As 2020 draws to a close, Aubrey Plaza has flourished in two very different movies. On Thanksgiving weekend, audiences got a chance to see the actress’s scene-stealing performance in Hulu’s LGBTQ+ family rom-com, Happiest Season. And even more recently, Plaza received some of her finest reviews yet for her versatile dramatic character work in the
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Despite its rules against sexual content, Twitch is still allowing users to stream Cyberpunk 2077. The new game from CD Projekt Red sports a large amount of nudity throughout and has its fair share of sexual content as well. Many games have been banned on the platform, but Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the few
Focus Features continues its steady rollout of movies into 2021 with the release of Robin Wright’s feature directorial debut drama Land on February 12, 2021, just in time for Oscar qualifications which have a cutoff date of February 28. Land is scheduled on a weekend when the following movies are currently expected to open: 20th Century Studio’s The King’s
Einstrürzende Neubauten Shirt When Ruben Prepares For Surgery One of the lesser known bands to have a shirt featured in Sound of Metal is the German experimental musical group Einstrürzende Neubauten (Collapsing New Builds), which has been a fixture of the industrial and noise genres since forming in West Berlin in 1980. Known for composing
With 2020 coming to a close, celebrities and normal people alike are evaluating the financial success they’ve achieved for the year. Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola’s net worth grew substantially this year. She has now surpassed many fellow cast members from Jersey Shore, including her ex-boyfriend, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro. When Jersey Shore: Family Vacation was announced, fans were excited
Refresh for latest...: The international box office continues to provide welcome surprises during the pandemic era. Where movie theaters are open and people feel safe, they turn up for new or enduringly exciting product that’s on offer. To wit: Japan’s Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train has perhaps become the story of the year. A
I imagine that many of those who had anticipated the December 4th premiere of Mank were especially excited to see the long-awaited return of David Fincher to feature-length filmmaking. I would also hope that most of the film’s biggest champions had seen Citizen Kane or at least had some knowledge of its place in cinematic
The first look at Disney+’s upcoming TV series Mighty Ducks: Game Changers has arrived in a new trailer. The TV series is billed as a sequel to the three films in the franchise that came before, with Emilio Estevez returning to his role as Gordon Bombay, the high stakes attorney-turned-ice hockey coach. Since the release
Imax CEO Rich Gelfond doesn’t see the Warner Bros.-induced sound and fury in Hollywood subsiding anytime soon as talent joins theaters to protest the studio’s 2021 theatrical windows – nor does he think Warner will stick it out for a full year. “I don’t this is a storm that’s going to blow over in a
Not that age would stop her anyway, and it doesn’t really matter, but for those, wondering Meryl Streep is 71 years old and beyond fabulous apparently. While Ariana DeBose, who played the Bullet in Hamilton and will be Anita in West Side Story, was on set, she sat in awe of Streep’s amazing stamina throughout
The 2010s gave the movie world some truly astonishing entries into the psychological thriller genre and many of them conquered critics’ yearly Best Of lists as well as the box office tallies. From explorations of cultural trends to examinations of psychotic minds, many of the movies struck a real chord with audiences all over the world.
Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg is back in the Oscar race with Another Round (Druk), a film whose star, Mads Mikkelsen, calls “an embracement of life.” The drama has an intriguing premise: four weary high school teachers test the theory that a constant level of modest inebriation opens our minds to the world. The friends experience
It is not too much of stretch to imagine Meryl Streep and her pal Nicole Kidman starring in a new, old-fashioned musical, yet seeing Keegan-Michael Key in the ensemble is unexpected – but welcome, nonetheless. However, those women are not the only veterans to the genre and the comedian is far from the last surprise
Disco Elysium is returning with The Final Cut, bringing a new twist on the game for newcomers and returning players alike. The updated version of Disco Elysium was announced at tonight’s Game Awards, along with a dozen new game reveals and, of course, the awards themselves. Released last year, Disco Elysium’s runaway success was a
Cinemas in France will not be able to reopen on December 15 which was the date initially set by the government late last month. They will instead remain closed for at least three weeks from that date, French Prime Minister Jean Castex said in an address to the nation this evening. France has been in
Nab Film Collectibles From Mondo And Alamo Drafthouse Whether it’s to add to your own personal collection or to snag a last-minute holiday gift for a fellow film-lover, Mondo and Alamo Drafthouse are selling film collectibles and posters, with all of the proceeds going toward paying Alamo Drafthouse staff and paying debt and expenses occurred
Director Patty Jenkins says that Justice League‘s version of Wonder Woman is different from her films. The filmmaker returns to the DCEU following the 2017 smash hit Wonder Woman, which is technically the franchise’s first real success as it both earned great numbers at the box office and was beloved by fans. For Wonder Woman 1984, Jenkins reunites
Can cinemas play day-and-date releases from Warner Bros after continually refusing to show Netflix films? The big circuits have to be feeling really stupid now: If they had only made a deal with Netflix last year on Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman at a 45-day window instead of emphatically rejecting one, perhaps this looming apocalypse brought on
1. Guardians of the Galaxy (Gamora) And here it is, Zoe Saldana’s best performance. It’s kind of weird that Gamora would even stand out in a movie with a talking raccoon and a sentient tree, but she does. Because Gamora is bad, man. I mean, really, really bad. She’s a stone cold killer! But she’s
After The Real Housewives of Orange County star Braunwyn Windham-Burke came out as a lesbian, fans of the Bravo star wondered if she and husband Sean Burke were headed for splitsville. Her shocking reveal came after she recently shared that the longtime couple no longer lives together. However, as the unconventional details around their marriage continue
Monster Hunter director Paul W.S. Anderson has weighed in on the controversy surrounding the film, which was pulled from Chinese cinemas during its opening weekend amid backlash over a line of dialogue that has been perceived as racist by local audiences. In a statement provided to Deadline, Anderson says he is “devastated” and “mortified” that
That being said, this could be a situation where the metaphorical genie can’t be put back in the bottle. We’ll just have to wait and see how Warner Bros’ movies do next year playing both in theaters and on HBO Max, but even once life settles down on the coronavirus front, it’s entirely possible that
Between the three couples who were together after Love Is Blind ended, only Giannina Gibelli and Damian Powers leave fans guessing as to whether they are still together today. They both seem to live independent lives, according to their social media. But does that mean they have officially called it quits? When fans found out
It goes without saying that the domestic box office is struggling. That said, it feels that we are trying to find different ways of framing that story every week. At the end of the day, it’s a win to report any numbers at all considering the circumstances — especially for the specialty box office space
CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links. It was not much of a surprise that Run turned out to be such an exciting and well-paced thriller, considering it has a killer performance by Sarah Paulson and is helmed by acclaimed
Drugs are prominently featured throughout all aspects of pop culture, whether it’s through a rap song, a sordid novel, or displayed through our screens, and continue to fascinate our society. With the breakout success of TV shows like Breaking Bad (2008) and Narcos (2015), the representation of drugs throughout media proceeds to soar. RELATED: 15 Stars
If there’s one weekend at the box office that studios and exhibitors typically have had no thanks for, it’s the post Thanksgiving period, typically the first weekend in December, when business drops by as much as 50%. Last year the Black Friday weekend went from $180.9M led by Frozen 2 to $90.3M during the first frame of
He jokes, but there’s something to be said about romance movies often killing off one of their characters just to get us crying. And then, of course, there’s the trauma of John Boyega’s Finn perhaps having more intimate ties with Daisy Ridley’s Rey or Oscar Isaac’s Poe. Fans were teased with both of these possibilities
Ron Perlman played Clay Morrow in Sons of Anarchy, one of the most important characters in the series, but he wasn’t the original actor cast in the role. Created by Kurt Sutter, Sons of Anarchy made its debut on FX in 2008 and was so well-received by critics and viewers, it lived in for a
An online backlash that swirled in China on Friday over a scene in Monster Hunter has resulted in the movie being pulled from the country’s cinemas. The Paul WS Anderson-directed feature game adaptation had been eyeing the market as one of its biggest plays, but a short exchange in the film has been perceived as