Variety
China Box Office: ‘Ne Zha 2’ Stays on Top as Jason Statham’s ‘A Working Man’ Opens Quietly
China’s box office wrapped up March with a relatively quiet weekend, led once again by Cococartoon’s animated juggernaut “Ne Zha 2,” which grossed RMB62.2 million ($8.6 million) for the March 28–30 period. The film’s cumulative gross now stands at $2.09 billion, according to Artisan Gateway, extending its lead as the highest-grossing release of the year. […]
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Billie Eilish and Finneas Join Jason Owen’s Sandbox Management
Billie Eilish and her brother/collaborator Finneas have left their managers of a decade, Danny Rukasin and Brandon Goodman’s Best Friends Music Management, for Jason Owen’s Sandbox Entertainment, which reps Kacey Musgraves and Kelsea Ballerini, Eilish’s rep confirms to Variety. While the move comes as a surprise given the peaks of commercial and critical success the two have […]
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‘White Lotus’ Star Walton Goggins on Rick’s Catharsis in Episode 7: ‘I Had Goddamn Rainbows Shooting Out of My Heart’
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 7 of “The White Lotus,” now streaming on Max. One of the key conflicts on this season of “The White Lotus” — a conflict that one party didn’t even know was happening — has finally come to a head. Rick Hatchett (Walton Goggins) came to […]
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Max, Formerly Known as HBO Max, Launches New Black-and-White Logo and Color Palette, Evoking HBO Branding
It’s not HBO, it’s Max — but the new standalone logo for Warner Bros. Discovery’s streamer now certainly looks like HBO’s at a glance. The Max streaming service has quietly launched a fresh look, ditching its shiny blue user interface for a new monochrome color palette that, either purposefully or not, evokes the longtime branding […]
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Carrie Coon Says Her ‘White Lotus’ Character Was Written to Have a Nonbinary Child, but That Scene Was Cut After Trump’s Election
“The White Lotus” has gotten political during Season 3, with one viral scene that featured Kate (Leslie Bibb) declining to say whether she voted for Donald Trump or not, shocking her friends Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan) and Laurie (Carrie Coon). But the interaction originally had a more loaded political context, shares Coon. The star recently told […]
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Helen Mirren Doesn’t Want to See a Female James Bond: The Character ‘Is Drenched and Born Out of Profound Sexism’
As Amazon MGM readies a new reboot of the James Bond franchise, Helen Mirren admits that she “never liked” the British spy series because of “the way women were” presented in it. While the prospect of having a female actor take on the 007 moniker has been bounced around in Hollywood for several years, Mirren […]
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Richard Norton, ‘Mad Max’ Series Actor and Hollywood Stunt Coordinator, Dies at 75
Richard Norton, an Australian martial artist, screen actor and stunt coordinator who trained celebrities like Charlize Theron and Liam Neeson for film stunts, died in Melbourne. He was 75. Norton’s wife, Judy Green, confirmed the news on Instagram. A cause of death was not immediately available. “I am numb and devastated, I have no words,” […]
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