Hosted by Chris Rock, The 88th Academy Awards were held on Sunday, February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, and were televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation was also televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
Despite three new wide releases, 20th Century Fox‘s Deadpool easily won first place at the box office for its third-straight weekend. The Tim Miller-directed comic book adaptation, starring Ryan Reynolds, added $31.5 million domestically to bring its three-week total to $285.6 million. Internationally, the $58-million budgeted film earned another $40 million for an overseas total of $324.2 million. The movie has now earned an impressive $610 million worldwide.
The newly-expanded constituency of Galway West/South Mayo, in which BuzzHub HQ is located, has elected 5 TDs to Dáil Éireann after 2 days and 14 counts. New TDs Catherine Connolly and Hildegarde Naughton join the outgoing Eamon Ó Cuív, Sean Kyne and Noel Grealish.
The 2016 Academy Awards, hosted by Chris Rock, take place tonight in Hollywood, and it’s time for us to make our bold final predictions for who will take home a little golden man in the major categories. Plus: who we think should win, and who could cause an upset.
Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization that produced the Spirit Awards, the LA Film Festival and Film Independent at LACMA, handed out top honors to Spotlight, Beasts of No Nation and Room at this afternoon’s 31st Film Independent Spirit Awards. Carol, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Krisha, The Look of Silence, Son of Saul and Tangerine also received awards at the 2016 Spirit Awards, which was held in a tent on the beach in Santa Monica.
We celebrate the magnificent career of the man who is Kevin Spacey, as he returns for a fourth run as President Frank Underwood on Netflix’s phenomenally successful House of Cards. From The Usual Suspects to American Beauty and beyond, what is it that makes this two-time Oscar winner so captivating?
CBS Films and Lionsgate have today announced that Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash, Zootopia) will join Academy Award nominee Mark Wahlberg (The Departed, Lone Survivor) in the upcoming Patriots Day movie. The film will be directed by Peter Berg (Deepwater Horizon, Lone Survivor) and is set to be produced by Scott Stuber, Mark Wahlberg, Hutch Parker, Dylan Clark, Stephen Levinson and Michael Radutzky.
Steven Spielberg has found a leading man for his Ready Player One. Tye Sheridan will reportedly play Wade Watts in the big-screen adaptation of Ernest Cline’s best-seller. Tye Sheridan joins a cast that already includes Olivia Cooke (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Bates Motel) as Ar3mis, an OASIS avatar belonging to the coincidentally-named Samantha Cook, and Ben Mendelsohn (Mississippi Grind, The Dark Knight Rises) as the story’s villain.
The massive of success of 20th Century Fox‘s Deadpool at the box office has seemingly provoked Warner Bros. to release an R-rated extended cut of Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice for an upcoming Blu-ray edition titled the Dawn of Justice Ultimate Edition. The R rating was given for the extended cut’s “sequences of violence.”
The family film blends live action and CGI to tell the story of the special bond between an orphaned boy, Pete, and his best friend, Elliott, who just happens to be a dragon. It stars Bryce Dallas Howard (The Help) as Grace, a park ranger who discovers the existence of Elliott; 10-year-old Oakes Fegley (This is Where I Leave You) as Pete; Wes Bentley (The Hunger Games) as Jack, a local mill owner; New Zealand native Karl Urban (Star Trek Into Darkness) as Jack’s brother, Gavin; Oona Laurence as Natalie, the young girl who befriends Pete; and Oscar-winner Robert Redford (Barefoot in the Park, All the President’s Men) as Grace’s father.
20th Century Fox‘s Deadpool dominated the worldwide box office for a second-straight weekend, bringing in another $55 million domestically for a North American total of $235.4 million. Deadpool has already surpassed X-Men: Days of Future Past‘s $233.9 million domestic total in just 10 days. Overseas, Deadpool earned $85 million its second weekend for an international total of $256.5 million and an impressive worldwide box office total of $491.9 million!
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has strolled to victory in South Carolina in a contest that saw former Florida Governor Jeb Bush drop out, while Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton beat back a strong challenge from Bernie Sanders in Nevada.
The 2016 Academy Awards are fast approaching, so it’s time for BuzzHub’s comprehensive coverage of the biggest night in movies to kick into gear. First up is our breakdown of the 8 films nominated for Best Picture, ranking them in our order of preference and telling you what deserved to take home gold on Oscar Sunday!
Nelle Harper Lee, who won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for To Kill a Mockingbird, has died aged 89.
Walt Disney Pictures appears to have found a star for their upcoming Mary Poppins sequel. According to a story today at The Hollywood Reporter, Emily Blunt (Edge of Tomorrow, Sicario) has entered talks to take over the role made famous by Julie Andrews. The move would reteam Blunt with her Into the Woods director, Rob Marshall.
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