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Of the movies coming out in 2022, Don’t Worry Darling sure has grabbed the public’s attention. From the news dropping daily to the online rumors swirling around social media, there is something new all the time. In today’s Don’t Worry Darling news, it has been announced that Florence Pugh, the film’s star, will not be

Broadway gave Billy Crystal a fine send-off last week, with the star’s Mr. Saturday Night musical grossing more than $1 million during its final week of performances. That number – $1,014,614, to be precise – is a big jump over the show’s weekly box office takes in recent months. About 98% of seats at the

Following her final performance as Mystique in 2019’s Dark Phoenix, Jennifer Lawrence was absent from the acting scene until she returned late last year as one of the ensemble players in the Adam McKay-helmed Netflix movie Don’t Look Up. As far as her personal life goes though, that’s been quite eventful, because in addition to

Neon in association with National Geographic Documentary Films said director Sara Dosa’s Fire of Love will cross $1 million at the box office this weekend, becoming the biggest documentary release of the year for combined domestic and international gross. The film opened this summer and is entering its ninth week in theaters nationally. It will stream

Ever since his breakthrough performance as Finn in the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, John Boyega has been a massive star, being cast in projects left and right. However before he was an A-lister, he starred in the 2011 critically acclaimed film Attack The Block. The film has risen in prominence over the years and become

UPDATED, Monday AM: In what was the second lowest-grossing weekend at the summer box office, despite goosing admissions from Saturday’s National Cinema Day, Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick smoked Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home for No. 1 with $7.9 million. It’s as simple as that. Many yesterday were telling me that it was always destined for Top Gun 2 to

We’ve been waiting a long time for the arrival of Indiana Jones 5, and as things currently stand, Harrison Ford’s reprisal of the fedora-wearing, whip-wielding adventuring archaeologist is a little under 10 months away from hitting theaters. However, during a recent concert at the Hollywood Bowl, John Williams debuted a new theme for the upcoming

Labor Day weekend saw blockbusters old and new buoyed by cheap tickets, as was a limited openings like Saloum with multiple sold out screenings at two theaters, including every showtime on Saturday. Over 3,000 theaters, including IFC Center and Alamo Drafthouse LA, where the French-Senegalese indie film began a qualifying run, offered $3 tickets for

Most movie lovers are surely familiar with Robert Downey Jr., the man most famous for playing Marvel’s Tony Stark/Iron Man for over a decade. Of course, many cinephiles are probably also familiar with his famous filmmaker father, Robert Downey Sr., who passed away at the age of 85 last summer. (Shortly after, Downey Jr. paid

This was yet another soft weekend at the international box office with no major fresh titles and as summer fully closes out in Europe and beyond. On the positive side, the UK’s National Cinema Day helped buoy that market with ticket prices slashed to £3 at 643 participating theaters on Saturday. There were 1.6M admissions

After ten years of marriage, Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan decided to split in 2019 and both have since moved on to other relationships. As of late, Tatum has been dating Pussy Island director Zoë Kravitz. While things definitely seem to be heating up between the two, a new report suggests that Dewan and Tatum’s

National Cinema Day is underway with 3,000+ participating theaters (30,000 screens) offering $3 tickets, discounted concessions and a four and a half-minute preshow sizzle reel with peeks of upcoming titles from A24, Amazon Studios, Disney, Focus Features, Lionsgate, Neon, Paramount, Sony and Sony Pictures Classics, United Artists Releasing, Universal and Warner Bros. Trailers include Avatar 2:

While Iceman and Maverick’s rivalry in the first Top Gun movie may have caused a small real-life rivalry between Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise, the actors have always had a strong respect for each other. When it was time to get to filming the long-awaited sequel Top Gun: Maverick, Cruise “rallied” to get Kilmer back

Yes, exhibitors, it is cold out there. Despite a 91% rebound in the annual summer domestic box office, from $1.755 billion in 2021 to $3.35 billion per Comscore (that’s through Aug. 30), and a 90% explosion in admissions for the May-Labor Day period per EntTelligence, from 153M to 291M over the same period, some feel

Although Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez officially got married in Las Vegas back in July, the extravagant second ceremony, which occurred after their honeymoon in Italy, was held on August 20 at Affleck’s Savannah, Georgia estate, the same place where Bennifer had planned to wed back in 2003. JLo shared some information about the Georgia

