The news comes following Dunst’s comments last August that she’d like to be a part of the ‘Minecraft’ follow-up since her kids love it and, “maybe I can just make a movie where I don’t lose money?”
‘Project Hail Mary’ is a big hit at the box office already.
Ryan Gosling stars in the movie.
Elsewhere, Pixar’s ‘Hoppers’ stayed strong but ‘Ready or Not 2: Here I Come’ only found modest results.
‘Project Hail Mary’ chronicles a man in spaceship on a mission to save humanity from a star-snacking organism. And the movie itself, which stars Ryan Gosling, has just saved Amazon MGM’s box office hopes.
The new film, adapted from the novel by ‘The Martian’s Andy Weir by writer Drew Goddard and directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, enjoyed a massive domestic opening of $80.5 million, the biggest by far for the studio.
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Even with a hefty $200 million budget to make up (not including a big ad campaign), the movie’s worldwide start of 140.9 million –– the biggest in Amazon MGM’s history and the strongest launch for a movie so far this year –– will go some way to helping that.
Pixar’s ‘Hoppers,’ which has proved to be a welcome success for the animation company, slid to second place after a couple of weeks. It added $18 million for $120.4 million domestically.
Third place went to the Indian action epic ‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge,’ which earned $9.5 million from just 987 locations.
Searchlight’s ‘Ready or Not 2: Here I Come’ had to make do with $9 million domestically and $11.9 million globally, but has a relatively smaller budget of around $20 million.
Finally, in fifth place we find romantic drama ‘Reminders of Him’, which made $8 million.
What’s on the horizon?
(L to R) Luigi, Yoshi, Mario and Toad in Nintendo and Illumination’s ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’, directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic.
‘Project Hail Mary’ should have a clear run to keep earning next week, though Universal’s ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ is looming, and if it follows the pattern of the original, will likely launch in first place when it arrives on April 1.
(L to R) Valerie Perrine and Gene Hackman in ‘Superman II’. Photo: Warner Bros.
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Valerie Perrine has died at the age of 82.
She was best known for her roles in ‘Superman’ and ‘Lenny.’
In later years, she became an advocate for Parkinson’s disease awareness after her diagnosis.
Valerie Perrine, the actress who captivated audiences with her bold performances in films like ‘Superman’ and ‘Lenny,’ has died at the age of 82.
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Her death was announced by friend Stacey Souther, who has set up a GoFundMe page to help defray funeral costs.
Here’s Souther’s statement:
“Valerie Perrine gave everything she had to her craft, her fans, and her life — with grace, humor, and an indomitable spirit that Parkinson’s itself could never fully extinguish. Let’s make sure her final chapter is written with the same dignity and love that she gave to all of us.”
(L to R) Dustin Hoffman and Valerie Perrine in ‘Lenny’. Photo: United Artists.
Born September 3, 1943, in Galveston, Texas, Valerie Perrine grew up with a passion for performance and entertainment. She began her career as a dancer and showgirl in Las Vegas before transitioning into acting.
Her breakthrough came in 1974 when she starred as Honey Bruce in ‘Lenny,’ opposite Dustin Hoffman. Her fearless and emotionally layered performance earned her an Academy Award nomination and established her as one of the most compelling actresses of her time.
Valerie Perrine: A Life in Film and Television
(L to R) Valerie Perrine and Jeff Bridges in the documentary ‘Valerie’.
Following ‘Lenny,’ Perrine gained widespread recognition for her role as Eve Teschmacher in the 1978 blockbuster ‘Superman,’ starring alongside Christopher Reeve and Gene Hackman. She reprised the role in ‘Superman II,’ further cementing her place in pop culture history.
Throughout her career, Perrine appeared in a range of films and television projects, showcasing her versatility in both dramatic and comedic roles. While she never fully courted the spotlight in later years, her performances remained beloved by fans and critics alike.
Valerie Perrine: Offscreen
Valerie Perrine in the documentary ‘Valerie’.
In her personal life, Perrine faced significant health challenges, including a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, which she publicly discussed in later years. She became an advocate for awareness, speaking candidly about her condition and inspiring others with her resilience.
She will be remembered for her daring performances, her vibrant personality, and the lasting impact she made on Hollywood and audiences around the world.
(L to R) Valerie Perrine and Gene Hackman in ‘Superman II’. Photo: Warner Bros.
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Helena Bonham Carter and Kumail Nanjiani are among the ‘White Lotus’ Season 4 cast.
Chris Messina, Max Greenfield and more will also show up.
The new series will be set at a French resort.
From the start, creator/showrunner Mike White has been able to command an eclectic, often starry cast for HBO series ‘The White Lotus,’ which spins a murder mystery each season at a different resort from the titular fictional chain.
Michelle Monaghan in ‘The White Lotus’ Season 3. Photo: Fabio Lovino/HBO.
