Euphoria actor Austin Abrams has emerged as the choice to star in Sony Pictures’ and Zach Cregger’s reboot of horror action movie Resident Evil.

Cregger, the filmmaker who became part of the horror genre’s new generation thanks for his breakout Barbarian, wrote the script and is directing the feature.

He is readying for the release his follow-up to Barbarian, an ensemble horror piece titled Weapons. Abrams makes up part of the cast, which includes Josh Brolin and Julia Garner. Resident Evil would mark a reunion between the two, should any deal make.

Sony is moving fast on Resident Evil and a summer shoot in Europe is being planned. Cregger is said to already be scouting.

Constantin Film is producing and co-financing the film. Constantin’s Robert Kulzer, Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee (Barbarian,) and Miri Yoon (Weapons) as well as PlayStation Productions are also producing.

The previous Resident Evil movies,...

Praise Kier! “Severance” will return for Season 3 at Apple TV+.

It’s not surprising that the streamer would be interested in more episodes of the drama from Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller. “Severance” first premiered in February 2022. It quickly became a breakout hit for Apple, garnering widespread critical acclaim as well as 14 nominations during the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards and Creative Arts Emmy Awards. That first season ultimately took home two wins for Outstanding Main Title Design and Outstanding Music Composition for a Series in the Original Dramatic Score subcategory.

Season 2 has been similarly praised by critics as both installments currently have 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. During its premiere week, “Severance” Season 2 secured 598 million viewing minutes, according to Nielsen measurements. That week the series ranked No. 4 on the audience measurement company’s weekly list of the top streamed original content, a rarity for Apple TV+.

“Making ‘Severance’ has been one of...

Wings Hauser, the prolific character actor known for his roles in “Vice Squad,” “The Young and the Restless” and dozens of other films and shows, died March 15 in Los Angeles of natural causes, his wife Cali Lili Hauser confirmed to Variety. He was 78.

“Movie icon Wings Hauser took flight in the arms of his film and music partner, Cali Lili Hauser, at their studio this weekend,” his wife’s statement posted to his Facebook account said. “Wings Hauser’s one of a kind, legendary career spanned 58 years in movies, TV and music working alongside many of the greatest artists in the industry and earning their respect.”

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Disney CEO Bob Iger just revealed during the studio’s annual shareholder meeting that Coco 2 is happening. A 2029 release has been set.

“While the film is just in the initial stages, we know it will be full of humor, heart and adventure,” said Iger. “And we can’t wait to share more soon.”

The sequel reteams the team behind the original film, including Oscar-winning director Lee Unkrich and co-director Adrian Molina (Coco). Oscar-winning producer Mark Nielsen will produce.

Disney and Pixar’s “Coco” introduced Miguel, a 12-year-old with dreams of becoming a musician despite his family’s generations-old ban on music, who ventures to the vibrant Land of the Dead to unlock the real story behind his family history. “Coco” won two Academy Awards for best animated feature and best original song (“Remember Me”). The film also won a Golden...

Warner Bros. enacted some significant housekeeping around its film release schedule on Wednesday, including a new date for the highly anticipated Paul Thomas Anderson film starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

Now officially titled “One Battle After Another,” the Anderson project is shrouded in mystery but said to be an American crime thriller. Previously dated for Aug. 8, the film will now open nationwide on Sept. 26.

Insiders familiar with the movie said the minor push comes as the studio helps outfit U.S. movie theaters with VistaVision projection systems to accommodate their director’s vision. A move out of August to late September also squeaks “One Battle” out of the summer box office season and places it closer to the awards corridor, Anderson’s natural habitat.. DiCaprio will costar with Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall and Teyana Taylor.

Elsewhere on the Warners slate, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” will see a notable...

Demi Moore celebrated Bruce Willis’ 70th birthday with a gallery on Instagram of current family photos. The heartfelt images included Moore and Willis posing for the camera and their daughters lovingly embracing their father in a few candid shots. The photos provided fans with a rare glimpse at Willis, who has remained out of the spotlight since retirement from acting in 2022 due to an aphasia diagnosis. A year later, Willis’ family announced his disorder had progressed into frontotemporal dementia.

Willis and Moore were married for 13 years from 1987 to 2000 and have three children together: Rumer, Scout and Tallulah. The couple have remained close friends since their divorce and Moore continues to see Willis weekly, she revealed last fall during her awards press tour for “The Substance.”

“We love you,” Moore wrote about Willis in her Instagram caption, while Rumer posted a viral video from what looks like a few years ago...

