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At the end of 118 days of strike, SAG-AFTRA members celebrated the end of it with what was heralded as a history-making contract, the current tentative deal reached with the AMPTP. Keyword: tentative. The deal needs to be ratified by the union members. When the celebrations died down, disagreements regarding the gains and AI protections […]

Paul Giamatti, star of The Holdovers, recently spoke to Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, and said he would like to join the next installment of Rian Johnson’s Knives Out franchise. Horowitz asked the actor if he ever wanted to join any film series or franchise, Giamatti replied, “There’s been this really great revival of […]

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek announced in a blog post that the company’s latest round of layoff would “reduce our total head count by approximately 17% across the company.” That 17% equates to about 1,500 job cuts. The company recently decreased the number of employees at its podcast division with 600 employees laid off in January […]

Hollywood legend Harrison Ford attended a nomination committee Q&A to talk about his Apple TV+ series Shrinking, Variety reported. Ford described his time with the series’ cast as an “extraordinary experience.” “These are people who improvise as though it was an exercise in egos. That never happens with this bunch. Work is really important to […]

The series adaptation of the 1999 hit movie Cruel Intentions is finally here after two years in development, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Amazon’s Prime Video has given the order for an eight-episode series which serves as an update to the film. The movie Cruel Intentions is based on the classic French novel Les Liaisons […]

Barbie is set to stream on Max on Dec. 15 and an American Sign Language version will also be available, Variety reported. Greta Gerwig’s film on the worldwide iconic doll earned more than $1.4 billion globally. It is currently the highest-grossing movie of 2023, and it is also the highest-grossing Warner Bros. movie in the […]

Oprah Winfrey hosted a celebration for David Oyelowo, star and executive producer of Lawmen: Bass Reeves, Variety reported. The party came about when Oyelowo called his The Butler and Selma co-star turned close friend media mogul Winfrey for a favor. Bass Reeves debuted on Paramount+ on Nov. 5, while the SAG-AFTRA was still in full […]

AMC has asked that the Beyhive leave their headwear and wings at home when they go see Renaissance: A Film By Beyonce, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film’s distributor released the guidelines for the superstar’s concert movie, which is expected to earn $21 million to $24 million for its opening after it got CinemaScore’s […]

Former Monty Python Terry Gilliam said he wants Johnny Depp as Satan in his upcoming film Carnival at the End of Days, Variety reported. During the Red Sea Film Festival, the animator and director told the magazine about the movie’s plot, “God wipes out humanity and the only character who wants to save them is […]

Sony recently announced a legal update notice to let PlayStation users know that over 1,000 seasons of Warner Bros.’ Discovery Channel TV shows will be removed from their libraries, even if they had already paid for them. According to the notice, from Dec. 31 onward, PlayStation users will no longer be able to access Discovery […]

Nicolas Cage is set to reprise his role in 2005’s Lord of War in the upcoming sequel, Lords of War, Variety exclusively reported. Karim Debbagh’s Kasbah Films will produce the film, and the producer is currently looking for locations across Morocco. During the Marrakech Film Festival, Debbagh spoke to the magazine about the sequel, which […]

For most of their lives — at least in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Thor (Chris Hemsworth) have been enemies. After Loki season two’s finale, Loki — er, Hiddleston, reflected on what the brothers’ relationship would be like now, Screen Rant reported. During an interview with the entertainment website after the […]

Death does not come — at least permanently — for the Winchester brothers as Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki may gear up for another season of Supernatural, Collider reported. The Supernatural stars spoke about the show with the 2023 Creation Honolulu convention attendees. When they were asked what Sam and Dean were up to these […]

Professor X, Patrick Stewart, may or may not return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he said in an Etalk interview. THIS IS HUGE! Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) teases the possible return of Professor X’s in the MCU… Do you think we’ll see him in #Deadpool3? Or potentially #AvengersSecretWars? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/q4z56t9hcn — Etalk (@etalkCTV) December 1, 2023 […]

Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling are reuniting in Ocean’s 11 prequel. Showbiz 411 has exclusively reported that Barbie and Ken will play the Oceans, the film’s planned title, because they will be playing Danny Ocean’s parents. The prequel will reportedly be set in the ’60s, like the original Ocean’s 11 with Frank Sinatra and the […]

Warner Bros. recently released the character posters for Dune: Part 2 with the new and returning cast, Screen Rant reported. Denis Villeneuve’s sequel to 2021’s Dune follow the continuation of Paul Atreides’ (Timothee Chalamet) journey. Paul will reunite with the Fremen to bring peace back to Arrakis. In the recently released posters, the audience can […]

The WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes fought to increase streaming residuals. And they were successful… partly. Both unions were able to secure what’s now called success-based bonuses from major streaming platforms such as Amazon, Disney+, Max, Netflix, Paramount+ and Peacock, Deadline reported. The larger question remains. What does that exactly mean? The WGA & SAG-AFTRA success-based […]

Daryl Hall and John Oates, collectively Hall & Oates’, business dispute will now be litigated in open court, Deadline reported. The details of their legal troubles were previously under wraps, partly due to Hall’s restraining order against Oates. On Thursday, a Nashville judge ruled in Hall’s favor to uphold his request to temporarily block Oates […]

The BBC is set to make a feature-length drama, The People v Gary McKinnon, based on the real-life events surrounding the “biggest military computer hack of all time” as described by US authorities, Deadline exclusively reported. The man behind the keyboard, McKinnon, was a Scot who hacked into NASA and Pentagon’s military systems. He avoided […]

Beetlejuice 2 director Tim Burton announced on his Instagram account that the movie has finally wrapped.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Tim Burton (@timburton) The long-awaited sequel of the 1988 film stopped production due to the SAG-AFTRA strike with only almost two days left of filming. Beetlejuice 2 started […]

Eddie Huang, creator of Fresh Off the Boat, is set to direct a documentary charting the rise and fall of Vice Media, Variety reported. In May, Vice Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. A few months later, the company announced a restructuring plan and layoffs after the filing and its $350 million asset sale. […]

Piers Morgan named the two senior royals who allegedly made comments about the skin color of Archie, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s son as written in the Dutch-language version of Endgame by Omid Scobie, Deadline reported. Author Scobie denied that he identified the royals in writing. Xander, the Dutch publisher, is currently investigating how the […]

Producer Joel Silver has been accused of being fired by Amazon Studios due to his verbal abuse of two of the company’s female executives, Variety reported. Silver’s most recent credit has been 2018’s Superfly, a remake of the 1972 blaxploitation film Super Fly. However, he produced some of the biggest Hollywood hits of the ’80s […]

Warner Bros. Pictures recently released the trailer for Furiosa, the prequel to 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road. Anya Taylor-Joy plays the titular Imperator Furiosa, replacing Charlize Theron from the first movie. Chris Hemsworth is the warlord Dementus. Joining Taylor-Joy and Hemsworth are Tom Burke, Nathan Jones and Angus Sampson and Quaden Bayles. The George Miller […]

Netflix recently released the trailer for Griselda. Sofia Vergara plays the Colombian Griselda Blanco, also known as the Cocaine Godmother, a departure from her role as Gloria Pritchett in Modern Family. The six-episode miniseries was created by Eric Newman, Doug Miro, Ingrid Escajeda and Carlo Bernard, Deadline reported. Vergara is joined by co-stars Alberto Guerra […]

Max’s series Tokyo Vice just released its season two photos, Entertainment Weekly exclusively reported. The ’90s-set crime show produced by Fifth Season and Japan’s pay-TV broadcaster WOWOW ended its first season with plenty of cliffhangers, with Max’s blessing. Show creator J.T. Rogers told the entertainment website, “I was writing season 2 while we were shooting […]

