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Sony’s long-in-the-works video game adaptation “Uncharted” collected $44.1 million between Friday and Sunday, enough to lead domestic box office charts and solidify Tom Holland’s star power.

The big-budget action adventure has been positioned as a key test of Holland’s bankability outside of his blockbuster success as Spider-Man. “Uncharted” has received mixed reviews at best, so it’s safe to assume the 25-year-old British actor had a healthy hand in selling tickets. It also helps that “Uncharted” is rated PG-13 and based on an extremely popular video game series.

Directed by Ruben Fleischer, who previously returned for a “Zombieland” sequel after leading Tom Hardy’s “Venom” to box office glory, “Uncharted” is expected to earn $52 million from 4,275 North American theaters through the President’s Day holiday on Monday. It’s an impressive start for Covid times, but it doesn’t mean the film has an easy path to profitability.

The Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild held its ninth annual awards ceremony Saturday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

“Coming 2 America” dominated the night, taking home the awards for best contemporary make-up and hairstyling, in a surprise win, beating out Oscar frontrunners like “Dune,” “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” and “House of Gucci” for best special make-up effects.

On the TV front, “American Horror Stories,” “Dancing With the Stars” “Emily in Paris,” “Pose,” “Genius: Aretha,” “Legendary,” “Saturday Night Live” and “Star Trek: Discovery” all took home awards.

“The Kelly Clarkson Show” won in the daytime television category for both make-up and hair. Children/teen program honors went to “Danger Force” for both make-up and hair categories.

Actress Melissa Peterman served as host for the night, emceeing to a 600 strong crowd with Covid protocols in place. The Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild partnered with Vow, a top US government-contracted

“Uncharted” is looking to climb to the top of the domestic box office in its opening weekend. Ruben Fleischer’s adventure film is projected to earn $45 million over the four-day Presidents’ Day weekend — a tally that would notch it as the biggest theatrical opening of 2022 so far.

Sony Pictures’ “Uncharted” earned $15.4 million on Friday from 4,275 locations, setting itself up for a No. 1 debut. The Tom Holland vehicle marks the box office’s biggest opening since the star’s last film, “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” which dominated the holiday season to become the third highest-grossing domestic film release in history.

After anchoring a Marvel trilogy, “Uncharted” is seen as a test of Holland’s box office appeal outside of spandex. The film marks his first starring role in a non-Marvel theatrical blockbuster, apart from last spring’s “Chaos Walking,” which sat on Lionsgate’s shelf for years and hardly made any

Sony Pictures has a stacked lineup for the Christmas box office this year, with Tom Hanks’ upcoming film “A Man Called Otto” and the Whitney Houston biopic “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” releasing within days of each other.

“A Man Called Otto,” which was acquired by Sony last week for $60 million out of the European Film Market, will debut in theaters on Christmas Day. TriStar Pictures’ “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” starring Naomi Ackie as Houston, has now moved from Dec. 23 to Dec. 21.

Based on Fredrik Backman’s bestselling novel, “A Man Called Otto” tells the story of a grumpy and strict widower who holds the rest of his neighborhood to his staunch rules. But just as Otto is about to give up on his life, he sparks a new friendship with his neighbors, prompting him to undergo a transformation. The film is directed by Marc Forster, with David Magee adapting the screenplay.

Netflix has set a mid-year release date for “Thar,” a revenge thriller film starring and produced by Anil Kapoor.

Marking the feature directorial debut of screenwriter Raj Singh Chaudhary, the 1980s-set film follows the story of a man who moves to a big town to seek a job and to avenge his past.

Alongside Kapoor, the film also stars Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor, Fatima Sana Shaikh and Satish Kaushik.

The screenplay is credited to Chaudhury, with dialog by Chaudhary and Anurag Kashyap. Cinematography is by Shreya Dev Dube and music direction by Ajay Jayanthi.

“The genre itself – a noir thriller set in Rajasthan that pays tribute to the genre of the classic Western is a first for Indian cinema and audiences. ‘Thar’ is a playground where the dynamism of new blood meets the experience of industry stalwarts, both on and off screen,” said Kapoor, who produced through his Anil Kapoor Film Company Network.

“The Battle at Lake Changjin II” continued its domination of the mainland Chinese box office into a third week. But cinemagoing activity continued to slow down after peaking at the beginning of the month with the Lunar New Year holidays.

Hollywood new release “Death on the Nile” did not have enough impact to make it beyond fourth place or to change the overall direction of the market.

“Lake Changjin II” earned $19.8 million over the weekend, according to data from consultancy Artisan Gateway. That lifted its total to $589 million since opening on Feb. 1, 2022.

