Anthony Joshua has told Tyson Fury that he 'needs' him after the failure to make an undisputed fight against Oleksandr Usyk for April 29.
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Watching Jesus Revolution surge past $45 million in ticket sales for Lionsgate—matching or besting The Fabelmans, The Banshees Of Inisherin, Tár, Women Talking and Triangle Of Sadness, combined—it finally seems safe to say it. The faith-based audience is back.
Between Covid and the culture wars, it’s been a rough few years for those who make, promote and/or enjoy what are loosely called inspirational films. Sometimes the pictures are overtly religious, as with Jesus Revolution, the real-life story of a pastor and his counter-cultural following in the 1970s. Others are simply aspirational—moralistic, values-laden tales, like Creed III or Respect, about individuals striving to be more and better than they already are.
Either way, the uplift business was having tough time until Top Gun: Maverick broke through, at the strictly secular level, last year. The last explicitly religious film to top $40 million at the box office appears to have been Breakthrough, from Fox, in 2019. In 2021, especially, darker fantasies—Spider-Man: No Way Home, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Black Widow—prevailed. (Though the fairly inspirational but box office-deprived CODA slipped into the Oscars.)
Anyway, it’s nice to have the faith crowd back in seats.
Before the great lockdown and simultaneous socio-political eruptions over issues like abortion and gender identity, left-leaning Hollywood had seemed to be finding common ground with more right-leaning religious conservatives who are a mainstay of the inspiration market.
In early 2016, while still reporting for The New York Times, I actually spent several months trying to map the often hidden interface between conventional movie companies and those tens of millions of mostly Christian,
Anthony Joshua has told Tyson Fury that he 'needs' him after the failure to make an undisputed fight against Oleksandr Usyk for April 29.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter Jessica Chastain will star in the eight-episode limited series “The Savant” at Apple, Variety has learned. The series is inspired by a true story published in Cosmopolitan in August 2019. Exact plot details for the series are being kept under wraps, but the Cosmopolitan article tells the story of a real woman who has come to be known as “the Savant” as she infiltrates hate groups online to help stop large-scale public attacks. The series hails from Fifth Season and Anonymous Content. Melissa James Gibson (“Anatomy of a Scandal,” “The Americans”) will serve as writer, executive producer, and showrunner under her overall deal with Fifth Season. Matthew Heineman (“A Private War,” “Retrograde”) will direct and executive produce. Chastain will executive produce in addition to starring via Freckle Films. Kelly Carmichael of Freckle Films also executive produces along with Jessica Giles, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan. Brian Madden, senior VP of development for Hearst Magazines, will produce. Andrea Stanley, writer of the original Cosmopolitan feature, will consult.
Fresh from playing country music star Tammy Wynette, Jessica Chastain is swapping the microphone for a laptop.
Highly-rated RB Leipzig centre-back Josko Gvardiol has admitted that he recently had a conversation with Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola - but has warned that he does not expect to leave the German club this forthcoming this summer.
new Instagram post on Sunday, Cynthia Nixon wrote a heartfelt message to her “Sex and The City” costar and friend, Sarah Jessica Parker, on her 58th birthday.“Make new friends, but keep the old,” Nixon wrote in the caption, accompanied by an old photo of them on the popular TV show together. “One is silver, the other is gold.
Kanye West‘s first Instagram post in 2023 is turning heads, after sharing that watching Jonah Hill‘s performance in 21 Jump Street “made me like Jewish people again.” The post caught a lot of people’s attention, including the film’s director, Christopher Miller.
Kanye West's first Instagram post in 2023 is turning heads, after sharing that watching Jonah Hill's performance in «made me like Jewish people again.» The post caught a lot of people's attention, including the film's director, Christopher Miller.The controversial rapper took to Instagram on Friday night and posted a photo of the film's poster, and it was in the caption where West disclosed that «watching Jonah Hill in made me like Jewish people again.»West added in the caption, «No one should take anger against one or two individuals and transform that into hatred towards millions of innocent people. No Christian can be labeled antisemite knowing Jesus is Jew. Thank you Jonah Hill I love you.»No word yet on how Hill feels about being roped into West's mea culpa some five months after spewing antisemitic hate speech and praising Nazis and Adolf Hitler while on an alt-right show, as well as writing several posts, in which he declared his plan to go «death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.» But Miller, who alongside Phil Lord made his live action directorial debut with, took to Twitter and reacted to West's post by sharing a screenshot of West's IG post and tweeting, «Um... thanks for watching?»A post shared by Ye (@kanyewest)Um… thanks for watching? pic.twitter.com/BvcFMmQfMfFollowing his bizarre and troubling rants, brands swiftly moved to distance themselves from West, who lost his billionaire status after Adidas cut ties with him. Balenciaga and fashion magazine also cut ties with him and he was dropped from Def Jam Records. CAA has also dropped Ye as a client.Subsequently, Foot Locker also removed his popular Yeezy shoes off its shelves, with a Foot Locker Inc.
