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  • Shower Time! See Rihanna Check-In as Marion Crane in ‘Bates Motel’ Photos

    Celebrity Sightings in New York City - January 24, 2016“Bates Motel” Season 5, but fans will find a new version of the famous “Psycho” character in the A&E drama’s final season.

    “Bates Motel” launches Season 5 on February 20, catching the story up to Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1960 horror film. Rihanna was cast as Marion Crane, the shower victim originally played by Janet Leigh, and Entertainment Weekly just shared the first two photos of Rihanna’s Marion with Freddie Highmore’s Norman Bates, plus a promo for the new season:

    Daniel Wu as Sunny - Into the Badlands _ Season 2, Episode 3 - Photo Credit: Antony Platt/AMC

    Daniel Wu as Sunny - Into the Badlands _ Season 2, Episode 3 - Photo Credit: Antony Platt/AMC

    Executive producer Kerry Ehrin told EW that TV viewers will see a more fleshed-out version of Marion Crane than in Hitchcock’s film. “We’re taking threads of that story and definitely using them so it’s recognizable, it’s just where we go with it is very different,” Ehrin said. Season 5 picks up about 18 months after the death of Norman’s mother, Norma Bates (Vera Fermiga), and since a boy’s best friend is his mother, we know this is going to put Norman in an especially delicate mental state.

    The final season premieres Feb. 20 at 10 p.m. on A&E.

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  • ‘Ocean’s 8’ Lands Summer 2018 Release Date

    Premiere Of Warner Bros. Pictures' "Our Brand Is Crisis" - Red CarpetAfter we finally learned a few details about the upcoming all-female “Ocean’s Eleven” spinoff, “Ocean’s 8,” the film has now landed an official release date.

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Ocean’s 8” will hit theaters on June 8, 2018. The flick has a majorly starry cast, headlined by Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Rihanna, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, and Awkwafina, who will be portraying the titular criminals.

    Kaling recently spilled a few details about the flick, including that it’s set in New York, and that the plot has some connection to the fashion industry. According to the actress, filming is set to begin in about two weeks (and according to THR, will be on location in NYC).

    “Ocean’s 8” also has some major star power behind the scenes, with Oscar nominee Gary Ross (“Seabiscuit,” “The Hunger Games”) directing the flick. Steven Soderbergh, who helmed the original “Ocean’s” trilogy, has collaborated with Ross several times over the years (including on “Ocean’s”), and will serve as a producer on the spinoff.

    Ross previously noted that his film is “a continuation” of the tone and story of the original flicks, but also has its own distinct vision. We’re curious to see what the director and his phenomenal cast create together.

    [via: The Hollywood Reporter]

    Photo credit: Getty Images

  • ‘Ocean’s 8’ Adds Rihanna, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, 2 More

    Right now “Ocean’s 8” is at least The Magnificent Seven, with five more actresses ready to join the previously announced Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett.

    According to Deadline, Warner Bros. will start filming the Gary Ross-directed spinoff in October. Deals are said to be “close” with Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, Mindy Kaling, and rapper/actress Awkwafina (aka Nora Lum).

    In order to have the “Eight” of the title, they need one more, plus possibly cameos from the cast of the George Clooney/Brad Pitt/Matt Damon “Ocean’s” trilogy (which also started as a remake of the 1960 Sinatra/Martin/Davis “Ocean’s 11” movie, let’s not forget).

    Jennifer Lawrence seems like she’d be a great kicker for this cast, but whoever is fine.

    Back in June, director Gary Ross told /FILM this film would have “a pretty similar tone” to Steven Soderbergh’s “Ocean’s” trilogy.

    “You know, Steven Soderbergh and I are incredibly close friends, and we would not have done this if we weren’t. I don’t think he would’ve wanted anyone to do it if we weren’t. This is very much an extension and a continuation. He’s a producer on the movie. […] We’re different filmmakers, obviously, so there will be those differences, but one of the things I’m drawn to is the amazing tone Steven was able to create, and we discuss that a lot. We discuss the cinema a lot, the shooting style, the rhythm, the editing style, and the music. We discuss it all. I’m in no way trying to reinvent the tone, and I’m thrilled and honored to be extending it. It’s really fun to work with.”

