Month: May 2024

There will be moviegoers at the Memorial Day weekend box office; the industry can be thankful for that. Just not as many as the previous two years when the entire 4-day frame exceeded $200M+. With Warner Bros‘ prequel Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and Alcon/Sony‘s The Garfield Movie hitting marquees, the volume of event product
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For over a decade, health care journalist Shefali Luthra has been reporting on reproductive rights for Kaiser Health News and The 19th. In Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America, she details the public and private chaos that commenced when the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in its 2022 decision, Dobbs v.
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We would watch anything featuring Zendaya, but when it’s a steamy movie about a woman who finds herself in a complicated love triangle with two suitors embroiled in a high-stakes game, it shoots to the top of our watchlist.  Challengers — starring Zendaya as Tashi Donaldson, a tennis prodigy turned coach — premiered in theaters on April 26.
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Oliver Stone has always had one eye pointed south of the U.S. border. It began with his phenomenal script for Brian De Palma’s Scarface, which transformed the famous Chicago gangster into a hardened Cuban refugee. After that, Stone directed the photojournalist saga Salvador, about the deadly civil war that gripped El Salvador in the 1980s.
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Good news for exhibition as Lionsgate is delivering two big releases this fall: The Dave Bautista action pic The Killer’s Game on Sept. 13 and the Mel Gibson directed Mark Wahlberg movie Flight Risk for Oct. 18. Again, we can’t be without film product in a marketplace that’s starving for volume. Meanwhile the Gerard Butler
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Writer-director John Krasinski returns to the box office with IF, his whimsical comedy that’s bringing imaginary friends to the big screen. The family-friendly flick earned $33.7 million its opening weekend, a good start for the latest Krasinski-directed project since A Quiet Place Part II. The star-studded cast includes Ryan Reynolds, Cailey Fleming, as well as the voices of Emily Blunt, Steve Carell and Brad Pitt.  Krasinski told
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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. Inside Reese Witherspoon’s Literary Empire This profile in The New York Times by
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A child heads outdoors, walking through a verdant and hilly rural landscape, as the sun rises and a shadow appears as the “last hint of night.” Thus begins an evocative exploration of shadows, both literal and metaphorical, in There Was a Shadow, written by Bruce Handy and illustrated by Lisk Feng.  Handy examines the omnipresent,
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Marilyn Monroe’s iconic red Swarovski crystal pumps. Audrey Hepburn’s suede ballet flats. Joan Crawford’s Foxtrot shoes. These were the makings of a Ferragamo woman during the Golden Age of Hollywood, a time when Salvatore Ferragamo was known as the “shoemaker of dreams.” Today, Maximilian Davis, the brand’s creative director since 2022, is paying homage to
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[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Bridgerton Season 3 Part 1.] Bridgerton‘s third season concluded Part 1 with a life-altering cliffhanger as Colin (Luke Newton) proposed marriage to his best friend, Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan), but how will her former bestie and Colin’s sister, Eloise (Claudia Jessie) react to their romance? As fans will recall,
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Kevin Costner‘s new Western epic may have gotten a 10-minute standing ovation at Cannes, but once critics got back from festival screenings to their hotel rooms, they posted reviews for Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1 that were far less enthusiastic. Horizon is the first film in writer-director-star Costner’s massive four-picture gamble that he
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