HBO’s House of the Dragon hit its highest mark to date in Nielsen’s streaming ratings for June 17-23. The series racked up 1.23 billion minutes of viewing on Max for the week after its season two premiere (and including a few hours of viewing for the second episode on June 23). HotD’s previous best showing …
A storm has arrived at the box office, with Twisters bringing in $10.7 million in Thursday night previews. Going into the weekend, tracking services projected Twisters could score anywhere from $40 million to $50 million domestically (with some distributors believing it would go higher). The biggest Thursday preview of 2024 belongs to Pixar’s Inside Out …
In the first episode of Netflix‘s Simone Biles Rising, the titular sports icon details her approach to the 2023 World Championships. “Not talking to media,” Biles says. “Staying in my zone. Still following up with my therapist. I turned off my comments on Instagram… Twitter I have actually deleted a couple times off my phone.” …
In fitting Bob Newhart fashion, the legendary comic, who died this week at 94, liked to sell himself short. In a 1986 Rolling Stone interview (conducted by future Law & Order boss Warren Leight!), Newhart referred to the secret sauce of his self-titled CBS sitcom as “Brevity. It’s saying it in the fewest number of …
The Giornate Degli Autori, simply known as Venice Days, has unveiled its 2024 lineup. The independently run event, which takes place alongside the Venice Film Festival, will this year follow a theme of creatures “poised over an abyss, walking a tightrope”. “To reach the other side, or else to escape from something behind them, or …
It was supposed to be a kinder, gentler Donald Trump accepting the Republic nomination for president. Surviving an assassination attempt had made him a new man, we were led to believe. Newly humbled by his close brush with death, he was supposed to have torn up the vitriolic speech he was originally going to deliver. …
Recent Apple TV+ period dramas have a running “Whose story is this?” problem — an awareness of the dangers of monochromatic approaches to history, without a clear sense of how to fix the issue. Masters of the Air, for example, turned the Tuskegee Airmen into a one-episode footnote in a series about the 100th Bomb …
One of the finest Japanese independent films of the past few years is finally landing in U.S. cinemas this weekend. Second-time director Kei Chika-ura’s Great Absence, which debuted to strong reviews at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival and later won the best actor prize in San Sebastian for its star, Japanese screen icon Tatsuya Fuji (In the …
Eva Longoria is giving Only Murders in the Building fans a tease at what they can expect from her character in the upcoming fourth season. The Desperate Housewives alum recently talked with IndieWire about her role on the hit mystery comedy-drama, which sees her playing herself. “It was announced I was on the show, and …
Two years ago, Brandon Perea delivered a breakout big-screen performance in Jordan Peele’s Nope, and now he’s back in Universal’s latest July event film, Twisters. Directed by Lee Isaac Chung, Perea plays Boone, who’s nearly unrecognizable from his Nope character, Angel Torres. Boone is the right hand to Glen Powell’s Tyler Owens, as their team …