Wonka Reigns At Box Office, But The Color Purple Also Helps To End The Year On A High Note

Bob Iger is back at Disney, Bob Chapek is gone, and it seems basically everybody is very happy to hear it.

Despite a 68% drop from its opening weekend, Thor: Love and Thunder once again won the domestic weekend box office with $46 million in ticket sales.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has continued its reign atop the domestic weekend box office by bringing in $61 million in its second weekend.

Spider-Man: No Way Home's reign atop the domestic box office has been extended to three weeks following the latest MCU film earning another $52.7 million over the last weekend of 2021.

It's 2020, large portions of the country are literally on fire, and there's also civil unrest, the ever-growing rise of fascism, and of course a global pandemic — but that will not stop the Television Academy from giving out awards for the best television of 2020, goddamn it. And honestly, the question of who will win on Sunday night isn't a bad distraction right now, especially since ABC says there will be an alpaca named Isabella involved. Below are the nominees for this year's Primetime Emmy Awards, along with my humble predictions as to who will …

Six months after Netflix announced that The Crown would be coming to an end with Season 5, the streaming service is changing its mind. It was announced today that the Emmy-winning drama series will be extending its run with The Crown Season 6, which is now being planned as the show’s final season. Creator and executive producer Peter Morgan explained the change came about as a result of realizing they had too much story left to tell: “As we started to discuss the storylines for Series 5, it soon became clear that in order to do justice to …

Gotham Mad City "Better To Reign In Hell" gave Jim Gordon a season 3 makeover as a bounty hunter, in an episode that's quite eventful.

In the most long overdue news of the year, we’ll at last be treated to a competition show pitting human beings against their worthiest of predatory counterparts in Discovery Channel’s aptly titled Man vs. Bear, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “Humans will be entering the bear’s territory and take them on in a competition like never attempted,” said the network. Historically, bear/human competitions have been very one-sided, depending on the task. Hopefully this series will find level playing field between the two species, crowning a champion and thus finally putting to bed the age old …

Well, well, well, it looks like we're in for another interesting weekend at the box office as Dreamworks Animation's Abominable nabs the number one spot on Friday's chart. This win for the charming animated movie about three kids helping a yeti find its way home means Focus Features' Downton Abbey has been pushed to the second spot. Looking at the numbers, Abominable pulled in $5.7 million domestically and $800,000 in the first international markets (Australia, New Zealand, and Uruguay) it opened in for a $6.5 million worldwide gross on opening day. That domestic total …

Well, well, well, it looks like we're in for another interesting weekend at the box office as Dreamworks Animation's Abominable nabs the number one spot on Friday's chart. This win for the charming animated movie about three kids helping a yeti find its way home means Focus Features' Downton Abbey has been pushed to the second spot. Looking at the numbers, Abominable pulled in $5.7 million domestically and $800,000 in the first international markets (Australia, New Zealand, and Uruguay) it opened in for a $6.5 million worldwide gross on opening day. That domestic total …

Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones is an old school CRPG which just might be the most accurate recreation of Lovecraftian mythology in any video game.

WWE stars Becky Lynch and Roman Reigns will join the animated comedy Rumble, which takes place in a world where monster wrestling is a global sport.

Disney has been at the top of the box office for years now, in big part thanks to Marvel, and its reign began in 2012 thanks to a deal with Paramount.

Top WWE star and multi-time WrestleMania headliner "The Big Dog" Roman Reigns reportedly signs a new multi-year contract with the company.

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Becky Lynch and Roman Reigns are the cover stars of the latest installment in 2K’s long-running WWE series. The game releases on October 22nd.

In their first match as a team, The Undertaker and Roman Reigns defeat Shane McMahon & Drew McIntyre in a No Holds Barred match at WWE Extreme Rules.