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Andrew Scott will bring his one-man show of Uncle Vanya Off-Broadway this spring.

This marks the American premiere of the play, which sees Scott taking on every character in the classic Chekhov play. The show comes to New York after a West End run in 2023 and a filmed live capture of the show.

Performances begin March 11, 2025, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, with opening night March 18. The play is set for a limited run of eight weeks.

Scott co-created the adaptation of Chekhov’s work with Simon Stephens (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time), designer Rosanna Vize and director Sam Yates. The play, which has eight characters, sees an older professor and his younger wife visit the rural estate run by family members Vanya and Sonya, with Astrov, the local doctor as a frequent visitor. After various flirtations, tensions come to a head when the professor says he...

Andrew Scott will reprise his acclaimed West End performance in Vanya, described as a radical new adaptation of Chekhov’s masterwork Uncle Vanya, for a spring 2025 Off Broadway engagement at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, producers announced today.

Co-created by Scott and Simon Stephens and directed by Sam Yates, the Olivier Award-winning one-man adaptation will begin performances at the Lortel in Manhattan’s West Village on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, with an opening night set for Tuesday, March 18.

“I love this masterpiece of a play,” Scott said in a statement. “I love these heartbreaking, hilarious, sexy, characters. I love my colleagues with whom I made this show. I love New York. So, I couldn’t be more thrilled to bring Vanya to the audiences at the Lortel Theatre.”

Vanya, which features Scott in multiple roles, will be produced by Wessex Grove, Gavin Kalin Productions, and Kater Gordon. Vanya will be Executive Produced by Wagner Johnson Productions,...

Jodie Sweetin and Dave Coulier opened up about the last time that they got together with their Full House costars Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.

The 38-year-old twins shared the role of the youngest Tanner sister Michelle in the hit sitcom from the ’90s. They were the only core member of the cast to not return to the franchise for the spinoff series Fuller House years later.

While they have distanced themselves from the show, Jodie and Dave (who played their Uncle Joey) recalled seeing them at a special event and shared some happy memories.

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“We saw them at Bob [Saget]’s memorial, and that’s one of the last times we were all together,” Jodie recalled while onstage at 90s Con Florida, via People.

Dave chimed in saying, “John [Stamos] has a Dumbo from Disneyland, the ride, in his house and who doesn’t right? I...

Ahead of the anime's ninth episode broadcast, the official website and accounts for No Longer Allowed in Another World today announced the additions of Yutaka Aoyama and Katsuyuki Okitsu to the cast as Saito and Toru, respectively. Saito Toru Related: No Longer Allowed in Another World Anime Canonizes Four New Cast Members Based on the manga by Hiroshi Noda and Takahiro Takamatsu, No Longer Allowed in Another World is directed by Shigeki Kawai ( Uncle from Another World ) at studio Atelier Pontdarc, with series composition by Yasuhiro Nakanishi, character designs by Tomoshige Inayoshi and Asako Inayoshi and music by Kenichiro Suehiro ( The Eminence in Shadow ). Crunchyroll is simulcasting the anime and describes the story: Pulled into an otherworldly adventure with cute sidekicks and superpowers, you’d think Osamu hit the jackpot. Nope! From a time before pixels, the early 20th-century gloomy author just wants to find a quiet place to meet his maker,...

Days of Our Lives (Dool) spoilers and updates tease Johnny Dimera (Carson Boatman) and Chanel Dimera (Raven Bowens) might have a fairytale marriage now, but may not have a fairytale ending.

In Salem, the reality for married couples is often fraught with challenges, and it appears that Chanel and Johnny are no exception as tensions begin to rise in their relationship.

Days Of Our Lives Spoilers – Johnny Dimera And Chanel Dimera Endured A Traumatic Situation

Viewers recall Chanel experienced the heartbreaking loss of her baby, which has undoubtedly put immense strain on her relationship with Johnny.

To make matters worse, Johnny missed out on a coveted job opportunity that would have allowed him to collaborate with his dream director, causing their aspirations to crumble.

Despite these challenges, Chanel and Johnny have managed to support one another, but the introduction of new hurdles could test their bond.

As they navigate these difficulties,...

One of the greatest things about film history is how sometimes certain things can get lost and later uncovered. For example, film sets and props from the 1923 version of The Ten Commandments were found buried in the Guadalupe Dunes, where it was originally filmed and abandoned, swallowed by the sands. It was like an archeological dig in Egypt.

Now, a piece of history once believed to be lost has been uncovered on eBay, of all places.

According to @LostMediaBusters on Twitter/X, a reel for the 1964 short film Uncle Walt was listed online for sale and bought by a private user. The reel sold for $172.50 Usd or £132.84 Gbp.

Breaking: The long-lost unauthorized 1964 short film 'Uncle Walt' was listed on eBay a couple days ago and has been now bought by an unknown user!

