Movies
(Yahoo) – Thanksgiving was especially bountiful at this year’s box office, thanks in no small part to the record-breaking performance of Disney’s Moana 2. The sequel to the 2016 original animated film starring Auli’i Cravalho as the voice of the titular Polynesian wayfinder (don’t call her a princess!) who this time goes on a quest with […]
(Variety) – There’s no stopping “Barbenheimer.” On Monday, “Barbie” will overtake “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” as the highest grossing global release in the history of Warner Bros. Over the weekend, it earned $18.2 million from 12,852 screens in 75 international territories, to push its worldwide gross to a smashing $1.34 billion. […]
CNN — “Barbie” has answered the billion-dollar question with a resounding “yes.” Barely three weeks into its run, writer-director Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster has raked in an astounding $1.03 billion at the global box office, according to official Warner Bros. estimates. This makes Gerwig the first solo female director with a billion-dollar movie. As one half of […]
(ABC 7) – A new Spider-Man spinoff set to star Bad Bunny is on hold for now. Sony Pictures has put the brakes on “El Muerto” for the time being and taken the title off its release schedule. Jonás Cuarón is on board to direct the feature film. It had not started shooting yet. Deadline […]
(CNN) – Short Round surprised Indiana Jones on the red carpet. Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan, who was a child actor when he portrayed Short Round in the 1984 film “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” crashed a Harrison Ford interview on the red carpet recently during the premiere of the latest installment of […]
(Yahoo) – The Wizarding World may be headed to HBO. The network is nearing a deal to reboot Harry Potter by turning J.K. Rowling’s novels into a television series, according to a bombshell report from Bloomberg. The idea would be for every season to be based on one of Rowling’s seven original Potter books, allowing for more time to explore the details […]
(Variety) – Angela Bassett won the Golden Globe award Tuesday for her performance as Queen Ramonda in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” making the 64-year-old the first actor ever to win a major individual acting award for a movie based on Marvel Comics. The evening marked Bassett’s second win (and second nomination) at the Globes; she took […]
(Yahoo) – Avatar: The Way of Water is proving to be hugely successful, dominating the global box office. At the beginning of the year, the critically acclaimed sequel passed the top 15 highest-grossing film mark with $1.37 billion USD. In a recent episode of HBO Max‘s Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?, the director highlighted that the expensively-budgeted sequel has crossed […]
(CNBC)- A “Black Adam” sequel won’t be part of the next phase of DC movies from Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio division, according to the film’s star, Dwayne Johnson. “DC and Seven Bucks have agreed to continue exploring the most valuable ways Black Adam can be utilized in future DC multiverse chapters,” Johnson wrote in a […]
(Deadline) – n anticipation of its release this coming week, Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever continued its promotional tour with a historic premiere in Lagos, Nigeria on Sunday evening. This was a major event — and the first time a Marvel movie has held a premiere locally — with a large group of talent, filmmakers and press on […]
