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Sony Pictures(NEW YORK) -- Hotel Transylvania: Summer Vacation topped the weekend box office, delivering $44.1 million in its debut, including Thursday-evening previews,  Adding $1.27 million from Amazon Prime showings on June 30, the animated feature -- starring the voices of Adam Sandler, Selena Gomez and Andy Samberg -- has earned over $45 million stateside. However, that number falls short of the $48.5 million Hotel Transylvania 2 earned in 2015. Disney/Marvel's Ant-Man […]

Photo by Raymond Hall/GC Images(NEW YORK) -- Harvey Weinstein's lawyer has claimed the disgraced Hollywood mogul was misquoted in an interview published in the Spectator on Friday in which he appeared to admit having traded movie roles for sex. Weinsten is quoted in the interview with the Spectator's Taki Theodoracopulos, as saying, “I was born poor, ugly, Jewish and had to fight all my life to get somewhere…no girl looked […]

Courtesy of © Carnival Film and Television Limited for MASTERPIECE(LONDON) -- Lords and ladies rejoice! Downtown Abbey is returning as a movie, with its original cast set to reprise their roles in the period piece. "Welcome back to Downton," the series' Twitter account posted, along with a picture of a butler holding a letter that reads, "We cordially invite you to return to Downton Abbey. Only in cinemas."  Production is scheduled to begin "this summer," […]

Photo by Robert Marquardt/WireImage(LOS ANGELES) -- After nearly a decade, Zombieland stars Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg and Abigail Breslin are reuniting for the sequel, Zombieland 2, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The 2009 horror comedy road movie followed four strangers that meet on the road during a post-apocalyptic zombie outbreak. The sequel will reportedly find the group contending with newer, more evolved zombies, as well as new human […]

ABC/Heidi Gutman(LOS ANGELES) -- Scarlett Johansson has apologized and announced she will no longer play a trans character in a drama called Rub and Tug, following backlash that a trans actor wasn't filling the role.  The film follows the real-life story of Dante “Tex” Gill, who ran a massage parlor and prostitution ring in Pittsburgh in the 1970s and '80s. Johansson had initially been defensive about the static the casting […]

Saban Films(NEW YORK) -- Keanu Reeves finds revenge is a dish served as cold as the Russian region that shares its name in his new movie Siberia. The film, which hits theaters and video-on-demand today, has the John Wick star playing an American diamond dealer who gets in over his head with some supremely unsavory clients. While John Wick would be well-equipped to deal with a deal gone bad, Reeves' […]

iStock/Thinkstock(SAN BRUNO, Ca) -- YouTube TV is apologizing for Wednesday's internet-streaming outage during the World Cup semifinal match between England and Croatia, and is now offering a free week of service to subscribers, according to an email obtained by Deadline.  “We’re really sorry for the recent YouTube TV outage during the FIFA World Cup Semifinal,” Thursday's email reads. “To help make this right, we’d like to offer you a week of free service. You’ll […]

Sony Pictures(NEW YORK) -- Here are the movies opening nationwide Friday: * Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation -- The third film in the 3D-animated franchise picks up a few months after the last one, with Dracula -- once again voiced by Adam Sandler -- taking the family on vacation, where he ends up falling in love.  Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, David Spade, Steve Buscemi, Keegan-Michael Key, Molly Shannon, Fran […]

Photo by 20th Century-Fox/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- On Saturday, the comedy that made us think differently about romantic comedies --- and hair gel -- turns 20 years old. Sibling directors Peter and Bobby Farrelly's follow up to their gross-out comedy hits Dumb and Dumber and Kingpin, There's Something About Mary upped the ante in the over-the-top gag department -- like that infamous prom night zipper mishap -- but hid a […]