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Book-to-series and book-to-film adaptations are nothing new. However, in the last few years they’ve ramped up to an astonishing degree. While this is by no means an exhaustive list (hence the title), I’ve attempted to cobble together the books that have been turned to either a series or a movie that are coming out this […]

BTS’ J-Hope is set to launch his own docuseries, Hope on the Street, on Prime Video March 28, Deadline reported. Hope on the Street will have two episodes released weekly every Thursday and Friday. The series will have six episodes. The docuseries is produced by the South Korean entertainment company, HYBE. The show will be released […]

Hollywood has a lot of odd traditions — chief among them is the Razzies, or the Golden Raspberry Awards. It’s typically released a few days before the Academy Awards announce their annual nominations, and its ceremony is held on “Oscars Eve,” or the night before the Academy’s ceremony. Unsurprisingly, the Sylvester Stallone-led Expend4ables have been […]

Disney+ has recently released a list of its upcoming Korean original dramas, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The streaming platform announced on Monday its list of high-end Korean dramas coming this year. Disney+ is building on the success of its critically acclaimed hits shows Moving and Big Bet. The Korean Wave continues Joining the streamer’s […]

Luc Besson is set to adapt Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Collider reported. Two-time Academy Award-winner Christoph Walyz and Caleb Landry Jones are rumored to be in talk to star in the movie. The Dracula remake will be Besson’s and Europacorp’s first major film in recent years. Europacorp is the French production company that made the Taken […]

Simu Liu will be hosting the 2024 People’s Choice Awards Sunday, Feb. 18, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. The awards are for film, TV, music and pop culture as voted by fans, according to E! Online. The award show will air live at 8 p.m. ET./PT on NBC, E! and will stream […]

Much has been said and written about the differences between Disney’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians and the movies. Even I had my own take on it. This time, we’re talking about the series vs. the actual book. Remember that the Disney+ show tried to faithfully follow Rick Riordan’s first book in the series, The […]

Ridley Scott is said to be in serious talks to direct Paramount Pictures’ untitled movie based on the ’70s icons, Bee Gees, Deadline exclusively reported. The group is famous for their Grammy-winning album, Saturday Night Fever, the sound track to the 1977 film starring John Travolta. If they’re still unfamiliar to you, they sang Stayin’ […]

With Disney finally announcing that Percy Jackson and the Olympians is returning for the second season, ScreenRant revealed that fans will welcome more Olympians. The hit Disney+ show is based on Rick Riordan’s best-selling books. Its second season will most likely adapt the series’ second book, The Sea of Monsters. In the recently concluded season […]

Dune: Part Two is getting rave reviews from film journalists. Denis Villeneuve’s second movie in the franchise has been compared to Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in terms of battle scenes. If you recall, The Two Towers is the one with the Battle of Helm’s Deep, and for a long […]

Doug Liman’s Road House remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal has had a rough road, Variety reported. The original film was released in 1989 starring Patrick Swayze. This year’s version will premiere on March 8 at SXSW and will be released on Prime Video on March 21. The movie’s premise centers on a former UFC middleweight fighter […]

Joker 2 director Todd Phillips just released three images of Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga as the Joker (Arthur Fleck) and Harlequin (Harley Quinn) on Instagram, with the caption “Joker, will you be my Valentine?” In the first photo, Phoenix is in his burgundy suit and the familiar clown make-up next to Lady Gaga under […]

Usher is partnering with Universal Studio Group’s UCP to develop a drama inspired by his music, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Fresh from his Super Bowl 58 halftime performance, the eight-time Grammy-winning singer is set to executive produce a drama based on his music. Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, Katie Zucker of Mad Massive and Kenny Meiselas […]

Academy Award-winner Matt Damon appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to share behind-the-scene moments in his, Ben Affleck’s and Tom Brady’s The DunKing debut at the Dunkin’ Super Bowl ad. Colbert showed a photo of the trio wearing the now iconic (and also sold out) Dunkin’ tracksuits. The host asked, “As if I […]

Jon Stewart’s first episode as he returned to host The Daily Show has drawn the Democrats’ ire, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Stewart’s opener was a 20-minute monologue about “the Biden-Trump rematch that nobody wants.” The Daily Show host mocked Biden’s press conference where the president tried to assure Americans that he was still capable […]

Penelope Featherington (AKA Lady Whistledown) is gearing up for her forever Valentine, although it doesn’t look like it the newly released Netflix clip for Bridgerton season three. The first part of the hit Netflix series, based on Julia Quinn’s bestselling novels will premiere on May 16. This season will delve into the romantic lives of […]

Beyoncé’s surprise announcement during Super Bowl Sunday, AKA dropping her country album Act II, with the songs Texas Hold ‘Em and 16 Carriages, has Variety asking the question: will country radio stations being playing Queen Bey? The answer: not quite yet. Radio programmers are apparently still reeling from the drop and there are no plans […]

Tony Hale exclusively spoke to Variety about what it was like to play Beyoncé’s assistant in Verizon’s Super Bowl 58 commercial. Before Beyoncé surprised her fans on Super Bowl Sunday by dropping Renaissance Act II and two new country songs, she and Tony Hale played boss and assistant in a Verizon ad. Reminiscent of his […]

The White Lotus’ third season is adding Blackpink’s Lisa as a cast member, Variety reported exclusively. The K-Pop group member will make her acting debut using her given name, Lalisa Manibal. Like with all of the third season’s casting, her role is still being kept under wraps. The Emmy-award winning show will start production in […]

