Category: Entertainment

Spider-Man: Brand New Day continues to fly high in its third weekend at the box office as it fends off newcomers The End of Oak Street and PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie.

Sony Pictures‘ Brand New Day pulled in $19 million on Friday as it heads to $67 million, which will top the domestic box office for its third consecutive frame. This would bring the Tom Holland-led feature’s North American total to $782.8 million for its first 17 days to stand at No. 5 on the all-time domestic chart, just behind Avatar at $785.2 million and topping the No. 6 total of $718 million for Top Gun: Maverick.

Warner Bros.’ dinosaur-centric sci-fi survival feature The End of Oak Street grossed $8.1 million on Friday, including Thursday previews, as it eyes an opening weekend around $20 million. Earning a B CinemaScore from audiences, David Robert Mitchell‘s film launched in 3,400 North American theaters and carries an $80 million production budget.

Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor star in the movie about a family in the early 1980s whose suburban neighborhood has landed in a place teeming with prehistoric predators. It holds an 85 percent Rotten Tomatoes approval rating from critics, while its audience score stands at 77. In his review of The End of Oak Street for The Hollywood Reporter, chief film critic David Rooney called the movie “mindlessly entertaining in a big-dumb-fun kind of way.”

PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie chased down $7.3 million on Friday, including previews on Thursday and last Saturday, as Paramount Pictures now expects it to also land in the vicinity of $20 million domestically for its opening weekend. Earning an A CinemaScore from audiences to match what the previous sequel PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie received, Dino Movie opened in more than 3,500 locations in North America and has added $38.3 million from 52 overseas markets. It has a $39.5 million production budget.

Carter Young, Mckenna Grace, Terry Crews, Jennifer Hudson and Snoop Dogg are among the voice stars for director Cal Brunker’s film that brings the Paw Patrol canine heroes to a world containing dinosaurs. The previous sequel, 2023’s The Mighty Movie, opened to $22.7 million domestically in late September. That project’s $205 million global run improved upon the $144 million worldwide total for 2021’s original PAW Patrol: The Movie, which adapted the series that first launched on Nick Jr. in 2013.

PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie holds an 84 percent critics score on Rotten Tomatoes. THR critic Frank Scheck wrote that, “while the material is thoroughly juvenile, the films impart valuable messages to their impressionable viewers.”

With Oak Street and Dino Movie battling it out for third place, Universal’s The Odyssey will remain at No. 2 in its fifth weekend as it looks to collect $23 million to bring its domestic cume to $504.4 million.

During the week, Spider-Man: Brand New Day added to its array of records as director Destin Daniel Cretton‘s movie became the fastest title to swing past the $700 million mark at the domestic box office.

More to come.

Ahsoka is heading back to the small screen, with the first look at season two of the Star Wars series arriving during D23 Friday.

In the footage, Ashsoka trains with a force ghost of Anakin Skywalker as she embarks on new challenges, declaring, “We’re in more danger than I thought.” She’s seen in climates all around the galaxy, navigating with support from her wide-ranging group of space friends and being pushed to her limit. Anakin pushes her at one moment, “Are you a Jedi or not?”

The season will bow in early 2027 on Disney+.

Per the logline, “As Ahsoka and her Jedi apprentice Sabine Wren travel across a mysterious and perilous world to find their way home, their friends Hera, Ezra, Zeb, and Chopper, must face the powerful Grand Admiral Thrawn and his sinister allies, who seek to plunge the New Republic into war.”

Rosario Dawson returns to lead the series as the title Jedi hero. Hayden Christensen will return as Anakin, while the role of Baylan Skoll will be played by Game of Thrones alum Rory McCann, who steps in for the late Ray Stevenson.

Season one of the show also starred Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Ivanna Sakhno, Diana Lee Inosanto, Eman Esfandi, Evan Whitten, Genevieve O’Reilly and Lars Mikkelsen

Ahsoka bowed three years ago in August 2023 and was a solid ratings performer for the streamer. It hit Nielsen’s top 10 original streaming series charts every week that it premiered new episodes.

Lucasfilm co-chief Dave Filoni is behind the project after co-creating the character for the animated Star Wars: The Clone Wars nearly 20 years ago.

