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Marshawn Lynch has made a career change … the ex-NFL running back is now an actor — and on Tuesday, the sports world found out his first major part is a starring role in a teen sex comedy movie. Seriously. The flick is called “Bottoms” — and while it’s been announced for a while now

NEWS PROVIDED BYES NEWS PR A comedy parody of the inside makings of the movie industry involving NativeAmerican talent, egotistical character actors to be shot in old town SanDiego. The classic old western town sets the scene for a unique adventure inthe vein of Mel Brooks films, Bowfinger, City Slickers, and Tropic Thunder. In this

After the massive weekend success of Sony Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, many rival studios are looking at executing their comic book IP differently on the big screen. Quite often, animated superhero projects are released directly to the home (think Warner Bros-DC’s myriad superhero toon movies like 2010’s Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam and

Play video content SplashNews.com Michael J. Fox says his battle with Parkinson’s disease is getting worse … and that seemed evident during a ‘Back to the Future’ event this weekend where he took a fall, but still played it off pretty well. The beloved actor was on hand Sunday for a ‘BTTF’ fan expo in

Director: Chris Foggin Writer: Piers Ashworth Stars: Phoebe Dynevor. Rory Kinnear, Paul Kay Inspired by the true story of Dave Fishwick, a self-made millionaire from Burnley who set up a community bank to support local businesses. From Director Chris Foggin, ‘Bank Of Dave’ is a film that embodies everything you could want out of a

Tyne Daly and Liev Schreiber will star in a new Broadway production next February of John Patrick Shanley’s Tony Award & Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt: A Parable, with direction by Scott Ellis. The Roundabout Theatre Company production will begin performances in February 2024 at the American Airlines Theatre. Exact dates, remaining cast members, and design

Pete Davidson getting his new dog from a pet store and not from an animal shelter comes as a disappointment to the folks over at PETA. Daphna Nachminovitch, the Senior VP of Cruelty Investigations over at PETA, tells TMZ … “It’s tragic that Pete didn’t seek out a borough-born mutt from a city animal shelter,

Celine Song’s Past Lives from A24 is very much here and now, grossing $232k on four screens for over $58k per location, a nice number for Song’s debut film as the second-biggest limited opening of the year so far. A24 also had the highest in April with Beau Is Afraid at $80k per theater at

A brand new trailer for Seth Rogen’s TMNT: Mutant Mayhem has dropped, with the date of the film release being revealed also of August 2, 2023. “After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts,”

Jonathan Majors and Meagan Good are going strong overseas … popping up in Morocco, where they’re shopping for pottery. TMZ obtained these photos of Jonathan and Meagan perusing a pottery shop in Fez, Morocco. Folks who were there tell us the couple stopped by a shop called Art Naji, where they appeared to take an

Columbia Pictures’ and Sony Pictures Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Universe is casting its web in international box office markets with  $13.5M through Thursday. That’s 2.5x the original in like-for-likes.  Notable in early reporting, India broke the local all-time opening day record for an animated movie with $610K while releasing on a non-traditional Thursday. The launch day gross is higher than

Galyn Susman — the longtime Disney producer who’s credited with saving “Toy Story 2” — just got the boot alongside several other Pixar employees … and fans are pissed. The news came down Saturday from Reuters, which reported Susman was one of 75 Pixar workers who recently gotten the axe in mass layoffs. She was

Hulu has released the trailer for ‘Jagged Mind’, the forthcoming queer psychological thriller, which will debut on June 15. “The film is about a woman plagued by blackouts and strange visions that lead her to discover she’s stuck in a series of time loops, possibly related to her mysterious new girlfriend,” reads the synopsis. Email: [email protected]

A24 follows You Hurt My Feelings last weekend with dual-language romance Past Lives, starting a platform release on four screens in New York and LA including Q&As led by talent who have been champions of the film, including Steve Buscemi, Jodie Turner-Smith and Lulu Wang. Expanding this month. The Sundance premiering pic by Celine Song,

Kaley Cuoco is lookin’ to unload her gorgeous Los Angeles-area home a little over a year after picking it up … and it comes with a pretty steep price tag. The ‘Big Bang Theory’ actress has put her Agoura Hills pad on the market for a whopping $7 mil. She bought the place from Taylor