May the odds be ever in your favor – again! “The Hunger Games” franchise from author Suzanne Collins has entered a new era as its latest book, “Sunrise on the Reaping,” hit shelves this week.

The prequel novel follows a young version of Katniss and Peeta’s mentor Haymitch Abernathy, played by Woody Harrelson in the films, as he emerges as the victor in the 50th annual Hunger Games. A film adaptation from Lionsgate was announced at the same time as the book.

With five books, six films and even an upcoming stage adaptation set for London this October, there’s no sign of slowing down for this juggernaut dystopian franchise. The staying power of Panem was showcased at a midnight release party at the Barnes & Noble in Union Square in New York City on Monday, one of hundreds held across the country for the Scholastic launch.

Collins herself was not in attendance,...

Could “Coyote vs. Acme” live to see another day?

The live-action/hybrid is in the process of being sold to Ketchup Entertainment, the company that just put out another abandoned Warner Bros./”Looney Tunes” project “The Day the Earth Blew Up,” for around $50 million. The deal has yet to be finalized but should it go through, “Coyote vs. Acme” would likely be released in 2026.

Based on a 1990 New Yorker piece by Ian Frazier and directed by Dave Green, “Coyote vs. Acme” was originally slated to be released on July 21, 2023, before being pulled from the schedule. “Barbie” took its place on the calendar and became a phenomenon. By the end of the year, it had been shopped around to various studios, some of whom had shown decided interest (Paramount even floated a hybrid theatrical/streaming release), but Warner Bros. had wanted a much higher number than most were comfortable with. A source close to Warner Bros.

If you can’t love “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” how in the hell are you going to love something else? Luckily, that’s not a question fans of the Emmy-winning MTV series nor its stars need to answer — because viewers and contestants alike are decidedly Team Ru.

In fact, the Top 6 queens of Season 17 couldn’t be more proud to be part of the reality TV show staple’s LGBTQ+ legacy 16 years after it first premiered back in 2009.

“We’re all blown away by how big the show has gotten. It’s such an amazing opportunity for queer people to tell their stories,” Sam Star told TheWrap at the 1,000th performance of “RuPaul’s Drag Race Live!” in Las Vegas over the weekend. “The fact that it’s not only successful on TV, but also a live show? It’s incredible. It’s a testament to RuPaul and all that she’s done.

Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 10 of “Severance,” streaming now on Apple TV+.

Tramell Tillman was done dancing.

After his “Severance” character, Mr. Milchick, conducted a memorable and oft-memed “Music Dance Experience” in the Apple TV+ show’s first season, he didn’t think it was possible to catch lightning in a bottle again.

But when director and executive producer Ben Stiller pitched him on a marching band sequence in the Season 2 finale, “Cold Harbor,” Tillman saw an opportunity to tap into his roots. “I went to two HBCUs, and one of them was Jackson State University.

The 2009 horror-comedy Jennifer’s Body has built a cult following over the years, but it flopped at the time of its release, largely because of its misleading marketing campaign.

In a recent GQ video, Seyfried looked back on some of her most memorable roles. One of them being Jennifer’s Body. “I can’t critique this movie. It’s to me, a perfect movie,” she said.

The film starred Seyfried as Needy, a nerdy character whose best friend is Megan Fox’s Jennifer, who becomes possessed by a demon and eats boys at their high school. It was directed by Karyn Kusama and written by Diablo Cody (Juno, Lisa Frankenstein.)

The promotion was targeted to male audiences, with Fox seen in sexualized posters and ads. When really, the movie’s themes were about female empowerment and friendship. “If the critics criticize anything, it would be the marketing. The marketing sucked. It just did.

When Duke Johnson was making the Oscar-nominated animated feature “Anomalisa” with Charlie Kaufman, Kaufman suggested Johnson read “Memory,” a lost Donald Westlake novel that had recently been published. (Kaufman had heard about its resurrection on NPR.) The novel, about a man named Paul Cole, who finds himself stranded in a small town with a head injury after being attacked by the jealous husband of Paul’s lover, had been completed in 1963 and shopped around by Westlake, with no takers. An attempt was made in the 1970s to shop it around again but Westlake, one of the great American crime fiction writers, declined. After his death in 2008, it was finally published by Hard Case Crime two years later.

“[Kaufman] was telling me that he really liked it, because what was interesting about it is that it’s by this famous crime novelist and that it was in the guise of a noir thriller,...

StubHub, one of the largest ticket resale marketplaces in the industry, has filed for an initial public offering, according to an SEC filing the company submitted on Friday.

