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Jonathan Glazer‘s film The Zone of Interest, which recently won Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film and Best Sound, was the most-watched title on streaming last week, according to the analysts at Reelgood. 

The haunting drama is available for streaming on Max.

In a bit of trivia, it means its producer A24 now has the top movie at the box office, with Civil War, and the top movie on streaming.

The weekly top 10 chart from the company, which monitors 20 million viewing decisions for all platforms, saw Netflix’s series Ripley taking the second slot for the week of April 4 through April 10, 2024.

Ewan McGregor‘s drama series A Gentleman in Moscow, on Paramount+ with Showtime, ranked third, while Apple TV+’s new series Sugar, starring Academy Award winner Colin Farrell was fourth, and the four Oscar-winning film Poor Things starring two-time winner Emma Stone, rounded out the top five of the most-watched titles for last week. 

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Succession star Sarah Snook and singer/actress Nicole Scherzinger were among the big winners at the 2024 Olivier Awards held Sunday, April 14 at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Snook took home the Best Actress trophy for her performance in the Sydney Theatre Company’s version of the Oscar Wilde play The Picture of Dorian Gray. Scherzinger won for Best Actress in a Musical for her turn as Norma Desmond in the revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s Sunset Boulevard. The complete list of winners can be found at the London Theatre website …

Micheal B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler, his director on a number of films, including Fruitvale Station, Creed and Black Panther, are at it again in an as yet untitled supernatural thriller, according to Deadline. While plot details haven’t been revealed, Cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw shared a photo from the set of the film on Instagram, captioned, “Get ready.” The film is slated for a March 7, 2025 release …

Veteran character actor Ron Thompson, best known for his roles as Detective Nopke in the 1970s TV series Baretta and in Ralph Bakshi‘s animated film, American Pop, died Saturday, April 13, in Los Angeles. His friend, Professor Rel Dowdell of Hampton University, confirmed the news, according to Deadline. A cause of death for the 83-year-old was not given. Thompson had a brief career as a rock singer in the 1960s and wrote and recorded a number of singles as Ronnie Thompson, per the outlet …

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Alex Garland‘s Civil War topped the domestic box office with an estimated $25.7 million, surpassing expectations and scoring the biggest R-rated opening weekend for a film so far this year. The movie, starring Kirsten Dunst, also marked the biggest opening weekend in A24’s history, surpassing 2018’s Hereditary, which opened in fourth place with $13 million.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, which held the top spot for the past two weeks, dropped to second place, delivering an estimated $15.4 million. That brings its North American tally to $157.9 million and $436 million globally.

Third place went to Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, which collected an estimated $5.8 million at the domestic box office. It’s four-week total now stands at $96 million and $159 million worldwide.

Kung Fu Panda 4 took fourth place with an estimated $5.5 million, bringing the animated sequel’s North American tally to $173 million and $452 million globally.

Rounding out the top five was Dune: Part Two, scooping up an estimated $4.3 million in its seventh week of release. Its total now stands at $272 million in North America and $683 million worldwide.

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Italian designer Roberto Cavalli, known for his unique animal print designs and eponymous fashion house, has died. He was 83 years old.

The legendary designer’s death was announced Friday on his company’s Instagram page along with a heartfelt message. The company did not share details surrounding his cause of death.

“It is with great sadness that today we say our final goodbyes to our founder Roberto Cavalli,” the company wrote in a statement. “From humble beginnings in Florence, Roberto succeeded in becoming a globally recognised name loved and respected by all. Naturally talented and creative, Roberto believed that everyone can discover and nurture the artist within themselves.”

“Roberto Cavalli’s legacy will live on via his creativity, his love of nature and via his family who he cherished,” it continued.

The company also shared several of Cavalli’s inspiring quotes, including, “I copy the dress of an animal because I love to copy God. I think God is the most fantastic designer.”

Some of Cavalli’s first designs included printed leather gowns and were showcased in 1970, according to Vogue.

His luxury fashion house continued to expand to include everything from statement-making leopard prints to elegantly designed dresses seen everywhere from runways to red carpets. The designer’s pieces have been famously worn by notables such as Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez and Victoria Beckham.

