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What to stream: Sabrina Carpenter holiday special, 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' and RosƩ goes solo
Read full article: What to stream: Sabrina Carpenter holiday special, 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' and RosĆ© goes soloSabrina Carpenter hosting a holiday variety music special on Netflix and Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw playing a spy and an assassin in the TV series āBlack Doves" are some of this weekās new streaming entertainment releases.
What to stream: Jelly Roll, 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,' Cate Blanchett and Charli XCX remixes
Read full article: What to stream: Jelly Roll, 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,' Cate Blanchett and Charli XCX remixesSean Wangās semi-autobiographical feature debut āDƬdiā and Jelly Roll's 22-track album āBeautifully Brokenā are some of this weekās new streaming entertainment releases.
Ken Page, who starred in 'Cats' on Broadway and voiced Oogie Boogie, dies at 70
Read full article: Ken Page, who starred in 'Cats' on Broadway and voiced Oogie Boogie, dies at 70Ken Page, a stage and screen actor who starred alongside BeyoncĆ© in āDreamgirls,ā introduced Broadway audiences to Old Deuteronomy in āCatsā and scared generations of kids as the voice of Oogie Boogie, the villain of the 1993 animated holiday film āThe Nightmare Before Christmas,ā³ has died.
āBeetlejuice Beetlejuiceā jolts box office with $110 million opening weekend
Read full article: āBeetlejuice Beetlejuiceā jolts box office with $110 million opening weekendāBeetlejuice Beetlejuiceā drummed up $110 million in its premiere weekend, becoming the second biggest September opening of all time.
āBeetlejuice Beetlejuiceā stars Winona Ryder, Michael Keaton attend Venice Film Festival opening
Read full article: āBeetlejuice Beetlejuiceā stars Winona Ryder, Michael Keaton attend Venice Film Festival openingThe 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival kicked off in Hollywood style with the world premiere of āBeetlejuice Beetlejuiceā Wednesday.
From 'Red October' to '30 Rock,' a look at Alec Baldwin's career on eve of 'Rust' shooting trial
Read full article: From 'Red October' to '30 Rock,' a look at Alec Baldwin's career on eve of 'Rust' shooting trialAlec Baldwin is going on trial for involuntary manslaughter after nearly 35 years in the public eye.
New Tim Burton āDreamlandā exhibit to open at McNay Art Museum
Read full article: New Tim Burton āDreamlandā exhibit to open at McNay Art MuseumA new Tim Burton exhibition called āDreamlandā is opening at the McNay to celebrate the 30th anniversary of āThe Nightmare Before Christmas.ā
How āThe Flash,ā many years in the works and beset by turmoil, finally reached the finish line
Read full article: How āThe Flash,ā many years in the works and beset by turmoil, finally reached the finish lineThe Flash may be one of the quickest superheroes in the comics, but getting a movie made based on the characters has been a marathon dating back, in some ways, to the late 1980s.
Kim Jones back on runway as Fendi channels celestial Rome
Read full article: Kim Jones back on runway as Fendi channels celestial RomeThe name Kim Jones dominated Paris fashion for a second week running as the indefatigable Briton who designs for Dior Menās was back on the runway to present his latest couture collection for Fendi.
Final 'Miss Peregrine' novel to be published in February
Read full article: Final 'Miss Peregrine' novel to be published in FebruaryNEW YORK ā We'll soon be saying farewell to peculiars, non-peculiars and ymbrynes: Ransom Riggs has written his final tale of āMiss Peregrine's Peculiar Children." Penguin Young Readers announced Tuesday that āThe Desolations of Devil's Acreā will come out Feb. 23, again featuring young Jacob Portman and the pipe-smoking headmistress Alma LeFay Peregrine. ā'The Desolations of Devilās Acre' was many years in the making,ā Riggs said in a statement about his sixth Peregrine novel. āI spent a decade in this world, building and tending to these characters, and itās a bittersweet thing to finally bid them goodbye. The first book, āMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children,ā was adapted by director Tim Burton into a 2016 feature film starring Eva Green, Samuel L. Jackson and Asa Butterfield, among others.
New this week: 'This Is Us,' Baby Yoda, 'The Craft' redone
Read full article: New this week: 'This Is Us,' Baby Yoda, 'The Craft' redone(NBC via AP)Hereās a collection curated by The Associated Pressā entertainment journalists of whatās arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. MOVIESā Many things will be different about Halloween this year, but the annual rush of horror films is much the same. It stars Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku as a Sudanese refugee couple finding new horrors in life in England. But Neon, the āParasiteā distributor, last week put a restored version into theaters and on Tuesday brings it to VOD. One is Natalie Margolin āThe Party Hop,ā which she wrote during quarantine in one week in early April.
Joel Schumacher, director of 'St. Elmo's Fire,' dies at 80
Read full article: Joel Schumacher, director of 'St. Elmo's Fire,' dies at 80FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2010 file photo, director Joel Schumacher attends the premiere of "Twelve" during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. A representative for Schumacher said the filmmaker died Monday, June 22, 2020, in New York after a year-long battle with cancer. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File)NEW YORK Joel Schumacher, the flamboyant journeyman director who dressed New York department store windows before shepherding the Brat Pack to the big screen in St. Elmo's Fire and steering the Batman franchise into its most baroque territory in Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, has died. A representative for Schumacher said the filmmaker died Monday in New York after a year-long battle with cancer.
Disney+ warns viewers that old movies may have āoutdated cultural depictionsā
Read full article: Disney+ warns viewers that old movies may have āoutdated cultural depictionsā(CNN) -- Viewers who signed up to stream Disney+ were greeted with disclaimers about racist and offensive content in some older movies. "Dumbo," for example, had this statement at the bottom of the movie's description: "This program is presented as originally created. Director Tim Burton chose to not include the original crow scene in his live-action remake of "Dumbo." Disney is not the first studio to add a disclaimer on old titles that feature racial prejudices or other troubling content. They may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in American society.