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Mean Girls Repeats as Films Angle for Oscars Attention
Mean Girls Wins Slow Weekend
box office
Jan 21, 2024 2:00 PM CST

Mean Girls Wins Slow Weekend

Awards contenders try to make their mark before Oscar nominations

(Newser) - On a quiet weekend in movie theaters, Mean Girls repeated atop the box office with $11.7 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday, while a handful of awards contenders sought to make an impact ahead of Oscar nominations Tuesday. With a dearth of new releases, the Tina...

New Mean Girls Pulls Audiences From Warm Homes
It's Like Old Times
for Mean Girls
box office
Jan 14, 2024 12:30 PM CST

It's Like Old Times for Mean Girls

Other new releases for holiday weekend fall short

(Newser) - Winter storms and cinema closures in North America didn't dampen the opening weekend for Mean Girls. The Paramount release, adapted from the Broadway musical and the 2004 Tiny Fey movie, earned $28 million in its first three days in theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday. Not accounting for inflation,...

List of SAG Awards Nominees Missing a Few Big Names

Leonardo DiCaprio didn't make the cut

(Newser) - "Barbenheimer" continues to rule Hollywood's awards season, just as it did the summer box office. The 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards on Wednesday heaped nominations on Greta Gerwig's Barbie and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer—while snubbing Leonardo DiCaprio for best male actor, reports the AP . Each film...

Wonka Stays on Top as Year Starts Slowly
Year Begins Slowly,
With Wonka Repeating
box office
Jan 7, 2024 12:25 PM CST

Year Begins Slowly, With Wonka Repeating

Industry hopes for boost from Golden Globes

(Newser) - Timothée Chalamet and Wonka topped the box office charts for the third time in its four weekends in theaters. Warner Bros.' family-oriented musical added $14.4 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday, bringing its total domestic grosses to $164.7 million. After finishing 2023 on...

90210 Star in 'Horrific Daylight Brawl' With Bikers

Ian Ziering says he was attacked after a mini-bike rider struck his vehicle

(Newser) - Former Beverly Hills, 90210 and Sharknado star Ian Ziering says he's "thankful" to be "unscathed" after he was attacked by a group of bikers in Los Angeles. TMZ first reported a physical altercation between Ziering and a group of people riding motorized mini bikes on Hollywood Boulevard...

Wonka Ends Uneven Year on Top
Wonka Ends Uneven Year on Top
box office
Dec 31, 2023 2:30 PM CST

Wonka Ends Uneven Year on Top

Ticket sales climb but were still higher before pandemic

(Newser) - Hollywood closed out an up-and-down 2023 with Wonka regaining No. 1 at the box office, strong sales for The Color Purple, and an overall $9 billion in ticket sales that improved on 2022's grosses but fell about $2 billion shy of pre-pandemic norms. The New Year's weekend this year...

Aquaman Laps Struggling Rivals
Aquaman Laps Struggling Rivals
box office
Dec 24, 2023 1:30 PM CST

Aquaman Laps Struggling Rivals

Theaters have quiet weekend despite several debuts

(Newser) - Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom led a crowd of new releases at the box office over the weekend. The DC and Warner Bros. superhero sequel starring Jason Momoa earned an estimated $28.1 million in its first three days of release in 3,706 locations in North America, according to...

Chalamet&#39;s Wonka Opens on Top
Chalamet's Wonka
Opens on Top
box office
Dec 17, 2023 3:45 PM CST

Chalamet's Wonka Opens on Top

Studio had played down the film's song-and-dance numbers

(Newser) - Wonka debuted with $39 million in box office sales in US and Canadian theaters over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. That made it a strong start for the Timothée Chalamet-starring Willy Wonka musical that underscored the young star's draw. Musicals have been tough sells in theaters...

Here Are the New Golden Globe Nominations

Barbenheimer continues to dominate

(Newser) - The Golden Globes, still trying to come back from scandal and several troubled years , announced its nominations Monday for the January awards show. Barbie tops all nominees with nine, while Oppenheimer followed closely behind with eight, per the AP . A sampling of categories (see a complete list at Vanity Fair ...

The Boy and the Heron Gives Miyazaki a Career First
Miyazaki Achieves Career First
box office
Dec 10, 2023 2:15 PM CST

Miyazaki Achieves Career First

Anime film maker, 82, reaches No. 1 in North America

(Newser) - For the first time in Hayao Miyazaki's decades-spanning career, the 82-year-old Japanese anime master is No. 1 at the North American box office. Miyazaki's latest enchantment, The Boy and the Heron, debuted with $12.8 million, according to studio estimates. The long-awaited animated fantasy from the director of...