Hopefully, we see it finally released soon!

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TrustNordisk will handle international sales for Danish writer/director Frelle Petersen’s new drama Home Sweet Home.

The film is now in post and will have a works-in-progress presentation at Haugesund’s New Nordic Films market next week.

The story follows Sofie, a single mother who starts a new job as a home-care worker and needs to balance this demanding role among the local communities’ citizens and her everyday life with daughter Clara.

Jette Søndergaard, who also acted in the director’s previous two features Uncle and Forever, plays the lead role. The other cast members include Ole Sørensen, Lasse Lorenzen,...

More than 250 international guests, including 53 buyers from 18 countries, have signed up for the Norwegian International Film Festival’s three-day industry event New Nordic Films in Haugesund, which will fête its 30th anniversary and kickoff with Charlotte Sieling’s drama “Way Home”, Aug. 20.

Some of the strongest filmmakers from the region and beyond – including Erik Poppe, Dag Johan Haugerud, Selma Vilhunen, Zaida Bergroth, Rúnar Rúnarsson – will be screening or pitching their next projects, next to scores of rising talents.

“Our DNA hasn’t changed,” said Line Halvorsen, who joined New Nordic Films four years ago and is serving as acting director, temporarily filling in for Gyda Velvin Myklebust.

“Our core is to gather Nordic filmmakers and industryites interested in Nordic films, to serve as a launching pad for new talents, and to spotlight latest industry trends. Together with our twin event in the Göteborg Nordic Film Market, we are here to support our Nordic industry,...

The 25th anniversary of Deep Blue Sea is generally not seen as a significant cultural event. In the grand context of a world spinning wildly off its axis, finding time to remember that movie where scientists use shark brains to cure Alzheimer’s can be difficult.

Yet Deep Blue Sea deserves to be remembered. Not for the events of the film itself—though it is, remarkably, still one of the best shark movies ever made—but rather for the incredible original rap song that plays over its end credits, “Deepest Bluest (Shark’s Fin).” In that rousing ballad, rapper and Deep Blue Sea co-star LL Cool J delivers what could best be described as a shark’s diss track to the rest of the world sung from the shark’s perspective. Best remembered for the lyric, “Deepest, bluest, my hat is like a shark’s fin,” it occasionally makes the...

For nearly two decades, a film adaptation of the hit 1960s spy series "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." seemed perpetually on the brink of getting made. Warner Bros. nearly enticed Quentin Tarantino to take it on in the mid-1990s as his hotly anticipated follow-up to "Pulp Fiction," but he chose to make "Jackie Brown" instead. Directors like Matthew Vaughn and David Dobkin circled the project. A-listers Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Christian Bale and Ryan Reynolds (among many others) eyed the film at one point or another. Steven Soderbergh came very close to helming a version starring George Clooney as Napoleon Solo (the role originated by Robert Vaughn), but he backed out over budget issues. The film was a go in 2013 with Guy Ritchie directing Tom Cruise and Armie Hammer as, respectively, Solo and Illya Kuryakin (played by David McCallum on the show), but Cruise stuck with Ethan Hunt and the "Mission: Impossible" franchise.

The British Academy Award-winning actor Paul Bettany hit a career low when a film producer harshly told him he was done in Hollywood, leaving him feeling crushed. But just when it seemed like his dreams were about to be shattered, his resilience kicked in (literally!)

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Watch how the English actor turned that crushing blow into an epic comeback, proving to the world that even the toughest setbacks can spark an incredible rebound.

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Uncle Frank star Paul Bettany’s career took a wild roller coaster ride, zooming from rock bottom to superhero stardom in no time! A recent tweet from Film Facts revealed a jaw-dropping moment when a producer told him his career was over. Bettany later opened...

The writer has made the leap into film with Janet Planet, about a mother and daughter drifting apart on a hippy commune. She talks about how it echoes her own upbringing – and why her younger self would be horrified

In the back of Annie Baker’s office at home in New York, a spectral presence is just visible in silhouette against the window. It turns out there is not just one, but two cats hidden among the desks and shelves. Baker swivels around a spare chair to reveal Carla, then gestures behind. “This is Bobik,” she says of the one basking in the feline window hammock. “It’s the name of an offstage character in a Chekhov play.”

Baker is a master of the unspoken and unseen. A Chekhov nut, she is one of her generation’s most lauded playwrights, telling eerily intimate stories that alight on overlooked corners of humanity.

Exclusive: Emmy-nominated Gaby Hoffmann, best known for her work on Amazon’s Transparent and HBO’s Girls, has signed with Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment for management.

Hoffman earned three Emmy nominations, two for Supporting Actress on Transparent for her role as Ali Pfefferrman, and a Guest Actress nomination for her performance as Adam’s erratic and mesmerizing sister Caroline on Girls. She currently can be seen starring as the distraught mother of a missing son in Netflix’s praised limited series Eric opposite Benedict Cumberbatch.

