The box office ain’t afraid of no ghosts.

“Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” a sequel to the 1980s sci-fi comedy classic, opened at No. 1 in North America, collecting a solid $44 million from 4,315 venues. The better-than-expected result is an encouraging sign that family audiences are willing to visit the

UPDATED: As streaming and other digital formats have made the music industry more song-based after decades of being centered around albums, there has been much talk about the “death of the album” and the consequent loss of a complete artistic statement that comes with it.

Well, Adele has tackled th

Monochrome is in vogue this awards season as major contenders including “Belfast,” “The Tragedy of Macbeth” and “Passing” have all opted for lush black-and-white cinematography. Mike Mills called on “The Favourite” DP Robbie Ryan to shoot his latest project, “C’mon C’mon,” with similar rich imagery.

While their most recent doc “The Rescue” continues its festival and award-circuit run, directors Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin have been at work in the edit suite prepping their next big-screen effort – a decades spanning love story mixing business, philanthropy, and the great outdoors.

Aiming for

When Robert Greene began work on “Procession,” which follows six middle-aged survivors of abuse as they work together to reenact their traumatic memories on film, the director wanted to upend long standing documentary models.

“I didn’t want to have a traditional film where you put the camera in som

Like casual social hugs and the daily commute to the office cubicle, the platform movie release has been a casualty of the age of COVID. You remember the platform release, don’t you? It used to happen quite a bit this time of year. A movie with a major independent distributor, like Searchlight or A2

Peter Aykroyd, the former cast member and writer on “Saturday Night Live” and brother to Dan Aykroyd, has died. He was believed to be 66. A cause of death has not been released.

Aykroyd’s passing was announced on Saturday’s Simu Liu-hosted episode of “Saturday Night Live.” The program aired a tribu

YEARS after the dramatic rescue of the Turpin children, it has been revealed that the siblings are still suffering from abuse and neglect.

Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin spoke out about how the system handled the Turpin children’s case:

“The public deserves to know what their gove

THE longest partial lunar eclipse of the century was visible across the US overnight.

The eclipse involved the Earth’s shadow covering about 97 percent of the full Beaver Moon.

It began at 1am ET and the moon started turning red around 3.45am ET.

The eclipse finally passed around 4.30am ET, makin

THE Set For Life draw is back tomorrow night as Lotto players have been urged to check their tickets as a huge £4.1million still up for grabs.

The whopping prize remains unclaimed after the ticket was bought for last Saturday’s draw.

Meanwhile, the Set For Life can be played on Monday night as Bri

TEEN Mom Jenelle Evans’ ex Nathan Griffith admitted that he had “lost everything” as the reality star opened up about his depression and struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder, which left him on disability after serving in the United States Marine Corps.

Nathan, 33, opened up about how he “l

HEALTH experts are warning of a sugary drink increasingly popular with kids that has more calories than a Big Mac.

Trendy bubble tea blends tea, milk and chewy tapioca balls.

Alamy 1 Bubble tea can contain up to 800 calories in a single cup — the same as 50 sugar cubes and way more than a Big Mac’

ISIS bride Shamima Begum has claimed the only crime she has committed was going to Syria and said she was willing to go on trial in the UK.

The Bethnal Green schoolgirl was 15 years old when she fled the UK in 2015 to join the Islamist terror group and is now living in the al-Roj camp in Syria afte

TOM Fletcher has been eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing.

The McFly frontman became the eight celebrity to be sent home from the dance competition after failing to impress the judges.

The Strictly Come Dancing judges felt he had been too restrained with his emotions during the dance.

Meanwhile

KANYE West looked buff as he was spotted for the first time since estranged wife Kim Kardashian confirmed her romance with Pete Davidson.

The 44-year-old donned a skimpy black tank top as he was pictured grabbing some fast food in Los Angeles on Saturday.

10 Kanye West was spotted looking bulked u

A DRIVER reportedly plowed through a holiday parade in Wisconsin on Sunday.

The town of Waukesha was holding a Christmas parade when multiple people took to Twitter with accounts of an alleged incident.

Multiple accounts indicate that shots may also have been fired.

It was reported that a “heavy

Busting ghosts is still a fairly lucrative business after almost 40 years.

Heading into Thanksgiving weekend, the latest attempt to revive “Ghostbusters” drew a sizable audience to theaters, while the awards darling “King Richard,” like most dramas in the pandemic era, is struggling.

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Whether it’s playing Marvel’s first Asian superhero or becoming the first Chinese American “Saturday Night Live” cast member, anytime Simu Liu or Bowen Yang do anything in the still-very-white Hollywood, it’s hailed as a historic first.

So, naturally it was a groundbreaking event over the weekend w

Rumor has it that all this time people have been listening to albums out of order the first time around.

But the shuffle stops with Adele, as the singer single-handedly changed the way streaming giant Spotify dictates how users listen to music.

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Following the release of her album “30

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