Pinewood Sells Minority Stake in Dominican Republic Studio to Lantica Media; New Sound Stage, Workshop Spaces Underway (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com Pinewood Studios has sold its minority stake in the Dominican Republic’s horizon water tank facility, which has been renamed Lantica Studios after its now sole owner,…

Amazon, MGM Accuse Original ‘Road House’ Screenwriter of Fraud in Countersuit

thewrap.com In a lawsuit filed Monday, Amazon Studios and subsidiaries MGM and United Artists sought to invalidate the lawsuit by R. Lance Hill, the writer of the original “Road House,”…

‘Road House’ Copyright Battle Becomes Bare Knuckles Brawl As Amazon, MGM & United Artist Countersue With Claims Scribe & Lawyer Lied To Feds

deadline.com The copyright battle over Road House and this year’s Jake Gyllenhaal– and Conor McGregor-starring remake has turned into a full-on bare knuckles legal brawl. If R. Lance…

‘Road House’ Copyright Dispute Sparks Countersuit From Amazon Studios, MGM

hollywoodreporter.com A legal brawl is underway over the Road House remake, with MGM Studios bringing counterclaims against the original film’s screenwriter over the rights to the 1986 screenplay…

National Nurses Week 2024 Food Deals

today.com Nurses have one of the toughest professions around, and it can be a thankless job at times. A week of food deals is hardly enough to repay health care heroes for all the…

Billy Magnussen, Sarah Gadon And Hamish Linklater Among Those Rounding Out Cast Of Imperative And Sony’s ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’

deadline.com Hamish Linklater, Billy Magnussen, Sarah Gadon, Brandon Perea and Yuvi Hecht have joined the cast of Imperative Entertainment and 30WEST’s uplifting romance A Big Bold…

Stock Market Earnings Briefs: Texas Roadhouse In Buy Zone, XPO Surges, After Q1 Reports

investors.com Several companies, including Texas Roadhouse (TXRH) and Fluor (FLR), made early moves in the stock market Friday after reporting first-quarter earnings and revenue. • Texas…

Streaming Ratings: ‘The Resident’ Climbs to No. 1

hollywoodreporter.com 'The Resident' star Matt Czuchry in the "One Bullet" episode of the medical drama. The doctors were in at the top of Nielsen’s streaming ratings for the beginning of April.…

Maya Rudolph, Jake Gyllenhaal Set to Host ‘Saturday Night Live’

thewrap.com “Loot” star Maya Rudolph will host “Saturday Night Live” on May 11 and “Road House” star Jake Gyllenhaal will host on May 18, NBC announced on Thursday. Rudolph, whose Apple…

‘SNL’ Sets Maya Rudolph and Jake Gyllenhaal as Hosts With Vampire Weekend and Sabrina Carpenter as Musical Guests

variety.com “Saturday Night Live” has set Maya Rudolph to host its May 11 episode alongside Vampire Weekend as musical guest, while the May 18 episode will by headlined by Jake…

Amazon Q1 Ad Revenue Leaps 24% to $11.8 Billion, Lifted by Prime Video’s Addition of Commercials

variety.com Amazon raked in $11.82 billion in advertising revenue for the first quarter of 2024, topping analyst expectations, fueled by the ecommerce giant’s move to serve ads by…

Amazon’s Q1 Ad Revenue Climbs 24% to $11.8 Billion

thewrap.com The launch of Prime Video’s ad-supported tier in January helped boost Amazon’s overall advertising services revenue for the first quarter of 2024 by 24% to $11.8 billion.…

‘Red One’ Down: How Dwayne Johnson’s Tardiness Led to a $250 Million Runaway Production

thewrap.com For more than two decades, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has nurtured a reputation as a hard-working, musclebound action-comedy movie star with considerable box-office drawing…

So bad, so good: the best worst movies

theweek.com Bad movies can be an art form. Sometimes you are in the mood to watch a challenging biopic or a depressing documentary, but other days you want nothing more than to turn off…

Luminate Streaming Ratings: ‘Fallout’ and ‘Baby Reindeer’ Stay on Top, ‘Under the Bridge’ Debuts Strong

variety.com “Fallout” was the most-streamed title of the week of April 19-25, per Luminate‘s weekly ranking of streaming originals. The video game adaptation was watched for 1.2 billion…

Patrick’s Roadhouse Is Closing: Its Namesake Actor Mourns the Loss

hollywoodreporter.com Los Angeles’ iconic seaside diner Patrick’s Roadhouse at the edge of Pacific Palisades may have slung its last hash brown. Amid a long-term lease negotiation, and after the…

Streaming Ratings: ‘3 Body Problem’ Repeats as Overall No. 1

hollywoodreporter.com Netflix’s 3 Body Problem delivered its second straight No. 1 showing among streaming titles, leading the rankings for the last week of March. The acquired series top 10 had…

Amazon MGM Studios’ Sue Kroll on Selling ‘Saltburn’ as a ‘Guilty Pleasure,’ Going with Gut Instinct and Listening to Fans

variety.com Sue Kroll, head of global marketing for Amazon MGM Studios, has worked on the launch of every kind of movie under the sun, from blockbusters such as “Harry Potter” and “The…