Month: February 2021

EXCLUSIVE: As exhibition and the domestic box office remain in purgatory during the pandemic with several tentpole movies delayed to later in the year, you would think the streamers would rise to the occasion and backfill the major studios with pushing their wares during the Super Bowl, right? Not exactly. We hear that HBO Max, Peacock, Apple TV and Netflix are expected to sit on the sidelines during Super Bowl LV, the latter having made a big splash in 2018 with its surprise postgame premiere of Paramount’s The Cloverfield Paradox. While the major studios pushed nine movie spots during last year’s Super Bowl (including pre- and postgame, and not including crossover ads like Jeep’s Groundhog Day) that accumulated 171.7 million views online in the 24 hours after the game, this y...

EXCLUSIVE: As exhibition and the domestic box office remain in purgatory during the pandemic with several tentpole movies delayed to later in the year, you would think the streamers would rise to the occasion and backfill the major studios with pushing their wares during the Super Bowl, right? Not exactly. We hear that HBO Max, Peacock, Apple TV and Netflix are expected to sit on the sidelines during Super Bowl LV, the latter having made a big splash in 2018 with its surprise postgame premiere of Paramount’s The Cloverfield Paradox. While the major studios pushed nine movie spots during last year’s Super Bowl (including pre- and postgame, and not including crossover ads like Jeep’s Groundhog Day) that accumulated 171.7 million views online in the 24 hours after the game, this y...

EXCLUSIVE: As exhibition and the domestic box office remain in purgatory during the pandemic with several tentpole movies delayed to later in the year, you would think the streamers would rise to the occasion and backfill the major studios with pushing their wares during the Super Bowl, right? Not exactly. We hear that HBO Max, Peacock, Apple TV and Netflix are expected to sit on the sidelines during Super Bowl LV, the latter having made a big splash in 2018 with its surprise postgame premiere of Paramount’s The Cloverfield Paradox. While the major studios pushed nine movie spots during last year’s Super Bowl (including pre- and postgame, and not including crossover ads like Jeep’s Groundhog Day) that accumulated 171.7 million views online in the 24 hours after the game, this y...

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EXCLUSIVE: As exhibition and the domestic box office remain in purgatory during the pandemic with several tentpole movies delayed to later in the year, you would think the streamers would rise to the occasion and backfill the major studios with pushing their wares during the Super Bowl, right? Not exactly. We hear that HBO Max, Peacock, Apple TV and Netflix are expected to sit on the sidelines during Super Bowl LV, the latter having made a big splash in 2018 with its surprise postgame premiere of Paramount’s The Cloverfield Paradox. While the major studios pushed nine movie spots during last year’s Super Bowl (including pre- and postgame, and not including crossover ads like Jeep’s Groundhog Day) that accumulated 171.7 million views online in the 24 hours after the game, this y...

Dolly Parton is re-envisioning her classic workplace anthem for a modern audience. The country music songstress, 75, recently reworked her hit single, "9 to 5," for a new ad for the upcoming Super Bowl LV — as revealed by Squarespace chief creative officer David Lee. "How do we approach someone as legendary as Dolly Parton and ask her if it’s ok to rewrite and reimagine one of her most iconic songs?" Lee recalled in an email to The Hollywood Reporter. "Turns out that not only did she love the idea, she also loved the rewrite." Modernizing "9 to 5" for newer audiences stricken by the coronavirus pandemic, Parton recorded "5 to 9" — a song that reflects the modern-day entrepreneur as they hustle between side gigs from 5 p.m. to 9 a.m. DOLLY PARTON RECALLS HEARTWARMING STORY OF HOW HER ...

He was 95. Holbrook portrayed iconic author Mark Twain in one-man shows for more than six decades, winning a Tony Award for best actor in 1966 for his role in "Mark Twain Tonight!" which he also directed. He performed the show across the country and in Europe, becoming synonymous with the famed humorist. Born in Cleveland to a vaudeville performer mother and shoe salesman father, Holbrook and his siblings were raised by his grandparents in South Weymouth, Massachusetts. Sent to boarding school as a youngster, and later military school, he found solace in the costumes and characters he portrayed in drama club. Holbrook first got the idea to do the Twain show after portraying the author as part of an honors project as a drama major at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. While serving ...

The 23-year-old, whose real name is Ricky Lamar Hawk, was arrested Monday after police investigated the death of his 34-year-old cousin, Frederick Rooks, according to a statement from the DeKalb County Police Department. Police responded to a call about a shooting on January 21 and found Rooks with multiple gunshot wounds lying on a road in the Atlanta area suburb of Panthersville, according to an incident report from DeKalb County police. Rooks was pronounced dead at the scene, the report stated. Security camera footage from nearby homes captured at least one gun shot before several vehicles fled the scene at high speeds, according to the report. Police said in a statement that Silentó was later identified as a suspect. Investigators have not yet determined a motive for the...