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American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis will make his feature directorial debut with the elevated horror movie Relapse starring Joseph Quinn. Stranger Things fans best know Joseph Quinn for playing Eddie Munson on season four. According to Variety, Joseph Quinn will play “Matt Cullen, who checks into rehab after witnessing a horrific death during a...
New Kids on the Block announced the Magic Summer 2024 tour with special guests Paula Abdul and DJ Jazzy Jeff. The Live Nation-produced tour by the Massachusetts boy band consisting of brothers Jonathan and Jordan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, and Danny Wood kicks off on June 14 and tags 40 cities, including Los Angeles,...
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson executive produced the new documentary Shot in the Arm about how COVID-19 misinformation causes vaccine hesitancy. Oscar winner Scott Hamilton Kennedy directs the Black Valley Films production, which includes interviews with top health officials. “It’s never the wrong time to do the right thing,” Tyson says to Yahoo Entertainment of the...
Pete Davidson gave a surprisingly poignant and personal opening monologue to kick off Saturday Night Live‘s 49th season. The truncated 48th season of SNL wrapped up early on April 15 due to the WGA strike, which ended on September 27. Davidson's father, Scott Davidson, was a firefighter who lost his life during the 9/11 terrorist...
Jerry Seinfeld teased a possible Seinfeld reunion during a stand-up set in Boston over the weekend. The finale of the iconic NBC sitcom aired on May 14, 1998. The 69-year-old comedian dropped the surprising news to a Boston theater audience. “Something is going to happen that has to do with that ending,” Seinfeld said. “It...
Nyad actress Jodie Foster hopes that audiences will tire of superhero movies soon. The two-time Oscar winner shares her disdain for superhero flicks along with her Taxi Driver director, Martin Scorsese, who also dismisses the genre. “It’s a phase,” said Jodie Foster to Elle. “It’s a phase that’s lasted a little too long for me,...
Warner Bros. Discovery's Max streaming service rated highest in overall customer satisfaction according to Whip Media’s 2023 Streaming Satisfaction Report. Max, previously known as HBO Max, also topped the 2022 Streaming Satisfaction Report. Variety reports that even though Max topped the Whip Media survey two years in a row, Max dropped from 94% in 2022...
Max is the only one of the eight major streamers (Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Paramount+, Hulu, Max, Discovery+, and Peacock) to experience a decline in daily viewers from Q2 to Q3. HBO Max and Discovery+ combined content on May 23 and relaunched as Max. IndieWire reports that Max had no hit new shows —...
Beverly Hills 90210 and Sharknado actor Ian Ziering got out of his SUV and exchanged blows with several minibike riders on Hollywood Boulevard on New Year's Eve. Police are still investigating the incident, but list Ziering as the victim. According to Entertainment Weekly, “The actor appears to shove a minibike rider on Hollywood Boulevard after...
Sylvester Stallone says Ryan Gosling should play Rambo in a future movie. Stallone played the role of United States Army Special Forces veteran John Rambo five times on-screen, beginning with 1982's First Blood and concluding with 2019's Rambo: Last Blood. According to Variety, Sylvester Stallone appeared on a recent episode of The Tonight Show Starring...
In between watching the Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers to win Super Bowl LVIII, millions of viewers got sneak peeks at some winning trailers for upcoming wannabe blockbusters. As reported by Entertainment Weekly, here are some movie trailers that aired during the Super Bowl and are now available on YouTube: Deadpool &...
A new Game of Thrones spin-off is coming to HBO in the form of a prequel series to House of the Dragon. The Batman Part II cowriter Mattson Tomlin is developing a treatment based on Aegon Targaryen's conquest of Westeros. According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Aegon’s Conquest is basically a direct prequel to the hit House...
Idris Elba reprises his voice role on Knuckles, the Paramount+ Sonic the Hedgehog spin-off series. The live-action series also features Adam Pally reprising his role as Wade Whipple. According to an official Paramount+ press release, “The new live-action event series follows Knuckles (Idris Elba) on a hilarious and action-packed journey of self-discovery as he agrees...
Thanksgiving director Eli Roth says the real villain of his new holiday slasher film is aggressive Black Friday consumerism. The horror movie inspired by the mock trailer from 2007's Grindhouse stars Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Nell Verlaque, Rick Hoffman, and Gina Gershon. The official description reads: “After a Black Friday...
Marvel seeks new writers to revamp Daredevil: Born Again before a single episode airs on Disney+. The Marvel Cinematic Universe's Daredevil, starring Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil aired for three seasons on Netflix from 2015 to 2018; Daredevil: Born Again — also starring Cox — will debut on Disney+ sometime in the future. Variety reports, “The Disney+ series from...
Central Perk Coffeehouse — where the characters on Friends hang out — will open its first real-life location on Newbury Street in Boston. The coffeehouse features artisanal coffee and unique cocktails guided by chef Tom Colicchio. “Central Perk was far more than just a coffee shop; it stands as a living testament to the enduring...
The documentary Billy Idol: State Line features the punk icon's April performance at the Hoover Dam, the first concert ever filmed at the historic landmark. The official website for Billy Idol: State Line reads, “In this exclusive and dynamic documentary film presented for theatrical release by Unbranded Events, Billy Idol performs two unique sets of...
Happy Days star Henry Winkler is “very proud” of his “jump the shark” notoriety. Winkler, who played Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli on the sitcom, literally jumped a shark on water skis in an episode, which later inspired the “jump the shark” pejorative used to describe the moment a movie or TV show became creatively bankrupt. In...
Lupita Nyong'o plays a woman desperate to escape New York in A Quiet Place: Day One, a prequel to 2018's A Quiet Place. Michael Sarnoski wrote and directs A Quiet Place: Day One, which also stars Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff, Djimon Hounsou, and Denis O'Hare. The official A Quiet Place: Day One synopsis simply reads:...
Fight Club director David Fincher says “I'm not responsible” for far right groups idolizing Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) in his 1999 movie based on the book of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. In the cult movie, Edward Norton plays the Narrator — a jaded white-collar worker — who forms an underground fight club with...
Nick Taraby will reprise his role as Ashur on Spartacus: House of Ashur. Taraby played the role of the Assyrian former gladiator for three seasons on the Starz sword-and-sandal series. Variety reports that Starz has greenlit Spartacus: House of Ashur with Spartacus series creator Steven S. DeKnight on board as executive producer and showrunner. The...
Country superstar Toby Keith passed away Monday at the age of 62. The “Should've Been a Cowboy” singer was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2022. A statement on Toby Keith's official website reads: “Toby Keith passed peacefully last night on February 5, surrounded by his family. He fought his fight with grace and courage. Please...
Actor and disability-rights activist Selma Blair joined President Joe Biden at the White House on Monday to commemorate the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act. Blair was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2018. The Associated Press reports that Blair walked with the assistance of a cane and an English Labrador named Scout alongside...
Culture Club lead singer Boy George will return to Broadway after two decades for a limited engagement in Moulin Rouge! The Musical. Boy George, whose birth name is George O'Dowd, will play the role of Harold Zidler at Broadway’s Al Hirschfeld Theatre in early 2024. Deadline reports, “The Zidler character is the owner of the...
The Ahsoka season one finale leaves some big questions unanswered. It's unclear whether the Disney+ Star Wars series starring Rosario Dawson as the titular character will return for a second season. In an episode that featured Ahsoka, Sabine, and Ezra battling zombie stormtroopers resurrected by the Grand Mothers' magic, some key stories did wrap up....
Thirty-three states, including California and New York, are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for allegedly harming young people by designing features on Facebook and Instagram that addict children to the social media platforms. As reported by the Associated Press, “A lawsuit filed by 33 states in federal court in California, claims that Meta routinely collects data...
Taylor Swift took home two Grammys last night and broke the record for most Grammy Album of the Year wins. Swift is now the only artist in history to win the Album of the Year Grammy four times. According to Entertainment Weekly, Taylor's win last night broke the tie for Album of the Year Grammy...
The supernatural horror movie Five Nights at Freddy's is tracking for a surprising $50-million opening. Based on a video game about possessed animatronic mascots at an abandoned family entertainment center, Five Nights at Freddy's stars Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Matthew Lillard. As reported by Deadline, Five Nights at Freddy's...
Actor-comedian Pete Davidson will host the Saturday Night Live season 49 premiere. The former SNL cast member from 2014-2022 makes his first appearance as the host of the late-night sketch-comedy show. According to Entertainment Weekly, the following week Bad Bunny will do double duty as both the SNL host and musical guest. “Saturday Night Live...
The Retirement Plan actor Nicolas Cage has hatched a retirement plan of his own regarding his film career. The 59-year-old Best Actor Oscar winner for Leaving Las Vegas who never seems to turn down any acting gig reportedly says that he will only do a few more movies. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Cage...
Nicolas Cage says that his Superman cameo in The Flash does not resemble what he filmed. Cage was famously cast as the Man of Steel in Tim Burton's aborted Superman Lives, which was never filmed. Cage spoke with Yahoo Entertainment about his The Flash cameo while the Oscar-winning actor promoted his upcoming film Dream Scenario....
Madonna kicked off her career-spanning Celebration Tour in London on Saturday following a serious health scare this summer that delayed the tour's start and left the pop icon hospitalized. The opening Celebration show — despite its fun-sounding moniker — at O2 Arena had a somber tone with tributes during the show to her departed '80s...
The concert film Beyoncé: Renaissance World Tour will hit theaters this December. The Renaissance World Tour concluded on October 1 in Kansas City, Missouri. Entertainment Weekly reports, “The announcement was shown to the audience at the end of the Kansas City tour stop, which also marked the end of the Renaissance World Tour. A trailer featuring...
Howard Stern says he is “no longer friends” with Bill Maher after the latter made “sexist” remarks on the Club Random podcast. As reported by the Wrap, Maher made the comments about Stern's second wife, Beth Ostrosky, and his first wife, Alison Berns, on the Sunday podcast. Maher said, “How does this gushing about the...
A musical is in the works of the 1985 teen comedy Girls Just Want to Have Fun starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt. Cyndi Lauper's iconic song of the same name inspired the cult film directed by Alan Metter and also starring Lee Montgomery, Morgan Woodward, Jonathan Silverman, and Shannen Doherty. Variety reports, “The...
Salma Hayek has never seen the 1998 sci-fi/horror movie The Faculty in which she plays Nurse Harper. The Robert Rodriguez-directed film written by Scream scribe Kevin Williamson is about a high school overrun by alien invaders that kill the teachers and then impersonate them. The eclectic The Faculty cast includes Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura...
Barbie cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto says that he shot many scenes that didn't make the final cut, including one with Michael Cera inspired by Jaws. Cera plays Ken's discontinued buddy Allan in Barbie. “There were many moments that ended up on the cutting room floor,” says Prieto to Variety. “There are many things that I imagine...
Ryan Gosling insists that he knows nothing of a Barbie sequel, but he has some ideas if it happens. Gosling played Ken — specifically, Beach Ken — in Barbie opposite Margot Robbie. Variety reports on comments Gosling and Barbie costar America Ferrera made at London’s BFI Southbank on Friday. “Oh, I’m not going anywhere near...
