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Are you ready for a Shotgun Wedding and wondering where to watch the new Jennifer Lopez flick? Don’t get too comfortable — and you can leave the box of happy-tears tissues aside — because this romance movie may start out traditional but quickly turns more Rambo than rom-com.

Perfectly paired with Josh Duhamel and clashing with a new “monster” mother-in-law played by quirky-character favorite, Jennifer Coolidge, J-Lo shines brighter than ever in 2023. This is one destination wedding destined to go down in history.

If there’s anything to love more about Jennifer Lopez than her music, her style, and her epic, real-life love stories, it’s her performances in some of our favorite romantic comedies. Who can pass up a chance to pour a glass of wine and sit down to another viewing of Maid in Manhattan, The Wedding Planner, or the more recent, Marry Me, which paired her with the hilarious Owen Wilson?

From The Wedding Planner (2001) to Marry Me (2022), Jennifer Lopez has become the master of wedding-based comedies. Shotgun Wedding (2023) sees Lopez star as Darcy, as she and her fiancé, Tom (Josh Duhamel), embark on a luxurious island holiday for their dream wedding. Despite some speedbumps like having to deal with her clingy but well-intentioned future mother-in-law, Carol (Jennifer Coolidge), as well as her suave and handsome ex, Sean (Lenny Kravitz), there is nothing that can come in the way of Darcy and Tom's perfect day. That is until all of their wedding guests are held hostage by pirates and now Darcy and Tom must become unlikely action heroes to stop the armed band of goons and save their wedding (and guests).

The new film "Shotgun Wedding" highlights the danger of having a reasonably interesting concept without similar follow-through. When the trailer was released a couple of months back, there were a number of folks on Twitter who seemed delightedly mystified at how a seemingly innocuous romantic comedy about a bride and groom getting set for their wedding in the Philippines turned into an action movie when said wedding is beset upon by vicious pirates. And the setup is indeed kind of a welcome and dark twist on the friendly, low-key, and low-stakes comedies that star Jennifer Lopez has made throughout her career. But the execution of the setup is desperately wanting, in part because the film and too many (though not all) of its players don't have the right comic notes or even know which ones to hit.

Considering some other recent big-screen romantic comedies, it's hard not to watch "Shotgun Wedding

Last year when Marry Me, the romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson was being released, many were touting it as a return to form by the pop singer-turned-actress, once a reigning queen of rom-coms. But the film was hardly worth the fanfare and landed with a whimper in theaters and on streaming. Sometime around the release of that movie, Shotgun Wedding was in the works and seemed to signal that after an unfortunate snub fest for her performance in Hustlers, Lopez was returning to a most beloved genre. Shotgun Wedding appeared to be the right call — it took some familiar notes from J.Lo rom-coms of the past and threw it into an action movie blender. With a cast of iconic comedians and a totally game Lenny Kravitz in the mix, Shotgun Wedding seemed like a surefire hit, but it's overwhelmingly bland despite extra special ingredients being present.

Hollywood star Jennifer Lopez, who leads the cast of Jason Moore’s film “Shotgun Wedding”, was initially unsure about starring in the project after working on the movie “Marry Me” and was only convinced after reading Mark Hammer’s script, media reports said.

Jennifer said: “(I had) just signed on to do ‘Marry Me’ and was about to do it and was like, ‘Ah, I don’t want to do another wedding movie'”.

“I remember, I was in my tub and was like, ‘Let me read it and I was like, ‘Oh this is funny, this could be good; depending on who directed this, it could be really good.’ And then when we got (director) Jason Moore I was like, ‘Ok, this is gonna be fun’, and we got this amazing cast,” she told ‘The Hollywood Reporter’, ‘Female First UK’ reports.

As per ‘Female First UK’, the movie tells the

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It's been almost a decade since Jennifer Lopez released an album, but she's gearing up to drop her most personal project to date. On Nov. 25, the 53-year-old singer announced the title of her ninth studio album on the 20th anniversary of her "This Is Me . . . Then" album, calling her return to music "This Is Me . . . Now." According to a media alert shared with Popsugar, Lopez's forthcoming project "chronicles the emotional, spiritual, and psychological journey that she has taken over the past two decades."

" . . . When I make my best music or my best art is when I'm happy and full and feel lots of love."

Lopez opened up about her ninth album in her December cover story for Vogue, published Nov. 8, with the outlet calling it "the most honest work she has ever done."

