Universal’s hit killer doll movie M3GAN is a hit on streaming, too.
The thriller starring Allison Williams, Amie Donald, Jenna Davis and Violet McGraw debuted February 24 on Peacock and was the most-streamed movie in the States last week, according to data published by The Wrap.
The movie, which is available in both theatrical and unrated versions, knocked Netflix’s Your Place or Mine from the #1 slot.
Made for just $12 million, M3GAN scared up nearly $173 million worldwide. A sequel, M3GAN 2.0, has been slated for a January 17, 2025, release.
Jenny Slate has been voicing the 1-inch-tall sentient shell Marcel for over a decade. Her journey with the character, which started as a bit during a stand-up comedy routine and evolved into a popular short film series on YouTube, now finds her as the lead of an Oscar-nominated feature.
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is up for Best Animated Feature at this year’s Academy Awards, and Slate opened up to ABC Audio about the biggest obstacle she had to overcome to be able to get to this moment.
“The really incorrect assumption that I would have to be only positive all the time or totally perfect or 100 percent confident in order to be able to do my creative work,” Slate says. “In fact, it’s the variations in my emotions and the way that I can kind of all try to hold them at once that has led me to today.”
Slate explains that getting over the notion of perfection was hard, but ultimately the most rewarding thing for her creativity.
“I think in our culture, we certainly have tended to hold up people who just seem like they’re totally confident, they’re totally blessed, and all they had to do was kind of arrive and then persevere and feel good about themselves,” Slate says. “But, especially artists, a lot of our work comes from perceiving ourselves as fragile, or, you know, people of many dimensions. You just can’t be one thing.”
The 95th annual Academy Awards ceremony airs Sunday, March 12, only on ABC.
Kourtney, 43, posted a snap of herself from a photoshoot for her Lemme gummy line Thursday on Instagram in which she wore yellow spandex pants, a cropped yellow sweater and matching neon heels.
When a user wrote, “Is she pregnant,” the Poosh founder answered back with the explanation that her current physical appearance was a result of going through the process of in vitro fertilization (IVF).
“I only acknowledge this comment because I do think it’s important to know how IVF affects women’s bodies and it’s not spoken about much,” she continued, before asking sarcastically, “Also are we still asking women if they’re pregnant?”
“Guys I didn’t mean to offend anyone,” the user replied. “I would love it if Kourtney Kardashian were pregnant everybody is beautiful! Love you, Kourtney.”
Kourtney revealed back in September 2022 that she and her husband, 47-year-old Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, had stopped IVF treatments to focus on their wedding four months earlier.
The couple already shares five children between them. Kourtney shares sons Mason, 13, and Reign, 8, and daughter Penelope, 10, with ex-boyfriend Scott Disick.
As for Barker, he shares son Landon, 19, and daughter Alabama, 17, with ex-wife Shanna Moakler.
Star Trek: Discovery will end with the upcoming fifth season, set to debut in early 2024, Paramount+ announced Thursday. The streamer will also honor the show, which premiered in 2017, with events planned in certain key markets throughout the year leading up to the final season’s release. Further details will be released at a later date. Season 5, per the show’s logline, will find Sonequa Martin-Green‘s Captain Burnham and the U.S.S. Discovery crew “uncovering a mystery that will send them on an epic adventure across the galaxy to find an ancient power whose very existence has been deliberately hidden for centuries. But there are others on the hunt as well…dangerous foes who are desperate to claim the prize for themselves and will stop at nothing to get it”…
John Cena, Awkwafina and Simu Liu will lead the cast of Paul Fieig‘s new action-comedy Grand Death Lotto, coming to Amazon Prime Video. The film, per the streamer, is set “in the very near future,” in which “the Grand Lottery has been established in economically challenged California. The only catch? Kill the winner before sundown and you can legally claim their prize.” Awkwafina plays new LA transplant Katie, who “accidentally finds herself with the winning ticket and must join forces with amateur jackpot protector Noel — portrayed by Cena — to make it to sundown in order to claim her multi-billion-dollar prize, all while dealing with Noel’s protection rival Louis Lewis — played by Liu — who also wants to get her to sundown in order to claim his rich protection commission”…
“Thank you and goodnight.” So ends the teaser trailer for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel‘s upcoming fifth and final season, debuting April 14 on Amazon Prime Video. Three episodes will release at launch, with the remaining seven episodes releasing weekly on Fridays. Season 5 will find Midge, again played by Rachel Brosnahan, “closer than ever to the success she’s dreamed of, only to discover that closer than ever is still so far away,” per Amazon. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel also stars stars four-time Emmy winner Tony Shalhoub and three-time Emmy winner Alex Borstein, along with Marin Hinkle, Michael Zegen, Kevin Pollak, Caroline Aaron and Reid Scott…
The Broadway revival of Funny Girl, starring Lea Michele, has extended its Broadway run but will deliver its final performance Sunday, September 3, 2023 — almost exactly a year after the Glee alum joined the cast — the show announced on Thursday. The revival first opened in April 2022 with Beanie Feldstein as Fanny Brice. Both she and Jane Lynch — who was replaced by Tovah Feldshuh as Fanny’s mother — left the show in August, amid poor reviews and lackluster turnout. The production will embark on tour in September, starting Providence, R.I., before continuing to more than 30 North American cities…
The producer of Top Gun: Maverick and dozens of other films scored his first Oscar nomination with Maverick’s Best Picture nod. So how does it feel? He tells ABC Audio it feels great.
“You know, when you work, I’ve made over 50 movies. I’ve been doing this for over 50 years, my first nomination. So it’s really a thrill,” he shares. “And there’s so many people you want to work with who you haven’t had a chance to do it yet.”
