The Marvels, starring Brie Larson, Iman Vellani, Teyonah Parris and Samuel L. Jackson, will be released on digital from all major digital retailers, including Prime Video, Apple TV and Vudu, on January 16.
The film from director and co-writer Nia DaCosta hits 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD on February 13.
Both releases will feature exclusive bonus content, including a gag reel, deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes featurettes and an audio commentary from DaCosta and VFX supervisor Tara DeMarco.
The movie has Larson’s Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel, Vellani’s Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel and Parris’ WandaVision character Monica Rambeau joining their cosmic powers to fight off a galactic threat from Captain Marvel’s past.
It’s not yet known when subscribers to Disney+ will get free streaming access to the film, which earned a positive audience score on the aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, but nonetheless ended its theatrical run as the lowest-performing title in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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The unexpected streaming dominance of Suits led to one of the more fan-appreciated moments of an otherwise bumpy Golden Globes telecast Sunday night.
Stars Patrick J. Adams and Gabriel Macht, who respectively played Mike Ross and Harvey Specter on the legal drama that ended in 2019, took to the stage to present the final TV award of the night, Outstanding Drama Series.
“There’s nothing more dramatic or anxiety-inducing than waiting all night to hear that your category is finally arrived,” Macht said on stage.
Referencing their show’s newfound attention, Adams replied to laughs, “Yes, that’s true. It’s hard to imagine having to wait so long to see your show get that kind of recognition.”
They were then joined onstage by their Suits costars Gina Torres and Sarah Rafferty, who played, respectively, Jessica Pearson and Donna Paulsen.
Before the show, Adams and Macht spoke to Variety on the red carpet, and the topic of the in-development Suits spin-off came up.
Adams mentioned the project is “all in early stages,” describing it “like a Suits L.A.” He continued, “our fearless showrunner Aaron [Korsh is] working on that,” but admitted, “If I got the phone call, I’d be ready to suit up again. I loved the show, I loved the character and I loved working with all these people.”
Adams, who played the love interest — and eventual husband — of Meghan Markle‘s Rachel Zane, even hinted at the possibility of their characters’ potential to leave their eventual home base of Seattle to “come down to L.A. and fix some stuff.”
The spin-off will reportedly center on new characters, but Korsh has spoken of the possibility of having Suits veterans make appearances.
In his first interview since a jury found him guilty of assaulting and harassing his ex-girlfriend, Jonathan Majors said he was “shocked and afraid” upon hearing the verdict.
“I say, ‘How is that possible based off the evidence, based off the prosecution’s evidence, let alone our evidence?'” the actor said to ABC News Live’s Linsey Davis in an exclusive sit-down interview.
Majors was found guilty of one count of misdemeanor third-degree assault and one count of second-degree harassment, but acquitted of two other counts of assault and aggravated harassment.
As he awaits sentencing, he told Davis he plans to appeal.
Majors, 34, was arrested and charged following a March 2023 altercation with his then-girlfriend, Grace Jabbari, in a for-hire SUV in New York City.
The mixed verdict signaled the jury believed Majors recklessly assaulted his ex-girlfriend, but did not intentionally do so.
Majors said picking Jabbari up was “one of the biggest mistakes of my life.”
“I pick her up, I put her back in the car. I’m trying to get rid of her. I’m trying to get away from her, as the video shows, you know?” he said. “Second biggest mistake of my life, I try to keep her in the car.”
The altercation began in the SUV, after Jabbari saw a flirty text message from another woman on Majors’ phone. Jabbari testified that she tried to grab his phone after seeing the message.
“It just felt like he was twisting my arm and my hand and trying to make me feel pain,” she said in court.
Majors said he is confident he didn’t cause any injuries.
“She went to grab the phone. I held the phone. I pulled the phone back. She came on top of me, squeezed my face, slapped me. That’s all I remember,” he said.
He said he “wish[ed] to God” he knew how the injuries occurred.
“That would give clarity. That would give me some type of peace about it,” he said.
The extended interview airs on ABC News Live’s Prime with Linsey Davis Monday at 7 p.m. ET.
On social media Sunday night, Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds acknowledged their FX show Welcome to Wrexham‘s Emmy win, which came during the Creative Arts Emmys held over the weekend.
Well, Ryan was a no-show, so his alter ego Deadpool did the honors — hijacking McElhenney’s heartfelt acceptance speech from home just as it was getting started.
