“You’re being managed on Barbie” was a snarky text I received last night, “it’s at least $130M.” The point of that is the projections out there for the Greta Gerwig directed feature take of the Mattel doll are indeed wild. Rivals were spotting $90M-$125M; Warners asserting $75M. Today, to support the crazy fever of moviegoing
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Alamo Drafthouse Cinema said CEO Shelli Taylor is retiring in August and named president Michael Kustermann as its new chief executive. The fast-growing dine-in chain, that’s been hugely successful luring post-pandemic moviegoers back to theaters, said its board of directors, including Taylor and executive chairman Tim League, selected Kustermann as Taylor steps down, effective August
Play video content TMZSports.com WWE Superstar Seth Rollins says he’s in full support of the writers and actors striking in Hollywood … but tells TMZ Sports there’s a bit of a “silver lining” in the situation, ’cause it gives people a new opportunity to check out wrestling!! Of course, SAG-AFTRA decided to join the Writers
On the edge of what is bound to be the domestic box office’s third $200M+ weekend thanks to Barbie and Oppenheimer, the motion picture industry’s fret is whether the great post-pandemic moviegoing rebound is about to screech to a halt due to the SAG-AFTRA strike and actors prohibited from promoting. Barbie and Oppenheimer are expected
At a time when the industry is suffering through historic dual strikes by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA, the motion picture industry is poised to see an enormous weekend at the box office with Warner Bros./Mattel’s long awaited toy feature adaptation Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s World War II era three-hour adult drama Oppenheimer reaping a combined
Le’Veon Bell says NFL running backs are being treated like a bunch of ants when it comes to contract negotiations … and unless they team up, they’re going to continue to get squashed. The ex-Pittsburgh Steelers star — who famously sat out an entire season over his own contract dispute — went on a Twitter
Lindsay Lohan is officially a mama for the very first time … giving birth to her baby boy. A rep for Lindsay tells us the actress and her husband, Bader Shammas, welcomed Luai Shammas — which means “shield or protector” in Arabic — after Lohan delivered the baby boy in Dubai … where she and
Talk about respecting a theatrical window: Disney has set a Disney+ global premiere date for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 of Aug. 2, that’s 90 days after the pic’s theatrical release of May 5. While Disney got a lot of slack during CEO Bob Chapek’s era for executing theatrical day-and-date releases on Disney+ during
Awkwardness was in the air at Disneyland this weekend, where the studio forged ahead with their “Haunted Mansion” premiere amid the SAG strike … without any of the cast in sight. The premiere went down Saturday at the Anaheim park — in front of the actual Haunted Mansion ride, no less. Like we said, none
Searchlight Pictures’ Sundance-winning original comedy Theater Camp will take in an estimated $281,172 or $46.9k per theater at six locations opening weekend — the best limited opening for the distributor since Jojo Rabbit in the fall of 2019 ($349k in five locations). That’s after the A CinemaScore film on Sunday pulled ahead of Searchlight’s The
The new live-action “Snow White” movie is sure gonna look different from what most people remember about the fairy tale classic — ’cause there are hardly any dwarves to be found. A handful of on-set photos were published this week — with production going down in the London area — and based on the images
What was it W. B. Yeats wrote, that line Joan Didion lifted and twisted in her essay “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” about West Coast chaos in 1967? Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. That’s how it felt on Thursday, a few minutes before lunch with some seasoned film executive-friends at the Academy Museum (Salad Niçoise
SATURDAY PM UPDATE: Facts are facts, and Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One set a 5-day opening domestic record for the franchise with $80M, we hear. Previous best 5-day opening belonged to 2000’s Mission: Impossible II which cleared a Wednesday-Sunday take over Memorial Day weekend of $78.8M. The 3-day record still belongs to
Tom Cruise is flying high in the new ‘Mission: Impossible,’ but the flick itself is already coming in for a mediocre landing at the box office … at least that’s the outlook. The early ticket sale numbers are in, and with the pace it’s currently at right now … ‘Dead Reckoning: Part One’ is projected
Play video content Ron Perlman is super pissed at the studio executive who wants to bleed striking writers dry before coming to the table to end one of two Hollywood strikes … so much so, he’s making threats. The “Hellboy” star did not mince words in a since-deleted social media rant Friday, making some ominous
