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It’s never easy to take on a famous role, but that’s exactly what Chris Evans is doing in the upcoming Disney flick Lightyear. Buzz’s signature space boots were first worn by Tim Allen, and Chris Evans had to find his own spin on the intergalactic hero’s iconic catchphrase.  In an interview with Variety on the
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Universal/Amblin’s Jurassic World Dominion earned $18M in previews, but that’s not just from 4PM showtimes yesterday, but also other stunt previews earlier this week. The Colin Trevorrow directed movie played at 4,150 theaters. Again, the bulk of that preview figure was earned last night. Jurassic World Dominion is suffering the worst reviews of the Jurassic franchise at 34%.
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Jennifer Lopez has been climbing to the top of the ladder of success since her early 20s, between her career in movies, pop music and business pursuits. Nowadays the “Jenny From The Block” singer is making more headlines than ever regarding her romantic rekindling with Ben Affleck. Per recent words from Lopez, her love life
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Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s fantasy family martial arts movie, Everything Everywhere All at Once, has officially taken over Ari Aster’s Hereditary as the highest grossing movie worldwide ever from A24, $80.9M to $80.2M. And the movie’s theatrical run is far from over, even as it hits electronic sell-through stateside. While 76% of the Michelle Yeoh-Stephanie Hsu-Ke Huy
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EXCLUSIVE: In this Deadline exclusive, Es Devlin, whose magnificent set for director Sam Mendes’ The Lehman Trilogy is nominated for a Tony Award, presents a series of sketches and photographs that provide insight into the development of what would become one of the Broadway season’s most stunning experiences. From Mendes’ simple handwritten list of guiding
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In news that feels pretty timely, comedy giants Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle will be performing a set of comedy shows together coming up. Both comedians made headlines this year after getting interrupted onstage. Rock was slapped by Will Smith in the middle of an Oscars comedy bit and an angry fan launched at Dave
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The spirit of the original Ghostbusters returned (figuratively and literally) this past fall when Ghostbusters: Afterlife hit theaters and became both well-received critically and a surprise box office hit. Following that success, writer/director Jason Reitman plans to keep telling stories about the Spengler family with an officially announced Afterlife sequel is in the works, a
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The long-awaited third installment of the Jurassic World trilogy is finally upon us, with Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) teaming up with the original Jurassic Park trio for a globe-trotting adventure. Jurassic World Dominion brings back Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler and Ian Malcolm (Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum,
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Last week, following a long six weeks that had Johnny Depp and Amber Heard battling in court over defamation claims, the jury made a decision on Wednesday. The trial shook out overwhelmingly in the Pirates of the Caribbean actor’s favor, rewarding him $15 million in compensatory and punitive damages from Heard, where heard was awarded
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Following Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick strutting its stuff and Disney’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness‘ charge toward $1 billion, Universal and Amblin’s Jurassic World Dominion will once again prove that there’s a global appetite for moviegoing close to two years after cinemas reopened. Jurassic World Dominion, which has Colin Trevorrow returning to the director’s chair after
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After a little over a week in theaters, Top Gun: Maverick has cemented itself as one of 2022’s biggest theatrical successes. Having made over $548 million worldwide at the time of this writing, the Tom Cruise-led currently stands as the fourth highest-grossing movie of the year. However, in the midst of box office triumph and
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Refresh for latest…: Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick, as projected yesterday, has flown past $500M worldwide, with $548.6M through its first two frames. The offshore weekend is estimated at $81.7M, an incredible hold of -20%, to lift the international box office cume to $257M in 64 markets. This does not include big Tom Cruise hub Korea
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Chloe Okuno’s feature debut Watcher recorded the biggest opening weekend grosses ever for IFC Films and its IFC Midnight/Shudder label on 764 U.S. screens — also one of the distributor’s widest ever releases. The genre thriller that world premiered at Sundance then SXSW reported an estimated weekend gross of $815,000 and a PSA of $1,067.
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2022 kicked off with a nostalgic (yet fresh) bloodbath in the form of a new Scream film. Following its commercial success, its creatives are already prepping Scream 6, by lining up the cast and the movie has found its first new cast member.  Dermot Mulroney, who most memorably played leading man opposite Julia Roberts in
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Just two weeks ago, Chris Pratt and wife Katherine Schwarzenegger welcomed their second child together, Eloise Christina. Considering the happy couple had their new daughter just ahead of Jurassic World: Dominion finally hitting theaters, Pratt understandably couldn’t juggle being both a movie star and dad in the past few weeks. Even so, the actor found
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Indie distributors, grabbing a frame between Top Gun: Maverick and Jurassic World Dominion, are out with a handful of decently wide releases for the specialty space including Neon’s Cannes title Crimes of the Future (127 screes), IFC Midnight thriller Watcher (764) and Roadside Attractions’ WWI period piece Benediction (87). Sony Pictures Classics launches Phantom of
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Disney+ just delivered a long-awaited confrontation between Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan and Darth Vader, and as epic as it was, it got everyone on the internet talking about where it ranked amongst the rest of the live-action Star Wars universe’s lightsaber battles. Well, CinemaBlend’s managing editor, Sean O’Connell, is here with his top seven lightsaber battles
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Moviegoers aren’t losing that loving feeling for Top Gun: Maverick this weekend as the movie is destined to become Tom Cruise’s top-grossing movie ever at the domestic box office with $273.6M. The 3x Oscar nominee’s previous high earning title was Steven Spielberg’s 2005 sci-fi title War of the Worlds at $234M. Top Gun 2 is expected to beat War of
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