"Kind of a culmination of who I am as a person and an artist,

Jennifer Lopez has been married a few times, both in life and in the movies — most recently twice last year with her real life wedding(s) to Ben Affleck, and on screen in her delightful Valentine’s Day-timed comedy Marry Me. Both made me happy for her, but her latest, Shotgun Wedding, is something altogether different, a frenetic action comedy that never puts on the brakes. It is a wild ride no doubt, but it isn’t the kind of wedding to which I need to be invited any time soon.

So the plot is pretty predictable, especially if you have seen a whole range of movies from Romancing the Stone to last spring’s The Lost City, manic films that pair a male and female star caught in treacherous circumstances and lets them argue and snap at each other for the better part of two hours as they face

“Not everything is about money!” exclaims bride-to-be Darcy at the rehearsal dinner for her idyllic-looking island wedding in the Philippines — a rebuke to her multi-millionaire father Robert, who wishes she’d let him pay to make the whole affair even more luxe. Perhaps she means it. Darcy claims she wanted to elope to avoid the whole foofaraw, while her “groomzilla” Tom, in a pleasing reversal of gender stereotypes, obsesses over table settings. When their elegant nuptials are crashed by a gang of ransom-seeking pirates, her instincts are proven correct — though as played by a typically immaculate Jennifer Lopez, she doesn’t seem like someone who craves the simple life. “Shotgun Wedding” may begin by separating rich from rich, though as the body count mounts in this oddly unpalatable romantic comedy, such distinctions fall away: In the face of impoverished, gun-toting Asian criminals, well-off Americans must mostly prevail.

If the once-ubiquitous

Action-comedy “Shotgun Wedding,” Jennifer Lopez’s latest star vehicle, comes almost exactly a year after her other recent wedding-set romance “Marry Me”. In both films, Lopez portrays women finding their true love a bit late in life, yet like a modern Doris Day, the characters she plays are implied to be nearly 15 years younger than she actually is. As if a woman in her fifties couldn’t have these very experiences – something explicitly proven wrong by the star’s own personal life.

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Jennifer Lopez has been in wedding mode for nearly a year — from “Marry Me” to “Shotgun Wedding” and, of course, her real-life nuptials to Ben Affleck!

Et’s Nischelle Turner recently sat down with Lopez and her “Shotgun Wedding” co-star, Josh Duhamel, to dish about their new action rom-com and all things marriage.

“I didn’t plan any of it this way,” Lopez reflected with a laugh. “I mean, “Marry Me”… we wound up filming it like, right before the pandemic happened and then they held onto that for a year and a half… and “Shotgun Wedding”, that was the first one I did when people started filming again.”

While “Marry Me” allowed J.Lo to showcase her musical talents in a light-hearted rom-com setting, “Shotgun Wedding” ups the ante on the fictional big day, as a crew of pirates take the entire wedding party hostage, forcing Lopez and Duhamel

Jennifer Lopez has had a recent run of weddings lately. She starred in the rom-com with Owen Wilson titled, Marry Me. She had just gotten married to on-again, off-again boyfriend Ben Affleck. And now, Amazon Prime Video releases the new trailer for her new action comedy with Josh Duhamel called Shotgun Wedding.

The official Amazon synopsis reads,

In Shotgun Wedding, Darcy (Jennifer Lopez) and Tom (Josh Duhamel) gather their lovable-but-very-opinionated families for the ultimate destination wedding, just as the couple begin to get cold feet. And if that wasn’t enough of a threat to the celebration, suddenly everyone’s lives are in danger when the entire party is taken hostage. “’Til Death Do Us Part” takes on a whole new meaning in this hilarious, adrenaline-fueled adventure as Darcy and Tom must save their loved ones—if they don’t kill each other first.

The cast includes Jennifer Lopez, Josh Duhamel,

Jennifer Lopez is looking back before going forward.

On Sunday, the singer shared a New Year’s Day post reminiscing about 2022, which was a very big year for her in a number of ways.

Read More: Jennifer Lopez Shares Details About Her ‘Blended Family’ Christmas With Ben Affleck

She wrote, “was one of the best years yet!!! I cannot wait for all that’s to come next year,” along with a video and photo slideshow from the year.

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Among the many big events, the video includes never-before-seen photos from Lopez’s big wedding to Ben Affleck.

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The year started off with the release of Lopez’s rom-com “Marry Me”, then in April, she revealed that she and Affleck were engaged, showing off a beautiful green diamond engagement ring.

USC Annenberg and San Diego State University have both released end-of-year diversity reports looking at behind the scenes representation of 2022’s biggest movies. And the results found that Hollywood severely backslid over the past year.

