It wouldn’t be a Kids’ Choice Awards show without slime. Lots and lots of slime. And to make sure all that slime behaves like it’s supposed to, Nickelodeon does “lots of testing,” Ashley Kaplan, executive vp, Nickelodeon & Awesomeness Unscripted & Digital Franchise Studio, told The Hollywood Reporter earlier this week. Nickelodeon graciously allowed THR …
The verdict is in on Presumed Innocent: Apple TV+ wants more. The tech giant’s streaming service has ordered a second season of the legal drama based on Scott Turow’s best-selling novel. The renewal comes as the show’s eight-episode first season, which stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a prosecutor accused of murdering a colleague, is set to …
They say there are no more original ideas in Hollywood, but filmmakers Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar want to give something new a try. At least as far as independent film financing is concerned. The duo have directed, written and produced two films — Sing Sing, out this weekend via A24, and 2021’s Jockey — …
Fans of Star Trek, get set to be stunned. A original phaser and communicator used by William Shatner’s James T. Kirk on the 1960s NBC series will be on display starting Monday at the Comic-Con Museum in San Diego. The iconic props, created in 1966, have not been seen in more than 50 years, organizers …
The American Cinematheque is set to give Jessica Chastain its top prize. Chastain will be honored with the American Cinematheque Award on Dec. 6 during a ceremony in Beverly Hills that will also see Oppenheimer producer Charles Roven receive the Power of Cinema Award. “She (Chastain) is a fierce advocate for social causes and an …
After making a name for himself with grounded action movies John Wick and Nobody, screenwriter Derek Kolstad is leaving Earth with Planet Death. He teams with writer Robert Venditti and artist Tomás Giorello on the upcoming space invasion limited series, which publisher Bad Idea will release in early March. The Hollywood Reporter has a first-look …
When law professor Tal (Grantham Coleman) enters his childhood home ahead of his father’s funeral, his young son Bentley (Dyllan Yelverton) turns to him with curiosity. “Is Grandpa going to be a ghost?” he asks. No, Tal responds. “So he won’t haunt us?” Tal patiently replies that he doesn’t think so. As it turns out, …
Bette Midler is sharing the feedback she got to her request to join the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast. While talking with E! News, when Midler was asked about whether she had plans to make a cameo on her The Fabulous Four co-star Sheryl Lee Ralph’s hit sitcom, Abbott Elementary, she noted that she …
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up Saoirse Ronan’s The Outrun addiction drama for a fall theatrical release. Director Nora Fingscheidt’s film that stars Ronan as a young Scottish woman who repeatedly plumbs rock bottom before finally resolving to control her alcohol addiction amid Scotland’s Orkney Islands, will hit theaters on Oct. 4. Sony Pictures Classics …
Eleven o’clock on Friday night is easily one of the worst time slots in what remains of linear TV. But, for the past five weeks, that’s been the designated drop for Fantasmas. A surrealist odyssey through New York, one rendered via sets that recall Dogtown and Gremlins 2: The New Batch in equal measure, each half-hour depicts …