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Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour movie just broke a record on Disney+ with so many streams

A massive showing for the concert film.

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour debuted on Disney+ this weekend with the monster tour-turned-movie finally arriving on streaming. Unsurprisingly, the massive hit concert film had a record-breaking first three days with 4.6 million views.

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Swift, who kicked off the Eras Tour in Scottsdale, Arizona back in March of 2023, has been to four continents — North America, South America, Australia and Asia — already, with the tour resuming in Paris, France in May for several more months planned.

The concert film has made over $260 million dollars at the worldwide box office, the most ever for the genre.

Zendaya and Tom Holland adorably sang Whitney Houston at the BNP Paribas Open

Just the two most delightful people.

Tom Holland and Zendaya are just too cute. The pair of actors met on the set of Marvel’s 2017 Spider-Man: Homecoming, and started dating in July of the same year. The couple is utterly adorable, even if the amount of time spent in the spotlight is not high.

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The Dune: Part Two star and Peter Parker actor made an appearance at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California over the weekend, sitting together and taking in the tournament. With Zendaya starring in the upcoming tennis-based movie, Challengers, it tracks that the duo made it court side.

Caught on camera, Holland and Zendaya adorably bantered with each other and joined in a chorus of “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” by Whitney Houston.

25 films that could contend for Best Picture at the 2025 Oscars, including Dune: Part Two

Let’s take a look at 25 films that could contend for Best Picture at the Oscars next year.

The 96th Academy Awards have come and gone, as Christopher Nolan’s historical epic Oppenheimer dominated this year’s ceremony.

However, it’s never too early to look ahead to what next year’s Oscars could have in store for us (okay, maybe it is, but we’re doing it anyhow).

We’ve got some major filmmakers returning to the director’s chair this year, as well as some big sequels and promising indie dramas alike.

With 2024 already in full gear at the movies, we’ve taken a look at 25 films we think you should keep an eye on this year for the 2025 Oscars.

While this list is not definitive and will likely add films as the year goes on, this is our best glance a year out at what next year’s ceremony could offer.

Jimmy Kimmel got in a last-second Oscars dig at Matt Damon featuring Messi the dog

Did we really think Jimmy Kimmel would go the whole Oscars without making fun of Matt Damon?

We really didn’t think Jimmy Kimmel would go the entire Academy Awards without getting in a dig at Matt Damon, did we?

Right as the show was ending, it looked like Kimmel wouldn’t keep his ongoing fake feud with Damon alive in his fourth Oscar hosting stint.

In the amended words of Lee Corso, not so fast, my frenemy!

A brief gag closed the show right before the credits of Messi the dog from Anatomy of a Fall pretending to hoist his leg up to pee on Damon’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as Kimmel got in his annual roast.

Like, c’mon, that’s easily Kimmel’s best joke of the night!

Messi was one of the stars of the evening, and we’re so glad he got to play a part in helping Kimmel make fun of Damon to keep the tradition alive.

Now, Damon must retaliate with a Messi the dog gag of his own. It’s only what’s right.

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Oscars viewers thought Lance Reddick and others were snubbed during the ‘In-Memoriam’ because of an awful presentation

Burt Young, Ray Stevenson, Sinead O’Connor and others were shoved into a list of names at the end that hardly anyone could read.

During its show each year, the Academy Awards always runs a montage of actors, directors, producers and other contributors to film that have died in the past year. The “in-memoriam” sequence is a staple of the Oscars and can often be a bit of a tearjerker.

At For The Win, we try to do some of these tributes on our own, like remembering Lance Reddick’s work in The Wire, or the iconic moments of Mark Margolis as Hector Salamanca in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.

But sometimes – oftentimes, unfortunately – the Oscars forgets to include some folks. Last year, they forgot about Paul Sorvino.

This year, the Academy sprinted through the montage fairly quickly and never brought it to full screen. At the end, several names flashed on the screen, but they were difficult to read because they were small and far away.

And so, a lot of folks online thought that many actors and contributors to film were snubbed, overlooked or forgotten. There was a significant outcry for Reddick.

Reddick and other big-name contributors to film – Ahsoka’s Ray Stevenson and singer Sinead O’Connor among them – were technically included in the montage, but only very briefly at the end, shoved into a long list of names that hardly anyone could read.

Simply put, the late folks like Reddick, Stevenson, O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Burt Young, Treat Williams and others deserved so much better than this. If we could make time for the song from the movie about Flaming Hot Cheetos, couldn’t we find time to honor these people properly?

Emma Stone won her second Oscar for Best Actress and delivered the most gracious speech

Emma Stone is the best.

Emma Stone has earned her second Academy Award.

After winning in the category in 2017 for La La Land, Stone won Best Actress for her leading role in Poor Things.

