Following its record-breaking success in Japan, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train is preparing to make its Stateside debut. No matter what Christopher Nolan may have wanted you to believe, the movie that saved the box office last year wasn’t Tenet but an anime film titled Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train. In a year without Marvel movies, this sequel to a popular TV anime became the fastest film to earn over $100 million at the Japanese box office, the highest-grossing film ever in Japan, and the No.
The Art of Ending Things How great entertainment sticks the landing. The Art of Ending Things How great entertainment sticks the landing. Writer/director Neil Marshall breaks down his horror film’s alternate conclusions — and which one he thinks is the worse fate. “Six beautiful women go spelunking” isn’t necessarily the premise you’d expect to result in a near-perfect horror movie, but The Descent doesn’t really play within the bounds of expectations.
Over the last half-decade, Sara Bareilles, best known as a pop singer-songwriter, has stealthily embraced a life of musical theater. After writing the score for the 2016 Broadway debut of Waitress and later taking on a starring role in the show, Bareilles has been back on the boards this summer starring in a revival of Into the Woods, the Stephen Sondheim–James Lapine dark fairy-tale mélange. She’s performing in the show until September 4 and will appear on its cast recording, which was taped in July.
Since you were wondering: Yes, they sing “Sweet Caroline” in A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical. Twice. First, at the end of Act One, as inspiration descends from the heavens upon a young Neil (Will Swenson) as he struggles to come up with a hit in a Memphis motel room, and then again during the curtain call, when the cast joins in and encourages the audience to sing along.
The punk subgenre wasn’t supposed to go mainstream. Then MTV met Dashboard Confessional. Screaming infidelities: Dashboard Confessional introducing emo to the world on MTV Unplugged. Photo: Scott Gries/Getty Images Screaming infidelities: Dashboard Confessional introducing emo to the world on MTV Unplugged. In 2002, the music industry was on fire. CD sales hit an all-time peak in 1999, but the rise of file-sharing platforms like Napster had sparked a sharp drop.
Every record label once wanted what he had (and was afraid of it). Now all of Hollywood wants it too. Photo: Joshua Rashaad McFadden/ Photo: Joshua Rashaad McFadden/ Inform someone that 50 Cent is currently the executive producer of dozens of shows across close to ten networks, then watch their brains fall into slight disrepair as they try to match the larger-than-life image of the muscle-bound, tight-jawed, bulletproof-vest-wearing party MC of their past with the image of one of the most prolific people working in Hollywood.
Actress Jane Lynch arrives at the 2013 WGAw Writers Guild Awards at JW Marriott Los Angeles at L.A. LIVE on February 17, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. Jane Lynch will be making her Broadway debut this spring in Annie. She’s taking over for Katie Finneran as Miss Hannigan, Lynch tells the AP, and her run starts May 16. Lynch has perfected her horrifically abusive caretaker character after four seasons on Glee, so Miss Hannigan seems to be pretty squarely in Lynch’s wheelhouse.
If you’ve read about Jennifer Lawrence’s experience filming Mother! — she threw out a rib giving it her all — you already know that she’s willing to lose control for a role. But that doesn’t mean she enjoys the feeling. Lawrence told Entertainment Weekly that the feeling of losing control is something she’s experienced in everyday life — specifically, on planes. “It’s scary not being able to control yourself — I’ve recently had problems with plane anxiety and it’s really similar,” she said.
In Obvious Child, Jenny Slate plays a comedian who performs at the same Brooklyn bar every week. In many ways, it resembles Big Terrific, the weekly stand-up show Slate started six years ago with her good friends Gabe Liedman and Max Silvestri. (Silvestri still hosts it every Wednesday.) The event showcased the three hosts’ lovable and hilarious dynamic, and it is also where Slate met Obvious Child director Gillian Robespierre.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JANUARY 15: Actress Jessica Biel arrives at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 15, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) For those of you keeping track at home: In the next year, we’re going to get two behind-the-scenes movies about Alfred Hitchcock and his leading ladies. First, there’s The Girl, which stars Toby Jones as Hitchcock and Sienna Miller as Tippi Hedren; that one is circa The Birds.