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For the pandemic, Disney/Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings posted a solid Thursday night preview gross especially before a slow Labor Day box office frame, with $8.8 million  from showtimes that began at 6 p.m. On the high side, that figure is above the Thursday night start of Universal’s F9, which posted $7.1M

Play video content TMZ.com “Really Love” star Kofi Siriboe says his new Netflix show breaks the mold … a romantic drama with Black leads where the story is not rooted in trauma or crime. Kofi — best known for his role in Ava Duvernay and Oprah Winfrey‘s TV series “Queen Sugar” — says he grew

Along with being critically well-received, Elf was a commercial success, making over $223 million worldwide off a $33 million budget. In 2013, director Jon Favreau had expressed interest in making a sequel called Elf 2: Buddy Saves Christmas, but later that sam year, Will Ferrell said he wasn’t interested in another round as Buddy. Then

It’s not Venom: Let There Be Carnage going on Nov. 19, rather Sony’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife which received high praise from exhibition out of CinemaCon. Word was that the Marvel sequel would move from Oct. 15 after Paramount flew Top Gun: Maverick from its Nov. 19 date, however, it’s the Jason Reitman-directed, Ivan Reitman produced sequel to the Columbia Pictures comedy franchise.

Dua Lipa‘s trading in one star-studded event for another — the singer’s missing out on the Met Gala … because she’s working on her big-screen acting debut. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … the “Levitating” singer’s among a slew of celebs invited to the famous fundraising ball in NYC this month, but she had

For fans of the album like myself, I wasn’t entirely sold on the idea that Billie Eilish’s official vehicle to present her album visually would be through a Disney+ film, amidst my excitement for the project. The streaming service is infamously the tamest of platforms, bringing up the question how much does her concert film

August 31, 2021 Kristen Stewart Graces The Silver Screen As Princess Diana In ‘Spencer’ The first trailer for ‘Spencer’ is here, with Twilight star Kristen Stewart in the role of Princess Diana. ‘Spencer’ is directed by Pablo Larrain and writtend by Steven Knight. It focuses on Diana over the course of Christmas 1991 which she

The Labor Day weekend box office, the last frame of summer, which studios typically shy from, is poised for a revolution as Disney debuts the first Asian American Marvel superhero feature Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings.  Studios have held the long belief that no one goes to the movies over Labor Day weekend,

Amy Winehouse‘s dad believes the production company planning to make a biopic about his late daughter is playing a losing game … because it’s “100 percent not allowed.” Mitch Winehouse, Amy’s father and administrator of her estate, tells TMZ … there’s no way the recently announced project with Halcyon Studios can go forward, because the

The First Footage Teases An Eventful Reunion Between Neo and Trinity We, the general public, are still waiting to get our first official glimpse of The Matrix Resurrections, but the lucky folks at this year’s CinemaCon had the privilege of seeing the first footage from the intriguing new sequel. As detailed by our own Eric

August 31, 2021 FEATURED, Movies Review: Director Nia DaCosta Superb Remake Of ‘Candyman’ Director: Nia DaCostaWriters: Jordan Peele (screenplay), Win Rosenfeld (screenplay), Nia DaCosta (screenplay)Stars: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett The original “Candyman” of 1992, was written and directed by Bernard Rose, and it became a horror cult classic. It centers on the

Being James Bond, from MGM, will stream exclusively on the Apple TV app as a free rental ahead of the theatrical release of No Time To Die, the 25th installment of the storied franchise. The 45-minute retrospective features Daniel Craig reflecting on his 15 years playing Bond, with never-before-seen archival footage from his oeuvre and conversations with 07

Matthew Mindler‘s mom says he struggled with severe anxiety issues for years, and yet … prior to his suicide, she says he seemed to be enjoying his 1st week of college. The late child actor’s mother, Monica Mindler, tells TMZ … Matthew moved into Millersville University on Aug. 19, and things seemed to be going

CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links. As actors continue to attach themselves to big-budget franchises, more Hollywood stars are forming unlikely bonds. The best illustrations of these changing dynamics are the friendships displayed by many Marvel Cinematic Universe and

August 24, 2021 Watch the first trailer from ‘SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME’ For the first time in the cinematic history of Spider-Man, our friendly neighbourhood hero is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a Super Hero. When he asks for help from Doctor Strange the stakes

