James Cameron is calling out the Academy Awards. “I don’t think about the Academy Awards that much,” the filmmaker, 71, told The Globe and Mail on Friday. “Intentionally, I don’t think about that at this point. I don’t try to make a movie to appeal to their sensibility… they don’t tend to honor films like ‘Avatar’ or films that … Read more
Actor Jason Momoa, famous for playing “Aquaman” and the barbarian warlord Khal Drogo in “Game of Thrones,” revealed on Monday how he changed his mind about his son joining the film industry and getting cast in an upcoming “Dune” sequel. Momoa spoke on the “SmartLess” podcast about how he was initially hesitant about allowing his … Read more
King clean-cut. “Aquaman” star Jason Momoa, 45, flaunted a clean-shaven look for the first time in six years as he prepares for his next role. “God damn it, I hate it,” Momoa quipped in an Instagram reel posted on Wednesday. Jason Momoa shaved off his signature beard. Jason Momoa/Instagram The “Game of Thrones” actor transformed … Read more
Josh Brolin has a bone to pick with the academy. The actor, 56, shared that the Oscars got it wrong when they failed to nominated his “Dune” director Denis Villeneuve for the 2021 sci-fi movie. This year, Villeneuve is up for consideration for the award again for “Dune: Part Two.” The sequel received better reviews … Read more
Parents welcoming children in 2024 are ditching baby books and turning to the headlines to name their newborns. Parenting site BabyCenter analyzed the real-time data for hundreds of thousands of names shared by parents in their user community to determine how today’s trends are inspiring preschool roasters. And while the year’s not over yet, BabyCenter’s … Read more
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Beach-goers were aghast after a bloodsucking sea beast the size of a child washed ashore in the UK, sparking comparisons to the supersized sandworms from “Dune.” A photo of the parasitic critter made waves on Facebook as viewers attempted to guess its identity. “It was like a hugely oversized leech with a sucker full of … Read more
Herbert intended these linguistic resonances to communicate the connections between our world and the world of his novels — which is our world some 20,000 years in the future. “If you want to give the reader the solid impression that he is not here and now, but that something of here and now has been … Read more
“Kung Fu Panda 4 ” stayed at the top of the North American box office in its second weekend in theaters. The Universal and DreamWorks Animation movie earned $30 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. The franchise featuring the voice of Jack Black is responsible for over $1.9 billion at the box office … Read more
Zendaya has a red-carpet reputation almost iconic enough to rival her award-winning work as an actress. With the help of longtime friend and stylist Law Roach, the star has been storming red carpets, photo calls and front-row seats at fashion weeks for years, looking flawless every time. Dishing on his latest work for Zendaya’s “Dune: … Read more
In the “Dune” movies, a gigantic sandworm can rise from the desert and devour soldiers and military vehicles in its gaping maw. In real life, humans watching movies devour popcorn. These two ideas have been combined to spawn the “Dune” popcorn bucket, a sandworm-shaped tub that is having a cultural moment. The bucket arrives on … Read more
LOS ANGELES — As Universal Pictures prepared for a big night at the Academy Awards with “Oppenheimer,” the studio also celebrated the No. 1 debut of “Kung Fu Panda 4,” which collected $58.3 million in domestic theaters over the weekend, according to estimates Sunday. “Kung Fu Panda 4,” the first film in the DreamWorks Animation … Read more
A panda with mad martial arts skills displaced the sandworm Friday. “Kung Fu Panda 4” pulled in a whopping $19.4 million on its opening night to take the top slot in Friday’s box office, according to IMBD’s Box Office Mojo. The latest Jack Black-led installment of the franchise pushed another sequel, “Dune 2,” down to … Read more
They’ve landed on Arrakis. The new “Kardashians” promotional teaser for Season 5 looks an awful lot like “Dune” — the franchise that Kylie Jenner’s boyfriend, Timothée Chalamet, happens to star in. Dressed in beige tones, Kourtney, Kim and Khloé Kardashian, as well as Kendall, Kylie and Kris Jenner, gather around a campfire in the desert, … Read more
If you turned on MTV for any length of time in 2001, you almost certainly saw Christopher Walken flying around the lobby of a Marriott in Los Angeles. Even in an era when music videos were far more hotly discussed than they are now, it was a weird sight. Walken’s trim shock of gray hair … Read more
In a top-floor atrium in downtown San Francisco on Thursday evening, tech workers from Google, Slack, X and Mozilla mingled next to a pair of cardboard cutouts of Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya. Dustin Moskovitz, a Facebook founder, chatted as others sipped from cannily named cocktails like the Fremen Mirage (gin, coconut Campari, sweet vermouth) and … Read more
Movie theaters were looking for a savior and “ Dune: Part Two ” is delivering on the promise. Armed with sandworms, big screen spectacle and the star power of Timothée Chalamet, Denis Villeneuve ’s science fiction epic stormed the North American box office this weekend earning $81.5 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. Internationally, it earned $97 million, bringing … Read more
When I first encountered an image of the popcorn bucket that AMC Theaters is selling to promote Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two,” I stared at it for a beat trying to process what I was looking at. The item is supposed to represent a giant sandworm, the beasts that slither under the desert planet Arrakis. … Read more
Moviegoers were thirsty for this sci-fi desert sequel. “Dune: Part Two” landed in first place in the box office on its opening day, with a solid $32.2 million in sales, according to IMDB’s Box Office Mojo. The Post called the film, which is the second of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel “Dune” by Frank Herbert, a “sci-fi triumph … Read more
This week sees the release of “Dune: Part Two,” the second installment in Denis Villeneuve’s eye-popping adaptation of the 1965 Frank Herbert novel. “Dune” was also adapted in 1984, by David Lynch, who hated his version (or the cut that made it to theaters, anyhow) so much that he disavowed it. Perhaps you’ve seen the … Read more