Chinese comedy “Too Cool to Kill” held on to second place with $17.4 million, good for a cumulative of $374 million. Drama “Nice View” earned $113 million, for a cumulative of $193 million.

“Death on the Nile” was a step lower, earning $5.9 million in its opening three days. Ticketing agency Maoyan forecasts that the film will reach $13.5 million (RMB85.7 million) over the

On the list of things you theoretically shouldn’t do in a Christmas special, “a last-minute wedding cancellation” and “coming very close to killing off a beloved pet” are pretty high.

Yet, “All Creatures Great and Small” has done each in consecutive years and still delivered cozy, season-capping holiday episodes. It’s one of the show’s enduring charms that it can present such a happy atmosphere without skipping over some serious issues.

“We’re trying to find a story that’s heartwarming, but also the emotionally layered story for Christmas that sort of lifts you up,” series writer Ben Vanstone said, also acknowledging, “For me, there’s always a slight sadness associated with Christmas.”

That sadness was enhanced somewhat during the 2020 Christmas season when, like many during that time, Vanstone was unable to visit his family. Working during that time, he wrote a storyline for veterinarian protagonist James Herriot

It's showtime at East Highland High this week, and the myopic kids of "Euphoria" are finally seeing themselves from another perspective. Lexi's play takes over the entire seventh episode of the season, giving both the viewers and the characters clarity while shaking up the already-fragile dynamic of the show's central friend group.

By episode's end, Cassie is breathing ominously against the theater door window, looking like she may actually want to kill Lexi -- or Maddy? Aside from her and Nate's fight, though, this episode is mostly an enjoyable (if surprisingly late-in-the-season) break from the drama. Though she's certainly capable of getting serious, teen playwright Lexi's...

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The HBO series “Euphoria” has become a cultural phenomenon thanks to its talented and charismatic ensemble cast, controversial attitudes toward teen sex and drug use, and trend-setting approach to fashion and makeup. All of that tends to obscure the show’s ground-breaking visual style, but that style is every bit as instrumental to the show’s success as Zendaya’s Emmy-winning performance as Rue. In finding the precise cinematic language to express Rue’s struggles with addiction and the roiling interior tensions of Rue’s classmates and parents, creator Sam Levinson (who directed all the episodes in Season 2) has turned “Euphoria” into essential viewing for anyone interested in seeing how far television can push visual and aural grammar. From the insanely creative needle drops to intricately choreographed Steadicam shots that would make “Magnolia”-era Paul Thomas Anderson jealous, “Euphoria” is the place to find 2022’s boldest and most inspiring filmmaking.

The U.S.-made action adventure film “Uncharted” took a comfortable first place a the South Korean box office on its first weekend of release.

“Uncharted” took $2.12 million between Friday and Sunday, grabbing 53% of the total Korean market, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic). Over five days since its Wednesday opening, the film earned $3.00 million.

Second place belonged to another new release, Japanese animation “Jujutsu Kaisen Zero: The Movie.” The TV to film adaptation took $802,000 over the weekend and $1.29 million over its opening four days since Thursday.

The performance of the foreign-made new release titles lifted the overall Korean box office over the weekend period to $4.00 million, up from the previous $3 million session total.

Numbers, however, remain deeply depressed and are likely to remain low for as long as Korean films stay on the sidelines of their home market. The only

The rollout of “And Just Like That…” has been rough, to say the least. HBO Max’s reboot of “Sex and the City was one of the streamer’s most anticipated new titles, but the series has been plagued with problems. The reboot debuted to abysmal reviews, with many fans lamenting the changes made to the beloved characters. But the real trouble began when Chris Noth, who plays Carrie’s longtime love interest Mr. Big, was accused of sexual assault by multiple women. He was ultimately edited out of the season finale, and he is not the only prominent cast member missing from the show. Kim Cattrall, known for playing Samantha Jones, did not participate in the revival due to her public feud with Sarah Jessica Parker.

The troubled show received more bad news this week when Candace Bushnell, who wrote the book of the same name that inspired “Sex and the City,

It’s official: the winter belongs to Tom Holland, the rest of us are just living in it. A mere ten weeks after the blockbuster launch of Spider-Man: No Way Home, the 25-year-old British actor (or should we now say “star”?) returned to the top of the box-office chart with his second out-of-the-gate smash of the season—the Indiana Jones-esque videogame adaptation Uncharted, which debuted over President’s Day weekend to a projected $51 million after Monday is factored in. Meanwhile, just a notch below in second place, Channing Tatum’s feel-good man-and-his-best-friend road movie, Dog, sunk its canines into an $18 million opening holiday frame while the less-cuddly four-legged flick, The Cursed, barely managed to nose its way into the top ten with a $1.9 million bow.

