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Box Office Dance-Off: ‘Elvis’ Opens to $30.5M to Tie With ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ for Top Spot
In rare box office dance-off, Baz Luhrmann’s biopic Elvis — starring Austin Butler as the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll — and Top Gun: Maverick tied for the weekend crown with an estimated $30.5 million each. The race won’t be declared until Monday morning when final grosses are tallied. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Top Gun: Maverick is doing formidable business in its fifth weekend as it jumps the $1 billion mark globally. The movie fell a scant 32 percent domestically thanks to being rereleased in select Imax and other premium large-format screens. Elvis, from Warner Bros., has older moviegoers to thank for opening ahead of expectations: 56 percent of the audience so far is over the age of 35, i...
Box Office: ‘Elvis’ Rocking to $30M-Plus Opening in Dance-Off With ‘Top Gun 2’
Baz Luhrmann’s biopic Elvis — starring Austin Butler as the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll — is dancing to a better-than-expected $30 million to $32 million opening at the domestic box office after topping Friday’s (June 24) chart with $12.7 million, including $3.5 million in previews. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news That could be enough to win the weekend ahead of Top Gun: Maverick, which is doing formidable business in its fifth weekend, thanks to being rereleased in Imax and other premium screens. Elvis, from Warner Bros., has older moviegoers to thank: 65 percent of the audience so far is over the age of 35, including a whopping 30 percent over 55. Naturally, Luhrmann’s frenetic Elvis Presley biopic performed be...
Guy Ritchie to Direct ‘Hercules’ Live-Action Remake
Guy Ritchie has boarded Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of Hercules. Ritchie will direct the remake based on the 1997 film, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Ritchie previously directed Disney’s 2019 live-action Aladdin, which crossed the $1 billion mark at the global box office. Dave Callaham, who wrote Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, penned a first draft of the script. The studio is currently in the process of searching for writers for the project. Joe and Anthony Russo, the filmmakers behind Avengers: Endgame and Infinity War, are set to produce the film via their AGBO banner. The original 1997 film, directed by Ron Clements and Jon Musker, offered a musical retelling of the Greek legend i...
Harry Styles Is Moody As Ever In My Policeman First Photos
Don’t Worry Darling — OIivia Wilde’s upcoming period thriller won’t be the only movie Harry Styles is starring in this year. Today (June 9), Amazon released the first promo photos of My Policeman, the romantic drama that finds Styles starring alongside The Crown’s Emma Corrin and The Last Kingdom’s David Dawson. Based on the 2012 book of the same name by author Bethan Roberts, My Policeman is set in 1957 Brighton, England, where Styles’s Officer Tom hides his sexuality by dating a schoolteacher named Marion (Corrin) but simultaneously has a secret, illicit relationship with a museum curator named Patrick (Dawson). The angst-filled queer movie also jumps back and forth between the 1950s and ‘90s showing the characters in older ages, with Tom played by Linus Roache, Marion by Gina McKee, and...
2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards Winners: See The Full List
It’s time. The 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards are here, and it’s time to celebrate all your faves. And this year, the crop of nominees is particularly fave-centric — from big-time standbys like Euphoria, Tom Holland and Spider-Man: No Way Home as well as Ted Lasso to darlings like Hacks breakout star Meg Stalter and beyond. But as we know, there can only be one winner per category. Find them all below, and stay tuned all night as the Movie & TV Awards hit the Barker Hangar in Los Angeles at 8 p.m ET/PT, followed immediately by the Movie & TV Awards: UNSCRIPTED. BEST MOVIE Dune Scream Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings WINNER: Spider-Man: No Way Home The Adam Project The Batman BEST SHOW WINNER: Euphoria Inventing Anna Loki Squid Game Ted Lasso Yellowstone BEST PE...
2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards Winners: See The Full List
It’s time. The 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards are here, and it’s time to celebrate all your faves. And this year, the crop of nominees is particularly fave-centric — from big-time standbys like Euphoria, Tom Holland and Spider-Man: No Way Home as well as Ted Lasso to darlings like Hacks breakout star Meg Stalter and beyond. But as we know, there can only be one winner per category. Find them all below, and stay tuned all night as the Movie & TV Awards hit the Barker Hangar in Los Angeles at 8 p.m ET/PT, followed immediately by the Movie & TV Awards: UNSCRIPTED. BEST MOVIE Dune Scream Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings WINNER: Spider-Man: No Way Home The Adam Project The Batman BEST SHOW WINNER: Euphoria Inventing Anna Loki Squid Game Ted Lasso Yellowstone BEST PE...
