© 2018 WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. (LOS ANGELES) — Warner Brothers’ Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald delivered an estimated $62 million in its opening weekend — a little shy of the $65 million the studio had anticipated, but more than enough to top the weekend box office. Overseas, the latest chapter in the Fantastic Beasts franchise — starring Jude …
Watch now: Netflix’s ‘A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding’ debuts its trailer
Courtesy of Netflix(LOS ANGELES) — Ready for another royal wedding? The follow-up to your favorite holiday guilty pleasure movie, A Christmas Prince, has released its first trailer. The Netflix sequel, A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding, takes place a year after the first film, as journalist Amber plans her nuptials to the now-king of the …
Kristin Davis says love of acting helped her get sober: “I didn’t think I would live to be 30”
Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Marie Claire(NEW YORK) — Sex and the City actress Kristin Davis has revealed that acting quite literally saved her life. In an episode of the podcast Origins with James Andrew Miller about the hit HBO series, she credits her early acting jobs with helping her overcome an alcohol addiction. “I don’t …
Glenn Close, Ethan Hawke, ‘Eighth Grade’ among Film Independent Spirit Awards nominees
Film Independent(LOS ANGELES) — The nominations for the 34th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards have been announced. Nominees for Best Feature include Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade and Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk, and nominees for Best First Feature include the horror film Hereditary, Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You and Paul Dano’s Wildlife. …
Tom Hardy receives prestigious honor from British royal family
Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic(LONDON) — Actor Tom Hardy has been bestowed with a prestigious honor by the British royal family. A tweet from the royal family’s Twitter page confirms that Hardy was made a CBE – Commander of the Order of the British Empire – on Friday, for his contributions to drama. Prince Charles gave him the award …
Brian Tyree Henry breaks down his ‘Widows’ character and his ability to navigate between two worlds
Deborah Lopez(NEW YORK) — Brian Tyree Henry is digging deep in his latest role. In Steve McQueen‘s heist-thriller Widows, Henry plays Jamal, a local crime boss turned Chicago politician who’s on a mission to get his money back. While Henry’s character is obviously flawed, the Atlanta actor tells ABC Radio that he surprisingly understands Jamal’s perspective. “I have a …
Oscar-winning screenwriter of ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,’ William Goldman, dies at age 87
Mike Coppola/FilmMagic(NEW YORK) — Prolific Hollywood screenwriter and two-time Oscar winner William Goldman has died, The Washington Post confirms. He was 87. Goldman’s daughter, Jenny Goldman, tells the Washington Post her father passed away Friday at his Manhattan home, of complications from colon cancer and pneumonia. Goldman won his first Oscar for Best Original Screenplay …
Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin team up for ‘The Kominsky Method’
Mike Yarish/Netflix(NEW YORK) — Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin play an acting teacher having trouble finding acting gigs and his agent, respectively, in the new Netflix comedy The Kominsky Method, from The Big Bang Theory creator Chuck Lorre, debuting Friday. Douglas tells ABC Radio that the veteran actors have great chemistry, despite the fact that they’d “never …
‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ and ‘Widows’ among this week’s new releases
© 2018 WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC.Here are the films opening nationwide on Friday: * Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald — The sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them finds Jude Law, as Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore, hunting down his longtime rival, Gellert Grindelwald — played by Johnny Depp — after the wizard escapes custody. He enlists his former student …
First look: Disney drops the live-action ‘Dumbo’ trailer
Disney(NEW YORK) — Get ready to grab a tissue. The first live-action Dumbo trailer has arrived. Tim Burton directs this remake on the 1941 animated Disney classic film, and we don’t have to wait long to get our first glimpse of the little elephant using his huge ears to fly. “Dumbo expands on the beloved …