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The result is the highest total since 2019, which saw 1.35bn in total revenue, shortly before the collapse of the physical cinema box office the following year, to 323.7m, as Covid restrictions hit hard. Cinema revenues recovered to 595.5m in 2021, and 980.7m in 2022, only returning above 1bn in 2023, with a total of 1.06bn.

One of the most beautiful women on the planet is covered with blood and dirt as she curls her hand inside the opening of a conch shell. She raises it as a makeshift set of brass knuckles and proceeds to pulverize the face of one of the buccaneers who has attacked her island home. This is Priyanka Chopra Jonas's first major fight scene in The Bluff, which tells you this is far different from the kind of pirate film moviegoers have seen before.

It would be hard to overstate the influence of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne on traditions of realism in European cinema. The Belgian brothers, now in their seventies, have been making compassionate, uncompromising dramas about the social and economic conditions of modern life for nearly 40 years, approaching each with a direct, unvarnished style that's been imitated far and wide across the international arthouse circuit, if seldom rivaled in its emotional impact.

NEW YORK -- Warner Bros. again rejected a takeover bid from Paramount and told shareholders Wednesday to stick with a rival offer from Netflix. Warner's leadership has repeatedly rebuffed Skydance-owned Paramount's overtures - and urged shareholders just weeks ago to back its the sale of its streaming and studio business to Netflix for $72 billion. Paramount, meanwhile, has made efforts to sweeten its $77.9 billion hostile offer for the entire company.

Marty is attempting to prove himself as the world's greatest table-tennis champion, to escape his meagre mid-century New York City circumstances and achieve a dream he's locked on to, seemingly more out of desire to achieve it than a particular love for the sport. And just as he's presumably blown up some natural athleticism into a monomaniacal quest, all of Marty's misdeeds across the film escalate.

The world's largest tech showcase does not come without theatrics. Innovations and gadgets like a lollipop that sings to you as you consume it, a laundry-folding robot, and a "smart" LEGO brick have stolen the spotlight so far at CES 2026. But underscoring this year's programming is a strong focus on an industry that relies on a similar theatrical flair: entertainment.

Tom Blyth, best known for playing young Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, could soon become known for something more surprising: his dance moves. His most recent film, Plainclothes, in which he plays a closeted police officer who is hired to catch gay men cruising in public restrooms - and then falls for one of his targets - isn't exactly a laugh riot. But there's a small, tender moment where Blyth's Lucas and his mother, Marie (Maria Dizzia), dance around in the kitchen that's truly transcendent.

After spending the last Knives Out entry on a billionaire's private Greek island, master sleuth Benoit Blanc's latest mystery Wake Up Dead Man takes him to a remote parish in upstate New York to solve the murder of a priest (Josh Brolin). It's a classic locked door mystery, with Brolin's monsignor stabbed mid-mass in a closet a few feet from his pulpit.

As spotted by deals guru Wario64, Amazon is once again offering up 4K UHD movies for just $11 each. The catch? You have to buy at least three for the deal to kick in. But, once you have three in your cart, you can just keep adding movies, and they each only cost $11. Want 7 4K UHD movies? That will be $77. That's a heck of a deal considering a new 4K UHD movie can cost upwards of $20 or $30 normally.

Whitlock was a Midwestern kid, born in South Bend, where he attended John Adams High School. He was also an athlete, a football player at Southwest Minnesota State University, but injury pushed him from the field to the stage, where he played a role in The Crucible. He caught the acting bug, joining the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco after graduating, and taking off from there.

"Happy And You Know It," which premiered last Christmas Day on HBO as part of the latest season of Ringer-produced series of music docs, is as gentle and curious as any of Lane's playful docs. Crucially, she takes the genre seriously, highlighting several artists who have shaped it and are still exploring its boundaries. There are the usual kids-band lifers like a member of global Aussie sensation The Wiggles, as well as moms like Laurie Berkner, whose gentle lullabies have made her a household name.

"That was new to me, that a director took that time that early in the process to get to know the people who he's auditioning, which I thought was brilliant because he really gets to know you and you get to know him. It's a mutual testing of each other. And I had a really lovely conversation with him that made me feel very safe and respected, and I think that affected the way the audition went, to be honest."

It locates the play's beginning in the imagined anguish of Shakespeare and his wife Agnes (or Anne) Hathaway at the death of their son Hamnet at the age of 11 in 1596, a few years before the play's first performance. The nearness of the names is not supposed to be some monumental Freudian slip; there is linguistic evidence that the two could be used interchangeably.

Henry's summer romance books often approach love with a sense of honesty and fun that the genre needs to thrive. Her characters may be enemies who find themselves living next door to each other or best friends who are scared to risk it all for something more, as is the case in "People We Meet on Vacation," which has been turned into a film set to debut on Netflix on January 9.

Though the trailer is getting wiped off social media shortly after it's been posted, we were able to see it before it got nuked. It opens with Shuri lamenting how she lost her family after the events of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever , and we also see Namor and members of the underwater Talokan kingdom looking broodily in the distance at...something. But the real highlight is when Shuri and M'Baku greet none other than the Thing himself, Ben Grimm.

"Gosh, I just remember when my agent called me about Notting Hill, and I thought, 'Well, that sounds like the dumbest idea of any movie I could ever do,'"

Killarney-born Buckley collected the award for best actress for the historical drama Hamnet. During her speech she thanked director Chloe Zhao and co-stars Paul Mescal and Emily Watson, who she called her "north star". "Chloe Zhao, you have reminded me of the power of telling a story and the journey that you can go on to touch the deepest parts of what it is to be alive, thank you," she said.

It begins with a murder, and then another. A woman is killed, a man grievously injured, and a letter is sent to the news media. The killer gives himself a name this is the Zodiac speaking and provides a message written in code. So we start with three mysteries: the man, his motives and his message. The third is quickly cracked; the first hypothesized, but never definitively proven.

Separating the art from the artist can be easier debated than done. In 1967, Roland Barthes infamously argued in his essay "The Death of the Author" that a writer's biography should be irrelevant to the meaning or value of their work. In 1983, Nora Ephron asserted the opposite in her novel, : "Everything is copy." Today's pop culture has tended to agree with Ephron's take: Confession fuels the biggest songs; celebrity memoirs dominate best-seller lists.

At the time of its 1962 release, however, it shook up the spy genre and unleashed a tidal wave of imitators looking to replicate its box-office fortunes. Most, whether serious stories like The Quiller Memorandum, copyright-dodging rip-offs like 008: Operation Exterminate and Agent 077: Mission Bloody Mary, and parodies like the Vincent Price-starring Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, are long-forgotten. One, meanwhile, is only remembered thanks to its sheer lousiness.

The Golden Globes return Sunday, Jan. 11. The boozy, bubbly kickoff to Hollywood's awards season will feature nominees including Timothée Chalamet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael B. Jordan, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo and Emma Stone. Last year's drew an average of about 10 million viewers, holding steady from the year before. There are far fewer viewers then there were a decade ago, but the Globes remain the most watched awards show after the Oscars and the Grammys.