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While he joked he grew up with “tasteless” food in an Irish Catholic home in Boston and insisted he’s “terrible with hot food,” Conan O’Brien slayed on First We Feast’s Hot Ones show on Thursday. 

The former Late Night host first introduced his “personal physician” of 25 years, calling Dr. Arroyo “not the best, but very affordable.” 

After taking a bite of each wing, Conan decided to pocket the leftovers. 

Conan also talked up his new Max travelogue show, Conan O’Brien Must Go, saying, “My mission is that you learn nothing about the country. My job is that you know less about the country after I’m done than when I started.” The show debuts on April 18, which coincidentally is O’Brien’s birthday.

O’Brien cruised his way through, even boasting after sampling the third wing, “I thought this show was called Hot Ones! You got nothing!”

Midway through the so-called Gauntlet of Death, Conan was still not fazed — even swigging directly from the hot sauce bottle to host Sean Evans‘ shock.

He did reach for a sip of milk after dominating Da Bomb, with a whopping Scoville heat score of 135,600, but soldiered on, soaking his last wing in a sauce made purely with hot peppers — and a Scoville score of more than 2.6 million. 

Conan screamed, “WHY CAN’T I FEEL!?” and even swigged that sauce from the bottle, too — although he eventually was left drooling as he ranted, chicken and spit flying everywhere.

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CBS’ The Talk show will come to an end after its 15th season, ABC Audio has confirmed.

The network announced on Friday that it has renewed the show for a shortened season — what it calls a “celebratory sendoff” — that will wrap the show for good in December.

“The Talk broke new ground when it launched 14 years ago by returning daytime talk to CBS with a refreshing and award-winning format,” read a joint statement from Amy Reisenbach, president of CBS Entertainment, and David Stapf, president of CBS Studios.

“Throughout the years, it has been a key program on CBS’ top rated daytime line-up as it brought timely, important and entertaining topics and discussions into living rooms around the globe,” they continued.

“It goes without saying that hosting and producing a year-round talk show is no easy task, and we express our sincere gratitude to our amazing hosts Akbar Gbajabiamila, Amanda Kloots, Natalie Morales, Jerry O’Connell and Sheryl Underwood,” along with the cast and crew.

Stapf and Reisenbach also saluted the former hosts of the show, which over the years included Julie Chen Moonves, Sara Gilbert, Leah Remini, Holly Robinson-Peete, Sharon Osbourne, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Eve, Aisha Tyler and Marie Osmond.

“For the final season, we plan to celebrate the show and give it the proper sendoff it deserves,” the executives concluded.

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After Disney’s exhibition at the annual industry confab CinemaCon on Thursday, fans are buzzing about one of the details revealed during a sneak peek of the upcoming Captain America: Brave New World. 

Along with footage of the anticipated film — and the first glimpses at Harrison Ford as President Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross — comes a direct order to the new Cap, Anthony Mackie‘s Sam Wilson. 

According to outlets at the event, Ford’s POTUS tells Sam, “I want Captain America to help rebuild the Avengers.”

Following the sneak peek, Entertainment Weekly dropped exclusive photos and an interview with the star, with Mackie offering the magazine that the movie feels “10 times bigger” than the last time he carried that spangly shield, on the small screen on Disney+.

“One of the biggest conversations we had from the beginning was for this not to be Falcon and the Winter Soldier Part 2, for this to be its own movie with its own story, with its own characters,” Mackie maintains.

He calls the movie “a clear reset” for Marvel, in the same way Captain America: The Winter Soldier was. That film, which just turned 10, often finds itself atop the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe library in film rankings.

Mackie teases, “From Captain America: The First Avenger to [Avengers] Endgame, the enemy was always good versus bad. Now that we’ve conquered that, where do we go from here? When the bad guys reappear, in what form are they reappearing?”

He says Brave New World “is a new storyline with new characters, with new beliefs, and it creates a new idea of this new world that we’re going into.”

The delayed movie now opens February 14, 2025.