Hoffmann got her start as a child actor, landing scene-stealing roles with filmmakers such as John Hughes and Nora Ephron. Early credits include features Uncle Buck, Sleepless in Seattle and Field of Dreams.

Hoffmann’s other recent notable credits include indie features C’mon C’mon; Wild; Obvious Child; You Can Count On Me; 200 Cigarettes; and for TV, Adam McKay’s Winning Time at HBO. Upcoming, she...

For those keeping track of such things, nearly 10% – or $3,239,838 – of Broadway’s total $36.8 million box office last week was earned by productions directed by Taymors: The Lion King‘s Julie Taymor and her niece, The Outsiders director Danya Taymor.

And that’s before The Outsiders‘ big Tony-winning night on Sunday. Two of the musical’s four awards were Best Musical and Best Direction of a Musical. (Lighting and sound for musicals were the other two.)

As usual, stalwart The Lion King was Broadway’s top earner for the week, grossing $2,216,034. The Outsiders took in $1,023,804. Those numbers tally up to 9% of the Broadway total for the week ending June 16.

In all, the 35 Broadway productions grossed $36,851,329 for the week, a slight increase of 2% over the previous week but a solid 12% over the same time last year. Total attendance was 293,997, about even with the previous week but up 13% year-to-year.

While the impact of...

When Tony voters looked at their ballots for best musical in 1960, they must have felt lightheaded. They were tasked with choosing a winner among the latest Rodgers and Hammerstein (The Sound of Music), a political drama that would go on to win the Pulitzer (Fiorello!), a new kind of psychological biography (Gypsy), and an uproarious fairy-tale comedy (Once Upon a Mattress). I’m not sure if any of the 2024 nominees for best musical will stand the test of time quite like that stunning lineup. But as was true 64 years ago, there are at least four celebrated contenders vying, all equally convincingly, for the top prize.

Part of what makes this season’s best musical category particularly tricky to predict is the volume of productions that aren’t on the ballot here: At various moments throughout the season, in which 15 new musicals opened (and six have already closed), it would have...

The cast of Will Trent has worked hard solving cases and bettering themselves, and the title character, Will Trent, had a rough year.

The main cast has remained mostly the same since the procedural began in January 2023.

While Will Trent was an instant hit, Season 2 was even better. The series explored the backstories of each main character, giving the series a twist, especially since the younger versions of Will, Angie, and Amanda were so realistic.

The talented cast makes us cry, smile, and laugh each new season as we root for them.

This cast is unique because some have been friends for years, which shows in their on-screen connections.

Related: Will Trent Season 3: Everything We Know So Far

Meet the Will Trent Season 3 cast and characters.

Ramon Rodriguez ( Will Trent)

Will Trent is the main character of the series and a special agent of the Gbi. He's dyslexic, and...

You could call Adam Elliot the Australian Nick Park. But while the British Wallace and Gromit creator and his Aardman studio have gone from award-winning claymation shorts to big-budget animation features made with the likes of Dreamworks (Chicken Run, Flushed Away) and Netflix (Chicken Run: The Dawn of the Nugget, the upcoming Wallace and Gromit movie), back in Melbourne, Elliot has kept things small.

His entire filmography: The three shorts Uncle (1996), Cousin (1999), and Brother (2000), two mid-length films Harvie Krumpet (2003) and Ernie Biscuit (2015) and his two features: Mary and Max in 2009 and Memoir of a Snail, together clock in at around 4 hours. You can become an Elliot completist in a single afternoon binge.

Three decades into his career, with an Oscar to his name (best animated short for Harvie Krumpet in 2004), Elliot continues to tell the same sort of stories: Semi-autobiographical dark and funny tales of outsiders, mostly living in 1970s Australia,...

Episodes 8 and 9 of Uncle Samsik are the most confusing of the set-ups to date. As we near the end of the series, Samsik’s complicated plans seem to be getting more convoluted so he can achieve his final goal, a democratic South Korea where everyone has three meals a day. In episodes 6 and 7, we learn about a planned coup d’état, and in the latest episodes, the show gives us a more elaborate picture of how this came about. Or rather, whose plan it was. Uncle Samsik is a fictional tale set in a tumultuous time in South Korea, a little after the Korean War. It’s a historical drama that tells the story of a man determined to make a change in the country and how he uses the government and military to do so. Starring Song Kang-Oh in the lead, the show is quite different from anything else in the K-drama scene.

All of Broadway’s biggest stars were in attendance at the 2024 Tony Awards Meet the Nominees Press Event to kick off the theatre awards season!

Major Hollywood celebs like Rachel McAdams, Eddie Redmayne, Gayle Rankin, Alicia Keys, Daniel Radcliffe, and more were at the event on Thursday afternoon (May 2) at Sofitel New York in New York City.