Gkids has acquired North American rights to Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron, the Japanese maestro’s latest feature which Toho is releasing today in Japan as Kimitachi wa Do Ikiruka (How Do You Live?). The Boy and the Heron is now the official international title. This all-rights deal marks a continuation of Gkids’ long-standing
Expressing solidarity with Hollywood actors on Day 1 of the SAG-AFTRA strike, specialty distributors polled were anxiously juggling opening weekend Q&As and movie premieres without talent. They were trying to clarify which actors on what international productions are SAG-AFTRA, bound by the guild, or neither. And, for those involved in production, trying to pin down
Kevin Costner‘s estranged wife Christine Baumgartner better think twice before removing a sofa or fridge from the family home, because we’ve learned a judge has just laid down the law. The judge in the bitter divorce case just issued a ruling this morning — Christine is permitted to remove and take all her clothing, toiletries,
Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is off and running overseas with a $39.8M cume through Thursday in 48 international box office markets. This includes Wednesday openings in some markets and a strong paid preview program. With domestic’s Wednesday/Thursday plus previews, that brings the global total on the Tom Cruise-starrer to $$63.6M through
SAG-AFTRA actors are facing a load of rules as the strike goes into effect … and we’re talking about everything, from acting on camera to even tweeting about projects. TMZ has obtained a copy of the rigorous guidelines the 160,000 union members are required to follow until the strike ends … and it cites the
Lindsay Lohan looks ready to welcome her first child, and not just because her baby bump’s growing … the kid’s nursery is also coming together. The actress showed off her pregnancy progress Wednesday, plus the room she’s preparing for her kid. Lindsay says she designed the nursery with Nestig, a furniture and decor brand for
AMC Networks had made it official that Scott Shooman as been upped to Head of its Film Group which encompasses IFC Films, RLJE Films and the Shudder streaming service. Shooman has been serving as the interim head in the wake of the shocking exit of IFC Films President Arianna Bocco back in March. Shooman
Morgan Freeman is on the mend from a nasty infection that derailed his plans to jet across the pond to promote his latest show. The 86-year-old actor was forced to cancel a UK trip after he came down with a fever … according to his rep, who says doctors told Morgan he was contagious. Obviously,
Box office for most Broadway shows last week wilted a bit as June’s Tony glow gave way to plain old New York summer heat, though a couple newcomers were among the handful bucking the downward trend, one very impressively so. In its second week of previews, Back To The Future: The Musical grossed a whopping
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning – Part One is looking at $6M-$7M in previews so far, which is bound to be higher than the Thursday previews of the last Mission Impossible – Fallout back in 2018 which did $6M. This is according to sources. The figures we’re seeing now could go higher or lower.
Sony/Stage 6 Films/Blumhouse’s Insidious: The Red Door may have stolen No. 1 away from Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny at the weekend box office, but Angel Studios’ indie wonder Sound of Freedom won Monday with an estimated $4 million. All of this before Paramount/Skydance’s Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One takes all
Play video content Instagram / @barber_homie_quan Jamie Foxx isn’t just out and about as he recovers in Chicago — he’s saving the day for women in distress, and his act of kindness was captured on video. This video is pretty wild … it shows Jamie in a chauffeur-driven SUV roll up next to a group
Can Tom Cruise save summer? Despite the onslaught of shiny product that hasn’t delivered, i.e. Flash and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the summer domestic box office at $2.1 billion per Comscore is pacing 6% behind last year’s for the period of May 1 to July 9. All eyes are on the best
Melanie Griffith wears her heart on her sleeve in expressing her love — just ask Antonio Banderas — and now, she’s got 4 new names in ink to show off her feelings. The actress was sleeveless in L.A. Monday, revealing the fairly-new tattoo with an interesting location considering she once bore the name of her
Play video content TMZ.com Jamie Foxx‘s road to recovery seems to be going very well, ’cause the guy’s out and about in public now … with TMZ getting the first glimpse of him since his hospitalization. Check out this footage we’ve obtained, showing a cheerful JF cruising along on a mega-boat on the Chicago River
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