BTS label Big Hit stresses again: don’t try to visit Jin while he’s in the army

While theaters are still recovering from the pandemic directly impacting attendance and box office outcomes, there are still really great movies struggling to find audiences outside of streaming and VOD options when they are released in theaters. Some smaller to mid-range pictures, mainly horror, have done better than expected in the shadow of the $100-200 million-dollar budgeted blockbusters that seemingly come out round-year now.

Rapper Big Scarr has tragically passed away at just 22 years old.

Indonesian movies had racked up close to 55 million admissions in their home market as of December 18, according to local box office analyst Bicara Box Office, overtaking the previous record of 51.9 million admissions set in the pre-pandemic year of 2019. 

Tis the season to be jolly but Michael Beale reckons there’s probably a better chance you’ll be feeling lousy if you’re a member of his first-team squad. Aberdeen may have been the side left feeling sick as Rangers snatched two stoppage-time goals to steal the points at Pittodrie in midweek.

The Alamo Drafthouse movie chain looks set to hit $350,000 in ticket sales this November and December from Jon Favreau’s Will Ferrell-starring holiday favorite Elf. The 2003 comedy, about a human baby raised in Santa’s North Pole workshop who returns to New York and saves Christmas, is the chain’s top all-time repertory title, with cumulative grosses passing $1.5 million as fans flock to its movie watch-parties with costumed hosts, props, present wrapping and spaghetti-with-maple-syrup eating contests — Buddy the Elf’s favorite food. The chain ordered 30,000 elf hats this year.

The night Baz Luhrmann premiered his film Elvis at the Cannes Film Festival, all eyes were on Priscilla Presley. She had turned 77 the day before, and in the 45 years since her former husband’s death, she’d suffered many cartoonish caricatures and lame imitations of the man she loved. But that night, as the credits rolled, she cried.

EXCLUSIVE: Saturday Night Live‘s Chloe Fineman is set to lead the comedy Big Time, which Jonathan Glickman’s Panoramic Media recently picked up.

As BTS singer Jin began his military service in South Korea yesterday, it was reported that Suga will be the next member of the group to enlist. However, unlike Jin, he will not enrol in active service, instead being appointed as a “social service agent”.That news was reported by The Korea Herald, citing “military and music industry sources”.

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Koondel’s Sox Entertainment has partnered with Jon Shapiro’s Ideal Entertainment to co-produce Big Men, a limited series docudrama about the NBA and its stars’ important roles in the civil rights movement.

Sharing is caring! During an episode of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Netflix series, Harry & Meghan, baby Lilibet was shown wearing a cute hat that once belonged to her big brother, Archie.

are back, Katie Holmes wore a , and is going on tour with season two victor .This spring, Aiken and Studdard are reuniting for a series of performances celebrating the twentieth anniversary of their American Idol season, including a in Cary, North Carolina on April 29. The tour is aptly named .Back in 2003, Studdard beat out Aiken during their season of American Idol, though runner-up didn't work out so badly for , who lost to Justin Guarini the year prior. In fact, the season two alums stayed close friends over the years, even launching their Timeless US tour in 2010.

EXCLUSIVE: RuPaul’s Drag Race producer World of Wonder is heading on a pitching spree in Asia, with Co-Founder Fenton Bailey telling Deadline Middle Eastern countries could embrace the format “in time.”

This Christmas, give the gift of big screen entertainment this year with a Vue Gift Card – the ultimate present for lovers of the big screen experience.

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed South Korean filmmaker Na Hong-Jin in all areas, as well as his production company, Forged Films.

Focus Features’ Spoiler Alert opened on six screens (in NY, LA, San Francisco) to an estimated $85k, or $14k per theater, in a crowded arthouse market. Strong exit polls and word of mouth – 94% in the top two boxes – could help built out this movie, which will likely be more audience-focused than awards-buzz driven.