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Philadelphia is a proud city with grand traditions. History buffs will, of course, tell you that it was the first capital of the United States. Now, the city that was once home to Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, and Thomas Jefferson is the television home of the Reynolds family, Mac, and Charlie. What can It’s Always [...]

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On the heels of the announcement that Martin Scorsese’s gangster epic “The Irishman” will receive a nearly four-week exclusive theatrical release before it becomes available to stream, Netflix has now confirmed it will give nine other fall movies a similar theaters-first rollout: “The Laundromat,” “Dolemite Is My Name,” “The King,” “Earthquake Bird,” “Marriage Story,” “Klaus,” “I Lost My Body,” “Atlantics,” and “The Two Popes.” The news marks Netflix’s biggest commitment to theatrical exhibition in a single movie season. Netflix officially became a member of the MPAA in January.

Not all the films are slated for Oscar contention. Netflix is also using theaters to help differentiate its movies and make its filmmakers happy; this spring Netflix put into theaters both John Hancock’s “The Highwayman,” starring Kevin Costner, and J.C. Chandor’s “Triple Frontier” starring Ben Affleck.)

Steven Soderbergh’s “The Laundromat” will hit theaters first after world premiering...

Your friendly neighborhood Tom Holland recently had to go full-superhero on a gang of autograph hunters, who in their fight to get the Spider-man: Far From Home actor's John Hancock, were seen crushing a young girl who claimed to be having a panic attack. Like a fine and upstanding celeb, Holland was having none of it, and threatened to throw the "graphers" shit to the ground…...

Offset is gonna lose some cash because he apparently lost track of one lingering legal issue -- the beatdown his security put on an autograph seeker after last year's Met Gala. TMZ got the wild video of the May 2018 incident ... the 'grapher was trying to get Cardi B's John Hancock after the gala ... only to get his ass kicked by a bunch of guys he believed to be Cardi and Offset's hired muscle.

Best Buddies International, a nonprofit dedicated to creating opportunities for friendship, employment, leadership development and inclusive living for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (Idd), is pleased to announce that the 20th Annual Best Buddies Challenge: Hyannis Port , presented by Pepsi-Cola and Shaw’s and Star Market Foundation, will take place May 31 – June 1.

More than 2,000 people are expected to participate in the Challenge – a charity ride, run, and walk to benefit Best Buddies International.

Tom Brady, New England Patriots Quarterback and Best Buddies Global Ambassador, will serve as Honorary Co-Chair, along with Celebrity Chef Guy Fieri and Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy, III. During the Challenge, Event Chair Ted English, Executive Chairman of Bob’s Discount Furniture, will help honor Steve Difillippo, chef, restaurateur and owner of Davio’s Northern Italian Steakhouse in Boston, with the 2019 Spirit of Leadership award. This is Best Buddies’ highest accolade presented to organizations who show great leadership,...

A fan encounter with Keanu Reeves led to one of the sweetest stories ever.

In a series of tweets on Friday, SBNation writer James Dator recalled an experience he had with the actor — a story that the Internet quickly jumped on as proof that “Keanu is the best human alive.”

All went down back in 2001 at a movie theater in Sydney, Australia, Dator explained. Reeves was in town working on the Matrix series at the the time, and had apparently stopped into the movie theater on a Wednesday morning to see From Hell, the Johnny Depp film.

Working at the...

Mayor Pete Buttigieg had an opportunity to use his rescue dogs as a credential in his run for The White House, but he didn't bite. We got the Prez candidate Thursday night in WeHo at The Abbey -- perhaps the most famous gay bar in the U.S. of A., where he held a fundraiser to a packed house at $25 a pop. Our photog asked Pete about his 2 rescue dogs -- Truman and Buddy --...

John F. Kennedy's last-known autograph -- signed hours before he was assassinated -- is going up for auction ... and it can be yours for a small fortune. The folks over at Goldin Auctions are handling the incredibly rare and historical item ... JFK's John Hancock on a small, spiral bound notepad the president hastily signed before boarding Air Force One on the fateful morning of November 22, 1963. You'll recall, the President was in Fort Worth giving a...

How's this for timing -- the mocked-up dollar bill showing Hillary Clinton behind bars and signed by President Trump has been put up for auction ... just moments before Trump's personal lawyer testified before Congress. Here's the fake "Federal Hillary Penitentiary Note" from 2016 that bears Trump's signature. The "dollar bill" was handed out at one of Trump's rallies in Florida in the lead-up to the election ... and one of his supporters got Trump to sign it.

The gift of Jericho was just bestowed upon All Elite Wrestling. Drink it in, maaan.

