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South China Morning Post
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Crazy Rich Asians movie co-stars ‘excited' as Max develops TV series, Henry Golding says
Henry Golding revealed he has reconnected with several of his Crazy Rich Asians collaborators as the hit film, based on author Kevin Kwan's book trilogy, gets a future on the small screen. Advertisement Golding, who starred as affluent heartthrob Nick Young in the 2018 film, this week told the Today show on US television that he recently reunited with co-stars Awkwafina and Gemma Chan, on separate occasions, and discussed the series currently in development at Max. 'Everyone is excited,' he said. The Snake Eyes and Another Simple Favor actor said he met Awkwafina 'the other night' and 'not too long ago' reconnected with Chan and Crazy Rich Asians co-writer Adele Lim in London 'to sort of discuss where we're heading'. Michelle Yeoh, Henry Golding and Constance Wu in a scene from the film Crazy Rich Asians. Photo: Sanja Bucko/Warner Bros. Entertainment via AP Awkwafina as Peik Lin in a still from Crazy Rich Asians. Photo: Sanja Bucko/Warner Bros. Entertainment Crazy Rich Asians, directed by Jon M. Chu and co-written by Lim and Peter Chiarelli, touted an all-Asian cast and was a watershed moment for under-represented voices in Hollywood.
San Francisco Chronicle
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Ryan Coogler's ‘Sinners' resurrects 2025 box office with record-breaking $63 million
On Easter weekend, ' Sinners ' was enthusiastically embraced by moviegoers, adding to the April resurrection of the 2025 box office. Oakland director Ryan Coogler's powerful allegory of racism in the Jim Crow South disguised as a muscular, sexy vampire film pulled in $63 million globally, including $48 million in North America, in its opening weekend that ended on Sunday, April 20. The amount exceeded expectations and is the most that an original movie — that is, one not based on another source — has earned during its opening weekend in the 2020s. It is the best start for any original film since Jordan Peele's 'Us' opened to $71.1 million in pre-pandemic 2019. 'Sinners' even supplanted the phenomenal hit ' A Minecraft Movie,' which earned $40.5 million domestically in its third week and cruised past the $700 million mark globally, atop the North American box-office. 'As we continue to strive to bring an array of films to moviegoers, we are thrilled to see how Ryan Coogler's original movie Sinners, and a movie based on the fan favorite Minecraft game, have resonated with audiences in such a stellar way,' Warner Bros. Entertainment chairperson Michael De Luca and CEO Pamela Abdy said in a statement. 'Movies have the power to transport us to worlds only seen on the big screen, and Warner Bros. Pictures remains committed to bringing singular in-theater experiences to audiences looking for bold movies, both original and those based on beloved existing properties.' 'Sinners' might have theatrical staying power, too. It has one more week left in IMAX, and the film received an A Cinemascore — the highest audience-approval rating for an original, R-rated horror movie ever — which bodes well for word-of-mouth success. On review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, it currently holds an approval rating of 98% among critics and 97% with audiences. In 'Sinners,' Michael B. Jordan plays a double role as twins who return to their Mississippi hometown wealthy and hoping to open a nightclub, but trouble brews. Hailee Steinfeld and Oakland resident Delroy Lindo co-star. Chronicle contributor Michael Ordoña called the film a 'banger' and said Jordan 'exudes genuine movie-star presence.' ''Sinners' defies convention by taking its time to get to the creepiness and violence. There's genuine care applied to building characters and relationships before sinking its teeth into horror elements,' Ordoña wrote in his Chronicle review of the film. This latest success makes clear that Coogler is a filmmaker who can draw in audiences. His first four films — ' Fruitvale Station ' (2013), ' Creed ' (2015), ' Black Panther ' (2018) and ' Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ' (2022) — all earned multiple times their budgets at the theatrical box office. 'Sinners' is in Bay Area theaters, including at AMC Metreon 16 in San Francisco, one of eight theaters in the country showing it in 70mm IMAX, and the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland, which is one of five theaters screening it in 70MM.
