Kevin Costner‘s period Western Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 2 won’t be riding into theaters on Aug. 16 after all. The film is being pulled from the release calendar after Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter 1 bit the dust in its theatrical debut late last month. After numerous discussions, Costner’s Territory Pictures and …
Comedy isn’t the first genre most would assign a show about a man getting out of federal prison and reuniting with his family after serving decades behind bars. But humor is the instinctive approach UnPrisoned creator and writer Tracy McMillan took for the Hulu series, which draws from her lived experience growing up in the …
Shawn Levy‘s Star Wars movie is picking up some momentum. Lucasfilm has hired screenwriter Jonathan Tropper to pen the script for the feature, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The movie first came to light in November 2022, but has been on the backburner while Levy completed work on this month’s Deadpool & Wolverine. Tropper is …
Hulu has brought a second A-list comedian into the fold as the streamer prepares to launch a stand-up comedy brand. Bill Burr‘s next special will premiere on the Disney-owend platform, marking a change of streaming venues for the comic. Burr has done seven specials, as well as the movie Old Dads and animated series F …
Kids’ Choice Awards viewers will be transported into the world of Bikini Bottom during this year’s show. Nickelodeon has designed the stage based on the undersea home of SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star, who are hosting the 2024 KCAs on Saturday from Los Angeles — just a few days ahead of the date of SpongeBob SquarePants’ 25th …
Rachel Bloom’s one-woman stage show Death, Let Me Do My Show is slated to come to Netflix in the early fall. Bloom is currently performing the show at the Williamstown Theater Festival at Williams College in Massachusetts, and plans to film the July 12 and July 13 performances. The production started performances there on July …
It’s an emotional day for Pixar and parent company Disney. On Wednesday, Inside Out 2 passed up Incredibles 2 ($1.242 billion) to become the top-grossing Pixar title of all time at the worldwide box office, not adjusted for inflation. That puts it at No. 4 on the overall list of top-grossing animated films, and the …
Avatar: The Last Airbender star Ian Ousley has nabbed the lead role in The Runner, a short film about a grief-stricken man haunted by his past from music video director Tony Tacheny. Ousley plays Everett, a man living out of his van as he struggles to cope with the death of his wife, Abigail, played …
Pat Sajak isn’t quite done with Wheel of Fortune. Sajak, who retired from hosting the syndicated game show in June after 41 years, will take one more spin on ABC‘s Celebrity Wheel of Fortune in the fall. The show is set to premiere on Oct. 7 — episodes have not yet been taped, sources say …
One of the elements that gave Twister such a visceral charge back in 1996 was its balance of practical effects with CGI, during a transitional period when the latter was becoming more seamlessly integrated into live action. Jan de Bont’s propulsive direction and two appealing leads with great chemistry also helped. Arriving almost three decades …