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Early reactions are in for Timothée Chalamet’s Wonka and critics are raving after its London premiere. Variety writer and film critic Courtney Howard posted on X (formerly Twitter) that the film is “a winning confection, filled with perfect amounts of charm, whimsy & poignancy, powered by pure imagination & bright, nimble musical numbers. Timothée Chalamet […]

Timothy Olyphant will join the cast of FX’s Alien, Deadline exclusive reported. The actor will star opposite Sydney Chandler in the Alien franchise prequel directed by Noah Hawley. Olyphant and Hawley previously worked together on Fargo’s fourth season. According to outlet’s sources, Olyphant will play Kirsh, a synth who mentors and trains Chandler’s Wendy. Wendy […]

Pop star Sabrina Carpenter’s Feather music video was posted on YouTube on Halloween, a Tuesday. By the end of that week, a Catholic priest was relieved of his administrative duties, The New York Times reported. In the Feather music video, Carpenter, who has been performing the song live as Taylor Swift’s opening act for her […]

DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn revealed on Threads that sometimes he does take fan casting seriously, Screen Rant reported. After the SAG-AFTRA strike ended, DC resumed casting the rest of the roles for Superman: Legacy. It was recently announced that Nicholas Hoult will play the Man of Steel’s archnemesis, Lex Luthor, and Skyler Grisando will […]

Gladiator 2 may not have Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, and loyal servant to the true emperor Marcus Aurelius, but it will have Denzel Washington, Screen Rant reported. Ridley Scott’s sequel to the 2000 film is scheduled for release on Nov. 24, 2024, but not […]

Baz Luhrmann’s 2008 film Australia gets reimagined in FX’s Faraway Downs, Variety reported. SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoiler for the 2008 movie, Australia and the Hulu series Faraway Downs. Luhrmann’s 165-minute Australia couldn’t cover every ground set in the sprawling country (also a continent) story-wise. That’s why 15 years later, Hulu now had the six-episode […]

We may soon see Wanda Maximoff grace our screens again as new rumors claim that Scarlet Witch could be resurrected, CBR reported citing Marvel insider Daniel Richtman. The Scarlet Witch Returns? Scarlet Witch Updates’s X (formerly Twitter) post said that WandaVision creator and showrunner Jac Schaeffer has been tapped to write and direct the movie. […]

The screenwriter of Dune and Killers of the Flower Moon, Eric Roth, told the Script Apart podcast that he’s currently developing a Kennedy series at Netflix akin to The Crown. That’s good news for fans of the royal drama which recently ended the first part of its sixth season. “We hope to have a version […]

Daredevil star Charlie Cox didn’t think he would return as Matt Murdock after Netflix canceled his Marvel show, GamesRadar reported. “I really thought that ship had sailed, you know? I thought it was over,” Cox said to the crowd at Wales Comic Con. “It had been a couple of years since [Netflix’s Daredevil had been […]

Naruto’s live-action adaptation has languished for 10 years since it was announced, but Lionsgate seems to have made some progress. The new screenwriter, Tasha Huo, was profiled for Variety’s top 10 screenwriters to watch. In the article, it said that her next project is a feature adaptation of the beloved manga and anime. Huo is […]

Country music star Keith Urban said his wife movie star Nicole Kidman didn’t think her AMC ad would turn into a “cultural moment,” during his appearance at Criss Angel’s Talking Angels podcast. “She did it because she loves movies, we love movies. And it was hard times for the theaters,” Urban began. “So AMC asked […]

Although Emmy-winner Hannah Waddingham was only in one scene at the start of Disney’s Hocus Pocus 2, fans have been clamoring for her reappearance in the third movie. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Waddingham said she hasn’t been asked to be in Hocus Pocus 3. “I love that there’s been all this talk, […]

Disney+ is reportedly launching five Star Wars series in 2024, CBR reported citing Empire Magazine. Three of them will be continuing series such as season 3 of The Bad Batch, season 2 of Tales of the Jedi and Andor. The other two are new shows, Skeleton Crew and The Acolyte, both animated series. Star Wars: […]

