get in Destiny 2, in addition to its catalyst. New Exotics are one of the most exciting parts of a new season in Destiny 2, and the Grand Overture is one of several new Exotics that players can use to significantly improve their loadouts. This Machine Gun

Imax CEO Rich Gelfold says the chain hopes to have 200 screens wired for live events by year end, up from 79 currently as it experiments with content beyond music, and with ticket pricing. He spoke to Deadline after the company reported strong quarterly earnings and the day after a live stream of Kanye West’s

Director Christopher Nolan and actor Cillian Murphy go way back, with the former having first cast the latter as Dr. Jonathan Crane, a.k.a. The Scarecrow, in 2005’s Batman Begins. However, the upcoming Oppenheimer finally sees Murphy getting to do something he’s never done in a Nolan-helmed movie before: play the lead role. Murphy is starring