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Samuel L. Jackson will play the “Black Godfather” in the upcoming limited series from Peacock, Fright Night: The Million Dollar Heist, Variety reported. Jackson will join star Kevin Hart, who will executive produce with Will Packer. The series is based on Packer’s Fight Night podcast on iHeartRadio. Doghouse Pictures also produced the podcast. The series […]

Oprah Winfrey starred in the non-musical version of The Color Purple in 1985 and is currently the producer of the film released in November last year. However, she’s not one to rest on her laurels. She just optioned the rights to the best-selling novel and Oprah Winfrey Book Club selection The Covenant of Water by […]

Nick Offerman just won his first Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, Deadline reported. He played Bill in HBO’s The Last of Us. When asked whether Bill and his partner Frank, played by fellow nominee Murray Bartlett, would return next season, even in only a flashback, Offerman was mum. “Oh, great question […]

Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Golden Globes! Now that we’ve got that out of the way, here are my thoughts on the winners… and the non-winners. Golden Globes 2024: The movie awards To no one’s surprise, Oppenheimer won Best Picture – Drama. The only other contender really was Killers of the Flower Moon. […]

CBS is going back in time to expand the NCIS universe with its prequel NCIS: Origins, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series is ordered for the network’s 2024-2025 season. The show will follow a younger version of Leroy Jethro Gibbs, played by Mark Harmon in the original series. Harmon is set to be an […]

Anthony Hopkins’ latest film One Life about Sir Nicholas Winton has received backlash due to the missing references to Jews. To amend this, its marketing materials have now been edited to include Jewish references, Variety reported. One Life follows Nicholas Winton (Hopkins), also known as the British Oscar Schindler. Winton was able to help save […]

Suicide Squad director David Ayer said he’s done talking about the “Ayer Cut.” In fact, he’s done talking about the film and DC entirely, Comicbook.com reported. Ayer’s series of posts on X (formerly Twitter) made it clear: “I’m done with DC.” When a user asked if this meant he would no longer fight to release […]

Elvis will be in the building… in AI holographic form, that is. The King of Rock and Roll’s holograph will rock the stage in London in November for Elvis Evolution, Variety reported. UK company Layered Reality, which specializes in immersive experiences, is producing the show. Their other shows are Jeff Wayne’s The War of The […]

Nicole Scherzinger will make her Broadway debut this year, reprising her role as Norma Desmond in Jamie Lloyd’s Sunset Boulevard musical production, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical revival is moving to Broadway to London. The London production has been playing since September last year. Some of the London cast are […]

Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero will premiere on HBO on Jan. 27 at 8 p.m. ET. The concert documentary will also stream on Max, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film was initially released at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2023. The documentary will follow the Grammy-winning singer, real name Montero Hill, […]

The Taylor Tomlinson-hosted After Midnight will premiere on Jan. 16… er, Jan. 17 technically since it will start at 12:37 a.m. ET/PT, but at the end of the Jan. 16 broadcast day, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show is replacing The Late Late Show’s time slot and is based on Comedy Central’s @midnight. It […]

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is set to receive Casting Society’s Lynn Stalmaster Award for Career Achievement on March 7, according to The Hollywood Reporter. CSA president Destiny Lilly said in a statement, “Ava DuVernay is a visionary storyteller in the world of filmmaking, a huge champion for casting professionals and an incredible collaborator in the casting […]

Disney is about to have a CEO-on-CEO fight between current Disney CEO Bob Iger and former Marvel Entertainment chairman and CEO Ike Perlmutter, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Disney fight: Iger vs. Perlmutter It started with Iger’s refusal to name Perlmutter’s choice former Disney senior executive vice president and CFO Jay Rasulo as Iger’s eventual […]

Ten out of the 13 Star Trek movies are leaving Paramount+ and are moving to Max, Comicbook.com reported. The first 10 Star Trek films are migrating to Max, but the so-called Kelvin Timeline reboot movies led by Chris Pine will stay on Paramount+. While this can be frustrating to Trekkies, it’s standard practice for the […]

FX recently released the trailer for the second installment of Ryan Murphy’s Feud anthology, Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. The first featured the legendary rivalry of Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon) and Joan Crawford (Murphy’s frequent collaborator Jessica Lange). The show is based on Laurence Leamer’s 2021 book Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, […]

John Wick director Chad Stahelski said that there are two franchises he’d like to “take a swing” at when he spoke with Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast. Stahelski said that he would like to work on Lucasfilm’s Star Wars set. “I’m a Star Wars guy, like the first Star Wars changed my life course,” […]

CNN Studios’ upcoming docuseries about Martha Stewart didn’t have her input per se, but she still remains the show’s central subject, Variety reported. The Many Lives of Martha Stewart The four-part series The Many Lives of Martha Stewart is produced by CNN’s longer-form and enterprise programming division. The division was formed after the station made […]

America Ferrera was surprised that her Barbie speech found an audience in teenage girls, People reported. The Barbie star told the magazine that a “young girl” used Gloria’s speech regarding women and the impossible standards set for them as an audition piece. While Ferrera found this “hilarious”, she said it was also “super sad that […]

CBS is returning to the Sherlock universe with the upcoming Morris Chestnut-led Watson, according to The Hollywood Reporter. CBS, a Paramount Global network, has ordered a greenlight for Watson, a medical drama centered on Dr. John Watson a year after his friend and partner Sherlock Holmes’ death. Morris Chestnut will play the eponymous doctor, as […]

The upcoming movie Argylle’s plot seems to be shrouded in mystery. Even the trailer gives a bare minimum of the plot, but that’s par for the course for its director Matthew Vaughn, Games Radar’s Total Film reported. According to the entertainment website, the trailer pulls from the first 28 minutes of the movie, and everything […]

