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After almost three years since the crowd crush at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival resulted in the deaths of 10 attendees, events promoter Live Nation settled nine out of the 10 wrongful death cases filed, Variety reported. The news about the settlements came after one of the lawsuits is set for trial this week. According the […]

Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery are joining forces to create a streaming bundle, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The two entertainment companies plan to launch the bundle this summer which will combine the streaming platforms of Disney+, Hulu and Max. Pricing details for the bundle hasn’t been announced yet. However, there will be options for […]

The South by Southwest (SXSW) music and film festival, usually held every year in Austin, Texas, will launch a European version in London in 2025, Variety reported. SXSW London will have a combination of keynote speakers, film and TV events, music and digital and gaming innovations. These have been key elements of SXSW since it […]

Jeremy Strong is currently in negotiations to play Bruce Springsteen’s manager Jon Landau in the upcoming biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere, Variety exclusively reported. The succession star is in talks to possibly join Jeremy Allen White who will play The Boss in the 20th Century movie about the singer and his time in making the […]

Game of Thrones prequel A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms gets minor and major updates, according the The Hollywood Reporter exclusive. To start with the major news, the prequel series has found a director in Owen Harris, who helmed Black Mirror’s San Junipero. Harris will be directing the first half of the season. He will […]

Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock could reunite for Speed 3, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The stars dropped by the 50 MPH podcast to talk about their 1994 movie, along with their co-stars Jeff Daniels, Alan Ruck and Dennis Hopper. When they were asked about a possible reunion, the John Wick star replied, “I mean, […]

Academy Award-winner and recent Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Michelle Yeoh is set to star in Prime Video’s limited series Blade Runner 2099, which is a follow up to the 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049, Deadline reported. Yeoh’s role is still under wraps and so are other details of the show. This is the latest […]

Green Book director Peter Farrelly will direct a movie inspired by how Sylvester Stallone made the iconic 1976 boxing film Rocky, IndieWire reported. The movie I Play Rocky’s logline states that it “follows a struggling actor with a partially paralyzed face and a speech impediment who writes a script that a big movie studio wants […]

After the massive success of 2019’s Avengers: Endgame and the pandemic, Marvel Studios and its president Kevin Feige have had difficulties in reaching the kind of audience it used to, Empire reported. The studios recent films such as last year’s Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania and The Marvels seriously underperformed. The Paul Rudd-starrer earned $106.1 […]

Is Travis Kelce entering his Hollywood actor era? The Kansas City Chiefs tight end is set to play a role in Ryan Murphy’s upcoming FX horror series Grotesquerie, Deadline exclusively reported. The entertainment site’s sources said that the NFL star has been cast in the series opposite Niecy Nash-Betts, Courtney B. Vance and Lesley Manville. […]

Baz Luhrmann said at the Met Gala that he isn’t ready to let go of Elvis Presley, after helming the 2022 Austin Butler-led film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The director said, “The fans really want to know if all that footage we found in the vaults is going to become a concert film and […]

Universal Television recently acquired the rights to former FBI profiler Jana Monroe’s memoir Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, The Behavioral Science Unit, And My Life As a Woman In The FBI for a series adaptation, Deadline exclusively reported. Filmmaker Susanna Fogel and Julia Ruchman will write and executive produce. Fogel will also serve as director. […]

Jar Jar the Gungan is back… this time he’s gone over to the Dark Side, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Disney+ new animated special LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy unveiled the Sith Lord Darth Jar Jar, quite unlike his first incarnation when he was introduced in the 1999 Star Wars film The Phantom Menace. […]

The viral moment of David Beckham telling Victoria to “be honest,” initially made the Beckham director Fisher Stevens mad, according to The Hollywood Reporter during an Emmys For Your Consideration event. Just to refresh your memory, in an episode of the Netflix docuseries, Victoria Beckham was being interviewed about her childhood. When she described her […]

Vin Diesel is set to start production on Aug. 26 on the fourth movie of the Riddick franchise, Riddick: Furya, Deadline reported. The movie will film in Germany, Spain and the UK. The film, which comes after 2000’s Pitch Black, 2004’s The Chronicles of Riddick and 2013’s Riddick, will also reunite Diesel with David Twohy […]

OG Captain Kirk, William Shatner, said he’s cool with reprising his role as Captain James Tiberius Kirk in a film again, according to The Canadian Press. He even has an idea on how to go about it. The 93-year-old sci-fi icon said that he would be willing to helm the Starship Enterprise again… but there […]

The Met Gala 2024’s theme is Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, Vogue reported. The dress code: The Garden of Time. This year’s hosts are Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, and Chris Hemsworth. Co-hosting on the red carpet are Gwendolyn Christie, La La Anthony and Ashely Graham. Social media star Emma Chamberlain is also returning as Vogue’s […]

Rosamund Pike can’t get enough of magic as she joins the cast of the upcoming magic heist film franchise Now You See Me 3, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Pike will be joining the other newcomers Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa and Ariana Greenblatt. The original cast of Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, […]

President Joe Biden announced on Friday the 19 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, with the Academy Award-winning Michelle Yeoh as one of them, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Presidential Medal of Freedom 101 The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest honor a civilian can receive from the President. The medal is given […]

Nicholas Galitzine lived out his boyhood dreams in 2022 when he performed on the “Coachella’s” main stage with his “bandmates” Jaiden Anthony, Raymond Cham Jr., Vik White and Dakota Adan, according to The Hollywood Reporter. To complete the dream, there were 5,000 screaming “fans,” chanting the band’s name, “August Moon! August Moon!” For the rest […]

