Belle is set to top $2 million Thurs.-Mon. on 1,326 screens, according to distributor GKIDS. With Saturday’s actuals, it said, the gross surpassed $1.2M, making it director Mamoru Hosoda’s highest grossing film in the U.S. That was previously 2018’s Mirai with $812K. Hosoda’s (The Boy and the Beast) latest film with Studio Chizu was also […]
The reeling Los Angeles Lakers received a blast from the past on Saturday night. Lakers legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson blistered the team in a Twitter post following a 37-point loss to the Denver Nuggets. “We as Lakers fans can accept being outplayed, but we deserve more than a lack of effort and no sense of […]
For fans of Y: The Last Man, it’s truly the end of their world. Showrunner/EP Eliza Clark has posted that the dystopian drama hasn’t been able to find new distribution. “For those of you who have been asking me: we tried really hard to get another platform to pick up season 2 of Y,” Clark wrote […]
Refresh for latest…: In its fifth weekend, Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home swung past the $900M mark at the international box office to weave a $926.3M running cume after a $33.4M session in 63 markets. The worldwide total through Sunday is an Electro-fying $1.625B. Notably during the frame, this Spidey scaled new heights in Latin […]
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Imagine Entertainment, the film and TV production company cofounded by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, is in talks to sell to a London investment firm. The report cites “people familiar” with the matter, and claims Centricus, the London firm, may pay between $600 milliion to $800 million for […]
Novak Djokovic, ranked as the world’s No. 1 tennis player, has lost his final legal battle to stay in Australia and play in the Australian Open. He has been deported and has already left the country. Djokovic’s legal troubles stemmed from being unvaccinated against Covid-19, which is strictly monitored under Australia’s strict pandemic rules. A […]
Jordan Cashmyer, whose struggles as a teeage homeless mother were detailed by MTV, has died in Maryland at 26. Her death was confirmed by her mother in a Facebook post. No cause was given by a medical examiner cited in numerous reports. MTV aired its 16 and Pregnant segment on Cashmyer and boyfriend Derek Taylor […]
Tonight on Saturday Night Live, Weekend Update addressed topics ranging from the death of Robert Durst to the latest in the Prince Andrew Scandal, and a Sesame Street feud between Elmo and pet rock Rocco. It was anchor Colin Jost who pointed out that Durst, “the New York real estate heir who murdered his friend […]
Saturday Night Live gave Peacock a pitch for a new Family Matters reboot, just after the NBC streamer dropped a trailer for its dramatic Fresh Prince series Bel-Air. The trailer-like sketch features sweeping clips of Chicago, that follow a slightly familiar figure donning bright stripes through seedy streets. Chris Redd then appears as the beloved Family […]
Will Forte is next on the lineup of Saturday Night Live hosts, following West Side Story‘s Ariana DeBose tonight who brought the NBC sketch series into 2022. During Saturday’s broadcast, SNL revealed that the MacGruber and HouseBroken actor will take the stage alongside Måneskin, the Italian rock band that won the Eurovision Song Contest in […]
Ariana DeBose tonight made her first appearance as host of Saturday Night Live, talking in her opening monologue about her performance as Anita in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of West Side Story, which recently netted her a Golden Globe. “Now, not many people know this, but West Side Story is actually based on another classic tale […]
James Austin Johnson returned as Joe Biden on Saturday Night Live tonight, as the president offered his plan to curb Covid. The show opened with Johnson’s Biden at a lectern, in another speech to the nation, as he leaned into the microphone and said, “There’s one simple thing you can do to make this whole virus […]
Dallas Frazier, the songwriter behind such country hits as The Oak Ridge Boys’ “Elvira,” The Hollywood Argyles’ “Alley Oop” and Emmylou Harris’ “Beneath Still Waters,” has died, according to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s CEO Kyle Young. He was 82. “Dallas Frazier is among the greatest country songwriters of all time. He […]
Kelly Rizzo today broke her silence on the death of Bob Saget, paying tribute to her “sweet husband” in a lengthy post published to Instagram. “After much reflection this week, I’m trying, really trying, to not think I was robbed of time,” she wrote. “But instead to think: How lucky was I that I got […]
Ralph Emery, the country music disc jockey and television host who came to prominence on Nashville’s WSM, died on Saturday of natural causes, while surrounded by family at Nashville’s Tristar Centennial Medical Center, his son Michael told AP. He was 88. Among those paying tribute to Emery today was “American Pie” singer-songwriter Don McLean. “Ralph Emery […]
On Saturday, Los Angeles County passed the milestone of 28,000 Covid-related deaths, reporting 66 new deaths, as well as 41,765 new positive cases. Today’s death count is the highest the Department of Public Health has reported in a single day since April 2, 2021, with daily deaths having increased fourfold in the course of the […]
Celine Dion has canceled the remaining shows on the North American leg of her “Courage World Tour,” citing her ongoing recovery from “severe and persistent muscle spasms” that she’s suffered from of late, with the tour’s European leg still to kick off in Birmingham, England on May 25. The Grammy winner made the announcement via Instagram […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Hopper Art Trust has signed a partnership with the Louder Than Pop arts and entertainment company to create “Dennis Hopper: Widescreen,” a digital immersive experience that will tour eight cities next year, starting in Los Angeles. The exhibit plans stops in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, London, and Paris, with a possibility […]
Michael Jackson, the Los Angeles talk radio personality who spent 32 years at KABC Radio and was syndicated on the ABC Radio Network for nearly a decade, died peacefully today at his LA home after a decade-long battle with Parkinson’s disease, a family spokesperson tells Deadline. He was 87. “The world knew and adored our […]
Once again, everything was coming up fives in the Friday evening demo wars for the major networks. Six shows tied for the top spot in early demo numbers on the night, leaving it to total viewership to break any ties. The total viewer honors go to perennial champion Blue Bloods, which helped the CBS crime […]
