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Original title: Box Office: ‘Weapons’ Wins Quiet Labor Day With $12.8M, ‘Jaws’ Beats ‘Caught Stealing,’ ‘The Roses’ A half a century later, Steven Spielberg‘s Jaws still has plenty of bite as the troubled 2025 summer season comes to a close. The original summer blockbuster, celebrating its 50th anniversary, opened in second place at the four-day Labor Day box office behind Zach Cregger‘s August sleeper hit Weapons, which remains in first place for the fourth weekend in a row with an estimated four-day gross of $12.8 million and $10.5 million for the three-day weekend proper. The horror pic, yet another win for Warner Bros. and New Line, expects finish Monday with a global tally of $235.2 million, according to updated Monday estimates (final for the holiday numbers won’t be tallied until Tuesday). While it isn’t worst the Labor Day on record, it was definitely quiet. Booked in 3,200 cinemas, Jaws bit off a four-day haul of $9.9 million, including $8.1 million for the three days. That was enough to swim past Darren Aronofsky‘s new movie starring Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz, as well as Searchlight’s ...

Original title: Trouble Brews Among Family Heirs in ‘House of Guinness’ Trailer Raise a pint to another sibling brawl after Succession, as the four adult children of patriarch Sir Benjamin Guinness battle for their place in the family dynasty after the brewery mogul’s death in 1868. The teaser for the historical Netflix drama set in 19th-century New York and Dublin and from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight sees the moneyed family heirs — Arthur, Edward, Anne and Ben — left doubly grief-stricken by the impact of their father’s will. Benjamin Guinness, played by Fionn O’Shea, and sister Anne Plunket Guinness (Emily Fairn) are denied an inheritance. That ushers in a toxic family feud as the two eldest sons — Anthony Boyle, who plays Arthur Guinness, and Louis Partridge as Edward Guinness — are given stewardship of the Irish brewery and its black gold. “The death of your father has served to poke a stick in a hornet’s nest,” Arthur Guinness is told at one point in the trailer as the family drama plays out against the backdrop of the fight for Irish independence an ...

Original title: Amanda Seyfried in Tears During ‘Testament of Ann Lee’ World Premiere at Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival hosted a world premiere on Monday afternoon for Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee, delivering something close to a religious experience. The audience responded to the film, which stars Amanda Seyfried as founder of the radical religious sect the Shakers, with TK. The cult-like group, which formed as an offshoot of Quakerism in Manchester, England in 1747, got its name from worship practices that included trembling, dancing and speaking in tongues. Lee espoused gender and social equality while believing herself to be the female incarnation of Christ, and its members practiced celibacy. The Shakers ended up fleeing to America to escape persecution, ultimately settling near Albany, New York to build their utopia. The Testament of Ann Lee, which Fastvold directed from a script she co-wrote with her The Brutalist partner Brady Corbet, also stars Thomasin McKenzie, Lewis Pullman, Stacy Martin, Tim Blake Nelson, Christopher Abbott, Matthew Beard, Scott Handy, J ...

Original title: Dwayne Johnson Gets Choked Up Discussing ‘The Smashing Machine’ in Venice: “This Transformation Was Something I Was Really Hungry to Do” The moment is here: The Rock has arrived on the Lido. At a 2025 Venice Film Festival packed with cross-generational star power — from George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Jude Law to Jacob Elordi, Emma Stone and Ayo Edebiri — Dwayne Johnson‘s arrival Monday for the world premiere of The Smashing Machine nonetheless made for a showstopping moment. “This transformation was something I was really hungry to do,” Johnson said of his uncharacteristic starring turn in Bennie Safdie’s visceral drama. “I had been very fortunate to have the career that I’ve had over the years and to make the films that I’ve made, but there was just a voice inside of me, a little voice that said, ‘Well, what if I could do more — I want to do more and what does that look like?’” The Smashing Machine represents a daring leap from the top ropes for the actor, one of the biggest movie stars in the world, known for blockbusters and spectacle rather than stripped-down, emotionally driven prestige cinema. Anticipation for ...

Original title: Amanda Seyfried Borrows Julia Roberts’ Versace Look for Venice Film Festival: “Sharing Is Caring” Some actors pull from their own closets for their red carpet appearances — looking at you, Cate Blanchett — but Amanda Seyfried borrowed from Julia Roberts at the Venice Film Festival today. Last week, Roberts stepped out on the Lido to promote her new Luca Guadagnino film After the Hunt wearing Dario Vitale’s first pieces since taking the reins as creative director from Donatella Versace, who departed in March. Roberts first turned up for a press conference and photocall in a business casual look followed by a decidedly more glamorous turn for the film’s world premiere. For her first official outing at the festival, a press conference for her experimental Mona Fastvold vehicle, The Testament of Ann Lee, Seyfried wore the same business look Roberts donned. Per Versace, Seyfriend contacted Julia saying how much she would love to wear the look, and Roberts kindly obliged. Making matters that much easier, they both share the same A-list stylist, Elizabeth Stewart. “Thank you Julia Roberts ...

