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There are a lot of things so far in the year 2025 that have felt like a fever dream, and today we’re here to bring you something else. Variety has revealed that the Green Day-inspired comedy flick, New Years Rev has added four members to its cast — and it’s quite a mix of names. The latest quartet to add their talents to the Lee Kirk-helmed production are Mckenna Grace (Scream 7), Fred Armisen (Portlandia), Bobby Lee (Reservation Dogs) and Sean Gunn (Gilmore Girls). The four newbies add their names to a cast that will be led by Mason Thames (The Black Phone), Kylr Coffman (Major Crimes) and Ryan Foust (Marry Me). Other members of the growing ensemble include everyone’s favorite The Office podcasting duo, Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey, as well as Ignacio Diaz-Silverio (A Good Person) and Keen Ruffalo (Thor: Ragnarok).

Exclusive: Zoe Lister-Jones and Sofia Rosinsky have joined Peacock’s upcoming comedy, The Miniature Wife as series regulars.

They join stars and executive producers Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen in the series created and executive produced by Jennifer Ames and Steve Turner, who also serve as showrunners.

Based on the short story written by Manuel Gonzalez, The Miniature Wife is a high-concept marital comedy examining the power (im)balances between spouses, Lindy (Banks) and Les (Macfadyen), after a technological accident induces the ultimate relationship crisis.

Greg Mottola will direct the first two episodes and serves as an executive producer alongside Banks, Macfadyen, Ames, Turner, and Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer for Media Res and Michael Aguilar.

Lister-Jones is an actress, writer, director and producer who most recently starred as Anne in the experimental musical biopic Pavements from director Alex Ross Perry.

More casting information has been revealed for the upcoming sequel Scream 7. With Neve Campbell set to reprise her role from the previous films as Sidney Prescott, newcomers to the slasher movie series are now starting to be added to the cast of the next installment.

Per One Take News, it's been reported that Celeste O'Connor was in talks to join the cast of Scream 7; a subsequent report by Deadline says that she has now boarded the cast. No details have yet been revealed about O'Connor's role. The news follows a recent report that 1883 star Isabel May had joined the cast as Sidney's daughter, and it's rumored that she will be named after Rose McGowan's Tatum Riley from the original Scream. Other recent reports have suggested that Scream 3 actor Patrick Dempsey is also in talks to return as Mark Kincaid in the new movie, and Courteney Cox...

Celeste O’Connor (Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire) is the newest addition to the cast of Scream 7, Deadline has learned.

Details as to O’Connor’s role are under wraps. They’ll star alongside the returning Neve Campbell, as well as Isabel May, who has been tapped to play the daughter of Campbell’s final girl Sidney Prescott.

While plot details also have not yet been disclosed, the film comes on the heels of Scream VI, which brought in a franchise-high domestic gross exceeding $108 million in March 2023. Collectively, films in the meta horror franchise have earned more than $900 million in worldwide box office receipts.

Kevin Williamson, architect of the Scream franchise who scripted the original Wes Craven-directed 1996 title, will direct from a script by Guy Busick. Also aboard, following collaborations with the scribe on 2022’s Scream reboot and the aforementioned Scream VI, are James Vanderbilt, William Sherak, and Paul Neinstein,...

Morgan Freeman is one of the most respected living actors today. Becoming known for his distinctive voice and knack for drama, the actor has been nominated for five Oscars for his acting, winning one for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby. Freeman is 87 years old now, but has still continued to have a vibrant career throughout his twilight years. This has included roles in A Good Person, Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, 57 Seconds, and Gunner.

While Freeman's career has largely been dominated by the film side of things, the actor actually got his start on television. His first role was playing Count Dracula in the 1970s version of the Electric Company, arriving several years before he made his way onto the film seen. Throughout his career, he also appeared as a guest star on the series Madam Secretary and The Kominsky Method.

Before Florence Pugh breaks hearts in the upcoming A24 drama We Live in Time (co-starring Andrew Garfield), watch her break faces in the criminally underrated wrestling drama, Fighting With My Family. Written and directed by Stephen Merchant, and produced by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Fighting With My Family is a dramatized version of WWE superstar Paige's journey to starring in the prestigious organization. Pugh plays a young Paige, then known as Saraya, as she gets a shot at WWE's tryouts while contending with her overbearing family and jealous brother.

