A new play about NSA whistleblower Reality Winner and Lucas Hnath’s acclaimed Dana H. will play in rotation on Broadway this fall, producers announced today. Is This A Room, conceived and directed by Obie Award winner Tina Satter, with text taken from the FBI interrogation of Winner, will begin previews at the Lyceum Theatre on
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Sacha Baron Cohen is pissed at a cannabis company he claims is plastering his “Borat” character on one of its giant billboards … and now he’s suing over it. The actor filed suit against Solar Therapeutics, where he alleges the company is using his famous persona to sell medical marijuana in Massachusetts … where Borat’s
Zendaya, everyone’s favorite millennial Renaissance woman (singer, actor, dancer, model, fashion it-girl, etc.), sat down with Entertainment Weekly to chat about her role as Lola Bunny. Given the recent controversy, it’s unsurprising that the trade asked Zendaya how she felt about the fans’ reactions, and whether or not she expected such a strong backlash. The
After posting a record domestic opening during the pandemic with $80.3M, Disney/Marvel’s Black Widow went on to do north of $7.16M, which is the best non-holiday Monday during the Covid era to date. Paramount’s A Quiet Place Part II easily owns the best Monday during the pandemic at $9.54M, however, that was on Memorial Day. Through eight
Hawaiian hottie Tia Carrere was only 25 years old when she rocked her role as the sexy singing girlfriend Cassandra Wong — who fronts the band Crucial Taunt and is pursued by the slick and sleazy big-wig Benjamin — in the classic 1992 comedy “Wayne’s World” and the 1993 sequel “Wayne’s World 2.” TC shared
These two have been recruited for The Out-Laws, an action-comedy that sees Adam DeVine playing Owen Browning, a “straight-laced” bank manager who’s about to marry Parker, the “love of his live.” However, when Owen’s bank is held up by a group of robbers known as the Ghost Bandits on the week of his wedding, Owen
Shares of publicly traded move chains fell sharply Monday while broader markets rose as Disney’s Black Widow helped drive the post (ish) pandemic box office to new highs but plenty of viewers siphoned off to Disney+, raising an alarm or at least a lot of questions. AMC Entertainment, the biggest U.S. chain, saw its shares
Tom Cruise made the rounds in London for the city’s mega sports weekend, but he was still mindful of COVID-19 protocols … at least while mingling with fans. A day after Ethan Hunt dropped in for the Wimbledon women’s singles final, he made his way over to Wembley Stadium to watch the Euro 2020 final
Of course, we already know that Yelena Belova will feature in the Disney+ Hawkeye series, so it’s possible that Pugh is just looking forward to that project. The “hope” piece of her message, though, seems to imply that she could be referencing something that hasn’t yet been confirmed. It seems like a given that Yelena
Questlove’s Summer of Soul (…Or When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) will hit a cumulative $1.4 million rising to an estimated $1.47 million Monday with a $375,000 second-week gross in 752 theaters. The best performing documentary so far this year “may possibly get to $2 million, that’s our goal,” said Searchlight Pictures head of
Gervonta Davis has a leg full of stars now … ’cause he just got some of the most iconic movie characters ever tatted on his leg — Scarface and the Joker!!! TMZ Sports has learned … the boxing champ decided it was time to get a sleeve on his left leg … hitting up celebrity
While obviously the big takeaway here is that Sly and Arnold are back in action (or, at least, back in face-to-face communication), the Expendables co-stars also met up with Ralf Moeller and Frank Stallone, making for a truly sweet reunion for all. But ahead of meeting up with each other, both actors managed to keep
Moviegoers not far removed from the isolating strains of lockdown may find The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52 strikes a chord. Distributor Bleecker Street and director Joshua Zeman hope so as the doc, a shift from the helmer’s true crime roots (The Sons of Sam: Descent into Darkness, Cropsey), opens in 75 theaters. Digital release
Play video content TMZSports.com Sylvester Stallone says Conor McGregor would be FOOLISH to say no to a Jake Paul fight … telling TMZ Sports the money would be INSANE!! We talked to Stallone — a HUGE boxing fan — outside Cafe Roma in Beverly Hills … and asked the ‘Rocky’ star whether McGregor should take
Arnold Schwarzenegger would definitely get a kick out of seeing the famed character. He also slipped in the costume of for the movie in actual stores 25 years after the film’s release. Over the years, Jingle All The Way has continued to cycle through households during the holiday season. The movie was turned into a