Both studies — USC Annenberg Inclusion Initative’s “Inclusion in the Director’s Chair” report and the San Diego State Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film’s “Celluloid Ceiling” report — looked at the number of women who directed the top 100 films of the year. This year, just 10 women — Olivia Newman (“Where the Crawdads Sing”), Gina Prince-Bythewood (“The Woman King”), Olivia Wilde (“Don’t Worry Darling”), Jessica M. Thompson (“The Invitation”), Kat Coiro (“Marry Me”), Rosalind Ross (“Father Stu”), Halina Reijn (“Bodies Bodies Bodies”), Kasi Lemmons (“Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody”), Chinonye Chukwu (“Till”) and Maria Schrader (“She Said”) — helmed one of the top 100 highest grossing film’s at the domestic box office this year,

Keep track of when films are coming out in the territory.

Screen is listing the release dates for films in the UK and Ireland in the calendar below.

For distributors who wish to add/amend a date on the calendar, please get in touch with Screen here.

Screen also has an awards season calendar for 2022, here.

December

December 30

Peter Von Kant (Curzon), Where Are You, Adam? (Primal Screen)

December 31

Berliner Philharmoniker Live: New Year’s Eve Concert 2022 (Trafalgar, event cinema)

Previous releases January

January 1

Licorice Pizza (Universal), The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain (Studiocanal), Cinderella - Met Opera 2022 (Trafalgar, event

143 of the 588 titles released this year were made by women.

The number of films made by women and released in the UK dropped by 6 in 2022, according to figures from female-focused film organisation Birds Eye View.

Out of the 588 titles to receive a theatrical release in the UK this year, 143, or 24, were made by women. For a film to qualify it must be directed or co-directed and/or written or co-written (with at least 50 film credit) by women.

This figure is down 6 from 2021 when 166 titles (30) qualified.

Birds Eye View found a significant rise in films made by Black women and women of colour,

The indie-pop band Alvvays recently did something much different for a new music video, collaborating with Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe. Also known as Eric Barone, ConcernedApe single-handedly created the beloved farming sim over the course of four and a half years, and is now branching out into new projects like the game Haunted Chocolatier. Alvvays first formed in 2011, and are known for songs like "Marry Me, Archie" and "Dreams Tonite."

Although the developer has been busy since announcing his new game Haunted Chocolatier, ConcernedApe recently took the time to animate an entire music video for the Alvvays song "Many Mirrors" from the band's new album Blue Rev. The music video showcases the first 3D animation for the developer, and allowed him to experiment with new styles and methods. Many of the members of Alvvays are big fans of Barone's previous game Stardew Valley, mentioning in past interviews how they enjoy playing it on the road.

It's been over two years since we first heard about "65," the sci-fi horror flick starring Adam Driver, but Sony Pictures is finally giving up the goods and giving us our first look at the highly-anticipated film. "65" has run the gamut regarding release dates, which can sometimes be a sign that a studio truly believes in the final product and is working toward the best possible release strategy. Based on the impressive creative team in front of and behind the camera, we can only hope this is the case. 

Sony released a teaser for the trailer drop yesterday, featuring roughly 25 seconds of footage of Driver sleeping on the ground in what looks to be a cave on a desolate planet. The environment looks damp, dark, and filled with unseen terrors that Driver will certainly have to fight off.

The teaser starts with his character being awoken by a sensor alarm going off.

The first look at Adam Driver's new sci-fi film has arrived as Sony releases the first 65 movie trailer. Following his stint with Star Wars playing Kylo Ren, Adam Driver returns to the sci-fi movie genre in 2023. 65 stars Driver as an astronaut who becomes stranded on Earth 65 million years ago. The original sci-fi film is written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, the duo who wrote A Quiet Place. Sam Raimi also produced the movie, which was put into development by Sony in 2020 ahead of a planned 2022 release date.

After Sony elected to delay the highly anticipated sci-fi film to 2023, the studio has now finally released the first 65 movie trailer, providing the first look at Adam Driver's new potential franchise. The trailer shows Adam Driver's astronaut character crash land on an unknown planet with at least one other survivor, but they soon discover that they are on a

Double Elvis, the audio-first media company behind hit music and true crime podcasts, and Audible today announced a new Audible Original, History Listen: Rock. Debuting Thursday, January 12, the show is hosted by award-winning artist St. Vincent, who guides listeners through key moments that formed legendary movements within the genre.