Pro-wrestling legend and worldwide free agent Chris Jericho has signed a contract with Aew “for the long haul,” he said on Tuesday. “Chris Jericho is now ‘All In’ with All Elite Wrestling,” the WWE and WCW legend said. “We’re going to change the universe baby!”

If not also an exclusivity statement, that “All In” phrasing is a reference to the Elite’s first pay-per-view event of the same name.

Also Read: Why Wrestler Cody Can't Be Pinned Down by His Stage Name

Watch Jericho offer up his John Hancock here:

Exclusive: Chris Jericho (@IamJericho) is Officially signed to @AEWrestling #Aew #AEWRally pic.twitter.com/In6Nc96am5

— All Elite Wrestling (@AEWrestling) January 9, 2019

That other fella, Tony Khan, is the son of billionaire Shad Khan, who owns the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Khans are bankrolling Aew,...

Tim Riggins said it first but Minka Kelly's the one truly keeping "Texas Forever" alive ... by signing a bunch of "Friday Night Lights" memorabilia diehard fans can get their hands on if the price is right. Lyla Garrity, err, Minka slapped her John Hancock on Tons of 'Fnl' memorabilia that's up for auction over at Screenbid. The items -- which includes a Panthers football flag, t-shirts and even scripts from the hit...

Need to catch up? Check out the previous Outlander recap here.

Claire and Jamie are still deep in the hard, physical labor of homesteading in this week’s Outlander, so you’ll have to bear with them.

[Reads notes more closely.] Sorry, let me rephrase that. Claire and Jamie are still deep in the hard, physical labor of homesteading in this week’s Outlander, and There’S A Bear With Them.*

Woodland creatures aside, “Common Ground” is the perfect Thanksgiving-weekend episode, given that the Frasers unceremoniously boot some Native Americans from their land and then expect the tribe to live in harmony with them.

Then again, Post could still be on edge after his scary encounter with the world's most haunted object ... even though he swears the supposed curse is behind him. Regardless of what's really stressing him out, Post shares his master plan to cut down on giving out his John Hancock. As for his Halloween plans ... we're guessing Post will toast to no more ghosts.

Die-hard Burt Reynolds fans down for a beer run to Texarkana and back in 28 hours can now do it with one of Burt's personal cars ... but it's gonna cost 'em a pretty penny. The late actor's car collection is set to hit the auction block on Sept. 29 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Burt's personally-owned cars (titled and registered to Burt) are spectacular -- the 1978 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am is a recreation of the...

Luann de Lesseps is no longer facing hard time ... because a judge just put the ol' stamp of approval on the plea deal in her drunken arrest case. The 'Real Housewives of New York' star dodged a felony charge and will stay out of jail. We broke the story, she agreed to plead guilty to battery, trespassing and disorderly intoxication for the Palm Beach County arrest. She just needed the judge's John Hancock. As part of the plea deal,...

On Aug. 26, 1973, Paramount unveiled baseball drama Bang the Drum Slowly at its world premiere in New York. The film went on to nab an Oscar nomination in the supporting actor category for Vincent Gardenia at the 46th Academy Awards ceremony. The Hollywood Reporter's original review is below.

The film version of Mark Harris' novel Bang the Drum Slowly, produced by Maurice and Lois Rosenfield and directed by John Hancock from Harris' screenplay, is not a completely successful movie. But it has three uncommonly fine performances by Robert De Niro, Michael Moriarty and Vincent Gardenia, a rich sense of character ...

On Aug. 26, 1973, Paramount unveiled baseball drama Bang the Drum Slowly at its world premiere in New York. The film went on to nab an Oscar nomination in the supporting actor category for Vincent Gardenia at the 46th Academy Awards ceremony. The Hollywood Reporter's original review is below.

The film version of Mark Harris' novel Bang the Drum Slowly, produced by Maurice and Lois Rosenfield and directed by John Hancock from Harris' screenplay, is not a completely successful movie. But it has three uncommonly fine performances by Robert De Niro, Michael Moriarty and Vincent Gardenia, a rich sense of character ...

Sacha Baron Cohen's back to his old tricks ... pranking politicians. And it was former Veep Dick Cheney's turn. Sacha teased a clip Sunday on Twitter about his upcoming new project ... and for unknown reasons Sacha decided Cheney was his next perfect victim by getting him to sign his "waterboard kit." Seriously. And Cheney -- a huge proponent of the controversial interrogation technique during his time in office -- gleefully obliges with his John Hancock.

It's just breathtaking ... Donald Trump sent Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to North Korea with a gift for Kim Jong-un  ... a copy of Elton John's "Rocket Man" with Trump's John Hancock on the CD cover. Pompeo just left for Pyongyang to meet with the North Korean dictator about denuclearization. During Trump's meeting with Kim, he asked if the dictator knew the song ... he did not -- this according to a North Korean newspaper. Trump...

