“Survive till ’25” has been the mantra of the movie theater business — heck, the entire film industry — ever since pandemic-related delays and Hollywood’s labor strikes wreaked havoc on studio slates and production calendars. Several would-be 2024 blockbusters, like Tom Cruise’s eighth “Mission Impossible” and Marvel’s “Captain America: Brave New World,” were pushed into
Month: January 2025
Many of the 140,000 people expected to attend CES 2025 in Las Vegas (Jan. 7-10) will come just to browse the 2.5 million square feet of exhibit space, crammed with the latest innovations in everything from bird feeders and prosthetic limbs to automotive OLED displays. But for those eager to find out what’s coming next
Nikki Glaser is ready to take on the biggest night of her career. After a breakout 2024 — one that saw her earning awards attention for her HBO comedy special “Someday You’ll Die” and dominating the discourse for her excoriating performance on Netflix’s “The Roast of Tom Brady” — the stand-up has been tapped to
Even body horror fans will likely be shocked by the amount of blood in French director Fargeat’s “The Substance” — though slightly less so if they saw her ultraviolent 2017 debut, “Revenge,” in which a woman is impaled upon a sharp tree branch after being shoved off a cliff. In America, many directors get their
David Fincher bristles at being labeled a perfectionist. He makes an unconvincing case in the shadow of his filmography, which includes “Fight Club,” “Zodiac” and “The Social Network” among several other films marked by a meticulous and unerring technical precision. But Fincher’s objections ring especially hollow when it comes in the midst of an explanation
Bruce Springsteen is providing more insight to his upcoming biopic starring Jeremy Allen White, saying that “The Bear” star “sings very well” in the film. Titled “Deliver Me From Nowhere,” the Scott Cooper-directed movie follows Springsteen in the early ’80s as he writes his personal sixth album “Nebraska.” Both Springsteen and his manager, Jon Landau
“Gavin & Stacey: The Finale” has broken viewing records in the U.K. since airing on Christmas Day. According to the BBC, the final episode of the hit British sitcom — co-created by Ruth Jones and James Corden — is now the U.K.’s most-watched scripted show across all broadcasters and streamers since current records began in 2002.
Gas-guzzling trucks carrying gear from city to city. Food waste emitting potent methane. Plastic utensils, plastic bags for merch (where is that sweatshirt coming from?), plastic light-up bracelets, plastic water bottles. Fans traveling tens to hundreds of miles to the arena. Single-use outfits from Shein and Amazon. These are just a few of the reasons
The NAACP is launching original podcast series “Our Culture, Our Stories,” promising intimate and “unfiltered” conversations with an array of media and entertainment luminaries about navigating adversity, celebrating excellence and fostering community strength. Guests appearing in the 12-episode series include: actors Sterling K. Brown, Ryan Michelle Bathé, Hill Harper and Aja Naomi King; comedian Roy
It’s not easy for a purse to make it into the best winter bags category. They must tick several boxes for the prestige honor. First, they need to stand up to the elements. So skip the silky pouchettes that can be totally ruined by snowflakes. Second, they need to be able to fit over your
Neil Young has walked back his decision to boycott this year’s Glastonbury Festival. Earlier this week the musician announced he would not be playing the festival after the BBC, the festival’s broadcast partner, had “wanted us to do a lot of things in a way we were not interested in.” Young, who headlined Glasto in
Canela Media has hired media and entertainment veteran exec Philippe Guelton as global president, where he’ll be tasked with leading the Hispanic digital media company’s growth and profitability in the U.S. and international markets. Guelton joins New York-based Canela after his previous employer, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, shut down after filing for bankruptcy
Doritos comes in flavors that run the gamut from Cool Ranch to Flamin’ Hot Limon. At Super Bowl LIX, however, executives behind the popular chip will focus on a classic recipe. Frito-Lay, the snack-food giant that is part of PepsiCo, is relaunching Doritos’ famous “Crash the Super Bowl” contest this year and has narrowed down
The British Academy has unveiled the results of the first round of voting across all 25 categories for the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards, with two very different thrillers leading the pack of longlisted features. Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez,” a Spanish-language music-thriller that was picked up by Netflix in Cannes, has emerged ahead of the race
