Sunday AM Update: Refresh for chart and more analysis Jungle Cruise starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt kept its ship together at the box office over the weekend, and actually saw an uptick in Friday-to-Saturday grosses (when you back out Thursday previews of $2.7M) of +15% which puts the adventure film at $34.2M, an opening that’s not far
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Ariana Greenblatt‘s already making some boss moves … the child actress is raking in a fat paycheck for her voiceover work on the ‘Boss Baby’ sequel. The 14-year-old actress scored a nice daily rate of $10,000 for her voice work as Tabitha in “The Boss Baby: Family Business” … according to her minor’s contract. The
The father of the 18-year-old girl fatally shot this week is opening up about her excitement for her first date with a TikTok star … which ended with the tragic shooting as they watched the new ‘Purge’ movie. Rylee Goodrich‘s dad, David, said she curled her hair all pretty, and her night out with TikTok
Science fiction drama Nine Days from Sony Pictures Classics opens in four theaters in a specialty market buoyed by recent releases like Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain and Pig. New York’s arthouse scene, outpaced by LA of late, is perking up, distributors say (Ailey numbers were super there) and moviegoers are rewarding unique films
While we love an animated moment, a live-action Flash Gordon movie is bound to be even more exciting. The original version of the hero was created by Alex Raymond for a 1934 comic strip. A bevy of serial films were released in the late 1930s, and a feature-length live action film directed by Mike Hodges
Paramount Pictures has curbed the planned September 17 release of Clifford the Big Red Dog, its CGI/live-action take on the beloved kidlit character. We hear that the studio is looking for a more family-friendly release date for the pic, which also had been announced as a Gala Presentation at the Toronto Film Festival in September. The title’s
AMC Entertainment CEO and newly anointed chairman Adam Aron is having a moment with shareholders — that army of retail investors he said in June numbered approximately 4.1 million and own more than 80% of the stock. Some of them found it hard to access the company’s annual meeting Thursday, which was held in person
New Line’s The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It has grossed more than $196M WW, catapulting the entire Conjuring franchise through seven movies past $2 billion in global ticket sales. The series from filmmaker James Wan and producer Peter Safran kicked off in 2013 with the first title yielding $320.2M WW and another $321.6 M from its 2016
Scarlett Johansson‘s agent is joining in on the war with Disney … blasting the Mouse House for “shamelessly” attacking her over her “Black Widow” lawsuit. Bryan Lourd, one of the head honchos at the powerhouse agency CAA, just went to bat for his client and said Disney “shamelessly and falsely accused Ms. Johansson of being
Refresh for updates…Disney is reporting $2.7M for its Dwayne Johnson-Emily Blunt family adventure movie Jungle Cruise off 7PM shows. A24’s Dev Patel fantasy movie Green Knight came up strong with $750K at 2,790 theaters. The NY-based indie distrib’s previous preview highs include Ari Aster’s Midsommar (which started on a Tuesday) with $1.1M and the filmmaker’s Hereditary which did a $1.3M Thursday. Green Knight has
Sarita Choudhury (Mother/Morgan Le Fay) Portraying Mother/Mother Le Fay, Sarita Choudhury has been all over the map in terms of films and television. With a career that dates back as early as the 1990s, Choudhury has been in several movies. She made her debut in Mississippi Masala, and then would appear years later in A
Bruce, a previously announced new musical based on Jaws screenwriter Carl Gottlieb’s 1975 memoir The Jaws Log, is resurfacing: Seattle Rep will stage the world premiere next May, the regional theater company announced today. Featuring music by Richard Oberacker and book and lyrics by Oberacker and Robert Taylor (the team behind the 2017 Broadway musical
Jean-Claude Van Damme is so damn famous, all eyes were glued on him instead of a nearby thief — with great timing — who made off with millions in jewels … on a scooter. So, get this … a grey-haired man in a suit reportedly held up the high-end jewelry store Chaumet in Paris earlier
Even though it’ll probably be a while before we get a look at Indiana Jones’ final cinematic outing, it should be well worth the wait. James Mangold is a skilled director, and he’s assembled a strong cast (Mads Mikkelsen, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Antonio Banderas, to name a few) that should shine alongside Harrison Ford. And
The Paris Theater, an NYC cinematic landmark rescued by Netflix in 2019, will officially reopen August 6 with the streamer’s The Forty-Year-Old Version by Radha Blank and a week of repertory films programmed by the director. The only single-screen movie theater in Manhattan and the borough’s largest, with 545 seats, has hosted limited theatrical engagements
