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The No. 1 movie worldwide might be called Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, but the real madness is in its opening-weekend numbers. Marvel’s latest blockbuster grossed $185 million domestically in its debut weekend, while earning $450 million globally, per The Hollywood Reporter. The domestic earnings mark the second-largest in the pandemic era, as well as the 11th largest domestic launch […]
Amid his Saturday Night Live hosting duties this weekend, Benedict Cumberbatch appeared in an ice cream-focused sketch fans have since interpreted as having evoked Jane Campion’s Oscar-winning drama The Power of the Dog. In the sketch in question, a focus group is assembled to give new incarnations of Blue Bunny ice cream a whirl, with […]
Benedict Cumberbatch brought the multiverse to the 30 Rock stage Saturday night. Taking on hosting duties for this week’s episode of Saturday Night Live, with help from musical guest Arcade Fire, the Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness star used his opening monologue to discuss how the sketch writers were pitching him ideas tied to his […]
How do you compete with the scope of Avengers: Endgame? As the conclusion to a decade’s worth of Marvel Cinematic Universe storytelling and the second highest-grossing movie ever, much of the MCU’s fourth phase of projects has lived in its colossal shadow. Naturally, the answer to this lingering question is to go much bigger: If […]
With Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness set to premiere in theaters worldwide on May 5, the film is projected to have one of the biggest opening weekends of the year. The second installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Doctor Strange franchise is reportedly on the path to earn over $175 million at the domestic box office this weekend, and between $285 […]
Sam Elliott is apologizing after he called the film The Power of the Dog a “piece of shit” Western with “allusions of homosexuality.” During Deadline’s Contenders TV event Sunday, which Elliott was at in promotion of Paramount+’s 1883, the actor backtracked on comments he made about the Jane Campion film during an episode of Marc Maron’s WTF podcast. “I told the WTF podcaster that I thought […]
The Marvel Cinematic Universe—or should we be saying Multiverse?—just got a lot bigger. If the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home taught us anything, it’s that Wong is always right. After Peter Parker and Doctor Strange ignored the interim Sorcerer Supreme’s warning and left reality crumbling at its seams thanks to a bad spell, it […]
If you’re even tangentially connected with the ebbs and flows of pop culture, then you shouldn’t need a reminder that Spider-Man: No Way Home, in all its multiverse glory, hits theaters later this week. And following the film’s premiere at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles on Monday, we now have a range of initial […]
When the potential movie role of a lifetime comes along, an actor knows that the opportunity comes with certain sacrifices. Leonardo DiCaprio ate an actual raw bison liver and toughed it through the bitter -40 degree cold for his Oscar-winning role as Hugh Glass in 2015’s The Revenant. Natalie Portman underwent extreme ballet training and shed 20 pounds […]
Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige confirmed in an interview with Rolling Stone that Benedict Cumberbatch signed on to appear as the Sorcerer Supreme in the season finale of WandaVision, but the plan was nixed. “Some people might say, ‘Oh, it would’ve been so cool to see Dr. Strange,’” Feige said. “But it would have taken away from Wanda, which is what we didn’t […]