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that the George Clooney directed MGM title, The Boys in the Boat, is set to hit theaters on Monday, Dec. 25, as a wide release. The studio, I understand, were ecstatic over the test scores and landed on the pic’s release date in an effort to grab families. Pic is based on

For fans of the “Fast” franchise must have a lot of questions about the feud between Johnson and Diesel, well now they’ve all been answered. Johnson took to Twitter to confirm that he and Diesel have put their past behind them, and even confirmed his return to the “Fast” franchise as Hobbs. “Last summer Vin

Play video content Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson says he’s put aside his years-long beef with “Fast & Furious” star Vin Diesel … confirming his ass-kicking character, Hobbs, will be back in the driver’s seat. DJ let fans in on his big return Thursday, saying Vin’s been like a bro to him for a while —

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is doing some serious business tonight according to box office sources, accumulating $16M off previews that began at 3PM at 3,562 theaters. That’s the second best preview night ever for an animated movie after Disney/Pixar’s Incredibles 2 ($18.5M) from June 2018. Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 4, with $12M, is

Drake made a cherry-on-top cameo for the season finale of Lil Dicky‘s “Dave” series — an episode that also boasted Brad Pitt and Rachel McAdams appearances!!! As fate would have it, Drake’s actually a superfan of the show — which just wrapped its third season — and he said exactly that to Dicky, in person.

Blumhouse and Screen Gems are currently developing a spin-off to the successful horror film Insidious. It’s set to be called Thread: An Insidious Tale, with Mandy Moore and Kumail Nanjiani set to lead the film. ‘Thread’ will be directed and written by Jeremy Slater, with James Wan serving as a producer through his Atomic Monster banner. According to Deadline Mandy

Julie Benko, who has built a devoted following as the Funny Girl understudy and alternate Fanny Brice, will originate her first Broadway role this fall in the new musical Harmony by by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman. Benko will play the role of Ruth, producers Ken Davenport, Sandi Moran and Garry Kief announced today. The

Play video content Instagram / @citipupsnyc Pete Davidson has a new best friend, a super cute pup … and he was all smiles as he picked up his new buddy with girlfriend Chase Sui Wonders. They picked up the pooch in New York City, going to Citipups in Manhattan to get their furry friend …

Last night at the world premiere of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse there was a huge sigh of relief from the mass of animators inside Westwood’s Regency Village Theater: the $100M budgeted sequel to the Oscar winning animated movie, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, was done; having completed post-production literally just ten days ago after a five-year

A trailer for the upcoming action comedy called ‘Hidden Strike’ has arrived, which see’s the teaming up of Jackie Chan and John Cena. The two play ex-special forces soldiers paired together for a special mission in Baghdad. While no release date has been set we will likely see it release this year. Email: [email protected] Socials: @neillfrazer

Offset is back on dad duty for a big movie premiere — which is starting to become a cool family tradition — only this time, he was inspired by MJ‘s style. The rapper brought his 3 sons to the ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ premiere Tuesday night in L.A. — and from 20-month-old, Wave, whom he

Talk about legs — or, more appropriately, wings: Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick is still playing in Japanese cinemas a full year on from its debut. Continuing on from a stratospheric and super-leggy run, the sequel, on its 365th day of release, became Tom Cruise’s biggest film ever in the market. In doing so, it overtook

Two of Gisele Bündchen‘s exes walk onto a yacht … There’s no joke here, but that’s exactly what went down in Sardinia over the weekend … with Tom Brady and Leonardo DiCaprio hanging out on a big boat together. As we previously reported, the “Departed” actor has been yacht hopping for about a week following

Will Ferrell is set to star as NFL legend John Madden in an upcoming movie based on the player, coach, and commentator. It will hail from director David O. Russell. The movie is set to called ‘Madden’ and will be from a screen play by Russell and Cambron Clark. “A Prime Video Sports Original, Madden tells the story of

Refresh for latest…: Disney’s live-action take on The Little Mermaid is doing swimmingly at the domestic box office, with a three-day opening of $95.5M and a four-day projection of $117.5M. Factoring in the international box office bow of $68.3M, that makes for an estimated $163.8M global debut through Sunday. The offshore launch is lower than