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David Zaslav, in what could be his last full year leading Warner Bros. Discovery, saw his compensation more than triple in 2025 — largely thanks to nearly $110 million in one-time stock options the company awarded him for leading a plan to split WBD into two entities, which now will not happen if Paramount’s proposed acquisition is consummated. The exec’s total pay package of $165 million for 2025 firmly ensconces him in the top-most echelon of highly compensated entertainment and media executives. In addition, if Paramount Skydance’s megadeal to buy WBD closes, Zaslav is poised to walk away with a…
Move over Thrash, because there’s another survive-the-shark movie coming to movie theaters this weekend: Deep Water, starring Aaron Eckhart. Directed by Renny Harlin (known for, among other things, the recent Strangers trilogy), with a screenplay co-written by Pete Bridges, Shayne Armstrong, S.P. Krause, Damien Power, Deep Water tells the story of an international commercial flight that is forced to make an emergency landing in the ocean, in shark-infested waters. The blood and injuries induces a shark frenzy, leaving the survivors of the crash to deal with a bunch of rabid, toothy sharks. Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley co-star in the…
Will the Force be with Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu at the box office? If prerelease tracking is right, the Jon Favreau-directed movie — a continuation of his Disney+ series The Mandalorian — will open in the $80 million range at the domestic box office over the long, four-day Memorial Day weekend, according to sources with access to the data. That’s in line with expectations from Lucasfilm and Disney, according to insiders. While it is the first Star Wars film on the big screen since COVID, it doesn’t face the same pressure that a title in the core franchise would, such…
Christopher Nolan is addressing the runtime for The Odyssey. The 55-year-old director recently spoke out about just how long his upcoming movie will be, following his 2023 feature Oppenheimer, which has a runtime of three hours. “One of the things that’s really important to me is to be showing the film wherever possible on IMAX film, projecting the format, because we shot the entire movie on IMAX film, and the longest we’ve ever been able to get onto the IMAX projector is three hours,” he explained of The Odyssey to the Associated Press. “So we know it’s less than three…
Netflix’s top 10 daily movie list is a crowded space, usually dominated by high-profile releases, sequels, and familiar franchises. That’s currently the case right now with the recent addition of a new post-apocalyptic film that has quietly climbed the charts. Unlike typical horror movies that rely solely on jump scares or gore, this film delivers a story that is as psychologically compelling as it is terrifying.Perhaps you’re familiar with the 28 Days Later film series. Well, the latest installment in the franchise was just recently added to Netflix and is currently one of the most popular movies streaming on the…
During his lifetime, Roald Dahl wrote some of the world’s most famous children’s books about chocolate factories, giant peaches, and big, friendly giants. But the author himself was a complicated person, as outlined in the Tony-contending play, Giant. Set over the course of one pivotal day in 1983, the drama focuses on the fallout that accompanied the publication of a Dahl-penned book review that contained language that many considered antisemitic. Written by Mark Rosenblatt and directed by Nicholas Hytner, Giant stars John Lithgow as Dahl who stubbornly stands by his writing. The two sides of the debate over the review…
Lionel Richie has endless love for his grandbabies. One month after the American Idol judge’s daughter Sofia Richie welcomed her son with husband Elliot Grainge, he shared insight into being grandpa to Henry Grainge and his older sister Eloise Grainge, 23 months. “I’m so happy about that,” Lionel told E! News in an exclusive interview at the King’s Trust fifth annual gala in New York City April 29. “Pop Pop is here.” An ever-present grandparent, the “All Night Long” singer teased that at this point, Sofia and Elliot “wanna get me away from the baby.” For the 75-year-old—also Pop Pop…
Prime Video is about to set sail on a summer full of new projects in the young adult and romance spaces. Several splashy book adaptations, films and shows coming to the streamer in the next couple of months were teased in a sizzle reel of first look footage this morning. Highly anticipated films that got first look footage include The Love Hypothesis, based on the book by Ali Hazelwood; Clashing Through The Snow, starring Christopher Briney and Michelle Randolph; The Devil’s Mouth, starring Kathryn Newton, Lana Condor, Gavin Casalegno and more; and The Last Sunrise based on Anna Todd’s novel…
Office Romance. (L-R) Jennifer Lopez as Jackie Cruz and Brett Goldstein as Daniel Blanchflower in Office Romance. Cr. Ana Carballosa/Netflix © 2026. Netflix has just dropped the first look and official trailer for one of its most anticipated rom-coms of 2026, Office Romance. Bringing together global superstar Jennifer Lopez and Ted Lasso standout Brett Goldstein, this R-rated workplace comedy is officially set to hit your screens globally on Friday, June 5th, 2026. Here’s everything you need to know about the new raunchy comedy, including a breakdown of the brand-new trailer following the first look reveal last week, and our reporting…
In 1980, I was offered the opportunity to direct Richard Pryor in a dramatic movie based on a James Kirkwood novel called Some Kind of Hero about a returning Vietnam veteran re-adjusting to society, but first I had to be interviewed by Mr. Pryor himself, who had director approval. I was a white, Jewish male from a left wing political artistic family from the upper West Side, and for some reason the late Don Simpson, the head of production at Paramount studios at the time, thought we might be an interesting match. He wasn’t wrong. Simpson was a risk taker,…