Wearing a business suit, topped with his Deadpool mask, and holding a broken trophy, Deadpool referred to Ryan and his better half Blake Lively by saying, “Mr. Lively couldn’t be here to accept this broken Emmy, so he sent me on his behalf.”
After thanking the city of Wrexham, on whose beloved soccer team the show centers — and the club Reynolds and McElhenney own — Deadpool added, “I’d also like to thank the Academy for this honor and for not asking us to attend the televised awards show with the real celebrities. I’d also like to thank FX and Disney for their support, and in exchange, Mr. Lively promises not to f*** up my next movie.”
Deadpool 3 comes out this summer, starring Reynolds and Hugh Jackman.
And to that end, the Merc with a mouth noted, “Lastly The Oscars: You’re on notice, motherf******. Maybe we can get a token VFX nod next year. The amount of work on Hugh and Ryan’s face alone [is] worth at least a nod.”
Jacob Elordi will play Frankenstein’s monster in director Guillermo del Toro‘s upcoming film adaptation for Netflix. Elordi replaces Andrew Garfield as the iconic character, joining a cast that includes Oscar Isaac, who will play Victor Frankenstein, and Mia Goth. Garfield fell out of the project due to scheduling conflicts caused by WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike postponements …
Judd Apatow thinks Barbie deserves to be nominated in the best original screenplay at the Oscars. Last week, the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences announced that Barbie must compete in the best adapted screenplay category, due to the film being based on the brand of toys from Mattel. “It’s insulting to the writers to say they were working off of existing material,” Apatow wrote on X, formerly Twitter …
Cindy Morgan, one-time movie bombshell who logged memorable turns in Caddyshack and Tron, among others, has died. The Los Angeles Timesreports the actress, who also appeared in scores of TV shows like The Love Boat and The Larry Sanders Show, was 69. Morgan reportedly died of natural causes in Florida, according to the The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office, but an exact date of her death was not reported …
Wonka continued to be sweeter than pure imagination at the box office during the first weekend of 2024. The musical comedy from Warner Bros. took the top spot again, adding $14.4 million and bringing its domestic total to $164.6 million. This makes the Timothée Chalamet-starrer the winner for three out of its four weekends so far, coming in with a $465.8 global haul.
New release Night Swim came in second place this weekend, though its “C” CinemaScore may be cause for it not making more of a splash. The Universal horror film scored a $12 million debut.
Third place belongs to the king of the seas. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom dropped a spot this week, bringing in $10.6 million in its third weekend. The Jason Momoa-led sequel from Warner Bros. has a domestic total of $100 million, and a global total of $334.8 million.
Universal and Illumination’s animated flick Migration makes it to the fourth spot, bringing in a three-day total of $10.25 million and a domestic total of $77.8 million. Globally, the pic has grossed $150.7 million.
Finally, rounding off the weekend in the fifth spot is Sony’s Anyone But You. The Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell starrer posted great holds for a romantic comedy and was up 9% from last week. It made $9.5 million, bringing the domestic total to $43.7 million.
The 2024 Golden Globes took place Sunday night at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, and Christopher Nolan‘s nuclear-age drama led the night by taking home five, including the final award of the night, Best Motion Picture – Drama.
Going into the evening, Barbie and HBO’s Succession led the nominations with nine apiece.
Here are the highlights:
Jo Koy’s not so “perfect monologue”
Comedian Jo Koy seemed to battle nerves in his first turn as host, occasionally commenting when jokes didn’t work. In one case, he said, “Some I wrote, some other people wrote. I got the gig 10 days ago, you want a perfect monologue?”
One of the jokes that seemed to fall flat was Koy’s mention of Taylor Swift. “We came on after a football doubleheader,” Koy said. “The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL … On the Golden Globes we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift.”
The camera cut to Taylor, who sipped her drink, but otherwise didn’t look too thrilled about it, prompting an immediately viral reaction, and Koy to apologize again, noting, “Sorry about that.”
Oppenheimer‘s chain reaction
In the motion picture drama category, it was Oppenheimer‘s night: The drama scored a Best Director trophy for Christopher Nolan, Best Original Score for Ludwig Göransson, and Best Supporting and Best Actor Globes respectively for Robert Downey Jr. and Cillian Murphy. The film also took the Best Picture trophy.