The actual plotline for the season remains a mystery for now, but if past seasons are anything to go by, it’ll once more see the clientele of a White Lotus resort (this time reportedly in France) rocked by a suspicious death or two.
With White writing and directing as always, the season will be shooting this year.
(L to R) Jason Isaacs, Parker Posey, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sarah Catherine Hook, and Sam Nivola in ‘The White Lotus’ Season 3. Photo: Fabio Lovino/HBO.
Written by Jose Ruisanchez and Irwin Winkler, ‘Ally Clark’ takes us from the towering skyscrapers of New York City to the sweltering bayous of Louisiana and the icy peaks of Alaska, following investigator Ally Clark (Davis) as she embarks on a perilous inquiry into an international conglomerate following the suspicious death of a close friend.
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(L to R) Simone Kessell and Jason Clarke in ‘The Last Frontier,’ premiering October 10, 2025 on Apple TV+.
Ryan Gosling in ‘Only God Forgives’. Photo: Scanbox Entertainment.
Julian (Gosling), who runs a Thai boxing club as a front organization for his family’s drug smuggling operation, is forced by his mother Crystal (Kristin Scott Thomas) to find and kill the individual responsible for his brother’s recent death.
Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather (Sandra Bullock) and her still-green partner (Ben Chaplin) are working a murder case, attempting to profile two malevolently brilliant young men (Gosling and Michael Pitt): cold, calculating killers whose dark secrets might explain their crimes.
Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.
Directed by George Clooney, dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman’s (Gosling) idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where ‘victory’ is relative.
He’s a stuntman (Ryan Gosling), and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie star (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life (Emily Blunt) while still doing his day job. What could possibly go right?
The Gray Man is CIA operative Court Gentry (Gosling), aka, Sierra Six. Plucked from a federal penitentiary and recruited by his handler, Donald Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton), Gentry was once a highly-skilled, Agency-sanctioned merchant of death. But now the tables have turned and Six is the target, hunted across the globe by Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans), a former cohort at the CIA, who will stop at nothing to take him out. Agent Dani Miranda (Ana de Armas) has his back. He’ll need it.
Dean (Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams) live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.
A husband (Anthony Hopkins) is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife (Embeth Davidtz), in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney (Gosling) trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other.
After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast (Will Patton) is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone (Denzel Washington) – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.
Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne (Gosling) leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never know. But things change when a troubled student Drey (Shareeka Epps) makes a startling discovery of his secret life, causing a tenuous bond between the two that could either end disastrously or provide a catalyst of hope.
(L to R) Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams in ‘The Notebook.’ Photo: New Line Cinema.
An epic love story centered around an older man (James Garner) who reads aloud to a woman (Gena Rowlands) with Alzheimer’s. From a faded notebook, the old man’s words bring to life the story about a couple (Gosling and Rachel McAdams) who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.
A motorcycle stunt rider (Gosling) considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife (Eva Mendes) and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician (Bradley Cooper).
Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily (Julianne Moore). Cal’s seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. Over 40 and suddenly single, Cal is adrift in the fickle world of dating. Enter, Jacob Palmer (Gosling), a self-styled player who takes Cal under his wing and teaches him how to be a hit with the ladies.
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
Ryland Grace (Gosling), a school-teacher-turned-astronaut, wakes up from a coma, alone, on a space station with no memory of who he is or his mission. His memory returns in bursts and he pieces together that he was sent to the Tau Ceti solar system, 12 light-years from Earth, to reverse the impact of a space event that had already hurled our planet into the early stages of an Ice Age. As details of the mission unravel, Grace must call on all of his scientific training and sheer ingenuity, but he might not have to do it alone…
Mia (Emma Stone), an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian (Gosling), a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.
Ryan Gosling in ‘Drive.’ Photo: Richard Foreman Jr.
Driver (Gosling) is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he’s been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene (Carey Mulligan) and her young son, Benicio. When Irene’s husband (Oscar Isaac) gets out of jail, he enlists Driver’s help in a million-dollar heist. The job goes horribly wrong, and Driver must risk his life to protect Irene and Benicio from the vengeful masterminds (Albert Brooks and Ron Perlman) behind the robbery.
(L to R): Adam Baldwin, Summer Glau, Sean Maher, Nathan Fillion, Morena Baccarin, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Jewel State and Ron Glass in ‘Firefly’. Photo: 20th Century Television.
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An animated revival of cult series ‘Firefly’ is in the works.
Nathan Fillion revealed the news.
The original show, created by Joss Whedon, ran for one season.
The original series, as created by Whedon in 2002, ran for all of one season before being unceremoniously cancelled by the Fox TV network. It returned in movie form with ‘Serenity’ in 2005, but the film didn’t do well enough at the box office spawn sequels.