The new trailer for the Warner Bros. musical Wonka features Hugh Grant singing as an Oompa-Loompa. The origin-story movie based on Roald Dahl's beloved Charlie and the Chocolate Factory stars Timothée Chalamet as candymaker Willy Wonka and is directed by Paul King. At the end of the new Wonka trailer featuring dazzling Skittles-colored special effects,...
Gwyneth Goes Skiing — a musical based on the 2023 legal trial involving Gwyneth Paltrow and retired optometrist Terry Sanderson — debuts at Pleasance London Main House Cabaret in December. In January 2019, Paltrow and Sanderson collided on a ski slope in Park City, Utah. Anderson sued Paltrow for allegedly causing permanent traumatic brain injury;...
Gwyneth Paltrow says that she uses her Oscar as a doorstop. The actress turned Goop founder won a Best Actress Academy Award for her performance in 1998's Shakespeare in Love. In a video for Vogue‘s 73 Questions series, Paltrow's Oscar is seen propping open a door to the actress's garden. “My doorstop,” she says about...
Real Time with Bill Maher will return this Friday after Maher reversed his unpopular decision to resume the show during the WGA strike. Now that the strike has officially ended, Maher's talk show can resume production with its writers this week. Maher initially planned to return last week in a truncated show that would have...
The “exclusive event” South Park: Joining the Pandaverse is coming soon to Paramount+. The streamer cannot refer to it as a special, movie, or episode due to an ongoing legal dispute between Paramount, South Park Digital Studios, and Warner Bros. about who gets first access to new South Park content. As reported by Variety, the...
A 13-year-old boy from Oklahoma finally defeated Tetris for the first time since the video game's release nearly 40 years ago. Willis Gibson became the first gamer to reach level 157 of the classic puzzle video game. Gibson — who uses the screen name Blue Scuti — posted a video of his accomplishment on YouTube....
Rom-com queen Meg Ryan addresses ageism and “stupid” comments about her appearance in a new interview. The 62-year-old actress currently stars opposite David Duchovny in the romantic comedy What Happens Later. In an interview with Glamour, Meg Ryan talks about ageism and how some people troll her and describe her as “unrecognizable”… and worse. “Our...
After filming Dune, Timothée Chalamet received a message of encouragement from Tom Cruise. Chalamet reprises his role as Paul Atreides in the sci-fi epic Dune: Part Two directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Javier Bardem, Stellan Skarsgård, and Charlotte Rampling. As reported...
Avatar: The Way of Water and Oppenheimer lead with the most nominations for the 51st annual Saturn Awards. Presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, the Saturn Awards celebrate the best special effects and performances in genre TV and film projects. According to the official press release: “James Cameron’s visually stunning...
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton has departed directing Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. He will still direct and executive produce the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Wonder Man as well as Shang-Chi 2. According to The Hollywood Reporter, one factor affecting Cretton's decision to leave Avengers: The Kang Dynasty is...
Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Killers of the Flower Moon dominated the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards nominations. According to Variety, each of those 3 films garnered 15 nominations apiece after the first round of voting in 24 total categories. Other movies that received multiple nominations include Poor Things (14), Maestro (12), Saltburn...
Bill Murray returns as Dr. Peter Venkman and does his best not to “cross the streams” in a new Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire trailer. Directed by Gil Kenan, the fifth film in the Ghostbusters franchise stars Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Kumail Nanjiani, Patton Oswalt, Celeste O’Connor, Logan Kim, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson,...
Andor director Toby Haynes will transition from a galaxy far, far away to boldly seek out new worlds at the helm of a planned Star Trek movie. The origin story is set decades before J.J. Abrams' 2009 Star Trek film. Entertainment Weekly confirmed that Haynes will direct the Star Trek prequel with a script by...
Succession, The Bear, and Beef dominated the Emmy Awards last night. The 2023 Emmys were supposed to take place months ago but got postponed due to the Hollywood strikes. Succession won seven Emmys for its fourth and final season, including Best Drama, Best Directing for a Drama Series, Best Writing for a Drama Series, and...
Fans will have to wait until 2025 to see new seasons of Stranger Things, Wednesday, and other popular Netflix shows that were delayed due to the Hollywood strikes in 2023. According to Deadline, production on the fifth and final season of Stranger Things just resumed earlier this month. Since the fifth season won't premiere on...
Jenna Ortega quit Scream VII weeks ago over a salary dispute, not a scheduling conflict, as reported. Ortega played Tara Carpenter in 2022's Scream and 2023's Scream VI. Spyglass Media Group, which produces the Scream movies, dropped Melissa Barrera from Scream VII for her Instagram posts that describe Palestine as a “colonized country” and accuse Israel forces...
Netflix's once-revolutionary DVD-by-mail service officially ends Friday, marking the end of an era in home entertainment. Netflix's five remaining distribution centers in California, Texas, New Jersey, and Georgia will mail their final discs this Friday. People forget that long before it became a streaming giant, Netflix launched in 1998 as a per-rental DVD-by-mail service before...
Marisa Abela transforms into late singer Amy Winehouse in the first full trailer for Back to Black. Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, the musical biopic also stars Jack O'Connell, Eddie Marsan, and Lesley Manville. The official Back to Black synopsis reads: “The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in...
ABC has released trailers for the upcoming seasons of Abbott Elementary, Grey's Anatomy, The Conners, The Good Doctor, The Rookie, Station 19, and other strike-delayed ABC series. The new seasons of each respective ABC show will debut over the next few months. Variety writes, “Did Ava go to Harvard and become an actual hard-nosed, competent...
Late-night talk shows hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, and John Oliver could return as soon as early October. The WGA reached a tentative deal with the studios to end the strike, which opens the door for talk shows that employ WGA writers to resume production. “We want to come back...
Funnyman Jimmy Kimmel isn't laughing at New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers' implication that he associated with the late convicted felon Jeffrey Epstein. The latter died in prison in 2019. According to Entertainment Weekly, the beef started after Aaron Rodgers appeared on The Pat McAfee Show and discussed with the hosts the impending release of...
Timothy Olyphant has joined the cast of Alien, an FX TV series that serves as a prequel to 1979's Alien. Noah Hawley — who worked with Olyphant on the Fargo TV series — wrote and directed the new Alien series. According to Deadline, Timothy Olyphant plays Kirsh, a synthetic being. FX's Alien is set three...
Film executive Paul Davidson has acquired the rights to remake the 1984 cult classic Electric Dreams. The sci-fi rom-com directed by Steve Barron and written by Rusty Lemorande stars Lenny Von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen (pictured, above), and Maxwell Caulfield. As reported by Variety, “Davidson — who previously ran the Orchard and IDW Entertainment — struck...
Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson, and Eiza González represent just a few of the many manly men in Guy Ritchie's World War II-set action-comedy The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Henry Golding, Alex Pettyfer, and Cary Elwes round out the cast. The official synopsis from Lionsgate reads: “Based upon recently declassified files of the British War Department...
The Drew Barrymore Show has returned with new episodes now that the WGA strike ended, but it's not better than ever. The show's former writers — Chelsea White, Cristina Kinon, and Liz Koe — were offered deals to return after the strike ended on September 27 but all three declined. According to Variety, The Drew...
Dave Chappelle's stand-up show in Boston triggered walkouts after the comedian commented on the Israel-Gaza war. At Thursday's performance at TD Garden Arena, Chappelle condemned the Hamas attacks but also criticized Israel's bombing of Gaza. The Wall Street Journal reports that “the comments came up when Chappelle said he didn't think students should lose job...
Norman Lear — the iconic TV producer who created the groundbreaking 1970s sitcoms All in the Family, Maude, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, and The Jeffersons — passed away at his home at the age of 101. Lear continued to produce TV later in life, including the 2017 remake of One Day...
English guitarist-singer Andy Taylor underwent a miracle treatment for stage-four cancer that enabled him to start making music again with Duran Duran. Taylor previously recorded with Duran Duran from 1980-1986, and again from 2001-2006. One year ago, the other members of Duran Duran — Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, and Roger Taylor —...
Gwen Stefani will reunite with No Doubt to headline the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California this April. The annual music festival features a mix of established performers, emerging artists, and recently reunited bands such as No Doubt. The Coachella announcement lists No Doubt as the overall headliner but does not indicate...
Even though Denis Villeneuve's script for Dune 3 is “almost finished” and Dune: Part Two hasn't premiered yet, the director says he might need to do something else between Part Two and Part Three for his mental health. Dune: Part Two continues the journey of Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) as he seeks revenge against those who destroyed...
Zac Efron reunites with The Greatest Beer Run Ever director Peter Farrelly in the new trailer for Ricky Stanicky. The Amazon MGM Studios comedy also stars John Cena, Jermaine Fowler, Andrew Santino, and William H. Macy. IndieWire reports that Ricky Stanicky is billed as Peter Farrelly's return to comedy after Green Book and the Vietnam...
Oppenheimer dominated the disastrous “revamped” Golden Globe Awards last night. Christopher Nolan's biopic won five Golden Globes, including Best Picture; Best Actor, Drama (Cillian Murphy); Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.); Best Director (Christopher Nolan); and Best Original Score (Ludwig Göransson). Hosted by purported comedian Jo Koy at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, the...
If all you want for Christmas is Eddie Murphy, this is your lucky December. Not only did the first trailer drop for Murphy's return in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, but he also appears in the holiday streaming hit Candy Cane Lane. Plus, director John Landis is defending his 1983 Christmas comedy Trading Places starring...
The long-awaited Frasier revival is nearly here! In it, Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) will return to Boston, where the character originated on Cheers. The show's animated teaser trailer says that “Frasier has reentered the building” and shows a drawing of the Seattle skyline before transitioning to one of Boston. The animated writing continues: “No more...
Jake Gyllenhaal is ready to rumble in Doug Liman's Road House, a remake of the 1989 film Road House starring the late Patrick Swayze. In addition to Gyllenhaal, the new Road House stars Daniela Melchior, Billy Magnussen, Jessica Williams, Darren Barnet, Arturo Castro, J.D. Pardo, and Conor McGregor. In Road House, a ridiculously ripped Gyllenhaal plays...
The first trailer has dropped for Tyler Perry's crime thriller Mea Culpa starring Kelly Rowlands and Trevante Rhodes. Mea Culpa represents Tyler Perry's fifth Netflix feature. The description for Tyler Perry's Mea Culpa from Netflix's Tudum reads: “Criminal defense attorney Mea Harper [Rowlands] and her husband Kal are at a crossroads as the couple navigates...
Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Poor Things dominated the Oscar nominations, announced this morning in Los Angeles. Oppenheimer led with 13 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director (Christopher Nolan), Best Actor (Cillian Murphy), Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.), and Best Supporting Actress (Emily Blunt). Poor Things came in second with 11...
Gillian Anderson has signed on to the cast of TRON: Ares, the third film in the TRON franchise following 1982's TRON and 2010's TRON: Legacy. Anderson joins confirmed TRON: Ares cast members Jared Leto, Jodie Turner-Smith, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Cameron Monaghan, and Sarah Desjardins. Deadline reports, “Details of Anderson’s character and [TRON: Ares‘] wider...
Robert Downey Jr. sang the praises of his Oppenheimer director, Christopher Nolan, during a heartfelt speech at Sundance. The 2024 Sundance Film Festival kicked off on January 18 and continues through January 28. As reported by IndieWire, Downey Jr. celebrated Nolan “as independent a voice as ever existed in cinema while telling stories that remind...