Beef and The Bear win big
Netflix’s Beef and FX’s Hulu show The Bear swept in their respective leading actor and actress categories: Steven Yeun and Ali Wong for the former, and Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri for the latter.
Edebiri looked genuinely shocked, and gave an excited acceptance speech in which she specifically thanked her “agents’ assistants,” for answering all her “crazy” calls and emails. The nod to the normally-unsung employees got a rise from the crowd, and a whoop from Taylor Swift herself.
The Bear also snagged Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy.
Beef took the trophy for Best Television Limited Series later in the evening, with its creator Lee Sung Jin thanking the man behind a real road rage incident that he was involved with for inspiring the story. “Sir, I hope you honk and yell and inspire others for years to come,” he joked.
Succession still strong Kieran Culkin snagged the Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Drama award for the show — which also saw the Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role on Television go to Matthew Macfayden. Culkin jokingly said of his fellow nominee Pedro Pascal, “Suck it, Pedro! Sorry. Mine!”
Succession also picked up the trophy for Best Television Series – Drama, and Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Drama for Sarah Snook.
Lily Gladstone makes history Lily Gladstone won Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama) for Martin Scorsese‘s Killers of the Flower Moon, the film’s only win of the evening. She made history as the first Indigenous person to win the award and started her acceptance speech in the language of the Blackfeet Native American Tribe.
“This is a historic win, it doesn’t belong to just me,” she continued in English. “This is for every little rez kid … every little native kid out there who has a dream, who is seeing themselves represented and our stories told by ourselves in our own words with tremendous allies and tremendous trust….”
The night’s new categories
This year’s telecast featured two new categories, one for Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television, and another for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement.
Ricky Gervais wasn’t there to accept the inaugural award for his Netflix special Armageddon, but Margot Robbie and director Greta Gerwig and the cast took to the stage when 2023’s biggest movie, Barbie, took the Box Office trophy.
Robbie thanked fans for getting dressed up for a night out at the movies, and to the executives at Warner Bros. for taking the “risk” on the movie. Margot also thanked the Globes for creating the box office category that is dedicated to the fans.
Mark Harmon‘s Gibbs may have left CBS’ franchise mothership NCIS back in the show’s 19th season, but the character will be back, with Harmon as executive producer, for a prequel series.
On Friday the network announced NCIS: Origins has been given the green light for the 2024-25 season, and it will center on the younger version of character originated by Harmon, who will also serve as narrator.
Sean Harmon, Mark’s son who has played the young Gibbs in flashbacks throughout the flagship series’ run, reprises as the newbie investigator.
Set in 1991, the new show “follows a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs … as a newly minted special agent at the fledgling NCIS Camp Pendleton office where he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks,” the network explains.
Sean Harmon, also an executive producer on the project, said in the announcement, “The character of Gibbs has been an important part of my life for 20 years, both in watching my father craft the role and previously having the honor to play young Gibbs myself.” He added he is “thrilled” to “reveal a new side of this beloved character.”
Calling the NCIS franchise a “cultural and global phenomenon,” CBS Studios President David Stapf explains, “When Sean and Mark approached us all with this exciting expansion of the universe — exploring a young Gibbs — we knew it was the next story that needed to be told.”
Samuel L. Jackson is joining star and executive producer Kevin Hart in a limited series for Peacock. Variety says Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist — based on the 2021 Fight Night podcast installment — tells “the infamous story of how an armed robbery during the night of Muhammad Ali’s historic 1970 comeback fight changed not only one man’s life, but an entire city’s destiny.”
The trade has Jackson playing notorious gangster Frank Moten, called “the Black Godfather” by the tabloids of the time.
An after-party following the Atlanta fight between Ali and Jerry Quarry drew some of the city’s most infamous people — and a team of crooks who ripped them off.
The hourslong, audacious heist saw as many as 200 would-be partiers methodically robbed at gunpoint, with the victims including normally untouchable members of the so-called Black mafia.
On his Instagram, Hart enthused, “I am crazy excited about this series….. and I’m even more excited about working with @samuelljackson….We have been trying to figure it out a project for years and we finally cracked it!!!!!!”
Kev also teased “more big announcements” to come, adding, “This cast is going to be EPIC!!!!! Stay tuned!!!!!!!”
