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Broadway settled into its new winter clothes last week, with recent arrivals My Name Is Lucy Barton, Grand Horizons and A Soldier’s Play padding the roster as Oklahoma! and Slave Play joined the raft of recent post-holiday departures. In all, the 27 productions (two fewer than the previous week) grossed $30,443,388 for the week ending

God’s Own Country (2017) God’s Own Country follows Johnny (Josh O’Connor), a Yorkshire sheep farmer, and Gheorghe (Alex Secareanu), a Romanian migrant worker. The two begin a passionate love affair while taking care of sheep. Not-so-subtly God’s Own Country builds up tension between the two men, before they get down and dirty (literally having sex

A new TV spot for Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) reveals a comic-accurate costume for Huntress. Birds of Prey will be the next film to be released in the DC Extended Universe, focusing on Harley Quinn and the villain Black Mask. The movie will be Margot Robbie’s second time playing Quinn, but she will have the help of

Oscar nominations continue to make a difference at the box office, and the box office continues to be important to Oscar contenders. At a time when prestigious, financially risky award bets are often destined to Netflix, nothing beats having that extra exhilaration from great ticket sales, as studios vie to raise the profiles of their

The $90-$95 million budget of Cats looks like a bargain, though, compared to Dolittle’s $175 million and that’s why the guy who can talk to animals may find himself owing far more money than the talking cats. So no, the popularity of Avengers: Endgame star Robert Downey Jr. was not enough to overcome bad buzz

Star Trek: Voyager would have been completely different under Captain Will Riker. Jean-Luc Picard considered Riker to be one of the finest officers he’d ever met, but his Number One was famously reluctant to leave the USS Enterprise. In truth, Riker appears to have simply been resistant to change, instead enjoying the relationship with his

Refresh for latest…: Seventeen years after the release of Bad Boys II, Sony’s Bad Boys For Life dominated domestic, overseas and global turnstiles in its debut, and will cross $100M worldwide when including the domestic four-day weekend. At the international box office, the Will Smith/Martin Lawrence cop flick set a new franchise record launch of

As Just Mercy depicts, Bryan Stevenson worked tirelessly to make Walter McMillian the first person in Alabama history to be freed from death row, from a retrial that Stevenson worked hard to secure between 1988 through 1993, when Stevenson’s client was finally released from all charges. Unfortunately, when McMillian was freed from prison, the weight

The new James Bond movie No Time to Die gets an unofficial theme song thanks to a parody version of Billie Eilish’s hit “Bad Guy.” The 25th film in the long-running Bond series, No Time to Die sees Daniel Craig returning for his fifth and final go-around as the iconic secret agent 007. This time,

Sony’s Bad Boys for Life, a sequel 17 years in the waiting, previewed at 3,154 theaters last night making a great $6.36M. That amount for the R-rated film is bigger than American Sniper‘s $5.3M preview, which turned out to be the record opener over the 2015 MLK holiday with a 4-day of $107.2M. Sony is seeing a $38M

It was clearly rough to film Vikings. Thus, I have an even more heightened appreciation for its cast and crew. Despite the conditions, Alexander Ludwig seems appreciative of what Vikings taught him. The rush and pressure to get things done was just one of the differences between doing Vikings and Bad Boys for Life. Ludwig

What TV size should you buy is one of the first questions most people will ask themselves when buying a new TV. Most people begin by first figuring out how big the room is where the TV will be. While that’s a logical way to go about determining screen size, it’s unfortunately the wrong way. Here’s

Streaming and other leisure-time enticements appeared to take a bite out of movie ticket sales in 2019, with total admissions declining nearly 5% to 1.244 billion, according to the National Association of Theater Owners. Although the 2019 tally was slightly higher than the 1.236 billion recorded in 2017, the totals for both 2017 and 2019

Disney+’s Stargirl While Netflix has been producing plenty of original movies over the past few years, Disney+ has put out an impressive amount of content since it launched. There have been both TV and film projects, with Julia’s Hart’s Stargirl being one of the projects coming down the pipeline. Stargirl follows a shy teenage boy

This article contains spoilers for Black Widow Prelude #1. Marvel has finally revealed how Black Widow escaped after the events of Captain America: Civil War. The passing of the Sokovia Accords placed Natasha Romanoff in a difficult place. She believed in the Avengers – perhaps more than even Tony Stark or Steve Rogers – but she swiftly realized

Warner Bros. DC movie Bird of Prey hit tracking this morning with a range of $49M-$55M, the average being $52M when it opens on Feb. 7, that weekend’s only wide release. All exhibitors look to Birds of Prey as it’s arguably the only franchise film for the month of February. The film is really hot right now

By saying that great artists don’t need awards in his tweet, Eric Bogosian is also letting it be known how he feels about the artists he worked with on Uncut Gems. Josh and Benny Safdie didn’t receive an award for Best Director (nor were they expected to), and they, along with co-writer Ronald Bronstein, didn’t

Robert Downey Jr. is excited to see Robert Pattinson in The Batman. Downey Jr. has been acting consistently since the 80s, but he is most known today for playing Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The actor starred as Tony Stark in a total of nine Marvel movies since he made his debut in 2008,

After Will Smith notched the biggest-grossing film of his career with last summer’s $1 billion hit Aladdin, can he keep the box office heat wave going with Martin Lawrence in reviving their Bad Boys franchise? The third film, Bad Boys for Life, finally arrives over MLK weekend 13 years after the second movie, with a projected take

Star Wars is one of the most beloved franchises in film history, spanning decades of filmmaking and generations of fans. As such, each new installment in the galaxy far, far away is expected to make plenty of money at the box office. There was particular hype around J.J. Abrams’ The Rise of Skywalker, which was

The Wizardry series of role-playing games has been around since the early ’80s, and has been credited as a major influence on the genre as a whole. It has been contended that RPG greats like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest can trace their roots of influence back to the very first Wizardry game. While the main Wizardry series has been dormant

EXCLUSIVE: Klaus, Ford v Ferrari, and animated shorts Sister and Hair Love repped Oscar nominations earned by alumni of The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) yesterday. Since the creation of the Best Animated Feature Oscar category in 2001, 12 of the winning films were directed by CalArts alums with the last seven consecutive Animated

The question is whether or not Paramount would be still be interested in doing the film without Quentin Tarantino attached as director. Although not as interesting as it would be had he directed it, ‘Story by Quentin Tarantino’ still sounds like it could confer some interest. It’s also unclear how this project relates to Noah

DNA testing company, 23andMe, has developed a drug based on customer data. DNA testing companies have come under increased scrutiny recently with questions having been asked about what collected data is being used for after testing. In 23andMe’s case, it would seem to be bringing new drugs to market. 23andMe is one of the most

Broadway’s winter thinning continued last week, with a trimmer roster and lower ticket prices sending total box office on a 28% drop from the previous week to $31.1 million. Attendance for the 29-show lineup was 259,101, a drop of 18% from the previous week’s 36-show list. Most productions reported box office dips for the week

For whatever reason, Will Smith didn’t want to go completely shirtless and Michael Bay’s guarantee of superstardom was not enough to sway him, so they came to a middle ground. Will Smith did the scene in Bad Boys with his shirt open, giving the director something that he wanted, while still allowing the actor to