A podcast for music addicts and casual listeners alike, History Listen: Rock, will give its audience in-depth insight into the biggest rock songs and artists they love, with all of the context and crazy connections that will allow them to listen to their favorite melodies with a new appreciation. Rock and roll’s rich history is made up of countless characters with colorful stories, and History Listen: Rock, will illustrate the genre’s most significant narrative arcs by highlighting notable figures, events, and songs, as artists reach back through the past to create new and vital art.

St. Vincent to Host

Feeling overwhelmed by the sheer amount of content to catch up on this winter awards season? That’s because you’re not wrong, there is a ton to sift through. As the Golden Globes prepares to reveal their nominations on Monday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has put together a final tally of TV series and motion pictures that were eligible for awards consideration this year — and Variety has those numbers.

According to the HFPA, there were 211 series eligible for best TV drama in 2022, and 127 series in the running for best musical or comedy. In the race for limited series, anthology series or TV movie, there were 121 contenders. (That’s a total of 459 programs.)

On the film side, the most recent tally for best motion picture saw 170 for drama, 83 for musical or comedy, 20 in animated and 115 in the running for non-English language. Add it up, and that’s 388 films.

The

Double Elvis, the audio-first media company behind hit music and true crime podcasts, and Audible Inc., the leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling, today announced a new Audible Original, History Listen: Rock. Debuting Thursday, January 12, the show is hosted by award-winning artist St. Vincent, who guides listeners through key moments that formed legendary movements within the genre.

A podcast for music addicts and casual listeners alike, History Listen: Rock, will give its audience in-depth insight into the biggest rock songs and artists they love, with all of the context and crazy connections that will allow them to listen to their favorite melodies with a new appreciation. Rock and roll’s rich history is made up of countless characters with colorful stories, and History Listen: Rock, will illustrate the genre’s most significant narrative arcs by highlighting notable figures, events, and songs, as artists reach back through the past

Olly Murs has responded to criticism of the “cruel” lyrics to his new song “I Hate You When You’re Drunk”.

Last month, the singer released his new single from his album Marry Me.

However, the lyrics were quickly dissected online, with critics suggesting that the song showed Murs attempting to humiliate a loved one for getting drunk and that the words were “misogynistic”.

While Murs’s fiancée Amelia Tank defended the former X Factor finalist, he has now responded to his critics while appearing on BBC Breakfast on Tuesday (6 December).

“I mean, it’s obviously upsetting to think that people took it that way because it was not that intention,” Murs told hosts Jon Kay and Sally Nugent. “It was a song that I really related to in the studio when it was a song that was [written] eight years ago.”

He explained: “It’s so true, because at the start of January,

The most star-studded event in Hollywood is here, as tonight’s “People’s Choice Awards” features celebrity presenters including Amy Poehler, Billy Porter and Laverne Cox, and honors our favorite contributions to pop culture this year.

Besides honoring previously announced recipients Shania Twain — who will also take the stage at the ceremony — Lizzo and Ryan Reynolds, the awards will also reveal the beloved picks for categories from best drama movie to best binge-worthy TV show.

Read on for the full list of “People’s Choice Awards” winners:

The Movie of 2022

Bullet Train

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness – Winner

Elvis

Jurassic World Dominion

Nope

The Batman

Thor: Love and Thunder

Top Gun: Maverick

The Comedy Movie of 2022

Fire Island

Hustle

Hocus Pocus 2

Marry Me

Senior Year

The Adam Project - Winner

The Lost City

Ticket To Paradise

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Kenan Thompson hosted the 2022 People’s Choice Awards live from Santa Monica, California on Tuesday. The ceremony, which aired on NBC and E!, boasted a host of high-profile performances and even more winners across music, film, television, and social media.

Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Beyoncé, Lizzo, and more were prominent nominees in the music categories. Elsewhere, Harry Styles received nods for his releases in the studio, with his third album Harry’s House, and on screen, for his role as Jack Chambers in Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling.

Drama

In a candid new interview with Jennifer Lopez, the “If You Had My Love” hitmaker opened up on how the biggest heartbreak of her life led to a happy ending in her love story with husband Ben Affleck.

20 years ago, when Lopez was deeply in love with Affleck, she penned her landmark album This Is Me…Then, which was inspired by the “Pearl Harbor” movies star- especially the track “I’m Glad”- however, a year after its release she and Affleck, whom she called the “love of my life,” broke off their engagement.

“I wouldn’t even perform these records. It was so painful after we broke up,” Lopez told Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1. “Once we called off that wedding 20 years ago, it was the biggest heartbreak of my life. I honestly felt like I was going to die.

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Olly Murs is being criticised for “cruel” lyrics featured in his new song, “I Hate You When You’re Drunk”.

