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Dwayne Johnson has confirmed his long-awaited turn as DC’s Black Adam will start filming in 2020. Black Adam is Shazam's arch-nemesis and a complex antihero with a rich history of his own. Johnson was to play the character in the first movie before the parties decided he warranted his own pic, and he came aboard in…

WWE’s Friday Night SmackDown! has its Fox premiere on Friday, and this show is guaranteed to Rock. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson said Monday that he will return to his wrasslin’ roots with an appearance on the 20th anniversary program. The pro wrestling juggernaut and Fox Sports are marking the anniversary on October 4…

NBC has handed a Season 2 renewal to The Titan Games, the athletic competition series hosted by Dwayne Johnson. In its first season that launched in January, The Titan Games scored a 1.7 rating in adults 18-49 with 6 million total viewers in Live+Seven Day. The series improved NBC's Thursday 8 p.m. timeslot by 19%…

Universal's Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw has shot past the $700M mark worldwide, rocking a $700.53M gross through Thursday. The split on the Dwayne Johnson-Jason Statham action spinoff currently sits at $160.53M domestic and $540M at the international box office. A $725M-$750M finish is expected globally. The…

With four Emmy nominations for his work on Barry this year—comedy series, acting, writing and directing—Season 2 of the HBO series really allowed Bill Hader to show his riveting helming finesse across two episodes: "ronny/lily" and the finale "berkman/block". In the nominated "ronny/lily", Hader's hitman Barry is…

SUNDAY UPDATE, writethru: Universal's Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw hit the ground running in China this weekend, muscling in on an estimated $102M (RMB 721M) three-day debut. That sets a new all-time August opening record for the market and is the 2nd best bow of 2019 on a studio movie there. Overall, the Dway…

HBO’s sports comedy Ballers starring Dwayne Johnson will end after its fifth season, which kicks off Sunday on HBO. Johnson announced the news in a thank-you post to fans on Instagram. “My heart 🖤 is full of gratitude to all of you for rockin' with us every season,” Johnson wrote. Read his full post below. Created…

EXCLUSIVE: Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia's Seven Bucks Companies has hired Maya Lasry as its Chief Marketing Officer, a move the brings her over from Universal Pictures, where she spent nearly seven years most recently as Director of Creative Advertising. The move reunites Lasry and Seven Bucks after she spearheaded…

HBO received a blessing of sorts from the TV Gods this past weekend with the premiere of megachurch comedy The Righteous Gemstones and the second episode of the second season of Succession. Coming in almost the same as the series high of the August 11 Season 2 debut, the Brian Cox-led global media moguls drama snared…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal's Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw zoomed into Korea on Wednesday, scoring the biggest opening day for the franchise, and through Thursday surpassed 1M admissions. Korea is the last market to release before China welcomes the spinoff next Friday, August 23. Through Thursday, the international…

SUNDAY UPDATE, writethru: Landing in line with Saturday's projections, Universal's Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw got off the starting block with an estimated $120M at the international box office. When including domestic, the global cume through Sunday is $180.8M. Across 63 offshore opening markets, the Dwayne…

5th Writethru Sunday AM after Saturday update: Universal’s Hobbs & Shaw saw a solid Saturday with an estimated $20.6M, which kept the pic on track toward its $60.8M opening this weekend. This is exactly where Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout opened a year ago, which carried us into August, and we can expect…