Original title: ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Review: Amanda Seyfried Channels Agony and Ecstasy in Audacious Epic That’s Easier to Admire Than to Love You have to hand it to Mona Fastvold and her partner and longtime collaborator Brady Corbet — they never play it safe with conventional, easily digestible material. Fastvold’s ambitious third feature, The Testament of Ann Lee, is a speculative account of the life of the 18th century religious leader who founded the Shakers and was falsely accused of treason, witchcraft and whatever else the Congregationalist establishment of New England could throw at her. Amanda Seyfried holds nothing back as the title figure in a movie that, for better or worse, often seems fueled by the same hysterical intensity that characterizes the movement’s worship. Elevated by mesmerizing songs of thanks and praise adapted by composer Daniel Blumberg from traditional spirituals and animated by the whirling rapture and vigorous physical expression of Shaker prayer, in which believers surrender their bodies to the Holy Spirit, this is certainly not a movie in which I was ever bored. The Testament of Ann Lee The ...

Original title: Oasis Just Glitched the Algorithm In September 1996, early in a misbegotten youth — though not nearly as misbegotten, I should say for the record, as Liam Gallagher‘s — my friend Gary and I attended an Oasis concert at Jones Beach, on Long Island. We didn’t know it at the time, but the now-iconic “What’s The Story (Morning Glory)?” tour, which had just arrived in the U.S. after record-breaking crowds in the U.K., was about to come to a crashing halt when Liam would leave the band a few days later in a(nother) fit of petulance. That night we just blissfully rocked out to live renditions of the record that had been playing everywhere the previous year — everywhere we went, anyway. Years before Google — and decades before TikTok — we basked in the discovery of this strange, snarling British rock that wasn’t much on the radio but lived in every scratch of our CDs, and minds. Gary passed away in a paddleboarding accident exactly two decades later, some 10 miles west of Jones Beach, and, while I’m hardly a woo woo reincarnat ...

Original title: Daniel Day-Lewis, Richard Linklater and Yorgos Lanthimos Set for Talks at BFI London Film Festival Daniel Day-Lewis, Richard Linklater, Yorgos Lanthimos and Tessa Thompson are among the stars set to participate in the BFI London Film Festival‘s Screen Talks program this year. Celebrated filmmakers Jafar Panahi, Lynne Ramsay and Chloé Zhao will also join for sessions at the 2025 festival, opening Oct. 8 with Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Day-Lewis, the only person to win three best actor Oscars, is best known for his era-defining roles in such diverse films as My Beautiful Laundrette, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, My Left Foot, The Age of Innocence, There Will Be Blood, Lincoln and Phantom Thread. He is due to make his return to acting in the upcoming film Anemone, which also serves as his son Ronan’s directorial debut. Lanthimos’ work has established him as one of the most renowned directors of the 21st century. His frequent collaborators include Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone, who star in the recently premiered Venice feature Bugonia. Among his most famo ...

Original title: Netflix’s New Releases Coming in September 2025 The concluding part of season two of Wednesday; the story of Charlie Sheen’s redemption; a clash between the two greatest super middleweights in the world; an A-list crime drama starring Jude Law and Jason Bateman; a lavish period drama from the creator of Peaky Blinders; and the third season of one of the most talked-about Japanese sci-fi shows are among the highlights of the new film and TV projects hitting Netflix in September. Starting the month off strong is part two of season two of Wednesday, that hits Netflix on Sept. 3. There’s no need to introduce this absolute monster hit for the streamer, as seemingly everyone is watching — the first half of Wednesday season two delivered 50 million views worldwide, the most views for an English-language show’s opening week on the streamer since season one of Wednesday. Part two kicks off with “Hide and Woe Seek,” the 13th episode in total of the series, and we pick up the action after our titular heroine was unceremoniously defenestrated b ...

Original title: Amanda Seyfried on Going Feral to Play Shakers Founder Ann Lee: “I’ve Never Been Let Loose” Amanda Seyfried tackled a tall task by stepping into the shoes and strict religious beliefs of Shakers founder Ann Lee for her new film, The Testament of Ann Lee, which is not quite a musical nor a straightforward biopic. The film’s writer and co-director Mona Fastvold fielded an obvious question during today’s Venice Film Festival press conference: Why Amanda? “Amanda has a lot of power. She’s really strong. She is a wonderful mother. She is a little mad,” Fastvold explained of her Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated star. “So, I knew that she could access those things, the kindness, the gentleness, the tenderness. And she could also access this power and this madness.” The actress toplines the Venice selection directed by Fastvold from a script the filmmaker co-wrote with her The Brutalist partner Brady Corbet. It casts Seyfried opposite Thomasin McKenzie, Lewis Pullman, Stacy Martin, Tim Blake Nelson, Christopher Abbott, Matthew Beard, Scott Handy, Jamie Bogyo, Viola Prettejohn a ...