Andy Samberg is looking back on walking away from Saturday Night Live. While appearing on Kevin Hart‘s Peacock interview series Hart to Heart, the comedian recalled why he made the decision to quietly exit the comedy sketch series after seven seasons back in 2012. “I was falling apart in my life,” he said, opening up about the exit …
Rumer Willis has boarded director Rohit Karn Batra’s gun crisis drama, The Gun on Second Street. The indie, which already stars Poppy Delevingne and Tom Arnold, follows two Pittsburgh police partners and best friends called to an uneventful domestic violence dispute on Second Street. A violent scuffle quickly ensues as officer TJ Meadows III accidentally …
Michael Bay is heading to television. The director, known for his muscular and high-revving big-screen action franchises such as Bad Boys and Transformers, is in talks to direct Barbaric, an acerbic fantasy series based on the best-selling Vault Comics title. Netflix has picked up the bold-faced series package, which it will develop with A+E Studios. Sam …
Bill Belichick, CW star? Believe it. Belichick, widely regarded as one of the greatest NFL coaches of all time, is joining the panel for Inside the NFL, which airs on The CW. The weekly highlights-and-analysis show, produced by NFL Films, is set to begin its season on Aug. 30. Belichick will join former NFL players …
Colman Domingo‘s prison drama Sing Sing is set to open the 22nd Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival (MVAAFF). This year’s lineup also includes Christine Swanson’s road drama Albany Road, starring Renée Elise Goldsberry and Lynn Whitfield; Dawn Porter’s Luther Vandross documentary Luther: Never too Much; the doc short The Rebel Girls; and Harvard historian …
A wedding takes a deadly turn in the teaser trailer for Netflix‘s The Perfect Couple. Nicole Kidman stars in the series adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s New York Times bestselling novel of the same name, about Amelia Sacks (Eve Hewson), a bride set to marry into one of Nantucket’s wealthiest families. Ahead of the big day, …
Amazon is stepping into the ring with the estate of the late and great boxer Muhammad Ali. Following months of negotiations, the retail giant/streamer has handed out a formal series order for The Greatest, a scripted drama following the life of Ali. The estate of the former heavyweight champion boxer, who died in June 2016 …
Shelley Duvall, the saucer-eyed, rail-thin waif who starred in seven films directed by her mentor, Robert Altman, and avoided the ax wielded by an unhinged Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, died Thursday. She was 75. Duvall died in her sleep of complications from diabetes at her home in Blanco, Texas, Dan Gilroy, her …
Demi Moore plays an aging Hollywood star who embraces a secret cloning procedure to save her career in the trailer for The Substance, a surreal feminist horror pic earlier picked up by Mubi for distribution. Revenge director Coralie Fargeat’s second feature, a campy body horror pic, debuted in Cannes, where it earned the best screenplay …
In Land of Women, Chilean actor Santiago Cabrera stars as Amat, a Spanish resident in the fictional Catalonian town of La Muga and the sole male participant in the all-female wine cooperative on which the city’s economy relies. He also becomes an unexpected and much-needed aide to Eva Longoria’s Gala Scott, who, along with her …