Disney recently released the first featurette for Marvel’s upcoming Agatha: Darkhold Diaries, CBR reported. The featurette provided a behind-the-scenes look at the WandaVision spinoff. FIRST featurette from ‘AGATHA: DARKHOLD DIARIES’ pic.twitter.com/VlcDiGdKXb — Scarlet Witch Updates (@ScarletWitchUpd) November 25, 2023 From the video posted on X (formerly Twitter) by Scarlett Witch Updates, head writer and series […]

Saltburn director Emerald Fennell, fresh off the success of Saltburn, said she has a dream project in mind, Deadline reported. “My favorite film of all time is Jurassic Park, so I would love to get in on the dinosaurs,” Fennel said. “Well, first and foremost, it’s very erotic,” she added. That’s certainly a new take. […]

Netflix’s final season of The Crown has been criticized by Queen Elizabeth II’s former press secretary for being insensitive regarding Princess Diana’s death, Deadline exclusive reported. Dickie Arbiter, who was the late queen’s spokesperson from 1988 to 2000, said The Crown creator Peter Morgan took dramatic license too far. He disapproved of the the scene […]

Why is Mads Mikkelsen often the villain? The Danish actor has the answer to that. “It’s quite simple. It’s the funny accent. It’s as simple as that,” he replied, Deadline reported. Mads Mikkelsen’s history of villainy Mikkelsen has played villains in several movies such as Le Chiffre in Casino Royale, Kaecilius in Doctor Strange, Galen […]

A sexual assault lawsuit has been filed against Sean Combs, also known as Diddy, for the second time, Deadline reported. Just last week, Combs settled with the singer Cassie, who sued him for repeated sexual assault, physical abuse and trafficking. The terms of the settlement were not released. This time, Joi Dickerson-Neal is the one […]

Sarah Silverman’s lawsuit against Meta has been dismissed by US District Judge Vince Chhabria of the US District Court of Northern California, according to THR. Silverman’s lawsuit was over the unauthorized use of authors’ copyrighted books in order to train Meta’s generative AI model. The dismissal is the second ruling from a court supporting AI […]

One day after the casting call to find the next Karate Kid came out, Sony Pictures had already received 10,000 applicants, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Whoever gets picked will star alongside the OG Karate Kid himself, Ralph Macchio, and action superstar Jackie Chan. Both Macchio and Chan were in a video to announce the […]

Netflix just dropped the first image of Eddie Murphy’s Axel Foley as the Beverly Hills Cop, Empire reported. The photo features Murphy in Axel Foley’s iconic Detroit Lions jacket. The Netflix film, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel Foley is the first in the franchise in 29 years. Murphy’s last movie, You People, was also released on […]

Beyonce just released a new trailer for her upcoming concert film, Renaissance: A Film by Beyonce. “Rum, now can I teach you a trick?” she asks her younger daughter who played the cameraperson to the superstar at the beginning of the trailer. Scenes of her children are interspersed with concert backstage moments. “Time is my […]

SAG-AFTRA National Board member Matthew Modine said he’s going to vote against the union and AMPTP’s tentative agreement… again, Deadline reported. In his full statement, the actor said, “Consent, in the context of this agreement, is tyranny.” “It is submission,” he continued. SAG-AFTRA and the AI tsunami Modine’s sticking point is AI. His statement insisted, […]

The US Senate has issued a subpoena to Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation Entertainment after the ticket-selling giant refused to cooperate with an investigation about the company’s pricing, Vice reported. The government didn’t announce the investigation, but it follows incidents over the last year such as the ticketing debacle for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour […]

Let’s get this out of the way first: were the Percy Jackson movies perfect? Of course, not! Were they bad? Not… exactly. They’re not awful. Hear me out. The first movie, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, came out in 2010. Studios were salivating over recreating the success of the Harry Potter movies. Harry […]

