What to stream this weekend: Ariana Grande, 'Wonka,' Garth Brooks, animal queens and 'Poor Things'
This weekโs new streaming entertainment releases include a new album from pop princess Ariana Grande, a docuseries on National Geographic that follows female leaders of the animal kingdom and the Emma Stone-led โPoor Thingsโ landing on Hulu, just in time for the Academy Awards.
'Wonka' ends the year No. 1 at the box office, 2023 sales reach $9 billion in post-pandemic best
Hollywood closed out an up and down 2023 with โWonkaโ regaining No. 1 at the box office, strong sales for โThe Color Purpleโ and an overall $9 billion in ticket sales that improved on 2022โs grosses but fell about $2 billion shy of pre-pandemic norms.
What's streaming now: Doja Cat, 'Sex Education,' 'Spy Kids,' 'The Super Models' and 'Superpower'
This weekโs new entertainment releases include an album from Doja Cat, a reboot of Robert Rodriguezโs โSpy Kidsโ franchise with a film starring Gina Rodriguez and Zachary Levi and the critically-acclaimed โSex Education,โ one of Netflixโs most popular shows, returns for its fourth and final season.
'Dune,' 'The Power Of The Dog' lead BAFTA nominations
Sci-fi epic blockbuster โDuneโ and Jane Campionโs dark Western โThe Power Of The Dogโ lead the nominations for this yearโs British Academy Film Awards, with Benedict Cumberbatch, Leonardo DiCaprio and Lady Gaga among those up for acting awards.
'Dune,' 'CODA,' 'West Side Story' make AFI's 2021 top 10
The American Film Institute lined up behind many of the yearโs end-of-year Oscar contenders, naming Steven Spielbergโs โWest Side Story,โ Jane Campionโs โThe Power of the Dogโ and Adam McKayโs โDonโt Look Upโ among the yearโs 10 best films.
Super Bowl ads to watch: Sexy Alexa, Dan Levyโs M&M habit
It might not have seemed likely early in the pandemic, but the 55th Super Bowl Sunday is upon us yet again. Amazon shows off a sexy new body for its Alexa assistant, Dan Levy apologizes for eating M&M's and Bud Light Seltzer Lemonade makes a downpour of lemons a metaphor for 2020's troubles. AdInspiration4 โ Join Us "In what is surely a first in Super Bowl history, an ad for Inspiration4, a SpaceX supported all-civilian space mission touts a chance for viewers to join the mission. Dan Levy of โSchittโs Creekโ apologizes to the M&M anthropomorphic characters that are Super Bowl mainstays and says he promises not to โeat any more of their friends." And E-Trade, famous for the talking baby ads it ran in the Super Bowl from 2008 until they โretired" in 2014, is back in the big game with an undisclosed ad.
Hanks, Fonda and more stars amuse at Oscars rehearsals
(AP Photo/John Locher)LOS ANGELES, Calif. โ Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Will Ferrell are standing on the Oscars stage performing some hilarious material for a few dozen people who are in stitches watching the two comedians. Louis-Dreyfus and Ferrell are just a few of the stars who circulated in and out of the Dolby Theatre to rehearse Saturday, including Tom Hanks, Salma Hayek, Jane Fonda and Mahershala Ali. But the stars werenโt always confined to the stage, especially if they arrived a little early. Makeup artists Antonio Rael has been standing in for big stars for 34 years. Rael was talking about the stand-ins but that doesnโt mean some of the stars arenโt anxious as well.