Fighting With My Family is ready to jump from the top rope of Netflix's streaming library. Despite impressive reviews and a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Fighting With My Family struggled at the box office. Even with big names like Pugh, Nick Frost, Lena Headey, Vince Vaughn, Dwayne Johnson, Jack Lowden, and a roster of pro-wrestlers, the film only grossed $41.5 million during its theatrical run.

Florence Pugh gives her whole body to her performance in “We Live in Time,” and, yes, that includes her real hair.

Out in theaters nationwide now, director John Crowley’s film centers on Tobias (Andrew Garfield) and Almut (Pugh), a young couple who meets when she accidentally runs him over with her car. Despite playing fast and loose with the “cute” part of that meet-cute, the two fall in love and the film follows their life together over the next several years.

Of course, we don’t follow that life chronologically; as the title suggests, the movie jumps around in time to major moments for the couple. According to Crowley, the movie was never going to be told in a linear fashion. “There was one period in the editing room where Justine [Wright] and I, my editor, we stretched it into a linear shape to see and it just didn’t work anyway,...

Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield hardly need an introduction. Individually, the two have defended the Earth from supervillains and multiverses. We've watched them spin maniacal, deeply dimensional performances in films like Midsommar and Under The Silver Lake. They've also warmed our hearts and moved us to tears in films like A Good Person and Tick, Tick...Boom! Now, finally opposite one another, Pugh and Garfield tackle the healing strength and joyous romance of their new film, We Live In Time.

We Live in Time continues star Florence Pugh's hot streak on Rotten Tomatoes. The new A24 release, which was directed by John Crowley, features a nonlinear narrative following the ups and downs of the love story between the recently divorced Tobias (Andrew Garfield) and chef Almut (Pugh) after they meet when she accidentally hits him with her car. Positive We Live in Time reviews have been pouring in for some time after the movie's premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

Rotten Tomatoes has now aggregated quite a few additional reviews for We Live in Time ahead of the movie's U.S. theatrical release. With 54 different critics' reviews tabulated, the movie has earned a strongly Fresh score of 83%. This marks the fourth Fresh score that Pugh has earned in a row since appearing in a supporting role as Jean Tatlock in the Oscar-winning 2023 Christopher Nolan hit Oppenheimer,...

After previously featuring opposite Zendaya in one of the steamiest movies of the year, one Challengers star has officially signed on for his next project. A new report from Deadline revealed that Mike Faist has joined Florence Pugh and Christopher Abbott in the cast of East of Eden, the TV remake of the 1955 movie starring James Dean. East of Eden (both the film and the upcoming series) is based on the novel of the same name by John Steinbeck, the legendary author who passed away in 1968. Hoon Lee has also joined Faist, Pugh, and Abbott in the cast of East of Eden, which Jeb Stuart will showrun. Zoe Kazan has been tapped to write the series and will executive produce alongside Pugh, who also served as a producer on her 2023 flick with Morgan Freeman, A Good Person.

Florence Pugh, with her remarkable acting talent, has truly etched her name in Hollywood. She debuted in 2014 in The Falling, but her breakout performance happened in Fighting with My Family, where she plays a professional wrestler in 2019. Along with this, on the movie front, the actress has collaborated with several high-profile actors.

Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield in We Live in Time || Credits: Studio Canal

However, a fan favorite in the list would definitely be her participation in We Live in Time alongside Andrew Garfield. In this romantic drama movie, she plays the role of Almut, a competitive figure skater who later transitions into a chef. But there was one specific element of her character that made the actress train hard.

A Scene in We Live in Time Had Florence Pugh Training Relentlessly

Based on the screenplay of British writer Nick Payne, We Live in Time is brought to life by director John Crowley.

As you may or may not have noticed, Florence Pugh took a breather from acting this summer, a rare break for the self-described “work maniac.”

In an interview with British Vogue, the costar (with Andrew Garfield) of the soon-to-be-released romance-drama We Live In Time said she took a break from acting recently for the first time in a career that goes back to 2014’s The Falling and more recently included roles in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two.

The time-out marked the “first time ever in my career when I’ve actually asked for a summer break”, she tells the magazine. “I’m an absolute work maniac, [but] I can see I’m exhausted.”

