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Johnny Depp‘s charitable donations are gonna go a long way in helping the orgs he’s vowed to help out … telling us they can’t wait to put the money to work. A rep for Make-A-Film Foundation, a lucky recipient of $200K from JD calls him “one of the most generous people we’ve ever worked with.”

Deadline has reported that Hugh Grant is currently in talks for the leading role in A24’s next horror film called Heretic. The movie is from the co-writers of ‘A Quiet Place’ and the guys who penned Adam Drivers film ’65’, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. Heretic is going to be written and directed by both Beck

After a year plus of tabloid headlines about its star Ezra Miller, Warner Bros./DC’s Covid-delayed $200M Justice League standalone superhero movie, The Flash, finally arrives in theaters. The global opening looks better than domestic, $155M-$165M Global to a $70M+ in U.S./Canada. Despite a very good response out of CinemaCon and DC co-boss James Gunn exclaiming

Amber Heard‘s million-dollar IOU to Johnny Depp has finally been paid — and now, we know exactly where the money’s going … different charities near and dear to his heart. Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … in light of the million recently making its way to Johnny — which, as we reported, was covered

Alex Newell of Shucked and J. Harrison Ghee of Some Like It Hot broke ground Sunday night as the first openly nonbinary Tony Award winners. Newell won for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical and Ghee for Best Actor in a Lead Role in a Musical. Both drew huge ovations with acceptance

Directing duo Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, the team behind the fantasy adventure film ‘Dungeons & Dragons’, are set to write and direct the forthcoming action film for Apple TV+ called ‘Mayday’. It will be lead by Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh. Goldstein and Daley have worked together on several other projects including Horrible Bosses, Cloudy with

Tenoch Huerta, famous for playing Namor in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” is denying a recent sexual assault allegation against him. The Marvel star broke his silence Monday after being accused Saturday of sexually assaulting musician María Elena Ríos, who also claimed he was a “sexual predator.” Tenoch says her accusation is “false and completely unsubstantiated.”

While she was ebullient about Leopoldstadt‘s Tony Awards wins, including a crowning one for Best Play, producer Sonia Friedman offered some sobering thoughts about plays of its scale and cost Sunday night. “Oooh, this is a big conversation,” Friedman said when asked about the challenges of producing a show like Tom Stoppard’s multi-layered look at

Elizabeth Olsen has been really honest about her time with Marvel — namely, feeling like she invested far too many years working for them — and now … she’s hitting that point home. The actress — famous for playing Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch throughout the ‘Avengers’ movies — got candid yet again this weekend in a

Don’t Feed the Children is the upcoming horror film which is set to be directed by by Destry Allyn Spielberg, the daughter of Steven Spielberg, who will be making her feature directorial debut. The movie will be written by Paul Bertino. “A gang of orphans travels to the south in quest of a new life after a

Utopia’s Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) grossed an estimated $10k from one engagement at NYC’s Film Forum, where it was the top-ranking pic. Celebrated filmmaker and photographer Anton Corbijn’s first feature documentary is the story of Hipgnosis, the iconic album art design studio that was a force in the music industry behind some

Donald Trump thought he could use Matt Damon‘s voice to help raise some dough for his campaign, but the famous actor and his buddy Ben Affleck aren’t gonna let it fly. Trump pushed out a fundraising video on Truth Social last week which was almost entirely centered around a monologue from Damon’s character in the

Paramount/Skydance/Hasbro’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is on the prowl overseas with $43.3M through Friday in 68 markets. This portends a $100M+ international box office debut, in line with projections. The domestic three-day is looking at $60M. China, a key market for the franchise, released the Autobots and Maximals at No. 1 on Friday with $11.8M,

Image Credit: Netflix DIRECTOR: Zack SnyderWRITERS: Zack Snyder, Kurt Johnstad, Shay HattenPRODUCERS: Deborah Snyder, Eric Newman, Zack Snyder, Wesley CollerEXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Bergen Swanson, Sarah Bowen, Shay Hatten, Kurt JohnstadKEY CAST: Sofia Boutella, Djimon Hounsou, Ed Skrein, Michiel Huisman, Doona Bae, Ray Fisher, with Charlie Hunnam and Anthony Hopkins as the voice of ‘Jimmy’.  Also starring Staz Nair, Fra Fee, Cleopatra

