It’s time for Hollywood to face facts: George Clooney is not a star. If you matched them up head-to-head, Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson would crush him — and I don’t just mean literally. Clooney’s latest is the gargantuan flop “Tomorrowland” — a $190 million bomb (not including $100 million or so in worldwide marketing costs) that looks like it’s going to […]
Mad Men‘s Teyonah Parris has joined the cast of Spike Lee’s Chiraq. Parris, who was a star of the 2014 Sundance breakout Dear White People, joins a cast that includes Samuel L. Jackson, Jennifer Hudson,John Cusack, Jeremy Piven and Wesley Snipes. Set against the backdrop of Chicago’s gun violence, the film is a modern spin on the Greek comedy Lysistrata. Parris will play the role of […]
The second season of the popular DJ talent search show on SABC1 Mzansi Fo Sho will start airing this Friday 19 June 2015, at 19h30, with actress, presenter and radio personality Thando Thabethe continuing in her role as host presenter. “I’m super excited for this season, it’s bigger and better! The contestants are bringing their […]
HBO’s “Game of Thrones” continues to grow in popularity, with Sunday’s fifth-season finale drawing the show’s largest audience ever — despite going up against the NBA Finals in most of the country. According to Nielsen “live plus same-day” estimates, “Thrones” averaged 8.11 million viewers, up 14% from both the previous week (7.14 million) and last […]
Hold on to those black, plastic horn headpieces you bought at Disney World, because Maleficent 2 is officially in development. I suppose weirder things have happened, like a Snow White and the Huntsman sequel without Snow White. Nevertheless, the Mouse House isn’t ready to give up its box-office-busting witch. Oh dear, what an awkward situation. The Wrap was the first to report […]
X-Men: Days of Future Past marked the beginning of a brave new world for Fox’s mutant franchise. More than just a new timeline, that film is being used to springboard into the massive scope of X-Men: Apocalypse as well as upcoming solo movies for characters who aren’t Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, in the forms of Deadpool and Gambit. That latter spinoff – which will […]
A&E clearly has no reservations about keeping Bates Motel in business: The cabler has renewed the Vera Farmiga-Freddie Highmore drama for Seasons 4 and 5. The move amounts to a 20-episode pickup, and ensures that co-creators Kerry Ehrin and Carlton Cuse will get to finish out what they have long billed as a five-season tale. However, A&E’s announcement stopped […]
We’re going to need another Mc nickname! Has Grey’s Anatomy found its new leading man in the wake of Patrick Dempsey‘s shocking departure last season?! It sure looks like it as E! News has confirmed that the very handsome Martin Henderson is set to join the ABC medical drama as a series regular in season 12. While major details about […]
Universal Pictures has set “Pitch Perfect 3″ for release on July 21, 2017, with Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson reprising their roles. “Pitch Perfect 2″ grossed $260 million worldwide in one month. Kendrick celebrated the news on Instagram on Monday. Paul Brooks of Gold Circle Entertainment and Max Handelman and Elizabeth Banks of Brownstone Productions are returning to produce. […]
There’s a new king in town. “Jurassic World” opened to a staggering $511.8 million worldwide, the highest global bow of all time. It marks the first time a film has ever grossed more than $500 million in a single weekend. The dinosaur thriller is the top-ranking film from sea to shining sea, after opening in […]
