Michael Keaton had "the most fun" he's ever had on a movie set making the original movie.
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This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Janelle Monáe and Niall Horan, a movie about a Frito-Lay janitor who claims to have invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and “Avatar: The Way of Water” finally washes onto streaming shores Wednesday. Twelve celebrities, including former cyclist Lance Armstrong, Ariel Winter of “Modern Family” and Tom Schwartz of “Vanderpump Rules” are put in a Mars simulation and presented with a series of challenges to colonize their version of the Red Planet in “Stars on Mars." And Netflix’s “Never Have I Ever” drops its fourth and final season starring Maitreyi Ramakrishnan in a coming-of-age story about an Indian American high school teen.
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” opened in U.S. and Canadian theaters with a massive $120.5 million, more than tripling the debut of the 2018 animated original and showing the kind of movie-to-movie box-office growth that would be the envy of even the mightiest of Hollywood franchises. “Across the Spider-Verse” had been expected to open around $80 million. Instead, it turned out to be a box-office sensation, and the second largest domestic opening of 2023. Last week’s top film, the Walt Disney Co.’s live-action remake “The Little Mermaid,” slid to second with $40.6 million in it second weekend.
Despite the excellent work of Halle Bailey as Ariel and Melissa McCarthy as Ursula in the live action version of "The Little Mermaid," Sioux C…
A glance at movies in Lincoln theaters this week.
Maybe Robert De Niro can be the godfather to Al Pacino's baby?
We’ve had to say goodbye to some beloved musicians, athletes, actors and more. Here's a look at the stars we've lost so far in 2023, through May.
Trace Lysette gives a fine performance as a trans woman returning home to care for her estranged mother in this tightly framed and focused character study/drama.
Actor Armie Hammer will not be charged after a long investigation of a woman’s allegation that he sexually assaulted her in 2017, Los Angeles prosecutors said.
Just as you did when its predecessor hit the big screen, you stare in wonder at the visual mastery on display in the new animated film, “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.” Like 2018’s acclaimed “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” the second chapter is more than a comic book come to life. It’s akin to a million lovingly create paintings being mashed together in the world’s greatest ...
Financial fallout of writers' strike spreads beyond studios.
Actor Al Pacino, 83, and 29-year-old Noor Alfallah are expecting a baby.
"The Little Mermaid " made moviegoers want to be under the sea on Memorial Day weekend. It displaced "Fast X" in the top spot.
Sure, lots of folks are eagerly anticipating this Sunday's "Succession" finale. But what if you haven't followed the Roy family drama? There's plenty of new don't miss new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you.
What to watch this weekend: ‘Succession’ finale, John Wick, Matchbox Twenty, 'American Born Chinese'
Sure, lots of folks are eagerly anticipating this Sunday’s “Succession” finale. But what if you haven’t followed the Roy family drama? There’s plenty of new don’t miss new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you. This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from Matchbox Twenty, dinosaurs coming to life in the second season of “Prehistoric Planet” on Apple TV+ and the action-comedy series “American Born Chinese” on Disney+. The “SmartLess” podcast gets onto the small screen as Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett enjoy the documentary treatment. And why not celebrate the end of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” by singing along with an album of the fifth and final season’s music?
A glance at movies in Lincoln theaters this week.
On the day after Thanksgiving 1985, Willem de Kooning’s “Woman Ochre” was stolen from the University of Arizona Museum of Art, disappearing fr…
Julia Louis-Dreyfus shines as a wanna-be novelist who has to deal with the problems of everyday life in this small relationship comedy.
The somewhat drab “The Little Mermaid,” suffers from the same problem that has plagued "The Lion King," "Aladdin" and "Beauty and the Beast" that the live-action films have prioritized nostalgia and familiarity over compelling visual storytelling.
A rare James M. Cain story, “Blackmail” is featured in the new issue of Strand Magazine, a quarterly which has unearthed obscure works by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and many others. Written over the latter part of Cain's life and left unpublished, “Blackmail” tells of a blind Korean War veteran, a former comrade who now employs him and the woman from the past with some hard-boiled ideas about money, and love. The themes in “Blackmail” of betrayal, violence, rough sexuality — and blackmail — echo such Cain classics as “Double Indemnity” and “The Postman Always Rings Twice.”
We talk about 11 more big films due out this summer. But are they worth your time?
Tina Turner has died at age 83. She teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows and survived her horrifying marriage to triumph in middle age with the chart-topping “What’s Love Got to Do With It." She was also known for such songs as “Proud Mary,” “River Deep, Mountain High” and “We Don’t Need Another Hero.” Her trademarks were her growling contralto, her bold smile and strong cheekbones, her palette of wigs and her muscular, quick-stepping legs. Turner's manager says she died Wednesday after a long illness in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich.
“Warner Bros. 100 Years of Storytelling” by Mark A. Vieira; Running Press Adult (368 pages, $40) ——— You must remember this. Bogart sitting in a Casablanca café, pining for Ingrid Bergman. Jack Nicholson, his face smeared with grease paint, wreaking havoc as the grinning Joker. The children of Hogwarts, now grown, face Lord Voldemort for the last time. For a century, Warner Bros. filled ...
Netflix is officially beginning its crackdown on users who share passwords in the United States.