BookTok favorite A Court of Thorns and Roses or ACOTAR for short has not been canceled — yet, TV Line exclusive reported. However, according to the website’s sources, the project will no longer be moving forward at Hulu. Furthermore, the sources also said that 20th Television/Disney is not shopping the series to other outlets. ACOTAR […]

Jon Stewart spoke with CBS Mornings ahead of his highly anticipated return to the host chair at Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. It’s almost been nine years since Stewart hosted the show, but he’s returning now every Monday night through the 2024 election. He said it was the political environment that brought him back, as […]

Netflix recently released the teaser for its upcoming movie Scoop, which tells the story of the bombshell interview with Prince Andrew. Gillian Anderson stars as BBC Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis, the journalist who interviewed the prince in 2019 about his ties to the infamous Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender. Playing Prince Andrew is the nearly […]

Wicked Part One released its first trailer during the Superbowl, Variety reported. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande look exquisite in their respective green and pink as they descend the land of Oz in Jon M. Chu’s upcoming musical film. The trailer opened with the beloved strains of Defying Gravity. “Don’t be afraid,” Glinda (Grande) tells […]

In what may be the best Super Bowl LVIII ad, Academy Award-winner Ben Affleck has recruited his Oscar-winning best friend Matt Damon and seven-time Superbowl champion Tom Brady to be in his new boy band The DunKings. Affleck, who was supposed to be in the Barbie fight scene instead of Michael Cera, reunites with the […]

Immediately after Beyoncé’s Super Bowl Verizon ad where she attempts to break the internet by doing all kinds of stuff, she does indeed drop the new music. In the ad, Tony Hale plays her assistant referencing his role Gary Walsh as Pres. Selena Meyer’s (Veep) bodyman. She tries to break the internet by selling lemonade […]

Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt’s The Fall Guy just released a new teaser at the Super Bowl. The film’s X (formerly Twitter account) posted the teaser with the caption, “This movie has everything.” Be honest, you read that in Stefon’s voice, didn’t you? And by everything it, the teaser means romance, drama, twisted metal, cardio, […]

The long awaited Deadpool & Wolverine (yep, that’s the title) trailer is finally here! After the cast’s tear-filled farewells during their wrap, the trailer for what could be Marvel (and Disney’s) biggest movie of the year has been released. Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds just released a two-minute, 25-second trailer of the third installment on X […]

The 76th Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards ceremony was presented on Saturday, Feb. 10, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. The event was hosted by Judd Apatow, who has previously hosted in 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2023. Christopher Nolan and his film Oppenheimer took the night’s award for Best Director, while Celine Song […]

Disney CEO Bob Iger said that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is about to start focusing “on some of its stronger franchises going forward,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. Iger also recently confirmed that most of Disney’s and Pixar’s upcoming projects are sequels to fan favorites and that it will be the same for Marvel as […]

After Buckingham Palace announced King Charles had been diagnosed with cancer and is currently undergoing treatment, there have been questions about who fill in for him if and when he becomes too sick to work, Yahoo News UK reported. The Palace has not disclosed what type of cancer the 75-year-old monarch has. Charles was reported […]

HBO is set to develop another Game of Thrones spinoff. This time the network is going way back in time to Aegon’s Conquest, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Mattson Tomlin is in partnership with HBO to develop the project. He was an uncredited writer on Matt Reeve’s The Batman and co-writer of its sequel The […]

Danai Gurira and Andrew Lincoln “watched a lot of Bridgerton” to get ready for their characters’ love story in The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Showrunner Scott M. Gimple told THR at the show’s premiere, “There was some Bridgerton homework that Danai assigned.” Gurira and Lincoln return to their […]

Academy Award winners Denzel Washington and Spike Lee are reuniting to make the English-language adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The movie comes from Apple and A24’s partnership. The latter will release the High and Low remake in cinemas before it streamed globally on Apple TV+. The film is […]

Nicolas Cage wants to join Starfleet Command and earn his stripes to stand on the Enterprise bridge, Comicbook.com reported. Last year, Cage said he prefers to be in a Star Trek franchise than to be a Jedi (or Sith) in the Star Wars universe. He hasn’t given any updates about his Trekkieness until an interview […]

Paul Rudd is narrating the latest installment of National Geographic’s Secrets Of… This time, he’s spilling the Secrets of the Octopus, Variety exclusively reported. The Nat Geo series will premiere on April 21, Earth Day, and will be available to stream the next day on Disney+ and Hulu. James Cameron, the Natural Geographic explorer-at-large produced […]

Disney will begin converting password ride-alongs into actual paid customers, following Netflix’s lead, starting this summer, Variety reported. Disney+ and Hulu have been notifying customer in the US of changes in the subscriber terms, this past week. The changes include the prohibition of users from sharing log-in details with individuals who do not live in […]

RuPaul’s Drag Race star Yekaterina Petrovna Zamolodchikova, or just Katya, is set to host the Grindr podcast, “Who’s The Asshole?”, Variety reported exclusively. The podcast is described as a sex-positive discussion on love and sex, with an “unfiltered and judgment-free space to explore the messy gray areas of lust, love and everything in between… the […]

Academy Award-nominee Ryan Gosling spoke to Variety about the process of finding the Kenergy in himself to be Kenough to play Ken. Gosling has talked about the story of how he ended finding his daughters’ Ken dolls naked and face down in the dirt a lot. This time, there’s a different ending. He found Ken (the […]

Disney recently announced that it will invest $1.5 billion for an equity stake in Epic Games, Deadline reported. This deal also includes a multiyear collaboration focused on Fortnite and powered by Unreal Engine. Disney and Epic Games will create a games and entertainment universe with Fortnite as the focal point in order to widen Disney’s […]