Per the S-1 filing reviewed by The Hollywood Reporter, StubHub has applied for listing on the NYSE, trading under the symbol “Stub.” The company didn’t disclose the number of shares it will be selling. StubHub reported a $2.8 million net loss last year on $1.77 billion in revenue last year, the filing said, compared to more than $405 million in profit in 2023 on about $1.37 billion in revenue.

The company was founded 25 years ago by CEO Eric Baker. Baker left the company when it sold to eBay back in 2007, eventually founding Viagogo, another secondary ticket seller. Viagogo purchased StubHub back in 2019, reuniting Baker with his old company. StubHub had been rumored to be readying an IPO for months. The company said it sold more than 40 million tickets last year,...

Dennis Quaid and Annaleigh Ashford star in the Paramount+ true-crime series “Happy Face,” about the real-life Happy Face killer Keith Jesperson, which premieres with two episodes this week.

Some of the names and details have been changed from the actual people — his daughter, Melissa Moore, who is an executive producer on the show is now Melissa Reed — but the story is essentially the same.

Here is who plays who in the cast and where you might have seen them before.

Annaleigh Ashford as Melissa Reed (Credit: Bettina Strauss/Paramount+) Annaleigh Ashford as Melissa Reed

The actress, who is known for “Masters of Sex” and “American Crime Story,” plays the lead character, Melissa Reed, a makeup artist who decides to come forward as the daughter of the Happy Face killer to save a man who is on death row for one of the crimes her father actually committed.

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As the industry encounters a wave of diversity, equity and inclusion rollbacks, Amy Adams, filmmaker Karyn Kusama and Telluride Film Festival executive director Julie Huntsinger are booked to discuss representation in front of the next generation.

The trio will participate in a student-led Q&a panel as part of the Archer Film Festival at the Writers Guild Theater in Los Angeles on April 11. The chat, for Archer School for Girls students and aspiring filmmakers, is designed to focus on “pressing questions of how to create meaningful change for women in film, both in front of and behind the camera, within a rapidly shifting industry,” per the school.

The Archer Film Fest is an entirely student-led and organized effort that seeks to empower female filmmakers and amplify underrepresented voices. In addition to the Q&a, the fest will screen a selection of finalist films. More than 300 student-produced film submissions were received from more than 30 countries.

Note: This story contains spoilers from “Yellowjackets” Season 3, Episode 7.

Ever since “Yellowjackets” debuted, fans have been fixated on one particular character — and we don’t even know who she is. But after the show’s latest, game-changing twist, we might have finally met her.

“Pit Girl,” as has become the fandom’s non-canon nomenclature for the mysterious character, was actually the first person we ever saw on the show. Introduced in the opening scene of the series pilot episode, the fair-skinned brunette sprints through a frozen forest, underdressed, wearing just a nightgown (and the gold heart necklace that has become a significant symbol and major mystery of its own in the Yellowjackets mythology). Whoever she is, Pit Girl is clearly running for her life, surrounded by the sound of animalistic shrieks as she tries to make her escape.

But that escape is cut short when she falls into a pit full of spikes and dies,...

“Little House on the Prairie” star Melissa Gilbert shared an emotional tribute to her series co-star Jack Lilley, who died at the age of 91 at the Motion Picture & Television Fund retirement home on Wednesday.

Lilley played a stagecoach driver and other roles across several seasons on “Little House on the Prairie. Gilbert took to Instagram to honor her late friend and colleague.

“The little house family has lost one of our own,” Gilbert wrote. “He taught me how to ride a horse when I was just a wee little thing. He was so patient with me. He never said...

Note: This story contains spoilers ahead from “Severance” Season 2, Episode 10.

Before production even started, Dichen Lachman knew filming the finale of “Severance” Season 2 was going to be a challenge. That wasn’t because of her character’s 20+ innies; it was because of the stakes around Gemma’s reunion with her husband, Mark (Adam Scott).

“I always knew what was going to be required in that moment, and it was going to be a lot. The trickiest part, just technically, was burying the the emotions and then — once you go through the threshold — them flowing out,” Lachman told TheWrap.

Dichen Lachman in “Severance.” (Apple TV+)

Lachman and Scott didn’t prepare much prior to the scene. But when they captured it, she could tell. “It was just like, ‘That’s the moment,’ ” she recalled. “[Adam Scott] is such a wonderful scene partner. It’s so much easier to do good work when the...

The new Shondaland murder mystery series “The Residence” shares some DNA with another Netflix whodunit: Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out” film.

“It resuscitated the genre,” showrunner Paul William Davies told Variety at “The Residence” premiere in Los Angeles on Wednesday, revealing that Johnson’s film was a “hugely important” guidepost for his show in the way that it drew inspiration from 1970s whodunits.

