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Sam Levinson The Euphoria creator’s Zendaya starrer nabs audiences for HBO not seen since Game of Thrones, its season two finale delivering 6.6 million first-night viewers. Dave Grohl The Foo Fighters’ horror comedy Studio 666, written by and starring the frontman, gambled with a 2,306-location theatrical bow but grossed only $1.5 million in its debut. Channing Tatum The star’s MGM passion project Dog pays off as the film has grossed $30 million stateside since its Feb. 18 bow, twice its reported production budget. Margarita Simonyan As the European Union bans Russia’s state-backed broadcaster Russia Today, its editor-in-chief reportedly is facing the prospect of sanctions. Showbiz Stocks $386.24 (+0.9%) NETFLIX (NFLX) As the streamer defied Russian regulators by refusing to carry state-produced programming, the company’s stock price inched higher. $28.11 (-0.8%)…
MADE IN UKRAINE We have woken up in a different world today.” Those were the words of German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock in a speech on Feb. 24, just hours after Russian forces began an assault on Ukraine. It’s a sentiment that echoed around the world in the days following the invasion, which marked the biggest attack on a European state since World War II. As the bombs fell on the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv and Kharkiv, governments in Washington, London and Brussels scrambled to come up with an appropriate response to Moscow’s aggression. The result has been unprecedented moves to sanction Russia and its leader, President Vladimir Putin. The European Union closed its airspace to Russian flights, banned transactions with Russia’s central bank and approved some $500 million in funding…
Two years after starting his job as president of 20th Century Studios, Steve Asbell has the last of the old Fox movies behind him as he debuts his first completed film in the Disney era, the Havana Rose Liu-starring No Exit, on Hulu on Feb. 25. The thriller is the first on a slate that will skew heavily toward Disney’s streaming strategy and include a few key theatrical titles. As 20th Century begins a return to office, Asbell, marking his 20th anniversary with the company, speaks to THR about straddling the traditions of the old studio with new owners. How distinct a brand is 20th within Disney? How does a 20th movie distinguish itself from a Disney movie or a Searchlight movie? In relation to the other brands, Marvel, Star…
In the late 1940s and early ’50s, studios began to reconsider their financial support of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ annual Oscar ceremony, fearing they had created a monster. Outsiders were increasingly questioning the legitimacy of the Oscar selection process, given that it was only logical that Academy members under contract to a specific studio would vote in blocs for that studio’s top priorities. Stars were demanding to appear in art films instead of pure commercial plays, because the former were likelier to yield Oscar recognition. And in 1949, in the midst of major economic hostilities between Hollywood and the British film industry (the U.S. and U.K. embroiled in a trade war), the Academy voted its top prize, best picture, to a foreign film, England’s Hamlet, for…
HOLLAND’S ANNUAL STAR RANKING, BY GLOBAL BOX OFFICE GROSS 2017 Spider-Man: Homecoming grossed $878.3 million domestically, landing Holland on the top 100 list. Before he joined Marvel, Holland’s roles included In the Heart of the Sea ($93 million) and The Impossible ($198 million). 2018 Holland swung up the list thanks in part to the webslinger’s turn in Avengers: Infinity War ($2.04 billion). Fans note that while Spidey’s role in Avengers wasn’t big, it was key to building the character for future installments. 2019 The one-two punch of Spider Man: Far From Home ($1.13 billion) and Avengers: Endgame ($2.79 billion) cast a powerful net as he passed the likes of fellow Marvel universe stars like Chris Pratt and Robert Downey Jr. 2020 The actor had no leading live-action roles in 2020,…
4.1B minutes watched 37 episodes Ozark reached a height only one other show has hit when it clocked more than 4 billion minutes of viewing time in Nielsen’s streaming rankings for Jan. 24-30, the week after the Netflix drama’s fourth season premiered. Only the first season of Tiger King (twice, 5.3 billion and 4.4 billion minutes) and Ozark itself (5.2 billion) have had bigger weeks since Nielsen started tracking viewers’ streaming consumption. Both shows’ highs came in March and April of 2020, during the early lockdown days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ozark beat the combined total (3.96 billion minutes) for the other nine shows in Nielsen’s top original series chart.…