Doctor Doom finally gets his closeup in the latest Avengers: Doomsday trailer.

Robert Downey Jr.’s villain is front and center in the new look of the film, which returns the actor to the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the first time since Avengers: Endgame. It’s the same look that was shown at San Diego Comic-Con last month, but is now available to the public as of Friday night, where it also screened at D23.

As part of the presentation, Hugh Jackman sent in a clip of himself on camera, with Deadpool whispering to him off screen. “Just wanted to check in, just wondering if you might need some help rounding out the cast?” Deadpool coaches him what to say and they bicker. “I’d love to join and I might be able to convince Ryan to appear in Avengers: Doomsday.”

(Ryan Reynolds appeared at Comic-Con in character as Deadpool, where he crashed the Doomsday panel to suggest he wanted in on the movie.

The Russo Bros. direct the film, which has a sprawling cast, ranging from stars of the original 2000s X-Men movies such as Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, to original Avengers cast such as Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth, to Black Panther‘s Letitia Wright and Winston Duke to more recent MCU additions, such as Shang-Chi‘s Simu Liu and Fantastic Four: First Steps‘ Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn. There’s also Captain America actor Anthony Mackie and Ant-Mans star Paul Rudd, in addition to Thunderbolts players Sebastian Stan, Florence Pugh, Wyatt Russell and David Harbour.

Marvel has unveiled a few looks at the movie publicly so far. There were a series of character-based teasers released in late 2025 and early 2026, as well as a trailer unveiled in July.

The feature has a release date of Dec. 18.

Bundle up! Frozen 3 is coming.

At its D23 fan event on Friday, Disney offered up a first-look at the third entry in its hit franchise, which is set to glide into theaters on Nov. 24, 2027.

In celebration, Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell walked hand-in-hand onto the D23 stage before launching into a (slightly tech issued) rendition of song “Frozen Heart,” as Bell teased “Anna and Elsa are going on their biggest journey yet.” The stars confirmed that Anna and Kristoff will be getting married in the story and “this royal wedding has been a long time coming.” They added that love is in the air for everyone — even Olaf.

Josh Gad then arrived to sing a love song to Samantha, in reference to a joke from the second film. Menzel declared, “We will find ourselves far from Arendelle in wild and dangerous land” and cut to the footage, which showed Anna and Kristoff’s wedding seemingly being crashed by a new villain. As they trudge through an icy forrest, the villain comes down from a snowy peak and says “The sisters of Arrendale, we finally meet.”

Frozen‘s past two iterations have been a smash at the box office, with the 2013 original earning $1.28 billion and 2019’s Frozen II bringing in $1.45 billion. Menzel and Bell lead the franchise as royal sisters Elsa and Anna. Following the death of their parents, Elsa, voiced by Menzel, is to become queen but must navigate her dangerous icy powers along the way. Gad, as beloved snowman Olaf, and Groff, as Anna’s fiancé Kristoff, round out the main voice cast.  

Frozen 3 was originally dated for 2026 but was pushed back, with Gad explaining in 2025, “There’s a reason the movie is coming out in 2027 and that is because no one wants to rush this. Everyone wants this to not just be a sequel or a money grab. They want this to be absolutely worthy of the story we set out to make in 2013.”

He continued, “We want to give audiences something that is worth the years of waiting and years of anticipation. I know that they are actively working on that and I know that they have a story that they are very, very, very excited about.”

Former Disney CEO Bob Iger previously announced that a Frozen 4 was also in development, though that film has not yet been dated.

Amélie Hoeferle was a 14-year-old girl waiting for her mom at a Cleveland, Tennessee, coffee shop, when a woman in her 20s approached her for a conversation that would change the trajectory of her life and career.

She’d just finished her homework up and was nearing the exit when the young woman stopped her. “She said, ‘I know this is going to sound really weird, and it’s really freaking me out. I’m writing a screenplay right now and you look exactly how I imagine this character to be,’” a present-day Hoeferle tells The Hollywood Reporter.