August 23 is the day that Barbie's domestic box office will pass that of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, making Barbie the highest-grossing movie of 2023. Universal's animated The Super Mario Bros. Movie opened on April 5 and ended its successful theatrical run with just over $574 million. Barbie, a Warner Bros. picture directed by...
Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer starring Cillian Murphy continues to blow up at awards time, picking up 13 nominations at the BAFTA Film Awards. Oppenheimer's nominations include Best Picture, Best Director, plus acting nominations for Murphy, Emily Blunt, and Robert Downey Jr. The next most nominated movie after Oppenheimer is Poor Things with 11 nominations, including Best Film...
Paramount is developing Top Gun 3 starring Tom Cruise. The movie follows the 2022 blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick, which made nearly $1.5 billion worldwide. Although news just broke about Tom Cruise's new nonexclusive deal with Warner Bros., it seems that Top Gun will get another sequel at Paramount. Top Gun: Maverick cowriter Ehren Kruger is...
Barbenheimer is poised to dominate another awards ceremony as Barbie and Oppenheimer tie for the most SAG Awards film nominations with four apiece. The 30th Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards often predict the nominations for the Academy Awards. Barbie got nominated for SAG's Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Outstanding Performance by...
A U.K. coroner has confirmed Irish singer-songwriter-activist Sinéad O'Connor's cause of death. The fiery 56-year-old “Nothing Compares 2 U” and “Mandinka” singer passed away on July 26, 2023. Entertainment Weekly reportedly received an email from the London Inner South Coroner's Court Clerk, stating, “This is to confirm that Ms. O’Connor died of natural causes. The...
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire director Adam Wingard talked about Skar King, the mysterious new threat facing Godzilla and King Kong in the upcoming sequel. The only image currently available of Skar King is the character poster above featuring the image of a blue-eyed primate. In an interview with Total Film about Godzilla x...
Shia LaBeouf has converted to Catholicism after receiving the sacrament of confirmation. The actor made the decision after playing the titular role in Abel Ferrara's 2022 biographical film Padre Pio. According to the Catholic News Agency, Shia LaBeouf was received into the Catholic church by Bishop Robert Barron on Sunday evening. The Capuchin Franciscans-Western American...
Riverdale actor Cole Sprouse plays a handsome Victorian corpse in Lisa Frankenstein, the first full-length trailer of which just dropped. The “coming-of-rage” horror-comedy directed by Zelda Williams and written by Diablo Cody stars Kathryn Newton, Liza Soberano, Henry Eikenberry, Joe Chrest, and Carla Gugino. The official synopsis for Focus Features' Lisa Frankenstein reads: “Surviving high...
Britney Spears must find the music industry “Toxic.” The 42-year-old pop singer quashed rumors of a forthcoming album by seemingly announcing her retirement. Britney Spears took to Instagram to respond to a Page Six article about her allegedly tapping Charli XCX and Julia Michaels to contribute to her first album in nearly decade. “Just so...
The first trailer for Ryan Murphy's Feud: Capote vs. the Swans features Naomi Watts, Tom Hollander, Diane Lane, Chloë Sevigny, Calista Flockhart, Demi Moore, Molly Ringwald, and — surprise — the return of Murphy's muse, Jessica Lange. The eight-episode second season of Feud is based on Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and...
The creepy trailer for The First Omen — a prequel to 1976's The Omen — just dropped and promises “something to fear.” Directed by Arkasha Stevenson, The First Omen stars Nell Tiger Free, Tawfeek Barhom, Sônia Braga, Bill Nighy, and Ralph Ineson. The official description of the 20th Century Studios film reads: “When a young...
Universal bested Disney to become the highest-grossing studio of 2023. Hits such as The Super Mario Bros. Movie, M3GAN, and Oppenheimer helped Universal earn $4.907 billion in worldwide ticket sales last year. According to Variety, Universal's victory is particularly noteworthy since it marks the first time since 2015 that Disney did not dominate the global box...
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy will become the first woman to direct a Star Wars movie when she helms a yet-untitled sequel featuring the return of Daisy Ridley as Rey Skywalker. Obaid-Chinoy — a two-time Oscar-winning director of documentary shorts — also directed Ms. Marvel. In an interview with CNN reported by IndieWire, Obaid-Chinoy talked about making Star...
Jack Black has joined the cast of the Warner Bros. Minecraft movie starring Jason Momoa. Minecraft is the best-selling video game in history with more than 300 million copies sold since its official release in 2011. According to Deadline, Jack Black plays Steve, the Minecraft video game's default skin. In addition to Momoa and Black,...
George R.R. Martin says that three animated Game of Thrones spin-offs are in works at HBO. The A Song of Ice and Fire author's novels were adapted by HBO into the hit series Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon. In a recent blog post in which he sings the praises of the Netflix...
A horror movie inspired by the 1928 animated short Steamboat Willie is in the works now that the copyright has expired. The black-and-white short starring Mickey Mouse and directed by Walt Disney entered the public domain on Monday. Director Steven LaMorte — the man behind The Mean One, a slasher retelling of How the Grinch...
Taylor Swift ended 2023 by making history… again. This time she broke Elvis Presley's long-standing record for the most weeks at number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, which ranks the 200 most popular albums in the United States. As reported by Entertainment Weekly, “During the final week of the year, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) topped the chart...
A former assistant has sued Fast & Furious actor Vin Diesel for alleged sexual battery. The incident allegedly occurred in 2010 in Atlanta, where Diesel was filming Fast Five. As reported by Variety, Vin Diesel's former assistant Asta Jonasson states that Diesel first brought her to his hotel suite at the St. Regis Hotel and...
The mockumentary comedy-horror FX series What We Do in the Shadows will end after season six. The show starring Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou, Harvey Guillén, Mark Proksch, and Kristen Schaal is based on the 2014 movie of the same name. The official description of What We Do in the Shadows reads: “What We...
A jury found Marvel actor Jonathan Majors guilty of assault in the third degree as well as harassment. Majors stood trial for four charges of assault, aggravated harassment and harassment after finding his ex Grace Jabbari unconscious in their apartment on March 25, prompting him to call 911. Police then arrested Majors after discovering visible...
Friends star Matthew Perry passed away due to the “acute effects of ketamine” according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office's toxicology report. Perry died at home in a hot tub on October 28 at the age of 54. As reported by Variety, Matthew Perry's death was ruled an accident, with no signs of...
Actor Andre Braugher passed away on December 11 at the age of 61. Braugher is best known for playing Captain Raymond Holt on Brooklyn Nine-Nine for eight seasons. According to Entertainment Weekly, “Braugher, who was also known for his roles as Detective Frank Pembleton in the police drama series Homicide: Life on the Street and...
For the first time, Netflix has released viewership data for 99% of its entire library. The first season of The Night Agent tops the chart with 812,100,000 hours viewed. Entertainment Weekly reports, “In a press call on Tuesday morning, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos and Vice President of Strategy and Analysis Lauren Smith announced that the...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk either hasn't seen the apocalyptic Netflix thriller Leave the World Behind in its entirety or just missed the point of the Tesla-pileup scene. Sam Esmail directed Leave the World Behind, which stars Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la, and Kevin Bacon. As reported on Tudum by Netflix: “In this apocalyptic thriller...
Director Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, and Willem Dafoe is earning near-unanimous critical praise and award nominations. Does anyone in Hollywood consider a movie that sexualizes a character with the literal mind of a child somewhat problematic or, at worst, reprehensible? The official description for Poor Things reads: “Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos...
Priscilla star Jacob Elordi said that he played Elvis Presley as a victim — not a product — of fame in Sofia Coppola's movie. The 26-year-old Australian actor also plays Nate Jacobs on HBO's Euphoria. Jacob Elordi got together with Euphoria costar Colman Domingo for Variety‘s Actors on Actors video series. Although the two actors...
Aqua was right: It is a Barbie world. The Margot Robbie-starring movie got nominated for nine Golden Globes — more nominations than any other movie. The Golden Globe nominations were announced Monday morning, officially kicking off awards season. Barbie got nominated for Best Picture – Musical or Comedy, Cinematic and Box Office Achievement, Best Performance...
The new trailer for Zack Snyder's two-part space saga Rebel Moon teases an epic battle between good and evil that will remind many of the Star Wars universe. Anthony Hopkins, who voices a mechanical knight name Jimmy in Rebel Moon, narrates the trailer and asks viewers, “Who among you is willing to die for what...
The first two episodes of the new Star Wars miniseries Ahsoka starring Rosario Dawson as the former Jedi Padwan, premiered on Disney+ yesterday, and the reaction has been overwhelmingly favorable. Ahsoka Tano appeared on both The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, and the new eight-episode series Ahsoka takes place during the same post-Return...
Amazon Prime Video users will soon have to watch ads in streamed content or pay an additional monthly fee to avoid them. The company will deploy the change in early 2024. The Associated Press reports that Amazon will insert the ads so that the company can “continue investing in compelling content and keep increasing that...
According to the new biography Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, Musk once wielded a 200-year-old gun in a recording studio and demanded a cameo in the video game Cyberpunk 2077. Musk's then-partner, Grimes, was in the studio recording her part as cyborg pop singer Lizzy Wizzy. “The studio guys were like sweating,” Grimes reportedly said....
A new Squid Game: The Challenge trailer teases the return of the creepy robot girl from the hit Netflix series. The upcoming reality competition features 456 contestants from around the world competing for $4.56 million. As reported by Variety, Squid Game: The Challenge‘s description reads, “Though the reality version of Squid Game isn’t a matter...
Mean Girls: The Musical will get a theatrical release instead of an originally planned Paramount+ premiere. The film adaptation directed by Arturo Perez Jr. and Samantha Jayne with a screenplay by Tina Fey is based on the Tony-nominated stage musical of the same name. Deadline reports that this is the second time Paramount has switched...
Expend4bles — the fourth entry in the action series starring Sylvester Stallone — opened to a dismal franchise-low $8.3 million this weekend. The third The Expendables sequel couldn't even top the mediocre horror film The Nun II… now in its third week of release. The law of diminishing returns applies to the awkwardly titled Expend4bles,...
Martin Scorsese says we've got to “save cinema” from comic book culture and superhero movies by supporting filmmakers such as Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan. The irony lost on Scorsese is that Nolan directed three acclaimed superhero blockbusters: Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises. Scorsese has sounded off about his dislike of...
Emma Heming Willis, the wife of Bruce Willis, gave an emotional update about her husband's condition on the Today show. Doctors diagnosed the Die Hard actor with frontotemporal dementia earlier this year. In a rare conversation with the media, Heming Willis told Today that frontotemporal dementia is a “family disease,” not because it is genetic...
Miramax wants to find a buyer for the film and TV rights for the Halloween franchise around Hollywood. Last year's Halloween Ends not only concluded the David Gordon Green Halloween film trilogy starring Jamie Lee Curtis, but it also concluded Universal and Blumhouse's creative interest in the franchise. Bl–dy Disgusting exclusively reports that there is...
Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) members voted overwhelmingly in favor of striking against 10 major video game companies. The ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike against TV and film studios began on July 14. Deadline reports that the vote for the video game strike was 98.32% in favor. A total of 34,687 members...