The upbeat pop track, which is taken from his forthcoming record Marry Me, was released on Friday (25 November).

However, shortly after it was given radio airplay, many immediately began criticising the song’s message, which sees Murs, 38, lambast a loved one for getting drunk on a night out.

The lyrics begin: “Oh, you're slurrin' all your words, there's make-up on my shirt / You're dancin' on the tables, can't you see / That you look like a mess and you're singin' Whitney?”

In the second verse, he sings: “Oh, you got them drunken eyes, should we call it a night? /‘Cause you’ve been tellin’ stories four-five times / Yeah, I’ve heard it before and my ears are bleedin’.”

Murs then repeatedly sings the words: “Oh, I hate you, hate you, I hate you,

Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez announced a new musical project, ‘This Is Mea… Now’, slated for release in 2023.

It will be the singer’s first full-length effort in eight years, reports ‘Variety’.

Along with a video that shows her in her ‘This Is Me Then’ era 20 years ago, morphing into the present day J.Lo, Lopez issued a track listing that includes among its titles ‘Dear Ben Pt. II’, presumably a sequel to the earlier album’s ‘Dear Ben’.

The album’s news release reads as follows: “Heralding a new era of music for Jennifer Lopez, ‘This Is Me… Now’ chronicles the emotional, spiritual and psychological journey that she has taken over the past two decades.”

“An emotionally raw and honest project, unlike any she has produced before, she writes and sings about her life and experiences that will resonate with us all. In addition, these autobiographical stories informed by the album

Jennifer Lopez’s social media blackout has been lifted with the performer-actress-producer announcing a new music project called This Is Me…Now.

The announcement comes on the 20th anniversary of her album, This Is Me…Then, on which she wrote and produced.

Heralding a new era of music for Lopez, This Is Me…Now will chronicle the emotional, spiritual and psychological journey that she has taken over the past two decades. It is billed as being an emotionally raw and honest project, with a lineup of songs about her life and experiences. In addition, the autobiographical stories informed by the album will result in other very personal projects she’ll be releasing in 2023.

This Is Me…Now will shine a spotlight on her tough childhood, unsuccessful relationships and the incredible emotional journey she has been on.

“This album is a philosophy, a reflection, a zeitgeist moment. It’s about hope,

Jennifer Lopez is giving fans the ultimate gift this Black Friday, announcing that she’s releasing a new album. The announcement comes on the 20th anniversary of when she dropped 2002’s This Is Me… Then. Jenny from the Block’s new album, quite aptly, is dubbed This Is Me… Now.

In a teaser, Lopez uses her This Is Me… Then artwork to transform into the modern-day version of herself. Her new album drops in 2023.

This Is Me… Now is the first album Lopez has written and produced since taking on a more hands-on role with This Is Me… Then, her third studio album which dropped exactly two decades ago. Though she released singles off the monumentally successful soundtrack for Marry Me earlier this year, her last full-length album came in 2014 with A.K.A.

Earlier this year, Lopez opened up to Vogue about what fans can expect from her latest venture.

“This

Netflix is going full steam ahead with its holiday lineup, most recently releasing the Freddie Prince Jr. co-led Christmas With You on November 17th, 2022. The movie centers on pop star Adrienne, who travels to a small town in New York to surprise a super fan and get away from the pressures of needing to write her next hit single. Of course, she ends up falling for a single father/music teacher who helps her write an epic Christmas song.

Like most Netflix holiday movies, Christmas With You delivers on all the best rom-com tropes while putting its own unique spin on things. The heartwarming movie is the perfect choice to kick off a binge session, and there are several other similar movies that should definitely be added to fans' lists of what to watch next.

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When her writing partner leaves her to become famous on his own,

The first image of Owen Wilson as a Bob Ross-esque TV painter in the independent comedy Paint has been revealed. Scheduled for release next year, the movie hails from writer-director Brit McAdams and will be his feature directorial debut. Wilson was most recently seen in Marry Me alongside Jennifer Lopez and as Tva agent Mobius in Disney+'s Loki. Bob Ross has his own history with television - the painter hosted his own PBS show, The Joy of Painting, for 11 years from 1983 to 1994.

