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Apple Studios' Argylle debuted with an unsatisfactory $6.5 million USD on its first day.As per Variety, the spy comedy film racked up the $6.5 million USD opening day and preview screenings total from 3,605 venues across North America. The Matthew Vaughn title is going up against a whopping $200 million USD production budget, and is looking to be the year's first box office disappointment. Argylle marks Apple Studios' third major theatrical release, following Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon (which grossed $156 million USD globally) and Ridley Scott's Napoleon ($219 million USD).Argylle sees Bryce Dallas Howard as the author behind a best-selling espionage book series that follows Argylle, a spy portrayed by Henry Cavill. The series becomes a worldwide success when her stories ...

Max officially announced the streaming premiere of Sofia Coppola and A24's Priscilla.The film will make its streaming debut on Max on Friday, February 23 after hitting US theaters in late October. Priscilla stars Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Beaulieu and Jacob Elordi as Elvis Presley:"When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu (Spaeny) meets Elvis Presley (Elordi) at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla’s eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla's long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland, in this deeply felt and ravishingly detai...

Jim Carrey is officially returning to the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. Set to reprise his role as the mad scientist Dr. Robotnik for Sonic the Hedgehog 3, the news comes confirmed despite the ending of the second film which saw the scientist fall from a giant robot, which led to audiences assuming a fatal tumble. However, in the end credits of the second sequel, the inability to find the doctor's body, leaving room for a developing story to set the stage for the comeback of Sonic's main antagonist.Carrey's return was teased on social media by the Paramount studio and with the filmmakers. The first two films garnered a total global box office of almost a billion dollars, sitting at $870.8 million USD. The film has a major video game fan base that stands behind it and its success has led to...

NBCUniversal has officially given the green light for a Suits spin-off. Titled Suits: LA, the series has landed a pilot order from the studio with production set to begin in late March of this year in Vancouver.In this spin-off series, the show follows a former federal prosecutor from New York. The prosecutor, Ted Black, has reinvented himself by representing some of the most powerful people in Los Angeles. The logline reads, "His firm is at a crisis point, and in order to survive he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career. Ted is surrounded by a stellar group of characters who test their loyalties to both Ted and each other while they can't help but mix their personal and professional lives. All of this is going on while events from years ago slowly unravel that led Ted ...

Carl Weathers, a former NFL linebacker turned Hollywood actor, has passed away at the age of 76. The news was shared by Weathers’ family, who said he died “peacefully in his sleep” on Thursday.After four years of playing professional football, Weathers graduated with a degree in drama in 1974 and retired from the sport to focus on acting. His breakout role arrived just two years later when Weathers portrayed heavyweight champion Apollo Creed in Rocky. He would go on to reprise the role for three additional Rocky films.Following his final Rocky appearance in 1984, Weathers acted alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura in 1987’s Predator. Most of his starring roles were drama and comedy flicks.Weathers clocked another standout role playing High Magistrate Greef Karga in Disney+’s S...

The first official full-length for director Sam Taylor-Johnson's Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black is here. With Industry's Marisa Abela starring as the late singer, the film follows the songstress' plight to worldwide fame, starting at her adolescence in Camden and focusing on the making of her iconic Back to Black album that established her as a household name and became the highest-charting album from a British female artist in the U.S."I want people to hear my voice and just forget their troubles for five minutes," Abela opens as a convincing Winehouse. "Do you know what ‘girl power’ means to me? Sarah Vaughan, Lauryn Hill,” she continues. “You need to know this: I ain’t no Spice Girl.”"Told through Amy's eyes and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film explores and embraces ...

The highly anticipated sequel to Beetlejuice has an official release date and title. Warner Bros. has taken to social media to make the announcement, confirming previous speculations regarding the film's release month.The film and the studio's official social media channels have posted a new, ominous poster that shows a September 2024 release date and the title, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The poster on social media was posted with a caption that reads, "Dare you to say it again. #Beetlejuice #Beetlejuice - Only in theaters September 6." The sequel brings back the original cast which consists of Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Catherine O'Hara. New additions to the film see Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe, Monica Bellucci and Justin Theroux join the cast. Tim Burton, who directed the original 198...

Brad Pitt and Quentin Tarantino are reuniting for the director's final film, The Movie Critic.According to Deadline, Pitt's role in the movie is yet to be confirmed but he could possibly be playing the titular character. The Movie Critic will mark Pitt and Tarantino's third body of work together, following 2019's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (which won Pitt the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor) and 2009's Inglourious Basterds. A 2025 release year is also reportedly scheduled.Not much is known about The Movie Critic, but Tarantino previously divulged to Deadline that the film will be set in 1977 California and “is based on a guy who really lived but was never really famous, and he used to write movie reviews for a porno rag.” The filmmaker further explained that it was inspired by a job he ...

Netflix has dropped off the much-anticipated first teaser for the second season of Squid Game, along with a number of first-look images.The 17-second clip, which arrived as part of Netflix's larger 2024 sizzle reel, sees the storyline pick up right where it left off, with Seong Gi-hun (Player 456), depicted by Lee Jung-jae, threatening an unnamed character over the phone as he looks to uncover the person behind the deathly games.Netflix shared the first look at the series on Instagram, confirming that it's slated to arrive "this year" in the caption. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Netflix US (@netflix)Series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk previously offered some clues for what to expect from the second installment: “I’ve seen many reactions from people about the show, but ...

Mess around with dark forces and you’ll be in trouble, a new supernatural horror film warns. Based on Nicholas Adams’ novel of the same name, Tarot is a creepy warning to what could happen when you recklessly draw the psychic cards.“Welcome to the circle,” voices narrate in the trailer’s opening. “One more at the heart. With this final card, your meeting will start.”A group of friends in college decide to play around with tarot cards but in doing so, violate one of tarot’s rules: don’t play with another person’s deck.After the evening, the friends quickly begin succumbing to the fate foreshadowed by the cards they drew and face off with some of the unseemly characters, such as the Hermit and High Priestess.Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg are directing Tarot in the feature directorial debut....