Films: Last News

An annual study conducted by the University of California, Los Angeles’ Center for Scholars & Storytellers found that over half of the teenagers who were surveyed prefer watching stories about friendship, rather than romance or sex, in entertainment media.“Nomance,” has its being called, is in a much higher demander with teenagers than in 2023.The “Reality Bites: Teens and Screens” survey was conducted in August 2024 and involved 1,644 10-to-24-year-olds participants. People ages 10 to 13 were not asked about sexually explicit content.63.5% of the total adolescents said they “strongly agree” in wanting to see “more content that focuses on platonic relationships/friendships” in the shows and movies they’re watching.That number was 51.5% last year.

Venom: The Last Dance” earned another $6.6 million in ticket sales during its second week in theaters, and holds steady at No. 1, according to The Numbers.The film stars Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, a journalist forced to share his body with a demonic-looking alien symbiote that feasts on human brains.

Joker: Folie a Deux” and “Megalopolis” played on thousands of screens around the country while Clint Eastwood’s engrossing new film about justice, “Juror No. 2,” will only grace 50. The swell courtroom drama could very well be the 94-year-old “Million Dollar Baby” director’s swan song, though he hasn’t said as much.

need to know.The 2000 American teen drama quickly became a cult classic, with a sequel released in 2008. Now, 16 years later, Schull is getting candid on if fans can expect “Center Stage” to turn into a trilogy. “There is a world,” the “One Tree Hill” alum exclusively teased to The Post at the Alzheimer’s Association’s Dance Party to End ALZ on Sunday.

Tom Hanks revealed the one age he wouldn’t choose to be again.The actor was recently asked by “Entertainment Tonight” if there was a specific age he portrayed in his new movie “Here” that he’d want to relive. “No. Look, I’m 68 years old.

The Hollywood Reporter that the film’s idea is “total Hollywood bulls–t.”Written by David Scarpa, the sequel to the Russell Crowe-led 2000 historical epic showcases the world over two decades later.Paul Mescal plays the grown-up Lucius Verus II, the son of Crowe’s character, Maximus, whom Spencer Treat Clark portrayed in the original film. Lucius is the son of Lucilla (Connie Nielsen) and nephew of Commodus, who was originally played by Joaquin Phoenix.In the film’s trailer, one scene shows the Colosseum in Rome being flooded and filled with sharks.“I don’t think Romans knew what a shark was,” said Bartsch, who boasts degrees from Princeton, Harvard and UC Berkeley.Bartsch did note that the Romans really did fill the Colosseum with water for various naval battles.Another scene from the film shows rhinos charging into the Colosseum, which Bartsch notes is only partially accurate.Bartsch explained that Martial, a Roman poet, “wrote a poem in 80 AD about a rhinoceros tossing a bull up to the sky” — however it would have been a single-horned rhino and not a two-horned one shown in the film.The historian noted that Scott got the news element wrong in the film, explaining that Romans did not read newspapers while sipping tea in a cafe, because newspapers were invented some 1,200 years later.“They did have daily news — Acta Diuma — but it was carved and placed at certain locations,” she told the outlet.

Instagram on Wednesday of himself sitting in front of a logo for the children’s retail store Toys ‘R’ Us.The actor, 44, implied the shot and setup was part of a shoot for his upcoming movie “Roofman.”“Just broke out of prison and into a Toys R Us… how was your day. Hehe #ROOFMAN dirty and tired but still a Toys R Us kid,” Tatum captioned the post.

Instagram on Wednesday of herself recreating the getting ready scene from the iconic 2004 rom-com, “13 Going on 30.”Whitney Houston’s song “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” played in the background, as it did in the movie, as the star applied lip gloss, cream, powder and eyeliner. Garner, sporting a white silk robe, hilariously zoomed in to show the moisturizer was retinol cream and threw on her glasses to help her apply the eye makeup.The “Family Switch” actress, who played the role of Jenna Rink in the flick, then took to her closet where she looked confused as she took a pair of Spanx out of a drawer.It was time for a wardrobe change as Garner switched into the same colorful dress Jenna wore to her work party in the film.But this around, Garner ditched the blue heels for a more comfortable alternative.

