Timothee Chalamet showed off his one-of-a-kind sense of style while attending the premiere for his new movie Wonka at Cinema UCG Normandie on Friday (December 1) in Paris, France.
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Festival and specialty fare crowded the top ten this weekend with Priscilla (A24) and The Holdovers (Focus Features) expanding to hit nos. 4 and 6 respectively. Yash Raj Films’ Bollywood thriller Tiger 3 is at no. 8, and world of mouth continued to buoy Radical (Pantelion/Participant) with Eugenio Derbez, rounding out the list at no. 10.
Meanwhile, Kristoffer Borgli’s dark comedy Dream Scenario had a strong limited opening — the latest in a string of them from A24. Orlando, My Political Biography, an erudite doc from Sideshow/Janus Films based on the Virginia Woolf novel, grossed an estimated $7.5k in one theater (Film Forum) with Friday and Saturday sellouts.
That’s a nice indie weekend. With The Marvels melting down and some wide releases having shifted due to the now-settled SAG-AFTRA strike, there’s been a window for indies on awards season runs.
The numbers: Sofia Coppola’s latest, Priscilla, starring Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi (as Elvis) is seeing $4.79 million on 2,361 screens (up from 1,359 last week) for a cume of $12.7 million. Grosses driven by a young female audience were down just 5%.
The Holdovers by Alexander Payne, which premiered at Telluride, continued a robust rollout in week three grossing an estimated $3.2 million at 778 theaters (+714) also in in week three for a cume of $4.3 million to date. Moves to about 1,000 theaters next week.
Tiger 3 by Maneesh Sharma debuted in about 750 theaters Saturday for the Diwali holiday, grossing an estimated $2.25 million for the two days, according to Comscore. Opened in India — actual Diwali day — on Sunday. The subtitled trailer below has racked up 67 million views.
Radical grossed an estimated $1.75 million on 534 screens for a cume of $5.2 million. The
Timothee Chalamet showed off his one-of-a-kind sense of style while attending the premiere for his new movie Wonka at Cinema UCG Normandie on Friday (December 1) in Paris, France.
Animal, with Thursday previews of just over $1.25 million, looks set for the biggest North American Bollywood opening day since Brahmastra Part 1: Shiva last year. Both star Ranbir Kapoor.
Travelling Scotland by train offers some stunning views, and travellers can now see the country in all its glory on an epic route that stops in each city.
A beautician hit her ex her ex-boyfriend with her handbag as he lunged at her new lover during a row in the street, a court heard. Sarah Gaunt escaped with a £120 fine after magistrates accepted she was acting out of 'excessive self-defence' by standing up for her man.
Entertainment Tonight in a recent interview. “I’m taking more stock of what’s important.”He added: “Maybe not make quite as many movies.”The Oscar winner and his wife, Rico, welcomed their first child together, August Francesca, on Sept. 7, 2022, in Los Angeles.“Nicolas and Riko are happy to announce the birth of their daughter,” their rep told People at the time.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Multi-territory European cinema operator, Pathe Cinemas has expanded its existing deal with premium large format technology company Imax. The new agreement sees the addition of five new Imax With Laser systems in Europe, including four in France.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Nicolas Cage broke out in laughter during a recent Vanity Fair video interview when forced to watch the infamous scene from 2004’s “National Treasure” in which his character, treasure hunter and cryptographer Benjamin Gates, says for the first time, “I’m gonna steal the Declaration of Independence.” The line of dialogue has been a calling card for Cage’s career for 19 years now and counting, and it’s inspired countless memes and parodies on the internet. “How do you take something that is so profoundly ridiculous and really try to sell it?” Cage said while watching the infamous moment. “What I really like about that scene just seeing it again for the first time in however many years is I like the positivity of the character.
In a super weekend for specialty, Saltburn had a lofty open on seven screens and The Holdovers a nice $2.7 million in a major week-three expansion that put it at no. 6 at the domestic box office. Actors are once again out promoting their films and indie/original fare continues to benefit from fewer studio releases in the aftermath of the SAG-AFTRA strike.