“He played around with the history,” Davies explained. “That really opened the door for a lot of us to be like, ‘Oh, yeah, we can do that again.'”

“The Residence,” which is now streaming on Netflix,...

In the years since Bong Joon Ho made Oscar history with “Parasite”s best picture victory in 2020, the Korean director’s fanbase continued to grow and evolve around the world. And with the recent release of his capitalistic satire “Mickey 17” starring Robert Pattinson, the time feels right to celebrate his genre-defying work over the years.

Opening this Sunday in Los Angeles, the Academy Museum’s “Director’s Inspiration: Bong Joon Ho Exhibit” marks the first exhibit fully dedicated to the beloved director’s filmography. The collection features over 100 original objects from Bong, including the suseok rock from “Parasite,” the original slate used during filming “The Host” and an advertisement for the film club Bong formed while enrolled at Yonsei University, where he screened classics like “Paris, Texas,” “Tokyo Story” and “Raging Bull.”

When working on the exhibit over the past two years and collaborating with Bong on personal touches,...

Note: This story contains spoilers for “The Residence” Episode 8.

“The Residence” followed as ace detective Cordelia Cupp (Uzo Aduba) put together the seemingly endless thread of clues for the murder of White House chief usher A.B. Wynter (Giancarlo Esposito).

Episode 1 saw as Cordelia ruled out the death being a suicide, after quickly realizing that A.B.’s wrists had been cut, but there was no knife. She also deduced that he had been moved into the Game Room, where the body had been found. Through the six episodes, Cordelia and FBI agent Edwin Park (Randall Park) worked together to interview the many staffers and guests at the White House to find the killer — as a Senate Committee assembled months after the death also looked into the facts of the controversial case.

By Episode 8, Cordelia met with the Senate Committee for the first time to tell her side of the story,...

Matt Owens, who has guided Netflix’s live-action One Piece series through its first two seasons, has announced he’s leaving the show.

In an Instagram post Friday, Owens wrote that he is leaving the show to “focus on myself and my mental health.” One Piece recently finished filming its second season.

“The last six years of working on the live action One Piece have been a life changing journey. A dream come true,” Owens wrote. “It’s also been A Lot. So I’m stepping off the Going Merry. … Thank you so much to Oda, Shueisha, Tomorrow Studios, Netflix, and the entire cast and crew for your trust, partnership, and hard work.”

Owens has been with the live-action adaptation of the long-running manga (which has also spawned a number of anime series) by Eiichiro Oda from the start. He developed a long-term plan for the series and served as...

Another longstanding intellectual property’s rights have hit the market, drawing up major interest from producers and studios.

The day after it was revealed that WME was shopping the rights to Jason Bourne and titles from the Robert Ludlum estate comes word that the rights to venerated horror franchise The Texas Chainsaw Massacre are also available.

And while there is significant amount of interest from several parties, it’s quite in early in the process to determine who is involved and where it will land. But the participation of some bold-faced names — Texas’ favorite golden boy Glen Powell, anyone? — has some talking about a “free for all.”

Legendary Pictures had held the rights to the property since 2017 and made a movie in 2022 that streamed on Netflix. A sequel never materialized, despite hopes. The IP returned to the rights holders – Exurbia Films, which is run by Pat Cassidy, the original movie’s co-screenwriter Kim Henkel,...

Ever since “Full-Moon Party,” the fifth episode of the third installment of HBO’s The White Lotus, dropped last Sunday night, Hollywood and social media have been abuzz about the unexpected, tour de force turn that it features from Sam Rockwell.

Rockwell, playing Frank, a Thailand-based friend of Walton Goggins’ Rick, delivers a monologue for the ages about the events that led him to reassess his sexuality and ultimately become sober. It literally leaves Rick’s mouth agape. It’s so great, in fact, that many are already declaring Rockwell the runaway favorite to win the Emmy for best guest actor in a drama series.

But not so fast.

Rockwell, 56, who won an Oscar in 2018 for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and received producing and lead acting Emmy noms in 2019 for Fosse/Verdon, certainly gives an Emmy-worthy performance in The White Lotus. But The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively report that...

Disney’s live-action “Snow White” is here, taking the 1937 animated film into the real world, dwarves and all.

Although technically, in this version, they aren’t dwarves. As explained in the movie, they’re magical creatures that have lived in the woods for hundreds of years. That said, they still take on the names of the original seven dwarves.

And of course, there are some recognizable humans on screen as well as lending their voices to the merry bunch.

