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What We Do in the Shadows’ Harvey Guillén hinted at what’s to come for the show’s sixth and final season, Deadline reported. Guillén, who plays the vampire wanna-be and familiar Guillermo said, “We start where we left off and sometimes dreams and aspirations don’t turn out the way we want them to.” Spoiler alert to […]

Emmy and Tony winner Nathan Lane reunites with Ryan Murphy as he joins the cast of Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story for Netflix, Deadline reported. The show is the second installment of Murphy’s true-crime anthology series on the streaming platform. Lane will play investigative journalist and writer Dominick Dunne. Dunne covered the trial […]

Marlon Wayans is set to star in Jordan Peele’s sports horror movie for Goat, with Justin Tipping directing, Deadline exclusively reported. GOAT, that is, Greatest of All Time. Wayans will be playing a retiring sports star who will train with a promising young athlete. The project is based on a spec script from Zack Akers […]

Three shows dominated the 75th Emmy Awards: The Bear, Beef and Succession. There were no surprises when it came to the winners. Anthony Anderson did a solid job hosting and the whole event was full of nostalgia as iconic shows such as Cheers and Martin brought out the stars and sets. The cast  of other […]

The 75th Primetime Emmys is starting the week right on Jan. 15. The event was originally scheduled for September last year as was Emmy tradition, but the ceremony was postponed due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. Fox, the broadcasting network for this year’s Emmys, rescheduled it for this month. This is the first time since the […]

When Law & Order: SVU returns on Jan. 18 for season 25, it also marks Mariska Hargitay’s Olivia Benson as the longest-running character on a prime-time drama series. And the show then becomes the longest-running drama series in television history. Hargitay spoke exclusively with People on playing Benson and turning 60 this year. “I was […]

Mortal Kombat 2 producer Todd Garner just posted a sneak peek of a new character on social media. pic.twitter.com/x94EyQieLz — Todd Garner (@Todd_Garner) January 14, 2024 The image features just a close-up of a pale hand. However aesthetically pleasing it may be, there were no captions or other details provided. Mortal Kombat fans were quick, […]

Academy Award-winner Ariana DeBose took to social media to react the Critics Choice Awards “joke” that associated with her “actors who also think that they are singers”, Deadline reported. “No I didn’t find it funny. Lol,” the Tony-nominated actress wrote on her Instagram Stories. This was in response to the strange ding at the ceremony […]

Paul Giamatti made time to shout out In-N-Out in his acceptance speech for Best Actor for the Critic Choice Awards, Deadline reported. The actor gave a nod to his viral fame this week and said, “Wow, guys, I didn’t think my week could get any better than going viral for eating a cheeseburger.” This was […]

America Ferrera received the SeeHer Award at the recently concluded Critics Choice Award, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The actress recreated her speech in Barbie — only this time for real. Barbie herself, Margot Robbie, presented her the award after highlighting Ferrera’s roles through the years from Real Women Have Curves, The Sisterhood of the […]

Robert Downey Jr. sort of paid tribute to critics in his acceptance speech for the Critics Choice Awards’ Best Supporting Actor, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Oppenheimer star read some of the most savage reviews from critics. “I was thinking this morning, I love critics. … You know, they’ve given me such beautiful feedback, […]

The 2024 Critics Choice Awards took off on July 14 at the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport. Chelsea Handler returned to host the ceremonies. Oppenheimer won big with eight awards: Best Picture, Best Director (Christopher Nolan), Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.), Best Acting Ensemble, Best Cinematography, Best Score, Best Editing, and Best […]

Almost eight years after Prince’s death, his heirs are still fighting for control over his estate with two of the artist’s former associates, Variety reported. The lawsuit, which is the latest in a series of lengthy, costly and complicated legal battles, was made public Wednesday in a court in Delaware. Four Prince’s heirs have sued […]

Netflix’s The Night Agent is set to begin season 2 production and has added new recruits who will join Gabriel Basso, Luciane Buchanan and Amanda Warren, Deadline exclusively reported. Berto Colon, Louis Herthum and Arienne Mandi will be joining as series regulars. Brittany Snow and Teddy Sears will play recurring roles. The Night Agent’s new […]

Peacock, the NBCUniversal-backed streaming platform has ordered Laid, starring Academy-Award nominee Stephanie Hsu straight to series, according The Hollywood Reporter. Nahnatchka Khan and Sally Bradford are writing the series. Khan and McKenna will serve as executive producers as well for Universal Television. The former’s production company, Fierce Baby, has an overall deal with the company. […]

Daniel Brühl sports a ponytail as he channels Karl Lagerfeld in the first look photo for the upcoming Disney+ biopic series Kaiser Karl, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The German actor who played Baron Zemi in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War and the Falcon and Winter Soldier series, and who may or may not reprise […]

Academy Award-winning actresses Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander star in the ensemble comedy Rumours directed by Guy Maddin, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Production house Bleecker Street won the U.S. right to the film written and directed by Maddin with his longtime associates brothers Evan and Galen Johnson. The project recently wrapped in Hungary. Bleecker […]

The King of Pop Michael Jackson’s biopic from Lionsgate and Universal Pictures International will be released on April 18, Deadline reported. Lionsgate announced late last year that production will start on Jan. 22 for the Antoine Fuqua-helmed film. The biopic Michael will star the icon’s nephew Jaafar Jackson. Universal will distribute the film internationally except Japan, […]

Natalie Portman and John Krasinski are set to star in Guy Ritchie’s Fountain of Youth, Deadline exclusively reported. Apple Original Films and Skydance are teaming up again for another big movie following the success of last month’s release of The Family Plan on Apple TV+. Skydance will serve as the film’s studio and produced for […]