One of the toughest parts of living in California is the long stretches of time when rain seemingly refuses to fall. Southern California has faced its third year of drought, forcing a strong need to conserve water. Unfortunately, some of the biggest names in entertainment and sports have been using more of their allotment, as

EXCLUSIVE, UPDATED with quote and social media data: The Olivia Wilde-directed Don’t Worry Darling doesn’t open until September 23, but on tracking, the film is off to a promising start, trending hot with 17- to 24-year-old women and also young guys. In sum, Harry Styles fans. And as far as all those tabloid behind-the-scenes Don’t

Speculation around Florence Pugh and Olivia Wilde’s rumored fallout has only grown over the last few weeks. Now, it’s been revealed that Pugh will be doing limited press for Don’t Worry Darling after its premiere at the Venice Film Festival. This has only added more fuel to the fire that the two might not be

Here in its near entirety are the streaming and some theatrical dates for Netflix’s fall and holiday movie lineup. Many of these streaming dates have already been out there, i.e. the TIFF world premiere Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery hitting the service on Dec. 23 (yet still not theatrically dated). However, there’s 13 movies getting

Viewers have been clamoring for Girls Trip 2 since the first film dropped five years ago. Sequel talks had quieted down until official news of another movie dropped earlier this year, but there haven’t been any updates since then. Fortunately, Girls Trip star Regina Hall gave an update on if the much-delayed sequel is still

Executives from China Film Group were recently treated to a screening of footage from Disney/20th Century Studios’ Avatar: The Way Of Water, receiving a surprise greeting from filmmaker James Cameron in the process. China Daily reported the news which Deadline has confirmed. Cameron beamed in with a video to say “thank you” in Mandarin and

Talks of a theatrical Bring It On sequel have been floating around for some time. One of the biggest proponents of a potential follow-up has been Isis actress Gabrielle Union. In fact, she’s been the most vocal about it. Despite all the sequel talk, there haven’t been any updates in some time. While everything on

Most of the 21 Broadway productions on the boards last week showed some signs of summer doldrums, with 17 shows reporting drops in box office over the previous week. Still, with The Music Man back on the roster after a week’s hiatus, the overall total box office take of $23,513,592 was up about 6%. Total

Pixar’s revolution in the world of computer animation cannot be understated, as the runaway success of films like Toy Story changed the way we’d see animated entertainment forever. It’s because of the efforts of people like Ralph Eggleston that the studio landed such an iconic legacy, which continues in 2022 movie releases like Disney/Pixar’s Lightyear.

In an encouraging sign for specialized product, Sony/3000 Pictures/Hello Sunshine’s Where the Crawdads Sing has crossed the $100 million benchmark globally. Getting there on Tuesday, the feature adaptation of the Delia Owens novel sits at $78.8M domestic and $21.5M from the international box office. Crawdads initially released domestically in mid-July with $17M; a good win

Chris Pratt is one of the biggest movie stars right now with major roles in both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Jurassic World franchise. However, Pratt is seemingly not happy with only owning the world of live-action adventure movies, as he’s also well on his way to taking over all major voice over roles.

Similar to recent weeks, we’re still in a holding pattern at the international box office, awaiting major new wide studio releases. There were a few milestones this session, however, and Japan has in general been a bright spot with local pic One Piece Film: Red and the continued thrum of Top Gun: Maverick while the

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez got married last weekend, and in the time since, the Internet has been filled with plenty of stories and recountings of what happened. What we haven’t seen a ton of, however, have been videos of the ceremony or reception. That’s apparently because guests had to sign NDAs. Unfortunately, they didn’t

A glum weekend box office overall (one of the worst of the year) wasn’t so awful for specialty, relatively speaking, with Breaking passing $1M on 900 screens and Spanish-language The Good Boss at $27K on 15. Both are a far cry from pre-pandemic numbers but did hit the new normal for limited releases – reaching

This fall, the cast of the Twilight saga will have been away from the vampire romance phenomenon for a decade. All this time later, and following a resurgence of interest around the movies in the past few years, it does have me wondering if the Twilight cast would return to their roles someday. I’m not