Variety reports that ‘Halloween Ends’, the latest installment in the ‘Halloween’ film franchise, earned $41.3 million to finish at the top of the domestic box office in its opening weekend. Halloween Ends — billed as the final showdown between Laurie Strode (played by Jamie Lee Curtis) and Michael Myers, became the first film since Jordan Peele’s Nope to debut above the $40 million mark.
Conservative social media app Parler said in a statement on Monday that Kanye ‘Ye’ West has agreed to buy the platform, this coming after other social media platforms suspended him in recent weeks over antisemitic posts. Parler is one of several right-wing-friendly social media platforms to emerge in the Donald Trump era.
Sydney Sweeney is set to star in a new “Barbarella” movie for Sony Pictures. Adapted from French writer and illustrator Jean-Claude Forest’s comic series and directed by Roger Vadim, the original 1968 “Barbarella” starred Jane Fonda as the space-traveling heroine. The film has garnered ‘cult film’ status over the years, with Barbarella widely seen as one of Fonda’s most iconic on-screen roles.
20th Century Studios announced the ensemble cast of director Kenneth Branagh’s third film in the Hercule Poirot series based on Agatha Christie novels, titled “A Haunting in Venice.” Branagh reprises his role as Poirot, with Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan, Michelle Yeoh, Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin, Jude Hill, Ali Khan, Emma Laird, Kelly Reilly and Riccardo Scamarico rounding out the cast.
Michelle Yeoh and Pete Davidson have joined the cast of Paramount’s upcoming film Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts, based on Hasbro’s Transformers action figures. The latest film in a franchise chronicling the war between factions of alien robots, and will ‘take audiences on a ’90s globetrotting adventure, introducing the robot tribes known as the Maximals and Terrorcons to the existing battle on earth between the Autobots and Decepticons.’