Since 2023, Pugh has had on-screen or voice roles in The Trident, A Good Person, Human Resources, Oppenheimer, The Boy and the Heron, Dune: Part Two and We Live in Time. She’ll...

While Zach Braff said he misses aspects of Scrubs, he admitted the cast was “kind of fried” by the ninth and final season.

The actor-producer-director looked back at filming the Emmy-winning show, which ran from 2001 to 2010, on a recent episode of the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast. He also got candid about the exhaustion the cast felt by the end.

“I miss laughing every day. Belly laughing every day was the job. And when that goes away, by the time nine years were over, we were sort of all exhausted by it,” Braff, who played intern John “J.D.” Dorian on the medical sitcom, explained. “We were starting to repeat jokes. Everyone’s pretty fried.”

The Garden State actor added that the long hours on set played a huge role. “We would do insane hours that people don’t even do anymore,” he said. “We didn’t really...

Florence Pugh has been a force to be reckoned with and is certainly one of the best actresses of her generation. The Black Widow star has proven that she has the emotional range to pull off complex characters in films like Midsommar, A Good Person, and Oppenheimer while entertaining audiences with blockbuster franchises like the MCU and Dune.

Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova in Black Widow | Marvel Studios

With an ensemble cast, Pugh will return as Yelena Belova in next year’s Thunderbolts*. The film’s cast and crew appeared at the recent Marvel panel at San Diego Comic-Con. When asked about the most massive stunt she had in the world, the actress revealed that the film includes her character jumping off the second-highest building in the world.

Florence Pugh’s Thunderbolts* Will Have A Death Defying Stunt From Yelena Belova

The Black Widow star did some intense action sequences...

“The Terror” Season 3 has rounded out its main cast, Variety has learned.

A dozen actors have now joined previously announced lead Dan Stevens in the new season, which is officially titled “The Terror: Devil in Silver.” It is based on the novel “The Devil in Silver” written by Victor Lavalle.

The new additions are: Judith Light, Cch Pounder, Chinaza Uche, Hampton Fluker, b, Aasif Mandvi, John Benjamin Hickey, Stephen Root, Hayward Leach, Michael Aronov, Marin Ireland, and Philip Ettinger.

Per the official series description, Stevens will play Pepper, described as “a working-class moving man who, through a combination of bad luck and a bad temper, finds himself wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital – an institution filled with the people society would rather forget. There, he must contend with patients who work against him, doctors who harbor grim secrets, and perhaps even the very Devil himself. As Pepper navigates a...

Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh find everlasting love after she accidentally runs him over in her car in the trailer for director John Crowley’s We Live in Time, which dropped on Wednesday.

That chance encounter changes their lives over decades as they find romance, build a home and family together and face a host of challenges on their way. With their relationship still apparently fresh, Tobias (Garfield) at one point in the trailer, having shed his neck brace after his car accident injuries, tells Almut (Pugh) that he must leave, only to be asked why he’s in a rush.

“Because I’m worried there’s a very distinct and real possibility that I’m about to fall in love with you,” he answers, before they embrace passionately. Along with the birth of a child, Almut faces her own health crisis at another point in the trailer, which has...

One of the most brilliant screen debuts I’ve ever seen was, no doubt, Andrew Garfield’s performance in the movie Boy A. While largely obscure now, in this British indie, Garfield played a young man re-entering society after fourteen years in a juvenile prison for a heinous crime. The movie never really reveals his crime until we, as an audience, have absolutely fallen in love with this sensitive, kindly young man, and it’s one of the most potent explorations of society’s failure to allow former prisoners to rehabilitate themselves that I’ve ever seen.

Since then, Garfield has become a big star thanks to his underrated turn as Peter Parker in the Marc Webb Spider-Man films, with Spider-Man: No Way Home teasing the fact that his time in the spider-verse may be far from over. He’s also done modern classics like The Social Network and Martin Scorsese’s Silence,...

Exclusive: Molly Shannon (The Other Two) has signed on to star alongside Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser in Balls Up, the action comedy that Peter Farrelly is directing for Amazon MGM Studios and Skydance.

