Jo Koy (with his son Joseph Jr. beside him) and his whole team at the red carpet premiere of his movie ‘Easter Sunday’ Filipino-American comedian Jo Koy arrived in Manila on Aug. 30 to a triumphant welcome, and he brought with him the best news of all: his movie Easter Sunday is also “the first […]
Lego: Melbourne store Brickville specialises in second-hand and retired Lego
Sean McConville is madly packing 200 bags of Lego bricks. It’s a big week: he’s preparing to open a second venue for his four-month-old store this weekend. As McConville explains, Lego is hot property. The 49-year-old’s unique Kensington shop, Brickville, trades and sells second-hand and discontinued Lego. It’s been a success, drawing people from across […]
World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés is the subject of a new Ron Howard documentary, “We Feed People”
“We Feed People” wrapped before Andrés went to Ukraine, where he began by distributing soup, tea and flour. That work has expanded to eight countries, serving more than 24 million meals in Ukraine alone and engaging nearly 500 restaurants, food trucks and caterers over 3,000 distribution points. Andrés is eager to get back to the […]
J.K. Rowling Has Been Getting Heat From Left and Right
Some millennials are still waiting for their Hogwarts letter more than two decades after Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was released in the United States. The book topped the New York Times bestsellers list, and its sequels were enormously popular too. But not everyone raced to join Dumbledore’s Army. The book that launched a media empire also held […]
‘RRR’ Is a Big Success for India’s Other Movie Factory: Tollywood
No media source currently available Pop-out player India’s film industry is one of the biggest in the world, producing on average 2,000 movies a year. But few of them become popular among Western moviegoers. Indian film director S.S. Rajamouli calls that a “disappointment.” “We have a long tradition of storytelling in India. We have probably […]
J.K. Rowling Will Not Return for HBO Max’s ‘Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts,’ But Will Be In Archival Footage
Where to Stream: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Powered by Reelgood J.K. Rowling will not partake in any of the reunion festivities involved with the upcoming Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts… Sort of. After HBO Max teased the special’s guests — including original cast members Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint, as […]
See Janelle Monáe in First Look at New Netflix Movie Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
The first images have arrived from Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the new Netflix murder mystery in which Janelle Monáe stars alongside Daniel Craig and Edward Norton. Check out the cast above and, below, Monáe working with director Rian Johnson. The film, which follows 2019’s Knives Out (and is billed as a follow-up rather […]
‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ Looks Like 2022’s Sexiest Biopic
Teenagers these days will never understand the glory of sneaking out after curfew, crashing a ride with your friends, and heading to the most coveted event of the week: a polka party. Remember the good old days? In the new trailer for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, a young Al Yankovic (David Bloom) faces the […]
A new company called ‘Nintendo Studios’ has been spotted in official records
A new company named ‘Nintendo Studios’ has been spotted in copyright listings for the upcoming Super Mario animated movie. Although the listings appear to have been present on the United States Copyright Office website for some time, they were only recently spotted by Twitter user MichaelO2k. The listings show copyright records for the upcoming Mario […]
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore – Media Play News
John Latchem July 10, 2022 4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY REVIEW: Warner; Fantasy; Box Office $ 95.85 million; $34.98; $39.98 Blu-ray; $49.98 UHD BD; Rated ‘PG-13’ for some fantasy action/violence. Stars Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Ezra Miller, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, William Nadylam, Callum Turner, Jessica Williams, Victoria Yeates, Mads Mikkelsen. The third “Fantastic Beasts” movie […]