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Images Courtesy of Focus Features ("Last Night in Soho"), Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures ("Dune"), Searchlight Pictures ("Antlers") Despite the opening of no fewer than three titles in wide release this weekend ( Last Night in Soho, Antlers and My Hero Academia ) and the expansion of The French Dispatch into 788 theaters, Warner Bros.’ Dune easily retained the top spot at the box office in its sophomore frame with an estimated $15.53M, marking a rather steep 62% decline from its $41M debut. Mixed results were in store for the remainder of the weekend’s new titles, whose grosses were depressed in part due to Halloween falling on a Sunday. As a big-budget tentpole, Dune had little direct competition this weekend, though as with previous HBO Max day-and-date titles – namely The Suicide Squad and Mortal Kombat , both of which dropped over 70% in their sophomore frames – it suffered a relatively steep decline. The $165M-budgeted ti...

Hilaria Baldwin posted images of husband Alec Baldwin and her young children in Halloween costumes Sunday following a recent on-set shooting in New Mexico in which he was involved that left cinematographer Halyna Hutchins dead. "Parenting through this has been an intense experience, to say the least," Hilaria Baldwin wrote along with a videos and pictures of her husband and children in costumes. "Today, we rallied to give them a holiday. Last min costumes…a little hodge-podge…but they were so happy and that warmed my mama heart." Hilaria went on to post emojis that indicated her children give them love. She also issued a heart and a pumpkin emoji in celebration of Halloween. The Instagram post comes a day after the Baldwins spoke to photographers in Vermont, when Alec said he is cooperating with police and has been speaking to them every day. Baldwin maintained that he could not speak on the active investigation. ALEC BALDWIN SPEAKS IN PUBLIC FOR FIRST TIME AM...

Photo: Jim Spellman/Getty Images Former Obama staffer/former Kumar Kal Penn came out as gay and managed to include a memoir tease and a boyfriend reveal to boot. Penn spoke to People magazine October 31, explaining that he’d been dating Josh (no last name given) for 11 years. “I discovered my own sexuality relatively late in life compared to many other people,” he said. “There’s no timeline on this stuff.” Penn said that his family was supportive when he came out: “When you’ve already told your Indian parents and the South Asian community that you intend to be an actor for a living, really any conversations that come after that are super easy. They’re just like, ‘Yeah, okay.’ I felt very supported by everyone.” Penn was scant with details on Josh, citing his privacy. “I’m really excited to share our relationship with readers. But Josh, my partner, my parents, and my brother, four people who I’m closest to in the family, are fairly quiet. They don’t love attention and shy a...

CLEVELAND — Jay-Z’s added another title to a resume that includes rapper, songwriter, Grammy winner, billionaire business mogul, and global icon — Hall of Famer. The self-proclaimed “greatest rapper alive” was inducted Saturday night as part of an eclectic 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class that included Foo Fighters , Carole King, Tina Turner , The Go-Gos and Todd Rundgren. Once a drug dealer on the tough streets of Brooklyn, New York, Jay-Z rose through the rap world with hard, straight-forward songs that often portrayed the struggles of Black people in America. His catalogue includes songs like “Hard Knock Life,” “99 Problems” and “Empire State of Mind” as well as 14 No. 1 albums. Download the  NBC News app  for breaking news Following a video introduction that included President Barack Obama , LeBron James and David Letterman, Jay-Z was inducted by comedian Dave Chappelle, who praised him for being an inspiration. “He rhymed a recipe for survival,” Chappell...

Photo credit: Getty Images This morning, the world woke up to the reports that Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson apparently might be a ~thing~ now. If your response to that last sentence is "...Wait? What? Details now, plz," then, take a deep breath and scroll on. So, why are Kim and Pete suddenly on the receiving end of couple speculation? Well, on Saturday night, they were spotted casually holding hands while hanging out at Knott's Berry Farm in SoCal with PDA masters Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker. Before you begin to fully ship this, keep in mind that it's *very* possible that Kim and Pete's PDA moment—which went down on a rollercoaster, while Kim was adorably mid-scream ( People has pics and they are v worth putting your eyes on)—was purely platonic and not a signal of any romantic vibes. In fact, a source told People pretty much exactly that, in a quote imploring us to all calm TF down about the whole thing (not that calming TF down about t...

Alec Baldwin returned to somewhat normal Twitter behavior this week for the first time since an on-set shooting he was involved in left cinematographer Halyna Hutchins dead.  Baldwin issued a statement the day after the incident noting that he is cooperating with authorities as they investigate and offered his condolences to Hutchins’ family. Since then, he was completely silent on social media as he and his wife Hilaria traveled to New England.  On Saturday, Baldwin seemingly returned to business as usual on social media, first by complimenting the Halloween costume of actor and comedian Mario Cantone . He then retweeted a thread about the importance of teachers .  Finally, he returned to commenting on politics Saturday night in response to political author Kurt Anderson, who asked his followers for examples of other "once-great American institutions misleadingly operating under their old names?"  ALEC BALDWIN SHOOTING INCIDENT HIGHLIGHTS LACK OF UNIFORM SAFETY...