Actor Rick Aiello — son of the late legendary actor, Danny Aiello — has died of pancreatic cancer … his family tells TMZ. According to Rick’s mother, Sandy … he passed away Monday night surrounded by loved ones at a hospital in Warwick, New Jersey. We’re told he’d battled the illness for about a year
To date, Disney has tried to play an original animated film, a Marvel title, and an Emma Stone 101 Dalmatians villainess movie in theaters and on the PVOD tier of the studio’s streaming service simultaneously, and this weekend they’ll accelerate windows again on the Dwayne Johnson-Emily Blunt theme park-inspired title Jungle Cruise. Given how we’ve seen
If you’re asking yourself whether you or the Kylo Ren to your Rey will also transform into a hot centaur in front of your eyes if you buy it… well, probably not. But the scent is reportedly made up of bergamot, black pepper, juniper berry, atlas cedar, himalayan cedar and virginia cedar. Plus, the ad
Despite Disney’s experimentation with releasing movies like Black Widow and Jungle Cruise day-and-date in theaters and in the home on the PVOD tier of their streaming service Disney+ Premier, Imax CEO Rich Gelfond doesn’t believe the model will be the new normal moving forward. “Every studio has seen the same data that Disney has seen. What Disney did
Big format giant Imax reported a surge in revenue last quarter and narrower losses compared with a shuttered 2020 as CEO Rich Gelfond said a deluge of Hollywood tentpoles arriving will drive people to theaters. The stock popped higher in after hours trading — up more than 3.5%. Imax posted revenue of $51 million revenue
Play video content TMZ.com Stephen Dorff has gone from a “s***-talking” mood to mea culpa mode … saying he feels bad for trashing Scarlett Johansson and her Marvel film. We got the veteran actor leaving Porta Via in L.A. and wondered what he had to say weeks after the premiere of “Black Widow” and nearly
But wait, didn’t he die in the first Shazam! movie? Well, yes, but let’s go over this new information first. Djimon Hounsou, who also has comic book movie cred from playing Korath in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Papa Midnite in Constantine and the Fisherman King in Aquaman, was photographed on Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Actor Mike Mitchell, who appeared in “Gladiator” and “Braveheart,” has died … TMZ has learned. Mitchell’s rep tells TMZ the actor/bodybuilder died Friday on a boat in Turkey. The family says they believe he suffered a death from natural causes, although they weren’t more specific. The rep says, “It was very hard to believe …
Pretty Woman, Which Was Originally Titled Three Thousand Wasn’t A Comedy But A Gritty Cautionary Tale Instead Now, Pretty Woman has gone down as one of the best romantic comedies of all time, but screenwriter J.F. Lawton’s original version of the film, titled $3,000, though still somewhat comedic, was anything but charming or romantic. Speaking
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain kept its spot in the North American top ten for week two in 954 theaters – up by 27 — with an $830,000 estimated gross for the three days, leading the specialty box office. As per Focus Features, that was a total cume of over $3.7 million for the
Refresh for latest…: As with domestic, a pair of new studio offerings opened at the international box office this weekend. However, the biggest grosses came from local pics in China where upcoming release dates for Hollywood continue to be a frustrating question mark. Getting to the studios first, in a 23-market rollout, Universal’s M Night
Shaun Weiss, the goalie in the ‘Mighty Ducks’ movies, got all nostalgic celebrating his graduation from a drug court program … chowing down at a diner that’s special to him. Just days after getting his certificate of completion from the D.A.’s Office in Yuba County, CA … we’re told Shaun and his good friend, Drew
It started in The Falcon in the Winter Soldier with the introduction of Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Valentina Allegra de Fontaine who recruited U.S. Agent for his “services.” Then in Black Widow, it’s revealed that post-Snap, Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova is working for Valentina and has been hired to take down Hawkeye. Okay, so if we have
Play video content Cleveland Guardians Cleveland pulled out the big guns to unveil its MLB team’s new name, drafting none other than Tom Hanks to roll out … the Cleveland Guardians!!! A slick new video announced the name change — which takes effect next season — with Hanks handling the voiceover, explaining the new name
Mark Wahlberg strides into theaters this weekend with Joe Bell as the Reinaldo Marcus Green (Monsters and Men, upcoming King Richard) film debuts on 1,093 screens supported by robust advertising and a star-driven social media campaign. Roadside Attractions is distributing, having snapped up the film from Solstice Studios which acquired it off of a 2020