Details as to her role are under wraps. Written by Paul Wernick & Rhett Reese (Deadpool & Wolverine), the film follows two American marketing executives who are fired for blowing a client sponsorship opportunity and decide to use their free tickets to a major soccer match. Their drunken debauchery leads them to be hunted by every person across the country.

Producers include Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger and Andrew Muscato, as well as Wernick and Reese.

A three-time Emmy-nominated alum of Saturday Night Live, Shannon most recently starred in Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider’s The Other Two, which ran for three seasons across Comedy Central and Max, earning a Critics Choice Award nomination...

Exclusive: Almost 30 years after they first started working together on Saturday Night Live, Molly Shannon and Steve Koren have re-teamed for a comedy series, which is in development at HBO. Shannon and Koren are executive producing the untitled project, written by Koren and starring Shannon.

This is a story about a woman (Shannon) deeply addicted to celebrity news and gossip. After friends and family finally confront her, she agrees to get help. Where? The same place where the stars get help – a fancy celebrity rehab in Malibu. Instead of confronting her demons, she behaves as if it’s the Four Seasons. Once there, she connects with her favorite young starlet and must decide whether to return to her family or join her in Hollywood.

Executive producing alongside Shannon and Koren is Shannon’s longtime manager, Steven Levy.

Shannon and Koren first met in 1995 when they were both on SNL and...

Don't Worry Darling will be available for streaming on Hulu this April.

With Olivia Wilde starring and directing, the film follows Jack (Harry Styles) and Alice (Florence Pugh), a couple from the 1950s whose life is seemingly idyllic. However, the film's alleged behind-the-scenes drama drew more interest than the movie itself. The alleged tension between the cast dominated the headlines and social media before its 2022 premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

Related 'Don't Tell Anyone': Thunderbolts' Florence Pugh Shares Set Video Revealing First Peek at MCU Film Thunderbolts star Florence Pugh sneakily shares a new video from the set which provides the first sneak peek at the upcoming MCU film.

Shia Labeouf was cast in the film in April 2020, but he was recast with Harry Styles in September 2020. Several reports claimed that Wilde fired Labeouf for his "poor behavior" and "clashing with the cast and crew." In August 2022, the actor denied the claims,...

Florence Pugh has become a force to be reckoned with, with back-to-back hits. She is arguably the best actress of the current generation and has shown her immense dramatic range in many films. Films like Lady Macbeth, Fighting with My Family, Little Women, A Good Person, Oppenheimer, and recently Dune: Part Two have cemented her place as a bankable movie star.

Florence Pugh in 2023’s A Good Person

She even ventured into the MCU playing the fan-favorite Yelena Belova. Fans love seeing the actress on-screen and enjoy the choice of films that she makes. The actress has now crossed a major milestone at the global box office after her recent hits Oppenheimer and Dune: Part Two.

Florence Pugh Has Now Crossed The $3 Billion Mark at the Global Box Office

Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh in Oppenheimer

Florence Pugh has slowly become a huge movie star with consistent hits in recent years.

Florence Pugh's impressive Rotten Tomatoes audience streak may be at stake with Marvel's Thunderbolts project in 2025. Pugh has shown versatility in various movie genres, from action to drama, maintaining consistent success and critical acclaim. Dune: Part Two showcases Pugh's star power, as she makes an impact with minimal screen time, boosting audience interest.

Appearing in 16 movies since 2016, Florence Pugh has sustained an impressive audience Rotten Tomatoes streak that could yet be jeopardized by Marvel's 2025 Thunderbolts movie. Dune: Part Two has scored another critical hit for the Princess Irulan actress, with Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi epic sitting at an impressive audience score of 95% (alongside a critical rating of 94%). While this would be an impressive achievement in isolation, it actually reflects a wider trend for Pugh that she will be keen to sustain.

An impressive fact of Pugh's film career is the Oxford-born actress's commitment to a variety of different movies and genres.

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.

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Best Original Score Killers of the Flower Moon Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone Credit: AppleTV+

Weekly Commentary: It’s Ludwig Göransson taking home another Oscar for “Oppenheimer,” following his first win for “Black Panther.”

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Will Win: “Oppenheimer” (Ludwig Göransson)

Could Win: “Killers of the Flower Moon...

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.

