Month: February 2025

Arnold Schwarzenegger was completely unfazed watching his son Patrick Schwarzenegger‘s nude scene at the Monday night premiere of “The White Lotus” Season 3. “I was so pumped to take a break from filming to celebrate [Patrick Schwarzenegger] at the ‘White Lotus’ Season 3 premiere,” the “Predator” star wrote on Instagram Tuesday. “What a show! I
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With the 1939 classic “The Wizard of Oz” forever ingrained in pop culture history, seven-time Oscar-nominated production designer Nathan Crowley knew it was the necessary starting place to develop “Wicked.” At the Variety FYC screening presented by Universal, Crowley told Clayton Davis, Variety’s senior awards editor, about his close collaboration with director Jon M. Chu,
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“Hitch” director Andy Tennant marked the 20th anniversary of the romantic-comedy with a new Business Insider interview in which he opened up about clashing with star Will Smith. As the filmmaker put it: “I didn’t want cheap jokes, but he didn’t trust me.” “We had our difficulties,” Tennant said of his relationship with Smith. “The
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As “Saturday Night Live” celebrates 50 years of being on air, the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, NY will preserve a collection of the show’s creative papers from the first five years of its history. Original “SNL” cast member Laraine Newman and original writer Alan Zweibel will guest curate the collection of the original writers’
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Tomás Talarico has been named managing director of Warner Music Southern Cone, overseeing the record company’s business in Argentina and Chile. Talarico has taken up the role this week as Guillermo Castellani has stepped down from the position.Talarico is based in Buenos Aires and reports to Alejandro Duque, president, Warner Music Latin America. Castellani will
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Feeling in the mood to imbibe a “Squid Game”-inspired cocktail — or binge on a “Sex Education” sausage hoagie? Netflix fans in Las Vegas who are hungry (and thirsty) for creations based on the streamer’s top originals can now visit the Netflix Bites Vegas restaurant at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino. The streamer’s new
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“Better Man,” the Robbie Williams biopic, emerged as the leading winner at the 14th AACTA International Awards, securing both best film and best direction for Australian filmmaker Michael Gracey. The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts’ celebration of global screen excellence saw the film add to its impressive nine-award sweep at the domestic AACTA
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Seth Rogen gave an interview to Esquire magazine as part of a new cover story and pushed back against the notion that comedy is now harder to pull off. Jerry Seinfeld went viral last year for saying TV comedy had been killed by the extreme left and P.C. culture, although he later said he regretted making
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The National Basketball Association has announced its lineup of musical performances celebrating the Bay Area’s rich musical culture as part of NBA All-Star 2025: DJ Cassidy will lead a special Bay Area edition of his “Pass The Mic Live!” show featuring legendary rappers E-40 and Too $hort, along with singer-rapper Saweetie and vocal group En
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Aaron Paul and Jacob Tremblay are set to battle spooks and scares in upcoming elevated horror “The Night House,” adapted from Jo Nesbø’s bestselling novel. The feature comes from genre maestro Steven Schneider (“Split,” “Insidious,” “Paranormal Activity”) who has teamed with Hope Studios’ Fredrik Wikström Nicastro (“A Man Called Otto,” “Borg vs. McEnroe”) and director
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Filmmaker Maggie Betts has been tapped to direct “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” for Netflix after Leslye Headland’s departure from the project. Betts, whose credits include Amazon MGM’s Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones-led legal drama “The Burial” and Sony Pictures Classic’s 2017 drama “Novitiate,” will also co-write the screenplay with Liz Tigelaar (“Tiny
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The trailer for the fourth season of “Power Book III: Raising Kanan” has been released. The season premieres March 7, with episodes hitting the Starz platforms and app on Fridays. In the trailer, Kanan (MeKai Curtis) and his mother Raquel Thomas (Patina Miller) navigate their drug operations. Other characters feature like Snaps (Wendell Pierce), Pop
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Gravitas Ventures is set to release “Grassland,” a feature drama executive produced by Common, in April after acquiring U.S. and Canadian rights. “Grassland” is William Bermudez and Sam Friedman’s directorial debut (the duo also penned the screenplay). It follows a Latina mother whose son gets to know a new neighborhood boy and his grandfather, a
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The early-’80s documentary “Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party,” which had a one-weekend-only release in cinemas as a theatrical event in October, is set to have its streaming premiere exclusively on Paramount+ beginning March 11 in the U.S. and Canada, the service announced Tuesday. The Cameron Crowe-directed film will debut the follow day, March 12, in
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After directing a pair of contemporary thrillers “The Stronghold” and “November,” French director Cedric Jimenez is diving into genre for his next movie, “Chien 51,” a dystopian film that once again explores the work and minds of cops but this time in a near-future environment ruled by AI. “Chien 51,” which reteams Jimenez with French
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Universal’s “Dog Man” barked its way to the top of the U.K. and Ireland box office this weekend, debuting with a commanding £3.2 million ($4 million), according to Comscore. The family-friendly animated adaptation of Dav Pilkey’s best-selling book series proved to be a major draw, delivering one of the biggest opening weekends of the year
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Paging Sam Wilson! “Captain America: Brave New World” flies to cinemas over the weekend, and Marvel’s latest adventure hopes to thaw an icy box office. “Captain America: Brave New World,” in which Anthony Mackie’s Avenger takes over the star-spangled shield from Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers, is targeting $80 million to $85 million over the traditional
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Dave Chappelle will receive the NAACP President’s Award at the 56th NAACP Image Awards ceremony on Feb. 22. Previous recipients of the prestigious award — presented “in recognition of special achievement and distinguished public service” — include Usher, Gabrielle Union-Wade and Dwyane Wade, Rihanna, LeBron James, Kerry Washington, Spike Lee, Muhammad Ali, Jesse Jackson, Colin Powell,
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