Just days earlier, all of these stars earned Tony nominations for their work in the 2023-2024 Broadway season.

The 77th Annual Tony Awards will air live on CBS on Sunday, June 16 and it’s taking place at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for the first time.

Make sure to check out the full list of nominations, led by Alicia‘s musical Hell’s Kitchen and the hit play Stereophonic, both with 13 nods each.

Head inside for photos of all the nominees in attendance…

Keep scrolling to see a selection of the nominees on the red carpet…...

The 2024 Tony Awards nominations were announced on Tuesday, April 30. Out of all the nominees spread across 26 categories, 23 fascinating facts, stats, trivia and achievements stand out as particularly noteworthy.

1. The following shows only received one Tony nomination: “The Great Gatsby,” “Gutenberg! The Musical!,” “Monty Python’s Spamalot,” “Patriots” “Uncle Vanya” and “The Who’s Tommy.”

2. The following Broadway productions from this past season were completely snubbed: “The Cottage,” “Harmony,” “The Heart of Rock and Roll,” “How to Dance in Ohio,” “I Need That,” “Once Upon a One More Time,” “The Shark is Broken” and “The Wiz.”

3. The following individuals nominated last year are recognized again this year: Kai Harada, Tim Hatley, Amy Herzog, Brian d’Arcy James, Natasha Katz, Bradley King, Tom Kitt, Gareth Owen, Emilio Sosa, Jessica Stone, and Kara Young.

SEETony Awards snubs: ‘Patriots,’ Steve Carell, Chip Zien …

4. Some noteworthy names who happen to be nominated for producing at least one...

Zack Norman, a veteran character and producer who appeared in films including Romancing The Stone, Cadillac Man and several for director Harry Jaglom along with guested on The Nanny, The A-Team, Baywatch and other series, died April 28 of natural causes. He was 83.

His son-in-law Jeff Briller confirmed the news to Deadline.

Born Howard Zuker on May 27, 1940, Norman received an executive Mba from Harvard Business School before embarking entering show business. He performed as a comedian through the latter half of the 1960s and working the Playboy Clubs, the Flamingo and Copacabana with the Temptations. He made his TV debut in 1969 doing stand-up on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

He made about a half-dozen films in the 1970s before working on a pair of memorable ’80s films: He had a small role in Milos Forman’s Ragtime (1981) before being cast as Cousin Ira in Robert Zemeckis’ Romancing the Stone (1984). His character uttered the oft-quoted line,...

Arrow Video is hitting the genre game in a big way this summer, releasing 4K editions of sci-fi favorite The Last Starfighter and Guy Ritchie’s adaptation of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. in July.

While Arrow Video has released The Last Starfighter on 4K in North America just last year, this U.K. release will definitely be worth seeking out for our friends across the pond. On the transfer, the label wrote: “Now newly restored from a 4K scan of the original negative and featuring a 4.1 mix originally created for the film’s 70mm release – never included on previous home video formats – The Last Starfighter arrives loaded with brand new and archival bonus features. Strap yourself in: the Blu-ray adventure of a lifetime is about to begin!”

Special features for Arrow Video’s The Last Starfighter included two commentaries, as well as in-depth looks at the score,...

Henry Cavill leads a ragtag group on an unlikely mission in this shaggy, exaggerated account of Operation Postmaster

Guy Ritchie’s inevitable graduation from London to Hollywood has had its moments – the rambunctious zip of the first Sherlock Holmes, the stylish homoeroticism of The Man from Uncle – but it soon felt as if the once electrifying film-maker had been swallowed up by the system. A middling Sherlock sequel, a pointless King Arthur non-starter and a soulless Aladdin remake seemed like enough to push not just fans away but Ritchie himself. He’s since found a happier medium, making films for a broad, commercial audience with easily marketable stars yet on, what seem like, his own terms, wrestling some control back from the money men.

He’s barely stopped ever since, with five films made over five years and two more slotted into the next, and there is an expectedly solid,...

There is no doubt that Windham Rotunda left an impactful legacy in WWE. Using the ring name Bray Wyatt, Rotunda created many memorable moments in the promotion. Sadly the world lost Windham last year, but his memory and his visions of creativity can be still felt today.

One of Windham’s creations was the character Uncle Howdy. Windham created the character for his younger brother Taylor Michael Rotunda who goes by the ring name Bo Dallas. There have been various Uncle Howdy teases popping up on both television and social media,

During the ending credits of the Bray Wyatt documentary that was released on Peacock a few weeks back, there was a hint of an Uncle Howdy return. A former member of the Wyatt family Erick Rowan had to cancel previously planned shows he was set to appear at.

Broadway’s spring newcomers continued pulling in the city’s tastemakers, tourists and the merely curious last week, with overall box office down about 10% from the previous week but most new shows filling at least 90% of their seats.