In a case of uncannily rotten timing, Starz announced the cancellation of Heels, Run the World, and Blindspotting days after the WGA reached a tentative deal with the studios. In addition, Variety reports that The Venery of Samantha Bird, which went into production on its first season and stars Katherine Langford, got shut down permanently...
Steven Spielberg's Amblin TV, Vice Studios, and Boardwalk Pictures will debut the alien docuseries Encounters on Netflix. The four-episode series “explores true stories of human contact with otherworldly phenomena.” “UFOs, UAPs, nonhuman intelligence, whatever we might call it… I didn’t before, but now I think it exists,” director Yon Motskin said to Netflix. “It’s out...
Dan Trachtenberg, the director of Prey — a prequel to Predator that debuted on Hulu in 2022 — has opened up about potential new movies in the Predator franchise. Prey is set in the Northern Great Plains in 1719 and stars Amber Midthunder, Dane DiLiegro, and Dakota Beavers. In an interview with ComicBook.com, Trachtenberg responds to...
Spanish prosecutors charged Colombian singer Shakira with failing to pay $7.1 million in taxes on her 2018 earnings. Prosecutors allege that she used an offshore tax haven to avoid paying her tax bill. A notification was sent to the singer in Miami, where she lives. According to an Associated Press report, Shakira will appear in...
Angelina Jolie says that she went through an introspective period over the past decade that prompted her to shy away from major film roles. The Oscar-winning actress just launched Atelier Jolie, a purported socially and environmentally conscious fashion project. In an interview with Vogue, Jolie talks about her fashion fixation. “Sometimes the way you dress...
Bruce “The Boss” Springsteen has postponed all remaining 2023 tour dates to receive treatment for peptic ulcer disease. “Bruce Springsteen has continued to recover steadily from peptic ulcer disease over the past few weeks and will continue treatment through the rest of the year on doctor's advice,” reads a statement on the musician's Instagram page. ...
A legacy Star Wars character from the original trilogy made a surprise appearance on episode seven of Ahsoka. The Disney+ series starring Rosario Dawson as the titular character featured Hayden Christensen reprising his role as Anakin Skywalker earlier in the season. (Spoiler alert: stop reading now if you don't want to know details about episode...
Recently revealed court documents accuse Cher of hiring four men to remove her son Elijah Blue Allman from a New York City hotel on November 30, 2022 — his wedding anniversary with his estranged wife, Marie Angela King. As reported in Variety, a court document signed by King on December 4, 2022 outlined the allegations....
Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn says that no current DC Films movie — including the upcoming Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom — is “canon.” Warner Bros. Discovery hired Gunn in 2022 to be cochair and co-CEO of DC Studios. In a series of social media posts collected on Threads, Gunn — who penned...
Director Gareth Edwards says that The Creator‘s story became “quite real” as AI rapidly advanced. The sci-fi thriller tells the story of a future war between mankind and artificial intelligence. Garth Edwards — who directed, co-wrote, and produced The Creator and previously directed Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — tells Yahoo Entertainment that he intended...
One thing scares The Exorcist: Believer producer Jason Blum: going head-to-head with Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour at the box office. The Exorcist sequel, originally scheduled for an October 13 release, got bumped up a week earlier to avoid opening weekend competition from the Taylor Swift concert film. “The one thing that scares me to...
James Cameron told a crowd at Beyond Fest that he almost drowned while filming The Abyss. The 1989 sci-fi film starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and Michael Biehn follows a research team working at the bottom of the ocean who encounter something otherworldly. Variety reports that after a screening of The Abyss at Beyond...
Christina Aguilera will executive-produce a new stage musical based on the 2010 movie Burlesque. Aguilera starred in the musical film directed by Steven Antin opposite Cher, Kristen Bell, Cam Gigandet, Stanley Tucci, Julianne Hough, and Peter Gallagher. Entertainment Weekly reports that Antin wrote Burlesque: The Musical and “includes songs written for the film by Aguilera, Diane...
Disney+ will start cracking down on password-sharing in Canada on November 1. Netflix did the same thing in the United States and other territories in an attempt to reclaim lost revenue due to users sharing passwords with people outside of their immediate households. As reported by MobileSyrup, Disney+ sent an email to its Canadian subscribers...
Las Vegas police arrested a suspect in the 1996 murder of iconic rapper Tupac Shakur. It marks the first significant break in the case that began 27 years ago. According to the Associated Press, authorities took Duane “Keffe D” Davis into custody Friday morning on suspicion of murder. A public statement about the indictment is...
Heels showrunner Mike O'Malley seeks a new home for a third season of the wrestling drama starring Stephen Amell and Alexander Ludwig. Starz abruptly canceled the series earlier this week after two seasons. Entertainment Weekly reports that Starz president Kathryn Busby called O'Malley to break the news. “We knew when we finished the season, all...
NSYNC released “Better Place” — their first song in 19 years — as part of the Trolls Band Together soundtrack. Justin Timberlake left the boy band featuring Lance Bass, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, and Chris Kirkpatrick 19 years ago, and the group last reunited for a performance 10 years ago. All of the “boys” in NSYNC...
Saw X first assistant editor Steve Forn received a visit from the police after neighbors called due to the sound of screaming. Saw X is a direct sequel to the 2004 horror film Saw. In an interview with NME, Saw X director Kevin Greutert describes what led to the unexpected police check. Forn was finishing...
Tom Hanks wants everyone to know that the AI version of himself used to sell a dental plan was done without his permission. The two-time Best Actor Oscar winner of Forrest Gump and Philadelphia is an outspoken critic about the use of AI in the entertainment industry. Hanks posted on Instagram, “BEWARE!! There’s a video...
U2 opened Sphere in Las Vegas with a mind-blowing show that redefines the term “concert experience.” Sphere is the largest spherical structure in the world and features 160,000 square feet of wraparound LED displays capable of 16K resolution. On board for the U2: UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere 25-show residency are Bono, the Edge,...
Stevie Nicks says “there's no reason” to continue Fleetwood Mac without Christine McVie. The latter passed away in 2022 and wrote or co-wrote some of Fleetwood Mac's greatest hits, including “Don't Stop,” “Everywhere,” and “Little Lies.” In an interview with Vulture, Nicks says, “But when Christine died, I felt like you can’t replace her. You...
A judge ruled that Lady Gaga does not have to pay $500,000 in reward money to Jennifer McBride, a woman tied to the violent dognapping of Gaga's two French bulldogs in February 2021. During the incident, Gaga's dog walker, Ryan Fischer, was shot and her two Frenchies, Koji and Gustav, were stolen. Entertainment Weekly reports...
Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, called out the “disturbing” AI technology used to re-create her late father's voice. Robin Williams reportedly named his 34-year-old daughter after the video game The Legend of Zelda. “I am not an impartial voice in SAG’s fight against AI,” said Zelda in a statement posted on Instagram Stories. “I’ve witnessed...
The new trailer for Sofia Coppola's Priscilla explores the troubled romance and marriage of Priscilla and Elvis Presley. Priscilla stars Cailee Spaeny in the titular role and Jacob Elordi as the King. Based on Priscilla Presley's 1985 memoir Elvis and Me, the movie Priscilla includes personal accounts of her relationship with Elvis. Variety reports about...
Patrick Stewart recounts why he stormed off the Star Trek: The Next Generation set in the actor's new memoir, Making It So: A Memoir. Stewart played Captain Jean-Luc Picard from 1987 to 1994 on Star Trek: TNG and reprised the role in the subsequent theatrical movies as well as on the Paramount+ series Picard. According...
Rush Hour filmmaker Brett Ratner has immigrated to Israel. The career of the Red Dragon, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Tower Heist director went limp after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct in 2017. According to The Hollywood Reporter: “The Jerusalem Post's Walla news site reported that Ratner posted to his Instagram Story a...
Oscar winner Helen Mirren responded to her controversial casting as Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in the upcoming biographical drama Golda directed by Guy Nattiv. Some have criticized the casting of a non-Jewish actress, Mirren, as the iconic Jewish prime minister. Radio Times reports, “Mirren's casting first came about because Golda’s grandson, Gideon, said he...
English actress Julia Ormond named Disney and CAA in a lawsuit for allegedly enabling Harvey Weinstein's sexual misconduct and failing to protect her. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ormond blames CAA for failing to “look out for her well-being, to not place her in danger, and to warn her about Weinstein’s predations” despite agents allegedly...
The Jonathan Majors trial could impact season two of Loki. Season one of Loki, starring Tom Hiddleston as the titular Asgardian god of mischief, was the most-watched Marvel Studios series on Disney+. Majors plays He Who Remains and Victor Timely, variants of Kang the Conqueror. Majors was arrested in March in New York City. According...
The Exorcist: Believer director David Gordon Green says he's “curious” what William Friedkin would have thought about the new requel (reboot and sequel). Friedkin, who passed away in August, directed 1973's The Exorcist, considered one of the scariest movies of all time. A.Frame asked Green if he consulted Friedkin about The Exorcist: Believer. “I would've...
Elon Musk has confirmed that he authorized X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, to remove headlines from shared articles. The X Corp. owner tweeted in August, “This is coming from me directly. Will greatly improve the esthetics.” Variety reports that Musk doesn't like users posting links because it steers traffic away from X,...
Sam Wineman, a producer for Shudder's Queer for Fear documentary series, has filed a lawsuit against Shudder, parent company AMC, and writer-producer Bryan Fuller for sexual harassment, retaliation, and a hostile work environment. Deadline reports on the graphic filing in L.A. Superior Court by Wineman, which reads, “Defendant Bryan Fuller cultivated and maintained a hostile...
Football player-actor-author Dick Butkus passed away in his sleep at age 80 at his home in Malibu, California on October 5. The former Chicago Bears linebacker transitioned to acting in films and on TV later in his career. Born on December 9, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, Butkus played high school football and then college football...
Chris Rock has reportedly entered final negotiations to direct and produce a Martin Luther King Jr. biopic for Universal. Steven Spielberg will executive produce the movie. According to IndieWire, the upcoming film is based on the biography King: A Life by Jonathan Eig, a book The New York Times calls the “definitive” biography of Martin...
Actress Ellen Burstyn knows why she still gets called for specific roles: the 90-year-old star of The Exorcist: Believer has outlived many of her peers. In an interview with her Law & Order costar Christopher Meloni for Interview magazine, Burstyn explains why she thinks she keeps busy at her age. “I don’t know, except possibly...
George Miller's Furiosa — a postapocalyptic prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road — is eyeing a 2024 Cannes Film Festival premiere. Mad Max: Fury Road premiered at Cannes in 2015, grossed $374 million worldwide, and won 6 Oscars out of 10 nominations. Miller directs Furiosa from a screenplay that he co-wrote with Nico Lathouris. It...
Jessica Lange is reportedly mulling retirement. The 74-year-old actress is one of the few actors to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, winning two Oscars, three Emmys, and a Tony. “I think I’m going to start phasing out of filmmaking,” says Lange to The Telegraph. “I don’t think I’ll do this too much longer. Creativity...
Melissa McBride, who plays Carol Peletier on The Walking Dead, made a voice cameo on The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. She appears on episode five, titled “Deux Amours,” during a flashback sequence on the spin-off show starring Norman Reedus. (Spoiler alert: The following contains details about episode five of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon.) In...
