News

After 16 long weeks of backflips, pliés and high kicks, So You Think You Can Dance reached the end of its 14th season on Monday night, at last bestowing the title of America’s Favorite Dancer upon one of the four finalists.

But before we could find out whether Koine, Taylor, Lex or Kiki was the Season 14 champ, Sytycd stayed true to its finale form, offering up a two-hour stroll down memory lane before unleashing a confetti shower upon the eventual winner.

In the meantime, here’s how those 120 minutes were filled:

RelatedFall TV 2017: Your Handy Calendar of 100+ Season and...

After just eight days in release, WB and New Line's It became the highest grossing September release of all-time, two days later it added another $40 million to that total for an impressive $60 million second weekend and nearly $220 million in just ten days. The horror film's performance vastly overshadowed the weekend's two new wide releases that saw Lionsgate and CBS Films's American Assassin deliver respectable results in second place while Paramount's release of Darren Aronofsky's mother! suffered greatly, finishing in third and receiving a disastrous "F" CinemaScore from opening day audiences. With an estimated $60 million this weekend, WB and New Line's It brought its domestic cume to $218.7 million after just ten days in release. As already mentioned, that makes it the largest September release ever, topping 1986's Crocodile Dundee ($174.8m). That number, of course, is not adjusted for inflation. Adjusted for inflation, however, It still finishes within the top...

Friday Am Update: Lionsgate's release of CBS Films' American Assassin brought in $915,000 from Thursday night previews in 2,400 locations beginning at 7Pm. This compares favorably to John Wick, which kicked off its run to a $14.4 million opening with $870k from Thursday screenings. Paramount's mother! delivered $700k from Thursday previews beginning at 7Pm in ~2,000 locations, which is behind the $855k for Crimson Peak, which we used as one of our comps in our weekend preview below. It is, however, an improvement on the $520k Nightcrawler brought in before it opened with $10.4 million back in October 2014. We'll take a closer look at things tomorrow morning once Friday estimates come in. For now you can check out our weekend preview below.Weekend Preview: Following a record breaking opening last weekend, WB and New Line's It will reign supreme once again this weekend, pushing the horror film's domestic gross near record heights after just ten days of release.

Saturday Am Update: With an estimated $22.1 million on Friday, War for the Planet of the Apes is on its way to a #1 finish at the weekend box office, though it's looking to fall short of Mojo's forecast. Current industry expectations are for a finish anywhere from $56-58 million, though that could bump up a bit considering it's still playing a bit ahead of where Kong: Skull Island was after it brought in $20.1 million on its first day and went on to gross $61 million. Even better, War received an "A-" CinemaScore from opening day audiences compared to Kong's "B+". Meanwhile, Spider-Man: Homecoming delivered an estimated $13.6 million in its second Friday, looking to call closer to 60% in its sophomore frame than 50% for a weekend around $47.5 million. Expanding this weekend, Lionsgate and Amazon's The Big Sick brought in an estimated $2.47 million from 2,597 theaters (+2,271) and is looking at a weekend around $8 million, again short of Mojo's forecast.

Saturday Am Update: Wonder Woman is looking strong out of the gate, delivering an estimated $38.85 million on Friday, which includes $11 million from Thursday previews. This is nearly identical to the performance of the first Guardians of the Galaxy, which brought in $11.2 million from previews, delivered $37.8 million on Friday and ultimately opened with $94.3 million, suggesting a $95-100 million opening is in the offing. Wonder Woman received an "A" CinemaScore from opening day audiences, which was 52% female vs. 48% male. Overseas, Wonder Woman is now up to $47.1 million, bringing the worldwide cume to $85.95 million so far. Fox's release of the DreamWorks Animated feature, Captain Underpants, is looking at a sturdy, second place finish after an estimated $8 million on Friday, looking to finish around $25 million for the weekend. You can check out all of the Friday estimates right here and we'll be back tomorrow morning with a full look at the weekend box office.

Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales led the way this Memorial Day weekend while Paramount's Baywatch struggled to match expectations. Meanwhile, Disney's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 continues to deliver while the studio's Beauty and the Beast became only the eighth film to cross $500 million domestically. Overall, the weekend was down ~15% compared to Memorial Day weekend last year when both X-Men: Apocalypse and Alice Through the Looking Glass delivered underwhelming openings. With an estimated $62 million for the three-day and $76.6 million for the four-day weekend, Disney's fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise finished atop the holiday weekend box office. Additionally, the film brought in an estimated $208.4 million internationally, the 12th largest overseas opening of all-time, as it opened in virtually the entire overseas marketplace. This includes a $67.8 million debut in China and an industry record opening in Russia of an estimated $18.6 million. Additional...

Chris Blue, I put my “Money on You” to take home the title. I also spent my money on him, downloading his insanely catchy original single off iTunes. But when the dust settled on Season 12 of The Voice, when we stopped commenting on how mumble-mouthed a singer Hunter Plake is, groaning before every Mark Isaiah performance, doing shots anytime it was mentioned that Quizz Swanigan is the youngest competitor ever, hoping that Lilli Passero would live up to her Blind Auditions potential, and wondering if it was possible for Carson Daly to appear less engaged and more disingenuous, did Team Alicia’s master showman win?...

No. Take It Back. Dancing with the Stars, we urge you to pull an NBC and make Simone Biles the new Timeless. The gymnast—the most decorated American gymnast of all time, we might add—was eliminated tonight after two perfect scores and two perfect dances that apparently just came too late in the game. If anyone decided not to vote for this angel after her refusal to smile during judging last week, shame on you. We're angry!! Can you tell?? David Ross is fine. Fourth place fine. Simone Biles is At Least second place great. Anyway, let's talk about the dances. Normani Kordei and Val Chmerkovskiy: 36/40 + 40/40 =...

Saturday Am Update: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 delivered an estimated $56.2 million on Friday and has Disney anticipating an opening around $140 million as it's well below the $68.8 million Friday for Iron Man 3, which opened with $174.1 million and ahead of the $51.2 million brought in by Iron Man 2, which debuted with $128.1 million. The film scored an "A" CinemaScore, which is right in line with pretty much every other film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, all of which have scored in the "A" range outside of Thor, which scored a "B+". You can check out all of Friday's estimates right here and we'll be back tomorrow morning with a complete look at the weekend. Friday Am Update: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 brought in an impressive $17 million last night from Thursday previews, which includes a double feature event in 558 theaters around the country with the original Guardians film. Recent...

We've already seen some strong performances at the box office this year all of which have contributed to the yearly domestic box office topping $3 billion in ticket sales faster than it ever has before. Last weekend, The Boss Baby became the fifth release of 2017 to top $50 million at the weekend box office and while this weekend won't see similar returns for the week's new wide releases, it's the relative calm before the storm as Universal's The Fate of the Furious debuts next weekend, sure to become the year's second $100+ million opener. As for this weekend, the top twelve may struggle to reach $120 million collectively as both Smurfs: The Lost Village and Going in Style are looking at relatively soft openings while Pure Flix's The Case for Christ should find a spot in the lower half of the weekend top ten. At the top of the box office it's looking like...

2017-01-02T11:08:10-08:00'Rogue One' Finishes Strong, Eyes Year's Top Spot

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story took the top box-office spot for the third week in a row over the New Year's holiday weekend. In doing so, it rocketed up the yearly chart, racing past Captain America: Civil War to become the second-biggest movie of 2016. By the time all is said and done, Rogue One will also probably outdistance Finding Dory to become the highest-grossing film of the year.

Rogue One took in another $64 million over the four-day weekend, bringing its domestic total to $440 million. It will take in more than $500 million by the end of its run, becoming the only 2016-released film to do so.

Second place for the weekend went to Sing, which took in a very strong $56 million. In third place was Passengers with $21 million; that film is underperforming and...

