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Ariana Grande’s love life has been a major topic of conversation over the past several months. It was reported last summer that she and Dalton Gomez were heading for divorce, and they ultimately finalized the split months later. But what really seemed to catch the public’s attention were reports that she had engaged in an
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French cinema saw its fortunes rise at the international box office in 2023 after three difficult Covid-19 and post pandemic years, according to the annual report of export agency Unifrance released on Tuesday. The new figures showed that worldwide admissions for all feature films involving a French partner generated 37.4M admissions in 2023, representing a
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Warning: SPOILERS for 2024’s Mean Girls musical adaptation are in play. If you haven’t made fetch happen yet, you’ve been warned.  Revisiting the past through something like the new Mean Girls musical remake can be tricky. Walking a fine line between making references to the past and making something that the crowd seeking out 2024
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Toho International’s sleeper hit Godzilla Minus One grossed an estimated $853k this weekend for a cume of $50.9 million at 605 locations in week seven as arctic blasts buffet much of the nation. The film about the giant reptilian monster passed the $50 million market Saturday, becoming the highest grossing Japanese language live action or animated
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In a lull for specialty openings early in the new year, three foreign-language films are taking a shot. The Settlers, winner of the Cannes Un Certain Regard FIPRESCI Prize, and Inshallah A Boy are Cannes alumns and Oscar submissions from, respectively, Chile and Jordan (neither short-listed in a competitive field). Driving Madeleine is a crowd
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Paramount’s next iteration of Mean Girls has minted $3.25M in previews. That figure includes 4pm showtimes from yesterday as well as the “On Wednesdays We Wear Pink” early access screenings. A reminder that Paramount pivoted the release of Mean Girls: It was originally intended for Paramount+, and the test scores screamed, ‘Release this movie theatrically!’.
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Margot Robbie is one of the busiest people in Hollywood these days, from acting in high-profile 2023 titles like the billion-dollar blockbuster Barbie and Wes Anderson’s unsurprisingly whimsical Asteroid City, to producing buzzy flicks like Saltburn through her LuckyChap production company. With such a packed schedule, something’s gotta give and, sadly, it looks like that planned
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Michael, the Michael Jackson biopic starring Jaafar Jackson as the King of Pop, is getting a global release. Lionsgate is releasing the movie stateside on April 18, 2025, with Universal is handling overseas distribution. Today, Lionsgate announced that it was beginning production on director Antoine Fuqua’s Michael on January 22. The John Logan-scripted movie, produced
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Sony has moved Wayfarer Studios’ feature take of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel, It Ends With Us from Feb. 9 to June 21. The movie stars Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Brandon Sklenar, Jenny Slate and Hasan Minhaj. It Ends With Us leaves behind Focus Features’ Lisa Frankenstein, Bleecker Street’s Out of Darkness, and Disney/Pixar’s Turning Red
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While directors leaving a movie before it begins filming isn’t an uncommon occurrence, it’s rare you’ll find instances where they leave in the midst of production. Arguably the biggest recent example of this was when director Justin Lin, who’d been contributing to the Fast & Furious franchise since 2006’s Tokyo Drift, left Fast X after
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Broadway box office was back on earth last week following the previous week’s unusual double-holiday surge, when both Christmas and New Year’s Eve fell within the same theatrical window. For the week ending January 7, Broadway’s 26 productions grossed a total $29,681,396, a 35% drop from the previous week‘s $45,413,789. Attendance was down about 14%
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Audiences didn’t have a lot of new choices, nor a mega late-December blockbuster to ring in the first weekend of the new year at the movies, but the studio titles on offer are still drawing crowds and seeing strong holds, particularly with ongoing holidays in many international box office markets. Milestones are also being set
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Searchlight Pictures’ Poor Things rounded out the top ten this weekend and American Fiction from Amazon MGM Studios continued its slow burn with both films in the running for big awards at the Golden Globes tonight. Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things starring Emma Stone grossed $2 million in week five on 750 screens (down from 700)
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