Ridley Scott's four-hour director's cut of Napoleon starring Joaquin Phoenix will premiere on Apple TV+. Sony will still release a shorter, theatrical cut in cinemas. In an interview with Total Film reported by IndieWire, Scott says of the director's cut, “I’m working on it. It was 4 [hours] 10 [minutes] this morning. And so what...
The Exorcist: Believer director David Gordon Green may not direct the two planned sequels in the new trilogy, including 2025's The Exorcist: Deceiver. The Exorcist: Believer opened at number one this weekend, scaring up over $27 million domestically despite hellish reviews. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Green says, “My intention is just to...
Writers Guild of America (WGA) members voted overwhelmingly in favor of the new contract negotiated by the guild with the studios, officially ending one of the longest strikes in Hollywood history. Ninety-nine percent of voting members said “yes” to the contract, which is valid through May 1, 2026. “Through solidarity and determination, we have ratified...
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but not to the Pet Shop Boys. The English synth-pop duo consisting of singer Neil Tennant and keyboardist Chris Lowe are not amused that Drake interpolates lyrics of the Pet Shop Boys hit “West End Girls” into his song “All the Parties” on his new album For...
Director Michael Mann confirmed he will direct Heat 2 as the next movie on his docket. Mann wrote and directed the acclaimed 1995 crime drama Heat starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. Entertainment Weekly reports on a recent panel discussion Mann had with Deadline Hollywood. “Meg Gardiner and myself wrote the novel Heat 2,...
Roku has picked up The Spiderwick Chronicles TV series after Disney+ dropped it earlier this year. Based on the book of the same name by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles TV series consists of six episodes and follows a 2008 film adaptation starring Freddie Highmore (pictured, above). As reported by Deadline, Brian...
Embarrassing notes from the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial posted on Reddit expose drama on the Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom set, including Jason Momoa allegedly drunk on set and an angry letter from Elon Musk to Warner Bros. As reported by Variety, the trial notes posted on Reddit the same day last month that...
Presale sellouts for Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour have outpaced those for blockbuster movies such as Barbie and Spider-Man: No Way Home. The Taylor Swift concert movie has already sold more than $100 million in tickets and has not even opened yet. The data reported by Deadline comes from the analytics firm EntTelligence, which says that...
Author Salman Rushdie has written a memoir titled Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder. The controversial Indian-born British-American author of The Satanic Verses was stabbed multiple times last year while he gave a lecture onstage in New York. The despicable attack left Rushdie blind in his right eye and injured his left hand. The Associated Press...
Stan Lee's daughter, J.C. Lee, initiated a new lawsuit against POW! Entertainment, the company that controls the rights to her late father's name, intellectual property, and likeness. Stan Lee, who created many Marvel superheroes, passed away in 2018 at the age of 95, leaving behind myriad unresolved legal disputes. Variety reports, “In a lawsuit filed...
Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White play brothers and professional wrestlers Kevin and Kerry Von Erich in The Iron Claw. A24 released the first trailer for the wrestling drama about the Von Erich family written and directed by Sean Durkin. The official description of The Iron Claw reads: “The true story of the inseparable Von...
The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) suspended talks with SAG-AFTRA after the studios refused to counter the union's latest offer. The SAG-AFTRA strike began on July 14. As reported by Variety, the AMPTP says that the gap between the two sides is “too great.” The Variety report continues, “In a statement to...
Comic book writer-artist Keith Giffen — the cocreator of DC's Lobo and Marvel's Rocket Raccoon — passed away at age 70 following a stroke. Giffen also cocreated the Jamie Reyes version of DC's Blue Beetle. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Giffen's family announced his death on Facebook with a prewritten sarcastic statement by Giffen that...
The Cure cofounder-drummer-keyboardist Lol Tolhurst has written a book titled Goth: A History, chronicling the enduring subculture bands like the Cure unintentionally helped create. The goth subculture began in London in the late 1970s as an offshoot of punk and postpunk music. Fans of the music of bands like the Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees,...
After a spirited bidding war, Miramax scored the TV rights to the Halloween franchise featuring unstoppable masked killer Michael Myers. Trancas International Films, run by Malek Akkad, shares cinematic rights with Miramax following Universal's Halloween Ends. Miramax outbid A24 for the Halloween television rights. Variety reports, “The auction was held by Malek Akkad’s Trancas International...
Some familiar faces return on The Walking Dead spin-off series The Ones Who Live and Daryl Dixon. The zombie-apocalypse flagship series The Walking Dead ended its run in 2022 on AMC after 11 seasons. Melissa McBride, who plays Carol, just made a voice cameo on episode five of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon and is...
Best Buy — the retailer that helped ignite the DVD revolution in the late 1990s — will cease sales of DVDs, Blu-rays, and 4K UHDs at its brick-and-mortar stores and online in 2024. In a statement to Variety, a Best Buy spokesperson said, “To state the obvious, the way we watch movies and TV shows...
Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Williams will narrate the audiobook version of Britney Spears' memoir, The Woman in Me. Spears will record an introduction for the audiobook and Williams will narrate the rest. “This book has been a labor of love and all the emotions that come with it,” Spears said in a statement shared with People....
Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Williams will narrate the audiobook version of Britney Spears' memoir, The Woman in Me. Spears will record an introduction for the audiobook and Williams will narrate the rest. “This book has been a labor of love and all the emotions that come with it,” Spears said in a statement shared with People....
Matthew Vaughn — originally slated to direct 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand before Brett Ratner replaced him — says that Fox lured Halle Berry back to play Storm with a script that the studio had no intention of filming. Vaughn later directed X-Men: First Class in 2011. Entertainment Weekly reports on Vaughn's comments at New...
Christopher Nolan's biographical thriller Oppenheimer starring Cillian Murphy comes home on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and digital on November 21. The record-breaking blockbuster about theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the Manhattan Project during World War II earned more than $942 million at the global box office. The official Universal press release reads,...
James Wan's Atomic Monster production company will remake the 1990s cartoon Gargoyles as a live-action series for Disney+. Gary Dauberman will executive produce, write, and serve as showrunner for the new series while Wan will executive produce. Wan — the director of Saw, Insidious, Aquaman, and Malignant — wrote on Instagram, “The Gargoyles are out...
Warwick Davis — who played the Nelwyn sorcerer Willow Ufgood in both the 1988 film and 2022 series Willow — called out Disney on X for pulling the eight-episode season off Disney+. Disney canceled the series after one season and then yanked the show off its streaming service entirely as a cost-cutting measure. Davis tweeted,...
Less than seven months after criminal charges against Alec Baldwin were dropped for the 2021 killing of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, Baldwin faces possible new involuntary manslaughter charges. A grand jury could evaluate the new claims within weeks. Deadline reports, “After extensive investigation over the past several months, additional facts have come to light that...
Daniel Radcliffe denies rumors that he got shredded to play Wolverine. Hugh Jackman has played the buff X-Men character with retractable adamantium claws on-screen since 2000's X-Men. In the season four finale of Miracle Workers, Radcliffe showed off his buff physique and sparked speculation that he was angling to replace Jackman as Wolverine. In a...
Ridley Scott — the director of Alien, Prometheus, and Alien: Covenant — sings the praises of Fede Álvarez's upcoming stand-alone sequel Alien: Romulus. The new Alien movie is the ninth film overall in the franchise that began with 1979's Alien. Entertainment Weekly reports that Álvarez spoke with Guillermo del Toro at the DGA Latino Summit...
Director Henry Selick says that Disney shied away from calling the Touchstone Pictures production The Nightmare Before Christmas a Disney movie until after it became a cultural phenomenon. Selick directed the 1993 stop-motion animated musical produced and conceived by Tim Burton that became a holiday classic despite its dark, fantastical theme. Selick (pictured, top right)...
The BBC canceled the long-running medical soap opera Doctors after 23 years due to money woes. Set in the fictional town of Letherbridge in the U.K.’s West Midlands, Doctors follows the lives of medical workers and their families and friends. Variety reports that Doctors ran for 23 years, 24 seasons, and a whopping 4,389 episodes....
Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill says that retirement scares him more than dying. The 76-year-old New Zealand actor is in remission for stage-three blood cancer. In an interview with ABC's Australian Story, Neill says that he doesn't comb the Internet looking for information on his non-Hodgkin blood cancer, angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma. “I know I've got...
Emma Stone threatens to punch a screaming baby in the trailer for Searchlight Pictures' Poor Things. The black-comedy fantasy film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Tony McNamara also stars Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, and Jerrod Carmichael. The official plot description of Poor Things from the production notes reads, “From...
James McAvoy's directorial debut is about Silibil N' Brains, a Scottish hip-hop duo consisting of Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd (no, not The Lord of the Rings actor) who posed as California rappers to get a record deal. Deadline reports, “In the late '90s, Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd had their musical ambitions consistently ridiculed...
Kingsman: The Secret Circle and X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn pitched a Superman trilogy that Warner Bros. rejected. Variety reports how Vaughn appeared on a recent episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast and discussed the Superman trilogy he and comic book writer Mark Millar pitched to Warner Bros. before Zack Snyder's Man of...
Amazon renewed Gen V — the superhero spin-off series of The Boys — for a second season on Prime Video. Gen V premiered on September 29 and stars Jaz Sinclair (pictured, above), Chance Perdomo, Lizze Broadway, Maddie Phillips, London Thor, Derek Luh, Asa Germann, and Shelley Conn. A press release about the announcement reads, “Set...
Deadpool 3 director Shawn Levy talked about the movie's fluid release date and his friendship with Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, who appear as Deadpool and Wolverine, respectively. He also addressed the rumor that Taylor Swift makes a cameo in the superhero sequel. In an interview with the Wrap, Levy says, “I don’t even know...
A George Clooney-led $150 million proposal presented to SAG-AFTRA leadership to end the strike is likely DOA. Clooney, Tyler Perry, Scarlett Johansson, and other A-list actors discussed the proposal with SAG-AFTRA leadership during a Tuesday Zoom call. According to Variety, the group of about 15 actors held a follow-up call with SAG-AFTRA on Wednesday that...
SAG-AFTRA issued guidelines regarding Halloween costumes for its striking members. Actors are discouraged from, say, dressing up as Barbie or Ken or any other character from struck movies or TV series. According to a statement posted on SAG-AFTRA, members should “Choose costumes inspired by generalized characters and figures (ghost, zombie, spider, etc.).” The guild suggests...
A second woman has accused composer Danny Elfman of sexual misconduct. The allegations surface after composer Nomi Abadi made similar allegations in July. An unidentified woman using the name “Jane Doe” filed charges in Los Angeles Superior Court that Edward Scissorhands composer Elfman sexually harassed her between 1997 and 2002 when she was a 21-year-old...
Tracking for The Marvels indicates that the superhero film directed by Nia DaCosta and starring Brie Larson is looking at an opening in the $75-80 million range. That's about a 50% drop from the three-day opening of 2019's Captain Marvel, also starring Larson as Carol Danvers, which made $153 million. According to Deadline, the projection...
This year's horror hit The Nun II will premiere on Max on October 27, just in time for Halloween viewing. The New Line sequel starring Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet, and Bonnie Aarons premieres on Max after the movie's 50-day theatrical window. As reported by Deadline, the Michael Chaves-directed movie in The Conjuring universe has grossed...
