At the end of the day there’s no real need for the actors to look like their video game counterparts, there’s nothing vital to the characters based in the way they look, but it is interesting that apparently no thought was given to doing anything to attempt to make them look like their avatar alter
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(Interactive chart with estimates below) Three different premieres led the specialty box office this weekend with each film breaking a 100K weekend gross. First, Focus Features’ Final Account splashed in at $150K this opening weekend. Over a decade in the making, the timely documentary offers a portrait of the last living generation of everyday people
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are back, and they’re done hiding it … because the first clear shots of them together have surfaced, and they look all too pleased in each other’s company. BA flew into Miami Sunday to meet up with his old flame, trying to look incognito in a helluva getup. Dude was
Kelly Clarkson: Judd Apatow told me, and I wanted to know if it’s true, he told me that it’s your fault that people scream my name everywhere I go, ‘oh Kelly Clarkson.’ I could literally do anything, doesn’t matter how many hits what I do in life, I could save a family from drowning, fires,
The domestic box office isn’t going to get interesting until next weekend when Paramount’s A Quiet Place Part II and Disney’s Cruella launch the summer season. From that point on, we largely won’t have any weekends where the major studios are taking a break from releasing wide entries, which is the case this weekend as Lionsgate’s Spiral: From the Book
A crazy post-crash site has a lot of people reminiscing on early 2000s horror — because it looks eerily similar to a killer moment from the ‘Final Destination’ franchise. A guy named Aaron Cox posted a video showing a giant wood log piercing the windshield of a white van, pulled over behind a transport truck
Known as the “Women For Bees” initiative, Angelina Jolie will be part of UNESCO and cosmetic company Guerlain’s plan to train 50 women to become beekeepers. In total the plan is to restore 125 million bees into the world, through the building of 2,500 beehives to do so. So what better way to draw attention
In the wake of Monday’s news that Amazon is making a go at MGM, it’s been radio silence. As of today, we hear that both sides remain actively in talks, and want to get the deal done soon but the time frame remains undefined. With Amazon’s recent acquisition of big pics like Paramount’s Coming 2
A piece of movie history is going up for sale … the iconic house from “Training Day” just hit the market. The 3-bedroom home, tucked away on a cul-de-sac near Dodger Stadium, is up for sale at a cool $1,149,000 … and it’s where memorable scenes for the movie starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke
If I had a superpower, it would be my ability to notice the similarities between very seemingly different people. And today, as a filmmaker, I found that that has been a little bit of a knock against me. I feel I’ve been asked to take the Black experience and show why it’s so different than
Universal’s F9 put the pedal to the metal in its Korea bow with $3.4M (3.9M won) on day one today. That’s the best opening day ever for the Fast & Furious franchise in the market, as well as the top opening of all films in Korea since the pandemic began — even coming in ahead
Play video content SplashNews.com Paul Hogan insists he didn’t put up a sign on his house warning homeless people to scram … in fact, he says the house isn’t even his and he has empathy for people living on the streets. The “Crocodile Dundee” star was getting lots of unwanted attention after a sign was
Tom Cruise apparently saw the challenge of making the sequels work in a positive light, something that would be creatively interesting for him to find a solution to, rather than a difficulty to be avoided. And now we’re going to find ourselves with at least eight Mission: Impossible movies as two of them are in
The former Governor of California and Terminator franchise star made a big splash today at The Big Screen Is Back conference to exclaim, “The big screen is back, ladies and gentleman!”. Arnold Schwarzenegger then led the whole auditorium at the AMC Century City 15 in a chant “We are back! We are back!“ Schwarzenegger said he got the
Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s son already follows in his dad’s footsteps when it comes to bodybuilding … but now he’s mimicking his pops in Hollywood. Sources close to Joseph Baena tell TMZ … on the heels of landing his first big acting gig earlier this year — in the John Malkovich sci-fi flick, “The Chariot” — he’s
CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links. After a somewhat rocky start, The DC Extended Universe seems to have found its footing. One of the early successes was James Wan’s Aquaman, which allowed Jason Momoa to take center stage as
Universal will be releasing the Baltasar Kormákur directed thriller Beast starring Idris Elba on Aug. 19, 2022. There are no other major studio wide releases currently scheduled for that date. Elba plays widowed husband and father, Dr Nate Samuels, who with his two teenage daughters find themselves hunted by a massive rogue lion intent on proving that
A man who says he bought a “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle from Gwyneth Paltrow‘s Goop company claims it could have killed him when it exploded … and he’s now filed a class-action lawsuit about it. According to the legal docs, obtained by TMZ, the guy suing is a Texas resident named Colby Watson,
The trailer for Dear Evan Hansen is set to the backdrop of the Act I closing song “You Will Be Found.” As the lyrics tell the movie’s story about isolation and hope, the characters of the movie musical come together. Ben Platt’s title character is a lonely high school student crippled by anxiety, who happens
Manhattan Theatre Club’s production of Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s Lackawanna Blues is now the fifth show set to begin performances on Sept. 14, the first day of Broadway’s post-shutdown reopening. The play – written, performed and directed by Santiago-Hudson (Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) – will be the season’s first Broadway production by a nonprofit theater company.
