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Michelle Lesco during Nathan’s Famous 2021 July 4th Hot Dog Eating Contest. (Getty) A hot dog eating content is the latest sport that could potentially have been undermined by trans inclusion, according to a ‘gender-critical’ group – even though the winner is a cisgender woman. The self-described “data analysis” group, She Won, listed the sausage-swallowing
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What do you do when your conglom might be a target for a takeover. Don’t sweat it and laugh. As Skydance remains in talks with Paramount Global’s majority shareholder National Amusements to take control of the studio Paramount Pictures CEO Brian Robbins made light of sales talks before exhibitors at CinemaCon in Las Vegas saying
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Fanboys will have to wait until San Diego Comic Con to see footage from Marvel Studios‘ 2025 release Captain America: Brave New World, but exhibitors do not. On Thursday during Disney‘s closing CinemaCon session, the studio showed off the new Anthony Mackie movie that picks up after the events of the 2021 Disney+ series The
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Too Hot to Handle’s Francesca Farago Is Pregnant, Expecting First Baby With Jesse Sullivan Nara Smith made another creation from scratch.  The TikToker and her husband Lucky Blue Smith welcomed their third child together, a baby girl named Whimsy Lou Smith, the couple revealed in a joint Instagram post on April 11.  “Our little girl has arrived!” they wrote in the post.
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The trailer for Paramount‘s Smile 2 came as a surprise this morning during the studio’s session at CinemaCon. Though not introduced, when the images first hit the screen, it was easy to assume Paramount was distributing a Lady Gaga concert movie (it truly felt that way). But as it continued, it was clear Naomi Scott
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Flamethrowers, judo chops, Anjelica Huston, a Keanu Reeves cameo and ballet dancing are just some of the things you’ll see when Lionsgate drops first trailer for Ballerina. Exhibs got to see that today at CinemaCon. “You’re childhood was taken from you,” Huston’s matriarch type tells Ana de Armas assassin, who is as fierce offstage as
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AMC CEO Adam Aron continued to pour cold water on any notion that his No. 1 circuit is headed for Chapter 11. “Bankruptcy is a terrible word,” said Aron on a CinemaCon Industry Think Tank Panel which also included Bill Kramer, CEO, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, as well as Cathleen Taff, President, Distribution,
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CinemaCon attendees got an extended clip from Illumination’s Despicable Me 4 at Universal’s presentation Wednesday in Las Vegas. In it, Gru (Steve Carell) teams with the villainess Poppy (Joey King) to steal a honey badger from a castle/private school. Two Minions and Gru’s baby son Junior are in tow. Calamity ensues as the honey badger
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Fin Affleck announced their new name while speaking at their grandfather’s funeral. (Facebook/ Christ Church United Methodist) Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s teenage child has publicly debuted their new name, Fin, at their grandfather’s funeral – and while reports have described this as Fin “coming out as trans”, all they did was say their name.
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Michael Keaton, Beetlejuice himself showed up at Warner Bros Cinemacon presentation for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Keaton, who has already seen the movie twice, said, “Truthfully, I don’t think it’s a secret anymore, but he (Tim Burton) and over the years kicked the notion around. Three or five years past, we’d say ‘what do you think?’ Finally
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Sometimes Oliver Hudson and Robyn Lively wish they were almost more famous.  The Rules of Engagement alum and Teen Witch star have watched their sisters—Kate Hudson and Blake Lively, respectively—become Hollywood A-listers, which has afforded the actresses roles and opportunities that they themselves haven’t had. “There’s always a part of me that’s like, ‘F–k, man, why can’t I do that?'” Oliver
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The AFL player has accepted a ban. (Getty) Australian Football League (AFL) player Jeremy Finlayson has accepted a three-match ban for using a homophobic slur which he admitted was “hurtful and totally unacceptable”. Umpire microphones recorded the “unprompted and highly offensive” homophobic language Finlayson uttered towards an Essendon opponent at Adelaide Oval during a match
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Motion Picture Assocation Chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin continued to not hold back at CinemaCon, delivering another Eliot Ness-fueled, colorful crusade speech against piracy. “Remember – these aren’t teenagers playing an elaborate prank!” exclaimed Rivkin in a drum that’s been beaten by the MPA since the days of the org’s forefather Jack Valenti. “The perpetrators
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The global box office saw some encouraging rebound in 2023, and is off to a better than expected start in the first quarter of this year, but there’s been concern about a downward trend in per capita admissions, and not just because of the strikes’ disruption to the Hollywood theatrical pipeline, but audiences’ moviegoing tendencies
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