Almost as soon as the credit sequence of Knives Out began to roll, fans were clamoring for a sequel. The murder mystery, helmed by Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Looper) proved that original films were still extremely profitable – and that Daniel Craig could do one hell of a Southern accent. Now that
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The worlds of Clueless and Mean Girls couldn’t be further apart. While both films delve into teen culture, Cady Heron is no Cher Horowitz. But that didn’t stop Clueless alum Alicia Silverstone from solving an ongoing mystery – who hit Regina George? It seemed as if Silverstone finally gave devote fans the answer with a
As far as blockbusters go, Venom: Let There Be Carnage and The Matrix Resurrections are pretty different from one another. One follows a man bonded to an alien symbiote fighting a serial killer bonded to said symbiote’s offspring, and the other takes audiences back to the crazy digital world last visited in a cinematic setting
It’s October and while for many that means it’s the “spooky season”, for others it’s all about baseball. The post-season is in full swing and while the World Series is still several weeks away, for many the biggest series is already happening as the San Francisco Giants are taking on the Los Angeles Dodgers. And
Willy Wonka is a character readers and moviegoers have known for quite some time, and he’s earned a soft spot in the hearts of many. When it comes to cinema, he was originally played by the late Gene Wilder in 1971’s Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and later by Johnny Depp in 2005’s Charlie
NatGeo’s The Rescue by Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Free Solo) stormed the specialty box off in five runs in NYC, LA and Chicago this weekend with a nearly $14,000 per screen average — the best opening PSA for a documentary playing in more than one market in over two years. (Estimated three-day cume was
Dune is approaching its domestic release date, and it’s shaping up to be one of the biggest and most essential movies of the year. Jason Momoa recently celebrated its successful opening weekend overseas and, having seen the film three times, he has some critical insight into the production. He has been excited as anyone about
Refresh for latest…: MGM/Eon/Universal’s No Time To Die has sped the Aston Martin past the $300M global mark, coming off of an $89.54M sophomore frame at the international box office. That lifts James Bond 25’s overseas cume to $257.27M and, including domestic’s start this session, brings the worldwide total to $313.3M. The overall drop from
Walt Disney World has just begun a party that’s going to last for the next year and a half celebrating the theme park resort’s 50th birthday. It’s a major milestone for the vacation destination, and while the parks are full of guests that are here for the fun, Disney World Cast Members are also celebrating,
Arnold Schwarzenegger is Mr. Universe, an iconic movie star known for blockbusters like Terminator, Total Recall and Predator and the former California governor. He’s also the father of five children, who are all grown up now and building careers of their own. Schwarzenegger’s youngest son, Joseph Baena, just turned 24 this past week, and he
One of the most beloved movies of the ‘80s is certainly Ghostbusters, which assembled Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, Ernie Hudson and Harold Ramis as hunters of the supernatural around New York City. Paul Feig brought back the franchise in 2016 with the all-female revamp that has come to be defined by its viral trolls. Next
Zodiac handled a sensitive subject – tracking the whereabouts of the infamous Zodiac Killer. The thriller featured some stars before their time with the MCU, including Robert Downey Jr., Jake Gyllenhaal and Mark Ruffalo. Since the film was released in 2007, there have been multiple reports of the killer finally being identified. Recently, news came
In 2019, Jake Gyllenhaal played Mysterio in Spider-Man: Far From Home., who became one of the best MCU villains in recent years. Thanks to the character’s evil plot, a multiverse of madness may even open up in the next Spidey installment. Looking ahead, Gyllenhaal has just signed on to be part of another comic book
United Artist Releasing/MGM/Eon’s No Time to Die clocked $6.3M from Thursday previews which began at 4PM, making it the best Bond domestic preview number ever, 19% ahead of Spectre‘s $5.25M six years ago. The figure also exceeds the preview nights of previous 007 Daniel Craig movies Skyfall ($4.6M off midnight shows) and Quantum of Solace ($2.5M off 8PM showtimes0. While No Time to
It’s been a little over a year since Christopher Nolan’s Tenet was released in theaters, and now the filmmaker in in the process of getting his next cinematic tale off the ground. Last month, it was reported that Nolan will helm a movie about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who played an integral role
The Rescue, an arresting truth-is-stranger-than fiction story of a Thai youth soccer team trapped in a remote flooded cave system opens on five screens in NY/LA/Chicago this weekend in a specialty market waiting “for audiences to wake up and see that they’re missing out,” according to Ed Arentz, co-president of the doc’s distributor Greenwich Entertainment.
