'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes' reigns at the box office with $56.5 million opening weekend
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes earned an estimated $56.5 million at the domestic box office in its opening weekend. The fourth installment of the rebooted franchise, directed by Wes Ball and starring Kevin Durand, Owen Teague and Freya Allen, took in an estimated $72.5 million overseas, for a global haul of $129 million.
Last week's No. 1 film, The Fall Guy, dropped to second place this time, grabbing an estimated $13.7 million in its second week of release. The film, starring Ryan Gosling, has earned $103 million globally.
Challengers, the romantic sports drama starring Zendaya, took third place, delivering an estimated $4.7 million at the North American box office in its third week of release. It's three-week tally now stands at $38 million domestically and $68.7 million worldwide.
Fourth place went to the horror flick Tarot, collecting an estimated $3.5 million in its second week of release, bringing its North American box office total to $12 million and $20.2 million globally.
Rounding out the top five was Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, which added an estimated $2.5 million at the domestic box office for a total of $191.8 million and $558.7 million worldwide.
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Music notes: Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber and more
During her second Eras Tour concert in Paris, France, on Friday, May 10, Taylor Swift wore a relevant dress as she sang another mashup during the surprise song set. Taylor sang her 1989 From the Vault track "Is it Over Now?" before transitioning into another 1989 fan favorite, "Out of the Woods." All the while she was dressed in a brand-new dark blue dress, likely due to the "Is it Over Now?" lyric, which goes, "Blue dress on a boat/Your new girl is my clone."
Baby, baby, baby, oh! The Justin Bieber wax figure at Madame Tussauds in London is celebrating the news that the pop star's wife, Hailey Bieber, is pregnant. A baby carrier holding a baby doll is now adorned on Justin's wax figure.
Lady Gaga has shared a new clip from the performance of her song "Babylon" from the upcoming Chromatica Ball concert special. In the video, she wears a golden outfit as she dances along with her stage performers. "BATTLE FOR YOUR LIFE, BABYLON GAGA CHROMATICA BALL MAY 25," Lady Gaga captioned the video.
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'Tires': Netflix rolls out trailer to Shane Gillis' comedy series
Netflix has rolled out the trailer to Tires, the comedy series featuring stand-up and actor Shane Gillis.
The comedian famously hosted Saturday Night Live this season after being fired from the show before he even appeared on in it in 2019 over some offensive jokes.
Here he plays Shane, the screw-up employee of his cousin Will's failing auto repair chain. Steven Gerben plays the heir to the Valley Forge Automotive Center, who in the trailer is constantly exasperated with Shane's antics, which include day drinking on the job, hanging up on customers, and befouling the customer restroom.
However, for all his goofing off, by the trailer's end, Shane does his best to rescue the company -- which, on-brand, includes a bikini car wash fundraiser.
Co-created by Gerben and Gillis, the show that also stars Chris O’Connor, Kilah Fox, and Stavros Halkias, premieres May 23 on Netflix.
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Go on tour with Hozier in new video for "Too Sweet"
It's unusual for an artist to release a video for a song after it's already hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, but Hozier isn't just any artist.
The singer born Andrew Hozier-Byrne has just dropped the video for "Too Sweet," which recently became his first-ever chart topper in the U.K., the U.S. and in his home country of Ireland. The video gives a behind-the-scenes look at what it's like for Hozier on tour: You see him rehearsing with his band, traveling to a venue, soundchecking and then taking the stage.
On Instagram, Hozier announced the video by writing, "It’s been a thrill to play Too Sweet live for the first time and see all the incredible support for this song."
“Too Sweet” is from Hozier's Unheard, which features four songs that didn't make it onto his 2023 album Unreal Unearth. He's currently on the North American leg of his current tour, which includes a stop at Lollapalooza in August.
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Gordon Ramsay and Fox cook up culinary and lifestyle venture, Bite
Gordon Ramsay and Fox are taking a Bite out of the culinary marketplace.
On Friday, May 10, the celebrity chef, and the network behind his many shows including Hell's Kitchen and Master Chef, announced they're jointly starting Bite, "a new multi-tiered global food brand and entertainment platform."
Promising to dish out "fresh, fun, accessible and inventive culinary and lifestyle content, products and experiences for fans everywhere," the brand is, "designed to live at the intersection of content and commerce," according to the announcement.
Ramsay noted, "This new brand will cater to every flavor of food fan with an enticing array of original series, compelling food stories and endless digital content that audiences everywhere will eat up!"
He added, "Bite is an innovative fusion of my nearly 20-year collaboration with FOX, blending all the experiences, excitement, competition and personality we've created together under this original, singular food and lifestyle venture."
The venture's Bite Digital Network will be the home of projects including Ramsay's reality competition show Idiot Sandwich and Next Level Kitchen, "a digital companion series to [Fox's] Next Level Chef, which features the show’s three mentors Gordon Ramsay, Nyesha Arrington and Richard Blais."
The network will also feature "a slate of next-gen culinary creators and personalities" culled from former champs and others from Ramsay's TV projects, including Next Level Chef's season 3 champion Gabi Chappel.
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Dua Lipa's 'Radical Optimism' debuts at #1 on British chart with big sales
Dua Lipa's Radical Optimism has paid off: Her album dances into the #1 spot on the Official Albums Chart in the U.K.
It's Dua's first album to debut at #1 in her home country, and it's also posted the biggest sales numbers for a record by a British female artist since Adele's 30 back in 2021. Plus, Radical Optimism had the biggest opening week for an album by any British act overall so far this year.