As Bruckhemier mentions, he’s been in the field for decades, which means he’s come face-to-face with plenty of obstacles. To get to this moment, though, he says the biggest obstacle he overcame in his life was “just coming from Detroit.”
“You know, being from an immigrant family, both my parents came over from Germany, and I’m a first generation American, and my dad never made a lot of money,” he explains. “We’re just middle lower middle class. And the fact that I made it here, it’s a thrill.”
There are directors who don’t read reviews, there are directors who lie and say they don’t read reviews, and then there’s James Cameron.
The Oscar-winning perfectionist director of the blockbuster Avatar franchise would have every reason to roll on into the planned third, fourth, and fifth films without looking back, seeing as The Way of Water just passed his Titanic as the third highest-grossing movie of all time.
However, The Hollywood Reporter notes Cameron and his producing partner Jon Landau recently sat down at Disney’s screening room in Burbank with fans who have specifically seen the movie already — one reportedly saw the more than 3 hour and 15-minute sequel eight times.
Afterward, the pair asked for feedback on the Oscar nominated movie, to “improve” the upcoming installments.
And while they’re all fans, Cameron says he wasn’t looking for fanboying and fangirling: “You guys can be totally honest with us, this is not just about telling us stuff we want to hear. It’s about telling us the stuff we … need to work on more,” the trade quoted him as saying.
Those in attendance quizzed the pair on plot points, and expressed what they thought of the film’s cutting edge computer graphics. They also gave their contact info so they could repeat the event after Avatar 3 opens December 20, 2024.
The Avatar movies were produced by 20th Century Studios, which like ABC News, is a subsidiary of Disney.
The Motion Picture Academy announced on Thursday the first round of presenters for the 95th annual Academy Awards.
Among them will be Oscar winners Riz Ahmed, Jennifer Connelly, Arian DeBose, Questlove and Ahmed’s The Sound of Metal co-star Troy Kotsur.
Also taking the podium will beSamuel L. Jackson, Creed III‘s Jonathan Majors and Michael B. Jordan, Donnie Yen, Zoe Saldaña, Melissa McCarthy, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Glenn Close and Janelle Monáe.
More presenters will be announced soon.
Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the Academy Awards will air live on ABC Sunday, March 12, at 8 p.m. ET from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood.
On Wednesday’s red carpet for the Billboard Women in Music Awards gala in Los Angeles, Yellowstone‘s Lainey Wilson and Piper Perabo were asked by Entertainment Tonight about rumors the show was drawing to an end.
As reported, there have been rumors of disagreements with the producers about Kevin Costner‘s shooting schedule, which might lead to either the end of the series or his character, John Dutton’s, involvement in it. Officially, Paramount Network remained mum on the reports.
Perabo, who joined the cast as environmental activist Summer Higgins in season 4, warned ET, “I mean there’s always a lot of drama when it comes to Yellowstone, don’t believe everything you hear!”
For country star Lainey, playing Abby on Yellowstone was her first acting gig and she hopes it continues, regardless of what shakes out. “I don’t know much, but I have a feeling they’re going to end it the right way, and there’s gonna be more of it. And I know they haven’t taken me to the train station, so I’m hoping I’m gonna be back in it!” The latter referred to the euphemism of how the show’s Dutton clan eliminates their problems.
Perabo added of star Costner, her onscreen love interest for a spell, “He’s so amazing. He’s such a movie star and it’s so inspiring to be around an actor like that.”
She added of the show’s future, mentioning its creator, “Taylor Sheridan knows to play it really close to the vest, and I know better than to speak outside the ranch, but I’m excited to see what happens next.”
HBO dropped the final trailer to the fourth, and officially final, season of its award-winning drama Succession.
Emmy winner Brian Cox starts with his Logan Roy intoning, “Why does everyone keep asking how I feel? I got done a huge deal. I got the election. I got ATN. I’ve got plenty on my plate,” charting Roy’s recent corporate successes.
He’s later seen “terrifyingly moseying” among his employees’ cubicles by a spying Greg (Nicholas Braun). “It’s like if Santa Claus was a hitman,” he tells Emmy winner Matthew Macfadyen‘s Tom.
As the Roy siblings plot to take dad down, Logan attempts to recruit Roman (Kieran Culkin). “I need you. I need a firebreather,” Roy says after warning, “there’s a Night of the Long Knives coming.”
Logan then tells his children, “I love you. But you’re not serious people.”
Sarah Snook‘s Shiv later says of her father, “He’s out of control.”
“I want to kill the competition!” her dad screams at his employees. “I want to cut their throats! We’re pirates!” the corporate raider says to cheers of his name.
Priscilla Presley is lending her voice to the role she was born to play in Agent Elvis: herself.
The adult animation series’ official trailer dropped Wednesday, revealing that Priscilla would be voicing herself alongside Matthew McConaughey as Elvis Presley.
“So excited for Agent Elvis to come out on March 17th on @netflix and so proud to be a part of this amazing cast!” she captioned an Instagram post sharing the full trailer.
Viewers don’t see much of Priscilla in the trailer, but do see her get in on the action for a brief moment. She even gets a memorable line: “It’s groovy, don’t you think?”
According to the show’s official synopsis, “Elvis Presley trades in his white jumpsuit for a jet pack when he is covertly inducted into a secret government spy program to help battle the dark forces that threaten the country he loves — all while holding down his day job as the King of Rock and Roll.”
The 10-episode series was co-created by Priscilla and John Eddie, and developed by co-showrunners Mike Arnold and Eddie.
In addition to McConaughey and Priscilla, the cast includes Don Cheadle, Kaitlin Olson, Johnny Knoxville, Niecy Nash and Tom Kenny, among others.
