I have written in the past about the duplicity of the Ontario Liberal budgets in speaking only of net debt. The 2018-19 provincial budget was released on March 29 and I will comment briefly on how...
A crowded week of new releases at the UK box office didn’t disrupt Peter Rabbit, which put in another impressive shift, adding £3.2m in its fourth weekend, a drop of 45%. The film is now up to £32.
Despite facing the challenge of Steven Spielberg blockbuster Ready Player One, Peter Rabbit exploited the start of the Easter school holiday to generate brilliant box office, holding on to the top...
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| 4/3/2018
| Ryan Parry West Coast Correspondent For Dailymail.com
Hollywood actor Colin Farrell has checked into a luxury $36,000-a-month rehab center in the Arizona desert, DailyMail.com can reveal. The elite Meadows clinic is popular among celebrities and has...
Peter Rabbit became Sony Pictures’ widest ever UK release, playing in 694 locations this three-day Easter holiday weekend (the UK has roughly 760 cinemas) and staying top of the box office chart.
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| 4/3/2018
| Jessica Rach For Mailonline
A bathroom is supposed to be a safe haven; one of the few places where you can get a moment to yourself. However, this wasn't the case for a handful of unlucky Imgur users, who got the shock of...
Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, with what amounts to 85% of its international footprint stomping across the globe, has grossed $128M in 62 territories. Warner Bros.
She'll next be seen on the big screen reprising her role as Black Widow n Avengers: Infinity War. But Scarlett Johansson is seeking a major change of pace with a just announced new project.
The Avengers star will work with the Thor: Ragnarok director on his next movie Jojo Rabbit for Fox Searchlight. Jojo Rabbit is set in World War II and follows a German boy in Hitler’s army who...
Easily resisting the challenge of mega-budget sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising, Peter Rabbit was a convincing winner at the box office in its second week. Takings fell by a reasonable 37% from a stellar...
The Los Angeles Conservancy is back with the 32nd season of its “Last Remaining Seats” festival, and the full lineup for the event (which begins June 2) has been revealed.
John Oliver definitely had fun making Mike Pence’s rabbit the star of a gay children’s book, probably as much fun as he did mentioning how Pence might have traded his junk for a marshmallow peep.
While Black Panther extends its run at the top of the US box office into a rare fifth week, in the UK the Marvel superhero hit succumbs to a well-aimed kick from the family-friendly Peter Rabbit.
Former FBI Director James Comey’s forthcoming memoir is already a best-seller a month before anyone has read it, but it’s not selling as well as a parody book about a homosexual rabbit.
After discussing, at length, how very right Omarosa got it when she warned her Celebrity Big Brother housemates they’d be begging for Donald Trump’s return were he impeached and Mike Pence became...
Beatrix Potter’s children’s books may have been out of copyright since 2014, but that’s no excuse for this manure-scented take on her best-known tale. Using a crass mix of CGI and live action, this...
Taika Waititi’s been keeping busy since Thor: Ragnarok blew up at the box office. He’s producing the TV series for What We Do in the Shadows and The Breaker Upperers, plus he’s doing a stop-motion...
After the massive success of Marvel Studios’ “Thor: Ragnarok,” writer/director Taika Waititi has a golden ticket to do whatever he wants next. And according to The Wrap, his next film is a satire in...
Whenever Fox Searchlight Pictures ends up releasing Taika Waititi’s “Jojo Rabbit,” it will give viewers the chance to see a version of Adolf Hitler they most likely never have before.
Taika Waititi has his next role lined up, and it’s a doozy. The Thor: Ragnarok filmmaker will play an imaginary Adolf Hitler in the film Jojo Rabbit. Waititi also wrote and will direct the satire,...
Prepare to enter a valley both uncanny and unfunny with this tiresome film whose director and co-writer, Will Gluck, appears to have responded to an urgent question echoing inside his own head:...
“Thor: Ragnarok” director Taika Waititi will star in his upcoming movie “Jojo Rabbit” as an imaginary version of Adolf Hitler, Waititi told TheWrap. Waititi’s Hitler is an imaginary friend to the...
Mail Online
| 3/11/2018
| Connie Rusk For Mailonline
He stars as the leading role in the CGI animation of Peter Rabbit. And James Corden has revealed he went to great lengths to get into character to play the eponymous hero.
