L-R – Producers Matthew Vaughn, David Furnish — Dave Allocca/Starpix(NEW YORK) — Matthew Vaughn is the filmmaker behind the hit X-Men: First Class and the Kingsman movies — the latter of which featured quite possibly the most famous cameo performer in the world: Elton John. Elton’s tapped Vaughn to co-produce the long-in-development cinematic life story …
Netflix reveals ‘Dark Crystal’ prequel series trailer; Mark Hamill weighs in
Netflix(NEW YORK) — The first trailer for the Netflix original series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance arrived Thursday. The Jim Henson Company’s beloved 1982 fantasy puppet film followed Jen, an elf-like creature called a Gelfling, and his quest to find a magic crystal that can restore order to his world. And the prequel series …
IKEA campaign replicates famous rooms from ‘The Simpsons’, ‘Friends’, and ‘Stranger Things’
IKEA(NEW YORK) — IKEA, the Swedish furnishing giant best known for inexpensive, occasionally impossible to build home furnishings, has looked to Hollywood for a new overseas online ad campaign. Specifically, the company’s “Real Life Series” replicated three famous living rooms — from The Simpsons, Monica’s apartment from Friends, and the Christmas light-festooned living room of …
Tiffany Haddish gets emotional as she recounts her “very violent” struggles with her mother
Photo by Dominik Bindl/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival (LOS ANGELES) — Tiffany Haddish is opening up about her rough upbringing and tumultuous relationship with her mother Leola. In a clip from an upcoming episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman on Netflix, Haddish shares that after her mother survived a car …
Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston reveal they were “friends before ‘Friends'”; and NBA stars read mean tweets on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night’
Scott Yamano/Netflix(LOS ANGELES) — Jimmy Kimmel returned to prime time for the 12th straight year, in conjunction with the NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and the Toronto Raptors, for Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night. On Thursday night, before the big NBA Finals game one between the defending champion Warriors and the upstart Raptors, …
Taron Egerton on ‘Rocketman’ positive buzz: “Forget accolades, I wanna get bums on seats”
Paramount Pictures(NEW YORK) — The Elton John fantasy musical biopic, Rocketman, officially hits theaters today, but it’s already generating positive reviews and awards buzz. Star Taron Egerton, who plays Elton and does all his own singing in the film, says he’s trying not to pay attention to all of the buzz and instead focusing on …
‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’ and ‘Rocketman’ among this week’s new releases
Warner Bros. Pictures(NEW YORK) — Opening nationwide in theaters Friday: * Godzilla: King of the Monsters — Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Bradley Whitford and Sally Hawkins lead the human cast of this film — the third in Legendary’s MonsterVerse, following 2014’s Godzilla, and 2017’s Kong: Skull Island — in which humans must rely on the titular giant fire-breathing lizard, to defeat the three-headed …
Jackée Harry says she was “giddy” to play her role of Mrs. Bennet in ‘Pride and Prejudice: Atlanta’
Randy Shropshire/Stringer(LOS ANGELES) — Jackée Harry is taking on a role near and dear to her heart in Lifetime’s contemporary take on the classic novel Pride and Prejudice, titled Pride and Prejudice: Atlanta. In the new film, Harry plays the classic character of Mrs. Bennet, a mother who wants one of her daughters to marry the new bachelor in …
Tiffany Haddish reveals she secretly recorded casting directors to get feedback
ABC/Paula Lobo(LOS ANGELES) — Tiffany Haddish is dishing on her extremely clever way to get feedback from casting directors when she went on past auditions. During a roundtable discussion with The Hollywood Reporter that included Jane Fonda, Alex Borstein, Regina Hall, Natasha Lyonne, Maya Rudolph and Phoebe Waller-Bridge — and in a move incidentally identical to …
Fandango says ‘Toy Story 4’ earning the highest-ever animated movie pre-sales
Disney/Pixar(LOS ANGELES) — While Avengers: Endgame currently has the honor of the highest number of tickets pre-sales ever logged on Fandango, the company says Toy Story 4 has a shiny new record of its own. The movie, which opens June 21, is the new record holder for best first day pre-sales for an animated title, …