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A year out from the release of Marvel’s “Avengers: Doomsday,” Wyatt Russell is revealing just how tight-lipped the cast is asked to remain about the film’s big secrets. “Media training for ‘Doomsday’ is they just hold a knife to your neck and said, ‘You say anything, and it’s over,’” Russell told ComicBook. Ahead of the release of […]

Warner Bros. has dominated at the box office in April as “A Minecraft Movie” and “Sinners” continue to shatter expectations. Over the weekend, “Minecraft” collected $37.8 million overseas and $60.5 million worldwide in its fourth weekend of release. Meanwhile, “Sinners” added $13.5 million internationally and $58.5 million globally in its sophomore outing. For the second […]

Walt Disney Animation Studios is paying tribute to female talent in art and animation at a one-of-a-kind exhibition during the Gran Canaria-based Animayo, Spain’s only Oscar-qualifying animation festival. From May 7-10, the exhibition Whimsy & Wonder will be exclusively on display at the fest. Disney, an official sponsor this year, will celebrate the female artists […]

“Sinners” towered over the box office again, scoring a mighty $45 million in its second weekend of release. Ticket sales declined a mere 6% from its $48 million start, making “Sinners” the rare film with a sophomore outing that nearly matched its debut. It’s especially impressive for horror, a genre that’s known to fall sharply […]

When “Lost” star Josh Holloway walks into the room of the imposing Hotel Majestic in Cannes, his face is turned upwards in a big grin. This is because he has spotted LaToya Morgan (“The Walking Dead,” “Shameless”), one of the creative minds behind his new Max show “Duster.” The other creative behind the series is, […]

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” star and judge of “Drag Race: Philippines,” Jiggly Caliente has died. She was 44. Caliente had been suffering from complications due to a severe infection, and as a result, had undergone surgery losing most of her right leg. The news was confirmed by her family, who shared the update on her Instagram […]

Looking for an original crime series? In “Dead End,” a potential standout at this week’s Canneseries, sleuth Ed Bex is able to glimpse a dead person’s final moments by licking or even better eating a little part of their corpse. He spends much of Ep. 2 trying to steal a toe from murder victim 2 […]

Wild Bunch TV, the television sales and acquisition division of the pan-European banner, has boarded two new shows, “The Clan Olimpia” and “Single Bells,” in the run-up to Canneseries “The Clan Olimpia” is a six-part Spanish crime drama starring Zaira Romero, the Goya-nominated rising star of “Carmen y Lola.” Set in Spain in 2003, the […]

Hollywood legends gathered Saturday night to celebrate Francis Ford Coppola as he received the prestigious AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest honor bestowed by the American Film Institute. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas presented Coppola with the 50th AFI Life Achievement Award. Spielberg called Coppola “fearless.” Spielberg, who first met Coppola in 1967, said, “On […]

Just as the White House Correspondents’ Dinner began, the online livestream C-SPAN was streaming suddenly stopped. An onscreen legend indicated that the event had already ended. The stream eventually returned. But the critically-inclined viewer might have responded to the C-SPAN text: No kidding. “There’s no president, there’s no comedian,” declared White House Correspondents’ Association president […]