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In another win for a non-franchise title, Antoine Fuqua’sMichael Jackson biopic pulled off a moon walk for the ages at the worldwide box office with a record-smashing $97 million domestic opening and $120.4 million foreign launch for a global blast-off of $217.4 million, according to Sunday estimates. Michael, coming in nearly $30 million ahead of…
iHeartMedia and SiriusXM are in early talks about combining the two companies, according to sources familiar with the matter, who say that music industry titan Irving Azoff and Apollo Global Management are involved to try and help facilitate a deal. iHeartMedia is the largest radio station owner in the U.S., with more than 860 stations…
It’s been less than 24 hours since Noah Kahan released his highly anticipated fourth studio album The Great Divide, and he’s already dropping more music. Kahan surprise dropped The Great Divide: The Last of the Bugs — an extended version of the new album — on Friday, featuring four new tracks and bringing the track…
James Safechuck, one of two men whose allegations of childhood sexual abuse by Michael Jackson anchored HBO’s 2019 documentary Leaving Neverland, has released a video message to other survivors of childhood sexual abuse, timed to the renewed publicity surrounding the upcoming Jackson biopic Michael. Distributed by Safechuck’s attorney John Carpenter of the Los Angeles plaintiffs’…
Ralph Gunderman, the amiable voice artist and actor who spent more than a decade as the announcer on NBC’s Dateline while contributing to comedy bits on Late Show With David Letterman, has died. He was 77. Gunderman died March 1 at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York of complications from pneumonia, a family spokesperson announced….
Dan Reed was a documentary filmmaker who specialized in terrorism and war when he detoured into very different terrain, explosive in other ways entirely: the accusations of child sexual abuse that have followed Michael Jackson since 1993. The result of that was Leaving Neverland, which premieredon HBO in 2019. The harrowing four-hour documentary seemed poised…
Filmmaker Antoine Fuqua’s long-awaited biopic of Michael Jackson is hoping to pull off a record-setting moonwalk when opening in theaters across North America and the world this weekend. From Lionsgate, Michael is tracking to earn at least $65 million to $70 million domestically, which would make it the biggest opening ever for a music biopic…
The Clayface teaser trailer has arrived. The first footage (below) from the high curiosity project from DC Studios follows an up-and-coming actor (Tom Rhys Harries) whose face is disfigured by a gangster. As a last resort, he turns to a scientist (Naomi Ackie) who transforms his body into clay. The body horror film from director…
Paramount is doubling down on Heart Eyes. The studio has has set a Valentine’s Day weekend release date of Feb. 11, 2028. Paramount will co-produce and co-finance Heart Eyes 2 along with Spyglass Media Group and handle global distribution. (Sony had domestic on the first film, while Paramount handled international for the for the romantic…
The 2026 Nantucket Film Festival has set its opening, centerpiece and closing screenings and revealed this year’s honorees. The 31st edition of the festival will open with Olivia Wilde’s The Invite, starring Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton, which A24 acquired out of Sundance. The festival will close with a special advance presentation…
