UFC, the mixed martial arts powerhouse, has officially tied the knot with Vince McMahon’s professional wresting juggernaut WWE, creating a new company called TKO Group that starts trading on the New York Stock Exchange today.
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It’s an unusual theatrical weekend as the second National Cinema Day rolls out Sunday with $4 tickets for all shows and formats at participating theaters — the bulk of the nation’s circuits big and small. The event was announced Monday with a dedicated clip of new openings, recent returning (The Super Mario Bros. Movie) and re-releases (Jurassic Park, America Graffiti, Lady Bird).
Angelika said all its theaters in New York Washington, D.C., California, Virginia and Texas are leaning in, and throwing in $4 sodas of any size. Cinergy Dine-In Cinemas, with nine locations in Texas, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Illinois, will offer small popcorns and sodas for $4. Concession discounts are up each theater owner.
Last year, with the box office still recovering and National Cinema Day held on the generally slow Saturday of Labor Day weekend, the event, which drew crowds, made sense, some indies said this week. (Although they were plenty annoyed at the time when the 2022 event was sprung on them without notice.)
Communication this year was a bit better, although still not early enough for distributors to juggle release dates if they’d wanted. And some indie theater operators were caught by surprise again. Cinema Day “is trying to boost multiplexes. The others are an afterthought,” said one of them. “If you are planning things in advance. If you are doing your own programming. If you do repertory with a long lead time, and your own publicity more than six days in advance, and NATO comes in and says everything is going to be four dollars…that is targeted at certain idea of what theaters look like and who goes to them. When NATO is saying movies are back, and go to your local theater, they don’t mean us.”
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UFC, the mixed martial arts powerhouse, has officially tied the knot with Vince McMahon’s professional wresting juggernaut WWE, creating a new company called TKO Group that starts trading on the New York Stock Exchange today.
Aaron Rodgers is making his New York Jets debut tonight (September 11) at Met Life stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Emiliano De Pablos Madrid-based agency Feel Sales has picked up worldwide sales rights to indie social drama film “Third Week,” by long term New York-based Catalan writer-director Jordi Torrent (“The Redemption of the Fish”). A U.S.-Spain co-production, the film is produced by Torrent, alongside Randy Simon, Maria Àngels Amorós and Toni Espinosa, for New York’s companies Duende Pictures and RFS Wolf Entertainment and Barcelona’s Toned Media.
Jawan, a Hindi action thriller with Bollywood royalty Shah Rukh Khan set opening day records in India that are echoing Stateside. The Yas Raj Films release grossed more than $1.36 million in Thursday previews at 827 locations, meaning it was the no. 2 movie across North America behind wide release The Equalizer 3 with Denzel Washington.
There are two things the Real Housewives franchise reliably delivers on – binge-worthy drama and documenting the lavish lifestyles of the show’s stars.
a surprising recast in the near future. As previously reported by Hollywood News Daily, Jen Lilley is returning to the soap opera as Theresa Donovan. However, the character will be sticking around a lot longer than Lilley does.
In the latest flash mob thefts to strike retailers in Los Angeles County, a nine-man robbery crew struck a Macy’s department store in Sherman Oaks, Calif. on Thursday afternoon.
Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent One of the most buzzed-about international movies of the fall festival circuit, Bertrand Bonello’s “The Beast,” has already lured several distributors ahead of its world premiere in competition at Venice. Represented by Kinology, the dystopian romance is headlined by Léa Seydoux (“Crimes of the Future”) and George MacKay (“1917”) as star-crossed lovers.
This is Day 113 of the WGA strike and Day 40 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.
The Strokes were joined on stage by Regina Spektor for a performance of ‘Modern Girls And Old Fashion Men’ last night (August 19).At their homecoming show at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, the New York band welcomed the singer-songwriter on stage to perform their 2004 collaboration together for the first time in 20 years.“It only took 20 years but look who showed up,” said the band’s frontman Julian Casablancas as he introduced Spektor to the stage. “They love you, kid,” he continued as the crowd cheered them on.Spektor added: “My favourite band in my favourite city!” before Casablancas added: “You know the song,” as they kicked off the track.
