James Mangold, Cynthia Erivo Honored at Sundance Opening Night

James Mangold, Cynthia Erivo Honored at Sundance Opening Night

James Mangold misses the period when films weren’t embarrassed to make audiences really feel one thing. The director of the Bob Dylan musical biopic “A Full Unknown” and comedian e book adaptation “Logan” believes there’s a rising hostility to movies that put on “their hearts on their sleeve.” “Most of my technology, my friends, have … Read more

Teachers Are Opening Up About Their Worst Encounters With Wildly Entitled Parents, And YIKES

Teachers Are Opening Up About Their Worst Encounters With Wildly Entitled Parents, And YIKES

Teachers seem to possess a whole different level of patience. Not only do educators have to tackle everything from budget cuts to unruly students, but they also have to deal with parents — and for some reason, school seems to bring out the absolute worst in grown adults… sturti / Getty Images So, recently, when … Read more

Den of Thieves 2, Better Man Box Office: Opening Weekend Projections

Den of Thieves 2, Better Man Box Office: Opening Weekend Projections

Will a gritty, globe-trotting police officer and an anthropomorphic chimpanzee pop star have the ability to kickstart the 2025 field workplace? The yr’s first two new nationwide releases, Lionsgate’s “Den of Thieves 2: Pantera,” a heist thriller starring Gerard Butler as a caper-busting sheriff, and Paramount’s big-budget “Higher Man,” a musical biopic by which a CGI monkey … Read more

Eminem Provided ‘Epic’ Opening to Saudi Arabia’s Soundstorm Festival

Eminem Provided ‘Epic’ Opening to Saudi Arabia’s Soundstorm Festival

5 years after its launch, Saudi Arabia’s recently-concluded Mdlbeast Soundstorm music competition has put the dominion’s capital of Riyadh on the map by way of stay occasions within the Center East. This 12 months’s Dec. 12-14 version of Soundstorm – which began out in 2019 as an digital dance music competition – featured over 200 … Read more

‘Sonic 3’ Nearly Doubling ‘Mufasa’ in Opening Weekend

‘Sonic 3’ Nearly Doubling ‘Mufasa’ in Opening Weekend

He’s the quickest factor alive, in any case. “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” is rolling round on high of the field workplace in its North American opening, gathering $25 million from 3,761 areas throughout Friday and preview screenings. In the meantime, “Mufasa: The Lion King” will land in second place, having earned $13.3 million from 4,100 … Read more

 Cate Blanchett Supports Opening of Beirut’s New Metropolis Cinema

 Cate Blanchett Supports Opening of Beirut’s New Metropolis Cinema

Beirut’s beloved Metropolis Cinema – championed by Lebanese filmmakers as an indie cinema beacon amid bombings, despair and dysfunction – got here again to life on Saturday with the inauguration of a brand new venue in a extremely symbolic opening graced by messages of help from Nadine Labaki and Cate Blanchett. The inauguration got here … Read more