Ted Lasso star Hannah Waddingham may have shoved Will Forte in the face to sing Shallow on stage with Jason Sudeikis, but it was all for a good cause. Waddingham spoke to AP Entertainment about the viral moment. The actress said, “We were literally going to sing something else. And then we went like two […]

Loki executive producer told ScreenRant that he and the Marvel team lurked online to see exactly how to bait the most popular fan theories about the show. Wright said, “I love reading all that, and we would read all of it in Season 1. Something that Kate [Herron, Loki writer-director] and I talked about a lot […]

TBS’ has canceled its other original comedy Miracle Workers after four seasons, TV Line reported. The show’s series finale aired in August this year. The Daniel Radcliffe-starred anthology follows low-level angel Craig (Radcliffe) in charge of handling humanity’s prayers while God (Steve Buscemi) is off to make time for his hobbies in season one. The […]

The creators of Edith Piaf’s AI biopic spoke exclusively to Variety about working with the French legend’s estate and not wanting her “to look cartoonish.” Julie Veille and Gilles Marliac of Paris-based production company Seriously Happy wanted to address the concerns brought up when the news broke. Veille originally came up with the idea, while […]

Nicolas Cage sat down with Vanity Fair to watch certain movies from his filmography, and one he arguably enjoyed the most was 2004’s National Treasure. “How do you take something that is so profoundly ridiculous and really try to sell it?” Cage asked as he watched that (in)famous scene. “What I really like about that […]

The Writers Guild of America has accused Amazon MGM Studios (formerly Amazon Studios) of violating the terms of the contract agreed on which ended the 148-day writers’ strike, Deadline reported citing The Ankler. The WGA said that Amazon hasn’t called back the writers for certain shows that were already in progress before the work stoppage […]

The new SAG-AFTRA guidelines on advance paid residuals have created “an additional layer of confusion” within the community of agents and managers, Deadline reported. What are advance paid residuals? When the actors’ union released the summary last week, it stated new rules around these advance paid residuals. These are part of an actor’s per-episode fee, […]

Brian Cox’s Logan Roy in Succession has an oft-repeated line that many fans have asked him to do. But that’s not his favorite. While on Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host opened with, “I love you, but you’re not serious people … that really sort of summed it up, didn’t it?” “Well, actually, it […]

Andrzej Sapkowski, author of The Witcher novels, said Netflix “never” listened to his ideas about its live-action adaptation, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Polish fantasy author attended the Vienna Comic-Con last week and was asked by a podcaster if he ever gave feedback to the streamer. “Maybe, I gave them some ideas, but they […]

Anyone who’s ever seen Transformers, may it be the cartoons or the movies knows Peter Cullen. Okay, you may not know him, but you definitely know his voice — his award-winning voice. Cullen, best known as Autobot leader Optimus Prime’s voice, will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & […]

Taika Waititi has a full slate of movies he needs to direct, and the live-action adaptation Akira is one of them, Inverse reported. He did promise that his movie will go even further than the critically acclaimed film released in 1988. “Obviously, I think people who loved the film, I want to make sure that […]

Spotify recently released its updated streaming payment policies on Tuesday, Variety reported. The music streaming platform detailed its efforts to decrease fraudulent streams, increase the minimum payable track length for noise content and stop payment for songs that don’t meet the 1,000-stream threshold. Spotify claimed that these updates will pay out an an additional $1 […]

Netflix just released the first photos of the upcoming series The Gentlemen based on Guy Ritchie’s 2019 film, Variety reported. The series will be loosely based on Ritchie’s film which starred Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Colin Farrell, Hugh Grant, Jeremy Strong and Michelle Dockery. The original cast won’t be in the series. The movie follows […]

Oscar-winning directors Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese are collaborating for the first time to executive produce a Cape Fear series adaptation, Deadline exclusively reported. The series is a re-imagining of the 1991 film which was a remake of the 1962 film based on John D. MacDonald’s 1957 The Executioners. The drama is described as thriller […]