Kal Penn , the actor best known for his lead role in the “Harold & Kumar” comedy series, has come out, revealing that he is engaged to his partner of eleven years. Penn gave his story during an interview on this week’s CBS Sunday Morning while promoting his new tell-all memoir “You Can’t Be Serious,” touching on his introduction to acting, his time working with the Obama administration and his relationship with his partner, Josh. “Josh and I’ve been together for 11 years,” Penn said, discussing how he presented his sexuality in his memoir. “We had our 11th anniversary in October. So, writing about it… it’s very matter-of-fact in our lives, and when you’re the son of Indian immigrants who says that you want to be an actor, the chaos that that creates in your family and your community, will trump anything else, always.” After moving to Los Angeles to work as an actor, Penn broke out with the 2004 comedy “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle” alongside his co-star John Cho. The ...

In just his first year of eligibility, “Brooklyn’s finest,” Jay-Z , was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland on Saturday night among a class that included The Go-Go’s, Carole King, Tina Turner, Todd Rundgren, and Foo Fighters. But only a hip-hop legend of his caliber, who’s been a driving force in the music industry for over two decades, was honored with a speech by a former president. Barack Obama , who previously paid tribute to Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter when he became the first rapper in the Songwriters Hall of Fame , delivered moving remarks about how Jay-Z’s music has served as a soundtrack to some of his most pivotal moments. Advertisement “I’ve turned to Jay-Z’s words at different points in my life, whether I was brushing dirt off my shoulder on the campaign trail, or sampling his lyrics on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the 50th anniversary of the Selma march to Montgomery,” Obama said in a taped video message . “Today, Jay-Z is one of the mos...

MANCHESTER, Vt. -- Alec Baldwin spoke out for the first time on camera since last week's deadly shooting on the set of the film "Rust," calling it a "one-in-a-trillion episode." The actor discharged the antique revolver during a dress rehearsal for the Western, killing the film's cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, and wounding its director, Joel Souza. In a nearly four-minute exchange with a reporter from BackGrid Saturday outside his Vermont home, with his wife by his side, Baldwin said he is fully cooperating with police and talks to them "every day." He said he has been ordered by authorities not to answer any questions about the investigation into the shooting, which occurred on Oct. 21 at the Bonanza Creek Ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico. "I'm not allowed to make any comments because it's an ongoing investigation," Baldwin said in the video. "I've been ordered by the sheriff's department in Santa Fe. I can...

Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Amid ongoing controversy involving his new Netflix comedy special The Closer , Dave Chappelle appeared as a special guest at this year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, where he inducted his longtime friend Jay-Z with the help of a pre-recorded video from Barack Obama . The comedian didn’t use his speech as an echo chamber to further address the special’s backlash, which has been generating a constant stream of headlines since its release earlier this month. Well, okay, maybe a little. “I would like to apologize,” Chappelle began. “I’m just fucking with you.” Now back to Hova. “This is an incredible honor to induct this next man into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But I need everybody in rock and roll know that even though we are honoring him, he is ours. He is hip-hop,” he said. “Forever and ever and a day. I could sit up here tonight, I could talk about his acumen as businessman. I could talk about his accomplishments in m...

The domestic box office was lighter on the treats and heavier on the tricks during Halloween weekend, capping an otherwise busy October at the movies on a muted note. Horror movies “ Antlers ” and “ Last Night in Soho ” opened nationwide and struggled to scare up strong ticket sales, leaving last weekend’s champion “ Dune ” to rule over box office charts again. It’s the first time since COVID-19 that people could safely celebrate the spooky holiday, so it’s understandable that audiences opted to trick-or-treat or go to costumed parties rather than visit their local multiplex. “Dune,” the big-screen adaptation of Frank Herbert’s influential sci-fi novel, generated $15.5 million in its second weekend of release, bringing its domestic total to $69.4 million. The film, which opened simultaneously on HBO Max, declined 62% from its debut, a considerably better hold than other Warner Bros. spectacles, such as “Mortal Kombat,” “The Suicide Squad” and “Space Jam: A New Legacy.” Those movies ...

Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson held hands on a Halloween thrill ride, but the reality star and Staten Island funnyman are “just friends,” a source claimed in a new report. The duo were photographed on a rollercoaster at Knott’s Scary Farm in Buena Park, Ca. on Friday, People Magazine reported . Kim’s sister Kourtney Kardashian and her fiancé Travis Barker were also spotted screaming on the coaster, the outlet said. Davidson, 27, knows the famous family through mutual friend Machine Gun Kelly , who is pals with Blink-182 drummer Barker, an insider told the magazine. “They hang in the same circles so they will be together from time to time,” the source reportedly said. “It’s just friends hanging out.” Could romance be in the air for Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian-West? Getty Images Kardashian, 41, is in the midst of divorcing Kanye West , who accompanied her to Manhattan when she hosted “Saturday Night Live” earlier this month. Last week, she said she still admires her es...

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By Alicia Powell CLEVELAND, Ohio (Reuters) - Taylor Swift serenaded Carole King, former U.S. President Barack Obama praised rapper JAY-Z, and Paul McCartney paid tribute to the Foo Fighters on Saturday at a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony that also honored Tina Turner and The Go-Gos. Obama, speaking via video, called 23-time Grammy winner JAY-Z "the embodiment of the American Dream" for his rise from a poor New York neighborhood to a billionaire songwriter, record executive and businessman. JAY-Z, 51, seemed overwhelmed by the tributes, which included one from comedian Dave Chappelle. "That's a lot. Trying to make me cry in front of all these white people!" he joked. "Growing up we didn't think we could be inducted in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. We were told that hip-hop was a fad." Swift opened the show with a pop version of "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" while Jennifer Hudson sang "A Natural Woman" in ...