The Holdovers director Alexander Payne said that he too is frustrated by bloated movie run times. Payne made the comment at the Middleburg Film Festival on Saturday, October 21. According to IndieWire, Payne feels moviegoers' pain about ballooning movie run times. The new Martin Scorsese release Killers of the Flower Moon, for example, clocks in...
Scott Derrickson — the director of Sinister, Doctor Strange, and The Black Phone — says that he survived two home invasions. The experiences colored his movies, including the “Dreamkill” segment of the horror film V/H/S/85. Derrickson tells Yahoo Entertainment that he survived his first home invasion at age six. “I had gone down the street...
Tyler Perry finalized a creative partnership with Netflix to write, direct, and produce eight movies for the streaming giant over the next four years. Perry already made five movies for Netflix: A Fall From Grace, A Madea Homecoming, and A Jazzman’s Blues, plus the upcoming Six Triple Eight and Mea Culpa. Variety reports that Endeavor and...
Fans will have to wait a little longer to see the movie formerly known as Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part Two, whether or not they choose to accept it. Paramount pushed the release date of the eighth Mission: Impossible movie starring Tom Cruise to 2025. Variety reports, “Paramount Pictures has delayed the next Mission:...
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) West apologized to its members for causing “tremendous pain” by remaining silent on the Israel-Hamas war. The guild did not release an official statement on the conflict since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7. The WGA faced sharp criticism for not condemning the Hamas attacks that killed more than...
Apple TV+ is raising its monthly subscription rate again, from $6.99 to $9.99. When the streaming service launched in 2019, the price was $4.99 and remained there until last year. The price of an annual plan is increasing from $69 to $99. “We are focused on delivering the best experiences possible for our customers by...
Beau Is Afraid director Ari Aster wishes the movie had more viewers to polarize. The surrealist comedy-horror-tragedy stars Joaquin Phoenix as the titular paranoid character who confronts his biggest fears while journeying home to attend his mother's funeral. Although it received critical acclaim, Beau Is Afraid‘s staggered release in April did no favors for the...
The new Fargo season five trailer features Jon Hamm as a sheriff and Juno Temple as a Midwestern housewife with a sketchy past. The fifth season of the acclaimed FX series inspired by the 1996 Coen brothers movie of the same name also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh and is set in Minnesota and North Dakota...
In his sophomore directorial effort, Maestro, Bradley Cooper also stars as both a young and older version of legendary composer Leonard Bernstein. Carey Mulligan plays Felicia Montealegre, Bernstein's wife with whom he had a decades-long romance complicated by his many affairs with both men and women. In the trailer opening, Cooper's Bernstein says, “If summer...
The White Lotus got millions of dollars in incentives to film its third season in Thailand instead of Japan. The hit comedy-drama anthology series by Mike White takes place at different fictitious White Lotus resorts around the world. Season one is set in Maui, and season two takes place in Sicily. IndieWire reports that Japanese...
Hocus Pocus director Kenny Ortega says that Disney initially questioned the “direction” of Bette Midler's over-the-top performance as the witch Winifred “Winnie” Sanderson in the 1993 Halloween classic. Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy all reprised their roles as the Sanderson sisters in 2022's Hocus Pocus 2. In Hocus Pocus, the Sanderson sisters are...
The acclaimed Chicago stage production of The Who's Tommy directed by Des McAnuff is coming to Broadway in 2024. Previews for the reimagined production produced by Stephen Gabriel and Ira Pittelman will begin at the Nederlander Theatre on March 8, 2024 before an official opening night on March 28. Pete Townsend — the Who cofounder...
With the help of AI, the Beatles have finished their final new song, “Now and Then.” The single drops next week, 61 years after the band's first single, “Love Me Do,” came out in England and ignited Beatlemania. The arrival of “Now and Then” is especially noteworthy since of the four Beatles — Paul McCartney,...
More than 3,600 SAG-AFTRA actors — including Jon Hamm, Sandra Oh, Sarah Paulson, and Chelsea Handler — have signed an open letter telling their guild that they would rather remain on strike than “cave” for a bad deal. Variety reports that the group of actors calling themselves Members in Solidarity also includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Maya...
Duran Duran released the Halloween-themed Danse Macabre, the new wave band's 16th studio album, today via Tape Modern/BMG. The four core members — Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, and Roger Taylor — are joined by special guests Nile Rodgers, Warren Cuccurullo, and Andy Taylor for the album featuring covers of Billie Eilish, Talking...
Taylor Swift has officially parlayed a career built on emotional songs about ex-boyfriends and breakups into a portfolio worth $1 billion. The “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” singer is currently on the Eras Tour, the highest-grossing tour by a female artist in history. As reported by Bloomberg, it is the Eras Tour in...
Fantastic Beasts director David Yates says that Warner Bros. has “parked” the Harry Potter spin-off prequel series. Yates directed three movies — Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (pictured) — out of a planned five-film franchise. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Yates...
Paramount+ has canceled both Fatal Attraction and Rabbit Hole after one season. Based on the 1987 movie of the same name, the sexually charged psychological thriller Fatal Attraction stars Joshua Jackson and Lizzy Caplan. The thriller Rabbit Hole stars Kiefer Sutherland as a corporate spy framed for murder. “Fatal Attraction and Rabbit Hole will not...
Fear the Walking Dead brought back a presumed-dead character only to finish her off for good. The spin-off series of The Walking Dead is airing the last episodes of its final season on AMC. (Spoiler alert: Stop reading if don't want to know details about season eight, episode eight, “Iron Tiger,” of Fear the Walking...
Robert De Niro and former assistant Graham Chase Robinson — who each filed lawsuits against each other — will face off in court as the dueling claims go to trial. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, De Niro made the preemptive first strike in August 2019 when the Raging Bull actor sued Robinson for binge-watching...
Apple and Paramount are cracking down on some theaters adding an intermission to Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon. The director did not include an intermission in his 206-minute epic sitting challenge, but some theaters inserted a break anyway. Variety reports, “As of Friday morning, two European cinema chains and one independent theater in...
Megan Fox unapologetically defied the SAG-AFTRA Halloween costume guidelines by dressing up as a character from a struck film. Fox and her fiancé, Machine Gun Kelly, dressed as Gogo Yubari and the Bride, respectively, from Kill Bill for the Casamigos Halloween Party in Beverly Hills. Fox then posted pictures of their costumes to Instagram, tagging SAG-AFTRA....
Mai Whelan, the winner of Squid Game: The Challenge, has yet to receive a penny of her historic $4.56 million cash prize for winning the reality competition based on Netflix's Squid Game. The 55-year-old immigration adjudicator won the prize back in February when she outlasted 455 competitors, but the finale just aired on Netflix this...
Sesame Street is getting creatively overhauled for season 56. The long-running PBS educational children's program features live-action sketches, animation, and Jim Henson's the Muppets. “With any change you have evolutions, and then you have things that are slightly bigger steps, while still staying core to who we are,” says Steve Youngwood, the CEO of Sesame...
It Follows director David Robert Mitchell and star Maika Monroe will return for They Follow, a sequel to the acclaimed 2014 horror hit. Neon begins production on They Follow in 2024. In It Follows, a deadly, shape-shifting entity follows Jaime “Jay” Height (Monroe) after a sexual encounter. The entity, which can take the shape of...
Matthew Perry's Friends castmates — Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, and David Schwimmer — released a short joint statement about Perry's passing. Perry died on October 28 at the age of 54 after being found unresponsive in his jacuzzi. The statement reads, “We are all so utterly devastated by the loss of...
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes scored a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement that allows the prequel's stars to promote the movie during the strike. The Hunger Games prequel is set 64 years before the events of the first film and stars Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andrés Rivera, Jason...
“They're ba-ack.” A TV series version of Poltergeist is under development at Amazon MGM Studios. The 1982 horror classic directed by Tobe Hooper from a story by Steven Spielberg stars Craig T. Nelson as Steve Freeling, JoBeth Williams as Diane Freeling, Beatrice Straight as Dr. Martha Lesh, Dominique Dunne as Dana Freeling, Oliver Robins as...
Three Mean Girls stars — Lindsay Lohan, Amanda Seyfried, and Lacey Chabert — reunited and reprised their roles for a series of Walmart Black Friday commercials. The 2004 teen comedy directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey became a cult classic, especially for millennials. Lohan, Seyfried, and Chabert are now 37, 37, and...
Cher believes in life after farewell tours. The iconic Oscar, Emmy, and Grammy winner will make an appearance at the 97th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, right before Santa Claus. The Associated Press reports that for the first time in the history of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the holiday tradition...
Warner Bros. will likely release its Salem's Lot remake on Max instead of in theaters. Written and directed by Gary Dauberman and starring Lewis Pullman (pictured) as Ben Mears, Salem's Lot is based on the 1975 Stephen King book of the same name. Tobe Hooper directed the 1979 vampire miniseries starring David Soul and James...
Martin Scorsese directs Timothée Chalamet in the new Bleu de Chanel campaign. Chanel officially announced that Chalamet is the newest ambassador for the fragrance and released behind-the-scenes footage of the Dune actor working with the Oscar-winning director. L'Officiel magazine reports on the short film that Scorsese created with Chalamet for Chanel. “We take the original...
Jacob Elordi, who plays Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola's Priscilla, says that he gorged on a pound of bacon a day to play later-life Elvis in the biographical drama. The movie based on the 1985 memoir Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley stars Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla. Priscilla chronicles Elvis and Priscilla's relationship from their...
Days after the streaming platform Hulu co-owned by Disney and Comcast went on the market, Disney says that it plans to pay $8.6 billion or more to buy the remaining 33% stake in Hulu currently held by Comcast. As reported by Deadline, “Disney said the $8.61 billion represents NBCU’s percentage of the $27.5 billion ‘guaranteed...
The Targaryen civil war will continue when House of the Dragon returns to HBO in the summer of 2024. Season one of the Game of Thrones prequel premiered in August 2022. According to Entertainment Weekly, HBO teased the return of the hit series at a press event at Warner Bros. Discovery's New York City offices...
Marvel's multiverse mess and a host of other problems suggest that the sun is setting on the golden age of superhero movies. The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) kicked off with Iron Man in 2008 and dominated the box office for over a decade. Now, as storylines between movies and TV series becomes entangled and the...
Superman & Lois — and the CW's DC universe — will conclude after the series' truncated fourth season consisting of 10 episodes. The superhero drama starring Tyler Hoechlin as Superman and Elizabeth Tulloch as his wife, Lois Lane, premiered in 2021 as part of the CW's DC universe, which included Batwoman, Arrow, The Flash, and...
Lisa Marie Presley described Sofia Coppola's Priscilla script as “vengeful and contemptuous” in its depiction of her father, Elvis Presley. Elvis and Priscilla's only daughter passed away earlier this year at the age of 54, days after a photographer took the picture above. Variety exclusively obtained two emails from Lisa Marie Presley in which she...
The first trailer for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes depicts a world in which apes rule and feral humans live on the fringe of simian society. The fourth movie in 20th Century Studios' rebooted Planet of the Apes series follows 2017's War for the Planet of the Apes. Kingdom of the Planet of...
