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Edgar Wright’s Sci-fi Adventure Film Takes a Heavy Hit As Nearly 75% Drop Slashes Its Breakout Chances

Edgar Wright’s Sci-fi Adventure Film Takes a Heavy Hit As Nearly 75% Drop Slashes Its Breakout Chances

The Running Man North America Box Office Update (Photo Credit – Instagram) The Running Man is going through a rough ride at the box office, and the latest weekend made the situation even clearer. The movie has suffered a significant drop in its second weekend in the US, and the numbers have reached a point where the team behind it can only watch the slide. The film managed to keep its theatre count intact, but the commercial performance has fallen short of what the makers hoped for. The Stephen King adaptation never really gained momentum after its release on November 14, and the signs were already evident from the slow weekdays and the lukewarm global turnout. To make things worse, everything took a sharper turn this Friday when Ariana Grande’s Wicked For Good arrived with its record-breaking wave and swept away whatever small chance The Running Man had of building any sort of comeback. The arrival of the musical pushed the film further down the pecking order, and with a steep budget of $110 million …

Revisiting His Breakout Roles In A River Runs Through It & Legends Of The Fall

Revisiting His Breakout Roles In A River Runs Through It & Legends Of The Fall

Exploring Brad Pitt’s Roles In A River Runs Through It & Legends Of The Fall! ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) Brad Pitt stepped into Hollywood in 1988 with the film The Dark Side of the Sun. But because of the Croatian War, it couldn’t be released back then, and was postponed to 1997. However, in the meantime, his other movie, Cutting Class, hit the theatres in 1989 and people considered it as his debut film. Following that horror movie, he was seen in a supporting role in Happy Together. But, if anyone asks which film put Pitt on the global map, it would be Thelma & Louise, which was released in 1991. From the early 90s, Pitt took charge of his career and gave back-to-back hits. He soon became a well-known face in the industry who not only had the looks but could also act. With time, he honed his acting skills and became one of the greatest actors of his time in Hollywood. After the success of Thelma & Louise, Pitt’s breakout roles …

Dharmender, Sunny and a Bollywood-style twist – Meet Bobby aka Digvesh Rathi, IPL’s breakout spinner

Dharmender, Sunny and a Bollywood-style twist – Meet Bobby aka Digvesh Rathi, IPL’s breakout spinner

Dharmender, an assistant at a building-material shop, named his first two sons – what else, Sunny and Bobby. Later, he had a third one. Pleased, he called him Happy. Earlier this month, in his modest house, in one of the many buildings standing cheek by jowl in a bylane of Saboli in Northeast Delhi, Dharmender’s life turned into a feel-good sports movie. ‘Bobby’, who the world knows as Digvesh Rathi, has been this IPL season’s breakout spinner. Picked by Lucknow SuperGiants for Rs 30 lakh, the 25-year-old mystery spinner got the Player of the Match award for his figures of 1/21 in a high-scoring game against Mumbai Indians, in just his fourth game of his debut IPL season. That night, when Bobby was being interviewed, Dharmender shed tears, older brother Sunny had a lump in his throat and mother Manju was in the puja room. The family has been with Digvesh through his many struggles and made sacrifices too. Brother Sunny, a former left-arm spinner, was equally good at cricket. But Dharmender couldn’t afford two …

Why Will Season 3 of Max’s Breakout Series The Pitt Have Time Jump? Series Star Noah Wyle Explains

Why Will Season 3 of Max’s Breakout Series The Pitt Have Time Jump? Series Star Noah Wyle Explains

Max’s latest series, The Pitt, became a breakout hit with its debut season, garnering 10 million views across the globe. The series quickly sparked excitement for season 2, and the show creators started teasing what to expect.  Creator and showrunner R. Scott Gemmill told The Hollywood Reporter that the sophomore season would take place after a time jump of around eight or nine months. This news was a shocker for fans, given that the entire first season takes place in less than 24 hours.  Speaking to Deadline, Noah Wyle, who plays the protagonist, revealed why the team decided to incorporate the flash forward. “There’s no benefit in coming back quickly before everybody’s had a chance to have this experience really sink in,” he told the outlet. The time gap would allow Dr. Robby (Wyle) to recover from everything that went down in the first season. He teased that the experience would manifest itself in the behaviors of the characters, which would be “interesting” to watch.  He promised that the second season would be “different or …

When Samuel L Jackson’s Rehab Confession Helped Him Land His Breakout Role In This American Romantic Drama: “I’ve Done All Research”

When Samuel L Jackson’s Rehab Confession Helped Him Land His Breakout Role In This American Romantic Drama: “I’ve Done All Research”

How Did Samuel L Jackson Land His Breakout Role? (Photo Credit – Instagram) Samuel L Jackson’s shocking rehab confession really changed everything because just two weeks after getting clean, he landed Jungle Fever. And not just any role. He played Gator, a crack addict whose life spiraled out of control. For Jackson, it wasn’t a stretch. He had lived it. Jackson’s journey to that breakout moment was rough. Way before the fame and the Cannes award, the actor battled a serious drug problem that started early. By his mid-teens, he had tried acid. That escalated to weed, then heroin, cocaine, and eventually crack. His personal rock bottom came in the most sobering way, literally. One morning, his wife, LaTanya Richardson, and their 8-year-old daughter, Zoe, walked in and found him passed out on the floor, surrounded by drug paraphernalia. That moment forced everything into motion. Richardson told him flat-out she’d leave if he didn’t get clean. Samuel L Jackson checked into rehab for 28 days. He hated it. But by the end of it, he …

Adolescence: Breakout Star Owen Cooper Recalls ‘Mad’ First Day of School After Becoming Famous

Adolescence: Breakout Star Owen Cooper Recalls ‘Mad’ First Day of School After Becoming Famous

