Month: December 2024

There’s officially a new companion in the Whoniverse. The first teaser for the second season of Disney+ and the BBC’s “Doctor Who” introduces Varada Sethu as Belinda Chandra, who assertively tells Ncuti Gatwa‘s Doctor: “You need to get me home!” The clip seems to tease an apocalyptic invasion of some sort, with spaceships and robots
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A film about a fantasist fish isn’t the most obvious subject for Christmas Day – except when it’s based on a children’s story by prolific British author Julia Donaldson and her longtime illustrator Axel Scheffler. “Tiddler” is the twelfth of Donaldson and Scheffler’s collaborations to be adapted by U.K. production company Magic Light Pictures and,
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“Sonic the Hedgehog 3” outpaced the box office competition on Christmas Eve. The film unwrapped $7.5 million on Tuesday from 3,700 North American theaters. “Sonic 3” is projected to bring in $50 million between Wednesday and Sunday. So far, the animated threequel about a blue anthropomorphic speed demon has collected $60 million domestically. It opens
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Peter Sutherland is back, and he’s searching for a mole in the CIA who plans to blow up Manhattan. Netflix debuted the Season 2 trailer of “The Night Agent” on Christmas morning, ahead of the streamer’s first-ever NFL games being livestreamed on the platform. Gabriel Basso is back as FBI agent Peter Sutherland in Season
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Singer-songwriter Elizabeth Chan set yet another benchmark in the annals of holiday music by issuing her 14th straight annual Christmas release, “Shatterproof,” this month. No one is likely to come close to shattering that record for the highest number of consecutive seasonal albums or EPs, but Chan — who is known for having a claim
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Just in time for Hannukah, Jewish American rapper Your Old Droog has released “Suspects,” the first single from his next album after 2024’s “Movie.” Produced by Edan, the song skillfully merges Droog’s skill as a storyteller with a sample from the rapper, producer and DJ’s bottomless library of 1960s and ‘70s pop obscurities. Though the
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SPOILER WARNING: This story discusses minor plot details for “Mufasa: The Lion King,” now in theaters. Lin-Manuel Miranda and composer Dave Metzger both knew the mighty musical legacy they had to uphold when writing the music for Disney’s “Mufasa: The Lion King.” The “Lion King” prequel tells the story of young Mufasa, voiced by Aaron Pierre,
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SPOILER ALERT: The following interview contains spoilers from “The Last Thanksgiving,” the second season finale of “Shrinking,” now streaming on AppleTV+. The sophomore season of AppleTV+ comedy “Shrinking” wrapped on Christmas Eve appropriately enough with a holiday episode (Thanksgiving), where this group of funny, complicated therapists and their loved ones shared what they are thankful for
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“Wicked” was briefly pulled from theaters in Kuwait, allegedly due to its LGBTQ cast, but could the blockbuster musical ever be fully banned in the United States? Filmmaker Adam McKay “wouldn’t be surprised” if the film was pulled in the next few years because of where America is headed politically. The “Don’t Look Up” director
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“It’s all been leading to this.” The final five episodes of “Cobra Kai” will debut on Netflix on Feb. 13. A brief trailer for Season 6 Part 3 teases “four decades of history all leading to this moment” as “Miyagi-Do and Cobra Kai must reckon with their pasts while facing an uncertain future both on
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Jenny Slate is standing by her “It Ends With Us” co-star Blake Lively after she accused the film’s director and leading man Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment and attempting a smear campaign. “As Blake Lively’s castmate and friend, I voice my support as she takes action against those reported to have planned and carried out
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Suddenly, somehow, all at once, everyone everywhere started wearing barn jackets, duck boots, and outdoor workwear staples. It’s happening on the streets and on the runways—and even more so in the world of fabulously fast and furious fashion collaborations. In recent months, we’ve seen Ganni x Barbour, Proenza Schouler x Sorel, and Tibi x L.L.Bean,
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“Doctor Who” producer Bad Wolf has increased its profits by 49% despite a drop in revenue year-on-year. Post-tax profits rose from £7,072,610 ($8.9 million) in 2023 to £10,554,620 ($13.2 million) in 2024, latest records show. Gross profits climbed from £11 million last year to £15 million this year. This is despite revenue dropping from £117
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Indian production house Maddock Films‘ “Param Sundari,” a cross-cultural romance starring Sidharth Malhotra and Janhvi Kapoor, is set for theatrical release on July 25, 2025. The film, directed by Tushar Jalota (“Dasvi”), centers on a love story between a North Indian protagonist (Malhotra) and a South Indian character (Kapoor), filmed in Kerala. The film “promises
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Sales company Lightdox has boarded Igor Bezinović‘s hybrid documentary “Fiume o morte!,” which premieres in the Tiger Competition section of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. [embedded content] The Croatian-Italian-Slovenian coproduction takes the audience back to 1919, when the Italian nationalist poet, dandy and preacher of war Gabriele D’Annunzio occupied the city of Fiume. “Today, the
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Bollywood star Varun Dhawan is embracing the larger-than-life cinema style of South India with his upcoming Christmas release “Baby John,” a film that had him studying the iconic mannerisms of superstar Rajinikanth in preparation for his role. Speaking with Variety ahead of the film’s December 25 release, Dhawan explains his attraction to the project, which
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“It Ends With Us” actor Brandon Sklenar has supported his co-star Blake Lively after she accused their fellow actor and director Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment and a smear campaign. “For the love of God read this,” Sklenar wrote on his Instagram story on Wednesday, while posting Lively’s sexual harassment complaint against Baldoni and Wayfarer
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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers from Season 2, Episode 8 of “Bad Sisters,” now streaming on Apple TV+. Trust “Bad Sisters” showrunner and actor Sharon Horgan to finish the second season of the hit Apple TV+ series with a literal cliffhanger (which happens to be also be titled “Cliff Hanger.”) In the eighth and
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Alec Baldwin‘s manslaughter case is finally over. On Monday, special prosecutor Kari Morrissey announced she has withdrawn her appeal of a judge’s order dismissing the case. The decision came after the state attorney general’s office said that it “did not intend to exhaustively pursue the appeal on behalf of the prosecution,” the prosecutor said. Baldwin
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Fubo said TelevisaUnivision pulled its networks from the streaming pay-TV provider Monday — alleging the Spanish-language media giant was “refusing to offer what we believe to be fair and competitive rates.” According to Fubo, “thousands of Spanish-speaking consumers across the U.S. have lost access to local news and weather — providing vital information affecting their
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Longtime “The Simpsons” writer Carolyn Omine  was dealt a few personal setbacks the past few years, as both her father and sister died — while she was also facing the professional uncertainty that came with the Hollywood strikes. As Omine faced these hard moments, she found escape in watching videos of English mentalist and illusionist
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Otis Williams’ nickname is “Oak,.” Given that the 83-year-old singer is still a member of the Temptations, 64 years after the group’s founding, it’s not to figure where that came from. He’s been the sole original member in the group since the early ’90s, in fact, and is still on the road and in the
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