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Hancock, the Will Smith superhero movie, didn't have an easy production.

This article comes from Den of Geek UK.

This feature contains spoilers for Hancock.

Back in the 1990s, Will Smith ascended from being the Fresh Prince to being the king of the Fourth of July weekend. Summer blockbusters like Independence Day and Men in Black cemented his position as a box office draw well into the following decade. Naturally, Smith has pursued other avenues as his career has gone on, but arguably 2008's Hancock was the last full-on star vehicle he opened on that coveted weekend.

Developed from a widely hyped spec script titled Tonight, He Comes, the film cast Smith as a stumblebum superhero known as John Hancock, who is widely disliked by the citizens of Los Angeles. Booze-addled and depressed, Hancock finally resolves to turn his life around with the help of PR consultant...

Andy Dick never saw it coming -- an aggressive bodyguard treated him like some crazed Post Malone fan and ripped him off the rapper's Lamborghini ... and we got it all on video. The "Better Now" rapper was leaving Poppy Thursday night after killing it at the Hollywood Bowl. All seemed fine and dandy as Post was riding passenger side in his Lambo ... window down and signing his John Hancock before splitting. But then something strange happens -- Andy shows up.

Best Buddies International, a nonprofit dedicated to creating opportunities for friendship, employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (Idd), is pleased to announce that the 19th Annual Best Buddies Challenge: Hyannis Port , presented by Pepsi-Cola and Shaw’s and Star Market Foundation, will take place June 1-2.

More than 2,500 people are expected to participate in the Challenge – a charity ride, run, and walk to benefit Best Buddies International.

Tom Brady, New England Patriots Quarterback and Best Buddies Global Ambassador, will serve as Honorary Co-Chair, along with Celebrity Chef Guy Fieri and Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy, III. During the Challenge, Event Chair Ted English, Executive Chairman of Bob’s Discount Furniture, will help honor Eaton Vance Management with the 2018 Spirit of Leadership award.

“Best Buddies is a fantastic organization with a great message to spread, and I am so proud to support their work,” said Best Buddies Global Ambassador Tom Brady.

Stan Lee's ex-business partners took advantage of a grieving old man battling to save his sight and essentially stole his good name ... according to a massive new lawsuit. The comic book legend is going after Pow! Entertainment -- including current CEO Shane Duffy, and Gill Champion, with whom he co-founded the production company -- for a whopping Billion Bucks ... claiming they either tricked him into signing over the exclusive rights to his name, image...

Meek Mill is well beyond prison walls now, and any merch signaling otherwise oughta be corrected to reflect his current sitch -- according to Meek himself, who did just that for a fan. Philly fan Zack Rothenberg spotted Meek sitting in his SUV Saturday after the 76ers game against Boston, and approached the car by foot (in the middle of traffic, mind you) for an autograph on his custom Eagles jersey ... which reads "Free Meek" on the back.

Those who are familiar with the city of Chicago will get to see some of its downtown destroyed in “Rampage,” a bread-and-butter Dwayne Johnson vehicle that is heavy on plot and light on character and reason and thrills. This film is based on an arcade video game that featured large-sized creatures knocking down buildings and running amok, but that basic idea has been swamped here by too many convoluted plot lines and extraneous characters.

“Rampage,” which is directed by Brad Peyton (“San Andreas”) and written by four credited male screenwriters, begins with a flat-out rip-off of the ending of the first “Alien” movie from 1979. A rather impressive single shot in space takes us smoothly into a spaceship in distress, where we see disembodied body parts floating in the cabin area. The remaining female crewmember manages to escape, but she is not long for this world or this movie.

Johnson plays a primatologist named Davis Okoye who used to work in the military before focusing on saving gorillas from poachers. He has a bond with an albino gorilla named George, a frisky primate who has been taught sign language by Okoye (including how to give someone the middle finger).

Watch Video: 'Rampage': Dwayne Johnson Is Back to Save the World in New Trailer

Johnson is given a knowing star entrance where we see him from behind and the camera moves in before he turns to speak, and it doesn’t really matter what he says. Everything about Johnson’s performing style is stripped-down, earnest, simple, and somewhat comical, and he has gotten a lot of mileage out of that.

That space opening comes back into play when we find out about an experiment based around a new technology called Crispr, which was pioneered by a geneticist named Kate Caldwell (Naomie Harris) as a way of helping her dying brother. But Crispr was diverted and fell into the hands of the villainous Claire Wyden (Malin Akerman), who is looking to make lots of money off of the technology with the help of her bumbling henchman Brett (Jake Lacy).

