KKR-led group nears deal for rights to hits by The Weeknd, Lorde - FT

The original cast of Broadway’s Spring Awakening – including Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele, Skylar Austin, John Gallagher, Jr. and others who would go on to major stardom following the 2006 staging – will reunite for a one-night-only concert benefitting The Actors Fund.

Supportive sisters! The Rinna-Hamlin household has made it crystal-clear they support Amelia Gray Hamlin after her breakup from Scott Disick, and sister Delilah Belle Hamlin took it up a notch.

MGM/Eon/Universal’s No Time To Die brought James Bond to China today, with an RMB 52M ($8.1M) No. 1 opening (including a smattering of Thursday midnights). This is the third biggest Hollywood opening day of 2021 in the market and is ahead of the launch days of the most recent comps Dune (+33%) and Free Guy (+53%). With a great social score, No Time To Die is now looking at a China bow in the $30M range.

EXCLUSIVE: Carolina Groppa has joined Issa Rae’s ColorCreative Management and Hoorae Media in the new position of Executive in Charge of Production. She will report to ColorCreative president Talitha Watkins.

In the wake of his split from Clare Crawley, Dale Moss was spotted walking with a mystery woman into the Maven Screen Media and The Cinema Society screening of A Mouthful of Air on October 24 in New York City, HollywoodLife can EXCLUSIVELY report. The screening took place at The Roxy Hotel.

Rebecca Davis editor“Dune” didn’t quite manage to spice up its China open after a middling $6 million first day in the country on Friday. The film grossed just $21.6 million in its debut three-day weekend, according to studio estimates.The result is more or less in the ballpark of its $41 million weekend tally in North America, where it released day-and-date simultaneously on HBO Max.

Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic Dune hit China today with an estimated RMB 42M ($6.5M) on 28,274 screens and a 34.3% share of the market. While we do not yet have a social score, Friday’s estimate would portend a weekend in the $20M+ neighborhood as we noted coming into the session.

The Girls Planet 999 debut group is being revealed!

Opening up more than ever. Clare Crawley got candid — and emotional — while shedding light on the end of her relationship with Dale Moss.

Since being screened to great fanfare before the press since late August, Warner Bros. and Legendary’s $165M sci-fi epic Dune finally lands in U.S.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“The Battle at Lake Changjin” is on course to become one of the top three films of all time in China after dominating proceedings at the mainland Chinese box office for a third successive weekend.A patriotic war film, “Changjin” earned $73 million between Friday and Sunday to extend its cumulative total to $769 million since being released on Sept.

EXCLUSIVE: In a very competitive situation with eight bidders, Sony Pictures Television’s TriStar has won the television rights to author Kirstin Chen’s upcoming novel Counterfeit. Chen will executive produce the series adaptation alongside Ben Smith of Captive Entertainment and Kay Cannon and Laverne McKinnon through K&L Productions. The producers have started a search for a writer to pen the project.

Girls Planet 999 is getting close to the end, and there are still 26 amazing contestants left!

EXCLUSIVE:  New Republic Pictures has optioned New York Times best-selling author, historian and journalist Garrett M. Graff’s Politico article about the hunt for Osama bin Laden to adapt as a feature film.

NEW YORK -- Lauren Groff is a National Book Award finalist for her third consecutive book, nominated in the fiction category Tuesday for her historical novel “Matrix.” Anthony Doerr's multi-generational epic “Cloud Cuckoo Land,” his first work since the Pulitzer Prize-winning “All the Light We Cannot See," also made the list.Groff, a finalist in 2015 for her marital saga “Fates and Furies” and in 2018 for her story collection “Florida,” joins an elite group of authors including Vladimir Nabokov

China’s ‘The Battle at Lake Changjin’ was the highest grossing film anywhere in the world over the past weekend, with a $203 million haul.That score was fractionally lower than the combined total earned by “No Time to Die” ($119 million in international markets) and by “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” ($90.2 million in North America).The film was the far away winner in mainland China, where it was released on Thursday, a day ahead of the National Day holiday.

Weighing in? Amid the ongoing rumors about the circumstances surrounding Dale Moss and Clare Crawley’s second split, Noah Erb has subtly weighed in on the matter.