USA Today
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Mike Epps confirms final 'Friday' installment is happening after years of speculation
Mike Epps confirms final 'Friday' installment is happening after years of speculation Ice Cube, a co-writer of the 'Friday' films, said in 2024 that the holdup on the fourth installment was due to disagreements with its distributor, Warner Bros. Entertainment. Show Caption Hide Caption 'Anora,' Adrien Brody and the full Oscars recap USA TODAY's Ralphie Aversa recaps the 97th Academy Awards from Los Angeles, where 'Anora' was the night's big winner. Following years of speculation, comedian Mike Epps seemingly confirmed that a "Last Friday" film is happening. Epps, who co-starred in "Next Friday" and "Friday After Next" alongside rapper and writer Ice Cube, announced the new film while appearing as a guest on Power 105.1's "The Breakfast Club" on Tuesday. "So, we doin' the last 'Friday' man," Epps said on the radio show. The 54-year-old also gave praise to Ice Cube during the interview, saying: 'Shoutout to Cube, man. That's another brother that's put so many brothers on, man. Man, this dude put so many — and don't really get the props for it. Put me, Chris Tucker, Bernie Mac, I mean name 'em." Numerous actors and comedians became household names in Hollywood after appearing in either "Friday," or the movie's two sequels, including Epps, Bernie Mac, Katt Williams, Chris Tucker, Faizon Love, John Witherspoon, Nia Long, Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr. and Regina King. Although Epps confirmed that a deal had been done for "Last Friday," he acknowledged that he had not read the film's script. 'But I'm pretty sure it's good,' the comedian said. New Line Cinema, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, produced and distributed all three "Friday" films. USA TODAY contacted Warner Bros. on Tuesday but did not receive an immediate response. Will Chris Tucker be in the final 'Friday' film? Epps is hopeful that the film can bring back some of the returning cast while also introducing "new comics," specifically namedropping comedian D.C. Young Fly. One individual Epps said the film needs is Chris Tucker, who during an interview with All Urban Central in 2021 said he decided against returning to the franchise because he felt his character promoted weed smoking. "Back then, I gotta tell you, one of the reasons why I didn't do the second one was because of the weed," Tucker said in 2021. "Because I said, 'Man, that movie became a phenomenon, I don't want everybody smoking weed.' And I never really told people this because I kind of forgot about it, but it was one of the reasons why I didn't do it. Because I said, 'I don't wanna represent everybody smoking weed.'" Tucker did entertain returning for a fourth installment at a point, telling All Urban Central: "I always said, because I know my fans love the movies so much (and) they always bring it up, I said, "Well, if they come to me with a great script and a great idea, I'd definitely consider it.' But it's been so long ago and that character became such a great character. I don't wanna mess it up." When will 'Last Friday' be released? There has not been a definitive timeline or announcement of the film aside from Epps and other stars saying it is in the works, including Cube and Williams just last year. During an interview on former NFL quarterback Cam Newton's "Funky Friday" YouTube show, Cube spoke on "Last Friday" and blamed the film's stagnant development on disagreements with studio executives at Warner Bros. Entertainment. 'With a 'Friday' movie, I don't want no studio telling me how to do this movie. I know these characters, know this culture and everything; I know what it needs to be, and they don't,' Cube told Newton. Disagreements aside, Cube said he and others will "do what we need to make it dope, make it funny (and) bring it up to date." Williams, who played the character Money Mike in "Friday After Next," told sports broadcaster and former NFL player Shannon Sharpe that he was supposed to have been helping Cube write the script for the movie.
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Warner Bros is sharing select movies for free on YouTube
Over the past several weeks, Warner Bros. Entertainment has been uploading a selection of full movies to a playlist on YouTube. It's an odd move, considering parent Warner Bros. Discovery also owns the increasingly pricey streaming service Max. But free is free, so the company can be odd as much as it wants! It'd be easy to assume this is where the studio is putting its less prestigious back catalog, just to see if it can rake in some ad revenue from an unexpected source. And there is some impressively terrible stuff in the playlist, including a 1988 Bobcat Goldthwait vehicle that achieved the rare 0 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But this isn't just a digital dumping ground for bad movies. Quality films such as Waiting for Guffman (from the hilarious Christopher Guest), The Science of Sleep (directed by Michel Gondry) and The Mission (starring Robert DeNiro and Jeremy Irons) are all currently available in full on the YouTube playlist. It's tough to gauge exactly why Warner Bros. would be taking this route, or how the company is selecting movies to release. Maybe it's a response to business debts. Maybe it's a licensing issue. Whatever the reason, the TL;DR is that there are some fascinating movies you can stream for free, and new titles are being added every week.