Also Read: 'Rampage' Moves Up One Week to Make Room for 'Avengers: Infinity War'

Claire and Brett have hired a military outfit to do some dirty work for them, and this outfit is led by Burke (Joe Manganiello). Peyton sets up yet another star entrance from behind for Manganiello as he walks to a helicopter before turning to speak, and this is bewildering because it turns out that Manganiello is barely in this movie.

Yet another character is introduced, Agent Russell (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), who seems to exist just to relay lots of plot exposition and generally grind the movie to a halt. Morgan plays this part in a Christoph-Waltz-in-a-Tarantino-movie fashion, with lots of self-satisfied smiles and an obnoxiously slow delivery of his lines.

There comes a point where we finally get to an oversized George and an oversized flying wolf and an oversized crocodile-dinosaur hybrid wreaking havoc in downtown Chicago, and this is fairly diverting at first. We do get to see what looks like the John Hancock Building slowly fall over to the ground, but this is pretty much the extent of the imaginative destruction here.

Watch Video: Conan O'Brien Tries - And Fails - to Be Dwayne Johnson's Stunt Double in 'Rampage'

If you’re going to destroy most of downtown Chicago, why not have one of the creatures kick the Adler Planetarium into the water, or pick up and hurl the Ferris wheel at Navy Pier like a discus? The effects are just competent here, and sometimes less than that. There comes a point when one of the characters falls into George’s mouth, and this descent is no more or less visually convincing than when Alfred Hitchcock had Norman Lloyd fall off of the Statue of Liberty in “Saboteur,” a movie that was made over 70 years ago.

In the middle of the building wreckage, Johnson mainly just stands around and sometimes delivers a one-liner for a would-be laugh. There isn’t anything much at stake here, and when the movie tries to get sentimental about Okoye’s feeling for George, it becomes static and empty.

There’s no romance with Harris’s Kate, and when they mention that possibility toward the very end it doesn’t feel at all organic. “Rampage” is a movie that gets buried in its own top-heavy plot, collapsing itself under that weight just like the Chicago-area buildings do on screen.



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A beat-up old notebook belonging to Drake might land a keen-eyed worker a big payday, because the inside's full of handwritten notes, rare lyrics ... and his John Hancock several times. Drake's purple spiral notebook features about 12 pages of lyrics ... including what appears to be the rapper's homage to Biggie Smalls' "Ten Crack Commandments" -- titled "10 Mack Commandments." The notebook also includes multiple Aubrey Graham signatures (his real name), personal notes and various phone and credit card numbers ... possibly his uncle's.

More of O.J. Simpson's crap can be yours -- like his set chair from "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult" -- but his ass ain't behind this piece of memorabilia. The guy who owns the chair tells TMZ ... he bought it for $500 in the early 2000s and says it's the one he used during the filming of the 1994 flick -- the same year O.J. was arrested and charged with the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend,...

[[tmz:video id="0_zuebj2uf"]] Kobe Bryant was way more direct than Viola Davis about his guest-starring role on "How to Get Away with Murder." Kobe was at UCLA Saturday night for the Annie Awards, and he essentially confirmed he's on the show.  You'll recall Viola was coy about it, but the ex-Lakers star told us what we needed to know. [[tmz:video id="0_v4fo2lgw"]] Check out the video ... Kobe starts to leave but hears a bunch of screaming kids pleading for a John Hancock,...

Omarosa's learning that quitting -- or getting fired, depending on who you believe -- pays big time. The former 'Apprentice' star and President Trump's former Director of Communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison has officially signed with the American Program Bureau ... joining its elite roster of speakers that includes Jay Leno, Diddy, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson.  We're told Omarosa signed her John Hancock Monday morning and will ask for up to $50k a speech,...

[This story contains spoilers from the Jan. 14 episode of HBO's Divorce.]

Divorce rather definitively answered its biggest burning question heading into the second season: How long will the Sarah Jessica Parker HBO tragicomedy drag out the divorce between Frances (Parker) and Robert DuFresne (Thomas Haden Church)?

The answer: not long.

The second season opened its shortened eight-episode sophomore run on Sunday with Frances and Robert making their split official, marking their frustrations with a John Hancock and signing their divorce papers. "So, I'm divorced — now what?" Frances flippantly asks her therapist friend Dallas (Talia Balsam) when returning home ...

[[tmz:video id="0_x5lthtyq"]] Cardi B is worth fighting for ... just ask 2 middle-aged women who were vying for a prized autograph. We got the rapper leaving 'The Tonight Show' Thursday and the scene cements her position as the hottest female rapper around ... and that's why a John Hancock is so precious. Cardi only signed for a lucky few, and the 2 women wanted desperately to be in that exclusive club. They go at it fiercely as Cardi hops in an SUV and speeds away.