Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman in “Star Wars: Episode II” — Lucasfilm With an Oscar under his belt, a blockbuster in Thor: Ragnarok and another likely on its way with Thor: Love and Thunder, pretty much everybody wants to work with writer-director Taika Waititi. So when it came to writing his anticipated Star Wars project, …
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A new report shows 3.6 million visitors to Black Hills area national parks in South Dakota spent about $231 million in 2021. That had a cumulative benefit to the state [Read More…]
Bobby Bank/Getty Images Miki Sudo is the #1-ranked female competitive eater in the world, and she proved it again on July 4 by returning from maternity leave to capture her eighth Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Championship belt. Downing 40 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes wasn’t her personal best, but she told ABC Audio …
ABC/Eric McCandless On Wednesday, Kevin Smith dropped the trailer to his third Clerks movie, and as he’d promised, it reflects the filmmaker’s real life in more ways than one. The writer-director and podcaster maxed out his credit cards and shot the original 1994 indie film himself. Set primarily at the New Jersey convenience store where …
Sony Pictures Oscar and Emmy winner Viola Davis plays General Nanisca in the fact-based epic The Woman King, and the new trailer shows she’s not taking any prisoners. According to Sony Pictures, “The Woman King is the remarkable story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in …
Walt Disney Studios We finally have our first look at the upcoming movie Amsterdam, which stars Taylor Swift. The first trailer dropped Wednesday. According the press release, the “original crime epic” takes place in the 30s and centers on three characters, played by Christian Bale, John David Washington and Margot Robbie, who “find themselves at the center of one of …
Marvel Studios Thor: Love and Thunder hits theaters this weekend, and for Christian Bale, the film gave him a chance to pivot from playing a beloved hero, Batman, in Chris Nolan‘s Dark Knight trilogy, to this film’s heavy: Gorr the God Butcher. The character begins as a devout man, whose god failed him and his …
Disney To celebrate the milestone anniversary of the Oscar-winning animated film, ABC and Disney are teaming up for a “one-night only” event called Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration. Airing on December 15 at 8 p.m. ET, the two-hour animated and live-action “reimagination” will pay tribute to the original 1991 film and its legacy …
Netflix Stranger Things brought the fireworks for Netflix over the weekend. For the first time since the global phenomenon Squid Game, viewership for Stranger Things surpassed 1.15 billion hours on the streaming service following the drop of season 4, volume 2 on July 1. The show’s fourth season made up for more than 301 million …
Amanda Edwards/Getty Images Thanks to a 2021 rerelease that nudged it past Avengers: Endgame, 2009’s Avatar remains the highest grossing movie of all time. Its haul — before a September re-rerelease — stands at $2.8 billion. That said, there are many who wonder how Avatar got there in the first place. Director James Cameron has …