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It’s a $55M domestic opening, a franchise best for Scary Movie, with another $50.5M overseas bow for a $105.5M global start. More…
In his first interview since his firing from 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley said that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss and the network’s leadership are engaged in “subtle political bias” to influence the show, while he said that the brass “don’t know what they’re doing.” In an interview with The New York Times podcaster […]
Anna Faris’ iconic role as Cindy in the horror parody feature film series Scary Movie almost went to another actress, revealed writer, producer and star Marlon Wayans. In a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, Faris asked Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans if there was “ever a celebrity that desperately wanted to be in a Scary Movie, […]
Saturday Night Live’s James Austin Johnson gave the Tribeca Festival a taste, and analysis, of his celebrated stream-of consciousness Donald Trump impression. He often wings it. “It wouldn’t feel like Trump if there wasn’t this queasy feeling in the audience of ‘what is he going to say?’ and so I have to improvise for the […]
Benito Skinner is previewing the forthcoming second season of Prime Video’s Overcompensating. The semi-autobiographical dramedy — centering on his titular character, a closeted jock who becomes fast friends with outsider Carmen (Wally Baram) during their freshman year of college — “feels more queer” in Season 2, the writer-star teased, as Benny ventures further out of the […]
Four-time Grammy-nominated musician Charlie Puth took to social media to announce the cancellation of his Saturday night show in Orlando, Fla. The latest stop on his Whatever’s Clever! World Tour, scheduled at the Addition Financial Arena, is being axed due to illness, he wrote on his Instagram Story earlier today. “I am so devastated to […]
A new adventure awaits everyone’s favorite female explorer. First announced at The Game Awards 2025, Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis reimagines Lara Croft’s genre-defining 1996 debut for a new generation. The upcoming title follows the legendary adventurer as she battles dinosaurs, panthers and human enemies, navigates treacherous environments and races to uncover the secrets of […]
A new adventure awaits everyone’s favorite female explorer. First announced at The Game Awards 2025, Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis reimagines Lara Croft’s genre-defining 1996 debut for a new generation. The upcoming title follows the legendary adventurer as she battles dinosaurs, panthers and human enemies; navigates treacherous environments and races to uncover the secrets of […]
As Netflix Films chairman, Dan Lin said he wants the streamer to prioritize more mid-budget fare but avoid working with directors who hold steadfast to a theatrical opening. “There is a group of filmmakers who still want theatrical. Those are filmmakers that we’ve accepted we just won’t work with,” he told The New York Times […]
Fired 60 Minutes veteran Scott Pelley hasn’t quoted poet John Masefield in any of his scathing statements since embattled CBS News chief Bari Weiss and new newsmagazine EP Nick Bilton canned him for rejecting their regime earlier this week. However, the ex-Evening News anchor sure captured the spirit of the past British Poet Laureate’s famous […]
EXCLUSIVE: Executive producers Margaret Cho and Lilly Wachowski have wrapped production on transgender comedian Nina Nguyen’s debut stand-up special. Directed by Nicole Blaine, Margaret Cho Presents Nina Nguyen: Dreams serves as part one-woman show, part stand-up special, aimed at advocating for trans youth, following Nguyen as she travels back in time to tell jokes for […]
Patrick Godfrey, the actor known for roles in Ever After (1998) and Les Misérables (2012), has died. He was 93. The actor’s London-based agency Markham, Froggatt & Irwin announced that Godfrey “died peacefully at home surrounded by his family” on Thursday. “It is with great sadness that we can confirm Patrick Godfrey passed away last […]
Aang (Gordon Cormier) and his friends better watch out, because Toph (Miyako) is about to rock their world in Season 2. In a new behind-the-scenes featurette released by Netflix today, viewers can get a glimpse of the journey it took to create the live-action version of Toph Beifong, Aang’s crucial earth-bending teacher voiced by Michaela […]
Who you gonna call? Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation have revealed the official title and logo for their upcoming Ghostbusters series. Celebrating Ghostbusters Day on Saturday, marking the anniversary of the original 1984 film’s release, showrunners Ben Hibon and Elliott Kalan were joined by Ghost Corps executive producers Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan to announce […]
After skipping out on this year’s 98th Academy Awards, Sean Penn enjoyed watching the awards show on television for once. The 3x Oscar winner, who most recently won Best Supporting Actor for One Battle After Another, explained that the awards ceremony has “always represented social discomfort to me,” which is why he wasn’t present to […]
