Paramount/Skydance’s long-awaited sequel Top Gun: Maverick will fly on Wednesday, June 24 instead of Friday, June 26. That’s standard for Paramount to take a big summer event tentpole out on a Wednesday, ala their Transformers movies and even the Tom Cruise Steven Spielberg directed 2005 hit War of the Worlds. The pre-Independence Day weekend is crowded already with Dreamworks
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Marilyn Monroe‘s time behind-the-scenes of the 1953 film, “Niagara,” was captured by a photographer, and his huge set of photographic negatives is up for grabs … but it won’t come cheap. The pics — 227 total, 198 of which depict Marilyn — were snapped by Canadian journalist and photog Jock Carroll in 1952, while she
Refresh for latest…: Universal/Blumhouse’s The Invisible Man made its first appearance at the international box office this weekend, scaring up $20.2M in 47 markets. Combined with the strong domestic start, the Leigh Whannell-directed pic debuted to $49.2M globally. In like-for-like offshore openings, the Elisabeth Moss-starrer is tracking in line with Lights Out, A Quiet Place
Tremors (1990) Whenever you have played the “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” game, you might not have thought to cite Tremors when connecting the Footloose star to another actor, considering he is the most easily recognizable name in the film – excluding Reba McEntire, perhaps. Furthermore, this creature feature, about a small Nevada town plagued
Impractical Jokers: The Movie isn’t pranking us when it comes to their box office performance. After having a stellar opening last week, the big-screen adaptation of WarnerMedia’s truTV prank show expanded from 357 to nearly 1,800 theaters and earned an estimated $3,545,000 to bring its cume to $6.6 million. The movie has now cracked the top 10
5th Update Sunday AM: Moviegoers didn’t have a problem finding Blumhouse’s The Invisible Man on Saturday with the Leigh Whannell movie racking up $11.1M, a 12% surge over Friday’s $9.9M for a weekend that Universal is calling at $29M (some rival estimates have it in the low $28M range). Even more commendable: if you back out those
Backgrid Will Smith‘s gotta share the spotlight now with Serena and Venus Williams — or at least the young actors who are costarring with him as the tennis phenoms. Will’s been digging into the role of Richard Williams in “King Richard” all week in L.A., but on Thursday we got our first look at his
The specialty box office is headed towards the second star on the right and straight on till morning with Benh Zeitlin’s magical adventure Wendy, a fresh reimagination of J.M. Barrie’s classic tale of Peter Pan. The pic from Searchlight Pictures is Zeitlin’s follow up to his Oscar-nominated Beasts of the Southern Wild, which was released
There are two answers to this particular question, and they’re both rather interesting. The simpler answer is that we’ll probably see them in Sonic The Hedgehog 2, as that film will probably want to go off world to explore more of those safe zones Sonic had earmarked for potential escapes. Since Robotnik is in one
Sony’s Escape Room 2 is jumping its release date from Aug. 14 to Wednesday Dec. 30 this year. Adam Robitel, who directed the first $9M production, returns to helm here. The first movie last year grossed $57M stateside, and $155.7M WW with 22% of that latter number coming from China. Originally, Escape Room 2 was dated on April
Warner Bros has just dated John Lee Hancock’s cop thriller The Little Things for a January 29, 2021 release. The distributor already had the date reserved with an untitled film. The movie, which starts Denzel Washington and Rami Malek, is now going up against Paramount’s animated monster-wrestling movie Rumble on that date. The pic, written by Hancock,
EXCLUSIVE: Seventeen years after the release of Bad Boys II, Sony’s Bad Boys For Life dominated domestic, overseas and global turnstiles in its mid-January debut. On Saturday, it will cross $400 million globally, with current cumes through Thursday at $193.1M domestic and $204.1M from the international box office. Bad Boys 4 is in the works.