So, here are all the faces — and voices — you’ll need to know.

Rachel Zegler in “Snow White” (Credit: Disney) Snow White (Rachel Zegler)

Snow White is Disney’s very first princess, and she’s brought to life here by Rachel Zegler. She made her big screen debut in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” remake, and has since starred in movies like “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,...

Ashley Sutton first auditioned for Yellowjackets five years ago. The Florida native was trying to build out her acting resumé and was a huge fan of Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson’s television work (they wrote and produced on Narcos and Narcos: Mexico before creating the Showtime drama) when she got the chance to read for a small part in a then-unknown pilot. Sutton can barely remember what scenes she read, or who the character was, but she does remember laughing a lot throughout the process. “Ashley and Bart’s work is quite spooky, but they’re so funny and I really noticed that in the audition,” she says. The part never made it into the show, but Sutton kept tabs on the series: “I was quite diehard from the very beginning.”

Then, years later, she got a call from her team that she was getting another shot at what...

Tyler Perry’s “Duplicity” has landed on Prime Video, and the writer-director brings forth a stellar cast to bring the legal thriller to life.

The cast for the film is led by Kat Graham, who stars as Marley Wells, a high-powered attorney who is on a mission to crack a murder case that hits close to home.

The movie is written, directed and produced by Perry. The film is one of the four films to come out as part of Perry’s four-picture deal with Amazon Studios announced in 2022. “Duplicity” is now available to stream on Prime Video.

Check out the cast below:

Kat Graham in “Duplicity” (Prime Video) Kat Graham as Marley Wells

Kat Graham stars as Marley Wells, a high-powered attorney who is on mission to find out the truth behind the shooting death of her best friend’s husband.

Graham previously starred in “The Vampire Diaries,” “How It Ends,...

Matt Owens, a co-showrunner of Netflix’s “One Piece,” is stepping down from the live-action series adaptation to focus on his mental health.

“The last six years working on the live-action One Piece have been a life-changing journey. A dream come true. It’s also been A Lot. So I’m stepping off the Going Merry to take a break and focus on myself and my mental health,” Owens wrote on Instagram. “For now I’m gonna take a breath, do some therapy, try and rank up in Marvel Rivals, and come back refreshed for the new adventures that await.”

His departure comes after filming on Season 2 wrapped last month.

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Based on Eiichiro Oda’s beloved manga, “One Piece” stars Iñaki Godoy as Monkey D. Luffy, Mackenyu as Zoro, Emily Rudd as Nami, Jacob Romero as Usopp and Taz Skylar as Sanji.

Disney’s latest live-action remake of one of their classic animations is “Snow White,” and if you’re wondering how close it sticks to the original, you’re not alone. Especially when it comes to the songs.

Now in theaters, the film follows Snow White (Rachel Zegler), a young princess who loses both of her parents and now lives with just the Evil Queen. Snow remembers the kingdom as it was under her parents’ rule though, pushing the Queen to act with kindness and fairness. You can guess how that goes.

In terms of story, it does deviate from the original 1937 film in various places — including the songs. For the 2025 version, Disney tapped Egot-winning “La La Land” songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, known together as Pasek and Paul, to create original songs for the film. But don’t worry, you’ll definitely hear a few of the classics.

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Matt Owens, co-showrunner of Netflix’s live-action adaptation of the megapopular manga “One Piece,” has left the series, citing a need to “focus on [his] mental health” and “do some therapy.” Season 1 of “One Piece” debuted in 2023, while Season 2 recently wrapped production.

The news came in an Instagram post on Owen’s personal page.

“The last 6 years working on the live action One Piece have been a life changing journey,” he wrote. “A dream come true. It’s also been A Lot. So I’m stepping off the Going Merry to take a break and focus on myself and my mental health.

The number crunchers of Lumon will be back. (And no, they did not relocate to New York City.)

Fresh off the season two finale, Severance has been renewed for a third installment at Apple TV+. The dystopian series stars Adam Scott as Mark Scout, a widower who undergoes a procedure to be “severed” that renders him unable to access his memories at work and vice versa. He works at the mysterious Lumon Industries with Irving (John Turturro), Dylan (Zach Cherry) and Helly (Britt Lower), and season two picks up after the team led what is referred to as the “Microdat Uprising.”

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Created by Dan Erickson and produced by Ben Stiller, the Apple original series also stars Tramell Tillman, Patricia Arquette, Christopher Walken and Dichen Lachman; joining the cast in season two are Sarah Bock, Alia Shawkat, Gwendoline Christie, Stefano Carannante, Bob Balaban and Merritt Wever.