Topping the newcomers was Cabaret with Eddie Redmayne as the Emcee (full title of the revival: Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club), fill all seats at the August Wilson Theatre and grossing $1,731,227 for seven previews. Opening night is April 21.

Second highest earner of the previewing or just-opened shows was The Wiz, grossing $1,288,057 for seven performances at the Marquis, with attendance at 93% of capacity. Opening night is April 17.

Two productions had their opening weeks: The Outsiders, selling out the Jacobs and grossing $787,966; and Lempicka, which opened Sunday night following days of heavily comped press previews, with attendance at 94% of capacity at the Longacre and grosses a modest $344,080.

Some other notable showings among the new productions:

Suffs,...

It might be fair to say that the James Bond role has always been elusive to Henry Cavill. After losing to Daniel Craig in 2006’s Casino Royale as he was too young and inexperienced, the actor is now being doubted to join the franchise because he’s already 40.

Henry Cavill in The Man from Uncle

Cavill has been in the running for the role of 007 for quite some time now, even topping the list and remaining in the top 5 alongside fan-favorite actors such as Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Idris Elba.

Henry Cavill Remains Clueless On His Standing As The Next James Bond

While guesting on The Rich Eisen Show, actor Henry Cavill revealed he has no clue whatsoever about his potential casting in James Bond. He also acknowledged the rumor that he was being dismissed because of his age.

“I have no idea. All I’ve got to go off is the rumors,...

Broadway’s busy spring was reaching peak bloom last week as the season’s final batch of new shows – save for the upcoming Sufjan Stevens musical Illinoise – was in previews, boosting total box office receipts to an impressive $39,445,823.

The figure for the week ending April 7 marks a 6% increase over the previous week. Attendance was 305,211, a 12% bump over the previous week (and 9% higher than last season at this time). In all, 37 Broadway productions filled 94% of available seats.

A healthy number of the recent arrivals played to full houses, including An Enemy of the People, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Stereophonic, Uncle Vanya, The Great Gatsby, and The Outsiders. They joined the usual sell-outs Hadestown, Hamilton, Merrily We Roll Along, Moulin Rouge! and Wicked.

Among the spring arrivals:

The Outsiders, in previews at the Jacobs and opening Thursday, sold out its seven performances, grossing $732,073; Lempicka took in $357,757 for seven previews at the Longacre,...

There are always some minor changes to the storyline or character details whenever a franchise is adapted into a live-action, and something similar might happen in the upcoming seasons of Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Avatar: The Last Airbender | Source: Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender

Dallas Liu who portrayed the role of Prince Zuko in season 1 of the series opened up about the same. He revealed that he would like the show to explore some more aspects of his character’s back story and his relationship with his family.

Dallas Liu wants to see more of Zuko’s relationship with his mother in Avatar: The Last Airbender

Avatar: The Last Airbender was an animated series created by Michael Dante Dimartino and Bryan Konietzko that aired from 2005 to 2008. The series revolved around the story of Aang, the last Airbender who would bring an end to 100 years of war and establish an era of peace.

“It is a pretty great crop of plays this year, several that have become big commercial hits,” declares Sam Eckmann about the many dramas and revivals in contention for nominations at the 77th Tony Awards. Sam and I met for the very first time this season to discuss the 15 productions eligible for nominations, reviewing our picks in seven of the 11 play categories. Watch our 2024 Tony Awards slugfest above.

In the top category of Best Play, we overlap on four of our five predicted nominees: “Stereophonic,” “Prayer for the French Republic,” “Mother Play” and “Patriots.” While I tentatively pick the upcoming “Mary Jane” by Amy Herzog for the fifth slot, Sam backs “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” by Jocelyn Bioh, saying it “got amazing reviews, enough to break in here.” We also discuss a possible surprise nomination for either “The Cottage” or “Grey House.” The other eligible productions are “I Need...

Rihanna‘s songs have changed pop culture forever. That doesn’t mean she thinks all of them are great. She had mixed feelings about her first single, coating it to a nursery rhyme. One of the song’s writers said the tune would set her on the path to becoming pop culture royalty.

Rihanna wasn’t too impressed with 1 song when she heard it over the phone

“Pon de Replay” was co-written by Alisha Brooks, Vada Nobles, Carl Sturken, and Evan Rogers. It’s not one of the more sophisticated tunes in her catalog but it’s undeniably catchy. On top of that, artists rarely debut with their best work. During a 2020 interview with Vulture, Rogers revealed that Rihanna had misgivings about the track. “I played it for Rihanna over the phone,” he recalled. “She was like ‘Uncle Ev, it sounds like a nursery rhyme. I like it, but I don’t know.

