the cute alien is helping the studio to be the first to cross $1B domestically in 2025 |
Saturday was kind to most movies in the top 10 and saw lifts over Friday, in particular Disney’s Lilo & Stitch and Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning which were respectively up 51% and 55%. Lilo & Stitch is coming in at $63 million for its second domestic frame, while Mission: Impossible 8 is at $27.3M.
Disney executives are skipping around the Burbank lot as Lilo & Stitch is catapulting the studio past the $1 billion mark at the domestic box office with a 30% market share. Disney is the first studio to pass that milestone YTD. Excluding 2020, Disney has grossed $1B+ domestically for 20 consecutive years since 2005, the only studio to accomplish this. >>>'Karate Kid' Underperforms
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WTF Just Happened? - A podcast institution is coming to an end. Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, which has had close to 2,000 episodes since its 2009 launch, will be turning off its microphones in the fall. Said Maron as he made the announcement, "It’s time, folks. It’s time." >>>1.1B Downloads 'Love Letter To Football' - Molly Manning Walker, whose debut feature How to Have Sex won the Cannes Un Certain Regard, is teaming with A24 and Channel 4 on her debut TV series. Major Players is about two girls on the brink of adulthood and their mission to start a women’s soccer team. The series is described as a “love letter to football and a funny and wild exploration of young people in London today, tackling topics from friendship to gender politics.” >>> Inspired By High School
Bridget Jones'...Emmy? - Mad About the Boy, the fourth installment in the Bridget Jones film series, was released exclusively on Peacock in the U.S., making it a TV movie eligible for Emmy Awards. The sequel has set its Emmy submissions, including Outstanding Television Movie and star Renée Zellweger who is looking to make awards history by earning both an Oscar and Emmy nomination for the same role. >>> Hugh Grant In The Mix, Too
UK Tax Credit Talk - The creator of Nordic drama Trom, who helped pave the way for the game-changing Faroe Islands tax credit, has proposed an “independent premium tier” UK credit that would “better reflect how great TV is actually made in 2025.” Torfinnur Jákupsson set out plans for a rebate that would support shows made for between £750,000 ($1M) and £950,000 per hour. >>> Scripted TV Crisis
Cannes' Doc Difficulties - Of the more than 20 films selected for Cannes' official competition in 2025, not a single one was a documentary. Given that only films in Competition are eligible for the Palme d’or, that means nonfiction films came in with no chance of winning the festival’s most coveted prize. >>>Only 2 Have Won The Palme d’Or
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When Tom Llamas finishes his first night as permanent anchor of NBC Nightly News this evening, he’ll go right on into his next assignment, Top Story, the nightly NBC News Now streaming newscast he’s anchored for nearly four years.
The rehearsals have included this key switch-off, as the show will move from one production team to the next. “Monday is the real test,” Llamas said. “It will be trial by fire. It’s never been done like that in this capacity but we have the best at 30 Rock and I know we are going to get there.” >>>Read The Interview |
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Following the success of Wicked Part 1, Ariana Grande and Universal have found their next project to team on. Sources tell Deadline that the Oscar nominee and Grammy winner is set to join the cast of the next installment in the Meet the Parents franchise.
Netflix has confirmed Lada Gaga’s cameo appearance in Wednesday's second season, which she shot in Ireland in one day.
Multi-platinum-selling country star Kane Brown will make his feature film debut opposite Taylor Lautner in The Token Groomsman, a new romantic comedy from director Natalie Simpkins.
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🎭 Patti LuPone has publicly apologized to fellow Broadway actors Kecia Lewis and Audra McDonald for comments she made in a recent New Yorker article, writing in an Instagram post, "I am deeply sorry for the words I used during The New Yorker interview, particularly about Kecia Lewis, which were demeaning and disrespectful."
⚖️ Three former members of the props department on ABC's medical drama Doctor Odyssey filed a lawsuit Friday against the network’s parent company Disney and producer 20th Television, alleging they were subject to sexual harassment on the set of the series and eventually retaliated against and terminated when they complained about it.
🖥️ Netflix made a slew of reveals at its Tudum event, including release dates for the final season of Stranger Things and movies Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and The Rip.
🔍 In a letter sent to former 60 Minutes EP Bill Owens and ex-CBS News and Stations boss Wendy McMahon, plus the Paramount Global board and the state Attorney General, the heads of the California Senate Energy, Utilities & Communications Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee in Sacramento began an investigation to see if Golden State bribery and unfair competition laws are about to be violated if Paramount will pay off Donald Trump to end POTUS’ $20 billion lawsuit.
🤝 Charmaine DeGraté, one of the few writers who has worked in the Star Wars, Marvel and Game of Thrones universes, has a new studio home. DeGraté has struck a first-look deal with Universal Television. |
by the numbers $611M - Worldwide B.O. to date for Disney's 'Lilo & Stitch' |
Obituaries 🕯️ Loretta Swit, who played Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on the iconic comedy series M*A*S*H, died at her home in New York City. She was 87. 🕯️ Alf Clausen, who won a pair of Emmys as composer for The Simpsons from 1990-2017 and also composed music for Moonlighting, ALF and many other TV shows and films, died Thursday of Parkinson’s disease. He was 84. 🕯️ Valerie Mahaffey, whose career on TV and film included Northern Exposure and spanned half a century, died May 30, her family announced. She was 71. 🕯️ Frances Doel, neé Frances Margaret Doel, writer-producer-executive known for her work with indie film legend Roger Corman, died May 26 after a long illness. She was 83. 🕯️ Renée Victor, the actress best known for her voice role as Abuelita in the beloved animated film Coco and an arc as Lupita on Showtime’s Weeds, died surrounded by her family at her Sherman Oaks, Calif. home, her agency told Deadline. She was 86. 🕯️2025 Hollywood & Media Obituaries Photo Gallery |
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Mon - Inaugural SXSW London; Gotham TV Awards
Tue - Love Island USA Season 7 premiere on Peacock
Wed - Tribeca Festival begins
Thu - NBA Finals tip off |
Life Imitating Art? - Vanessa Kirby – who plays a pregnant Sue Storm in The Fantastic Four: First Steps – sparked speculation that life might be imitating art when she repeatedly cradled her stomach while posing with co-stars Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Pedro Pascal and Joseph Quinn. |
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