Myles Bullock, best known for his appearances on Starz’s Bmf and Peacock’s Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, has joined the new Prison Break reboot as a series regular.

Hulu and Mayans Mc showrunner Elgin James are behind the new iteration of the former Fox series that starred Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell.

The two are not returning for the new series, which is described as a new take on the concept but set in the same world as the previous show. Emily Browning (American Gods), Lukas Gage (Companion) and Drake Rodger (Landman) are the leads of the new Prison Break.

The original show premiered on Fox in 2005 and centered on Michael Scofield (Miller), a structural engineer who commits armed robbery in order to be sentenced to the same prison where his brother, Lincoln Burrows (Purcell) is incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit. Scofield has an...

Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers for “Adolescence,” now streaming on Netflix.

The third episode of Netflix’s four-part limited series “Adolescence” centers around two people, Jamie (Owen Cooper) and Briony (Erin Doherty). The former is accused of murder, and the latter is the clinical psychologist tasked with completing a pre-trial assessment.

However, Jamie is no ordinary person — he’s a 13-year-old schoolboy. And “Adolescence” is no ordinary show. Director Philip Barantini shot every episode as a one-take. For an entire episode, audiences watch the duo go back and forth as she tries to understand what happened. Friendly banter quickly...

Josh Peck and Drake Bell are reuniting publicly for the first time since the 2024 doc, “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.”

On an upcoming episode of Peck’s DearMedia podcast, “Good Guys,” which he co-hosts with Ben Soffer, the former “Drake & Josh” costars share their memories of growing up together as child stars on Nickelodeon and what happened afterward.

In a sneak peek of the episode shared with People magazine, Soffer and producer Olivia Meade talk about the shocking reaction to watching “Quiet on Set,” during which Bell spoke for the first time about being sexually...

“American Love Story” at FX has found its first cast member.

Variety has learned from sources that Sarah Pidgeon has been cast in one of the lead roles for the upcoming anthology series, which was originally announced in 2021. As previously reported, the first season of the series will focus on John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. Pidgeon will star as Bessette.

Reps for 20th Television and FX declined to comment.

Bessette was raised in New York and Connecticut. After a brief modeling career, she went on to rise through the ranks at Calvin Klein, eventually working as director of...

Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers for “Severance” Season 2, Episode 10, now streaming on Apple TV+.

Of all the mysteries spooled out in “Severance,” the purpose of the goats has been the most random. In Season 1, Mark (Adam Scott) and Helly (Britt Lower) stumble upon an unfamiliar man bottle-feeding one, but then the goats are never mentioned again until Season 2, when the severed lovebirds follow deeper down the rabbit hole.

In Episode 3 of Season 2, they come across a massive room with grass hills, and dozens of goats grazing them. It turns out there’s an entire Lumon department that tends to the animals,...

“Adolescence” has quickly taken the world by storm. In its first weekend, the Netflix original series scored over 24 million views — making it the streaming platform’s most-watched show of the entire week. Its impact has been palpable and immediate as viewers have taken to social media to discuss the show’s difficult, important themes, powerhouse performances and virtuosic direction (every episode is shot in one unbroken camera take).

Taking all of that into account, here is what you should know about the series’ length, origins and future.

Is “Adolescence” only four episodes?

Yes, “Adolescence” really is only four episodes long. Don’t worry, though, it packs a lot — both emotionally and narratively — into its four chapters.

How long are the show’s episodes?

Every episode of “Adolescence” runs around an hour long. Its longest episode is its premiere, which clocks in at 65 minutes, while its second installment is its shortest,...

Alicia Vikander’s multifaceted role in The Assessment deserves your attention.

The Oscar winner’s performance in Fleur Fortuné’s feature directorial debut may be the riskiest turn of her career, as the sci-fi thriller has her playing several different personas within the same character. The first of which is Virginia, an assessor who determines whether prospective parents like Mia (Elizabeth Olsen) and Aaryan (Himesh Patel) are worthy of raising a child in their future world where resources are slim. Virginia subjects the husband and wife to a 7-day assessment period in which she herself portrays a child-like character that puts them through their paces in increasingly disturbing ways.

Naturally, Vikander had doubts before, during and after filming, but by trusting her process and her fellow collaborators, she eagerly took the plunge into the idiosyncratic part.

“It was a bit like taking a leap of faith, and I was like,...

Norwegian director Gunnar Hall Jensen has made a trademark of his playful and quirky self-portraits in which his reflections on life often find a universal echo. His latest film, “Portrait of a Confused Father,” set out to explore his relationship with his son, drawing on footage filmed over 20 years. Three weeks before filming was to have wrapped, he heard that his son had been killed.