Exclusive: Netflix has greenlighted Black Rabbit, a limited series headlined and executive produced by Jason Bateman and Jude Law in their first on-screen pairing. Cleopatra Coleman (Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire), Amaka Okafor (Bodies), Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù (Gangs of London) and Dagmara Dominczyk (Succession) have joined the cast of the one-hour drama, from showrunners and executive producers Zach Baylin and Kate Susman and Bateman’s Aggregate Films under the company’s creative partnership with Netflix.

Bateman will direct the first two episodes of the series, created and written by Baylin and Susman based on an original idea. In it, when the owner of a New York City hotspot (Law) allows his turbulent brother (Bateman) back in his life, he opens the door to escalating dangers that threaten to bring down everything he’s built.

Executive producing are Bateman and Michael Costigan for Aggregate Films; Law and Ben Jackson...

Starz is heading down south with Uncle Clifford.

The Lionsgate-backed premium cable network has ordered Down in the Valley, a half-hour docuseries exploring the Deep South with P-Valley star Nicco Annan set to host. The six-episode series will launch at a date to be determined this year and explore the people, music, culture and stories of the South, per Starz, as the show will feature everything from strip clubs to sex workshops, rap performances and ancient hoodoo rituals.

The order for Down in the Valley arrives as P-Valley — from creator Katori Hall — has been off the air for nearly two years. Sources say production on P-Valley is expected to resume later this year, though the show is not expected to air in 2024.

“P-Valley has authentically captured Southern Black culture in our fictional world of Chuccalisa and piqued the curiosity of our Pynk Posse to learn more,” said Kathryn Busby,...

John Candy was a popular actor who left behind a legacy that is still going strong as ever, even though it has been 30 years since he died. The Canadian actor had a remarkable screen presence, and in addition to being a hard worker, he was also one of the funniest actors around. He managed to elicit laughs with his impeccable comedic timing. During his career, Candy delivered a number of memorable performances, and as Hollywood still remembers him fondly, we take a look at his net worth.

John Franklin Candy battled several health issues that arose due to his obesity. Regardless, he stood out as an astonishing actor who could seamlessly slip into character. Moreover, the Home Alone star was unequivocally loved by all his co-stars.

Candy starred in Home Alone (Source: Home Alone)

Candy embodied all the qualities of a good actor, and he was rewarded for it. Even...

Fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender are familiar with the series’ complex characters, intricate storytelling, and powerful themes of redemption and self-discovery. One of the characters who enraptured viewers with her cunning intelligence and deadly skills was Azula, the powerful and ruthless Princess of the Fire Nation.

And, according to head writer Aaron Ehasz, Azula was supposed to embark on a redemption arc in the potential fourth season that has yet to come to fruition. Indeed, in April 2019, Ehasz shocked the fandom and gave them a glimpse of what could have been in the upcoming season. He therefore revealed on his personal Twitter that a fourth season of the show was once considered.

Azula in Avatar: The Last Airbender

The main plot point that Ehasz addressed was Azula, Zuko’s rival and vicious, power-hungry sister. After being defeated by Zuko and Katara, she was left in chains at the end of the third season.

Henry Cavill’s presence seems wanted in every movie nowadays since he dropped from Netflix’s The Witcher. After his unfortunate exit as Superman from the Dceu, the actor has been rumored to appear in huge franchises such as James Bond and Marvel Studios.

Henry Cavill from Man of Steel

As Cavill has been in the running to lead the upcoming James Bond movie, a new door of opportunity opened up for him after rumors of his casting in a Marvel role spread online. In fact, he has been eyed to play either of the two popular Marvel characters: Doctor Doom and Captain Britain.

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The following contains spoilers from the Feb. 19 episode of CBS’ NCIS, titled “The Stories We Leave Behind.”

CBS’ NCIS this Monday night said a very fond farewell to Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard and, in turn, his portrayer, late cast member David McCallum. How did the extremely emotional script by cast member Brian Dietzen and executive producer Scott Williams capture the death’s impact on not just current colleagues but past team members, as well?

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Eighties television was a land of new ideas that hadn’t been seen before. It was also a place where old tropes were made shiny and new with a modern sheen that intrigued audiences and would produce classics like the hospital drama St. Elsewhere and the crime drama Hill Street Blues.

It would be a humdinger of a decade within the genre of mystery and detectives. It would see the return of the iconic detective Mike Hammer in a new series and would also bring us the dramedy Moonlighting. We’d also be treated to one of the greatest performances of Sherlock Holmes ever with the amazing Jeremy Brett.

It would also bring us a female detective who, in a world filled with male counterparts, couldn’t catch a break until she made up her own male counterpart in a boss named Remington Steele. The rest, as they say, is history,...

