Box Office: ‘TMNT,’ ‘Meg 2’ Racing Against ‘Oppenheimer’ for Second as ‘Barbie’ Reign Continues

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Netflix has set the premiere date for a docuseries about the pro wrestling promotion Ohio Valley Wrestling, Variety has learned exclusively. Titled “Wrestlers,” the show will debut on Netflix on Sept. 13.

Sony’s Craig Gillespie-directed comedy, Dumb Money, about the GameStop meme investors isn’t going wide anymore on Sept. 22. Rather, the Culver City lot has opted to go exclusive with the ensemble movie on Sept. 15 in LA and NYC, then a limited break on Sept. 22, followed by a moderate release on Sept. 29 and a final wide on Oct. 6. You’ll remember, Sony moved Kraven the Hunter off of that first weekend of October to Labor Day weekend 2024.

You know what time it is: time for a Criterion Collection update with their newly announced November releases. Two significant highlights anchor November: a six-film Jackie Chan box-set, “Jackie Chan: Emergence Of A Superstar,” and Martin Scorsese’s classic low-level gangster film “Mean Streets.” “Mean Streets” needs little introduction.

EXCLUSIVE: With the new animated version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Paramount has vibrantly revived the near 40-year-old Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird-conceived comic IP for another generation: As the pic barrels toward $100M at the global box office, Deadline hears from sources that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles brand is heading toward $1 billion+ in global retail sales. 

In the summer of 2021, in the middle of the ongoing pandemic, 20th Century Studios found themselves with an unexpected hit on their hands: the raunchy comedy “Vacation Friends,” directed by Clay Tarver, starring Lil Rel Howery, John Cena, Yvonne Orji, and Meredith Hagner. Originally shot for a theatrical release, “Vacation Friends” was relegated to Hulu that summer, but it was welcome comedy relief at the end of August.

John Cena is back for the upcoming comedy Vacation Friends 2, which is heading to Hulu later this month.

UPDATED, 3:14 p.m: 20th Century Studios has shared the first trailer for Vacation Friends 2, the sequel to its hit 2021 buddy comedy, which saw Lil Rel Howery and Yvonne Orji become Vacation Friends with Meredith Hagner and John Cena.

starring Lil Rel Howery, Yvonne Orji, John Cena and Meredith Hagner. The original 2021 film starred Cena and Hagner as Ron and Kyle, an uninhibited pair who crash the wedding reception of another couple — Marcus and Emily, played by Howery and Orji — they met on a wild recent vacation.In the sequel, which picks up a few months later, the foursome are back together — this time with Ron and Kyla's infant son in tow — as they take another trip, to a lavish Caribbean resort where Marcus is also trying to facilitate a serious business deal.The party crasher on this trip, however, turns out to be Kyla's dad, Reese, played by Steve Buscemi, who has been «literally just released from San Quentin,» and shows up with a bag of Kyla's mother's ashes, which are quickly mistaken for cocaine.«Did I just snort your mom?» Ron asks after obviously doing so.«It's really kind of beautiful if you think about it,» Kyla answers.When things inevitably take a turn toward pandemonium once again, it's up to the friendly foursome to make sure they survive the trip — and whoever it is that's followed Reese to the island.«Ever since he showed up, he turned this relaxing family vacation into total chaos — who does that?» Ron asks of his father-in-law, without a hint of irony.Watch the full trailer above!The film also stars Ronny Chieng, Carlos Santos, Jamie Hector, Julianne Arrieta, Julee Cerda, Kevin Yamada and more.premieres Aug.

Court was back in session last week as The Lincoln Lawyer Season 2 climbed back into first place among Netflix’s English-language series.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director A Vulture report published in June claimed that animators on Sony’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” were extremely overworked during production. The report followed similar claims made by several visual effects workers about the brutal working conditions at Marvel Studios. For Paramount’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem,” it appears director Jeff Rowe wanted to buck this problematic trend.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Rose Byrne jumped at the chance to voice Leatherhead in “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” when producer-star Seth Rogen asked her to join the film. “It was ridiculous,” the “Physical” actor tells me. “Seth was like, ‘I want you to do just fully Aussie — just go for it!’ “I was like, ‘I’m going to do my best Eric Bana.’ This is an homage to Eric,” Byrne continues.