Hall Jensen speaks to Variety about how he found the courage to complete his film amid his and his family’s immense grief. The trailer to the film, which has its world premiere Sunday at Cph:dox, debuts below.

The highly personal documentary is a heartfelt and raw story of a middle-aged control-freak father, who struggles to connect with his defiant son. It’s a story of love, of the difficulty and beauty of parenthood, but also of loss.

We see Gunnar – the filmmaker/protagonist – who...

“Peaky Binders” favorite Stephen Graham stars in the Netflix series “Adolescence” as a man whose world is shattered when his 13-year-old son (newcomer Owen Cooper) is accused of murdering a female classmate.

Graham wrote ad co-created the series with Jack Thorne, whose previous work includes the 2022 sports drama “The Swimmers” and the 2024 biopic “Joy.”

Like the BAFTA-nominated feature “Boiling Point,” which also starred Graham, the series is filmed in a continuous one-shot style by Philip Barantini.

Here’s who plays who in the cast, which also includes co-stars Mark Stanley, Jo Hartley and newcomer Amélie Pease.

Owen Cooper as Jamie Miller in Adolescence. (Credit: Netflix) Owen Cooper as Jamie Miller

13-year-old Jamie is accused of the horrific murder of a classmate. This is Cooper’s debut role.

Stephen Graham as Eddie Miller in Adolescence (Credit: Netflix) Stephen Graham as Eddie Miller

Graham, who also co-created the series, stars as Jamie’s father.

A member of the White House staff is killed in “The Residence,” and despite the story itself being a work of insane fiction, at least one part of it is real: the man’s job.

Now streaming on Netflix, the series centers on Cordelia Cupp (Uzo Aduba), a crack detective called in to solve the death of A.B. Wynter (Giancarlo Esposito), the Chief Usher at the White House, who’s mysteriously killed during an event. With 132 rooms and 157 suspects, it’s…a difficult case, to say the least.

But in case you were wondering if Wynter’s job is actually a thing, the answer is yes.

What does the White House Chief Usher do?

According to the White House Historical Association, “the White House Usher’s Office is one of the most singular working spaces in the world,” and not an easy one to gain employment at. Apparently, training...

Leading up to the premiere of It Ends With Us last year, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni reached an uneasy truce in which it was agreed that neither side would bad-mouth the other to the press. As far as they were concerned, it was in their best interest to keep the peace in order not to undermine the movie.

But around that time, Stephanie Jones, the then-publicist for the film’s production company, reached out to a Daily Mail reporter over a story it had published about the simmering feud despite Baldoni’s instructions not to, with the aim of quelling concerns that she wasn’t engaged in the public relations dispute, according to a lawsuit filed on Friday against the Jonesworks founder. Shortly after, Baldoni dropped Jones’ firm and signaled his intent to follow his publicist at Jonesworks, Jennifer Abel, to her newly launched PR shop. This caused Jones to seize Abel’s phone,...

Josh Wolf has a new home at Activist Artists Management.

The veteran multi-hyphenate has signed with the firm for representation on a team that will be led by Activist’s Bernie Cahill, Caitlin Stone Jasper and Grant Pennel.

The news comes as Wolf is currently on the road on his High in Life tour. He’s got stops this weekend at Magooby’s Joke House in Timonium, Maryland, before moving on to Las Vegas next week at Jimmy Kimmel’s Comedy Club. The tour continues through June 21, but he’s got a big night planned for Zanies comedy Club in Nashville on April 2, when he’ll record his newest stand-up special. Said to be a blend of comedy and music, the special will feature a lineup of special guests. Produced under Avery Pearson and Jeremiah Watkins’ new banner Thousand Percent, the special is being eyed for release later this year,...

This article contains spoilers for Season 3 Episode 7 of “Yellowjackets”

In this week’s jaw-dropping episode of “Yellowjackets,” we finally learn how guest star Joel McHale fits into the story: He plays a macho outdoor guide named Kodiak who is guiding two scientists (Ashley Sutton and Nelson Franklin) into the wilderness to film frogs when things, shall we say, take a deadly turn.

As we briefly glimpsed in the previous episode, these unfortunate travelers stumble across the plane crash survivors in full howling “feast” mode around a late night bonfire. At first, there is shock on both sides, until Edwin (Franklin) sees the head of Coach Ben and yells, “What the f–k?”

Before anyone can fully explain — that is, if you can ever really explain how you resorted to cannibalism to complete strangers — Lottie (Courtney Eaton) sneaks up behind Edwin and buries an ax in his head.

