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Will Ferrell Walked Away From a $29M Elf Payday

Star reveals he turned down sequel because it just wasn't that good

(Newser) - Elf has become somewhat of a holiday cult classic, and hopes by fans of a sequel for the 2003 movie have been percolating for years, but its star, Will Ferrell, is now finally revealing why that sequel never came to be. The 54-year-old SNL alum tells The Hollywood Reporter...

Ice Cube Makes Choice on Vaccination for Film Role


Ice Cube
Quits Film
Over Vaccine
Oct 29, 2021 5:00 PM CDT

Ice Cube Quits Film Over Vaccine

Production co-starring Jack Black was to shoot in Hawaii this winter

(Newser) - Ice Cube is leaving a film project, and a $9 million salary, rather than be vaccinated for the coronavirus. He had signed on in June to partner and co-star with Jack Black on Oh Hell No, a comedy that was to film in Hawaii over the winter, per the Hollywood ...

Brandon Lee's Fiancee: 'There's No Such Thing as a Prop Gun'

Lee, son of Bruce Lee, was killed on movie set in 1993, in similar way as Halyna Hutchins

(Newser) - The family of Brandon Lee, the actor who died in 1993 in a freak gun accident while filming The Crow, knows too well the feelings that the family of Halyna Hutchins is going through. After the 42-year-old cinematographer was killed last week in New Mexico when a gun being handled...

Rust Gaffer Blames Death On 'Unprofessionalism'

Serge Svetnoy doesn't name names but says armorer was negligent

(Newser) - The chief electrician—the gaffer—on the set of Rust has some strong words about the lack of professionalism that he says led to the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins . Echoing other crew members' comments that gun safety wasn’t being taken seriously on the production, Serge Svetnoy wrote a...

Dune Shines On Big Screen Despite Hybrid Release

Long-awaited sci-fi update sold $40.1M in tickets

(Newser) - Denis Villeneuve's Dune debuted with $40.1 million in ticket sales in its opening weekend in North America, drawing a large number of moviegoers to see the thundering sci-fi epic on the big screen despite it also being available to stream in homes. Warner Bros. launched the Legendary Entertainment...

Last-Minute Deal Keeps Hollywood Working

Entertainment workers were poised to strike

(Newser) - An 11th-hour deal was reached Saturday, averting a strike of film and television crews that would have seen some 60,000 behind-the-scenes workers walk off their jobs and would have frozen productions in Hollywood and across the U.S. After days of marathon negotiations, representatives from the International Alliance of...

100 Years Ago, the Nation Got Its First Celebrity Scandal

Film star Fatty Arbuckle was charged with murder after a wild party

(Newser) - Almost exactly a century ago, a 26-year-old actress/model/designer named Virginia Rappe attended a wild party in a San Francisco hotel and at one point ended up in a bedroom with comedic film star Fatty Arbuckle. What followed led to what is widely considered to be the nation's first celebrity...

Halloween Kills Has a Healthy Opening
Halloween Kills Looks
Like a Survivor
box office
Oct 17, 2021 12:30 PM CDT

Halloween Kills Looks Like a Survivor

New installment of horror series tops industry expectations

(Newser) - Halloween Kills may be available to watch at home, but the latest installment in the Michael Myers saga is making a killing at the North American box office in its first weekend in theaters. Universal's David Gordon Green-directed film scared up $50.4 million from 3,705 locations, according...

Latest Bond Film Hits Its Mark
Latest Bond Film
Hits Its Mark
box office
Oct 10, 2021 11:55 AM CDT

Latest Bond Film Hits Its Mark

'No Time to Die' sets no records but posts fourth-best opening in franchise history

(Newser) - After over 18 months of pandemic delays, No Time to Die opened on target. The final James Bond film of the Daniel Craig era grossed $56 million from 4,407 North American theaters, according to studio estimates on Sunday, to easily take the first-place spot. It didn't break any...

Film, TV Workers Vote Overwhelmingly in Favor of Strike

Productions will halt if progress isn't made in IATSE's contract talks

(Newser) - Film and TV production in Hollywood and beyond could soon be grinding to an indefinite halt. The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees voted overwhelmingly in favor of strike action Monday, Deadline reports. The union says the strike, the first in its 128-year history, was approved by a near unanimous...