August 24, 2021 Kristen Bell Is A Coupon Queen Turned Criminal In The Trailer For The New Film ‘Queenpins’ Written and directed by Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly, the “based on a true story” flick stars Kristen Bell and Kirby Howell-Baptiste, as two lower-middle-class women creating a lucrative scheme concerning grocery coupons. The whole appeal

Pantelion’s animated film Un Rescate De Huevitos (An Egg Rescue) is a rarity in the specialty box office as a Spanish language animated film. And its opening weekend success will certainly come as no surprise in Mexico where the franchise is its highest-grossing film series to date. The Spanish-language animation performed tremendously at its 320

Ed Asner — one the most prolific actors to ever have done it — has died. His reps confirm to TMZ that EA passed away Sunday surrounded by family. No other details about the circumstances of his death have emerged. The family issued a statement saying, “We are sorry to say that our beloved patriarch

It would seem that Pierce Brosnan is not interested in making a return as James Bond and seems very content with his body of work. It’s hard to blame him, given that his performances in those four Bond movies were received relatively well. The films, which varied critically, also did well at the box office,

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s some data we haven’t seen yet: The 17-day U.S. household viewership for Warner Bros. movies released this year on HBO Max, with James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad registering 4.7M households through its first three weekends of release on the service. All of this comes from Samba TV which measures streaming viewership in 3M U.S.

Matthew Mindler, the child actor who went missing earlier this week, has died … law enforcement tells TMZ. The college he attended confirmed his death with an announcement to the student body … “It is with a grieving heart that I let you know of the death of 19-year-old Matthew Mindler from Hellertown, Pennsylvania, a

David Dastmalchian is an actor who has played a lot of different supporting roles in huge productions and has amassed a number of credits in comic book movies. In fact, Polka-Dot Man isn’t even the only Batman villain he has played, as he previously portrayed the Joker’s henchman in The Dark Knight. Despite having a

Universal/MGM/Monkeypaw’s reimagination of cult classic horror movie Candyman posted $1.9M on Thursday from 2750 theaters off shows that began at 7PM. The pic, in a recent rare feat for horror pics, has an 86% certified fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes. Interestingly enough, another critically acclaimed horror release that played the late August period in 2016 off an

Matthew Mindler, the former child actor famous for starring opposite Paul Rudd in “Our Idiot Brother,” has gone missing from his college in Pennsylvania … according to police. A freshman at Millersville University in Millersville, PA, Matthew has not been seen since Tuesday night and was reported missing late Wednesday after not returning to his

Lewis Pullman, son of Independence Day’s Bill Pullman, will star in the Salem’s Lot movie as writer Ben Mears, the main protagonist, as shared by THR. This is Pullman’s biggest cinematic role yet, having previously appeared in movies like Battle of the Sexes and Bad Times at the El Royale, and he’ll pop up later

Together, the lockdown drama from Bleeker Street, opens on 250 screens this weekend in a specialty market treading water and with little visibility on box office amid daily Covid headlines. The trend continues of specialty films going wider faster and narrowing the window from theatrical to VOD in a nod to the chunk of its

Play video content @terrycrews / Instagram Terry Crews hasn’t lost a move since “White Chicks” — or a lyric either, for that matter. The actor took ‘AGT’ fans on a trip down memory lane this week with an impromptu performance of Vanessa Carlton’s “A Thousand Miles” … which he, of course, famously did in the

The foundation of Marvel Studios was laid down back in 2000 when the trilogy of Blade, X-Men and Spider-Man won over audiences and proved to studio executives that comic book movies could be successful. When he comments on the history of the genre, we listen. You will see his next movie under the Marvel Studios

Chris Pratt’s Owen Grady galloping after dinosaurs in a snowy mountain landscape, Bryce Dallas Howard’s Claire Dearing being chased by them on European rooftops, and the legacy trio of Sam Neil, Jeff Goldblum, and Laura Dern returning. These are some of the images from the BTS reel Uni presented for Jurassic World Dominion. While the studio

Letitia Wright was injured during an overnight shoot for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” and while it’s not super serious … it’s serious enough that she’s been taken to a hospital. Wright got hurt in an incident with a stunt rig while filming a scene in Boston, and a spokesperson for Marvel told Deadline she was