FRIDAY AM UPDATE: No, streaming hasn’t killed theatrical just yet, and those exhibitors who’ve gone hungry over the last year and half, received lots of bread last night. Disney/Marvel’s Black Widow kicked off its previews at 5PM earning a huge $13.2M, easily the best preview night to date during the pandemic besting Universal’s F9 ($7.1M) and Paramount’s A Quiet
Tennessee native Russell Sams was in his mid-twenties when he was cast as the cig smoking trouble-maker Dick — who disrupts the luncheon with Paul and their uptight moms with his loud antics and crude conversations — in Bret Easton Ellis‘ 2002 dark drama “The Rules of Attraction.” Russell shared the big screen of the
The prevailing thought in the aftermath of this has been that Darren Cross is dead, but it doesn’t seem impossible that he could still be alive… albeit somewhere else. Rather than being killed inside his suit, he may have just had an incredibly violent ride to the Quantum Realm, which is expected to be a
Disney/Marvel’s Black Widow started offshore rollout on Wednesday in 11 material markets including France, Italy and the UK, grossing an estimated $4.9M for the day and setting new post-Covid benchmarks. Not included in the total above are Korea previews of $1.8M yesterday. Early social sentiment there is strong (Naver 9.22/CGV 96%). In the UK and
Robert Downey Sr. — whose credits included filmmaking, directing, writing, acting and fathering Robert Downey Jr. — has died at the age of 85. Sr. died in his sleep at home in NYC Wednesday after a battle with Parkinson’s Disease, according to his wife, who spoke to the NY Daily News. Downey Sr.’s career started
It was only a matter of time before Universal made their streaming move following this past year. Almost everyone of the five major movie studios are establishing streaming models, with Walt Disney Studios’ Disney+, Paramount’s Paramount+ and Warner Bros’ HBO Max. So far, Universal has been leaning on the theatrical model for their movie arm,
EXCLUSIVE: In a recent Samba TV measurement, 783K U.S. households tuned into Universal’s The Boss Baby: Family Business on the studio’s streaming service Peacock over the four-day July 4th holiday weekend. That number for the DreamWorks Animation title beats the four-day Memorial Day debut of Disney’s live-action pic Cruella on Disney+ Premier, which clocked 686K U.S. households that
Suzzanne Douglas — best known as the matriarch in the WB sitcom “The Parent ‘Hood” and who recently appeared in the Netflix series “When They See Us” — has died, TMZ has confirmed. The veteran actress’ husband tells TMZ … Suzzanne died Wednesday at her home in Martha’s Vineyard from complications of cancer. Her husband
A Christmas Carol has been adapted by Hollywood many times before and through a modern lens with movies like 1988’s Scrooged starring Bill Murray, A Muppet Christmas Carol, and 2009’s Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. Details are thin about the creative liberties being made for Spirited, but the fact that it’s a musical definitely sets it
Amazon did not report viewership figures for their $200M Skydance acquisition title The Tomorrow War, but third-party streaming analytics corp Samba TV did, and the Chris Pratt movie drew 2.41M U.S. households during the 4-day holiday weekend. The previous 3-day weekend viewership for Amazon movies Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse, another Skydance pick-up by the streamer, and
Paul Rudd once gave Seth Rogen a massage — which might sound goofy … but there’s a twist that makes all the more hilarious, the details of which Seth shared to much fanfare. The actor/director dished on the hilarious story out of nowhere Monday on Twitter, telling the tale of the time his good pal,
In March 2020, the box office was essentially cryogenically frozen thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s been slowly thawing out ever since, with things crawling back towards normal. Week to week we would see some movies hit big, but mandates and restrictions kept the market limited. This weekend, however, the industry has finally crossed a
Warning: The following interview contains some spoilers about Black Widow, opening July 9 in theaters and on Disney+ Premier. After being delayed for more than a year due to Covid, Black Widow, the second feature movie in the MCU post the franchise’s pinnacle, 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, will finally see the light of day. Industry estimates project
There’s a rare piece of movie history going up for auction … the 1949 Oscar trophy for Best Special Effects for “Mighty Joe Young” … and it’s expected to fetch a fortune. It’s not often you see Oscars on the auction block … the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences loathes seeing its trophies
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