‘Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness’ Racks Up $42M In Advance Ticket Sales, Pic’s Opening Sequence Shown — CinemaCon

Fans of Channel 4’s It’s A Sin have been left furious as the the show failed to win a single award at Sunday’s BAFTA TV Awards, despite it picking up 11 nominations. The show follows the lives of a group of friends during the 1980s and early '90s HIV and AIDs crisis, with leading actor — Olly Alexander nominated for his role as Ritchie Tozer and leading actress — Lydia West nominated for her role as Jill Baxter. Omari Douglas, Callum Scott Howells and David Carlyle were also up for best supporting actor.

Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly hilariously told Stephen Mulhern off as they won best Entertainment Programme for Saturday Night Takeaway at the 2022 BAFTA TV Awards on Sunday 8 May. The I'm A Celebrity hosts went up against An Audience with Adele, Life & Rhymes and Strictly Come Dancing in the coveted category.

Shanina Shaik is pregnant! On Sunday, the Australian model shared that she’s expecting her first child with boyfriend, Matthew Adesuyan.“To the new love of my life, Thank you for choosing me to be your Mum. I have always wanted you for as long as I can remember, and at times my patience was tested. The timing had to be right, and I can say with confidence that I am ready to be your guide, your protector and your best friend,” she wrote.

Netflix’s hit K-drama Squid Game made surprise appearances at locations around London today, ahead of the BAFTA TV Awards.The show, which premiered on the streaming platform last year, was nominated for two categories at tonight’s (May 8) ceremony – International and Virgin Media’s Must-See Moment for its “red light, green light” game.Before the event kicked off, the ominous, red-clad figures surprised fans across London, popping up at landmarks including Buckingham Palace and Piccadilly Circus. The three costumed guards posed for selfies and recreated The Beatles’ iconic album cover at Abbey Road.Other locations visited by the anonymous guards included Embankment Bridge, Southbank and the Royal Festival Hall.

The third season of Netflix’s Never Have I Ever will premiere on August 12, and the streamer released first look photos on Sunday teasing what’s ahead.

Country singer Sam Hunt and his estranged wife, Hannah Lee Fowler, have reportedly called off their divorce proceedings.

EASTENDERS actress Rose Ayling-Ellis looked incredible as she attended the BAFTAs tonight. The 27-year-old looked a far cry from her soap character Frankie as she picked up the must-see moment gong alongside Giovanni Pernice.

GOGGLEBOX fan favourites glammed up for a night at the Baftas as they walked the red carpet to represent the Channel 4 show. Hull's Lee Riley appeared with couple Mica Ven and Marcus Fletcher to accept the award for Constructed Reality.  The trio scrubbed up well away from their sofas where they've become household names for sharing their thoughts on the week's TV.

ANT and Dec were left red faced after they made an on stage blunder following their BAFTA win. The Geordie duo were the first winners of the evening at tonight's ceremony, which took place at London's Royal Festival Hall.

STACEY Solomon confused fans when she wore all-white to the Baftas with many thinking her outfit was a surprise wedding announcement. The Loose Women star, 32, who is nominated tonight posed for a garden photoshoot with fiancé Joe Swash at their Essex mansion, wearing the pearl encrusted white ensemble.

Benedict Cumberbatch may have what it takes to face the multiverse but taking on Guillermo is a whole other story.

Happy times are here again for movie theaters this weekend with Disney/Marvel’s long-awaited Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness set to fire up the summer box office season we didn’t have a year ago.

Angelique Jackson Talk about a Sweet 16 to remember!“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” star Xochitl Gomez celebrated her birthday on April 29, and on Monday night Marvel fans lined up outside the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood surprised her with a spontaneous rendition of “Happy Birthday” to mark the occasion.The young actor, who stars as America Chavez — the teenage LGBTQ+ Latina superhero who jumps through the multiverse via star-shaped portals — was visibly surprised and moved by the gesture, giggling in response to the chorus. Gomez had just finished explaining to Variety that she was trying to keep her cool at the event when the singing began.“This is going to be like one of the lifetime experiences for me, honestly,” Gomez said about watching the finished film with fans.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” which is the follow-up to several Marvel projects.The MCU officially entered its Phase Four with the January 2021 premiere of the meta “WandaVision” Disney+ series and kicked off the new Phase’s theatrical era with the long-awaited “Black Widow,” which was released that summer in theaters and on Disney+. And now, another title is set to spur fandom excitement with the arrival of “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” the sure-to-be chaotic (and if reviews are to be believed, horror-adjacent) follow-up to the 2016 magical action-adventure starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role. But before you eagerly head to theaters, there are several must-watch MCU entries you should get acquainted with first to ensure you’re in the know about any potential references and sequential events — particularly with the mind-bending multiversal concerns presented in “Doctor Strange 2.” So, without further ado, here’s your viewing shortlist of shows and films — in chronological order — to stream in preparation:This unfortunately short-lived ABC series gives depth to an oft-overlooked character in the MCU: the highly skilled Strategic Scientific Reserve agent Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell, reprising her role from “Captain America: The First Avenger”), who would go on to become one of the founding members of S.H.I.E.L.D.

On the same night as the Met Gala, some major stars were on the red carpet on the other side of the country!