In my first review for the slapstick chronicles of silly villager Ah Niu (Ye Feng) and his Big Uncle (Wang Sha), we unpack the terror of living in a city ravaged by progress, alongside the guilt of desiring to partake in its consumerist pleasures. We learn an unspoken ‘truth' that for Ah Niu, the childlike icon of innocence, to remain a good person, he must remain poor. Lo and behold, the third of “The Crazy Bumpkins” series: “Big Times for the Crazy Bumpkins” (1976), sees a bag of money and jewels accidentally falling into Ah Niu's lap, making him actually rich. After 2 iterations of largely repeated gags, John Lo Mar's moral reflections on life in the new city enters a new curve, coming to a head in “Crazy Bumpkins in Singapore” (1976). Though this narrative shift is likely practical, it also ironically reveals the films' contradiction, as a marketed Shaw Brothers' product criticizing consumerist culture.

Attention animation fans and families, “Kiff” is back with an exciting and hilarious episode that promises laughter and adventure! Tune in to Disney at 8:00 Am on Saturday, February 3, 2024, for Season 1, Episode 29, titled “Fun Uncle Pat; Kiff Escape!”

In this delightful episode, Kiff’s favorite uncle pays a visit, bringing with him a whirlwind of fun and mischief. Uncle Pat is known for his entertaining antics, and viewers can expect a dose of laughter as Kiff and his crew join in on the excitement.

But the fun doesn’t stop there! Kiff and his friends take on the challenge of an escape room. It’s a test of wit, teamwork, and problem-solving skills as they navigate the puzzles and mysteries of the room. Viewers can look forward to an entertaining adventure filled with twists and turns.

“Kiff” has been a hit with audiences for its humor, heartwarming moments, and relatable characters.

Jenna Ortega is teasing the second season of Wednesday, saying that each episode will feel like a movie.

“I’ve received some scripts now for the second season, and we’re definitely leaning into a little bit more horror,” Ortega told Laverne Cox while being interviewed for E! on the Emmys red carpet. “It’s really, really exciting because all throughout the show [Wednesday] never really changes and that’s what’s wonderful about her.”

She continued, “There’s some really good one-liners and I think everything is bigger. It’s a lot more action-packed. I think each episode will probably feel a little bit more like a movie, which is nice.”

The second season of the Netflix series has moved filming locations to Ireland after filming the first season in Romania. Wednesday EP Steve Stark recently revealed that production for the series would begin in April.

Ortega is set to...

It’s never a sure thing for a Netflix Original to get a physical media release, but the streaming service surprises us from time to time. On that note, “Wednesday” is coming to Blu-ray!

“Wednesday” Season One will be available to own on Blu-ray and DVD March 26.

From the creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (“Smallville”), and director Tim Burton (Beetlejuice), the kooky and spooky first season of “Wednesday,” the TV series based on Wednesday Addams of the iconic Addams Family, which streams on Netflix and is produced by MGM Television, a division of Amazon MGM Studios, comes to DVD and Blu-ray March 26, 2024. “Wednesday” Season One will be available to purchase online and in-store from major retailers.

The series stars Jenna Ortega as Wednesday, Gwendoline Christie as Principal Larissa Weems, Jamie McShane as Sheriff Donovan Galpin, Hunter Doohan as Tyler Galpin, Percy Hynes White as Xavier Thorpe, Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair,...

Deadline reports that CBS has given a straight-to-series order to NCIS: Origins, a prequel series about young Leroy Jethro Gibbs.

The NCIS prequel comes from Mark Harmon, who played Gibbs on NCIS for nearly twenty years, and his son Sean Harmon, who actually played a younger Gibbs in a handful of episodes. NCIS writers-producers Gina Lucita Monreal and David J. North are also developing the series. The prequel will be narrated by Mark Harmon and take place in 1991, years prior to the events of NCIS. Deadline’s description reads: “In the series, Gibbs starts his career as a newly minted special agent at the fledgling NCIS Camp Pendleton office where he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks.” The search will soon be on for an actor to play the role of young Gibbs.

“The character of Gibbs has been an important part of my life for 20 years,...

As a former teaching colleague was very fond of saying: “You can’t make a pie out of sh*t”.

He was wrong and right. You can technically make all manner of things – up to and including pies – out of sh*t, but in the end, put any amount of sh*t in a pie and what you’ll end up with is a sh*t pie. Ingredients matter, is the point. Just ask Gordon Ramsay, or Minny Jackson from The Help.

The ingredients in the below movies and TV shows are the opposite of shit. They’re grade A, top drawer, high quality constituent parts… I really wish I hadn’t started this ‘shit’ thing. Does anybody else feel a bit queasy. And off pies?

Any road, we salute the actors below for being particularly excellent at their jobs this year, in some similarly excellent films and shows. Top work,...

The Netflix streaming service had another major hit on its hands when the Addams Family series Wednesday made its debut back in November of 2022. Season 2 of that show is now gearing up to start filming in Ireland (the first season was filmed in Romania) in late April next year – and Bloomberg reports that Netflix is now considering making a spin-off based on another popular Addams Family character, Uncle Fester!

