44 h. ago Wicked: For Good beats box office records previously held by Wicked

Jon M Chu’s sequel, starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, is the second biggest US opening of the year and the biggest international opening for a stage musical adaptationThe extraordinary promotional juggernaut for Wicked: For Good, Jon M Chu’s sequel to the 2024 first instalment of his Broadway adaptation, appears to have paid off, with the film this weekend smashing box office records held by its predecessor.Its global total at the end of the weekend stands at $226m, considerably up on the $164.2m earned by its predecessor. The major change was in the domestic takings: while last year’s film took more than double its initial take in the US – $114m to $50.2m overseas – this concluding instalment has corrected that overindexing, with $76m banked from international territories. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago I I refused to sell my home or force my husband to get a low

Take pause, if you go to the cinema this weekend to see the new film The Running Man. The basic plot of this dystopian thriller is that the contestants must compete to stay alive.

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6 d. ago I refused to sell my home or force my husband to get a low skill job to save us from tax

Take pause, if you go to the cinema this weekend to see the new film The Running Man. The basic plot of this dystopian thriller is that the contestants must compete to stay alive.

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2 w. ago Sydney Sweeney addresses boxing movie box office bomb: ‘We don’t always just make art for numbers’

Fact-based drama Christy suffers historically bad opening weekend in latest string of commercial disappointments for rising starSydney Sweeney is taking the dismal box office performance of Christy, the R-rated biographical drama in which she plays trailblazing boxer Christy Martin, in her stride.The film, directed by David Michôd, opened to $1.3m this weekend, making for one of the worst US starts ever for a movie opening in more than 2,000 theaters. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Sydney Sweeney addresses US box office bomb for boxing movie: ‘We don’t always just make art for numbers’

Fact-based drama Christy suffers historically bad opening weekend in latest commercial disappointment for starSydney Sweeney is taking the dismal box office performance of Christy, the R-rated biographical drama in which she plays trailblazing boxer Christy Martin, in her stride.The film, directed by David Michôd, opened to $1.3m this weekend, making for one of the worst US starts ever for a movie opening in more than 2,000 theaters. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Independent film festival in New York cancelled after China puts pressure on directors

Directors ask for their films not to be shown at IndieChina festival, which was due to launch this weekendAn independent film festival due to start in New York this weekend has been cancelled after several film-makers pulled out due to harassment from the Chinese authorities, raising concerns about transnational repression.The inaugural IndieChina film festival was planned to take place between 8 and 15 November. But on 5 November, the festival’s curator, Zhu Rikun, posted on Facebook that he had been forced to cancel 80% of the planned screenings because film-makers had pulled out. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Filming for Claudia Winkleman's The Piano is CANCELLED after train attack

Claudia Winkleman, praised recently for her work on The Celebrity Traitors, was supposed to start filming The Piano at King's Cross Station in London last weekend

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3 w. ago London's Borough Market BANS food influencers from filming at weekends after 'disrupting' stallholders with scathing online reviews

Borough Market, based at London Bridge, is asking food reviewers to 'apply for permission' told film before they visit and has outright banned it on the weekend.

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3 w. ago Food influencer crackdown after social media irritants are BANNED by Borough Market from filming at weekends

Borough Market, based at London Bridge, is asking food reviewers to 'apply for permission' told film before they visit and has outright banned it on the weekend.

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4 w. ago Jeremy Clarkson leaves fans blushing as he admits to halting filming at Diddly Squat for VERY rude reason

The former Top Gear host took to his social media over the weekend to reveal that Clarkson's Farm had halted filming on a new series.

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