After last week’s star-studded and “Stormy” cold open, Saturday Night Live decided to dial back on all the politics and celebrate Mother’s Day…or at least they tried to.
In a precious and sweet cold open, many SNL cast members took some time on screen to pay gratitude to their mothers. One by one, they came out with…
FINAL UPDATE, Monday 3:11 PM: There’s a consensus out there: Disney/Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War will be the highest-grossing live-action film of the summer, with a final domestic around $450M. The only other title to rival it for the season is Disney’s own Finding Dory.Â
Working in Disney’s favor is not only Ci…
7th UPDATE, Monday, 1:44 PM: Without holdover The Jungle Book maintaining its dominance in theaters this weekend, the box office would have been in much sorrier shape than the the 53% drop compared to last year. That will all change on Thursday and through the weekend when another Disney movie comes into play: Marvel…
At 81, it is admirable that director Garry Marshall is still cranking out feature films. Unfortunately, since he started turning faux holidays into excuses for movies with Valentine’s Day in 2010, followed in 2011 by New Year’s Eve, he — and we — have been experiencing diminishing returns. But Valentine’s Day was…
Three wide releases won’t even dentThe Jungle Book‘s third weekend hold at No. 1, with the Disney live action title expected to rake in between $37M-$45M according to industry projections. Yesterday, the Jon Favreau-directed movie clicked past $200M stateside sending its global take to $563.6M worldwide.
As many…
“We’re not who the world thinks we are. We decide who we are.” Here’ s a trailer for Mother’s Day,Garry Marshall’s latest holiday-themed pic. Much like his Valentine’s Day and New Year’s Eve, this film tells intertwining stories about the lives of several mothers (and Mr. Mom) as the title holiday approaches. The…
EXCLUSIVE:Sarah Chalke has landed a role in Garry Marshall's Mother's Day, the Open Road Films ensemble comedy that’s set for an April release. She joins a cast that includes Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson and Jason Sudeikis and is set to play Gabi, who with her partner Max (the recently cast Cameron Esp…
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl star Olivia Cooke is among those in talks to play the female lead in Steven Spielberg’s upcoming adaptation of the novel Ready Player One, though we’re hearing that the deal isn’t final. Set in a bleak near future of extreme economic inequality, the book follows Wade Owen Watts, a poor…
Timothy Olyphant, Shay Mitchell, Britt Robertson, Jack Whitehall, Aasif Mandvi and Loni Love have joined the cast of Mother’s Day, the ensemble romantic comedy from Garry Marshall that Open Road has already slated for an April 2016 bow. Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson and Jason Sudeikis are already aboard…
Ella Anderson (Henry Danger) has joined the cast of Mother’s Day, opposite Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis and Kate Hudson. In the Garry Marshall-helmed pic that celebrates motherhood, Anderson will play Sudeikis’s daughter Vicky, who is celebrating only the memory of her mother. The young actress…
Open Road Films has picked up U.S. rights to Garry Marshall’s Mother’s Day, the latest in the director’s holiday movie series which includes New Year’s Eve and Valentine’s Day. The film, which stars Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson and Jason Sudeikis, follows the lives of several mothers leading up to the…
EXCLUSIVE: Here is a fresh movie package that will stir up some pre-July 4th fireworks among studios. Julia Roberts is set and Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, and Jason Sudeikis are in negotiations for Mother’s Day, a ensemble film that Garry Marshall is set to direct from a script by Anya Kochoff-Romano and Lily…