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Best Original Song Barbie

Weekly Commentary: With an original song win, Billie Eilish, 22, and Finneas, 26, would become the youngest artists ever to win two Oscars before the age of 30. The pair won for James Bond theme “No Time to Die” in 2022, and are nominated this year for “What Was I Made For,...

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.

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Best Original Screenplay Past Lives, from left: Teo Yoo, Greta Lee, John Magro, 2023. © A24 / Courtesy Everett Collection

Weekly Commentary: Following its victories at the Golden Globes for best screenplay and the BAFTA for original screenplay, it appears almost inevitable that “Anatomy of a Fall” will secure the Oscar for its co-writers,...

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.

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Best Supporting Actor Barbie, Ryan Gosling, 2023. © Warner Bos. / Courtesy Everett Collection

Weekly Commentary: There’s no way to prove this statement, but I think Robert Downey Jr is winning by such a wide margin for his work in “Oppenheimer.”

With Critics Choice, Golden Globes, SAG and BAFTA in his pocket,...

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.

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Best Actor The Holdovers, Paul Giamatti, 2023. ph: Seacia Pavao / © Focus Features / Courtesy Everett Collection

Weekly Commentary: The realm of lead actor has been ruled by Cillian Murphy’s captivating portrayal in Nolan’s cinematic opus “Oppenheimer.” However, the final stretch of voting has seen two seasoned industry...

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect personal preferences for any individual contender. As other formal (and informal) polls suggest, competitions are fluid and subject to change based on buzz and events. Predictions are updated every Thursday.

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Best Achievement in Directing The Zone Of Interest, 2023. © A24 / Courtesy Everett Collection

Weekly Commentary: Christopher Nolan… in a walk. It’s not really worth going over any other potential upsets, but if you prefer — Jonathan Glazer for “The Zone of Interest.”

After a year hit with Hollywood...

Zoe Lister-Jones was proud to attend Sunday’s Spirit Awards, and the reason is twofold. First, the multihyphenate talent turned up in Santa Monica to support a pair of nominations for Roku’s Slip, the original series she created, starred in and executive produced alongside a team that includes Dakota Johnson. Reason No. 2: She did so by walking into the event hand-in-hand with a new love in her life.

When the subject of her plus-one came up during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the 41-year-old Lister-Jones responded with a big reveal: “I’m here, I’m queer, I have some fear but I’m working through it.” Lister-Jones is in a new relationship with a fellow filmmaker, Sammi Cohen, who most recently directed Netflix’s You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, the teen comedy starring Adam Sandler and family including wife Jackie and their daughters Sadie and Sunny.

Molly Shannon, SNL alum, joins Steve Martin and Martin Short in season 4 of Only Murders in the Building as a high-powered businesswoman. Shannon's notable credits include A Good Person, Promising Young Woman, and The Little Hours. Only Murders in the Building has been renewed for a fourth season and will take place in Los Angeles with unfinished business from the third season.

A fellow Saturday Night Live alum is joining Steve Martin and Martin Short for the fourth season of Only Murders in the Building. Molly Shannon, whose roster of memorable characters on SNL includes Sally O'MalleyO'Malley and Mary Katherine Gallagher, has joined the Hulu series in a recurring role. According to Deadline, Shannon will portray a high-powered Los Angeles businesswoman who finds herself drawn into the world of the investigation in New York.

Molly Shannon appeared for six seasons on SNL, from 1995 to 2001, earning an Emmy nod for her...

Molly Shannon has joined the cast of “Only Murders in the Building” Season 4 in a recurring role.

Though plot details for the season remain under wraps, Shannon will play a high powered Los Angeles businesswoman who finds herself drawn into the world of the investigation in New York.

Shannon is best known for starring in “Saturday Night Live” for six seasons from 1995 to 2001. Most recently, she starred alongside Florence Pugh and Morgan Freeman in Zack Braff’s 2023 film “A Good Person” and played Pat Dubek for three seasons of “The Other Two” on Max (previously Comedy Central). Also among her credits are Showtime’s “I Love That for You” and HBO’s “The White Lotus” and the films “Other People,” “Promising Young Woman,” “Scary Movie 4” and “Scary Movie 5.”

Shannon is repped by UTA, Framework Entertainment and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox.

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Exclusive: We have the first major cast addition for the upcoming fourth season of Only Murders In the Building. Molly Shannon has been tapped for a season-long arc on the mystery comedy.