Loki Star Sophia Di Martino Is Your 2022 Breakthrough Performance Winner
As a MTV Movie & TV Awards category, Breakthrough Performance tends to recognize the folks that made TV and film scenes their own, even as they weren’t necessarily the top-billed stars. And this year, no one was more ready to be recognized than English actress Sophia Di Martino for her portrayal of Loki‘s Sylvie, an alternate version of the title character whose anger fuels her as both a hilarious and fierce warrior. “This is actually really heavy!” she said about the Golden Popcorn as she took the podium for her acceptance speech, the latest in a long line of winners who’ve come to that realization upon being handed the coveted statue. After setting it down (wisely), she went into her own story of portraying Sylvie and the story around her casting. “...
Loki Star Sophia Di Martino Is Your 2022 Breakthrough Performance Winner
As a MTV Movie & TV Awards category, Breakthrough Performance tends to recognize the folks that made TV and film scenes their own, even as they weren’t necessarily the top-billed stars. And this year, no one was more ready to be recognized than English actress Sophia Di Martino for her portrayal of Loki‘s Sylvie, an alternate version of the title character whose anger fuels her as both a hilarious and fierce warrior. “This is actually really heavy!” she said about the Golden Popcorn as she took the podium for her acceptance speech, the latest in a long line of winners who’ve come to that realization upon being handed the coveted statue. After setting it down (wisely), she went into her own story of portraying Sylvie and the story around her casting. “...
Love Is In The Air In Epic First Look At Thor: Love & Thunder
What is love? It looks like Thor is about to find out. Marvel fans were treated to an exclusive new clip from Thor: Love & Thunder during the 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards on Sunday (June 5). The tantalizing teaser sees the titular hero (played by Chris Hemsworth) reach for his signature hammer, only for another hero — namely Jane Foster, a.k.a. Mighty Thor (Natalie Portman) — to grab it instead. The preview clip was prefaced by Kiwi filmmaker Taika Waititi, who co-wrote and developed the film as a more light-hearted, romantic comedy-esque addition to the franchise. “Love is in the air,” Waititi told viewers in his pre-recorded introduction. “And potentially the extinction of all gods? What?! I know.” Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage/Getty Images Intended to pick up where 2017’s Thor: Ragna...
Jack Black Needs ‘A Blast Of Oxygen’ While Accepting The Comedic Genius Award
Maybe you know him best from School of Rock or the Jumanji films or Nacho Libre or Orange County, or perhaps as or as the voice of a martial artist who is also a panda. Maybe anytime you see him without a guitar in his hands, you think he looks incomplete — because he’s also a rock god. Whatever your preferred role of Jack Black‘s is, one thing is clear: The man is a comedic genius. This fact was recognized, underscored, and shouted at tonight’s MTV Movie & TV Awards, where Black received the Comedic Genius Award. Because he is Jack Black, he walked onstage in a large (kung-fu) panda mask and immediately barrel-rolled his way to the mic, soaking up every last bit of audience glory. The entire moment was soundtracked by some completely correct walk-out music: Twisted S...
Jennifer Lopez Thanks Both Friends And Enemies In Generation Award Speech
By Sam Manzella The recipient of this year’s Generation Award has us getting loud. Jennifer Lopez received the lifetime achievement honor at the 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards on Sunday (June 5). Although she is best known for her killer dance moves and hit pop songs, J.Lo is a consummate multi-hyphenate and has acted in a number of iconic films and television shows over the years. Accepting the honor in real time at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, a teary-eyed Lopez thanked her supporters, as well as those who have discredited her over the years. “I want to thank all the people who told me when I wasn’t in the room, or sometimes to my face, that I could never do this,” she said. “I really couldn’t have done this without you.” The 52-year-old icon also shouted out her children, ...
An Exclusive Elvis Clip Brought Characteristic Flash (And Pelvis Swinging) To The Movie & TV Awards
Elvis Presley’s thrusting pelvis really broke a lot of people’s brains in the 1950s. As the history goes, such rampant sexuality felt new and dangerous at the time — a facet largely on display in the exclusive clip from director Baz Luhrmann’s new Elvis biopic shown at the MTV Movie & TV Awards on Sunday night (June 5). Elvis, a film that feels like it should have an exclamation point at the end of it given Luhrman’s penchant for the operatic and melodramatic, follows The King from his early rise, and in the clip shown during the show, the pelvis-thrusting was really on full display, as moved to perfection by title star Austin Butler. “There’s a lot of people saying a lot of things,” Butler-as-Presley says into a microphone in a crowded room to...
