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Jan262025 by cineverseNo Comments

Box Office: ‘Flight Risk’ Gets Off the Ground With $4.4 Million Opening Day

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By J. Kim Murphy According To The variety Mel Gibson and Mark Wahlberg‘s “Flight Risk” is facing no traffic on the runway, lifting off to an easy No. 1 opening in what is turning out to be another sleepy weekend at the January box office. The Lionsgate thriller carried on $4.4 million from 3,161 locations across Friday and preview screenings. Even at that modest gross, it’ll be Lionsgate’s second No. 1 debut of the year after “Den of Thieves 2: Pantera.” A three-day opening north of $11 million is now projected, though there’s potential turbulence ahead. NFL conference championships could keep a significant fraction of viewers out of theaters on Sunday, but the warning signs aren’t just outside multiplexes. Lionsgate held the review embargo for “Flight Risk” until preview s...

Jan252025 by cineverseNo Comments

Ricky’ Review: Powerful Sundance Drama About a Young Man Just Out of Prison Navigating a World of Booby Traps Establishes Rashad Frett as a Born Filmmaker

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By Owen Gleiberman According To The variety A dozen years ago, at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, I sat in the Eccles Theatre and watched “Fruitvale” (later entitled “Fruitvale Station”), Ryan Coogler’s true-life drama about Oscar Grant, a young man who was fatally shot by Bay Area police, even though he had done nothing. By the time the film ended, everyone in the audience knew that we’d seen something straight-up extraordinary, and that Coogler was a born filmmaker. When he got up on stage, he was ebullient — grateful for the response, but you could also see, as his words poured forth, that he was already bursting with the stories he wanted to tell. This, for a viewer (or critic), is the Sundance dream: to go into a film you know nothing about, and two hours later you’ve witness...

Jan252025 by cineverseNo Comments

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni Feud: ‘A Pure PR Play’ With Real Legal Stakes

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By Gene Maddaus According To The variety In footage from the set of “It Ends With Us,” Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively engage in a polite, even friendly, discussion about how to show their characters falling in love. Should they kiss? Or is it more romantic for them to talk? He smiles. She laughs. Yet, they were growing to despise each other. She thought Baldoni — the co-star, director, and studio head — was overstepping her boundaries; he felt she couldn’t take direction. That simple interaction from May 2023 — which might in other circumstances have been marked down to “creative differences” — has flourished over the last month into an all-out legal war, leading to a civil rights complaint and four lawsuits (so far). In this still-unfolding controvers...

Jan252025 by cineverseNo Comments

Sterling K. Brown Is Finally No. 1 on the Call Sheet: The Actor on Hulu’s ‘Paradise,’ Turning Down ‘The Boys’ and Leaving Randall Pearson Behind

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By Jennifer Maas According To The variety Sterling K. Brown is done crying every week. Two days before Thanksgiving, Brown is sitting at a long table in a photo studio in Culver City, digging into a take-out lunch as he begins to break down the plot of his new Hulu drama series, “Paradise.” Brown chooses his words deliberately while simultaneously ramping up his energy to match his passion for the subject. It’s a significant departure from “This Is Us,” the NBC family drama that made Brown a star as fan-favorite character Randall Pearson, and was known for giving audiences a good weep. Though “Paradise” hails from the same creator and executive producer, Dan Fogelman, this series aims to provoke very different emotions in viewers. It’s a contemporary political thri...

Jan222025 by cineverseNo Comments

Midas Man’ Review: Brian Epstein, the Manager of the Beatles, Gets a Biopic That’s TV-Movie Basic, with a Few Affecting Moments

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By Owen Gleiberman According To The variety Almost anyone who grew up with the Beatles knows a few key things about their manager, Brian Epstein, the subject of the new biopic “Midas Man.” You might know that he ran a popular record store in Liverpool when he first saw the Beatles perform at the Cavern Club and realized that it was his destiny to manage them. You almost surely know that it was Epstein who made over the Beatles’ image, taking four scruffy working-class rockers in black leather jackets, dressing them in collarless gray suits and giving them those fabled moptop haircuts — the look that launched a thousand screams. Or the visionary way he spearheaded the Beatles’ international career, cutting the deal for them to appear on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” Or the fact that Epste...

Jan222025 by cineverseNo Comments

Abbott Elementary’ Renewed for Season 5 at ABC

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By Ethan Shanfeld According To The variety “Abbott Elementary” has made it to the fifth grade. Quinta Brunson’s scholastic sitcom has been renewed for Season 5 at ABC. Season 4 of “Abbott Elementary” is currently airing on Wednesdays on ABC at 8:30 p.m. ET and streaming the next day on Hulu. The series recently hit a viewership peak with 8.05 million people tuning in to its winter premiere, a crossover episode with “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” The show stars Brunson as Janine Teagues, Tyler James Williams as Gregory Eddie, Janelle James as Ava Coleman, Chris Perfetti as Jacob Hill, Lisa Ann Walter as Melissa Schemmenti, William Stanford Davis as Mr. Johnson and Sheryl Lee Ralph as Barbara Howard. The teachers, principal and custodian work together to educate unruly kids...

Jan222025 by cineverseNo Comments

Ryan Gosling in Talks to Star in ‘Star Wars’ Movie From Shawn Levy

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By Adam B. Vary According To The variety The Force is with Ryan Gosling. The “Barbie” and “La La Land” star is in negotiations to star in an untitled “Star Wars” movie to be directed by “Deadpool & Wolverine” filmmaker Shawn Levy. Screenwriter Jonathan Tropper (“This Is Where I Leave You,” “The Adam Project”) has been writing the screenplay for the film, which Levy has been developing since late 2022. Levy — who will join the rarefied club of directors who’ve worked with both Canadian movie stars named Ryan — is also producing via 21 Laps, along with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. The movie is said to be a standalone project that isn’t connected with the Skywalker Saga, which concluded with 2019’s “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.” All other plot details...

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Box Office: ‘Flight Risk’ Gets Off the Ground With $4.4 Million Opening Day

Ricky’ Review: Powerful Sundance Drama About a Young Man Just Out of Prison Navigating a World of Booby Traps Establishes Rashad Frett as a Born Filmmaker

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni Feud: ‘A Pure PR Play’ With Real Legal Stakes

Sterling K. Brown Is Finally No. 1 on the Call Sheet: The Actor on Hulu’s ‘Paradise,’ Turning Down ‘The Boys’ and Leaving Randall Pearson Behind

Midas Man’ Review: Brian Epstein, the Manager of the Beatles, Gets a Biopic That’s TV-Movie Basic, with a Few Affecting Moments

Abbott Elementary’ Renewed for Season 5 at ABC

Ryan Gosling in Talks to Star in ‘Star Wars’ Movie From Shawn Levy

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