It’s not a career revival until you star in an A24 film helmed by a buzzy director decades your junior. That seems to be the new rule in Hollywood these days.Just ask Adam Sandler, who revitalized his career with a sweaty, unforgettable performance in the Safdie brothers’ Uncut Gems, or Nathan Lane, who’s become a self-described “poster boy for A24” following recent roles in Dicks: The Musical and Beau Is Afraid.Enter Nicolas Cage, whose once-flailing career has enjoyed a rebirth ever since his muted, mournful performance in the 2021 indie sleeper hit Pig.
A cosy underground Christmas grotto for adults has opened in the city centre - and it features candy cane cocktails, mulled wine and a comforting fireplace to unwind.
Nicolas Cage is hitting the beach to film scenes for his new movie.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor The actors strike is over, and news has emerged that a biopic of Elon Musk, directed by filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, is in the works. The movie from A24 is to be based on Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of Musk.
Savina Petkova Hollywood might have ground to a halt in recent months during the recent labor strikes, with the role of artificial intelligence in the moviemaking business a key stumbling block between studio bosses and both the writers and actors guilds. But two-time Academy Award winner Alexander Payne (“Sideways”) quipped at the Thessaloniki Film Festival this week that when it comes to AI, he’s all for it. “If AI could write a script for me, I would be so happy,” Payne joked.
Born in Omaha, Nebraska, to two parents of Greek heritage, two-time Oscar winner Alexander Payne was awarded Greek citizenship last year around the time he was working on his latest feature, The Holdovers.
Nicolas Cage has opened up about the times “fame turned on him” in his career during a new interview.Speaking to The Guardian, when asked if fame had turned on him, he replied: “Oh yeah!” before referring to times when he felt this has happened to him.He continued: “There’ve been moments when things were broadcast about my finances, or mistakes I’d made became extremely public, and I felt all that.”Cage recentlly played a retired assassin in In Tim Brown’s new film, The Retirement Plan.Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Brown said he got Cage on board for the film after the actor liked the idea of playing someone older.Brown told the publication: “I sent Mike [Nilon], his manager, the script, and he responded. He said that he thought it was really funny.
Naman Ramachandran Sarvnik Kaur’s documentary “Against the Tide” has won the Golden Gateway Award at the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival. The film previously won awards at Sundance, Sydney and Seattle. Diwa Shah’s San Sebastian winner “Bahadur: The Brave” received Mumbai’s Silver Gateway Award.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Nicolas Cage is one of the internet’s most beloved actors. Social media platforms like X/Twitter and Reddit are constantly flooded with clips of and tributes to his larger-than-life performances. Google “Nicolas Cage memes” and you get list upon list devoted to the Oscar-winning actor.
Angelique Jackson Priscilla Beaulieu was a 14-year-old Army brat when she met the world’s biggest star, Elvis Presley, sparking a love story that’s the stuff of rock ‘n’ roll legend. When “Priscilla” star Cailee Spaeny was 14, she developed a different kind of crush — a cinematic one — on Sofia Coppola. It all started when she watched “The Virgin Suicides,” Coppola’s 1999 feature directorial debut.
Nicolas Cage reveals he was surprised when watching his cameo in The Flash movie!
Nicolas Cage has revealed that his cameo in The Flash was changed without his knowledge.Speaking to Yahoo! Entertainment, the Oscar-winning actor weighed in on the debate over the use of AI in movies before sharing some critical words about his cameo.“AI is a nightmare to me,” Cage said. “It’s inhumane. You can’t get more inhumane than artificial intelligence… I would be very unhappy if people were taking my art … and appropriating [it].”However, AI wasn’t responsible for his cameo in The Flash. The short scene towards the end of the film saw the actor de-aged and envisioned as a multiverse version of Superman inspired by Superman Lives – Tim Burton‘s cancelled Man Of Steel project from 1998.In the cameo, Cage’s Superman was seen fighting a giant spider while shooting lasers out of his eyes.