Hollywood Is Going After Lauren Boebert

Likes of Ryan Reynolds, Barbra Streisand are donating to her opponent Adam Frisch

(Newser) - Lauren Boebert is busily defending her seat in Colorado's 3rd District, and more than a few Hollywood A-listers are busily funding her opponent. As Newsweek reports, the Colorado Republican is in something of a reelection dogfight with Democrat Adam Frisch, whom she beat by only 546 votes in 2022....

Beyonce Tops Film Charts
Beyonce's Renaissance Is No. 1
box office
Dec 3, 2023 2:15 PM CST

Beyonce's Renaissance Is No. 1

Concert film has strong debut on a slow weekend

(Newser) - Beyonce was a one-woman show this weekend. The concert picture she wrote, directed and produced won the weekend box office with $21 million in North American ticket sales, according to estimates from AMC Theatres on Sunday. The post-Thanksgiving, early December box office is notoriously slow, but Renaissance: A Film by ...

Jury Is Still Out on &#39;Most Hated Man in Hollywood&#39;
He May Either Save
or Destroy Hollywood
LONGFORM
Nov 26, 2023 2:05 PM CST

He May Either Save or Destroy Hollywood

'New York Times Magazine' profiles David Zaslav of Warner Bros. Discovery

(Newser) - Debt-ridden mergers, film flops, and strikes upon strikes—it's hard out there for a media mogul. Since he's taken the reigns of Warner Bros. Discovery in April 2022, David Zaslav has been making moves to resurrect the brand's viability in a changing industry—but it remains unclear...

Hunger Games Prequel Holds Off Napoleon , Wish
Hunger Games Prequel Repeats
box office
Nov 26, 2023 1:05 PM CST

Hunger Games Prequel Repeats

Big-budget 'Napoleon' wins battle for second place

(Newser) - The Walt Disney Co.'s Wish had been expected to rule the Thanksgiving weekend box office, but moviegoers instead feasted on leftovers, as The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes led ticket sales for the second weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. Neither of the weekend's...

Talent Agency Dumps Susan Sarandon Over Israel Comments
Talent Agency
Dumps Susan Sarandon
Over Israel Comments
the rundown
Nov 22, 2023 12:30 AM CST

Talent Agency Dumps Susan Sarandon Over Israel Comments

And more uproar in Hollywood related to Israel-Hamas war

(Newser) - Hollywood is increasingly divided over the Israel-Hamas war, and for weeks now, there's been talk in some circles comparing the situation to McCarthy-era blacklisting . Two particularly big names are involved in the latest round of headlines: Susan Sarandon and Tom Cruise. Read on for more:
  • Sarandon's comments: The
...

Prequel Has Weakest Hunger Games Opening
Hunger Games Prequel
Tops Other Debuts
box office
Nov 19, 2023 1:30 PM CST

Hunger Games Prequel Tops Other Debuts

Several films open before holiday rush

(Newser) - The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes topped the North American box office in its first weekend in theaters with $44 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. It was a busy weekend at the multiplex, leading into the often-lucrative Thanksgiving corridor. And while there were...

The Marvels Marks a Low for Franchise
Marvel Series
Reaches
Low Point
box office
Nov 12, 2023 12:50 PM CST

Marvel Series Reaches Low Point

Brie Larson film debuts to a fraction of predecessors' openings

(Newser) - Since 2008's Iron Man, the Marvel machine has been one of the most unstoppable forces in box office history. Now that aura of invincibility is showing signs of wear and tear. The superhero factory hit a new low with the weekend launch of The Marvels, which opened with just...

Drescher: It's 'a New Dawn' for Actors

SAG-AFTRA president talks pay increases, AI protections in new, tentative deal

(Newser) - The longest ever actor's strike against studios ended when those studios finally understood "that this is a new dawn," says union leader Fran Drescher. It "got to a place where not only did they really fully grasp the idea that this is a new dawn, that...

'Hollywood of the South' Struggles Amid Strikes

Atlanta, once booming with work for crew and actors, is now at a virtual standstill

(Newser) - A lighting technician is mowing lawns. A camera assistant is teaching guitar again. An actor has thought about shifting careers. For more than a decade, work had been nonstop in Atlanta's booming film industry, thanks to Georgia's extremely generous tax break. Dubbed the "Hollywood of the South,...

Freddy&#39;s Wins Slow Weekend
Without Dune, Freddy's Repeats
box office
Nov 5, 2023 12:50 PM CST

Without Dune, Freddy's Repeats

Sequel was postponed till March

(Newser) - The North American box office had one of its slowest weekends of the year, due in large part to Dune: Part Two's absence from the lineup, though moviegoers had many other options to choose from. The video game adaptation Five Nights at Freddy's repeated its first-place ranking, followed...

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