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Reese Witherspoon’s production company, Hello Sunshine, which she founded in 2016, has been sold for $900 million, the Wall Street Journal reports. The buyer is a media company backed by the private-equity firm Blackstone Group Inc. Witherspoon and Hello Sunshine CEO Sarah Harden will be joining the board of the company, helping to oversee operations and productions in […]
Matt Damon revealed in an interview with the UK newspaper The Sunday Times that he only recently stopped using a homophobic slur after one of his daughters wrote a lengthy treatise explaining how “dangerous” the word is. “The word that my daughter calls the ‘f-slur for a homosexual’ was commonly used when I was a kid, with […]
Jungle Cruise opened to $34.2 million in cinema sales and an additional $30 million on Disney+, topping this weekend’s box office, Variety reports. The Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt-starring adventure epic pulled in another $27.6 million at the international box office, from 47 overseas markets, for a total of $61.8 million. The well-reviewed tentpole surpassed industry expectations, which were […]
Thea White, the actress best known for voicing the Muriel Bagge character in Courage the Cowardly Dog, has passed away. She was 80 years old. White’s brother John Zitzner confirmed the news in a Facebook post, revealing that the voice actress died Saturday morning. “My sister recorded this prior to her surgery,” Zitzner captioned a […]
Following lackluster growth in the second quarter of 2021, Netflix recently announced that they would provide subscribers streaming access to video games free of charge as part of existing subscriptions. According to Variety, Netflix’s incredible growth during the pandemic seems to be waning, with a crucial 430,000 subscribers lost in Q2 in the company’s United […]
Disney’s Jungle Cruise is crusing to the top of the box office. The film—starring Emily Blunt, Dwayne Johnson, and based on Disney’s world-famous theme park ride—is projected to earn $32 million on its opening weekend in the U.S., as reported by Variety. These numbers are expected after the film has already took in $13.378 million from 4,310 theaters […]
Taika Waititi’s upcoming adaption of Flash Gordon, which was initially developed as an animated film, is now scheduled to be a live-action movie. Producer John Davis, whose latest film Jungle Cruise was released this weekend, revealed the news in a recent interview with Collider. “Taika is writing it. It was a movie that was a […]
Hollywood advocacy groups are coming to Scarlett Johansson’s defense. Earlier this week, the Oscar-nominated actress filed a lawsuit against Disney over its decision to simultaneously release Black Widow in theaters and on Disney+. Johansson claimed the move was a breach of contract and would potentially cost her tens of millions of dollars in backend compensation. Disney described the filing as “meritless” and “callous […]
Gerard Butler has just decided to sue Millennium Media for $10 million over profit-sharing claims in regards to his 2013 blockbuster film Olympus Has Fallen. Variety reports Butler filed a lawsuit on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleging that Nu Image, Millennium Media and Padre Nuestro Productions never intended to pay him net profits. The suit alleges Butler is owed […]
Willow Smith admits her mental health is in “a very fragile state.” During a recent appearance on The Yungblud Podcast, the 20-year-old artist spoke candidly about the struggles she endured throughout her career, and how her reactions to those difficult experiences were dismissed as “bratty” behavior. “For so long, I had a lot of fear. I felt extremely […]