Acclaimed Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof will attend the upcoming 2025 Göteborg Film Festival with his latest film, family drama and political thriller “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” Germany’s submission to this year’s international feature Oscar race which made the Oscar shortlist on Dec. 17. Variety rates the film, which he also wrote and co-produced,
Kieran Culkin has confessed. The star of “A Real Pain” and “Succession” admitted that he once swapped a prop joint for one spiked with real marijuana when he was cast in a stage production alongside Mark Ruffalo in 2000. “I was 17 and stupid,” Culkin said in a new interview with The Guardian. “I’m like,
“Happy New Year. For me, this is a dream come true,” said Frances Ford Coppola, surveying the audience that had come to see his passion project, “Megalopolis,” at an American Cinematheque conversation-and-screening event to kick off 2025. The dream part of it, for him, was the chance to spend 100 minutes talking not very much
Justin Baldoni‘s accusation Ryan Reynolds berated and screamed at him in a house full of stars in an ambush meeting is way overblown … this according to a source who was in the meeting. Baldoni made several accusations against Blake Lively and husband RR in a $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times …
Thirty years after Tejano icon Selena Quintanilla-Perez was murdered in her native Texas, her killer, 64 year-old Yolanda Saldívar, is under review for parole. Saldívar is currenly serving a life sentence at the Patrick L. O’Daniel Unit in Gatesville, Texas — nearly five hours away from the scene of Selena’s death in Corpus Christi. According
Tom Holland recently told Men’s Health that he chooses not to walk the red carpet alongside his girlfriend Zendaya at her movie premieres “because it’s not my moment, it’s her moment, and if we go together, it’s about us.” The two actors are happy to join forces when it’s a movie they’ve shot together, like Marvel’s
It’s officially 2025, which means we’ve semi-recovered holiday festivities and are turning our focus toward new resolutions. As we begin to look ahead, check out the must-know fashion launches to start your year off on the most stylish foot possible. Below, here’s what you need to know this month, from Fendi’s Lunar New Year-themed capsule
Kylie Kelce‘s “Not Gonna Lie” podcast made a huge impression when its debut episode hit No. 1 on the Spotify charts, dethroning “The Joe Rogan Experience.” The two podcasts continue to trade between first and second place on Spotify, while Kelce remains in the top spot on the Apple podcasts charts. On her Jan. 2.
“It’s hard to find a tennis bag that will hold your courtside essentials, travel well, and look good—a.k.a. do it all,” says Dale Arden Chong, ELLE’s senior fashion commerce editor. “More often than not, the most functional styles veer on the super sporty side, but not this one. Wilson’s Roland Garros Super Tour Tennis Backpack
ABC‘s annual “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” special brought the network its first big ratings win of the year. Hosted by Ryan Seacrest for the 20th year in a row, the telecast averaged 17.9 million viewers with a 4.7 rating among adults age 18-49 during Part 1 of its late night portion, which aired
Meta’s president of global affairs, former U.K. deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, is leaving the social giant after more than six years. Taking his place: Joel Kaplan, a Meta lobbying exec with ties to the Republican party. Clegg is stepping down from the role just weeks before Donald Trump is set to be sworn in
Angel Studios will distribute the documentary “Breaking Into Beautiful” which is based on the life of Kim White, one of the world’s first “illness influencers.” She has garnered hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram by sharing her journey with cancer. “Kim’s story is a testament to the human spirit’s ability to find beauty in
Andrew Garfield recently told GQ UK that rumors claiming he has signed on to star in Marvel’s “Spider-Man 4″ are not true, although he is blatantly aware that no comic book movie fan is going to believe him. After all, Garfield spent all of 2021 denying he’d be back as the web-slinger in “Spider-Man: No
Wayne Osmond, one of the original members of the Osmonds sibling singing group, died Wednesday in Salt Lake City. He was 73. Merrill Osmond, one of Wayne Osmond’s brothers, shared on Facebook that Wayne suffered a massive stroke, and that he was able to get to the hospital in Salt Lake to say his goodbyes
Peacock has unveiled the trailer for a new Diddy documentary in which his bodyguard, intern, makeup artist and producer speak out against the disgraced music mogul. “Honestly, I didn’t want to be around him unless there was cameras,” one of the people in Sean Combs’ inner circle says in the trailer for “Diddy: The Making
Not even the dynamic duos of Joy and Anxiety, Deadpool and Wolverine, Gru and his minions or Paul Atreides and those massive sandworms could push the 2024 box office to pre-pandemic heights. Domestic ticket sales have wound up at $8.7 billion for the year, down than 3.3% from 2023 (when revenues hit $9.04 billion) and