AMC Entertainment shares were up more than 16% in midday trading in the midst of an aggressive rally powered by Gozilla Vs. Kong‘s $285 million global box office that “destroys lingering concerns around theatrical window importance and demonstrates a solid path to resurgence,” according to one Wall Street analyst. In a note early Monday, Eric
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The $550 million renovation of Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall will be completed two years earlier than anticipated, with a re-opening now planned for Fall 2022. In a joint statement released today by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the New York Philharmonic, the cultural organizations said the acceleration of the project will “boost
Third-party streaming ratings firm Samba TV reports that 3.6 million households watched at least five minutes of Warner Bros./Legendary’s Godzilla vs. Kong on HBO Max in the pic’s first five days from March 31 to April 4. While HBO Max didn’t provide any official viewership figures on Godzilla vs. Kong, previous data from Samba shows that
Jared Goff is officially dating a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model — the Detroit Lions QB’s longtime GF, Christen Harper has landed a spot in S.I.’s newest swimsuit issue!! 26-year-old Harper made the announcement minutes ago … saying it’s always been her lifelong dream to sport a bikini in the iconic S.I. issue — and now
New York exhibitors had their hopes dashed Monday as Gov. Andrew Cuomo made no move at a press conferences to boost capacity at movie theaters in the five boroughs from 25% to a hoped-for 50%. The Godzilla vs. Kong weekend box office stampede ($285 million globally) shows that movie fans want back in theaters but
Given that Mahershala Ali will be the second actor to play Blade on film, one wouldn’t fault him if he wanted to pick Wesley Snipes’ brain about the role. However, as Snipes sees it, he doesn’t expect that Ali will chat him up about all things Blade. No doubt Snipes thinks that Ali is perfectly
Refresh for latest…: After logging the best pandemic-era start for a Hollywood movie at the international box office last weekend, Warner Bros/Legendary’s Godzilla Vs Kong has punched up $285.4M worldwide through Sunday. The overseas running total, which added $76.1M this weekend, is $236.9M, giving GVK bragging rights as the quickest studio movie released during Covid
Gloria Henry — most famous for playing the mom character on the old ‘Dennis the Menace’ show — has died. The veteran actress passed away Saturday, just one day after her 98th birthday … this according to her daughter, Erin Ellwood, who broke the sad news on Instagram. After posting some celebratory shots of her
The Vaughn Stein-directed psychological thriller Every Breath You Take made its theatrical premiere this weekend on 106 screens and added some coins to the specialty box office piggy bank. The film, which also landed on VOD this weekend, is on track to earn an estimated $35K with its debut. Written by David K. Murray and starring Casey
I can picture it in my mind right now. Sub-Zero and Scorpion are battling it out, and as the two are raging, an explosive detonates. The two jump back confused, and after a whistle, they look up and Jared Leto’s Joker is smiling back at them with a grenade launcher in his hands. It’d be
While Pepe Le Pew’s “rape-y” behavior was apparently deemed too problematic to include him in the ‘Space Jam’ sequel, a group of actual onscreen rapists is set to cameo. The first official trailer for “Space Jam: A New Legacy” dropped this weekend — and it shows LeBron James descending not just into the Looney Tunes
Saturday AM Update: Godzilla vs. Kong is now up to $27.9M in three days after an $11.6M Friday at 3,064 locations, +73% over Thursday. The 5-day projection for the Adam Wingard-directed Warner Bros/Legendary title is $42M — far and away the best opening (3 and 5-day) we’ve seen at the domestic B.O. during the pandemic, meaning
Fast-forward to now, not only is Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure still great, it’s quite possibly the best roller coaster you can find at any amusement park in Florida. I recently had a chance to ride the attraction, and I honestly wasn’t prepared for how great it actually was. I was expecting to have fun,
Filmmaker James Gunn reported on Twitter that the first red band trailer for his upcoming The Suicide Squad movie hit a first week record with over 150M views. That number beats the 116M first week views of New Line’s Mortal Kombat, which recently held the record as the most-watched red band trailer. At the time of The
Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Margaret Cho says she’s afraid to leave the safety of her own home as an Asian-American woman … telling us, “outside it’s cloudy with a chance of racism.” Despite that humorous phrasing, the comedian made it clear her fear is very real when she joined us Friday on “TMZ Live.”