Disney+’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians have made “a million changes” from the source material: series creator and the books’ author Rick Riordan’s book series, The Direct reported. However, the fans seem to be just fine with the changes. The creators and producers have gone to serious lengths in order to remain as faithful as […]

Star Trek: Discovery’s fifth and final season’s episode titles are out, Comicbook.com reported. In December at CCXP, Paramount+ released a new clip from the show and announced that season five will premiere in April. The episode titles and writers are taken from the WGA directory. The listings also reveal that co-showrunner Michelle Paradise wrote Discovery’s […]

The fourth episode of Percy Jackson and the Olympians has dropped on Disney+. What went down? Episode 4 recap Warning: Spoilers for Percy Jackson and the Olympians ahead. The third episode ended with Percy (Walker Scobell) shipping off Medusa’s (Jessica Parker Kennedy) head through Hermes Express. The final scene introduces us to the god of the messengers […]

Adam Driver jokingly admits to not being the most strategic when it comes to choosing roles, The Wrap reported, citing the Academy Award nominee’s appearance in the podcast Smartless. Case in point, he has played two Italian icons back to back and he’s tired of the questions about it. The actor spoke with Will Arnett, […]

Jack Harlow fans can now enjoy him in virtual reality. The rapper and the star of the 2023 remake of White Men Can’t Jump will premiere his Jack Harlow No Place Like Home: A VR Concert at Meta Horizon Worlds’ Music Valley, Deadline reported. Harlow’s No Place Like Home will be part immersive VR concert […]

Percy Jackson and the Olympians series creator Rick Riordan doesn’t have the exact details, but he says the show may be getting a second season. The best-selling author, along with the series’ main trio, spoke to Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused at the 92nd Street Y. Riordan also served as the co-creator and executive producer […]

Elon Musk’s X Corp. (formerly Twitter) has lost its bid to provisionally block a law in California that requires social media platforms to reveal their terms of service and present their reports to the state regarding their content moderation, according to The Hollywood Reporter. X Corp. and content moderation On Thursday, California’s U.S. District Judge […]

There’s a new rumor going around that a new Die Hard film is currently in the works at 20th Century Studios, CBR reported citing scooper Daniel Richtman. Richtman stated that the new film will be a prequel, following the adventures of a young John McClane. The character was played by Bruce Willis in all five […]

The four members of Korean pop girl group Blackpink, Jisoo, Lisa, Jennie and Rosé,  have decided to part ways with YG Entertainment for their solo projects, Soompi reported from a translated article on Naver. However, as Blackpink, they remain signed with YG. The entertainment company released as statement (translated from Korean) that said, “We will […]

SAG-AFTRA is once again in the crosshairs due to AI. This time, it’s an alleged AI-generated image meant to promote the union’s upcoming Labor Innovation & Technology Summit, Deadline reported. The image posted on SAG-AFTRA’s X (formerly Twitter) announcing the summit features two figures: a woman face-to-face with a robot. It is our responsibility to […]

Google has settled the consumer privacy lawsuit worth at least $5 billion brought against the company in 2020, Deadline reported. A class action lawsuit was filed against Google when the search engine company allegedly tracked users even though they were using Chrome in incognito mode. Emails during the trial revealed that Google was still able […]

Snoop Dogg moves from covering the highlights to actually being in the Olympics… as an NBC special correspondent, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The iconic rapper will be joining NBCUniversal’s 2024 Summer Games Olympic coverage in Paris. The primetime show, set to begin on July 26, will have Snoop on site in Paris to cover […]

The Lightning Thief is definitely alive, as Percy Jackson and the Olympians creator Rick Riordan and wife Becky share their favorite line from the book that made it to the series, as their interview for ComicBook.com shows. Both Rick and Becky said that their favorite is the one in episode eight. If you haven’t read […]

Steven Spielberg’s producing partner, Kristie Macosko Krieger, gave GamesRadar+ an exclusive update on the iconic director’s upcoming movie Bullitt with Bradley Cooper. Krieger said that the film is currently in the works. “I’m producing it. Steven [Spielberg] and Josh Singer, who is writing the script, they are working on the story,” she said. “I hope […]

During an interview with The Mary Sue, Charlie Hunnam said that he wasn’t giving a solid guarantee that there would be an actual sequel to 2019’s Triple Frontier, just that there may be one. “[It is in its] absolute infancy. Nothing guaranteed, but I just set up recently as the main producer on a potential […]

Willem Dafoe knows he has a “distinctive face.” However, he hasn’t always known it, he told Willie Geist at the Sunday TODAY. Geist mentioned that Dafoe is now part of the Marvel universe. The veteran actor acknowledged that his role as the Green Goblin in the Spider-Man films brought him the kind of attention where […]

Mortal Kombat 2 producer Todd Garner recently posted an image on X (formerly Twitter) that have fans yelling, “Get over here!” pic.twitter.com/OyZnQPtIUU — Todd Garner (@Todd_Garner) December 18, 2023 The image features the distinctive kunai, and nothing else — not even a caption, die-hard fans know that it’s the weapon associated with Scorpion (Hiroyuki Sanada). […]

Apple TV+ has renewed its period drama The Buccaneers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series is based on Edith Wharton’s unfinished novel. The renewal was announced only a few days after its season finale on Dec. 13. In a statement, series creator Katherine Jakeways said, “It’s been a complete thrill to watch people all […]

Netflix’s upcoming limited series Zero Day has recruited legendary actor Robert De Niro to its growing cast of A-listers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series, which stars Robert De Niro and Angela Bassett has added Dan Stevens, Matthew Modine, Bill Camp and McKinley Belcher III to the ensemble. Clark Gregg, Gaby Hoffmann and Mark […]