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Talker Research, found that the average person wants to spend far less time at the movie theater going forward.While 92 minutes came out as the ideal average length, only two percent of the 2,000 U.S. adults polled thought a movie should be longer than two and a half hours.And just 15% want to sit through a movie that’s two hours or longer.In the past 60 days, the average respondent feels they’ve watched two movies that they felt were too long, with 23% having reluctantly sat through three or more.The poll also aimed to uncover how the average person feels about subtitles.According to the results, 15% say that whether subtitles should be on or off is a hotly debated topic in their household.

the Sun stated that a follow-up film to the 1985 cult classic about a group of adventurous kids was in the works, with the original cast expected to return. On Friday, Sept. 13, Plimpton, 53, who played Stephanie “Stef” Steinbrenner in the original movie — took to Instagram to deny the rumor.

Hugh Grant is taking a page out of the official rom-com diary.The 64-year-old, who is reprising his role as Daniel Cleaver in the fourth “Bridget Jones” flick, revealed that he shed some tears while reading the script for “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.”“I loved the script — it made me cry,” Grant told Vanity Fair Wednesday, “and I wanted to help with this one.”“But really there’s no part for Daniel Cleaver in it at all,” he added. “They wanted him in it, and in the end, they’d done something I wasn’t crazy about.”Grant “wrote some scenes” that director Michael Morris approved and placed into the plot.

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” with Angelina Jolie, has carved a niche in cool, edgy projects that are that rare combo of popular and prestigious. His performance here, scary and siren-like, is a smash.And Kidman is a natural fit for Romy, who starts out proper and rigid and then gets wilder — showing up unannounced and drenched in rain at Samuel’s bartending job and dancing at a club.Reijn, who has another scrumptious winner after “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” doesn’t decide whether we should be happy for Romy or not, or if what the exec is doing is liberating or reckless.

a madcap comedy about the 90-minute dash leading up to the 1975 debut episode of “SNL,” the show’s famously enigmatic creator is lionized. Michaels, the most important behind-the-scenes comedic force of the past 50 years, is placed on an innovator pedestal alongside the likes of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, only without their personal downsides.He’s portrayed as an optimistic young underdog with an improbably bold vision: a completely live, weekly sketch series starring inexperienced, unpolished nobodies in a desert island of time-slots.His “This is Sparta!” speech comes during the climax, when Lorne (Gabriel LaBelle) is grilled by NBC exec David Tebet (Willem Dafoe) about what “Saturday Night Live” exactly is.Lorne, finding his confidence in real time, tells doubting David it’s discovering a hot new comic at the back of a bar downtown, or being swept up by the music at a tucked-away jazz club.“It’s everything you think is going to happen when you move to the city,” says a then-30-year-old Michaels.

Angelina Jolie knows how to lay down the law.The 49-year-old’s sons Maddox and Pax, whom she has with ex Brad Pitt, worked hard on the set of their mom’s movie “Without Blood.”While at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival to promote the drama about the aftermath of war, Salma Hayek shared insight into the behind the scenes of filming.Maddox, 23, and Pax, 20, worked in the assistant director department, where they served as liaisons between the director and other departments on the film.“They work hard,” Hayek, 58, shared at the People/ Entertainment Weekly TIFF suite Sunday, per People. The “Fools Rush In” alum added that Jolie was “very professional with them” on set.“She’s demanding,” Hayek continued.

“Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band” at the Toronto International Film Festival. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy was there, too, faraway from his jurisdiction.

Hillbilly Elegy”) the viewer goes along with her for the ride, er, walk. “Nightbitch” is funny and lovably weird.A bigger issue than its oddball plot is that the film, which Heller also adapted, is one-note.

1985 cult classic about a group of adventurous kids is in the works, according to a new report from the Sun.The outlet reported that the cast members from the original movie are expected to return for the sequel. Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen, Kerri Green, Ke Huy Quan and Martha Plimpton starred in the film.Several cast members have died including John Matuszak, Anne Ramsey, Mary Ellen Trainor, Keith Walker and Lupe Ontiveros.

has been battling multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, since 2018.Onstage after the screening with Stevie Van Zandt, music producer Jon Landau and director Thom Zimny, Springsteen said that the unwavering support of Scialfa and the E Street Band are what make it possible for him to be a frontman.“You’re not alone,” Springsteen, 74, said. “I can look to my left, Stevie’s there. To my right, Nils [Lofgren] is there.

bombed at the box office when it came out in theaters in June.Like its predecessor, “Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter Two” got mostly negative reviews from critics upon its premiere at the festival on Saturday. Still, Costner confirmed that he plans to direct and star in the third film of the planned four-part “Horizon” series.“I have to hurry and not let the rock fall back downhill,” he said at the press conference for the second film, per Variety.

