‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever’ tops Friday box office, ‘Heretic’ comes in 2nd

‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever’ tops Friday box office, ‘Heretic’ comes in 2nd

The holiday season has its first box office hit. “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” a film based on Barbara Robinson’s bestselling 1972 book, earned $5 million at the box office on Friday. That was more than enough to score the movie a No. 1 finish, according to The Numbers. The comedy, starring comic Pete Holmes … Read more

Third ‘Venom’ film tops box office, Tom Hanks flick debuts third

Third ‘Venom’ film tops box office, Tom Hanks flick debuts third

You can’t keep a good symbiote down. “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 … Read more

‘Venom: The Last Dance’ takes top spot in weekend box office — but falls short of projections

‘Venom: The Last Dance’ takes top spot in weekend box office — but falls short of projections

NEW YORK — “Venom: The Last Dance” showed less bite than expected at the box office, collecting $51 million in its opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, significantly down from the alien symbiote franchise’s previous entries. Projections for the third “Venom” film from Sony Pictures had been closer to $65 million. More concerning, though, was the … Read more

‘Venom: The Last Dance’ earns a disappointing $22 million on first day of release

‘Venom: The Last Dance’ earns a disappointing  million on first day of release

That bites! The final chapter in Tom Hardy’s “Venom” trilogy finished Friday off with $22 million in day one box office receipts — more than enough to propel it to No. 1, according to The Numbers. The threequel’s first-day take likely means it will fall short of the $70 million insiders had projected it would … Read more

‘Venom: The Last Dance’ review: Moronic alien trilogy finally ends — good riddance

‘Venom: The Last Dance’ review: Moronic alien trilogy finally ends — good riddance

movie review VENOM: THE LAST DANCE Running time: 109 minutes. Rated PG-13 (intense sequences of violence and action, bloody images and strong language). In theaters Friday. So long, “Venom.” Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. After six years and three wretched films, the unspeakably stupid comic-book movie series about a disturbed … Read more

‘The Bikeriders’ review: Austin Butler stars in a pretty-good ‘Goodfellas’ riff

‘The Bikeriders’ review: Austin Butler stars in a pretty-good ‘Goodfellas’ riff

movie review THE BIKERIDERS Running time: 116 minutes. Rated R (language throughout, violence, some drug use and brief sexuality). In theaters. Think of “The Bikeriders,” starring Austin Butler, Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy, as a good-enough “Goodfellas.”  Martin Scorsese’s crime classic doesn’t pass the torch so much as the new gang movie passes the time. … Read more

‘Venom 3’ release date pushed to late 2024

‘Venom 3’ release date pushed to late 2024

The 2024 movie schedule is about to get shaken up. This week, Sony moved its Marvel anti-hero film “Venom 3” from July to November 8, 2024. Led by Tom Hardy as journalist Eddie Brock, who becomes inhabited by a wise-cracking alien symbiote, the currently untitled movie is a sequel to 2021’s “Venom: Let There Be … Read more

Princess Diana, Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle top celeb sex doll requests

Princess Diana, Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle top celeb sex doll requests

There’s a shocking number of raunchy royalists out there. A leading adult toy company has revealed that Princess Diana, Princess Kate and Meghan Markle are among their top celebrity sex doll requests. Inferno Dolls say they are inundated with requests for lookalike life-size playthings — but the company’s CEO says “taste” and “decency” prevents him … Read more

Nicolas Cage reveals he’s no ‘Star Wars’ fan: ‘I’m a Trekkie, man’

Nicolas Cage reveals he’s no ‘Star Wars’ fan: ‘I’m a Trekkie, man’

Nicholas Cage won’t be giving “Star Wars” fans any new hopes. The notoriously eccentric star has revealed that he has no plans to join the “Star Wars” franchise, despite one star’s attempts to recruit him. “I’m not really down,” the “Moonstruck” actor told Yahoo Entertainment. while promoting his new western film “The Old Way.” To … Read more