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Have no fear, your reality roundup is here! Here’s a look at what happened in the world of reality television this week:

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (Bravo)
Monica Garcia, the controversial RHOSLC cast member who only lasted one season, is pregnant with her fifth child. She revealed the news on The Viall Files podcast Thursday, saying that she is expecting a baby with a man she met while filming the reality show. The 40-year-old called the pregnancy a shock, saying she was “on birth control” when she found out. She shares four children with ex-husband Mike Fowler. Garcia left RHOSLC after she was outed as the creator of the troll Instagram account Reality Von Tease.

BravoCon
Sorry, Bravo fans. There will be no BravoCon this year. The network announced this week that the event is taking a pause in 2024 and will return to Las Vegas in 2025. The good news is fans will be getting a new event series called Watch Party by Bravo, starting this spring in NYC and LA. It’ll give fans the chance to enjoy advance screenings and exclusive sneak peeks of some of their favorite shows.

Jersey Shore: Family Vacation (MTV)
It was the moment Jersey Shore fans have been waiting for. Thursday night’s episode saw exes Ronnie and Sammi reuniting for the first time in years and it was … awkward. When Ronnie arrived to join the roommates in Nashville, Sammi opted not to greet him and everyone could feel the tension. “I wasn’t expecting anything,” Sammi later tells the group. “I feel nothing. You guys are working on friendships, I have no need to work on a friendship.”

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Linda Hamilton will forever be remembered as the woman who saved humanity from the machines as Sarah Connor in the Terminator franchise.

But to The Hollywood Reporter — and after the drubbed 2019 film Terminator: Dark Fate — she says she’s done.

While she admits its been “years” since she watched 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgement Day — still thought to be among the best sci-fi films ever made — she feels warmly about her tour of duty. “Terminator, that’s still going to be the big trump card for most everything. That fan base is fantastic, because they actually treat me like I saved the world,” she expresses.

That said, when asked what would be more likely, her returning to the role or artificial intelligence writing the next Terminator film, Hamilton chose the latter, adding, “And they kill me off before we start. That’s the best scenario.”

The actress, now on SyFy’s beloved Resident Alien, said of Dark Fate, “I’m very glad I went back. I loved [director Tim Miller], I love my ladies [co-stars Mackenzie Davis and Natalia Reyes].”

She described it as “the greatest time of my life, and the worst time of my life, all rolled into one film.”

Hamilton says, “I was 63 or whatever I was, and it was the hardest shoot. Every day it was like a triathlon.”

“[T]ired of being tough,” she was considering retirement when Stranger Things came calling for the phenomenon’s final season. She added, “I’m really happy with the work I’m getting now. I’m getting some good movie roles that allow me to not be the military person.”

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At the 2024 CinemaCon Convention in Las Vegas Thursday, ABC News’ parent company, Disney, teased the forthcoming offerings from its bench of properties, including Marvel Studios and 20th Century Studios.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the presentation began with a video message from Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, both in their respective Deadpool & Wolverine costumes, warning people to silence their cellphones. They also showed off their forthcoming movie’s R rating — a Marvel Studios first — when a ringing phone caused Wolvie to lose his cool and drop some f-bombs.

20th Century Studios officially kicked things off by playing 13 minutes of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, opening nationwide on May 10.

Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning actor Amy Poehler, the voice of Joy, introduced 35 minutes of Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2, opening June 14. 

Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige then welcomed Cap himself, Anthony Mackie, to talk up Captain America: Brave New World, opening February 14, 2025. Attendees saw an action scene featuring Mackie and Harrison Ford, who plays President Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross.

Feige then welcomed Shawn Levy to introduce an exclusive look at his Deadpool & Wolverine film, coming to theaters July 26.

Searchlight Pictures sneak-peeked Kinds of Kindness, director Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone‘s June 21 follow-up to their Oscar-winning Poor Things.

Other sneak peeks included Alien: Romulus, opening August 16; 2025’s spy thriller The Amateur, starring Oscar winner Rami Malek and Emmy winner Rachel Brosnahan; and Mufasa: The Lion King, Disney’s follow-up to Jon Favreau‘s 2019’s blockbuster, introduced by its Oscar-winning director, Barry Jenkins.

Dwayne Johnson closed things out by hyping up Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Moana 2, opening in theaters on November 27.

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