Ryan Gosling plays a stuntman who gets knocked around in the trailer for The Fall Guy. Inspired by the 1980s TV show of the same name, The Fall Guy is directed by David Leitch and stars Emily Blunt as a filmmaker and former flame of Gosling's stuntman, Colt Seavers. In the first trailer set to...
Vincent D'Onofrio reprises his role as Kingpin in Marvel's upcoming series Echo starring Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez/Echo. The series follows the events of 2021's Hawkeye, also starring Cox and D'Onofrio. As reported by Entertainment Weekly, Kingpin has paternal feelings for the deaf superhero Echo. “Maya, I see everything that you are. I always have,”...
Sheryl Crow says she is “really scared” by the use of AI in music. The Grammy-winning singer of “All I Wanna Do” and “If It Makes You Happy” was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last week and announced her 12th studio album, Evolution. The Hollywood Reporter reports on Crow's recent appearance...
Timothée Chalamet will host SNL this week followed by Jason Momoa the following week. The fact that Saturday Night Live scheduled actors who both have upcoming movies to promote suggests that SAG-AFTRA could end its strike soon. Under current strike guidelines, actors cannot promote upcoming struck projects. “Timothée Chalamet is set to host SNL next...
Marvel created the new “Marvel Spotlight” banner to highlight stand-alone MCU shows such as Echo starring Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez and Vincent D'Onofrio as Kingpin. The new Spotlight banner suggests the Marvel show or movie doesn't require detailed knowledge of several previous MCU installments by the viewer. The Marvel Spotlight announcement comes days after...
Jeremy Allen White won't play a superhero on-screen anytime soon… if ever. The 32-year-old star of The Bear and the wrestling movie The Iron Claw says that he botched his meeting for a Marvel-y movie. In an interview with British GQ, White said, “I had a meeting for a kind of Marvel-y movie, and I...
Starting next week, Sony will remove access to the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, from its PlayStation consoles. X owner Elon Musk, an avid video game fan, has yet to comment. In an “important notice” posted on the PlayStation website, Sony writes, “As of November 13, 2023, integration with X (formerly known as...
Sony's new Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire trailer teases the return of Paul Rudd and original Ghostbusters Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, and Ernie Hudson. The sequel to 2021's Ghostbusters: Afterlife also stars that film's Finn Wolfhard and Mckenna Grace. In the trailer, New York and the famous Ghostbusters firehouse are frozen over during a record-hot summer due...
Shigeru Miyamoto — the creator of the action-adventure video game franchise The Legend of Zelda — says Nintendo is developing a live-action movie based on the game. As reported by Variety, Miyamoto posted on X, “This is Miyamoto. I have been working on the live-action film of The Legend of Zelda for many years now...
Paramount has released the first trailer for Mean Girls, the movie musical adapted from the 2018 Tony-nominated musical that is based on the 2004 movie. Reneé Rapp — who played Regina George on Broadway — reprises her role for the 2024 film. Like the recent trailer for Wonka, the new Mean Girls trailer downplays —...
Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) returns in the season two trailer for Amazon Prime Video's Reacher to protect his former Army unit from a killer. Season two draws inspiration from Bad Luck and Trouble, the 11th book in author Lee Child's Jack Reacher novel series. In the new season two trailer, Reacher saves a woman from...
Pop the Champagne: SAG-AFTRA approved a tentative agreement with the AMPTP, effectively ending the 118-day strike. In an announcement, the guild says the strike officially ends at 12:01 a.m. Thursday. SAG-AFTRA's negotiating committee unanimously voted to approve the deal. The agreement next goes to the guild's national board for formal approval on Friday. Variety reports,...
With the SAG-AFTRA strike officially over today, stalled movies such as Beetlejuice 2, Deadpool 3, Gladiator 2, and many more can resume production ASAP. Due to the upcoming holidays, most new movies won't start production until January 2024. According to Deadline, “Movies set to go back this week or in very near future are Marvel...
Disney will still license content to Netflix — just not Pixar, Marvel, or Star Wars content. Those movies and TV series remain exclusive to Disney+. IndieWire reports that Disney CEO Bob Iger doesn't believe that Disney needs to license its best content to another streamer for extra cash. “We’ve actually been licensing content to Netflix,...
The Inside Out 2 trailer introduces a new emotion to the Pixar film: Anxiety. The new character, voiced by Maya Hawke, joins the other five emotions in a teenager's head: Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Anger (Lewis Black), Fear (Tony Hale), and Disgust (Liza Lapira). In an interview with Variety last year during Disney's...
Zac Efron said that he would be “honored” to play Matthew Perry in a biopic about the Friends actor's life. Efron and Perry played the same character at different ages in the 2009 comedy 17 Again. While walking the red carpet to promote his film The Iron Claw, Efron talked to People about Perry's wish...
Disney pushed the release dates of Marvel Studios' Captain America: Brave New World and Blade to 2025. This means that Deadpool 3 — if its date holds — is the only Marvel movie slated for theatrical release in 2024. According to Entertainment Weekly, both the fourth Captain America movie and Blade reboot were pushed back...
Warner Bros. reportedly will not release the completed live-action/animated movie Coyote vs. Acme. This is the third greenlit movie nixed by David Zaslav-run Warner Bros. Discovery, following Batgirl and Scoob Holiday Haunt! Deadline reports that Warner Bros. Discovery will take a $30 million write-down on the $70 million Coyote vs. Acme production. “With the relaunch...
A24 is reportedly developing an Elon Musk biopic with Darren Aronofsky tapped to direct. Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of Musk will serve as the source material for the screenplay. According to Variety “there was heated competition to option Isaacson’s book from studios and filmmakers alike, with A24 ultimately winning the bidding war. Aronofsky, who most...
David Harbour says that Stranger Things could resume production on its fifth and final season in a “couple of days.” Harbour plays Hawkins police chief Jim Hopper on the supernatural Netflix series. On the red carpet for the BoxLunch Gala honoring Feeding America, David Harbour expressed his excitement about the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike...
Oscar-winning actor and Thirty Seconds to Mars front man Jared Leto climbed to the top of the Empire State Building to promote his band's upcoming tour. The publicity stunt marks the first time someone has legally climbed to the top of the iconic Manhattan skyscraper. Leto, 51, climbed the east side of the building from...
Jamie Lee Curtis teased a Freaky Friday sequel by posting a picture of her and Lindsay Lohan on social media. The two starred together as mother and daughter who switch bodies in the 2003 comedy-fantasy directed by Mark Waters. On Friday (of course), Curtis posted a picture of her and Lohan on Instagram. The caption...
The Marvels misfired at the box office, becoming the worst debut in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Nia DaCosta-directed superhero sequel starring Brie Larson as Captain Marvel grossed $47 million opening weekend — enough to top the weekly box office chart but a hollow victory since it's the lowest-grossing MCU movie ever....
Dead Boy Detectives — a supernatural series set in the Sandman universe — officially moved from Max to Netflix. Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner created the Dead Boy Detectives characters for DC. Max originally ordered Dead Boy Detectives back in April 2022. According to Variety, the show did not mesh well with the new direction...
Jacob Elordi — who currently plays Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola's Priscilla — reportedly turned down reading for Superman in an unnamed project. In an interview with GQ, the 26-year-old Australian actor doesn't sound eager to disappear down the superhero rabbit hole. “Well, they asked me to read for Superman,” says Elrodi. “That was immediately,...
Denzel Washington will reunite with Training Day and Equalizer director Antoine Fuqua for an untitled Netflix movie about the Carthaginian general Hannibal. Washington last worked with Fuqua on The Equalizer 3, the final movie in that series. According to IndieWire, “The yet-to-be-titled project is based on real-life warrior Hannibal, who is widely regarded as one...
Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan came out swinging in support of buying the movie on Blu-ray instead of relying on a streaming service. The biographical blockbuster starring Cillian Murphy as theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer has grossed nearly $950 million globally at the box office. During a Los Angeles screening of Oppenheimer on November 13, Nolan...
Taika Waititi — who directed Chris Hemsworth in Thor: Ragnarok and Thor: Love and Thunder — dashed any hopes of himself helming Thor 5. While doing press for his new movie, Next Goal Wins, Waititi downplayed any involvement in next Thor movie to Business Insider. When asked directly about the rumors that production on Thor...
Director Ridley Scott talked about resuming production on Gladiator 2. Scott's Napoleon — starring Gladiator actor Joaquin Phoenix as the titular French leader — premieres in Paris tonight. Deadline reports that Ridley Scott has 90 minutes of fully edited Gladiator 2 footage in the can and needs about 90 minutes more. He expects to resume shooting...
Warner Music Group will resurrect Edith Piaf via AI in a new biopic titled Edith. The “La vie en rose” singer, also known as the Sparrow of Paris, is considered France's most significant popular singer. According to Variety, Warner Music Group partnered with Edith Piaf's estate for the 90-minute biopic that covers Piaf's life in...
Dakota Johnson plays clairvoyant paramedic Cassandra Webb in Madame Web. S.J. Clarkson directs the fourth film in Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU), which also stars Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O’Connor, Isabela Merced, Tahar Rahim, Mike Epps, Emma Roberts, and Adam Scott. The official Madame Web description reads: “In a switch from the typical genre, Madame Web tells...
Young Sheldon, a prequel series to The Big Bang Theory, will end after seven seasons on CBS. Iain Armitage stars as young Sheldon in a cast that also includes Zoe Perry, Lance Barber, Montana Jordan, Raegan Revord, and Annie Potts. People posted a statement by Amy Reisenbach, president of CBS Entertainment. “As a prequel to...
Text messages from Jonathan Majors to accuser Grace Jabbari previously deemed inadmissible were read aloud in court today. The texts from an earlier incident that occurred six months before the encounter currently on trial seem to show Majors admitting to physically attacking Jabbari. Jonathan Majors is known for his role in Creed III and for playing...
Pedro Pascal might play Reed Richards, aka Mr. Fantastic, in the upcoming Marvel Fantastic Four movie. The star of The Mandalorian, The Last of Us, and Game of Thrones already has impressive geek cred. According to Deadline, Pascal is in talks but the “deal is far from done. Insiders add that scheduling is still being...
YouTube is testing a new AI music generator called Dream Track in YouTube Shorts. Dream Track — developed by YouTube alongside Google’s DeepMind — can create original 30-second snippets of songs that sound like selected singers. According to Variety, nine artists have agreed to participate in the Dream Track experiment: Alec Benjamin, Charlie Puth, Charli...
The Percy Jackson and the Olympians cast moves to Camp Half-Blood in the new trailer for the Disney+ series. Based on the book series by Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians stars Walker Scobell stars as the titular demigod. Variety reports, “As the son of Poseidon, Percy must move to Camp Half-Blood, where demigod...
Donald Glover hopes that viewers love — or hate — his Prime Video series Mr. & Mrs. Smith on which he costars with Maya Erskine. The series reimagines the 2005 spy movie of the same name starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. The official description of Mr. & Mrs. Smith reads: “Meet the Smiths: Two...
Snoop Dogg has fans wondering if his Instagram and X got hacked after a post surfaced with the words “I'm giving up smoke.” In 2015, the rapper-actor known for his affinity for herb launched a line of cannabis products called Leafs by Snoop. The full text of Snoop Dogg‘s post on both Twitter and Instagram...