The Maze Runner will make its way to the big screens again with 20th Century Studios set to reboot the sci-fi adventure franchise, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s exclusive report. The studio, a division of Disney, is currently negotiating to hire Jack Paglen, best known for writing Transcendence, the Johnny Depp sci-fi film, to write […]

Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine is teaming up with Netflix to produce the docuseries F1 Academy, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The F1 Academy will follow the story of Formula One’s women-only developmental division. The series is currently in production and is set to debut in 2025. F1 Academy will join Netflix’s F1 series sports documentary […]

Anthony Hopkins is set to play another real-life character. This time, he’ll transform into the composer George Frideric Handel in the upcoming feature biopic, The King of Covent Garden, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Academy Award-winning actor has played real historical figures from Adolf Hitler in the 1981 TV movie The Bunker to Richard […]

Bernard Hill, best known as Captain Edward Smith of the ill-fated Titanic in the 1997 film and as King Théoden in 2002’s The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and 2003’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, has died at age 79. According to his family, Hill died in the […]

Mel Brooks and Quinta Brunson will be receiving special awards at the 84th Peabody Awards, Deadline reported. Brooks will receive the Career Achievement Award and Brunson the Peabody Trailblazer Award. Both multihyphenates receive the Peabody Board of Jurors’ unanimous votes. The ceremony will be held in Los Angeles June 9. Peabody executive director Jeffrey Jones […]

Bridgerton creator Chris Van Dusen is developing Elle Kennedy’s Girl Abroad as a series for A24 and Pacesetter Productions, Deadline exclusively reported. The team landed the rights after bidding against three other production companies. The book was published in February this year. The story follows the daughter of a retired rock star. She eventually finds […]

All of Us Strangers’ director Andrew Haigh has been tapped by Universal Pictures to write and direct a biopic of the life of Leonardo da Vinci, Deadline reported. The film will be based on Walter Isaacson’s 2017 biography of arguably the world’s most famous polymath. The book takes from thousands of pages from the da […]

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Jordan Peele is making a documentary which he promises will change how the public perceives the Old West, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The writer-director is set to executive produce a project “which dismantles the whitewashed mythology of the cowboy” as well as expand on the ideas his 2022 thriller Nope explored. […]

Kristen Stewart and Oscar Isaac will star in Panos Cosmatos’ vampire thriller Flesh of the Gods, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Adam McKay is set to produce alongside Betsy Koch through their Hyperobject Industries production company. Isaac will also serve as producer with Gena Konstantinakos through their production company Mad Gene Media. The film is […]

Over three decades after Reversal of Fortune, Jeremy Irons and Glenn Close are reuniting in Encore, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The actors worked together in the 1990 Academy Award-winning thriller as battling married couple Claus and Sunny von Bülow. This time, they’re teaming up in British director Simon Curtis’ comedy. Irons and Close also […]

The long-awaited, live-action adaptation Masters of the Universe movie finally got a release date, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Amazon MGM Studios has given the Mattel film a June 5, 2026 global cinematic release date. The movie’s logline reads: “10-year-old Prince Adam who crashed to Earth in a spaceship and was separated from his magical […]

The Dark Knight writer, Jonathan Nolan, said during his appearance at SHOWSA that he would love to pen a fourth Batman film with Christian Bale. “Wouldn’t that be a dream… So if I had the chance to go back and work on that again, absolutely,” Nolan told the interviewer while he was promoting Fallout, for […]

Zack Snyder has a few ideas on how he would ended Henry Cavill’s run as Superman, according to his GQ interview on the magazine’s YouTube channel. According to Snyder, he would have given Cavill his final act as Superman in the DC Extended Universe. The director said he would bring Clark Kent’s story full circle. […]

Apple TV+ recently released the first teaser of the Jake Gyllenhaal-led series Presumed Innocent. The show is a series adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1984 New York Times best-selling novel of the same name. Gyllenhall is joined by Ruth Negga, Bill Camp, Peter Sarsgaard and Lily Rabe. The series will premiere on June 12 with two […]

Kate Winslet plays highly respected World War II photographer Lee Miller in the trailer for the biopic Lee, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film was directed by Ellen Kuras and will be released by Roadside Attractions and Vertical Entertainment in cinemas Sept. 27. Winslet stars as Miller, who began her career as a model […]

The Fall Guy’s Ryan Gosling was in full force for his movie’s Los Angeles premiere Tuesday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. At the red carpet, Gosling was flanked with stuntmen fighting, falling and riding motorcycles all over the Dolby Theatre. Hollywood Boulevard was turned into an actual movie set, with two stuntmen doing wheelies on […]

If you’ve seen Challengers, you may or may not have found the ending confusing. Let Zendaya explain it to you, as she does for the New York Times. If you haven’t seen the movie, SPOILER ALERT! At the end of Luca Guadagnino’s tennis movie, the camera zooms in and freezes on Tashi (Zendaya) while she screams […]

Daniel Radcliffe said that Harry Potter writer J.K. Rowling’s comments against trans women “makes me really sad,” in an interview with The Atlantic. The actor also said that he has had no contact with Rowling since she started posting tweets in June 2020 that were deemed anti-trans. “It makes me really sad, ultimately,” he noted […]

Carla Gugino is set to play Hollywood legend Vivien Leigh in the upcoming biopic The Florist, Variety reported exclusively. Nick Sandow is attached to direct the film. Jayce Bartok will write the script based on a box of love letters. The story follows Leigh’s struggle with bipolar disorder, which was first diagnosed in the ’40s, […]