L-r: Nelson Franklin as Edwin,...

Amid his expansive and ongoing legal battle with Blake Lively, “It Ends With Us” director and star Justin Baldoni has filed a counterclaim against his former publicist, Stephanie Jones, alleging that she “maliciously” leaked his private texts.

Jones filed a lawsuit against Baldoni, his Wayfarer Studios, former Jonesworks publicist and Rwa Communications founder Jennifer Abel and crisis PR rep Melissa Nathan in December, alleging that the group had worked together to undermine and publicly smear her reputation. On Thursdsay, Baldoni responded with a counterclaim filed in the Southern District Court of New York.

In the claim, Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios accuses Jones, the founder and CEO of PR firm Jonesworks, of “despicable and surreptitious” actions that went on to “stir up unnecessary drama and discord … and generally [caused] more problems than she was solving.” Among those actions was “voluntarily and maliciously” breaching her agreement with Wayfarer by sharing confidential information with other parties,...

When Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light premiered in the U.K. last year, it enjoyed a rapturous reception, with critics lauding it as “so beautifully made it’s breathtaking” and “a complete triumph.” But to hear director Peter Kosminsky tell it, the sequel to 2015’s Wolf Hall nearly didn’t get made at all.

“Six weeks from production, we were shutting down. There was no way around,” remembers Kosminsky of the second season, which adapts the final novel in Hilary Mantel’s trilogy about Henry VIII advisor and fixer Thomas Cromwell. “We were so far adrift on the money and we had cut and cut and cut.” At a late-night production meeting, the director and an executive producer made a dramatic pact: To save the project, they would give up major parts of their fees. Writer Peter Straughan (who recently won an Oscar for Conclave) and star Mark Rylance (Dunkirk) later joined in,...

Fox is looking to add another show to its animation lineup — by bringing one of its former series back to the network.

The broadcaster is close to making a deal with 20th Television Animation, which produces American Dad!, to return the show to the network, sources say. The show, created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman, began its life on Fox before moving to TBS in 2014, where it has run for 10 seasons and more than 200 episodes.

Fox declined comment.

The show’s current two-season with TBS, which dates back to 2021, will end with Monday’s season finale. Should the deal with Fox go through, it would likely be for a multi-season order, allowing the series to have a relatively seamless transition to delivering new episodes at its once and possibly future home.

A key factor in American Dad!’s return to Fox was the network’s re-upping of...

More than 200 years after “Frankenstein” was published, Mary Shelley has never been hotter. The hulking character that the Gothic novelist conjured up — half man, half beast, all monster — will feature prominently in two upcoming movies from A-list directors that debut mere months apart.

The first, “Frankenstein,” is courtesy of Guillermo del Toro, a master of the macabre whose credits include “The Shape of Water” and “Crimson Peak.” It launches on Netflix in November and stars Mia Goth and Oscar Isaac. The second, “The Bride,” will be directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is following up her acclaimed feature directing debut, “The Lost Daughter,” with a $90 million creature feature inspired by “The Bride of Frankenstein.” Warner Bros. will open this one in theaters on March 6, 2026 with Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale playing the undead couple. It was originally slated to debut on September 26, 2025, but the studio pushed it back this week, giving...

Back in the early days of the broadcast networks, natural history shows were a part of the programming diet: NBC ran “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” for much of the 1960s, and around that time ABC brought “The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau” to U.S. audiences. Over the past several decades, however, those kinds of programs mostly became the domain of PBS (“Nature”) and cablers like Discovery (“Planet Earth”). More recently, streamers like Netflix (“Our Planet”) entered the space.

With a few exceptions (Fox’s “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey”), the broadcast nets have shied away from documentary-style nature events...

Robert De Niro’s returns to the mob movie genre with “The Alto Knights,” and it’s hitting theaters on Friday.

De Niro pulls double duty in the biographical drama, as he stars two of New York’s most notorious crime bosses, Frank Costello and Vito Genovese. The film serves as a 360 moment for De Niro, as Costello was the inspiration behind “The Godfather” character Don Vito Corleone. De Niro starred as the young Vito in “The Godfather Part II.”

The film was written by Nicholas Pileggi (“Goodfellas”) and directed by Barry Levinson. Here’s everything you need to know about how to watch below.

When does “The Alto Knights” come out?

“The Alto Knights” comes out Friday, March 21.

Is “The Alto Knights” in theaters?

Yes, “The Alto Knights” will premiere in theaters on Friday, March 21. Check the listings below for showtimes.

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