Seth MacFarlane's Ted event series continues the story of the foul-mouthed teddy bear featured in the movies Ted and Ted 2. MacFarlane again voices Ted in the Peacock prequel series also starring Alanna Ubach, Scott Grimes, Max Burkholder, and Giorgia Whigham. The official description of Ted reads, “In this prequel to the Ted films, it's...
The $40 million streaming bonus in the new SAG-AFTRA deal won't amount to much money for the average actor. Sometimes referred to disparagingly by studio types as the Robin Hood Fund, the idea behind the streaming participation bonus is to get as many actors as possible extra compensation. The $40 million annual streaming bonus for...
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith plan to take legal action against a former personal assistant who alleges Will and Duane Martin had a sexual relationship. Martin appeared on both The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Bel-Air. On a recent interview with Unwine With Tasha K, an individual named Brother Bilal — who claims to...
Chris Evans, who plays Captain America/Steve Rogers in the MCU, denies that the Avengers will reassemble anytime soon. Evans last played the character in 2019's Avengers: Endgame. Evans appeared on The View Monday and dismissed rumors of his return to the MCU. “You know, I always see those reports too, and it’s news to me,”...
Ozzy Osbourne says that performing one last time for his fans would make him happy. The 74-year-old English rocker dubbed himself the “Prince of Darkness” as the front man of Black Sabbath before embarking on a decades-long solo career and, later, becoming an unlikely reality-TV star. In recent years, Ozzy Osbourne has faced numerous health...
Is Scream VII cursed? Both Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega — who play sisters Sam and Tara Carpenter in the Scream movies — have dropped out of the seventh installment in the long-running slasher franchise for very different reasons. Spyglass Media Group, which produces the Scream movies, dropped Barrera from Scream VII for her Instagram...
Julia Roberts sounds interested in checking in with the characters of My Best Friend's Wedding for a long-overdue sequel. The 1997 rom-com stars Roberts as food critic Julianne Potter, Dermot Mulroney as Julianne's best friend, Michael O'Neal; Rupert Everett as Julianne's gay friend George Downes, and Cameron Diaz as Michael's fiancée, Kimmy Wallace. Julia Roberts...
If you can't beat them… spoof them! Ryan Reynolds has fought back against Deadpool 3 leaks by “leaking” some hilariously doctored photos of his own. Deadpool 3 starring Reynolds and Hugh Jackman recently resumed production following the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike. Wealth of Geeks reported yesterday that Reynolds was not happy about leaked photos...
Mark Ruffalo talked about slapping Channing Tatum around and popping his eardrum on the set of Foxcatcher. Ruffalo played Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler Dave Schultz — the older brother of Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler Mark Schultz, played by Tatum — in the 2014 biographical sports film also starring Steve Carell. Entertainment Weekly reports that on...
No need to pray to the Na'vi deity Eywa: Avatar 3 will no longer bear the previously reported title of Avatar: The Seed Bearer. For now, the 2025 sequel to Avatar: The Way of Water remains officially untitled. Variety reports that James Cameron is deep into the “very hectic” postproduction work on Avatar 3, which...
Tim Allen's costar on the Disney+ series The Santa Clauses describes him as more Grinch than jolly ol' Saint Nick. The Santa Clauses serves as a sequel series to 2006's The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause. As reported by USA Today, Casey Wilson, who plays adult Sara on The Santa Clauses, said on a...
Filmmaker David Ayer walked away from the Scarface reboot because Universal found it too dark. Brian De Palma's 1983 crime drama Scarface stars Al Pacino as Miami drug lord Tony Montana. According to Variety, Universal has wanted to reboot Scarface for years. Before Ayer, Antoine Fuqua and Luca Guadagnino were attached to the project. Ayer...
Ryan Reynolds knows you're excited about Deadpool 3 but would appreciate it if leaked set photos stopped ending up online, thank you very much. Deadpool 3 starring Reynolds and Hugh Jackman resumed production after the SAG-AFTRA strike ended. “Surprises are part of the magic of theatrical movies,” wrote Ryan Reynolds in an Instagram post this...
Emily Blunt and Anne Hathaway swapped The Devil Wears Prada stories while interviewing each other for Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” series. In the 2006 comedy-drama The Devil Wears Prada, Blunt and Hathaway play competitive assistants to fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly, played by Meryl Streep. During the impromptu The Devil Wears Prada reunion between Blunt...
Netflix has green-lit a second season of the reality competition Squid Game: The Challenge hours before the first season finale airs and a winner revealed. The Challenge is based on the South Korean series Squid Game, which features people competing in deadly children's games for a massive cash prize. As reported by Variety, Squid Game: The Challenge's description...
Grace Jabbari testified on the witness stand today during the Jonathan Majors assault trial. Jabbari told her version of events about an altercation in a car that led to Majors' arrest and charges filed against her ex. Majors is known for his role in Creed III and for playing various versions of Kang the Conqueror...
Barbie‘s Margot Robbie and Oppenheimer‘s Cillian Murphy have come together to talk about the Barbenheimer phenomenon in July. Their respective movies came out during a sluggish time at the box office and — instead of competing with each other — became a cultural event and unlikely double feature. Greta Gerwig's Barbie made over $1.44 billion...
May December, Past Lives, and American Fiction lead the nominations for the 2024 Independent Spirit Awards. The annual awards ceremony honors the best in both film and television. The indie movies May December, Past Lives, and American Fiction picked up five nominations apiece for the Independent Spirit Awards. Nominated films need to have a production...
Kim Kardashian will reteam with American Horror Story cocreator Ryan Murphy to play a divorce lawyer on an upcoming Hulu legal drama. Kardashian plays power publicist Siobhan Corbyn on AHS: Delicate, the 12th season of the anthology horror series. Variety reports, “The legal drama has been given a series commitment at Hulu — which also airs...
Jamie Foxx reflected on how far he's come since a health scare earlier this year left him unable to walk. The 55-year-old The Burial actor was honored with the Vanguard Award at the Critics Choice Association’s Celebration of Cinema and Television: Honoring Black, Latino and AAPI Achievement. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Foxx walked unassisted...
Robert Downey Jr. describes Marvel costar Mark Ruffalo as “bangable” in a new interview. Downey Jr. plays Iron Man and Ruffalo plays Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The two actors have also worked together on David Fincher's Zodiac. In Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” video series, Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo got together to...
Oscar winner Susan Sarandon describes the phrasing of her speech at a pro-Palestinian rally as a “terrible mistake.” Sarandon's comments prompted United Talent Agency to drop her as a client. “Recently, I attended a rally alongside a diverse group of activists seeking to highlight the urgent humanitarian crisis in Gaza and call for a ceasefire,”...
The first trailer for House of the Dragon season two foretells a war in which “many will die.” The prequel series takes place about 200 years before the events depicted in Game of Thrones and is also based on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice. “There is no war so hateful to...
In the new trailer for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, the fire-breathing lizard and giant ape team up to fight an apocalyptic threat. The movie is a sequel to 2021's Godzilla vs. Kong, which pitted the Titans against each other. As reported by Entertainment Weekly, the new Godzilla x Kong trailer features a metallic...
Desperate Housewives actress Felicity Huffman is finally speaking out about the college admissions scandal that landed her in prison four years ago. She served time for conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud. In an exclusive interview with KABC-TV in Los Angeles, Huffman said, “It felt like I had to give my...
Get ready to gobble down a sequel to Thanksgiving — the seasonal slasher inspired by the mock trailer from 2007's Grindhouse — starring Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Nell Verlaque, Rick Hoffman, and Gina Gershon. Director Eli Roth says that he's cooking a follow-up for release sometime in 2025. In an...
Tom Holland seems willing to play Spider-Man again as long as the story measures up. The 27-year-old English actor has played Peter Parker/Spider-Man in several Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, including 2021's well-received Spider-Man: No Way Home. At a recent Critics Choice Association press conference, Tom Holland spoke to reporters about the possibility of a fourth...
Warner Bros. has released the first trailer for George Miller's Furiosa: A Mad Max Story. The action-packed prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road stars Anya Taylor-Joy as a younger version of the titular character played by Charlize Theron in Fury Road. Chris Hemsworth plays against type (i.e., not Thor) as Warlord Dementus in a movie...
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav says it took “real courage” to shelve completed movies such as Batgirl and Coyote vs. Acme for tax write-offs. Since becoming CEO in 2021, Zaslav has drawn criticism for his cost-cutting strategy of not releasing completed films and reducing content on Max to avoid paying residuals. While speaking at...
Daryl Hall is suing former music partner John Oates to prevent him from selling his portion of their joint venture. As Hall & Oates, the duo scored hits such as “Kiss on My List,” “Private Eyes,” “I Can't Go for That (No Can Do),” “Out of Touch,” “Maneater,” and “You Make My Dreams.” Daryl Hall...
Ethan Hawke, Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, and Miguel Mora will return for The Black Phone 2, the sequel to the 2021 pandemic horror hit The Black Phone. Scott Derrickson, the director of the first film, will return to helm the sequel. According to Deadline, The Black Phone became one of the most profitable...
Taylor Swift's birthday present to herself and Swifties everywhere is to make Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour available for streaming in December with three extra songs. The Eras Tour is the highest-grossing concert film of all time. In a post on X, Swift announced that The Eras Tour will drop on December 13, the singer's...
J.A. Bayona directs Society of the Snow about the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster involving a rugby team. The survival thriller is based on Pablo Vierci's book Society of the Snow about the 16 survivors of the crash. According to IndieWire, Spain has already chosen Society of the Snow as its entry for 2023's Best...
Warner Bros. hired Paul Greengrass to adapt, direct, and produce T.J. Newman's best-selling novel Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421. Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group coheads Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy reportedly landed the book for $1.5 million against $3 million after a bidding war. According to Deadline, “The project reunites Michael De Luca...
Paste digital magazine has acquired Jezebel three weeks after G/O Media shut down the female-centric site and laid off the entire staff after failing to find a buyer. Jezebel launched in 2007 as a feminist alternative to traditional women's publications. According to a statement posted on Paste, “We’re thrilled to announce that Paste magazine has...
Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal will executive produce the spin-off The Boys: Mexico for Amazon. Blue Beetle writer Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer is working on the script for The Boys: Mexico. Luna and Bernal are longtime friends who collaborated on the acclaimed Y Tu Mamá También. They have reunited several times on-screen, including Rudo y Cursi...
Writer-director Robert Eggers' Nosferatu finally has a scheduled release date of December 25, 2024. The long-in-development gothic horror movie stars Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, and Willem Dafoe. Eggers' Nosferatu will greet the light of cinemas over 100 years after the release of the 1922 German Expressionist classic of the...
Out of 14 movies released in 2023 with a production budget north of $200 million, only 1 is likely to turn a profit after marketing costs are taken into consideration. The 14th and final movie with a production budget over $200 million with a scheduled 2023 release is Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. It seems...
Neil Gaiman — the man who wrote The Sandman comics and developed the Netflix series — penned a letter to fans as season two of The Sandman resumes production. The comic series celebrates its 35th anniversary this year. The official Netflix description of The Sandman reads: “After years of imprisonment, Morpheus — the King of...
Zack Snyder — the director of Watchmen, Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Justice League — reportedly “doesn't have the excitement” for superhero movies anymore. The next movie by the man who started the DC Extended Universe is the space opera Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire. In...
