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Kanye West is making peace with Ice Cube … 7 months after throwing him under the bus by claiming Cube was the one who turned him on to antisemitism. The 2 rap icons met face-to-face Friday at Cube’s home in the L.A. area — and it definitely looks like they hammered out their differences. They

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that the George Clooney directed MGM title, The Boys in the Boat, is set to hit theaters on Monday, Dec. 25, as a wide release. The studio, I understand, were ecstatic over the test scores and landed on the pic’s release date in an effort to grab families. Pic is based on

Adele is completely gutting the home she purchased from Sylvester Stallone … and while she’s starting over at the lavish Beverly Hills estate, one famous feature remains. As you can see, the pricy renovations are in full swing, and the main house is getting a total transformation — she’s sheared off the whole 2nd story

Columbia Pictures’ and Sony Pictures Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Universe is casting its web in international box office markets with  $13.5M through Thursday. That’s 2.5x the original in like-for-likes.  Notable in early reporting, India broke the local all-time opening day record for an animated movie with $610K while releasing on a non-traditional Thursday. The launch day gross is higher than

Drake made a cherry-on-top cameo for the season finale of Lil Dicky‘s “Dave” series — an episode that also boasted Brad Pitt and Rachel McAdams appearances!!! As fate would have it, Drake’s actually a superfan of the show — which just wrapped its third season — and he said exactly that to Dicky, in person.

Julie Benko, who has built a devoted following as the Funny Girl understudy and alternate Fanny Brice, will originate her first Broadway role this fall in the new musical Harmony by by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman. Benko will play the role of Ruth, producers Ken Davenport, Sandi Moran and Garry Kief announced today. The

“Snowfall” star Damson Idris is admitting he tapped into the forces of darkness to help his actor’s block … and says he damn near needed an exorcism after the terrifying experience!!! During The Hollywood Reporter’s 2023 TV Drama roundtable, Damson made the shocking confession to Pedro Pascal, Jeff Bridges, Kieran Culkin, and others … harkening

Last night at the world premiere of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse there was a huge sigh of relief from the mass of animators inside Westwood’s Regency Village Theater: the $100M budgeted sequel to the Oscar winning animated movie, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, was done; having completed post-production literally just ten days ago after a five-year

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have FINALLY bought a house after 2 years of looking … and it’s amazing. The house boasts a cinema, wine room, whiskey lounge and a spa with a hair and nail salon, and a sauna and massage room. And get this, there’s also a separate, 5,000-square-foot sports facility, which includes

Several times in recent years, Sony has used the Cannes Film Festival to promote a key upcoming title, despite the movies not officially being involved in the event — see Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation in 2018, 2017’s The Emoji Movie and 2016’s The Angry Birds Movie.  This year, the marketing team pulled out the

Bam Margera is desperate to develop a relationship with his son, Phoenix … but the former “Jackass” star says his estranged wife isn’t having it. Bam’s attorney, Peter W. Thompson, tells TMZ … Nikki is not allowing Bam to talk to his son through FaceTime or phone calls, and she’s completely cut off all contact.

Talk about legs — or, more appropriately, wings: Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick is still playing in Japanese cinemas a full year on from its debut. Continuing on from a stratospheric and super-leggy run, the sequel, on its 365th day of release, became Tom Cruise’s biggest film ever in the market. In doing so, it overtook

Play video content Instagram / @olympiaohanian Safe to say Serena Williams‘ 5-year-old daughter is a big fan of “The Little Mermaid” … Olympia LOST IT after she got a Halle Bailey “Ariel” doll, and the entire adorable reaction was captured on video! The video, which was shared on Olympia’s Instagram, shows dad Alexis Ohanian handing

Refresh for latest…: Disney’s live-action take on The Little Mermaid is doing swimmingly at the domestic box office, with a three-day opening of $95.5M and a four-day projection of $117.5M. Factoring in the international box office bow of $68.3M, that makes for an estimated $163.8M global debut through Sunday. The offshore launch is lower than

Milt Larsen, founder of the legendary Magic Castle, has died. Family sources tell TMZ Milt passed away in his sleep Sunday night at his home in Hollywood with his close friends and family by his side. Milt is known heavily in the world of magic — forming the ever-popular Magic Castle … a private club