Neither Hoeferle or her mother knew what to make of it, but Hoeferle was never afraid of the woman nor scared of the situation. That 20-something woman, writer-director Erica Scoggins, it turns out, was a family friend, so a meeting was set to talk about the script. They spent hours talking and ended up making a short film together.

“That was my introduction to film,” says Hoferle. “We went to a couple film festivals with it and flew to France. Erica’s really the main reason why I thought it would even be an option for me in life to do this.”

Hoeferle, now 24, still regularly keeps in touch with Scoggins. The pair saw each other just weeks before the premiere of the actress’ Prime Video series Sterling Point.

Hoeferle plays Ramona in the Megan Park-created coming-of-age series, which premiered Aug. 5. Sisterhood, something Hoeferle feels deeply about, plays a major factor in Ramona’s story. She and Sterling Point’s other lead character, Ella Rubin’s Annie, spend much of the series navigating their newfound relationship after meeting in the series premiere.

“The concept of finding out you have a sister, but you don’t obviously have a relationship with her, really interested me,” Hoeferle says. The actress has a sister herself — she clarifies they’ve had a more conventional sibling relationship since birth and recently moved in together — so shooting Sterling Point really hit home.

What initially drew her into the project was the complicated relationship between Ramona and Annie. It’s the heart of the story in Sterling Point, and it’s something that Hoeferle and Rubin talked about at length. “Sisterhood between two sisters is so raw, and it’s complicated. It’s a complicated relationship. When it’s good, it’s so good,” she says.

“It feels like you are the luckiest person on earth to get this. I’m going to cry,” she adds, tearing up. Hoeferle admits she’s thinking of her real sister, who she’s thanked her parents for giving her.

On the other hand, “When it’s bad, it’s earth-shattering. It’s like the rug is being pulled out underneath you,” she says.

Hoeferle has a supportive and loving family, but she nonetheless relates to Ramona’s feelings of not having any family outside of Annie. “In those very rare moments where my sister and I don’t get along, it feels like my life is being really challenged, and my stability is being challenged because so much of who I am as a person, I am because of her,” she says.

The feelings are easy to analyze after the fact, sometimes less so on set in front of cameras and a room full of people. Hoeferle found that the days where she and Rubin’s character had tension in their scenes could be particularly hard, because she couldn’t always access what it was like to be in such a fraught situation.

“In those moments, my sympathetic nervous system might be a bit more on fire, and I have less access to what I’m saying, what I’m doing,” she says. “There’s a dolly all around you, and I felt so much internal pressure that day to portraying this in an honest way,” she says. Of one particular scene between Ramona and Annie, she says, “I couldn’t seem to access what that honest way would be because I feel like I almost suppress the memories of me fighting with my sister.”

Those days were exceptions while making Sterling Point, however. “I was very thankful that I got to play a sister and explore that in a different world with different circumstances than my own,” she says.

A big part of what made the experience, and the show itself, work was her chemistry with Rubin. “I wish I had an interesting answer for you, but it was very natural,” she says.

Hoeferle had a feeling from the minute she met Rubin during the audition process that the pair clicked, but she wasn’t always sure of the future. “I wouldn’t even say I had a feeling it was going to be the two of us because I did not have that confidence with myself,” she says.

When the pair met, Hoeferle had pneumonia. She wasn’t feeling the most confident and was soldiering through antibiotics, but she could still feel something special was happening.

“You know when meet someone and you just feel a certain air between the two of you? There was something there with her in the room and it felt right,” she says. “We’re on the same railroad tracks right now. We have the same goal in mind, and that really translated onto set and into the scenes.”

Hoeferle also liked that her character was sad, as odd as that might sound. She was able to show a “real” and “raw” portrayal of depression in a young woman, which enticed her to the role. “[Ramona’s] a sad person, and she has every reason to be,” she says. “She’s gone through things that I have never gone through. She’s gone through more than most 16- or 17-year-olds do.”

Park gave Hoeferle and the rest of the cast much more freedom than most creatives would in finding their own characters. “I’ve done barely anything, so to be in a scene and for Megan to go, ‘Yeah, this is the script, but just go and play,’ was really disarming in the best way,” she says. “There’s just a level of understanding. I felt very trusted.”