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Christopher Nolan‘s “The Odyssey” topped the U.K. and Ireland box office in July with a gross of £56.2 million ($75.6 million), as the market posted a total of £178.2 million ($239.7 million) for the month, 35% ahead of the equivalent five-week period in July 2025, according to Rentrak. The 2025 comparison total of $177.1 million was driven by “Jurassic World Rebirth,” “Superman,” “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” and “F1 The Movie,” which contributed $44 million, $34 million, $23.7 million and $15.2 million respectively. Year-to-date U.K. grosses have passed $1.05 billion, running 18% ahead of 2025 and 34% ahead of 2024.…
Bobby Bank/Getty Images You best know him as Lester Jenkins on “227” or police officer “Smitty” Smith on “Sanford and Son,” but in 1975, late actor Hal Williams also scored a guest-starring role in one of the last episodes of the greatest Western TV shows ever produced: “Gunsmoke.” That episode — titled “Hard Labor” — served as the 20th episode of the show’s 20th and final season. Directed by Bernard McEveety, the plot centered on Marshal Matt Dillon (played by James Arness) after he is unjustly convicted of murder by the…
Belgian-born actress Virginie Efira (All of a Sudden, Parallel Tales, Benedetta, Paris Memories) took the stage in the central Piazza Grande square at the 79th edition of the Locarno Film Festival on Friday evening to receive this year’s Leopard Club Award. “It is truly a joy, a privilege and an immense honor for me to be here with you to receive this award,” she said in French in front of a huge crowd in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, before adding: “I sincerely apologize for only speaking French. Do most people understand?” The crowd’s answer was a loud “yes.” She continued with praise…
Searchlight Pictures The Super Troopers franchise is back with the third movie now in theaters. Super Troopers 3, reuniting Broken Lizard back on the big screen, was released in August 2026 and received mostly negative reviews from critics. It currently holds a 41% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. When Farva’s wildly over-the-top Indian engagement to Thorny’s sister spirals into chaos, the Super Troopers must navigate Thorny’s schemes to break up the relationship, while trying to crack a pernicious new drug ring — all to save the day and maybe the wedding itself. Super Troopers 3 is now in theaters! Fans who…
With our usual Insider Tracker, Ethan Alter, taking a well-deserved vacation this week, we’re taking a break from Big Picture awards chatter for a musical interlude brought to you by the Emmys. When it comes to the music categories, the Emmy Awards do their best impression of Grammys, honoring the scores, songs, and main themes that made the year’s best TV really sing. This year, few musicians working in the medium faced a task quite like the composers behind two of this year’s high-concept buzzy breakouts. For Widow’s Bay, David Fleming needed to thread the same needle as the hybrid…
Travis Barker explained why Kourtney Kardashian’s past miscarriage was a topic in his new documentary instead of on her reality show. “When there’s things that can benefit people or help people relate to something, I think that’s always like a green light, especially — [Kourtney’s] always trying to do something like that,” Barker, 50, explained on The New York Times’ “Popcast” podcast. Barker said he wanted to use his documentary, Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear, as a way to connect with his fans, adding, “Our journey of miscarriages and then IVF and it’s failed, resulting in us having a baby…
Jean Lodge, the British actor who play Queen Guinevere in the 1954 King Arthur movie The Black Knight and who was the mother of Days of Our Lives and The Nanny star Charles Shaughnessy and soap opera director David Shaughnessy, died Wednesday, August 5. She was 99. Her death was announced on Facebook by her granddaughter Amy Shaughnessy. “Jean Margaret Shaughnessy (neé Lodge) left us today, one day after her 99th birthday,” Amy Shaughnessy wrote. “She passed, as she would say, ‘quite quietly’ and peacefully in her sleep.” Lodge was married to Alfred Shaughnessy, the chief writer of the British…
Big day for Heated Rivalry fans! News about the new Season 2 co-leads is finally here. HBO Max‘s Heated Rivalry Season 2 is set to focus on the shift in Shane and Ilya’s relationship post-cottage and is based on books 5 and 6 in the series. Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams will reprise their roles as Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander, but there are two new additions to the cast. The fifth book in Rachel Reid’s Game Changers series, Role Model, follows the love story of the Ottawa Centaurs’ new right wing, Troy Barrett, and the Centaurs’ social media manager,…
[This story contains minor spoilers for A24 movie Tony.] Matt Johnson, the director behind A24’s Anthony Bourdain movie, Tony, didn’t know all that much about Anthony Bourdain. “I viewed him as just a kind of Gen X host who I had zero connection with,” says the filmmaker. For the uninitiated, Bourdain is the chef-turned-writer-turned-media personality behind Parts Unknown and No Reservations, known for traveling, eating and poetically opining on far-flung cuisines and cultures, and introducing audiences to remote corners of the world from behind a pair of Persols. Since his death by suicide in 2018 at the age of 61,…
This gorgeous actress just dropped another timeless thirst trap … and she must have made a deal with the Devil … because she looks incredible at 61. This busty Brit has been in several films … but one of her most popular had her playing Satan … toying with a poor, vulnerable Brendan Fraser. She’s hot as hell in the movie, and hasn’t cooled off in the quarter century since.