By Ramin Setoodeh
09.04.2020 - 16:51 / variety.com
By Rebecca Rubin
News Editor, Online
When Universal’s “Trolls World Tour” lands on home entertainment platforms on Friday, it’ll mark the first major studio movie to skip its planned traditional theatrical release since the coronavirus outbreak forced cinemas to close.
The unprecedented move, going against perennial protocol in exhibition, has many in the entertainment industry wondering: is the bold bet a sign of the times, or a paradigm shift in Hollywood that will shatter theatrical
By Ramin Setoodeh
By Erik Pedersen
Reese Witherspoon is a great actor. That is not a secret in Hollywood and beyond—she won an Oscar after all—it's simply a fact.
By Nellie Andreeva
Seemingly every hot young actor in Hollywood wanted to star in The Basketball Diaries at some point. The decades-long journey to bring Jim Carroll's gut punch of a memoir to the big screen was finally at the casting crossroads, and it was time to fill the role of the former teen basketball talent, hustler and heroin addict who splashed onto the literary scene chronicling his demons and became a celebrated writer, poet, punk rocker and all-around New York cultural icon unto himself.
The highly anticipated film from Hollywood, The Batman was initially meant to hit the big screen in the month of June 2021. But now a news report in Variety states that the Robert Pattinson starrer has been postponed to October 2021.
By Klaritza Rico
He’s *basically* a newbie, even though you’ve probably already seen him around. He was in 2018’s Affairs of State, another politics piece. And he appeared in House of Cards’ final season. Most notably, he was in The Politician, so he very obviously enjoys *pretending* to be in politics. Which, these days, is wayyy more appealing than the real thing.
To thank the many people working on the frontlines during the coronavirus pandemic, Lady Gaga tapped some of the biggest names in Hollywood for a special benefit concert in partnership with Global Citizen and the World Health Organization.
"Show's over, motherf--kers." No one expected Kick-Ass to be a major hit when it premiered on April 16, 2010. But the movie, based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar, become one of the year's most successful movies, grossing almost $100 million, making stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Chloe Grace Moretz, who wasn't even a teenager yet, some of the most in-demand young actors in Hollywood, and causing a whole lot of controversy.
Margaret Qualley is on the cover of Hunger Magazine‘s Future Issue, out now.
The Extraction trailer released last week. The Netflix film shared a glimpse at the action-packed, edge-of-the-seat experience starring Chris Hemsworth in the lead. As though that wasn't enough for us to mark the dates on the calendar, Hemsworth and Russo Brothers shared a glimpse of a chase sequence shot in India to make the wait difficult. The Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo shared a video showcasing one of the best Oner chase sequences they have seen in Hollywood.
Grief isn’t Ricky Gervais’ only problem now.
Disgraced comedian Louis C.K. has returned with a surprise stand-up special, after admitting to several accounts of sexual misconduct in the 2010s.
By Jordan Moreau
© Getty US actor Dwayne Johnson arrives for the World Premiere of "Jumanji: The Next Level" at the TCL Chinese theatre in Hollywood on December 9, 2019. (Photo by Jean-Baptiste LACROIX / AFP) (Photo by JEAN-BAPTISTE LACROIX/AFP via Getty Images) We’ll admit it, we were beginning to feel a little over all of those celebrity hand-washing videos, but then along came Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson.