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Ayushmann Khurrana has had a dream run at the box office in 2019 with three back to back hits in the form of Article 15, Dream Girl and Bala. The actor in a recent interview claimed 2019 to be an eye-opening year for him. He said he feels lucky to have worked with visionary directors who had something new to tell. Ayushmann said, "It has been an eye-opening year for me. This year has bolstered my belief that I should only back content that is extremely fresh, disruptive, unique and experimental because the audience expects that from me. It has been humbling to get the kind of love and adulation from the audience as well as from critics." He went on to add, "I strive to find films which I feel will entertain as well as be appreciated while delivering a message through its story. For me, this has been my biggest year and I have many learnings from how things have panned out for me. These are invaluable findings for me as an actor and I will apply these in my content choices going … [Read more...] about Actor Ayushmann Khurrana Opens Up About Success And The Onus Of Delivering Good Cinema

Saturday Night Live opened with a sketch that brought the political rift in the United States to the Christmas dinner table, with three very different families discussing the impeachment of Donald Trump and the 2020 election. The cold open, inspired by the stop-motion Christmas specials, also featured Kate McKinnon portraying Greta Thunberg. “It’s almost Christmas, and folks in America seem more divided than ever,” Aidy Bryant’s Frosty the Snowman told the audience. “But if we listened in to some dinner conversations tonight, I bet we’d find out we have more in common than we realize. And that we can listen, because I hacked into three Nest Home cams.” The cold open then shifts between the Christmas dinner conversations of three families: A progressive family in San Francisco, California, a conservative family in Charleston, South Carolina and a black family in Atlanta, Georgia where the patriarch (Kenan Thompson) rather debate Bad Boys 3 and … [Read more...] about ‘SNL’ Tackles Trump Impeachment, Divided Nation in Christmas Dinner Cold Open

6th UPDATE, 9 PM: Final numbers are in for The Lego Movie, The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, Pompeii and this year’s Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave. All have been updated below. Slave grossed another $7M over the weekend in 55 markets to bring its total international cume to $89.93M and its worldwide to $140.5M. Its top grossing market is the UK, followed by France and Spain where it had a terrific jump of 56% at the box office. It also had a nice 20% bump in Australia. It will open in Japan on Friday, the first territory to open since winning the Oscar. The other big winner at the Oscars with 7 statues, Gravity is still playing to bring its international cume up to $436.9M for a worldwide total of $707.3M. The breakdown of grosses territory by territory are below. 5th UPDATE, Monday 12:33 PM: Ride Along numbers have been updated as have some of grosses of  The Wolf Of Wall Street. Meanwhile, Dallas Buyers Club, which won Matthew McConaughey an Oscar is … [Read more...] about UPDATE: International Box Office: ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug’ Has No. 1 Japan Opening; ‘Lego’ Builds to $121M Overseas; ‘Frozen’ Crossing $1B Worldwide; ‘Robocop’ Takes $20.5M In China; More

The weekend sparkled with the limited release of the Safdie Brothers’ Uncut Gems starring Adam Sandler. A24’s crime thriller earned an estimated gross of $525,498, opening in five theaters in New York and Los Angeles with a per-screen average of $105,100. This is a shining moment as the limited opening of Uncut Gems makes for the biggest per-screen average opening ever for A24. The film is currently riding the wave of buzz from its festival runs as it continues to gain momentum with its 92% score on Rotten Tomatoes and A- Cinemascore. It also has a landslide of awards season love including multiple nominations from the Film Independent Spirit Awards, Gotham Awards, New York Film Critics Circle Awards and National Board of Review — all of which have Sandler on their Hest actor list. We hear it is playing very well in all five theaters to huge crowds with sold-out advance sales and boosted with Q&As. This could do nothing but good as Uncut Gems puts a … [Read more...] about ‘Uncut Gems’ Shines With Biggest A24 Per-Screen Opening, ‘A Hidden Life’ Debuts, Lionsgate Drops Limited ‘Bombshell’ Release – Specialty Box Office

Saturday Night Live is a topical program, and this week Avengers: Endgame supervillain Thanos dominated pop culture after President Donald Trump tweeted a campaign video featuring him as Thanos using his reality-warping snap to turn leading Democratic lawmakers into dust. With Thanos in the headlines and a real Avenger, Scarlett Johansson (aka Black Widow), hosting this week, it is no surprise that SNL featured an Endgame-themed opening monologue. Johansson started off with some self-deprecating one-liners. Noting that this is sixth time hosting, the A-list movie actress, who is engaged to SNL co-head writer/Weekend Update co-host Colin Jost said, “The sixth time is even more exciting than the fifth because you are not worried anymore. (If) the show’s bad, what are they going to do, fire my fiance? Oh no, what are we going to do without his paycheck?!” Related Story 'SNL': Scarlett Johansson-Hosted Episode Parodies 'Marriage Story' With Kellyanne & … [Read more...] about Scarlett Johansson Helps Save ‘SNL’ Cast From Thanos’ Snap In ‘Avengers’-Themed Monologue