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Sports drama The Match has ended the month-long reign of Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 at the South Korean box office, taking nearly two-thirds of all tickets sold over the weekend. The Match took $3.53m from 544,529 admissions across the weekend (March 28-30), representing nearly 62% of total market share, according to Kobis, the Korean Film Council’s box office tracking service. The film stars Lee Byung-hun, known for Squid Game and Concrete Utopia, as legendary Go player Cho Hun-hyeon and his real-life rivalry with Lee Chang-ho. Yoo Ah-in – whose drug scandal delayed the film’s opening and who was released…

Disney’s Snow White is being ushered into 651 sites, the widest release at the UK-Ireland box office of the weekend. Marc Webb directs the live-action musical re-imagining of Disney’s 1937Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs animation, which stars Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot. The film has faced a series of controversies, including star Zegler’s criticism of the original film, debates regarding whether the portrayal of the dwarfs is appropriate for the modern day, a mixed critical reception, as well as Zegler and Gadot’s own politics. Although the press campaign has been muted, Disney hasn’t shied away from a wide roll-out. It…

UK-Ireland top five Mar 28-30, 2025 Rank  Film (origin)Distributor  Mar 28-30 gross Total Week  1  Snow White  (US)  Disney  £2m  £6.8m  2  2   L2: Empuraan (India)  RFT Films/2G Entertainments  £764,499  £1.4m  1  3   A Working Man (US-UK)  Warner Bros  £658,134  £1.2m  1  4   Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy   (UK-Fr-US)  Universal  £562,233  £544,000  7  5   Novocaine   (US)  Paramount  £441,777  £3.1m  1 Disney’s Snow White live-action remake topped the UK-Ireland box office for a second weekend, with A Working Man starring Jason Statham as the top new title. Directed by Marc Webb and…

Noel Clarke contacted “at least 10 people” in efforts to halt the publication of The Guardian’s report of allegations of sexual misconduct, the court in his libel trial against the publication has heard today. Paul Lewis, head of investigations at The Guardian, became the paper’s first staff member to take the stand in the trial, which began on March 7. UK actor-director-producer Clarke is suing The Guardian’s publisher Guardian News and Media (GNM) over seven articles and a podcast, including an article in April 2021 that said 20 women who knew him professionally had come forward with allegations of misconduct.…

UK-Ireland top five Mar 21-23 Rank Film (origin) Distributor Mar 21-23 gross  Total Week 1 Snow White  (US) Disney £3.9m £3.9m  1 2  Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy  (UK-Fr-US) Universal  £772,874 £44.6m 6 3  Black Bag (US)  Universal  £734,932  £2.2m 2 4  Mickey 17 (US-S Kor)  Warner Bros  £724,113 £5.9m 3 5  The Alto Knights (US) Warner Bros £386,698  £386,698  1 GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.29 Disney’s latest foray into live-action remakes, Snow White, has started off with a modest £3.9m at the UK-Ireland box office.…

Low-budget Japanese feature A Samurai In Time has reached the ¥1bn ($6.65m) landmark at the local box office, cementing its position as one of the country’s biggest sleeper hits. The figure represents a significant milestone for the independent film, which was produced for a reported budget of just over $170,000 (¥26m). It follows a historic win for the feature at the 48th Japan Academy Prize on March 14, where it became the first independent film ever to win best picture at the annual awards. Winners of the award in recent years include Godzilla Minus One, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car…

British leading lights Olivia Colman, Jonathan Glazer, Riz Ahmed, and Jessie Buckley are among hundreds of Academy members who have signed a letter circulating on Friday in which they lambast the Oscar body’s response to the reported attack on and detention of No Other Land co-director Hamdan Ballal. The missive has been sent to Academy members and decries the Academy’s “indefensible” position, after CEO Bill Kramer and president Janet Yang sent a letter to members on Thursday in which they condemned harm or suppression of artists based on their viewpoints, but did not mention Hallal by name, and implied the…

UK actor-director-producer Noel Clarke showed a film producer images of a naked woman on his mobile phone “to show that he could get actresses to do anything that he wanted”, London’s High Court has heard. Garry Moore said he was “a bit shocked” when Clarke showed him footage from a sex scene of an unreleased film at a meeting in London in 2014. Moore gave evidence today (March 26)  in the latest stage of Clarke’s libel battle against Guardian News and Media (GNM). Moore had met Clarke in 2014 to discuss the concept for a film, which involved sex scenes. The…

UK actor-director-producer Noel Clarke allegedly groped his colleague in an elevator and exposed himself to her in a car, according to testimony from a Guardian witness in Clarke’s libel claim against the UK newspaper today at London’s High Court. Gina Powell was part of Clarke’s production company Unstoppable between 2014 and 2017. She has accused Clarke of groping her in an elevator after a trip to Los Angeles in 2015. In a witness statement, Powell described the incident as “something I had to bear and carry every day”. “I was so shocked and heartbroken, someone I called my big brother,…

Silver Lake has finalised a $25bn deal to acquire Endeavor in a move that takes the parent of Hollywood agency WME private and sees founder Ari Emanuel move from CEO to executive chair. Mark Shapiro will lead the renamed WME Group. Private equity group Silver Lake and its co-investors have acquired 100% of the outstanding shares in Endeavor. The now privately held Endeavor Group Holdings retains its controlling ownership stake in sports and entertainment company TKO Group Holdings. Silver Lake said on Monday that when consolidating all of TKO’s value into Endeavor, the combined total enterprise value of $25bn at $27.50 per share…