Loved ones are desperately searching for songwriter Camela Leierth-Segura, who mysteriously vanished nearly two months ago.
The Strokes were joined on stage by Weyes Blood for a rare performance of their track ‘Modern Girls & Old Fashioned Men’. Check out footage of the moment below.The performance was held at the iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre earlier this week and marked the New York band’s first show in Colorado in 17 years.Taking place on Monday (August 14), the performance was the indie veterans’ first in the state since 2006, and followed on from a series of live shows held across Asia, However, the night was made even more special for fans attending as Weyes Blood joined the band on stage, and performed a lesser-played track with them.The moment took place just five songs into their 19-track setlist, and saw the 35-year-old American singer – who was also the opening act for the band – collaborate on their track ‘Modern Girls & Old Fashioned Men’.The 2004 song originally appeared as the B-side to their ‘Reptilia’ single, and was released in collaboration with Regina Spektor.
Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Paris-based outfit Urban Sales has locked several deals on “Pictures of Ghosts,” the latest film by celebrated Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho (“Aquarius”, “Bacurau”) ahead of its North American premieres at Toronto and New York film festivals. The movie world premiered at Cannes in the Special Screenings section. Weaving archive documentary, mystery, film clips and personal memories, the film has sold to the U.S.
Nick and Kevin Jonas took to Instagram Tuesday to share birthday tributes to their brother, Joe, in honor of his 34th birthday. Nick shared a series of shots alongside his older brother — one presenting him with a Pokémon-themed birthday cake and another from their set of shows, simply titled, The Tour.«Happy birthday Joe.
Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses several major plot developments in the feature film “Red, White & Royal Blue,” currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video, as well as the novel it’s based on. Over this past weekend, certain corners of the internet were hyperventilating with excitement over the release of “Red, White & Royal Blue,” the romantic comedy about how Alex Claremont-Diaz (Taylor Zakhar Perez), the First Son of the United States, and Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine), third in line to the British throne, transform from enemies to friends to lovers.
The Allman Betts Band, made up of Allman Brothers Band members’ offspring as well as seasoned music vets, are taking off on a 13-concert tour this fall fittingly dubbed the ‘Allman Betts Family Revival Tour.’At all shows, Devon Allman and Duane Betts (Gregg and Dickey’s sons, respectively) will pay tribute to their legendary fathers’ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group by playing two sets — one from each of their famous fathers’ songbooks.Plus, as an added bonus, they’ll also be joined by special guests G. Love and Sierra Hull on select dates.And yes, the Southern Fried rockers are planning on heading north to New York for a pair of huge shows.First up, the band is slated to headline at New York City’s Beacon Theatre on Saturday, Dec.
King Of The Hill‘s Johnny Hardwick has sadly passed away.
"King of the Hill" voice actor Johnny Hardwick has died. He was 64. Hardwick's death was confirmed to Fox News Digital by the Austin (Texas) Police Department.
King Of The Hill, has died aged 64.The actor died Tuesday (August 8) at his home in Austin, Texas, as confirmed by the Austin coroner’s office (via Deadline).According to TMZ, police were called to Hardwick’s home for a welfare check. No foul play is suspected, and a cause of death is yet to be revealed, pending the coroner’s investigation.Along with being credited as a producer and writer on the earlier seasons of Fox‘s King Of The Hill, Hardwick played Dale on the animated sitcom, the conspiracy theorist and friend of lead character Hank Hill, played by Mike Judge.The character took on many jobs including exterminator, bounty hunter and camp counsellor throughout 257 of the show’s 258 episodes.The actor started his career in local stand-up comedy in 1990, going on to make appearances on The Jon Stewart Show.He later went on to appear on reality TV shows Ace Of Cakes and Boomer Vs Zoomer.
was pronounced dead on Tuesday at his Texas home, multiple outlets report. He was 64.Hardwick's body was discovered by police after they were called to his home for a welfare check, law enforcement sources told, who was first to report the news.