In the first half of the 2010s, many of Hollywood’s greatest action stars and actors from other kinds of pulse-pounding movies joined forces for the Expendables trilogy. Among those leading the pack were Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham, and now these two have finally reunited for the long-awaited The Expendables 4. With the movie having
No Time To Die marks the end of Daniel Craig’s time as James Bond, and it’s a finale fitting of his incredible five-film arc, or at least we think so. Watch CinemaBlend’s Sean O’Connell break down what happens in the sure-to-be-controversial end of No Time To Die and explain why he thinks it works as
One thing is clear after we’ve endured a 19-month pandemic: The world now, more than ever, needs James Bond. And not just movie theaters, and concession industries, but an assortment of brands from Madison Avenue which have seen sales curtailed during lockdown, in particular the auto industry which continues to see production slowed due to
Today, if you choose to visit Universal Studios Hollywood, you may have have to show proof of full vaccination if you’re 12-year-old or older, or you won’t be able to get in the gate. However, head down the road a piece to Disneyland Resort and, assuming you have a reservation, you’ll be able to get
Most Hollywood stars will tell viewers there’s more technicality involved in doing love scenes, rather than them simply being sensual and romantic moments. Sometimes those love scenes can get complicated when there’s an attraction between co-stars, and the attraction can be one-sided in some cases. That is what happened with Jake Gyllenhaal while shooting The
To quote Daniel Craig in the latest No Time to Die Heineken commercial, the domestic box office opening and further offshore rollout of the 25th 007 title is poised to be “Well worth the wait.” All in, the upcoming global weekend of No Time to Die is expected to be at $150 million. Broken down, that’s another $90
After years of wondering if we would ever actually see a new Expendables movie, fans are getting just that as we speak. The movie is shooting in London right now. Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay for the movie, but as those things are often in flux, even in the middle of production, Stallone is apparently
Sony’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage has feasibly crossed $100M in five days, joining Disney/Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings as the fastest titles to do so at the pandemic domestic box office. Both titles are on a theatrical window exceeding 45 days. It should be noted that while Shang-Chi propelled past the century mark off Labor Day Monday, Venom
From the moment the Fast & Furious franchise launched in 2001 up until 2015’s Furious 7, Paul Walker’s Brian O’Connor was one of its most integral characters, appearing in every entry except for Tokyo Drift. Sadly, Walker died in November 2013, in the middle of Furious 7’s shoot, but his daughter, Meadow Walker, maintains close
After an 18 month release date delay due to the pandemic, the anticipation for MGM/EON/United Artist Releasing’s 25th James Bond movie, No Time to Die, is no doubt huge: Fandango is reporting that the advance ticket sales for Daniel Craig’s swan song as 007 are already outstripping Universal’s F9 and Sony’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and it’s
Along with being one of Hollywood’s most popular actors, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has proven on numerous occasions that he’s simply a nice guy, which includes repeatedly showing appreciation for his fans. He’s most recently demonstrated this by singing “Happy Birthday” to who might be his oldest fan, a 102-year-old grandma. Ok, that’s weird, I’m
Just one more month; one month until Kristen Stewart returns to the big screen in one of her most high-profile roles yet. The actress will play the late Princess Diana in Pablo Lorraín’s Spencer, a drama that is already getting high praise and Oscar buzz. Ahead of the movie’s fall release, we’ve been getting look
Focus Features has set a moderate release for The Outfit on Feb. 25, 2022. The pic reps Oscar winner Graham Moore’s directorial debut, and follows Leonard, played by Oscar winner Mark Rylance, an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. But after a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a
As far as non-superpowered, badass movie protagonists go, James Bond is certainly one of the most well-known examples, if not at the top of the list. And while most us will go through life not knowing what it’s like to hunt down bad guys as a 007 agent for MI6, that doesn’t mean we can’t