MoviePass CEO Stacey Spikes said the service may give users buying tickets on the app the option of watching a bucket of commercials in exchange for credits they can cash in for movie tickets. Spikes – who relaunched the company out of bankruptcy in 2022 – wants to start a beta trial this coming summer.
Month: March 2024
It’s time to take a trip down the mystic river. The 2024 Oscars are right around the corner, but before it’s time to see which half of “Barbenheimer” is victorious and which actors will walk away winners, let’s rewind the clock twenty years. In 2004, there was an entirely different slate of hopefuls and red carpet
For decades, NASCAR has offered a squeaky-clean motorsports product, letting its horsepower and rivalries do most of the talking. Recently, ratings and attendance have flattened or dropped. But expect that to change thanks to NASCAR: Full Speed, a docu-series in the mold of Netflix’s popular Formula 1: Drive to Survive. These five episodes show drivers
Ariana Grande made her Saturday Night Live return over the weekend as the musical guest — for an episode hosted by the delightfully strange Josh Brolin — and she wowed fans with two powerful, beautiful performances. The songstress took the stage for the first time in a set made up to look like a living
After your very first novel receives a Newbery Honor and you go on to win two Newbery Medals; after you become a two-time finalist for the National Book Award; after several of your books are adapted for the big screen (not to mention a stage musical and an opera); after you’re named the National Ambassador
News Watch De La Soul Perform “Eye Know” on Colbert Prince Paul joined the trio for the Steely Dan–sampling 3 Feet High and Rising classic By Jazz Monroe March 8, 2024 Facebook X De La Soul on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, March 2024 (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) Facebook
Everyone in Kyle Hausmann-Stokes’ compassionate feature My Dead Friend Zoe has suffered a loss. Merit (Sonequa Martin-Green), a nervous Afghanistan war veteran, is reeling from the death of her closest friend in combat. Dr. Cole (Morgan Freeman), the supervisor of the court-mandated therapy sessions Merit must attend, grieves absences in his own life. And Merit’s
EXCLUSIVE: Specialty distributor 3388 Films has acquired rights to Vietnamese smash Mai, and has set a March 22 theatrical release across North America and Europe. From director Tran Thanh, the romance drama is now the No. 1 movie of all time in Vietnam, having crossed 500B VND ($20M) locally this past week. Mai will go
Josh Hartnett and Tamsin Egerton just had their first public Hollywood date night in more than seven years. On March 8, the Pearl Harbor star and his wife made a rare joint appearance at the Saint Laurent x Vanity Fair x NBCUniversal party in Los Angeles to celebrated the nominated film Oppenheimer, one of several pre-Oscars 2024 events. For their
Bridgerton Season 3 hasn’t even premiered yet, but fans are already looking ahead to Season 4. There are plenty of Bridgerton love stories left, and Netflix isn’t even halfway through Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton collection of novels. Bridgerton is one of Netflix’s most popular series, so anticipation about the show’s future beyond Season 3 is expected. Penelope
With the 96th Academy Awards just hours away, actors, directors and Hollywood’s biggest stars descended upon the Dolby Theatre on Saturday for the official dress rehearsal ahead of the big day. The run-through, held each year as a way to familiarize the presenters and production crew with the flow of events before film’s biggest night, went
News Daryl Hall and Elvis Costello Announce Spring and Summer 2024 Tour The co-headliners will perform across the United States and Canada in June and July March 8, 2024 Facebook X Daryl Hall (Lora Karam), Elvis Costello (Mark Seliger) Facebook X Elvis Costello and Hall and Oates’ Daryl Hall have announced a co-headlining spring and
Jake Gyllenhaal’s remake of Road House rode into Austin for the SXSW Film Festival on a wave of minor controversies. The film’s director, Doug Liman, took shots at Amazon Prime Video for deciding not to give the movie a proper theatrical release. It will be available to those with a Prime Video subscription beginning on
FRIDAY AFTERNOON: As expected, Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 4 is headed to the second biggest opening of the franchise with $52M after an $18.4M Friday (including previews) at 4.035 theaters. The first Kung Fu Panda in 2008 opened to $60.2M, that DWA title distributed by Paramount at the time. Legendary/Warner Bros’ Dune: Part Two
Drena, whose first Instagram post is a black-and-white snap of her as a child out to dinner with her parents and then-couple Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston (“at this point all I wonder is WTF was I doing there ???” she wrote), has remained in show business as an actor and producer. Growing up, “it definitely wasn’t the typical
For several seasons of ABC series Castle, viewers sat on the edge of their couch cushions to see whether novelist Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) and NYPD detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) would get together as they worked to solve both small cases and big-time conspiracies. Katic, for her part, wanted the two characters together sooner
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos make watching TV better, and their spoof of Nicole Kidman‘s infamous — yet iconic — AMC Theaters commercial from almost three years ago is one reason why. The Live With Kelly and Mark hosts teased their upcoming live show from the site of the 96th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood,
This originally appeared in our Today in Books daily newsletter, where each day we round up the most interesting stories, news, essays, and other goings on in the world of books and reading. Sign up here if you want to get it. _____________________________ Why Does Every Famous Woman Have a Book Club Now? Of course,
News Israel Granted Eurovision 2024 Entry After Lyric Change Numerous artists from competing nations have called for Israel to be banned for breaching international law in Palestine By Jazz Monroe March 8, 2024 Facebook X Photo by LAURIE DIEFFEMBACQ/Belga/AFP via Getty Images Facebook X Israel will be allowed to compete at the 2024 Eurovision Song
Creepy-doll characters are a fixture of countless horror movies, although few are as imposing as the life-size wooden mannequin that figures centrally in Irish writer-director Damian McCarthy’s Oddity. Rather than relying on an overtly identifiable genre template however, McCarthy’s second feature incorporates a distinctly internalized, foreboding atmosphere of dread that’s more unnerving than particularly frightening.