Refresh for latest…: Apart from big new opener The Little Mermaid, which we detailed here, this weekend was notable for propelling Universal’s Fast X past the $500M mark globally, and Disney/Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 to over $730M worldwide. The Fast & Furious franchise had, earlier this week, crossed $7B globally while the

Jodi Benson‘s looks over the years are out of this world! Watch and you’ll see … a 38-year-old version of the first ‘Little Mermaid’ looking absolutely fin-tastic at the premiere of “The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea” in Hollywood, California back in 2000 (left). This was over a decade after the release of

A24’s Julia Louis-Dreyfus-starrer You Hurt My Feelings will top an estimated $1.7 million in limited nationwide release for the four-day holiday weekend, at the high end of expectations on 912 screens. That puts it at no. 8 at a domestic box office where Little Mermaid is making all the waves. Breakdown: Friday – $474k; Sat.

Leo DiCaprio may be as famous for yachting as he is for another, even bigger ship, but these days he’s strictly upper deck! The “Titanic” star was lounging this weekend on the top deck of a super yacht with some buddies … along the coast of Sardinia. There he was — again — a shirtless

The arthouse box office hasn’t recovered quickly post-Covid, but one of the oases for the sector, even by pre-pandemic benchmarks, has always been a Wes Anderson movie. This summer we have his latest all-star absurdist comedy, Asteroid City, which just premiered at Cannes, which begins its limited run on June 16. How big has Anderson

Katherine Heigl and Ellen Pompeo probably have a lot to talk about since famously parting ways on television over a decade ago — and they’ll do just that in the very near future. The two actresses — who once starred opposite each other on “Grey’s Anatomy,” before KH left the show in 2010 — are

“It was a contributor to the specialty box office, and I hope it will be again,” says Laemmle CEO Greg Laemmle of MoviePass, the subscription service that unsurprisingly went bankrupt in early 2020 after offering a movie a day for ten bucks a month. A co-founder Stacy Spikes, who was pushed out amid strategic differences

Play video content TMZ.com Dolph Lundgren is turning his pain into purpose … saying he couldn’t be happier to inspire others, after opening up about his 8-year battle with cancer. We caught up with the “Rocky” icon Monday at LAX, where he gave us an update on how he’s been feeling since revealing he was

EXCLUSIVE, late Thursday PM: Sources are telling us that Disney’s Rob Marshall directed The Little Mermaid is singing some high notes tonight of $10M+ in previews. Should that figure exceed $10.8M it will rep the 6th highest preview performance among PG and G rated titles in motion picture history. Tracking pegged the Halle Bailey movie

Play video content TMZ.com Lady Gaga made a surprise appearance at an L.A. bar recently, looking ever the stunning starlet she is and putting on a performance for the patrons. Check out the video, obtained by TMZ, which shows Gaga sporting a chic dress, stylish black coat and 10-inch platform heels while hanging out with

Universal’s Fast & Furious franchise has reached a new milestone, spinning past $7B at the global box office. Getting there, it becomes the fifth series of films to the mark, doing so with 11 titles. It’s currently the No. 5 franchise of all time, and is tied with Warner Bros’ Wizarding World for the fewest

Austin Butler and Kaia Gerber are all the rage on the internet right now … because there’s a huge buzz about a potential engagement. There’s tons of speculation online that the “Elvis” star may have popped the question to his model girlfriend … and it’s a pretty juicy rumor, which may have some legs. Austin

UK-based global theater chain and parent of Regal Cinemas said overnight it expects to emerge from Chapter 11 in July. The news comes as nearly 100% of its legacy lenders agreed to an amended and restated restructuring agreement and backstop that have been months in the making. There had been some holdouts. The giant exhibitor

Jonathan Majors and his new boo Meagan Good kept things lowkey on their latest date … quietly slippin’ in and out of Red Lobster with some of her family for some grub. The “Creed 3” and “Harlem” stars were spotted at the seafood chain Tuesday in Woodland Hills — spending 3 hours with Meagan’s mom

Disney’s return to live-action takes of their animated vault in the fullest theatrical form happens this weekend with Rob Marshall’s The Little Mermaid which is eyeing a $180M worldwide start. The majority of that number will be made stateside with $120M for the four-day Memorial Day weekend holiday, and around $100M over three days. At