Dua Lipa channeled her inner Mermaid Barbie in a sleek dress.

John Cena's life is an "accident" that stemmed from failure after failure.The WWE star-turned-actor spoke candidly spoke to Kevin Hart about his struggles and let downs after moving from Massachusetts to Los Angeles. "My whole existence is an accident," he told the comedian for his "Hart to Heart" show. "My whole existence is based on a series of fortunate events that kind of lined up with each other."While many people move to Los Angeles for the entertainment business, the "Peacemaker" star moved to Southern California with hopes to use his degree in exercise physiology and kinesiology.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo are facing off against Barbie and Ken at the box office. Paramount’s animated adventure “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” is projected to pick up $35 million to $45 million in its first five days of release. But those ticket sales won’t be enough to dethrone “Barbie,” which is expected to top the box office for a third weekend in a row.

Looking to find its way and pull boys in, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is getting a mid-week start here with previews yesterday grossing $3.85M. Showtimes started at 2PM for the Jeff Rowe-directed feature and the outlook is $30M over 5-days for the net $70M production. Some trackers have it at $40M. Mutant Mayheim is booked at 3,513 locations today and will expand to 3,851 theaters by Friday.

Deschanel boards the “Physical” train as actress Kelly Kilmartin, who stars in the show-within-a-show “Trish Out of Water” — and acts as a foil, both real and imagined, for series protagonist, aerobics entrepreneur Sheila Rubin (Rose Byrne).“She’s in Sheila’s head, and the ‘imaginary Kelly’ is a character the real Kelly plays on ‘Trish Out of Water,'” said Deschanel.“[Kelly] is a Southern Belle who is forced to be a lifeguard on ‘Trish Out of Water,’ so that’s the character that’s haunting Sheila … to make her uncomfortable, to feel badly and sometimes to feel good,” she said. “She’s like the voice in your head that says, ‘You’re the best!/’You’re the worst!,'” she said.

Seth Rogen has revealed why he doesn’t want to work for Marvel or DC.The actor, who recently worked on the animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem movie and owns the production company that helps make Amazon Prime‘s The Boys, was asked in a new interview what has kept him “turned off” from joining other movie franchises like the two comic based giants.“Honestly, probably fear. We really have a pretty specific way we work; me and Evan [Goldberg] have been writers for 20 years at this point. It’s a fear of the process, honestly.

interview with the New York Times, the producer said, “I have no plans to retire.”A year before that, however, he left the door open to a new phase away from Studio 8H. Michaels told CBS Morning‘s Gayle King, “I think I’m committed to doing the show until its 50th anniversary, which is in three years… I’d like to see that through and I have a feeling that would be a really good time to leave.”The 50th season of “Saturday Night Live” is coming in the fall of 2024, and during that year the all-powerful Michaels will turn 80 years old. When it wraps up, another US presidential election — when “SNL” reliably gets its best ratings — likely featuring Donald Trump will have just ended.

In a summer where the off-the-boards success of original movies like Barbie and Oppenheimer is all the rage, the 7th-or so feature film iteration of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise wasn’t one with great expectations – except when you read the credit block and discover the cowriters and producers are none other than Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and the director is Jeff Rowe who most recently was an Oscar nominee for the wildly inventive animated hit, The Mitchells Vs The Machines.

Nostalgia for previous decades can resemble rewriting history based on fun fashion and pop culture trends, but Apple TV+ dark comedy “Physical’s” exploration of the 1980s is far from rose-tinted. Across three seasons, creator Annie Weisman has depicted the complex relationship between the growing health and fitness industry and mental health.