Two new Hollywood releases, Universal’s sports thriller “Him” and Sony’s romantic drama “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey,” were outright rejected by overseas audiences. “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey,” starring Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell as strangers whose meet-cute takes them on the journey of a lifetime, flopped at the international box office with $4.5 million from 45 markets. Meanwhile, the …
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Updated: New Line/Warner Bros’ The Conjuring: Last Rites positively possessed the global and international box office this weekend with a $187M worldwide opening, $104M of the total coming from 66 overseas markets. The Michael Chaves-directed installment has bragging rights to becoming the biggest horror debut of all time internationally (overtaking WB’s own It Chapter 2) and the 2nd biggest ever …
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A federal grand jury in Minnesota has returned an eight-count indictment charging naturalized U.S. citizens Benedict Nwana Kuah, 51, and Pascal Kikishy Wongbi, 52, with organizing, financing, and directing kidnappings, bombings, and killings in their native country, the Republic of Cameroon. Kuah and Wongbi were arrested this morning in the District of Minnesota and made their initial appearances this afternoon. Kuah …
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Whatever happened to the mantra “survive until ’25,” the go-to refrain for theater owners and Hollywood executives trying to remain optimistic when the box office kept slumping last year, with revenue lagging well behind pre-pandemic levels? Perhaps the mantra disappeared this summer when it became clear that not even the likes of Superman or even bigger and scarier dinosaurs could …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link Madison, Wisconsin AP — A Wisconsin man who faked his own drowning while kayaking and left his wife and three children to meet a woman in the country of Georgia was convicted Tuesday of obstructing an officer and sentenced to 89 days in jail – the amount of time he successfully misled law enforcement about his …
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Early this year, Kirsten Dunst experienced “every parent’s nightmare.” In an interview with Town & Country magazine, Dunst recalled her four-year-old son James, whom she shares with actor Jesse Plemons, experiencing a “serious health scare” while she was in Budapest filming The Entertainment System Is Down. While filming overseas, Plemons and their two sons came to stay, and they enrolled …
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Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates expressed concern Monday about growing vaccine skepticism in the United States, suggesting that the exporting of claims by the anti-vaccine movement will likely extract a bigger death toll internationally than domestically and could also put the possibility of ridding the world of measles permanently out of reach. “Vaccine skepticism in the U.S. kills more children outside …
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