Joe Kentish, who signed Dua to her record deal 10 years ago, when she was just 18, tells Music Week of Radical Optimism, "I think it's a more complete album than the previous two in the way it came together ... it hangs together more than the things she has done before."
"In terms of the record reflecting her and where she's at personally, it does that more than the previous ones have," he adds. "There's something heartfelt about what she's singing on lots of the songs, which is something that she gets deeper into that she has previously. It’s a lot more her in terms of personality.”
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Marvel movie vet Frank Grillo joins second season of 'Peacemaker'
James Gunn is making good on his promise to interlace the projects under his umbrella as co-CEO of DC Films.
As reported, Guardians of the Galaxy franchise writer-director Gunn had cast a fellow Marvel movie veteran, Frank Grillo, for the animated project Creature Commandos, with the Avengers: Endgame star playing Rick Flagg Sr., the dad of Joel Kinnaman's character in the two Suicide Squad films.
On Friday, Gunn posted that Grillo will be playing his Creature Commandos character in live-action, in the second season of Gunn's heralded The Suicide Squad spinoff, Peacemaker.
"GRILLO, PEACEMAKER, F*** YES," Gunn posted under a photo of the pair, with the tough-guy actor pointing at the writer-director and studio head.
Grillo posted a photo of him nearly connecting on a kiss to Gunn's cheek, enthusing, "Pinch me. So excited to be joining this mad genius @jamesgunn and [DC Films' co-CEO Peter Safran] for season 2 of #PEACEMAKER. WHAT A GIFT INDEED !!!"
Fighter and notorious gym rat Grillo then joked of the show's star, "@Johncena better start lifting weights. oh wait."
Creature Commandos will beat Peacemaker's second season to air on Max; it's expected to drop later in 2024.
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New Music Friday: Camila Cabello, BTS' RM, MAX and more
Camila Cabello has released another song from her upcoming album C, XOXO: a collaboration with Lil Nas X called "He Knows." In the song, both sing about seducing the object of their affection. Camila sings, "I think he knows .... When I play with him like that / When I say it to him like that / That he's comin' right back." Nas sings, "On the real, I'ma take his soul ... On the real, I think he knows."
BTS member RM has released "Come back to me," a song and video from his upcoming sophomore solo album Right Place, Wrong Person, due out May 24. He first debuted it during his bandmate SUGA's concert in Seoul, South Korea in August of last year.
MAX has released a new single and music video, "PINKBERRY." The video was filmed in Manila, Philippines. MAX says, "This was such a fun song to create, and usually the ones the most fun to create for me end up being my favorites." MAX will be doing a Q&A and performance at the Grammy Museum LA on May 13.
Black Eyed Peas have teamed with Becky G and El Alfa for "TONIGHT (Bad Boys: Ride or Die)," from the soundtrack of the upcoming Will Smith/Martin Lawrence movie Bad Boys: Ride or Die. The song interpolates the 1987 Genesis single "Tonight Tonight Tonight." Both the soundtrack and the movie arrive on June 7. Black Eyed Peas also did a song for the franchise's previous installment, 2020's Bad Boys for Life: "RITMO (Bad Boys for Life)."
The Chainsmokers have released their new EP No Hard Feelings, as well as official videos for three of the tracks: "Bad Advice," "Tennis Court" and "Green Lights (demo)." There's also a lyric video for a fourth track, "No Shade at Pitti."
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Ready the tossed salad and scrambled eggs: Second season of 'Frasier' reboot is underway
On Friday, May 9, Paramount+ reported the second season of the reboot of Frasier has begun filming.
Kelsey Grammer is back, of course, as Dr. Frasier Crane, and Peri Gilpin will be back as his former producer Roz Doyle as a recurring guest star.
The streamer also noted that multiple Emmy winner and TV legend James Burrows will return to direct two episodes of the new season.
The show's cast also includes stars Jack Cutmore-Scott as Frasier's son Freddy; Anders Keith as David, Frasier's nephew; Nicholas Lyndhurst as Alan, Frasier’s old college buddy-turned-university professor; and Toks Olagundoye as Olivia, Alan's colleague and head of the university's psychology department.
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New spinoff for Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo: 'NCIS: Tony & Ziva'
Two NCIS favorites are getting their own spinoff. Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo, who respectively played Tony DiNozzo and Ziva David on the series, took to social media to announce "Tiva," as the fans dubbed the couple, will be back in Paramount+'s NCIS: Tony & Ziva.
"It makes it really easy because the fans will know exactly what the show is. It's about Tony and Ziva in Europe," de Pablo joked.
Weatherly, who bowed out of NCIS in season 13, added that the show will shoot in Europe over the summer.
According to the streaming service, the show finds the couple raising their daughter Tali in Paris, but the NCIS veterans are forced to go on the run when Tony's company is attacked.
"I expect intrigue, romance, a background of Europe, impossible situations that will make our life very complicated but somehow a little something about love," said the actress. Her character left the show in season 11, and was once rumored to have been killed in a bombing -- but popped back up in season 16.
In a statement from the streamer, the pair, who will executive produce the show with John McNamara said, "We've been talking about this story for many years, and now with John McNamara at the helm, we are ready."
The actors promised "an action-packed roller coaster fueled by love, danger, tears and laughter," and also thanked the fans "who supported the 'TIVA' movement for years."
They added, "To this day, they say hello in grocery stores and on the street to tell us how much these characters mean to them and ask what Tony and Ziva are up to now. This is for you!"
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