Jerry Seinfeld will be first comic on the reopened stage of the Gotham Comedy Club in Manhattan tonight, the sitcom great confirmed in a tweet today. “I asked @GothamComedy if I could be the first on stage at 7:00pm,” Seinfeld wrote. “They said ‘Yes’. So that’s when.” The comedy club, like other live venues in
Meanwhile, the movie lived in limbo as other movies of Depp’s, including Fantastic Beasts 2, came and went, though there has been a downtick in Depp projects recently. Since the Amber Heard-related lawsuits went super public, Johnny Depp has also been asked to step down from his role as Grindelwald in Warner Bros.’ popular magical
Writer-director Emma Seligman brings her feature Shiva Baby to theaters and TVOD starting today — and it is quite a comedic ride. Released by Utopia, Shiva Baby follows a young woman who is trying to keep the different versions of herself in order when she runs into her sugar daddy and her ex-girlfriend at a shiva with her parents.
Yesterday, moviegoers demonstrated that they were truly yearning to go back to the movies. How’s that? Warner Bros.’/Legendary’s Godzilla vs. Kong posted what is a record opening day during the pandemic with $9.6M at the domestic B.O. from 2,409 theaters or $3,98K per location. Since mid-March 2020, when theaters closed, and slowly returned in late
Sharon Stone claims her manager back in the day told her she wasn’t sexy enough to get hired in Hollywood, then 6 weeks later … she was cast to play one of the sexiest characters ever. The actress says before she landed her famous role in “Basic Instinct,” she was pretty shy and introverted. Stone
Update, April 1: Sony is going a week later with the Tom Holland PlayStation videogame adaptation of Uncharted on Feb. 18, 2022 instead of Feb. 11. The pic will have access to Imax and PLF screens at that time. Uncharted goes up against Paramount’s Rumble and Universal/Endeavor Content’s Ambulance on Feb. 18, leaving behind Universal’s Jennifer Lopez-Owen
CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links. Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther was arguably a cultural reset, as the Marvel blockbuster was a box office, critical, and Awards Season favorite. It was also a major step forward for inclusion, as Coogler
As France struggles with a rise in Covid variant cases, the country will enter a third nationwide lockdown beginning April 3, President Emmanuel Macron announced this evening in a televised address. This is currently expected to last until May 2. Some 19 départements (similar to counties) were already under a third lockdown that began on
Demi Lovato says she should have died weeks before her near-fatal overdose, because she was using a frightening list of hard drugs when she relapsed in 2018. Demi reveals the night she ended 6 years of sobriety, she began experimenting with drugs she’d never tried before … including meth, and she mixed it with molly,
Update: Screen Gems and Constantin’s Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City is going to Wednesday Nov. 24, leaving its Labor Day weekend release. The move comes after Disney plopped Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings on Labor Day weekend this year — which is unbelievable given how the box office truly ratchets down over that weekend (unless
Alexandra Daddario has been an active presence on numerous social media platforms, including Instagram and YouTube, over the past 12 months. She’s also a big proponent of mask-wearing and has certainly been open about her experiences when she’s had to quarantine for work-related projects. If you haven’t been keeping tabs on the Songbird and Baywatch
Unlike Easter last year, we’re actually going to be able to go to the movies this weekend. With drive-ins solely operating a year ago in the U.S. and Canada as the main means of moviegoing, Universal released their DreamWorks Animation title Trolls World Tour into homes on PVOD for the rental price of $19.99 (over 48
Venom: Let There Be Carnage will now hit theaters a week later than previously announced, on September 24. The Venom sequel will have the full suite of 3D, IMAX and premium large format screens. It will open opposite Paramount’s Antoine Fuqua actioner Infinite, Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints of Newark, Michael Showalter’s The Eyes of Tammy Faye and Stephen Chbosky’s
Pittsburgh born producer Shane Black is a big name in the movie industry as a writer and director with a long list of action movie credits … but Black’s on-screen role that he’s best known for as the young glasses-wearing cadet Hawkins — who is quickly killed by the unknown alien creature — in the
New Line’s Mortal Kombat is opening on April 23 now, not April 16. Last minute decision comes as Warner Bros. is about to sop up $20M-$30M over the next five days from the opening of Legendary’s Godzilla vs. Kong which will rep the biggest domestic B.O. opening during the pandemic. Also, given the heat on Mortal Kombat –the pic’s