Stone was in clear shock over the victory and delivered an incredibly gracious speech where she extolled her fellow nominees and praised her Poor Things team and filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos in particular.

Stone now joins the legacy of women who have won two Oscars for acting, like Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Frances McDormand and Katharine Hepburn.

This was a really moving moment for one of the defining actors of her generation.

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Christopher Nolan finally won a Best Director Oscar, and Steven Spielberg was the one to give it to him

Legendary filmmaker Christopher Nolan has finally won his Oscar.

One of the best directors of all time has finally won his Oscar, and he got it in the absolute best way possible.

Christopher Nolan, the auteur behind such classic films as The Dark Knight, Memento, Inception and Dunkirk, won the Academy Award for Best Director on Sunday night for his latest masterpiece, Oppenheimer.

Legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg presented Nolan the award, which shows highlights a fantastic generational passing of the torch from one all-time director to another.

Nolan has only been nominated for Best Director once before for Dunkirk, so this makes his first victory on his second attempt in the category.

His win is notable not only because of his stature in the industry, but because of his status as one of the few household name filmmakers left working.

Nolan gave a very commendable speech after accepting his long-awaited Oscar, one where he praised his producing partner and wife Emma Thomas and thanked his Oppenheimer cast and crew.

So many have been eagerly awaiting Nolan’s Oscar win after he got infamously snubbed for The Dark Knight back in 2009, but it’s better late than never. Nolan really has finally won his Academy Award.

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Cillian Murphy gave a delightful speech after winning Best Actor for Oppenheimer

Cillian Murphy is the latest actor to win an Oscar for playing a real-life person.

Cillian Murphy has finally won his Oscar.

The veteran actor, best known for hit films like 28 Days Later and Batman Begins and his leading role on Peaky Blinders, won the Academy Award for Best Actor on Sunday night for his performance in Oppenheimer.

The longtime collaborator and close friend of filmmaker Christopher Nolan finally got a lead role in one of the auteur’s films, and he didn’t waste his chance in playing J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb.

Murphy delivered a very endearing speech after winning his Oscar, one in which he thanked his family, his collaborators and specifically Nolan and his wife, Emma Thomas, for their years of support.

Murphy is one of the best actors of his generation, and it’s always a delight to see someone as talented as he is receive such a prestigious honor.

Oppenheimer has dominated Oscar night, and its lead star is just the latest to soak in the Academy Award glory.

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Steven Spielberg’s hysterical Oscars reaction might already be the best GIF of 2024

BEST GIF OF 2024 INCOMING

Steven Spielberg is one of the best filmmakers of all time, but he might’ve just turned into one of the best GIFs of 2024 during Sunday’s Oscars.

During a segment featuring Barbie stars America Ferrera and Kate McKinnon, the two joked about McKinnon finding out that Jurassic Park isn’t actually a documentary.

During one of McKinnon’s quips, the camera cut to Spielberg delivering the reaction of the night and a GIF that will surely flood your social media feed in the weeks and months to come.

Seriously, this is priceless, and we are so glad it now exists for us to use when we need to react to something on the internet.

Spielberg is such a good sport for participating in this gag, and we’re dually happy that we have this reaction from him now to use in all of our tweets.

This is what the Oscars are all about! New GIFs!

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Yes, Robert Downey Jr. is surprisingly the first former SNL cast member to win an Oscar

Ironically, RDJ’s SNL run was pretty short, lasting just 16 episodes.

Robert Downey Jr. won his first Academy Award on Sunday night, taking home Best Supporting Actor for his work in Oppenheimer. It was the first award of the night that the film won.

It was the third time Downey had been nominated. He was up for Best Actor in 1990 for Chaplin, and Best Supporting Actor in 2009 for Tropic Thunder.

Downey’s performance as Lewis Strauss also won him a BAFTA, a Golden Globe, and a SAG Award. His portrayal of Strauss is incredibly key to making the film work, as director Christopher Nolan uses Strauss’s Senate confirmation hearing for Secretary of Commerce as a framing device to tell the story.

The win for Downey was not just significant for him and Oppenheimer, but also the show he was on in 1985, a little thing called Saturday Night Live.

Downey is in fact the first former SNL cast member to win an Oscar.

Yes, really.

That might be hard to believe considering the show has produced stars like Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey and Kristen Wiig. A lot of those folks have been nominated for Oscars, but never won.

Murray won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA for his work in 2003’s Lost In Translation, but lost the Best Actor Oscar to Sean Penn. Murphy was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in 2007 for his work in Dreamgirls, but lost to Alan Arkin. Wiig was nominated for Best Original Screenplay in 2012 for writing Bridesmaids, but the award went to Woody Allen for Midnight In Paris.

Ironically, Downey’s SNL run was pretty short, lasting just 16 episodes.