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Lively-Reynolds Box Office Domination: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Stays No. 1 With $54M, ‘It Ends With Us’ Soars to Huge $50M

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have succeeded in creating their own Barbenheimer moment at the box office with their two very different films, Deadpool & Wolverine and It Ends With Us. Marvel Studios and Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine — in addition to crossing the $1 billion mark at the global box office on Saturday — […]

Ryan Reynolds-Blake Lively Box Office Apocalypse: ‘It Ends With Us’ Beats ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ on Friday

It’s a happy morning at the Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds household no matter which way you slice and dice it, with separate movies from the couple providing their very own Barbenheimer movement. Sony’s new female-powered It Ends With Us, starring and produced by Lively, topped reigning champ Deadpool & Wolverine on Friday with a […]

‘Big Little Lies’ Ladies Support Zoë Kravitz at ‘Blink Twice,’ ‘It Ends With Us’ Arrives in NYC and This Week’s Best Events

Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including events for Blink Twice, It Ends With Us, The Umbrella Academy and Borderlands. The Umbrella Academy premiere Stars Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher and Justin H. Min walked the carpet […]

Eli Roth’s ‘Borderlands’: What the Critics Are Saying

Lionsgate’s Borderlands hits theaters Aug. 9, but the review embargo for the film broke Thursday, and the early reaction from critics has been dire. A live-action adaptation of Gearbox Software’s popular video game series, Eli Roth’s film takes place on the planet Pandora and tells the story of a band of outlaw misfits. The film […]

‘Borderlands’ Review: Cate Blanchett Is a Gunslinging Bounty Hunter in Eli Roth’s Joylessly Gonzo Adaptation of the Popular Video Game

Kevin Hart, Ariana Greenblatt and Jamie Lee Curtis also star in this fight to survive on the lawless planet Pandora, with Jack Black providing the voice of a wisecracking robot.

Jamie Lee Curtis on Newfound Friendship With ‘Borderlands’ Co-Star Cate Blanchett: “She’s a Beautiful Person”

After previously saying that Cate Blanchett’s involvement in Borderlands was “the sole reason” she signed on to the film, Jamie Lee Curtis said the experience working together was even more than she hoped it would be. “What I didn’t know is we’d become friends,” Curtis told The Hollywood Reporter at a Los Angeles fan event […]

How ‘Borderlands’ Landed Cate Blanchett to Star

Over the past few years, one Hollywood mystery has been how the video game adaptation Borderlands managed to attract such a stacked A-list cast led by Cate Blanchett, given its raunchy, violent nature. At CinemaCon on Wednesday, director Eli Roth said the key to landing Blanchett, whom he said he decided to call on a […]

Video Game Publisher Take-Two Interactive to Acquire ‘Borderlands’ Maker Gearbox for $460M

Video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software said on Thursday that it has struck a definitive agreement with Embracer Group to acquire The Gearbox Entertainment Co., the maker of the Borderlands franchise, for $460 million in stock. The companies have worked together for nearly 20 years. Take-Two said it expects the transaction “to deepen its successful relationship with Gearbox […]

First ‘Borderlands’ Trailer Sends Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart to “Dumpster Fire of a World”

The first Borderlands trailer puts a bevy of A-listers on Pandora, the most dangerous planet in the universe. Cate Blanchett leads a cast as Lilith, the outlaw leader of a crew on a mission to retrieve a treasure from a vault on a planet she describes as a “dumpster fire of a world.” Kevin Hart […]

How ‘Thanksgiving’ Director Eli Roth Turned a Fake Trailer Into His Best-Reviewed Movie

Thanksgiving filmmaker Eli Roth has been dreaming of a Thanksgiving-themed slasher movie since he was 12 years old, and he thought he’d forever scratched that itch when he made a fictitious trailer for a movie called Thanksgiving inside of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse (2007) double feature. But much to his surprise, genre fans […]

‘Borderlands’ Sets Summer 2024 Release, ‘Dirty Dancing’ Sequel Delayed as Lionsgate Shuffles Calendar

Lionsgate is making moves to its release calendar, including dating the video game feature Borderlands for summer 2024 and pushing dates for Dirty Dancing sequel and its prequel to Wonder. Borderlands is now set to bow Aug. 9, 2024. The film hails from director Eli Roth and underwent additional photography from Deadpool filmmaker Tim Miller. […]

‘65’ Star Ariana Greenblatt Talks Getting Adam Driver to Break, ‘Barbie’ and Prank Calls with Josh Brolin

At 15, 65 star Ariana Greenblatt is already an old pro. She’s had a varied and prolific career as a child performer, and she’s especially well-versed in the art of acting opposite CG characters, whether that’s Josh Brolin’s Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, Sam Rockwell’s gorilla in The One and Only Ivan or the titular […]