Exclusive TMZ Composite Tyler Perry‘s family now has almost complete certainty his nephew took his own life, and was not murdered in prison. Tyler tells TMZ … they got the autopsy results back from Dr. Michael Baden — the world-renowned pathologist he hired to look into 26-year-old Gavin Porter‘s death in a Louisiana prison. We’re
Refresh for updates … As the coronavirus continues to spread, now affecting nearly 60 countries spanning six continents, more events are being canceled or postponed amid travel restrictions and increasing health warnings. As of Friday, the virus had sickened more than 83,000 people worldwide — including 62 people across six states, per the CDC —
This is a key movie for the MonsterVerse, and not just because it’s the first time Godzilla and King Kong are crossing paths in an American production. As of right now, no post-Godzilla vs. Kong MonsterVerse movies have been announced yet, and its predecessor, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, was met with mixed-to-negative reception and
Universal–Blumhouse’s The Invisible Man made its first appearance Thursday night at 7 PM shows nationwide with $1.65 million, an an amount of cash that’s near both studios’ previous collaborations, Get Out ($1.8M Thursday) and Split ($2M). Both 2017 titles overperformed their $20M-predicted tracking at the time, with Split posting a $40M start, and Get Out taking $33.3M. Invisible Man, directed and written
If any good is to come of the coronavirus outbreak, and just now it is hard to see even a glimmer of good, we might consider this: The media will have a shot at redemption. Japan is closing its schools. Saudi Arabia has put Umrah on hold. Cruise ships are dead in the water. And
As a precaution due to the outbreak of the coronavirus in Italy, AMC Theatres boss Adam Aron mentioned today on the exhib chain’s 4Q 2019 earnings call that the exhibitor has closed 22 of its 47 theaters in the country for a week. Since Monday, the number of cases of the coronavirus has spiked from
Exclusive TMZ/Getty Composite The coronavirus is slowing just about every industry due to increased fears of a worldwide outbreak, but foreign moviemakers are pushing ahead in America … full steam. TMZ spoke with multiple film commission offices, from coast-to-coast in the U.S., and all were on the same page about how they’re handling overseas productions/companies
The Parasite train keeps on gaining traction, with Bong Joon Ho’s four-time Oscar-winning dark comedy crossing $50 million right now at the domestic box office. But the real question is, can it beat Life Is Beautiful’s box office gross of $57M? If it maintains its momentum, signs are pointing to yes. As its Imax run comes to
During Robert Englund’s time chatting with SyFy Wire, he did state that either a prequel story delving into Freddy’s legal proceedings, or a cameo in an Elm Street movie with another Freddy, could be ways of bringing him back to the live action fold. That former possibility sounds particularly interesting, especially if fellow Nightmare on
John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place Part II, the sequel to his surprise 2018 Paramount-Platinum Dunes $341M-global grossing genre hit A Quiet Place, arrived on tracking this morning with a projected opening of $60M. The sequel hits theaters on March 20, and is on track to beat the first film’s $50.2M domestic opening. A Quiet Place Part
Funimation’s Wednesday opening of Kenji Nagasaki’s anime My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising led yesterday’s box office with $1.7M at 1,275 theaters according to early morning estimates. Though much smaller than the $7M first day Wednesday opening of Funimation’s Dragon Ball Super: Broly prior to MLK weekend last year, My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising had enough bucks to beat the
“The impact in 2020 from Corvid-19 (coronavirus) on the motion picture business cannot be overstated,” a finance source recently told us. That’s as the closure of cinemas in China alone is approaching a loss of $2B to the global box office, while the disease has now seen spikes in Korea and Italy. What looked in
Breaking News TMZ/Getty Composite China’s presence will be noticeably absent at CinemaCon 2020 in Las Vegas … after 2 dozen Chinese movie theater owners canceled travel plans due to the coronavirus. A spokesman for the National Association of Theater Owners tells TMZ … the delegation pulled out of the event following travel restrictions imposed on
With some global conferences rethinking their plans in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, Hollywood’s crossroads for exhibition and the major studios, CinemaCon, is still moving foward in Las Vegas from March 30-April 2. NATO President & CEO John Fithian and Managing Director Mitch Neuhauser released a statement today. News broke earlier today that some
John Constantine! Based on all of the “fuck yeah” responses in the comments, it sounds like fans would be just fine watching a Hellblazer movie from Scott Derrickson. Before Doctor Strange, Derrickson was best known for his work in the horror genre, including Hellraiser: Inferno, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Sinister, and Deliver Us from
It’s not as if Universal and Blumhouse anticipated the opening of its gaslight thriller The Invisible Man to coincide with the guilty verdict handed down this week to movie mogul Harvey Weinstein in his sexual misconduct trial. But the Blumhouse-produced movie written and directed by Leigh Whannell arrives in cinemas at a moment when the
The famed author Clive Cussler — whose 1992 adventure novel “Sahara” was adapted into a film and starred Matthew McConaughey — has died … TMZ has learned. Cussler died Monday, according to his son. The cause of death was not disclosed. Cussler wrote more than 2 dozen novels, including “Raise the Titanic, in his series
As you read these tips about how to ensure yourself a spot on Rise of Resistance in Disneyland, California, remember that a ticket to the park doesn’t ensure entry into this ride. It’s not the perfect situation and cast members are well aware of this – they deal with it every day. There’s a high