    What do you think of the cast so far? If they start production in October, they don’t have much time left to pick No. 8.

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  • Final ‘Star Trek Beyond’ Trailer Goes Dark With Haunting Rihanna Song

    “Star Trek Beyond” will be released in theaters on July 22, including the late Anton Yelchin (Pavel Chekov) in one of his final film appearances. Paramount Pictures released one last trailer, and the tone is much darker than the comedic first trailer you may recall watching back in December, set to the Beastie Boys’s “Sabotage.” This one focuses on Chris Pine‘s Captain James T. Kirk having a kind of existential crisis while also losing his ship and, potentially, his crew. The soundtrack is Rihanna’s haunting new song, “Sledgehammer,” which would’ve actually made a decent Bond theme, too.

    Watch the trailer:

    Here’s the official synopsis:

    “‘Star Trek Beyond,’ the highly anticipated next installment in the globally popular Star Trek franchise, created by Gene Roddenberry and reintroduced by J.J. Abrams in 2009, returns with director Justin Lin (“The Fast and the Furious” franchise) at the helm of this epic voyage of the U.S.S. Enterprise and her intrepid crew. In “Beyond,” the Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mysterious new enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test.”

    This sequel to “Star Trek Into Darkness” comes with a script co-written by Simon Pegg, aka Scotty. “Beyond” co-stars Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, and Idris Elba. It opens July 22.

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  • Watch Chris Hemsworth Recite Rihanna’s ‘Work’ and Tell a Dirty Thor Joke

    "There's Nothing Like Australia" Campaign LaunchIt’s Monday and you may be tired and uninspired, so here’s Chris Hemsworth with an earnest reading of Rihanna’s song “Work” to help you get through your own work work work work work week. When you are on a break, maybe watch another video of Hemsworth, this time telling a slightly naughty Thor joke. (It’s not quite NSFW but more PG-13 than PG.)

    While out promoting “The Huntsman: Winter’s War,” Hemsworth stopped by BBC Radio 1, so they put him to work reading “Work,” and offered YouTube a black-and-white video of the event. The actor doesn’t start laughing until the end, which is impressive, and he and the host were both left inspired to go back to work. Which was the point of the song, maybe? Probably not.

    Watch Hemsworth get to work work work work work:

    Because one can never watch too many clips of Chris Hemsworth being charming, here’s one where he tells Graham Norton that fans like to come up to him and tell him Thor jokes, specifically the same Thor joke:

    Love it. In case you can’t watch the video for some reason, here’s the joke: “Thor spends a night with this woman and the next morning he says, ‘I have to tell you who I am.’ ‘I’m Thor.’ She says, ‘You’re Thor? I can hardly walk.” Ba-dum-dum!

    He’s here all week, everyone! Actually, he won’t be back as Thor until “Thor: Ragnarok” is released in November 2017.

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  • The 7 Secret Weapons Behind ‘Home’s’ Astonishing Box Office Success

    rihanna and jim parson in homePoor Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart. Any other week, the estimated $34.6 million opening of their R-rated comedy “Get Hard” would be a huge coup. Instead, they had to settle for coming in a distant second to a surprise kiddie cartoon smash about a little girl and an inept alien.

    “Home,” the fourth film from DreamWorks Animation in little over a year, was supposed to race neck-and-neck at best with “Get Hard.” After all, the film got middling reviews for its relative lack of originality and unlikely voice cast (Jim Parsons and Rihanna?). Plus, it comes from DWA, the anti-Pixar, an animation house known in recent years for oversaturating the market and for costly flops (most recently, “Penguins of Madagascar”). No one expected it to do better than $30 million.

    So how did “Home” manage a stunning debut estimated at $54 million? Maybe its perceived weaknesses were actually strengths. Here are seven secret weapons behind the alien-invasion comedy’s success.