played to the hilt by Demi Moore (what’s wrong with her?!), is an Oscar winner turned fading fitness guru a la Suzanne Somers whose luxurious Hollywood home is plastered with giant portraits of her in her prime. After Elisabeth is abruptly fired from her TV job, “Sparkle With Elizabeth,” the gutted actress learns of an underground drug called the Substance that promises to create a younger, sexier doppelgänger of a person.

his romance with Taylor Swift, his mom, Donna Kelce, is also getting her own spotlight.Donna, 71, will appear in the upcoming Hallmark movie, “Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story.”The film’s first trailer was released as part of the Chiefs’ World’s Largest Tailgate event at Arrowhead Stadium – which Donna attended, along with the movie’s stars, Tyler Hynes and Hunter King. The movie focuses on Alana (King), who comes from a family of Chiefs fans. When the football team announces a “Fan of the Year” contest, she knows they’ll be the obvious choice.

an Instagram post. “There’s nothing like catching up with an old friend,” Costner wrote on his Instagram Thursday, sharing a picture of himself with Sarandon, 77, smiling together. The former “Yellowstone” star added, “Great to see you [Susan Sarandon] we’ve come a long way since our ‘Bull Durham’ days.”Sarandon attended Venice as an honoree of Better World Fund.

on his sudden departure from Todd Haynes’ NC-17 gay detective romance movie — just five days before the film was set to start filming.The 49-year-old was asked about his controversial exit during a press conference for his upcoming movie, “Joker: Folie à Deux,” at the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday. “I think if I do [speak about the reasoning], I’d just be sharing my opinion from my perspective, and the other creatives aren’t here to say their piece, and it just doesn’t feel like that would be right,” Phoenix explained.“I’m not sure how that would be helpful.

“Happy Sad Confused” podcast that Bridges, 74, refused to lock lips with the “Stranger Things” star when they were auditioning for the 1993 drama film “Fearless.”And Bridges did that for all the right reasons.“Jeff Bridges, who I love, wouldn’t kiss me because I was, like, too young,” Ryder said on the podcast episode released Monday.“At the end of the scene he was supposed to kiss me and I was like…,” Ryder continued, mimicking herself preparing to smooch Bridges.“And he, like, he kissed my forehead,” she recalled. “He’s like, ‘You’re, like, my daughter’s age.’ And I was like, ‘No!’ “Bridges was 43 when he starred in “Fearless.” Ryder, who was 21 at the time, did not land a role in the film.

Winona Ryder) dad and Delia Deetz’s (Catherine O’Hara) husband from the first flick has just been chewed up by a shark. Lydia’s spouse Richard, with whom she has a daughter named Astrid (Jenna Ortega), was killed on an Amazon trek.

new “Lord of the Rings” movies, it needs to happen sooner rather than later.In an interview with Big Issue published Monday, McKellen hinted that he won’t be acting forever.“I’ve just been told there are going to be more films and Gandalf will be involved and they hope that I’ll be playing him,” he said. “When? I don’t know.

Variety published Tuesday.Throughout the years, there have been talks about re-creating the iconic film, most recently with Channing Tatum, who announced his plans to remake “Ghost” in 2023. The original movie starred Moore (Molly Jensen) and the late Patrick Swayze (Sam Wheat) as a couple. After Sam gets murdered by his friend (played by Tony Goldwyn), he is left to roam the Earth as a powerless spirit.

The clip, released Tuesday, shows a young Trump (played by Sebastian Stan) in the car with power lawyer and fixer Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong). They are on the phone with a reporter about Trump’s plans to buy the Commodore Hotel (now know as the Hyatt Grand Central New York).“Donald, now that the lawsuit is behind you, what do you want to do next?” the reporter, Judy, asks on the call.“I’m planning on making it the best and the finest building in the city … maybe the country,” Trump says.Cohn, who is coaching the future president, tells him to talk up his vision for the hotel more.“In the world.

Venice Film Festival on Sunday where they played a clip of his and Julia Roberts’ infamous piano scene in “Pretty Woman,” prompting Gere to joke that the pair had “no chemistry.”“I haven’t seen that in a long time, too. It was a sexy, sexy scene,” he added, according to The Hollywood Reporter. According to Gere, the scene in the 1990 film was actually improvised after a conversation between Gere and director Garry Marshall.“This was never in the script,” he said.

raunchy role in “Saltburn” and for his Oscar-nominated performance in “The Banshees of Inisherin.” And, he’s also known for formerly being romantically linked with pop star Sabrina Carpenter. The hit British gangster drama, which streams on Netflix, ended in 2022 after six seasons. Earlier this summer, Netflix confirmed that series star, Oscar winner Cillian Murphy, would return for the movie, written by series creator Steven Knight.