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Now, Fillion –– who has been teasing fans via social media videos featuring his former castmates –– has revealed that a revival of the show is in development in animated form.
(L to R): Nathan Fillion and Gina Torres in ‘Firefly’. Photo: 20th Century Television.
All we really know at this point that the narrative would pick up between the end of the show and the movie. Set 500 years into the future during a global civil war, ‘Firefly’ charted the whereabouts of spaceship Serenity and its nine crew members in the year 2517.
When will the ‘Firefly’ animated series be on screens?
With this new show still in early development, and no official studio/streamer home announced (though surely Hulu is the natural place for it), there’s no word on when or even if it’ll land. You can’t stop the signal!
The spaceship Serenity in ‘Firefly’. Photo: 20th Century Television.
Selected Movies and TV Shows Featuring Nathan Fillion:
Jeff Bridges, Allison Janney and Jesse Eisenberg will voice characters in ‘Minions & Monsters’.
It’s the latest ‘Despicable Me’ spin-off featuring the chattering creatures.
The movie will arrive on July 1.
There’s no keeping those Minions down. The chattering characters from the ‘Despicable Me’ franchise who have had a few of their own spin-off movies are back later this year for another new entry, ‘Minions & Monsters’.
A prequel to 2010’s ‘Despicable Me’ and sequel to 2022’s ‘Minions: The Rise of Gru,’ the newest adventure is set in the world of 1920s Hollywood as the yellow underlings work to find the lead of their monster movie.
Described as “rambunctious, ridiculous and totally true,” the story follows how the Minions conquered the entertainment industry and became movie stars… only to lose everything and unleash monsters onto the world before they banded together to save the planet from their mayhem.
When will ‘Monsters & Minions’ be in theaters?
Universal has confirmed a July 1 release date for the new animated outing.
Originally conceived and scripted by Bryan Woods and Scott Beck (with Krasinski working on the script when he agreed to direct and star), the first ‘A Quiet Place’ follows a family (Krasinski, real-life wife Emily Blunt and two kids) surviving in the aftermath of an alien invasion by blind aliens with incredibly powerful hearing who hunt and kill humans.
That movie enjoyed $50.2 million opening weekend, and a near $153M domestic and $341M global take, and received an Oscar nomination for Sound Editing.
It saw its release pushed due to Covid, but brought the box office back alive during Memorial Day weekend 2021 with a $57M four-day start, ending with a $160M domestic and $297.3M global haul. A prequel, ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’, arrived in 2024, directed by Michael Sarnoski.
When will ‘A Quiet Place: Part III’ be on screens?
The movie is set for a July 30, 2027 release date.
(L to R) John Krasinski as Lee Abbott, and Noah Jupe as Marcus Abbott in ‘A Quiet Place.’
Nicholas Brendon in ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’. Photo: 20th Century Fox Television.
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Nicholas Brendon has died at the age of 54.
He was best known for his breakout role as Xander Harris on the cult-favorite series ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer.’
In later years, he became an advocate for mental health awareness, sharing his personal challenges with candor.
Nicholas Brendon, the actor who rose to prominence as the witty and loyal Xander Harris on the beloved supernatural drama ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer,’ has died at the age of 54.
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A statement from his family read:
“We are heartbroken to share the passing of our brother and son, Nicholas Brendon. He passed in his sleep of natural causes. Most people know Nicky for his work as an actor and for the characters he brought to life over the years. In recent years Nicky has found his passion in painting and art. Nicky loved to share his enthusiastic talent with his family, friends and fans. He was passionate, sensitive, and endlessly driven to create. Those who truly knew him understood that his art was one of the purest reflections of who he was.”
(L to R) Nicholas Brendon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan and Anthony Head in ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’. Photo: 20th Century Fox Television.
Born April 12, 1971, in Los Angeles, California, Nicholas Brendon Schulz discovered acting after overcoming a childhood stutter. He pursued performance in his early twenties, eventually landing guest roles before his big break.
That breakthrough came in 1997 when he was cast as Xander Harris on ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer.’ The series ran for seven seasons and became a defining show of its era, with Brendon’s humor and heart making him a fan favorite.
Nicholas Brendon: A Life in Film and Television
(L to R) Charisma Carpenter and Nicholas Brendon in ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’. Photo: 20th Century Fox Television.
Following ‘Buffy,’ Brendon appeared in films and television, including a recurring role on ‘Criminal Minds.’ He also worked in independent projects and remained a regular presence at fan conventions.
Nicholas Brendon: Offscreen
Brendan looked to maintain his privacy in his offscreen life, though he did face some publicized struggles with substance abuse and mental illness.
He will still be remembered by fans for the joy his characters brought them.
Nicholas Brendon in ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’. Photo: 20th Century Fox Television.
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