Philip Seymour Hoffman&#39;s Son Is Starring in a Movie
Young Face in New Movie
Might Look Familiar
trailer
Sep 28, 2021 12:40 PM CDT

Young Face in New Movie Might Look Familiar

Cooper Hoffman, son of Philip Seymour Hoffman, stars in 'Licorice Pizza'

(Newser) - Director Paul Thomas Anderson worked frequently with Philip Seymour Hoffman before the actor's fatal overdose in 2014 . Now that collaboration is continuing in a sense, as son Cooper Hoffman stars in Anderson's Licorice Pizza. The trailer has just been released, and you can watch it here . The 18-year-old...

Dear Evan Hansen Draws Small but Enthusiastic Crowd
Dear Evan Hansen
Draws Small but
Enthusiastic Crowd
box office
Sep 26, 2021 11:50 AM CDT

Dear Evan Hansen Draws Small but Enthusiastic Crowd

Film opens in second place, behind Shang-Chi

(Newser) - Dear Evan Hansen may have been a hit on Broadway, but the filmed adaptation of the Tony-winning show is off to a slow start in movie theaters. The Universal musical that's playing exclusively in theaters grossed an estimated $7.5 million from 3,364 locations, according to studio estimates...

It's the First Big Movie With All-Gay Cast

Billy Eichner's 'Bros' will make Hollywood history

(Newser) - When Bros starring Billy Eichner is released in August of next year, it will be a milestone event in multiple ways:
  • First No. 1: The film from Universal Pictures will be the first romantic comedy about two gay men put out by a major studio, notes Deadline .
  • First No. 2:
...

The Wire Creator Pulls Project About Texas Out of Texas

David Simon says he can't ask female cast and crew 'to forgo civil liberties'

(Newser) - Texas' abortion law banning the procedure after six or so weeks of pregnancy "has officially made its impact on the local film scene," with The Wire creator David Simon announcing he won't film an upcoming HBO project in the state, the Houston Chronicle reports. The Baltimore-based TV...

Weak Eastwood Opening May Be Message to Hollywood
Eastwood's Weak Opening
May Send Message to Studios
box office
Sep 19, 2021 4:15 PM CDT

Eastwood's Weak Opening May Send Message to Studios

'Cry Macho' numbers suggest older Americans aren't ready to return to theaters

(Newser) - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is the top film at the box office for the third straight weekend, while the muted reception for Clint Eastwood's Cry Macho suggests older moviegoers still aren't eager to return to theaters. Marvel's Shang-Chi, directed by Destin Daniel Cretton,...

Star Danced With Astaire in Royal Wedding
Jane Powell
Had 'Grit 
and Spunk'
obituary
Sep 16, 2021 6:50 PM CDT

Jane Powell Had 'Grit and Spunk'

Star had leading roles in the golden age of musicals

(Newser) - Jane Powell, the bright-eyed, operatic-voiced star of Hollywood's golden age musicals who sang with Howard Keel in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and danced with Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding, has died. She was 92. A friend said Powell died Thursday at her Wilton, Connecticut, home of natural causes,...

Missing Doctor Who Actress Tanya Fear Found

Actress found in LA, unharmed

(Newser) - The British actress who went missing in Hollywood last week has been found safe. Tanya Fear, 31, had been living there for the past couple of months when she left her apartment Thursday without her cellphone or purse. She was last seen by friends around 10pm that night, and was...

Tanya Fear, Actress From Doctor Who and More, Missing

She was last seen Thursday in LA

(Newser) - Tanya Fear, an actress best known for playing Dr. Jade McIntyre in a 2018 episode of Doctor Who, went missing Thursday in California. Fear, who is British, had been living in Hollywood for two months before she disappeared, Today reports. Los Angeles police confirm the 31-year-old has been reported missing,...

Shang-Chi Stays on Top With $35.8M Weekend
Shang-Chi Stays on Top
With $35.8M Weekend
box office
Sep 12, 2021 2:00 PM CDT

Shang-Chi Stays on Top With $35.8M Weekend

Black Widow 's pandemic record falls

(Newser) - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings stayed on top at the box office, collecting $35.8 million in ticket sales in its second weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. That was the best second-weekend gross of any film during the pandemic, edging out the previous Marvel movie, Black ...

Jessica Chastain Has the Best Reaction to Oscar Isaac Kiss

The star of Scenes from a Marriage seemed to appreciate a Gomez-Morticia comparison

(Newser) - Hollywood stars are supposed to know how to make a fantasy seem tangible. It’s their job. So we don’t want to ruin your dreams by pointing out that Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac are happily married, and not to each other. Each has an impossibly attractive spouse of...

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