Owen Cooper experienced overnight fame with Netflix’s limited series Adolescence. The young actor left quite an impression on viewers with his performance in his first-ever professional acting role. Though Cooper achieved his breakout role playing Jaime, he’s still a 15-year-old schoolgoer. However, returning to school after becoming a star was a completely different experience. In an interview with The New York Times, he shared that the attention he received at school was bothersome. “It’s a bit mad,” he said. He acknowledged that the shocking reactions from his schoolmates died down a little the following day. Cooper remarked that it was only “a bit of a bother.” Stephen Graham, who played his dad on the show, was also present during the interview. “What kind of ‘bother’?” Graham asked, like a concerned parent. The young actor assured him it wasn’t anything serious—just kids coming up to him, shouting his name, and rushing off. “Ah, just some silly bollocks,” Graham replied with relief. In Adolescence, Cooper won praise with his portrayal of Jaime, a teenager convicted of murdering …

Did You Know Adolescence Episode 3 Was Breakout Star Owen Cooper’s First Acting and TV Set Experience? DEETS

Did You Know Adolescence Episode 3 Was Breakout Star Owen Cooper’s First Acting and TV Set Experience? DEETS

Netflix’s Adolescence has kept people hooked to the screens with its unique one-take filming style and incredible actors. The 15-year-old newcomer Owen Cooper especially caught people’s attention with his impeccable acting.  The breakout star played a pre-teen boy named Jaime, who is convicted of killing his classmate and grapples with its consequences. Each episode in the four-part drama is shot in real-time, capturing characters dealing with the aftermath of homicide.  The series’s third episode was particularly impactful as it captured a thrilling interaction between Jaime (Owen) and psychologist Briony Ariston (Erin Doherty). The entire 44-minute-long “chess match” scene was shot in one go.  Surprisingly, it was the young actor’s first ever scene on a TV set. Not only did Cooper nail his first-ever acting job, but he also improvised a moment that made it to the final cut.  Speaking to Tudum, director Phil Barantini revealed that Jaime’s yawn while listening to Ariston was unscripted and was a result of Owen’s long day on set. “I didn’t tell him to do that. That was the very …

Plainclothes review: Tom Blyth gives a breakout performance in gritty cop drama | Hollywood

Plainclothes review: Tom Blyth gives a breakout performance in gritty cop drama | Hollywood

Carmen Emmi’s directorial debut strikingly depicts the anxieties of a closeted gay undercover officer set in 90s America. LGBTQ+ rights have come a long way since then, but queerphobia is a thing that existed everywhere, way more rigidly in the confines of the police force. Tom Blyth plays Lucas, a young police officer who has the job to work as a sly undercover, use himself as a scapegoat to trap and arrest unsuspecting gay men in a local shopping mall. He is young and handsome, and seems to have a good reputation for getting the work done. But no one else must discover the anxiety of Lucas, the internal trapping he feels of hiding in plain sight. (Also read: Hal & Harper review: Lili Reinhart shines in Cooper Raiff’s absorbing and intimate family portrait) Tom Blyth is unforgettable in Plainclothes, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The premise Premiering at Sundance at the U.S. Dramatic Competition section, this is a sobering, gritty drama. Ethan Plamer’s camera is sharply focused on Lucas’ face at most …

Meet Sasha Bhasin: XO, Kitty S2 breakout star who plays Indian queer girl Praveena | Web Series

Meet Sasha Bhasin: XO, Kitty S2 breakout star who plays Indian queer girl Praveena | Web Series

XO, Kitty Season 2 has just wrapped up on Netflix, and while fans are eagerly hoping for a Season 3, one star is already stealing the spotlight. Sasha Bhasin plays Praveena, a queer Indian student at KISS (Korean Independent School of Seoul), and although her storyline with Kitty is short, fans have instantly fallen for her. Praveena’s fun-loving and lively personality has made her a standout, and it’s no surprise that viewers are already obsessed with her character and are rooting for more screen time. Anna Cathcart and Sasha Bhasin in XO Kitty season 2(Netflix) Who is Praveena aka Sasha Bhasin in XO Kitty? Bhasin was born in India and moved to Wellington, Florida, in the US when she was just a few months old. In the new season of the Korean adaptation of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, she plays Kitty’s (Anna Cathcart) new love interest, Praveena. According to Teen Vogue, Bhasin’s acting journey began at the age of 11 when she discovered a Disney Channel open call in Virginia. She later …

Marco Day 18 Hindi Box Office: Unni Mukundan’s breakout movie nets Rs 50 lakh on 3rd Monday

Marco Day 18 Hindi Box Office: Unni Mukundan’s breakout movie nets Rs 50 lakh on 3rd Monday

Headlined by Unni Mukundan, Marco has set the box office on fire and it doesn’t seem to extinguish it anytime soon. The Malayalam film also features Siddique, Jagadish, Abhimanyu S Thilakan, Kabir Duhan Singh, and Anson Paul. The action thriller has been become the talk of the nation with its ultra-violent theme and intense action sequences with many cinegoers giving a chance to witness the bone-chilling story of Marco D’Peter played by Unni Mukundan. Haneef Adeni’s latest helmer is scoring well in Hindi markets. Marco Earns Rs 50 Lakh On Third Monday In Hindi; Total Business Reaches A Little Over Rs 7 crore Produced by Shareef Muhammed, Marco has fetched Rs 50 lakh on the third Monday of its release at the Hindi box office. The cume collection of Unni Mukundan’s film now stands at Rs 7.7 crore. In the first week, Haneef Adeni’s directorial venture collected Rs 25 lakh in Hindi markets. The second week witnessed a growth in its collection as it earned Rs 3.95 crore. In the third week, the violent Malayalam film has minted Rs 3.5 …