Eternals” was vile, “Black Widow” was OK, “Shang-Chi” was a lot of fun) has been joined by one of the worst films so far in the bloated 27-movie franchise — not to mention one of the worst of the year — “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.”That, unbelievably, is a movie title and not a doctoral student’s 250-page dissertation.Running time: 126 minutes. Rated PG-13 (intense sequences of violence and action, frightening images and some language.) In theaters.Now we have a firsthand idea of what it was like to witness the fall of the Roman Empire.

“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” promises to expand the MCU in a major way: by opening up the multiverse, of course. First teased majorly in last year’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” the multiverse paves the way for different iterations of the same character to populate the MCU as we know it, and “Doctor Strange 2” finds Benedict Cumberbatch’s titular sorcerer (along with Elizabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff and some other friends) hopping from reality to reality, encountering different versions of themselves as well as new heroes destined to spawn new MCU franchises of their own.The first “Doctor Strange 2” reviews are in ahead of the film’s May 6 release date, and while Marvel movies are usually fairly critic proof, last year’s “Eternals” – which was the first Marvel movie to earn largely negative reviews in years – stumbled at the box office.

the Met Gala on Monday and their fashion choices set social media alight with memes. Shawn Mendes, Tessa Thompson, Blake Lively and Kylie Jenner were some of the celebrities who were given the meme treatment for their head-turning looks. Hitmaker Shawn delighted fans for eschewing a regular black suit for the event and instead donned a navy coat with a flared burgundy collar that saw him draw comparison's to Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticThe Marvel Cinematic Universe is a busy place. With its crisscrossing sequels, superheroes who dart in and out of each other’s movies, and labyrinth of laws and totems and over-the-cosmos-and-far-away lands, it’s become a metastatic playground, the kind of place that even the most ardent comic-book fans have to dedicate themselves to keeping up with.

**Editor’s note: To properly review “Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness,” you have to tread into the basic plot, and the basic plot has been kept secret from audiences and withheld from the trailers. Thus, this review will have to get into *some* basic spoilers, so if you want to be totally spoiler-free, we encourage you to read this review after you’ve seen the film.

When you bring Sam Raimi into the Marvel Cinematic Universe you can bet you are going to get something different, and that is definitely the case with his pretty scary take on the latest MCU entry, Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness. Though Raimi is well versed in the Marvel comic book world having directed the first Spider-Man trilogy he is just as well known for many other genres, certainly for his horror filmography including The Evil Dead and Drag Me To Hell among a lot more, and here he successfully and entertainingly gets to mix that kind of dark terrifying storytelling with beloved established characters in the MCU.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” has officially concluded its world premiere and the first reactions for the new entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe are pouring in online, with film journalists calling the long-awaited sequel everything from a film that “fully goes horror” to “a mixed bag.” One thing almost everyone seems to agree on is that it’s nice to see Sam Raimi back in the director’s chair.Benedict Cumberbatch reprises the title role in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” which is helmed by Raimi. The film picks up after the events of “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” in which Stephen Strange changed the face of reality by opening up the multiverse.

Get ready for a wild tail-end of the week. After the box office feel asleep on the couch this past weekend, Disney/Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will clang loudly starting Thursday night for what looks to be at least a $150M+ opening stateside.

The Scarlet Witch is back.

Wanda Maximoff is back for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

Until quite recently, “The Black Phone” was not the movie Scott Derrickson thought he’d release in 2022. After the box office success of “Doctor Strange” in 2016—still the biggest single-character introduction film in the MCU—Derrickson was ready at the helm for the sequel, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” scheduled for release in May.

SPOILERS FOR “DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS” FOLLOWWith just a week to go until “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” hits their theaters, CinemaCon attendees were shown the first 15 minutes of the upcoming Marvel Studios film, in which Strange faces the consequences of his fateful spell in “Spider-Man: No Way Home.”The sneak preview shows a version of Doctor Strange from another universe trying to protect America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez) from an eldritch abomination trying to take her powers. When it seems like the monster is going to kill both of them, Strange makes a desperate move to take Chavez’s powers and kill her in order to protect the multiverse.It then turns out that it was all a dream, with Steven Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) waking up in the timeline we’re familiar with.

Benedict Cumberbatch’s sixth outing as Dr. Stephen Strange sees his character cast a forbidden spell that opens the doorway to the multiverse, including alternate versions of himself, whose threat to humanity is too great for the combined forces of Strange, Wong and the powerful Wanda Maximoff.

Until quite recently, “The Black Phone” was not the movie Scott Derrickson thought he’d release in 2022. After the box office success of “Doctor Strange” in 2016—still the biggest single-character introduction film in the MCU—Derrickson was ready at the helm for the sequel, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” scheduled for release in May.

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness has been banned in Saudi Arabia over the inclusion of a queer character in the film.The new Marvel sequel focused on Benedict Cumberbatch‘s titular character is due to roll out globally at the beginning of next month.However, following rumours of a ban, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that the film now won’t be released in Saudi Arabia, with Kuwait reportedly also set to ban it. Advanced tickets are no longer available in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar, though are still in the United Arab Emirates.The censorship appears to be over the inclusion of the character America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez), who is gay in the comic source material.There is often strong censorship on films with LGBTQ+ content in the Gulf as homosexuality is still illegal across the region.Recent Marvel film Eternals was previously banned in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar over a same-sex kiss scene between married couple Phastos (Brian Tyree Henry) and Ben (Haaz Sleiman), with Disney reportedly refusing to edit out the moment upon request from local censors.Star Angelina Jolie subsequently addressed the news, telling news.com.au: “I’m sad for [those audiences].