A prequel of sorts to Sony’s hit treasure-hunting videogame series, Uncharted was always expected to open in first place. Still, few expected the

(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they've been watching, why it's worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)

The Series: "Firebite"

Where You Can Watch It: AMC+

The Pitch: Indigenous "bloodhunters" kill vampires with boomerangs in abandoned mine shafts in the Australian desert. Are you sold yet, or are you (un)dead inside?

"Firebite" is one of those shows that came and went without much buzz as the Internet's focus was scattered across a million streaming platforms. It's as if we've all become lost down a vast network of opal mine holes in the desert, much like the vampire victims...

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Get ready to inject some Compound V into your veins, as Amazon Prime's "The Boys" season 3 trailer will be out soon, according to showrunner Eric Kripke. In a recent tweet on Kripke's official Twitter account, the writer-director announced that the filming process has almost come to an end, and fans can expect the first trailer "in a few weeks." Check out the entire tweet below, complete with a Gif of Homelander (Antony Starr) drinking, erm, breast milk:

While a teaser trailer for season 3 of "The Boys" has already been released during the announcement of...

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It looks like FX will not be making a series with "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner after all. A project by the writer-director was first announced in 2020, but The Hollywood Reporter now confirms that the show will not go forward.

The new series, which was billed as a half-hour dramedy, received backlash upon its first announcement due to a prior sexual harassment allegation made against Weiner. Little is known about the series, but it was originally set to feature Weiner as a writer, director, and executive producer. It would have been Weiner's first project since the 2018 Amazon Prime limited series "The...

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Ah, Paddington — the little Peruvian-British bear who single-handedly distributes serotonin to the masses every few years. Thankfully, it's been confirmed that the hotly anticipated "Paddington 3" will begin shooting by the end of 2022, meaning that the charming little bear is effectively en-route to warm our hearts (and stimulate our tear ducts) once more.

Though Paul King, who brilliantly helmed the first two "Paddington" installments, won't be involved in the forthcoming film, it's still safe to say that this news is exciting nonetheless. While we patiently await the latest tale of a marmalade-snarfing bear and the Brown family that takes him in...

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HBO Max's "Hacks" is one of the best new comedies on television, and the Emmy-winning series is set to return for a second season sometime in the (hopefully near) future. Now, in an extensive interview with Variety, the series' showrunners dropped hints about what legendary comedian Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) will be up to when the show returns.

As a refresher, season 1 of "Hacks" ended with Deborah heading on tour for the first time in years after losing her Las Vegas residency. At her side is Ava (Hannah Einbinder), the disgraced young comedy writer who eventually bonded with Deborah despite...

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Looks like Supergirl's Melissa Benoist will (potentially) be continuing her collaboration with Greg Berlanti. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Benoist is in talks to star in HBO Max's freshly-ordered drama series, "Girls on the Bus." The show will be executive produced by Berlanti, who previously exec produced the CBS-turned-cw series, "Supergirl," wherein Benoist assumed the titular role. Apart from donning the cape of Supergirl (who sports some sick near-invulnerability), Benoist is also known for her roles in "Glee," "Whiplash," and "Patriots Day."

"Girls on the Bus" is inspired by a particular chapter in Amy Chozick's bestselling book, "Chasing Hillary," which...

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Even after a three-decade Hollywood career that won her an Oscar and two Emmys, Patricia Arquette is still synonymous with “True Romance.” Her role as Alabama Whitman, a call girl who marries a client and ends up tangled in a web of crime after the newlyweds steal a shipment of cocaine, launched Arquette into the mainstream. The cult film’s pop culture status has only grown in the 29 years since its release, as it is now seen as an essential 1990s movie and a perennial inspiration for Instagram Halloween costumes.

The film’s content was shocking to some viewers at the time of its release, particularly due to its excessive violence and abundant pop culture references. Both are trademarks of screenwriter Quentin Tarantino, who was a new filmmaker at the time, having only directed “Reservoir Dogs” when “True Romance was released. While the film was directed by Tony Scott and

Here's some great news for anyone who, like me, wakes up with "good 4 u" stuck in their head most mornings: Olivia Rodrigo now has a making-of movie for her hit album "Sour," and it's debuting exclusively on Disney+.

The movie, titled "Olivia Rodrigo: driving home 2 u," will take viewers behind the scenes of the making of the 18-year-old pop star's super-popular first album, and will feature new arrangements of songs from "Sour." Press materials describe the movie as "an intimate road trip exploring the story behind 'Sour.'" This is a fitting format for the artist who was recently...

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