Congratulations to NBC and the entire behind-the-scenes team at the The Voice! You made it all the way through your first season with Miley Cyrus on the coaching panel without a single twerking incident, wardrobe malfunction or naked body writhing atop an instrument of mass demolition.

Related2016 in Review: 20 Best Performances

I’ll admit, I had my doubts — even though, admittedly, I’ve got “We Can’t Stop” and “Party in the U.S.A.” in my iTunes library.

But tonight’s revelation that Miley is continuing to work with semifinalists Ali Caldwell and Aaron Gibson to help advance their...

It’s been a long time between drinks for Blake Shelton — at least if we’re talking about the last time The Voice‘s winning-est coach saw one of his artists take home first prize. Indeed, you’d have to go back to Craig Wayne Boyd’s victory in Season 7 — almost two years ago — for that particular milestone.

RelatedThe Voice Season 11 Performance Finale Recap: The Sundance Also Rises

That might all change during tonight’s season finale (8/7c on NBC), as Blake’s last remaining artist, Sundance Head, holds the advantage on the iTunes charts following Monday’s performance finale.

2016-11-21T10:00:52-08:00Weekend Box Office: 'Beasts' Best Everyone Else

The Harry Potter prequel Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them had a strong, if unsurprising, weekend and cruised to first place at the box office. The weekend overall, though, was not strong, and no other movies lured big audiences to theaters.

Fantastic Beasts took in $75 million in ticket sales, which was exactly in line with industry predictions. It's not a bad opening, but it's well short of the $82 million that Doctor Strange earned in its opening two weeks ago. The film has received good critics' reviews and audience reaction, but it remains to be seen whether it's successfully established a new franchise that will justify the four sequels that are already in the planning stages.

It's notable that less than one in five of moviegoers who went to see Fantastic Beasts over the weekend was...

The weekend didn't quite turn out as Mojo had forecast as the top twelve grossed a combined $149.4 million compared to Mojo's forecast, which foresaw the top twelve grossing over $180 million. Part of the blame lay on an over-estimation of the weekend's top new release, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which did deliver a solid #1 opening, but couldn't match Mojo's lofty expectations. To that point, the vast majority of films fell below expectations including the weekend's two other new wide releases, The Edge of Seventeen and Bleed for This, neither of which managed to top $5 million as well as Sony's expansion of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, which can't be looked at as anything more than a flop at this point. Yet, there were some other notable performances to focus on, particularly in limited release where Amazon and Roadside's Manchester by the Sea delivered strong opening results and Moonlight...

Marvel's Doctor Strange is still showing that it has some power. The latest superhero film won the box office for a second consecutive weekend with an estimated $44 million, pushing the films domestic total to $153 million and global total to $493 million.

DreamWorks Animations' Trolls came in second place with $35.1 million, which was pretty good since it was Veteran's Day weekend and a lot of kids were out of school Friday meaning parents took their kids to the movies. Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi drama Arrival starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner took in $24 million to come in third place in its weekend debut. Fourth place belongs to Universal's ensemble holiday comedy Almost Christmas, which brought in an estimated $15.5 million. 

Here is the full box office results.

The top 12 worldwide weekend box office estimates, listed in descending order, per data collected as of Sunday, November 13, are below.

Doctor Strange - Disney - $103.2MTrolls...

Disney continued its record-breaking year this weekend as 2016 became the studio's best year at the domestic box office ever. Contributing to that success, of course, is the studio's latest Marvel Studios release, Doctor Strange, which led the weekend box office for the second week in a row, contributing to a weekend in which the top twelve was up 56% compared to the same weekend last year. The weekend's success was a combination of strong holdovers such as Strange and fellow sophomore features Trolls and Hacksaw Ridge, along with newcomers including Arrival and Almost Christmas, all of which helped the top twelve combine for over $150 million. Dropping only 49% in its second weekend, Disney and Marvel's Doctor Strange delivered an impressive $43 million in its second weekend as the film's domestic gross climbs to over $153 million in just ten days of release. Among Marvel's single-character intro features this is the second fastest title to top $150 million domestically,...