After the rolling laughs, hoots, hollers, whistling and clapping at tonight’s world premiere of Road House at SXSW on Friday, Amazon MGM Studios may want to think again before putting this Jake Gyllenhaal–Conor McGregor rock ’em sock ’em beefcakes pugilist movie on Prime Video. It doesn’t take an elbow to the head to wake up
“If Joe is all of the things that he is and now has unlimited resources and access, he’s become the thing that he envied and judged from afar,” she explained to E! News last year. “It gives us a lot of new opportunities.” Citing “all of the terrible, terrible stuff that very privileged wealthy people
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for S.W.A.T. Season 7 Episode 5 “End of the Road.”] The latest S.W.A.T. episode feels very much like a farewell to Alex Russell‘s Jim Street (it is), and it’s pretty clear from the start how he’ll be written out. However, there is a fun twist at the end! Street’s been busy
Barry Keoghan appears to be giving his rumored girlfriend a sweet nod. The Saltburn actor stepped out to attend W Magazine and Louis Vuitton’s Academy Awards dinner in Los Angeles on Thursday, and eagle-eyed fans were quick to spot an accessory he was sporting. While Keoghan looked dapper in a leather jacket and white T-shirt, it was his friendship
Few YA series have garnered the level of devotion and praise achieved by Holly Black’s Folk of the Air series (FOTA), which followed Jude Duarte and her battle for power in Faerie. It’s no surprise that Black’s massive fan base rejoiced when the author released a spinoff duology, the Novels of Elfhame. Picking up right
Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Marc Saltarelli, the Filmmaker behind “Studio One Forever”. Marc Saltarelli is a multi-award-winning filmmaker whose narrative films and documentaries have made him one of the most respected and admired directors and producers in the film industry. His movies have collectively been screened in over 250 major film festivals
News Sleater-Kinney Share New Frayed Rope Sessions EP: Listen Proceeds from the Bandcamp sales of the three-track release benefit Noise for Now By Matthew Strauss March 8, 2024 Facebook X Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker, photo by Ryan Cory Facebook X Sleater-Kinney have released a new three-song EP called Frayed Rope Sessions. As the
As any actor who’s played the face of the James Bond movies will tell you, the cinematic legacy of Ian Fleming’s literary creation will follow you everywhere you let it. Pierce Brosnan knows that fact, with his previous remarks on 007’s future seemed to indicate he wasn’t exactly concerned with the matter. Now he’s walked
A24’s psychological thriller Love Lies Bleeding by director Rose Glass starring Kristen Stewart, Katy O’Brian, Jena Malone and Anna Baryshnikov, with Dave Franco and Ed Harris, opens in limited release on five screens in New York and LA , expanding next week. A reclusive gym manager Lou (Steward) falls hard for Jackie (O’Brian), an ambitious bodybuilder headed
And in case you missed it, the season four finale of The Kardashians showed footage from then-pregnant Kourtney and husband Travis Barker‘s sex reveal party from the previous June. The Lemme founder and Blink-182 drummer welcomed son Rocky Thirteen Barker, 4 months—their first baby together and fourth child overall for each, on Nov. 1, weeks before the episode aired. During the episode, Kourtney also reflected on how their
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