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Following God’s Own Country, The Levelling, and The Goob, Clio Barnard’s new Yorkshire farming drama Dark River is the latest in a recent run of British movies giving us the hard truth about modern...
The Peter Rabbit movie has been released. However, it has been met with a fair amount of criticism, not least because of a scene in which the titular character causes Thomas McGregor to go into...
In this week’s edition of the Variety Movie Commercial Tracker, powered by the TV advertising attention analytics company iSpot.tv, Columbia Pictures claims the top spot in spending with “Peter...
A new film interpreting the works of British children’s author Beatrix Potter has come under fire, reports The Guardian, for depicting what has been called “allergy bullying” in a scene.
There’s a scene in Sony Animation’s new Peter Rabbit in which the title bunny and his critter buddies try to take down their human rival by weaponizing blackberries — knowing he is allergic to them.
Sony Pictures and the filmmakers behind the new children’s movie Peter Rabbit have issued an apology after facing backlash over a controversial part of the film that same say makes light of food...
They wrote: “The new movie, Peter Rabbit, has a scene that may be disturbing to young viewers who have a food allergy. A character is intentionally attacked with his allergen, leading to anaphylaxis...
"Peter Rabbit" features a scene in which a human character suffers an allergic reaction. It's brought on purposefully as a way to harm the character. Movie - Backlash - Parents - Scene The movie is...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Peter Rabbit" filmmakers and the studio behind it are apologizing for insensitively depicting a character's allergy in the film that has prompted backlash online....
“Peter Rabbit” has garnered mixed reviews from critics, but the new cinematic update of Beatrix Potter’s classic children’s book series is getting a definitive two thumbs down when it comes to a...
“Peter Rabbit” has garnered mixed reviews from critics, but the new cinematic update of Beatrix Potter’s classic children’s book series is getting a definitive two thumbs down when it comes to a...
“Peter Rabbit” hasn’t exactly endeared itself to critics, with the newest take on Beatrix Potter’s beloved children’s book garnering mixed reviews. One other group that isn’t a fan of the film:...
“Fifty Shades Freed” is whipping the competition into submission in its first weekend of release, dominating the weekend box office with a domestic debut of $38.
LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – Universal’s opening of “Fifty Shades Freed” is dominating North American moviegoing with a solid $38.8 million opening at 3,678 locations as the business awaits the...
Peter Rabbit film criticised for depicting 'allergy bullying' The new Peter Rabbit film is facing a boycott over a scene in which a gang of bunnies attack a man with blackberries, knowing he is...
Universal’s last installment of the “Fifty Shades” franchise, “Fifty Shades Freed,” is poised to dominate the box office in its opening weekend, with $40 million from 3,768 North American locations.
SATURDAY AM UPDATE: Universal's Fifty Shades Freed led the way on Friday with an estimated $18.5 million with an expectation for a $40 million opening weekend. The film scored a "B+" CinemaScore.
After weeks of new releases either losing outright to or just barely beating Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle at the domestic box office, this weekend saw three new releases jump headfirst into the...
The funniest scene Rose Byrne and Domhnall Gleeson shot together for Peter Rabbit involved one of them almost choking, a lot of snot, and an accidental headbutt! “The scene by the fire, that was...
It’s hard to make sense of “Peter Rabbit.” Based on Beatrix Potter‘s beloved, century-old British literary mainstay, this CG/live-action hybrid adaptation enlists Will Gluck, the American...
Based on the popular fictional story tale by Beatrix Potter, the film production of "Peter Rabbit" is scheduled to hit theaters on February 9. The new flick follows Peter as he and his gang of furry...
It might not be exactly what Beatrix Potter had in mind for a film version of her classic children’s book, but Sony Animation’s frenetic and entertaining new age telling of the tale works well...
From co-writer/director Will Gluck, Peter Rabbit tells the story of the mischievous and adventurous rabbit hero in the blue jacket that was made famous in the books by Beatrix Potter.
James Corden is looking for an Oscar nod with his performance in the new “Peter Rabbit” film. The lead voice actor for the upcoming animated film, Corden explained how “the part becomes...
The family films that have had a lot of success adapting classic kids’ books haven’t been the ones that try to be hip and cool. If you look at movies like Fantastic Mr.
Chances are, Beatrix Potter would be flattered to know that one day, more than a century after she published “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” her most beloved character would be reinterpreted on screen...