2016-10-16T14:00:27-07:00Weekend Box Office: 'The Accountant' Exceeds Expectations

This week's top movie, the Ben Affleck thriller The Accountant, charged out of the gate over the weekend, selling considerably more tickets than most experts had predicted. The movie's total gross for the weekend still wasn't huge, though, and the weekend wasn't a very busy one for any of the films in theaters, new or old.

The Accountant had been expected, according to most projections, to bring in far less than $20 million for the weekend. The movie did considerably better than, pulling in nearly $25 million by the end of Sunday. That was good enough to take the top spot with ease, staying well ahead of Kevin Hart: What Now?, the film that, at least according to early estimates, looked like it was going to take the second spot.

What Now? finished pretty much in line with expectations,...

2016-09-25T11:24:49-07:00Weekend Box Office: 'Magnificent Seven' Lives Up to Expectations

This weekend's box-office race went as expected, with the week's two new wide releases taking the top two spots. Denzel Washington's The Magnificent Seven won the week, and the animated Storks cruised into second place. One of those two new movies, however, earned significantly less than most predictions had it earning.

Magnificent Seven took the number-one spot with ease, pulling in $35 million. Although some optimistic projections had the film earning closer to $50 million, the $35-million take was pretty much in line with what most observers expected. The film had the benefit of a big-name cast, which includes Washington and Chris Pratt, and decent critics' reviews. Its opening is one of the biggest ever for a Western, a genre that hasn't often produced big hits in recent decades.

Second place for the week went to Storks,...

The London Korean Film Festival (Lkff) have unveiled the line-up for its 11th edition, which will be it’s longest run to date.

The festival this year will run from the 3rd – 27th November. This years selection could very well be it’s best line up ever.

Add Event To Your Calendar

Lee Kyoung-mi’s The Truth Beneath will kick off the event on the 3rd November

The show kicks off with the UK Premiere of director Lee Kyoung-mi’s The Truth Beneath on the evening of 3 November. Tying in with this year’s Special Focus on Women, this is the first time a female director’s film will open the Lkff.

After working as scripter and assistant director under Park Chan-wook on Lady Vengeance, Lee made her debut with acclaimed comedy-drama Crush and Blush (2008) before making us wait 8-years for this spectacular second feature. Mixing the personal with the political,...

2016-08-21T10:00:45-07:00Weekend Box Office: 'Ben-Hur' Bombs Big, 'Suicide Squad' Repeats

This weekend at the box office was expected to be a weak one for the week's new releases, and in that respect, the weekend went exactly as projected. The new release with the biggest budget turned out to be arguably the biggest flop of the summer, but the other two movies performed well enough to challenge the strongest of the hold-overs from last week.

The big news story of the weak was the spectacular failure of the historical epic Ben-Hur. The flashy adventure flick from the director of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter came to theaters with a production budget of about $100 million and very little pre-release interest from moviegoers. MGM and Paramount, the movie's co-producing studios, promoted the film as a faith-based story in an effort to draw Christian moviegoers to theaters,...

Jung Ju-woo's Fourth Place Screening on Fantasia International FIlm FestivalSTORY73%DIRECTION76%ACTING79%VISUALS70%POSITIVESRealism and disillusionment about a very serious subjectGreat actingNEGATIVESDepiction of children violence is quite harsh2016-07-2875%Overall ScoreReader Rating: (0 Votes)0%

The film begins telling the story of Kwan-soo, a champion swimmer with some bad habits. Before his training starts, he goes with some friends in a village, where he spends his days playing cards and drinking. He delays coming to the training camp for eleven days, and when he finally returns, he is brutally beat by his coach, in an act that makes him resign swimming altogether. Subsequently, he calls a reporter named Young-hoon, whom he met during his “wild” days, and asks him to write about the beating. He declines, telling him that this is how things work. Some years later, the focus is on a boy named Joon-ho, also a swimmer, who always comes fourth in the competitions,...