not a good thing.The lifestyle guru and self-made former billionaire has slammed the film “Martha,” which started streaming Oct. 30 on Netflix, as “lazy” and “not the story that makes me, me” at the Retail CEO Influencer Forum in September. “It’s more about my stupid trial, which was so unfair.”And this week, Stewart doubled down in an interview with the Times, insisting that director RJ Cutler focuses too much on her 2004 insider trading trial in the movie’s second half.

told Horror’s Hallowed Grounds’ Sean Clark on YouTube.“A good thing came out of it, because none of us were prepared for the effect,” he added. “It was an unbelievably terrifying, visceral effect. And we knew we were in business — that we were gonna have a scary movie even before we got to a scary story.”Shatner, however, was none too pleased when he saw his roughed-up reflection on-screen in Carpenter’s masterpiece.“I thought, ‘Is that a joke? Are they kidding?’,” the 93-year-old “Star Trek” actor said on his YouTube Channel.Watching 1981’s “Halloween II,” at first glance it appears that Myers’ mask got an artistic revamp.

M. Night Shyamalan’s latest twisty thriller is finally streaming. This buzzy 2024 movie stars Josh Hartnett as a caring dad who takes his daughter to a Taylor Swift-like concert.

The Irishman” and “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” looks adequate as ever. But the actor’s rigid movement, Mr. Rogers demeanor and noticeably 68-year-old voice don’t fit a teenager.

“Happy Sad Confused” podcast.When asked what the worst note she was ever given on a shoot was, Kendrick shared an encounter with an unnamed director who encouraged her to go off script then belittled her in front of everyone. “I remember a director once in a room full of 100 extras or something being like, ‘Hey, on this next one just try something.

book of the same name by Warren Zanes. The story is about the making of “Nebraska,” Springsteen’s 1982 album. “There’s just so much footage,” White told GQ.

Billy Crystal has revealed that he no longer has his character’s iconic chunky white knit from the 1989 rom-com “When Harry Met Sally.”“I got a lot,” the 76-year-old told People on Saturday after being asked if he still has clothes from the film “I’m a little bit of a clothes horse. The one I don’t have is that sweater, and I had it for years, the one from ‘Harry and Sally’ – the real one.”As for where Crystal thinks the sweater could be? He admitted: “I made a donation.”“I believe it was to UCLA’s theater department with tons of clothes for costumes,” continued the comedian.

died at 68 from acute intoxication from drug use, including cocaine. A rep for the NY Chief Medical Examiner’s office told TMZ Thursday that Salazar died from the combined effects of cocaine, cyclobenzaprine — a muscle relaxant — and diphenhydramine, which is a type of antihistamine.

the pope movie “Conclave,” in theaters Friday, and wanted to spend time with the real deal.Head-first Fiennes went a bit further than that.“I get a text from Ralph, who had met a cardinal, and the cardinal had invited him to his chambers,” Oscar-winning director Edward Berger told The Post. “On the bed in his chamber was laid out the cardinal robe,” Berger continued, “and then Ralph sent me a [photo] of him … in those robes, in the real robes, with a beaming smile … so proud.”There was a problem, however, because Berger, who directed Best International Feature winner “All Quiet on the Western Front,” was going in a different direction with the official’s outfits.“The costume designer and I knew that we don’t love the way the present-day cardinal robes look,” he said.

one person vomited and eleven people walked out during a special UK film screening.“If the #Terrifier3 event impacted you please let us know if you need more support at this time,” the company posted on X, formerly Twitter. Another movie of the moment, “The Substance,” a body-horror flick about an aging aerobics-loving actress (Demi Moore) who takes a (you guessed it) substance to unlock an enhanced version of herself, has also inspired some pretty guttural reactions.

PEOPLE published Wednesday. “I’m 72 — it has to stop at some stage,” Neeson said.

“Woman of the Hour,” tells the chilling and unbelievable story of serial killer Rodney Alcala, who appeared on the hit game show “The Dating Game” in 1978, amid his murder spree. This earned him the moniker “The Dating Game Killer.” Now streaming on Netflix, the movie – which Kendrick, 39, also stars in – follows the events around Alcala’s appearance on the show. “The Dating Game” premiered in 1965 and although ABC dropped it in 1973, it continued in syndication through 1999.

The Journal of Psychology in August found that superhero movies can promote prosocial behavior — actions that benefits other people or society as a whole. Researchers wanted to see how the films that are typically filled with violence affect viewers in terms of empathy and moral reasoning.