The Japanese box office jumped more than 17 percent to a record $2.39 billion (261 billion yen) in 2019, with admissions up more than 15 percent to 194,910, the highest attendance since 1971.
Despite a slowly shrinking population and the rise of streaming platforms, a strong lineup of films, rising wages for the young, low unemployment and a rise in leisure time due to government work reforms all helped drive the record box office numbers. Read More...
Kathy Bates is an acclaimed actress who has starred in many popular films, such as About Schmidt, The Blind Side, Titanic, and The Late Shift. She is best known for her role as a disturbed nurse in the film adaptation of Stephen King's novel Misery, which earned her a large fan base. She also plays Ethel Darling in FX's American Horror Story. Bates was born on June 28, 1948 in Memphis, TN. Read More...
Lyn Wilde, one-half of the blond sister act that confused characters in such 1940s MGM comedies as Andy Hardy’s Blonde Trouble and Twice Blessed, has died. She was 93.
Wilde died Sept. 11 at a hospice in Michigan City, Ind., her family announced.
Lyn and her sister Lee, contract players at MGM, also appeared in Presenting Lily Mars (1943), starring Judy Garland, and Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), with Van Heflin. Read More...