continue to dominate ABC's lineup on Monday and Tuesday this week. Then there's George Clooney and Julia Roberts's rom-com , which is so visually stunning it will make you want to book a ticket to a far-away island.
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Naman Ramachandran Universal’s ‘Ticket to Paradise,’ starring Julia Roberts and George Clooney, and Warner Bros.’ “Don’t Worry Darling,” with Florence Pugh, Harry Styles and Chris Pine, were in a close tussle at the U.K. and Ireland box office, with the former winning narrowly. “Ticket to Paradise” collected £2.8 million ($3.03 million) to top the box office, edging “Don’t Worry Darling,” which took £2.7 million ($2.99 million) to second place, according to numbers released by Comscore. Disney’s “Avatar” rerelease placed third with £1.2 million. After two weeks atop the box office, Disney’s “See How They Run” dropped to fourth position in its third weekend with £473,222 for a total of £3.6 million.
Rounding off the top five was Universal’s David Bowie documentary “Moonage Daydream,” which collected £375,399 in its second weekend for a total of £676,185. Paramount’s Tom Cruise vehicle “Top Gun: Maverick” placed 10th with £139,461 in its 18th weekend for a total of £82.8 million, comfortably the highest grossing film of the year in the territory so far. The Halloween release is horror “Smile,” which Paramount is opening mid-week on Sept. 28, wide across some 300 locations. On Sept. 30, Universal is providing a wide 300 location release for “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,” starring Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert and Lucas Bravo. AppleTV+ is giving a limited theatrical release to Peter Farrelly’s “The Greatest Beer Run Ever,” starring Zac Efron, Russell Crowe and Bill Murray, while Curzon is opening Peter Strickland’s Berlin player “Flux Gourmet.” Vertigo Releasing is opening Finnish coming-of-age film “Girls Girls Girls” and Studio Soho Distribution is bowing lockdown drama “A Bird Flew In.” Anime Ltd is releasing Bucheon
continue to dominate ABC's lineup on Monday and Tuesday this week. Then there's George Clooney and Julia Roberts's rom-com , which is so visually stunning it will make you want to book a ticket to a far-away island.
George Clooney and Julia Roberts have been making movies together for more than two decades now, first sharing the screen in 2001’s “Ocean’s Eleven,” and re-teaming for “Ocean’s Twelve,” “Money Monster,” and the Clooney-directed “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” (though they shared no scenes). Yet it’s not just their shared charisma and charm that accounts for so much of what works in their new movie “Ticket to Paradise.” It’s that we now, as an audience, have a relationship with them, so we’re pulling for them in a way we don’t when a random Disney personality and Instagram influencer are potentially paired in a new Netflix rom-com.
George Clooney is not looking forward to seeing his kids grow up, or at least not when it comes to dating. The 61-year-old Hollywood star revealed that he will be “out of it” when the time comes for his 5-year-old daughter Ella to start dating.During a recent interview with Julia Roberts, the stars were asked about parenting and if they were “scared” of missing milestones in the lives of their children, later in life.Clooney seems to have been thinking about this scenario in the past, as he laughed and started talking about his daughter.
and , two of the most charismatic people on the planet, have more romantic chemistry on-screen than most real-life relationships. But according to the actors, kissing on set is less than ideal.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter “Ticket to Paradise,” a romantic comedy that reunites Julia Roberts and George Clooney, is (surprise, surprise) charming audiences at the international box office. The movie has generated $60 million overseas to date, a promising start given the current challenges facing theatrical rom-coms. Of course, it helps when the genre gets a boost from megawatt stars like Roberts and Clooney. According to Universal, which is backing the film, “Ticket to Paradise” is outpacing recent meet-cute stories like “The Lost City,” “Last Christmas” and “Crazy Rich Asians” at the same point in their respective big-screen rollouts. Over the weekend, “Ticket to Paradise” earned $10.5 million from 61 territories, including debuts in France ($1 million), Mexico ($1 million) and Italy ($800,000). In holdover markets, “Ticket to Paradise,” which features Clooney and Roberts as exes who try to stop their daughter from marrying a near stranger, has been popular in Australia ($8.5 million), the United Kingdom and Ireland ($7.4 million) and Germany ($7.4 million). It opens Oct. 21 in the U.S. and Canada.
Florence Pugh continues to give us wow moments on the red carpet!
Kaitlyn Dever is opening up about what it was like sharing the screen with a pair of iconic Hollywood besties, George Clooney and Julia Roberts, in Dever, 25, walked the red carpet at the premiere of her Shakespeare-inspired period comedy in Los Angeles on Thursday, and she spoke with ET's Will Marfuggi about what it was like the first time she met Clooney and Roberts for their roles in «I don't know, because I probably blacked out,» Dever joked. «Just [meeting] one of them is a lot, and the two of them is an overwhelming feeling.»«I admire them so much, and I will say they are everything you want them to be and more!» she marveled.
Florence Pugh is determined to get to the bottom of a mystery in the new trailer for her movie, The Wonder.
Florence Pugh must contend with faith and science in Netflix’s new film “The Wonder”.
Lurid mysteries abound in Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio’s latest feature, “The Wonder.” Starring “Don’t Worry Darling” and “Little Women” Oscar nominee Florence Pugh as an nurse tasked with caring for an ailing 11-year-old girl who’s inexplicably not eaten in four months, the first trailer showcases an atmospheric, 19th century tale with eerie twists and turns as Pugh nurse, the girl’s family and the townspeople around them fights to determine the young girl’s secret. Per a logline from distributor Netflix, which debuted the film Sept.
K.J. Yossman International streaming service Starzplay has been rebranded as Lionsgate+. Available in 35 countries including the U.K. and Canda, the re-brand will roll out tomorrow (Sept. 29) across all territories. The full list of territories where Starzplay will re-brand as Lionsgate+ is: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, U.K., Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela, Australia and Japan.
The stars are hitting the red carpet!
Olivia Wilde’s new film “Don’t Worry Darling” is here!
Harry Styles have released ‘With You All The Time’, a song from the soundtrack to their new film, Don’t Worry Darling.Credited to the artists’ respective characters in the film, Alice and Jack, the song follows a mostly instrumental structure, with distorted snippets of Pugh’s voice playing over an eerie melody played on a grand piano. The latter comes courtesy of Styles, who’d apparently minted a demo of the song in just five minutes.Speaking to Variety last month, Olivia Wilde – who directed Don’t Worry Darling – said of the track: “In prep, Harry called me and said, ‘What’s the trigger song? Like, what’s the melody?’ I said, ‘I don’t know. I’m going to different writers to write it.