    1. Title Change. “Home” is an awfully generic title. It’s also not the title the property came with. Like many DreamWorks cartoons, it’s based on a children’s book. In this case, it’s Adam Rex’s, “The True Meaning of Smekday.” Normally, studios like to try to keep the titles of book adaptations in order to capitalize on pre-existing brand awareness. In this case, though, it made sense to ditch the title for a much less awkward, more marquee-friendly one. There’s no way a movie with “Smekday” in its name was going to earn $54 million.

    2. Word-of-Mouth. Critics tend to find DreamWorks movies formulaic; they tend to be about outsiders who learn to cooperate in order to save their world. “Home” fits this pattern (the alien even looks like the cute, snaggle-toothed dragon from DWA’s “How to Train Your Dragon” movies), and it borrows from several other familiar kid-meets-alien tales (see below). So it got middling reviews from critics. But kids and families who saw it really liked it and recommended it strongly, as is clear from the A grade it received at CinemaScore.

    3. Familiar Premise. The human-child-befriends-childlike-alien premise has been done before, in movies from “E.T.” to “Lilo & Stitch.” Then again, maybe it helped that the premise was familiar to kids from other well-known family-friendly movies. It may have helped the film overcome the “Smekday” issue of its arcane and eccentric source material.

    4. ‘Toon Drought. Yes, DWA has been flooding the zone over the past year. Still, there hasn’t been a new animated feature in theaters since “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water” a couple months ago. And there won’t be another until Pixar’s “inside Out” in June. So “Home” was poised to benefit from the lack of direct competition.

    5. Voice Talent. Want to know how to get Rihanna and Jennifer Lopez songs on your movie’s soundtrack? Cast the pop stars as voice actors in the film. Sure, the husky-voiced Rihanna may not be the first choice for the role of a little girl, but suspension of disbelief is a lot easier with a cartoon. Jim Parsons is probably not as well known to kids as his female co-stars (do kids watch “The Big Bang Theory”?) Then again, who better than the performer behind TV nerd-king Sheldon Cooper to play an alien who has trouble communicating with and relating to humans? Plus, the presence of Parsons and Steve Martin in the cast probably reassured a lot of parents that the movie would be funny.

    6. Spring Weather. After months of brutal winter conditions in much of the country, spring finally sprung this weekend, allowing hibernating moviegoers to emerge for the first time in ages. As a result, a rising tide lifted all boats, enabling box office success not just for “Home” but for pretty much every movie currently playing at the multiplex. On the whole, domestic box office was up 16 percent over last week, and the estimated $152.2 million worth of tickets sold was the highest cumulative total since “Fifty Shades of Grey” lured moviegoers out of the cold six weeks ago.

    7. Counterprogramming. The strategy of trying to target a demographic otherwise not served by the weekend’s expected winner — in this case, “Home” aiming at families and young girls while the R-rated “Get Hard” went after adults and young men — hasn’t been too productive lately. Two weekends ago, older, male-oriented action thriller “Run All Night” flopped against younger, girl-oriented “Cinderella,” and last weekend, “The Gunman” repeated the scenario against “Insurgent.” But this weekend, there really was something for all the fair-weather moviegoers to enjoy, so “Home” and “Get Hard” both did well. So did still-strong “Insurgent” and “Cinderella” (this weekend’s No. 3 and No. 4 films), even though both films are attracting some of the same tween-girl audience, and “Cinderella” and “Home” are both big family-oriented movies with an emphasis on girls. Even “It Follows,” the cult horror hit that expanded this weekend from 32 screens to 1,218, performed well, coming in fifth with an estimated $4.0 million, very good for a horror film with no star power or franchise familiarity — and in a week when young women (who make up a preponderance of horror viewers) already had a lot to choose from.

    Even all these reasons aren’t really enough to explain how “Home” managed to open a jaw-dropping $20 million above even the most optimistic projections. Sure, word-of-mouth was great, but the movie was doing well even before that, with strong showings at Thursday night early-bird screenings and robust pre-sales on Fandango. Maybe “Home” was just an incredible fluke. Or maybe there’s some worldwide alien mind-control conspiracy at work…
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