Keanu Reeves is set to add novelist to his list of jobs, writing The Book of Elsewhere with China Miéville, Deadline reported. Random House’s Del Rey imprint will publish the novel in July. The novel is Reeves’ first, set in the BRZRKR world. Reeves co-created BRZRKR with writer Matt Kindt and artist Ron Garney. The […]

Mattel just launched its Career of the Year collection, and there are now Barbies as Women in Film, Deadline reported. The toy company has four dolls dressed in their respective professions as studio executive, director, cinematographer and movie star. Studio executive Barbie has a smartphone and sunglasses. Director Barbie carries a viewfinder and a script. […]

Fresh off her Emmy nomination for Succession, Sanaa Lathan is set to star as the TV psychic Miss Cleo in a Legendary Entertainment drama series, Deadline exclusively reported. Lathan will also serve as executive producer along with former head of drama for Sony Pictures Television Sharon Hall through her company Mom de Guerre Productions. Miss […]

AMC’s The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live just dropped its newest trailer. In it, Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Gurira) fight zombies and humans alike to find their way to each other. The trailer has both characters in dire circumstances, presumably right where the audience left them after Lincoln and Gurira left the franchise […]

Jodie Comer made her Broadway debut as the star of the one-woman play Prima Facie for which she won both the Laurence Olivier and Tony Best Actress Awards. Now she’s narrating the audiobook based on the play‘s novel written by Suzie Miller, Deadline exclusively reported. The audiobook is from Macmilan Audio and will be released […]

Martin Scorsese said, “Every movie should be seen in Filmmaker Mode,” for the Apple TV+/LG promo where he was touting the features of his movie, Killers of the Flower Moon, now streaming on the tech giant’s platform. As per The Hollywood Reporter, this is in conjunction to the UHD Alliance’s attendance at CES to preview […]

Amazon just announced that it is laying off hundreds of employees from Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Senior Vice President at Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios Mike Hopkins announced the job cuts in an email Wednesday. He wrote that “several hundred roles” were being terminated. Amazon slashes jobs… […]

Bernice King, daughter of civil rights activists Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King, called out Jonathan Majors for mentioning her mother during his controversial interview, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), King didn’t outright mention Majors, but said she wanted to remind people that her mother “wasn’t […]

Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain star in the upcoming thriller Mothers’ Instinct. The recently released trailer show the two Academy Award-winning actresses as 1960s suburban housewives whose friendship is about to unravel after a tragedy. The film is described as an “edge-of-your-seat thriller,” according to Deadline. It follows the story of best friends and neighbors […]

Andrew Garfield and Cynthia Erivo are lending their voices for Audible’s audio adaptation of George Orwell’s 1949 novel 1984, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Garfield will be playing Winston and Erivo, Julia. Joining them are Andrew Scott as O’Brien and Tom Hardy as Big Brother. Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy and composer Ilan Eshkeri will write […]

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon has a new media company with a new show to be hosted on X (formerly Twitter), according to The Hollywood Reporter. Elon Musk’s X is making strides into original programming as it announced on Tuesday content deals which include Lemon’s new show, as well as former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and […]

SAG-AFTRA recently announced an AI voice agreement with Replica Studios during CES’ opening day, according to The Hollywood Reporter. According to the union, the agreement will let its members “safely explore new employment opportunities for their digital voice replicas with industry-leading protections tailored to AI technology, allowing AAA video game studios and other companies working […]

Tina Fey is about to remake the 1981 movie The Four Seasons into a Netflix series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She will pull off triple duty as co-creator, executive producer and star. 30 Rock alumni Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield will also join Fey as executive producers for the series. Fey’s production company, Little […]

The Critics Choice Awards is set to give the Career Achievement Award to Harrison Ford, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The iconic actor is also nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy for Apple TV+’s Shrinking. The award body announced on Tuesday that Ford will be receiving the prize at the ceremony hosted by Chelsea […]

Our Flag Means Death will not be returning for a third season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Max has chosen to cancel the pirate comedy starring Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi, who also served as executive producer. A Max spokesperson shared a statement to THR saying, “While Max will not be moving forward with a […]

With Jacob Elordi taking over Andrew Garfield as Frankenstein’s monster in Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming Netflix film, let’s take a look back at the actors who have played the creature. Let’s get it out of the way first: Frankenstein is the doctor, the one who made the “monster.” The full title of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel […]

Natalie Portman has been acting since she was 12 years old. She has played a variety of characters ranging from her Oscar-winning role as a ballerina in 2010’s Black Swan to eventually Mark Hamill’s mother in Star Wars as well as a couple of Marvel blockbusters. But the one acting technique she’s never employed is […]

May December stars Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore have responded to Vili Fualaau’s critique of their movie, May December, Entertainment Tonight exclusively reported. The actresses said that the film wasn’t meant to tell Vualaau’s same exact story with his ex Mary Kay Letourneau. Portman said, “It’s not based on them,” at the 2024 Golden Globes […]

21 Savage recently released the trailer for his biopic american dream: the 21 savage story. Yes, all lowercase. Donald Glover plays the rapper while Stranger Things star Caleb McLaughlin plays a younger version. The trailer also features new music from Savage, whose last solo album was released in 2018. Since then, he’s released collaborations with […]

Ed Brubaker’s Criminal is getting a series adaptation at Amazon MGM Studios, produced by Legendary Television, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series was placed in development nearly a year ago, and the streamer just recently ordered a drama series based on the graphic novel. Brubaker’s TV credits include writing for Westworld and Batman: Caped […]