According to Bloomberg, an Uncle Fester spin-off would be the first step in Netflix building their own Addams Family franchise. “Before production begins on the second season (of Wednesday), the company has also started talking about another Addams Family program, one built around Uncle Fester. As with any TV show in development, there is no guarantee the Uncle Fester show will ever happen. The writers have to figure out the story, the company needs to negotiate contracts with talent, and the...

As the 50th anniversary of hip-hop comes to a close, the Recording Academy has one last trick up its sleeve to honor the pillars of the culture.

The Academy joins forces with CBS for “A Grammy Salute to 50 Years of Hip-Hop,” an aural spectacular that’s as much an ode to the culture as it is a documentation of it. Throughout the two-hour special, rappers and DJs from all walks of life come together to celebrate what started in the Bronx in the 1970s and spread across the world, charting its impact through a strong lineup of rappers, beatboxers, dancers, DJs and presenters.

The special, filmed at Inglewood’s YouTube Theater on Nov, 8, features a laundry list of performers spanning both decades and regions. Just a sampling of the artists: Queen Latifah, Common, Public Enemy, Rakim, Doug E. Fresh, Mc Lyte, Rick Ross, Jeezy, Jermaine Dupri, Yg, Too Short, E-40, De La Soul,...

Beyoncé, as she sings in her 2013 track of the same name, has always seemed “flawless,” especially when she’s on stage. But early into “Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé,” she sings a ballad with a competing title, “Flaws and All,” which here reads as something of a sign of what she’s trying to do with this project, which she also directs.

In “Renaissance,” Beyoncé wants to show the effort that goes into her existence — both in arenas and outside of them. She wants to show the machinery of the tour mechanism, explaining that the most expensive part of the set was all the steel to support the stage design and highlighting the crew building the massive screens behind her. She wants to highlight the complicated act of mothering as a superstar, and she wants to demonstrate how her body, which has always seemed to support her in extraordinary ways,...

Burt Young, whose career as a film tough guy won him an Academy Award nomination for his role in the boxing fairy tale Rocky, died Oct. 8 in Los Angeles. He was 83 and no cause or location was given.

His death was confirmed by his daughter, Anne Morea Steingieser, to the New York Times.

Young’s resume included more than 160 film and television credits, including appearances in Chinatown, Once Upon a Time in America and The Pope of Greenwich Village. An ex-Marine and former professional boxer, Young parlayed a bulldog countenance into a long Hollywood career.

His television gigs included roles on M*A*S*H and he appeared in films like The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight (1971) and Cinderella Liberty (1973), Back to School (1986) and Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989).

He also wrote and starred in Uncle Joe Shannon, (1978), the story of a jazz trumpeter whose life implodes before he finds redemption.

GlobalComix’s 13 Days 'Til Halloween kicks off today and, as part of their Halloween offering, we have details on Monster Forge Comics' gHosts one-shot. A crossover series that features some of the horrors best creators and characters, we have all the details:

"GlobalComix is excited to announce 13 Days ‘Til Halloween, featuring select spooky comics on the GlobalComix app!

The treats just keep on coming! Monster Forge Comics just announced an exclusive release, Ghosts Halloween Special. The GlobalComix crossover series is written by Shannon Eric Denton and Cullen Bunn, with issue #1 that features Rob Zombie artist David Hartman (Army Of The Dead, Phantasm: Ravager), David Dastmalchian (Count Crowley, Doctor Fearless), Eisner-nominated Rodney Barnes (Nita Hawes, Killadelphia), Vamp (Vamp), Cullen Bunn (Shock Shop), and Chynna Clugston Flores (Ms. Halloween)! As for the story at hand, here's the official synopsis:

Investigator Nita Hawes is drawn into a decades old missing child case when...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Frank Zappa’s landmark Over-Nite Sensation, and in November, Zappa Records/UMe will celebrate the LP with a deluxe reissue of the 1973 album complete with unreleased tracks, outtakes, two concerts from the era, and more from one of Rolling Stone’s 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

Ahead of Over-Nite Sensation: 50th Anniversary Edition’s release on November 17, check out the previously unheard “Face Down,” a demo that would ultimately transform into the album’s television-skewering “I’m the Slime.”

The demo finds the...

Actor Johnny Depp dove headfirst into the character of Willy Wonka in the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and he got his inspiration from watching children’s TV shows.

Depp’s interpretation of Willy Wonka was almost childlike, with some people comparing him to the persona Michael Jackson displayed. Depp, who often embraced character acting, said in this instance, he wanted to model Willy Wonka after someone who spoke to children in somewhat of a “musical” way.

“On this film with Willy Wonka there wasn’t specifically any one or two guys that were models, so to speak, for the character, but there were memories that I have of when I was a little kid of watching children’s shows and children show hosts,” he told IGN.

“And I distinctly remember, even at that age, their speech pattern and their kind of musical quality of the way they’re speaking to the camera,...