Naomi Watts is a married woman for the first time in her life — ’cause she said “I do” to Billy Crudup … who also walked down the aisle as a newbie. The actress announced their marriage on social media Saturday, posting a photo of what appears to be her and BC standing on the

Comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan will do a four-arena tour together this fall. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. The upcoming dates include Friday, November 3, at the Chase Center in San Francisco; Saturday, November 4, at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles; Friday, November 10, in Chicago; and Saturday, November 11, at

Alec Baldwin seems to be in good spirits after his recent surgery … cuz he’s up and moving around the Big Apple not long after his big procedure — with a little help from a crutch. AB was spotted for the first time since last week’s hip replacement surgery, goin’ through New York with a

The trailer for Poor Things has arrived from Searchlight Pictures‘, which stars Emma Stone as a young woman who comes back to life through a Frankenstein-like experiment. “The film is an incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin

Two from Magnolia Pictures, the story of an iconic record album design firm back and a sighting of Brian Cox usher in a specialty weekend with smoke clearing over New York City. Acrid plumes from Canadian wildfires have smothered the key arthouse market over the past few days in an unusual air quality event that

Play video content TMZ.com Tupac Shakur would be pleased to know some of his running mates are among the hundreds of fans who turned out to see his Hollywood Walk of Fame Star cemented into history!!! TMZ Hip Hop linked with Treach of Naughty By Nature and former Death Row singer Danny Boy … who

Six weeks into the writers strike, the early returns on summer studio films have been some of the best since Covid brought the exhibition business to a screeching halt. But if SAG-AFTRA members trade lines of dialogue for picket lines beginning July 1, the business might well look like pandemic redux. The domestic box office

“A refreshingly unique raunchy comedy, the film focuses on two girls, PJ and Josie, who start a fight club as a way to lose their virginities to cheerleaders. Their bizarre plan works,” reads the synopsis for the Bottoms trailer. “The fight club gains traction and soon the most popular girls in school are beating each

Leonardo DiCaprio and Gigi Hadid certainly aren’t doing anything to quiet the speculation they’re dating … arriving to the same hotel only minutes apart for a possible rendezvous. Both Leo and Gigi hightailed it back to London’s Chiltern Firehouse Hotel Wednesday … doing their usual routine of pulling up in separate cars. However, their timing

Summer’s tentpole rumble continues this weekend with Paramount’s seventh Transformers movie, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, which is heat-seeking $155 million at the worldwide box office for its opening frame, $100M of that offshore. The movie reps a concentrated reboot by the studio of the long-in-tooth robots-in-disguise franchise, which has suffered in latter installments from

Bam Margera is headed in the right direction … getting released from a psychiatric hospital, and going straight into treatment at Lamar Odom‘s rehab center. Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ the former “Jackass” star was released from a psych hospital Wednesday, and Lamar was there to greet him as he exited the facility.

The new poster for The Expendables 4 has been revealed. The fourth movie in the franchise, it is scheduled to hit cinemas sometime this year. The trailer according to the Expendables twitter page and Jason Statham’s social media, will debut tomorrow. From the poster we can see a star studded cast that includes  Jason Statham, 50 Cent,

Despite all the noise The Flash star Ezra Miller created off set in the last year including a burglary charge for stealing liquor from a neighbor’s house in Vermont, among myriad other tabloid headlines, filmmakers who’ve worked with the actor vouch they’re the consummate professional with zero melodrama on set. Daliland filmmaker Mary Harron told

Before this youngin’ with her blunt bangs and beaded hair ties turned into an A-list celebrity and actress, she was just playing soccer, competing in gymnastics and singing in the local plays in Boulder, Colorado. This star has been in a hand full of iconic shows and movies like playing Lara in “Rules of Attraction,”

D. Barry Reardon, former longtime Warner Bros. President of Sales and Distribution, has died at 92. The exec known as “The Dean of Distribution” among industry peers and filmmakers passed May 27 in Vero Beach, FL. Reardon was the head of theatrical distribution at Warner Bros from 1978-99, and was known for breaking the mold

 Sarah Paulson and Elle Fanning have signed on for a new adaptation of I Am Sybil, Flora Rheta Schreiber’s best-selling 1973 nonfiction novel. The project will center around one of the first mainstream cases of dissociative identity disorder. The movie will be directed by Mirrah Foulkes from a script she co-wrote with Jen Silverman. The movie will explore