Now, veteran comedic actor Owen Wilson channels the signature perm of Ross in the first promotional still for Paint. The image, released on Twitter by IFC Films, showcases Wilson in the starring role of Carl Nargle, Vermont’s number-one public television painter. Nargle sports not only the paintbrush, palette, and canvas of his profession, but clenches a large billiard pipe between his teeth as he looks at the camera,

Actor and singer Nicky Jam is no stranger to the Latin Grammys stage, and this year, he performed a touching rendition of “El Perdon” as he shared the stage with young singers from the Latin Grammys Cultural Foundation. He performed the song alongside a live band, on a stage designed as a recording studio. The setup was particularly special because it foreshadowed the surprise that awaited the young singers: They also received a donated grant from Jam to support their musical careers.

At this year’s Latin Grammys, Nicky Jam

It’s been 18 years since Freddie Prinze Jr. made his last “Scooby-Doo” appearance, but the beloved ’90s teen star has still yet to solve the mystery of how to be a convincing actor. Not to sound like a total Scrooge, but Netflix’s “Christmas with You” is such a woefully by-the-numbers approach to the holiday rom-com that it forgets the most important ingredient: it even lacks the spirit of Christmas itself.

In Gabriela Tagliavini’s film, Prinze stars as Miguel, a single dad music teacher whose talented singer daughter Cristina (Deja Monique Cruz) uploads a rendition of pop star Angelina’s (Aimee Garcia) hit track on Instagram. Angelina’s own flailing music career hinges on a Christmas hit, all the better to mimic Mariah Carey’s career (this is an actual reference in the movie) but Angelina just can’t tap into the holiday spirit, as she’s reminded at

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Saturday Night Live cast member Kenan Thompson will return to host this year’s People’s Choice Awards, marking his second consecutive ceremony.

NBC and E! announced the host and commencement of voting today. Voting is now open and fans worldwide can vote for their favorite nominee in each of the 40 categories representing movies, television, music and pop culture.

The 2022 People’s Choice Awards will air simultaneously on NBC and E! on Tuesday, December 6 at 9:00 pm Et/Pt from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, CA. Live from E!: The 2022 People’s Choice Awards will kick off the night with a red carpet special at 7:00 pm Et/Pt on E!.

“I’m beyond excited to host the People’s Choice Awards again this year and celebrate the incredible talent and fans that this show unites,” says Thompson. “I’m so grateful to be nominated – shoutout to the

“Black Adam,” a superhero adventure starring Dwayne Johnson as a villain who promises to change the “hierarchy of power” in the DC universe, towered over box office charts with 67 million in its domestic debut.

The Warner Bros. comic book movie handily took down the weekend’s other new nationwide release, Universal’s romantic comedy “Ticket to Paradise,” which landed in second place with a better-than-expected 16.3 million from 3,543 cinemas. “Black Adam,” heading into the weekend, was projected to open to 62 million while playing in 4,350 theaters, but ticket sales were stronger than anticipated on Saturday and Sunday, leading the studio to revise estimates.

Internationally, “Black Adam” kicked off with 73 million from 76 markets for a global tally of 140 million.

“As a spin-off, this is a strong opening,” says David A. Gross, who runs the movie consulting firm Franchise Entertainment Research. “‘Black Adam’ should do well abroad and be comfortably profitable.”

For a superhero origin story,

Though there has been a resurgence of romantic comedies thanks to Netflix and other streamers, rom-coms released solely to theaters are few and far between. Even Marry Me, the Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson-led rom-com, was released directly to Peacock in addition to receiving a theatrical release earlier this year. Starring Julia Roberts and George Clooney, Ticket to Paradise is reminiscent of an era long gone. Directed by Ol Parker, who co-wrote the screenplay with Daniel Pipski, Ticket to Paradise seems too afraid to dig into the romantic aspects, but it makes up for it by being charming, sweet, and occasionally funny.

Georgia (Roberts) and David (Clooney) Cotton loathe one another. After five years of marriage, they divorced and have been living the last 25 years in relief of being away from each other. When their daughter, Lily (Kaitlyn Dever), meets Gede (Maxime Bouttier) while on vacation in Bali, their

Spoiler alert: The following story contains spoilers for “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” season one.

Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige helped put “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” director Kat Coiro’s mind at ease when it came to filming that finale episode.

The “Marry Me” movie-maker told The Hollywood Reporter how she was worried about filming such an unconventional ending to a Marvel show. However, Feige and other bosses told her not to fret.

The episode, titled “Whose Show Is This?”, saw Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk (Tatiana Maslany) smash the fourth wall, using the Disney+ platform to wind up at Marvel Studios, where she discussed how the season should end with a robotic AI named K.E.V.I.N.

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As THR questioned Coiro whether she was impressed that Feige and co. “were so willing to

The slick and star-driven Hollywood rom-coms of the pre-Judd Apatow era are having a mini-revival this year. First there was “Marry Me,” which teamed Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson, and now comes “Ticket to Paradise,” a sun-kissed comedy of remarriage with George Clooney and Julia Roberts.

It’s efficient enough, and there are certainly tougher things to watch than two supremely attractive movie icons trading sarcastic insults in a leafy tropical Eden. But the film’s director and co-writer, Ol Parker, is so committed to light, feel-good escapism that he leaves out all of the requisite tension and twists — and, for that matter, the requisite jokes.

Parker’s last film was “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again,” the cheerfully redundant sequel-prequel to “Mamma Mia!” That was a brutal social-realist tract compared to “Ticket to Paradise.”

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"I really think this could be the one, Mo." "The song, or the music teacher?" Netflix has revealed an official trailer for a schmaltzy holiday romance called Christmas With You, one of their latest Hallmark Channel offerings. The streamer continues to make "content" that is generic and easily digestible, resulting in a lot of Hallmark-esque low quality films that will be forgotten as soon as the credits roll. What is this one about? Seeking inspiration for a hit holiday song, and feeling career burn out, a pop star named Angelina grants a young fan's Christmas wish to meet her — and finds a shot at true love along the way. This seems like a rip-off mash-up of the plots from both Marry Me and Notting Hill previously, both of which are much better films than this. Christmas With You stars Aimee Garcia as Angelina, Freddie Prinze Jr. as her "music teacher" love interest,

Throughout the course of "She-Hulk: Attorney At Law," Tatiana Maslany's Jennifer Walters constantly broke the fourth wall to address her adoring public, just as her comic book counterpart did in the pages of Marvel Comics many years ago. But in the season 1 finale of the latest Marvel Studios series on Disney+, Jen wasn't just yelling at her writers for the decisions they were making in her story. Shulkie broke out of the House of Mouse's streamer and marched right into the writers' room to confront showrunner Jessica Gao and her team face to face. And when they didn't give her the answers she was looking for, the Jade Giantess headed to the House of Ideas' offices to confront the man in charge. Of course, she was met by a very different K.E.V.I.N. than she was expecting.

As soon as She-Hulk escaped Disney+ and entered our world,

“Halloween Ends” has become the latest film that Universal has moved to a day-and-date release strategy with a simultaneous rollout in theaters and on its streaming service Peacock. But Christopher Landon, who directed the Blumhouse horror films “Happy Death Day” and “Freaky” for Universal, is sick of Hollywood using the strategy at the expense of directors.

In a Twitter thread on Saturday, Landon talked about how “Freaky,” his horror comedy about a teenage girl who switches bodies with a wanted serial killer, was released theatrically in November 2020 during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic but then released as a video-on-demand title less than a month later, in keeping with Universal’s then-newly-signed agreement with major theater chains allowing them to release films on-demand as early as 17 days after theatrical release.

“Studios: stop gambling with filmmakers and their movies to try and prop up your fledgling streaming services. This happened to

Lily Collins is teasing a dreamy and dramatic third season of her hit Netflix series, “Emily in Paris”.

The 33-year-old actress spoke with Et’s Cassie Dilaura at the Ralph Lauren 2023 Spring-Summer fashion show on Thursday at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. During the interview, she playfully addressed what fans can expect when the new season drops on Dec. 21.

“More love triangles, more drama, more laughs, more fashion, more locations, more France!” she said. And with the show already renewed for a fourth season, Collins also noted that there would be room for “a lot of cliffhangers.”

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In addition to her starring role, Collins has also been working behind the scenes as a producer on the project.

“It’s been incredible,” she said. “I’ve learned so much and I’m super grateful for

“Success has many fathers,” the old saying goes, “but failure is an orphan.” Nonetheless, that orphan has no shortage of forensic surgeons ready to give it an autopsy. As early as Saturday of the opening weekend of the Universal gay romantic comedy “Bros,” the Monday-morning quarterbacking began, as various corners of the internet came forward with their reasons why the film’s grosses were a disappointment.

The marketing was too focused on its status as the first major-studio LGBTQ rom-com! It was too white! The poster was off-putting! The title was vague! Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane aren’t big enough names to open a movie! People don’t go to rom-coms during Halloween season! People don’t go to rom-coms, full stop! The reasons seemed endless. Sometimes they were thoughtful. Sometimes.

If you’re familiar with “Bros” star and co-writer Eichner’s work on “Billy on the Street” or “Difficult People,

Most wedding registries look like they’re copied straight out of a Macy’s catalog, stocked with essentials to help newlywed couples start this new chapter of their lives on the right foot. But in the trailer for Shotgun Wedding, Darcy (Jennifer Lopez) and Tom (Josh Duhamel), are in need of much heavier artillery than a set of Mr. and Mrs. coffee mugs.

