Month: December 2024

UPDATE, with full report: Broadway had its best attended and highest grossing Thanksgiving week in the industry’s recorded history, the Broadway League said today, with its 38 productions grossing a combined $46,046,759, a huge increase over last year’s turkey holiday take of $34,512,033. Attendance for this year’s Thanksgiving week – the Broadway week ending December
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Dania is in prison for a murder she did not commit. She spends every day plotting her escape and listing off the people responsible for her imprisonment: Vahid, the cruel emperor; Darbaran, the loathsome head of the palace guards; and Mazin, Vahid’s ward and Dania’s ex-lover. After a failed attempt to break out, Dania is
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For The Scent Aficionado Parfums de Marly Delina Body Cream This fragrant body cream is anything but average. The jar itself will make a pretty addition to her nightstand or vanity, and she’ll be fending off compliments about how good she smells whenever she wears it (trust). For The Bag Lady Loeffler Randall Bailey Espresso/Silver
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Lin Manuel-Miranda opened up about writing seven songs for Mufasa: The Lion King, the upcoming prequel to the beloved Disney animated classic. The Grammy-winning artist stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where he discussed his upcoming stint in Broadway’s All In: Comedy About Love, recent concept album Warriors and Mufasa, among other things.
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SUNDAY AM UPDATE after Nov. 30 post 11:21AM: The Thanksgiving stretch is delivering an unprecedented estimated $420M at the domestic box office, that’s according to Comscore since our post yesterday. EntTelligence reports 46M turkeys were eaten over the holiday while 30M people saw the top three movies. Moana 2 pulled in 17.4M admissions, Wicked 8.7M people while Gladiator II counted $3.3M
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News Bob Bryar, Longtime My Chemical Romance Drummer, Dies at 44 After joining the pop-punk band in mid-2004, Bryar played on The Black Parade and Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys By Nina Corcoran December 2, 2024 Bob Bryar of My Chemical Romance, photo by Chris McKay/WireImage/Getty Images Save this storySave Save
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MONDAY AM: Everything is higher: Disney’s Moana 2 is settling its 5-day at $225.2M, while Universal’s Wicked is coming in at $118.2M, and Paramount’s Gladiator II at $44.3M. 3-day for Moana 2 is $139.7M after a $34.7M Sunday, -31% from Saturday. For a project that was originally destined to be on Disney+, and was flipped
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Police have a major update in the case of Hannah Kobayashi’s disappearance. Six days after authorities called the Hawaii native’s missed flight connection to New York City “intentional,” the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said they had discovered footage of the 30-year-old entering Mexico and are now considering Hannah a “voluntary missing person.” “On Nov.
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Cyber Weekend is officially wrapping up—but there’s still plenty of time to shop the sales, if you’ve procrastinated (no judgement). In particular, we’re seeing tons of our favorite jewelry brands offering one last day of super sales. Editor and celebrity favorites like Mejuri, Heaven Mayhem, and Missoma as well as go-to retailers like Nordstrom, Amazon,
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. No question that the “story” of the day is that it is *groan* Cyber Monday (is this shopping day the last thing, along with the *double groan* Cyber Truck to use “cyber” as a descriptor?).
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In her third novel, Weike Wang follows married couple Keru and Nate on two vacations: the first on Cape Cod, the second five years later, in the Catskills. Keru, a Chinese American woman, and Nate, a white man who grew up in Appalachia, grapple not only with the usual challenges of marriage and careers, but
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MONDAY UPDATE with Moana 2 actuals: Now that Sunday’s actuals are in, Disney’s Moana 2 has surfed even higher across its launch frame domestically, swelling the global start to $389M. That’s a new milestone as Disney confirmed the phenom has posted the highest ever reported animated opening weekend at the global box office, overtaking the previous
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Megan Fox is saying no to one pregnancy norm.  The Jennifer’s Body star—who is expecting a baby with fiancé Machine Gun Kelly—shared that she will continue wearing her pre-pregnancy wardrobe looks instead of opting for special maternity clothes. “I really don’t dress differently while pregnant,” Megan told People in an interview published Dec. 2. “My maternity style is pretty much the same
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