EXCLUSIVE: In less than a year’s time, A24 has beat its own records twice: Kane Parsons’ viral-born Backrooms will become the New York studio’s highest grossing movie ever this weekend, if not by Monday, overtaking the $191.2M global haul previously racked up by the Timothée Chalamet starring Marty Supreme. And that’s even with a steep […]
After 45 years, Bruce Campbell is officially hanging up his chainsaw hand, recently confirming that he’s moved on from the Evil Dead franchise. Noting that he was offered a cameo in Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise (2023), the actor who first played Ash in the original 1981 Sam Raimi movie, explained that the character is […]
More than 20 years after releasing Confessions on a Dance Floor, Madonna is taking over New York City to celebrate the sequel. During Friday’s Tribeca Film Festival premiere of the visualizer for her Confessions II album, debuting July 3, the 7x Grammy winner explained that the short is “really about connection,” which she hopes to […]
Deadline and other entertainment outlets routinely publish minute-by-minute accounts of film festival standing ovations. On Friday at the Tribeca Festival, Madonna’s appearance at a world premiere drew frenzied ovations that could never be timed on a stopwatch – before, during and after the 90-minute event at the Beacon Theatre. The reaction was all the more […]
When Margaret Brown set out to direct a four-part docuseries about a horrific and then-unsolved quadruple homicide in Austin, Texas, she never expected that — just a few weeks after the final episode aired on HBO — detectives would crack the case. The Yogurt Shop Murders, which premiered last summer, revisited the 1991 killings of […]
The Red Sea Film Foundation Managing Director Shivani Pandya Malhotra has stepped down after seven years in the role. The Saudi foundation, which runs the Red Sea International Film Festival, announced her departure in a short release on Saturday, saying it had been effective as of June 1. “After seven incredible years and five remarkable […]
Like it did for many people, the pandemic changed things for writer/director Drake Doremus, whose last film, 2019’s Endings, Beginnings, now seems like a prophetic title for the filmmaker, a true romantic, who has since ended one relationship and then met a woman to begin another as his wife. That chance encounter in Madrid has […]
Like it did for many people the pandemic changed things for writer/director Drake Doremus whose last film, Endings, Beginnings in 2019 now seems like a prophetic title for the filmmaker, a true romantic, who has since ended one relationship and then met a woman to begin another as his wife. That chance encounter in Madrid […]
Hollywood’s new cohort of horror filmmakers have earned the praise of Steven Spielberg after a successful few weekends at the box office. At a recent screening of his new movie Disclosure Day, premiering June 12 in theaters, the 3x Oscar winner expressed his amazement at seeing Obsession and Backrooms do so well in theaters after […]
The man suspected of stabbing Top Gun: Maverick actor James Handy to death earlier this week will have to face a mental competency hearing before murder charges can be pursued. The capacities of Michael Ray Gledhill will be examined in a Hollywood court on June 22, a state judge decided today after the Los Angeles County […]
Writer/Director Michael Gallagher, another filmmaker who got his start on You Tube with millions of followers for shows like TotallySketch, has always been a bit obsessed with the infamous ‘Heaven’s Gate’ 1997 mass suicide in Rancho Santa Fe, California right outside where he grew up in San Diego. His interest in this horrific event and […]
Paramount+ today announced the surprise premiere of its new original animated series Among Us based on the globally popular social deception game. Series stars Yvette Nicole Brown and Liv Hewson announced all ten episodes are now available, exclusively on Paramount+,. at Summer Game Fest Friday in Los Angeles. Created by Owen Dennis (Infinity Train) and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell us that the first day advance PLF ticket sales for Universal’s upcoming Christopher Nolan epic, The Odyssey, were the highest ever for AMC yesterday in the last four years when it came to a major studio movie. The Odyssey‘s standard showtimes will go on sale later this summer. Just to re-emphasize, the […]
Love Island USA Season 8 is off to a fiery start on Peacock. Since launching on June 2, the first few episodes have already tallied 824M minutes viewed, up 74% from Season 7. That makes it Peacock’s most-streamed original season ever through the first three days, per internal data from NBCUniversal. Unsurprisingly, given the primary […]
Paramount is reconstituting its video game operation, launching a new game studio and setting a leadership team for the division. Like its media peers, the company has deployed various strategies over the years in the sector, which has historically not been a straightforward process for Hollywood despite all of its established IP. Ramping up in […]
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