The Prime Video film — directed by Pitch Perfect’s Jason Moore and premiering Jan. 27 — drops in on Darcy and Tom’s glorious destination wedding that would be

Today Prime Video has released a new trailer for the upcoming Jennifer Lopez film "Shotgun Wedding." Yes, JLo is in a wedding dress yet again, as she was in the recent movie "Marry Me," as well as her real-life wedding to Ben Affleck. Lopez plays a woman named Darcy engaged to Josh Duhamel's Tom, dealing with his mother, played by Jennifer Coolidge. You can practically hear the jokes in your head, can't you? A woman dealing with a nosy and bossy future mother-in-law, having wedding jitters, and from the title, maybe pregnant? It all sounds like the usual fare for a film about impending nuptials, right?

It is not, as you may have guessed from the title of this article. I don't want to spoil anything for you, but this trailer takes an unexpected turn a little under a minute in. Things are not as they seem. You think

Prime Video released a poster for the upcoming romantic action-comedy Shotgun Wedding. After starring a classic style romcom in Kat Coiro’s Marry Me, international singer and superstar Jennifer Lopez will now flip the genre on its head by getting ready to be unhappily married with Josh Duhamel. The story centers around a couple whose destination wedding goes south when they start questioning their relationship as the big day approaches. Matters only get worse when their families are taken hostage and they have to work together in order to save family and friends. The movie is set to premiere in late January.

Jennifer Lopez has been on a huge marriage kick lately. This past year saw the release of Marry Me, a romantic comedy where she plays a pop star who marries a regular joe, played by Owen Wilson. Her real life this year also saw her marry her longtime on-again, off-again boyfriend, Ben Affleck. And now, Amazon Prime Video reveals the new trailer for Lopez’s next film, the action-romantic-comedy Shotgun Wedding. The film also stars Josh Duhamel, Jennifer Coolidge, Sônia Braga, Cheech Marin, Selena Tan, D’Arcy Carden, Callie Hernandez, Desmin Borges, Steve Coulter, Alberto Isaac, and Lenny Kravitz.

“In Shotgun Wedding, Darcy (Jennifer Lopez) and Tom (Josh Duhamel) gather their lovable but very opinionated families for the ultimate destination wedding, just as the couple begin to get cold feet. And if that wasn’t enough of a threat to the celebration, suddenly everyone’s lives are in danger when the entire party is taken hostage.

Nothing can go wrong on Jennifer Lopez’s big day… right?

Wrong. The “Marry Me” actress and international pop star leads Prime Video’s upcoming romantic comedy, “Shotgun Wedding,” about a bride (Lopez) and groom (Josh Duhamel) whose nuptials lead to a horrific hostage situation, and not just because of the bad buffet. The action rom-com also stars Jennifer Coolidge as Lopez’s monster-in-law who wields a massive gun and yells “nobody fucks with my family” in the trailer.

The ever-smooth Lenny Kravitz is Lopez’s onscreen ex, but it’s the international pirates who really throw a wrench into the ceremony. D’Arcy Carden, Sônia Braga, Cheech Marin, Selena Tan, Callie Hernandez, Desmin Borges, Steve Coulter, and Alberto Isaac round out the ensemble cast.

Directed by Jason Moore (“Pitch Perfect”) and written by Mark Hammer, “Shotgun Wedding” premieres January 27 on Prime Video. Lead star Lopez, Todd Lieberman, David Hoberman, Alexander Young,

“‘Til death do us part” is the haunting overtone of director Jason Moore’s upcoming feature “Shotgun Wedding,” which combines the thriller, romance and comedy genres into 100 minutes of action-packed content.

Prime Video dropped the trailer online (Tk) to promote the film ahead of its anticipated international premiere on Jan. 27, 2023.

Co-starring Grammy-nominated singer Jennifer Lopez and actor Josh Duhamel as an engaged couple, the two are about to get married when the entire wedding party is taken hostage by criminals. The couple must then overcome the bumps in their relationship to save their friends and family.

Teasing at the mixture of steaminess and bloodshed to come, the newly distributed trailer includes a fleeting glimpse of singer-actor Lenny Kravitz shirtless.

The decision to cast Lopez comes as no surprise given the genre-bending picture marks the performer’s second consecutive wedding-themed film. Her first was Universal Pictures’ “Marry Me,” a musical romance