Sabrina Carpenter has a sense of humor, especially now that she has had to deal with the controversy of her Feather music video becoming the cause of a Brooklyn parish priest being stripped of his administrative duties, Variety reported. Our Lady of Mount Carmel-Annunciation Parish, where the music video was shot, claimed that they said […]

Jonathan Majors’s assault trial began on Wednesday at the New York City Criminal Court, Variety reported. Jury selection for the trial, which went through many delays, is supposed to start in the late afternoon. Majors, who arrived carrying a bible, a notebook and a mug, was hand in hand with girlfriend Meagan Good. Good has […]

Elon Musk got visibly angry in a message to big advertisers who pulled their ads from X (formerly Twitter) due to a post deemed to endorse antisemitic conspiracy theories, Variety reported. Elon Musk’s DealBook Summit tirade During the New York Times’ DealBook Summit, Musk said, “Go f**k yourself… Go. F**k. Yourself. Is that clear?” One […]

Welcome to the O.C.: An Oral History provides a behind-the-scenes look at the iconic series and its cast and crew. The 350 pages dive into the world that show creator Josh Schwartz and executive producer Stephanie Savage lived in vicariously in the early aughts. Specifically from 2002 to 2007, which was when The O.C. ran. […]

Netflix just released a photo of The Sandman back in the swing of season two after the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, Deadline reported. Neil Gaiman, The Sandman’s creator, announced the resumption of production with a behind-the-scenes set photo of Dream (Tom Sturridge) and Desire (Mason Alexander Park). He also released a letter to celebrate the […]

Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Sebastian Stan, Marvel’s Winter Soldier, is set to play the young Donald Trump in the film The Apprentice, Deadline exclusively reported. Let that sink in for a bit. The film will be directed by Cannes award-winning filmmaker Ali Abbasi of 2022’s Holy Spider. Abbasi also directed the last two episodes […]

A year after returning to Disney as its CEO following the company’s ousting of previous chief Bob Chapek, Bob Iger said he felt let down at the state of the House of Mouse under Chapek, Variety reported. Iger spoke at the New York Times’ DealBook Summit and said, “I was disappointed in what I was […]

Max series Our Flag Means Death is a rag-tag group of people, also known as pirates. But more than that, they’re a family. And this family’s home is called the Revenge led by the Gentleman Pirate Stede Bonnet (Rhys Darby). SPOILER ALERT! The following contains spoilers for Our Flag Means Death season two. However, the family […]

The new trailer for The Book of Clarence starts out like the beginning of a sports movie where the protagonist shows you his humble beginnings and then take you on his journey to greatness. The beginning kinda sorta tricks you that you might be watching the trailer of Gladiator 2. But instead of Paul Mescal, […]

Ryan Reynold’s Maximum Effort Channel recently dropped a teaser for its upcoming series Discontinued. Bruce Campbell will narrate the series that takes a look at the present human condition through discontinued establishments, products and shows. The teaser starts with a voiceover from Campbell announcing, “I’m transmitting from the year 2037. In this dystopian landscape, there’s […]

David Harbour told Screen Rant exclusively that the upcoming Marvel movie Thunderbolts will take a closer look at the relationship between his Red Guardian AKA Alexei Shostakov and Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova. Alexei and Yelena first appeared in 2021’s Black Widow as part of Natasha Romanoff’s (Scarlett Johansson) fake family. The Red Guardian and Yelena […]

Historical spoiler alert (not a thing)! Nikolaj Coster-Waldau becomes a Kingslayer once again in CBS’ King and Conqueror against James Norton, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Game of Thrones star will be fighting James Norton based on the Battle of Hastings. Coster-Waldau will play William of Normandy against Norton’s Harold of Wessex. The two […]

Matt Smith has signed in to executive and produce the limited series adaptation of Nick Cave’s 2009 book The Death of Bunny Munro for Sky, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The six-part series was written by Pete Jackson and will be directed by Isabella Eklöf. The show is being produced by Clerkenwell Films of Misfts […]