Ellise Shafer The scripted pilot based on Jessica Simpson’s bestselling memoir “Open Book” is not moving forward at Amazon Freevee, Variety has confirmed. Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s period comedy “Western” has also been scrapped, though both potential series are now being shopped elsewhere. The pilot for “Open Book” was ordered by Amazon Freevee back in October, with Tom Kapinos set to write and executive produce and Adam Bernstein on board as a director and executive producer. Katelyn Tarver would play Sadie Sparrow, a young singer based on Simpson, while John Stamos was cast as her older songwriter, Butch. Over time, the two would develop a connection that went beyond music.
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Freevee will not be moving forward with two of its half-hour scripted pilots, Western and Open Book. Both are currently being shopped elsewhere.
Jake Bugg played his 2012 debut single ‘Trouble Town’, perhaps better known as the theme song from BBC’s hit show Happy Valley, last night (March 23) at the Royal Albert Hall. Watch footage in the video below.Bugg was performing as part of the Teenage Cancer Trust‘s annual concert series when he played the song, taken from his self-titled debut album.
Jessica Simpson exuded the joy of a proud mother as she treated her daughter Birdie, 4, to a fantasy birthday party of every little girl’s dreams. Sharing a heartfelt Instagram post celebrating her youngest child's birthday on Thursday, the 42-year-old former MTV star commemorated her daughter Birdie Mae's fourth birthday with a magical unicorn-themed party, showcasing her affection for her little girl, whom she shares with husband Eric Johnson.The blonde beauty posted a series of delightful pictures from the event, accompanied by a touching caption that conveyed her love for her daughter to her 6.2 million followers. Birdie was treated to a lavish unicorn-themed birthday partyJessica shared, "Birdie Mae Johnson is 4!!! This adorable wonder of unicorn kiddo illuminates every color in the rainbow…her favorite color." She went on to describe how Birdie's infectious laughter and unique personality bring joy to those around her.WATCH: Jessica Simpson's children play the drums in adorable videoJessica, who also has two other children with her husband Eric - daughter Maxwell, 10, and son Ace, 9 - shared her love and pride for Birdie, calling her "a symphony of STARDUST and born to SHINE." She expressed how her daughter's presence is always felt, even when they are apart.
EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed Jonathan Roumie, the actor-producer best known for starring in the faith-based hits The Chosen and Jesus Revolution.
A24 is putting together a star-studded pop star movie!
Sorry, but that live-action The Hunchback of Notre Dame movie isn’t actually being made.
Soccer Aid is returning to Manchester this year with a fantastic line-up of famous faces. Among the celebrities taking to the pitch at Manchester United's Old Trafford on Sunday, June 11 is Alex Brooker.
Elon Musk's best efforts to crater Twitter hasn't quite happened just yet and, as such, there are still countless people logging on every day to fire off their takes and start a new cycle of discourse about just how wrong they are. This week a big subject between music fans on Twitter has been the relative merits of The White Stripes drummer Meg White.
Nicola Petlz Beckham has shared her hope of starting a family in the future, almost a year after marrying Brooklyn Beckham in a star-studded ceremony in Florida. The actress married Brooklyn, the eldest son of former England footballer David Beckham and Spice Girl and fashion designer Victoria Beckham, in a Palm Beach ceremony last April.
Empire Magazine.“People who’ve seen Across… have told us that it feels like The Empire Strikes Back of the Spider-Verse franchise,” Miller told Empire for their exclusive issue including an image from the animated film. “It shows you worlds you haven’t seen, and it’s an emotional story that ends in a place where you need to see the third one. So, yeah: this is our ‘Empire’.”Besides main antagonist The Spot, Spider-Man 2099, also known as Miguel O’Hara (Oscar Isaac) will present some new challenges to Miles Morales (Shameik Moore).
The franchise first launched in 1996 from screenwriter Kevin Williamson and the late director Wes Craven. Five sequels and nearly 30 years later, Ghostface is more popular now than ever -- thanks in part to the new creative team, Radio Silence, who took over ahead of last year’s successful reboot.Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet, most known for their witty 2019 slasher, were at the helm again for an Easter egg-filled sixth entry, and this time they held nothing back as they moved the action from Woodsboro to New York City.In, Ghostface targets the core four survivors — Samantha Carpenter (Melissa Barrera), her sister, Tara (Jenna Ortega), and twins Mindy and Chad Meeks-Martin (Jasmin Savoy Brown and Mason Gooding, respectively) — who were first introduced in (2022). This time, they're joined by a new group of friends played by Devyn Nekoda, Jack Champion, Josh Segarra and Liana Liberato.For the first time in the 27-year franchise, Sidney Prescott does not appear in the film due to a salary dispute with actress Neve Campbell.
Former Love Island star Jack Keating has been seen celebrating his dad Ronan Keating's birthday, just days after he shocked fans by announcing the birth of his baby daughter. Jack, 23, was snapped as he arrived at The Aubrey in Kensington, London for his dad's birthday celebrations, as he sported an open brown shirt, white t-shirt, and black jeans.