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Composer Harry Gregson-Williams understood the assignment when director Ridley Scott asked him to score “Gladiator 2.” “It was to embody the spiritual essence of the first film, but move forward into a fresh new world,” Gregson-Williams explains. In early talks with Scott, Gregson-Williams also knew he would have to compose at least 100 minutes of […]

“Wicked” debuted to $164.2 million at the global box office, a towering figure that includes $50.1 million in overseas ticket sales. Universal’s big-budget adaptation of the hit musical was far bigger in North America with $114 million, ranking as the third-biggest domestic debut of the year and the best ever for a Broadway adaptation.

Midway through his snarling Drake diss, “Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar issued a succinct, but forceful personal mandate: “Sometimes you gotta pop out and show n—as.” It was both a plan of action and a self-fulfilling mandate.  Since then, he’s won that rap beef in the most unequivocal terms imaginable: “Not Like Us” has been […]

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains major spoilers from “Interior Chinatown,” now streaming on Hulu. Chloe Bennet knows what it is like to straddle two worlds — both in life and on television. For seven seasons, the Chinese American actor starred as Daisy Johnson/Quake in ABC’s “Marvel’s Agents of S. H.

Jurors at the EnergaCamerimage cinematography fest say the Golden Frog main competition films have been remarkably varied and inspiring in the event’s 32nd edition. The 12 competing films “were radically different from each other,” said “Barbie” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, whose directorial debut, “Pedro Paramo,” is also screening at the […]

If you care to find “Wicked,” look to the top of box office charts. Universal’s adaptation of Act One (with some padding) of the popular Broadway musical was No. 1 in North America with $114 million from 3,888 theaters over the weekend. Those dazzling ticket sales rank as the third-biggest domestic debut of the year […]