Universal(NEW YORK) — Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw delivered another number-one opening weekend for the franchise with an estimated $60.8 million debut. While the action film didn’t come close to Fate of the Furious‘ $98 million debut in 2017, it did as well as expected. Overseas, Hobbs & Shaw scooped up an estimated $120 …
Edward Norton’s drama ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ lands plum closing night slot at New York Film Festival
ABC/Paula Lobo(NEW YORK) — Edward Norton’s period piece Motherless Brooklyn will be honored with closing out this year’s upcoming New York Film Festival. The 17-day event kicks off September 27 with a screening of Martin Scorsese’s anticipated crime drama The Irishman. Norton’s film, an adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s best-selling novel starring Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin, …
Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren teaming up for TV action drama
Yana Blajeva/Lionsgate(LOS ANGELES) — Once enemies — at least in Rocky IV — Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren are teaming up for an action drama series that would star Aquaman veteran Lundgren. According to Deadline, Rambo: Last Blood star Stallone is producing, and may direct the pilot for the show, in which his Expendables co-star …
Dave Chappelle to be honored by Tiffany Haddish, Kevin Hart, Bradley Cooper and more at the Kennedy Center
Photo: Danny Clinch(WASHINGTON D.C.) — Dave Chappelle is set to be honored by some of Hollywood’s finest when he accepts the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center this fall. On Thursday, the Kennedy Center announced the early lineup of entertainers set to salute Chappelle. The current list includes Bradley Cooper, Tiffany …
From ‘Rocketman’ to an X-Man? “I’d love to be a part of it,” Taron Egerton says of the MCU amid Wolverine rumors
ABC/Ida Mae Astute(LOS ANGELES) — Hugh Jackman’s made it clear he’s hung up his Wolverine claws for good following the Oscar-nominated 2017 film Logan, but fans are now pushing for Jackman’s pal — and former Eddie the Eagle co-star Taron Egerton — to take over the role. Even Kingsman comic creator Mark Millar has said …
Hobbs & Shaw: Idris Elba says the most “satisfying” part of playing a super villain was kicking his co-stars’ butts
Universal Pictures(NEW YORK) — Idris Elba received the perfect opportunity to flex his muscles in the Fast & Furious spinoff, Hobbs & Shaw. Literally. Elba, who stars as the genetically modified super villain Brixton opposite Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jason Statham, tells ABC Radio that one of the best parts of playing his character was …
‘Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw’ leads this weekend’s new movie releases
Universal(NEW YORK) — Opening nationwide Friday: * Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw — The unlikely alliance of Dwayne Johnson’s special agent Luke Hobbs and Jason Statham’s criminal mastermind Deckard Shaw, forged in 2017’s The Fate of the Furious, continues in the franchise’s first spinoff, when they take on a cyber-genetically enhanced villain, played …
Tyler Perry confirms second BET series
ABC/Ida Mae Astute(LOS ANGELES) — BET has given the green light to another Tyler Perry show. According to Hollywood Reporter, it’s a new dramatic comedy titled Sistas. The series follows a diverse set of black woman who bond over the fact they’re all single. According to the report, the women will bond over “their complicated …
‘The Crown’ veteran Vanessa Kirby on holding her own with the very big boys of ‘Hobbs & Shaw’
Universal Pictures(NEW YORK) — While Vanessa Kirby had a small, key role in the action movie Mission: Impossible – Fallout, her character left the fighting to Tom Cruise and company. But things are quite different in Kirby’s new movie, Hobbs & Shaw. Kirby plays Hattie Shaw, a rogue agent with the British spy service MI6 …
Idris Elba can’t explain ‘Cats’, but praises the “dedication” of co-star Taylor Swift
Scott Kowalchyk/CBS ©2019 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.(NEW YORK) — When it was released last month, the trailer for Cats polarized the internet, with reactions ranging from horror to laughter to confusion. And of course, there were those who were just there for the shots of pop’s most famous cat lady, Taylor Swift, transformed …