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Warner Bros. isn’t happy with industry consensus appointing “Gran Turismo” as the weekend’s top-grossing film, beating “Barbie.”. It will be small solace, but Warners’ “Meg 2: The Trench” is the dominant title on this week’s VOD charts.

“Meg 2” moved to PVOD after 21 days — a quick turnaround previously reserved for Max exclusives and/or lower-budget titles like “Magic Mike’s Last Dance” and “House Party.” However, “Meg 2” is the $130 million sequel to a film that grossed over $500 million worldwide.

It dropped Friday and quickly reached #1 at iTunes. It also is #1 at Vudu, more impressive since its chart covers seven days and “it “Meg 2” was available for only three of them. Google Play, as always lagging a few days behind, has it at #3 and rising.

“Meg 2” opened two weeks after “Barbie,” yet came to PVOD at least 11 days ahead of Greta Gerwig’s #1 film for 2023. Though not confirmed, the PVOD...

Coldplay has extended its tour with new North American dates in the fall. The tour is in support of their latest album, Music of the Spheres (2021).

Starting in Seattle on September 20, the band will embark on a West Coast leg to Vancouver, San Diego and Los Angeles.

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Coldplay is currently preparing for their European trek, which will last from May to July.

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Coldplay formed in 1997. Their debut LP, Parachutes (2000), included their breakout single “Yellow.” The band received a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album. Coldplay’s second album, A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002), featured the single “Clocks,” which won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year.

More recently, the band has incorporated new musical styles, including ambient, pop, R&b, electronica, classical and progressive rock. The band is one of the best-selling music acts of all...

Further new releases include ’Big George Foreman’ and ‘Little Richard: I Am Everything’.

The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry is the widest release across the UK’s three-day bank holiday weekend, walking into 643 locations for eOne, with no franchise new releases in the mix.

Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton star in Hettie Macdonald’s feature, about a seemingly unremarkable man in his 60s who embarks on a 450-mile mission to see his friend who is dying in a hospice.

Broadbent’s last big screen outing was in Roger Michell’s The Duke, which brought in £941,975 in its first weekend for...

So often thought of primarily as the big lug who was so dramatically dispatched by Muhammad Ali in the famous “Rumble in the Jungle” in Zaire in 1974, George Foreman is the main event in Big George Foreman. While there is plenty of boxing here to satisfy sports fans, the film is mild-mannered and genial to a fault as it charts the life of a dirt-poor Texas kid with a devastating punch whose public image transformed over the years from hulking bogeyman to that of a good-natured businessman and man of God.

Ali was such a commanding, entertaining and (mostly) adored worldwide figure, from his emergence as the self-anointed “greatest” to his ultimate status as one of the most beloved and admired men on the planet, that it isn’t easy to watch him take a back seat here to a younger but less charismatic figure onscreen. Eventually, if you like...

Sports star to produce with Penni Thow, Box to Box Films, One Community.

Apple TV+ has landed a feature documentary about British seven-time Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton.

The film will feature full access to Hamilton and his team on and off the track and a cast of guest interviews. Hamilton will produce alongside Penni Thow, Box to Box Films, and One Community. Former HBO head Richard Plepler serves as executive producer through his Eden Productions with Scott. Matt Kay will direct.

Hamilton, regarded by many in the sport as the greatest of all time, is a trailblazer who...

Sports star to produce with Penni Thow, Box to Box Films, One Community.

Apple TV+ has landed a feature documentary about British seven-time Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton.

The film will feature full access to Hamilton and his team on and off the track and a cast of guest interviews. Hamilton will produce alongside Penni Thow, Box to Box Films, and One Community. Former HBO head Richard Plepler serves as executive producer through his Eden Productions with Scott. Matt Kay will direct.

Hamilton, regarded by many in the sport as the greatest of all time, is a trailblazer who...

Kamal Haasan has congratulated young Indian Grand Master Praggnanandhaa for having defeated World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen at the ongoing Airthings Masters tournament, saying the youngster had done Tamil Nadu proud. Taking to Twitter, Kamal Haasan wrote in Tamil, “Magnus Carlsen is the World’s Number One chess champion. He has won the World Champion title […]...

The world of professional wrestling is a weird one, and part of its allure has always been just how weird it's willing to be. A few weeks ago, "Jackass Forever" star Johnny Knoxville entered the prestigious WWE Royal Rumble, and everyone's favorite serial killer-possessed doll, Chucky, has a history of showing up on episodes of "Monday Night Raw" (as do The Muppets). But on the February 16, 2022 episode of "Aew Dynamite," WWE's competitor finally got into the weird and unexpected cameo game when Martin Kove's John Kreese made a random backstage appearance to support the Aew Women's World Champion, Dr. Britt Baker, D.M.D. (Yes, she's an...

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The newly christened Paramount (fka ViacomCBS) announced on Tuesday a flurry of news for fans of The Challenge and its many incarnations.

First and foremost, a special edition of the competition series — titled The Challenge: CBS — will air on the broadcast network this coming summer, in which “reality titans from the CBS universe will compete in the most unpredictable and demanding game of their lives.”

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Said CBS “all-stars” will...

Russian production and distribution powerhouse Central Partnership will launch two new animated features at this year’s European Film Market, along with a live-action film that will have its world premiere in competition at SXSW next month.

“The Swiss Adventure” (pictured) is the first big-screen animated film from Smf Animation Studio, the venerable Russian animation house formerly known as Soyuzmultfilm. It tells the story of a 16-year-old servant who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy merchant, who’s determined to marry her off to a rival of high social standing and low moral values. After being forcibly separated from her, the boy is sent to join General Alexander Suvorov’s army on its legendary Swiss expedition, where he earns the respect and loyalty of his fellow soldiers while thwarting a treacherous enemy plot.

Proving that anyone can be a hero if they are driven by love, “The...