Leigh Steinberg — the inspiration behind “Jerry Maguire” — says there won’t be a sequel to the classic film, but a movie about his life is very likely … and the NFL super-agent knows which actor he wants to portray him. It’s not Tom Cruise (been there, done that) … Leigh tells TMZ Sports he
Transformania follows 2018’s Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, which had the Count, his family and friends going on a cruise and meeting the Van Helsing family. It’s there where Drac meets a love of his own in Kathryn Hahn’s Ericka Van Helsing, who is primed to return for this movie fresh off her wicked role
(Interactive chart with estimates below) Though the country might be inching towards normalcy, the specialty box office has yet to make steps towards a total recovery. This weekend we failed to see a single film break a 100K gross. Opening at 41 screens this week was IFC Midnight horror flick The Djinn. Co-directed by David
A giant statue of Marilyn Monroe in her iconic dress-fluttering pose is making a comeback in the California desert … but now, people are finding new ways to be pissed about it. The 26-foot tall stainless steel effigy — aptly titled “Forever Marilyn” — has returned to the city of Palm Springs after a 7-year
There’s no telling whether Dave Bautista will actually get to play Bane at some point in the future but, with the moves he’s making, it’s certainly not impossible. One thing we can say for sure is that the actor will continue to challenge himself with different kinds of roles that will keep audiences on their
SATURDAY AM UPDATE: If you remember going back to last August, before Tenet‘s intentions to restart the box office, there were a few targeted demo movies leading up to that film’s release, i.e. Solstice Studios’ Unhinged and Disney/20th’s New Mutants. Those movies were expected to grease the wheels before a tentpole opening. True, that big B.O. debut
Terrence Howard‘s hired some big legal guns to wrestle with producers of his new movie, “Triumph” … claiming they don’t have his consent to use him in the film, which has already been released — and that’s a problem. TMZ’s obtained a cease and desist letter sent by Howard’s legal team to employees at Cinemark,
CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links. Zack Snyder’s Justice League (a.k.a. the Snyder Cut) provided fans with the definitive version of the filmmaker’s DC Comics team-up movie. The four-hour flick was filled to the brim with footage that was
Robert Eggers’ next movie The Northman will be hitting theaters on April 8, 2022 via Focus Features. The revenge thriller from The Lighthouse filmmaker stars Alexander Skarsgard, Nicole Kidman, Ethan Hawke, Björk and reteams the filmmaker with his Lighthouse star Willem Dafoe and The Witch star Anya Taylor-Joy. The Northman explores how far a Viking prince will go
Robert De Niro is headed home after suffering an injury while working on Martin Scorsese‘s highly-anticipated upcoming project with Leo DiCaprio. Production sources as well as sources connected to De Niro tell us the actor hurt his leg during filming of “Killers of the Flower Moon” in Oklahoma. He boarded a flight late Thursday for