Per usual, the producers are keeping the storyline under wraps but, as Disney Television Group President Craig Erwich revealed in a Deadline interview, the Only Murders In the Building trio of Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short) and Mabel (Selena Gomez) will kick off the new season with a trip to Los Angeles before returning to The Arconia in their search of Saz’s killer.

I hear Shannon will play a high powered LA business woman who finds herself drawn into the world of the investigation in NY.

Shannon, a three-time Emmy nominee, spent six seasons as a member of the repertory company on Saturday Night Live, creating a gallery of memorable characters such as schoolgirl Mary Katherine Gallagher,...

Molly Shannon, who mined her Irish background to create delightful characters on Saturday Night Live and beyond, is the latest honoree to be announced for the 18th annual Oscar Wilde Awards.

The event, organized by the US-Ireland Alliance, celebrates the work of those from Ireland — and those with Irish roots, as in Shannon’s case — who contribute to film, television and music. It’s set for March 7, three days before the Academy Awards, at the Santa Monica home of Bad Robot, J.J. Abrams and Katie McGrath’s production company.

Shannon, who grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, joins previously announced honorees Pierce Brosnan (born in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland) and Oscar-winning VFX artist Richard Baneham (born in Dublin).

“Molly’s Irish American characters on Saturday Night Live — like Mary Katherine Gallagher and Sally O’Malley — are iconic,” Trina Vargo, founder of the US-Ireland Alliance, said in a statement.

“The impact...

Longtime talent agent Scott Manners, known for his founding and development of the Artists & Representatives talent agency, has died. He was 68.

Manners died on Friday, surrounded by family in Los Angeles, after a brief battle with Als, according to a statement from Artists & Representatives.

“Through the years, we have all been moved by his mission to brilliantly represent the artists who bring our society closer to love,” the statement continued. “It was his life’s work to make a difference every day and change lives for the better.”

Manners founded his agency, then called Stone Manners, more than three decades ago. It was renamed twice; first to Stone Manners Salners after Glenn Salners became a partner in 2010, and then to Artists & Representatives in 2019 when the company added more partners and expanded to New York City.

“The people who succeed and do not push on to a greater failure are the spiritual middle class,...

We’ve seen Groundhog’s Day as a slasher with Happy Death Day, It’s a Wonderful Life as a slasher with It’s a Wonderful Knife, Freaky Friday as a slasher with Freaky, and Back to the Future as a slasher with Totally Killer. Next in the “this movie, but it’s a slasher” line-up is Departing Seniors, which mixes the high school slasher set-up with elements from Stephen King’s The Dead Zone. Dark Sky Films will be giving Departing Seniors a limited theatrical and VOD release on February 2nd, and with that date right around the corner a trailer has arrived online. You can check it out in the embed above.

The feature directorial debut of actress Clare Cooney, Departing Seniors was written by actor Jose Nateras and centers on high school student Javier, who doesn’t exactly fit in with the popular kids as a queer Mexican-American.

Film historians will inevitably look back on 2023 as a year of risk-taking, with filmmakers turning to personal projects backed by major studios. On paper and in hindsight, a movie about the world’s most iconic doll sounds obvious, but it took real balls—or a lack thereof in Ken’s case—for Mattel and Warner Bros. to get behind a deconstructed look at the toy in Greta Gerwig’s existential Barbie. Universal arguably took an even bigger risk, putting their full force behind a three hour movie about the birth of the atomic bomb. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer proved perfect counter-programming to Gerwig’s Barbie, as moviegoers championed the double act into the summer box office unicorn Barbenheimer. Martin Scorsese brought his American Western crime epic Killers of the Flower Moon to the screen after seven years of development. Emerald Fennell debuted her second directorial effort, the darkly imaginative and highly divisive Saltburn.

321 films are in contention for this year’s Academy Awards, while 265 features are eligible in the best picture category, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Monday as it released its annual “reminder list” for members.

To be eligible in the general categories, films (meaning a runtime of more than 40 minutes) must open in a commercial theater in at least one of the following areas: Los Angeles County; the city of New York; the Bay Area; Chicago, Illinois; Miami, Florida; and Atlanta, Georgia, between Jan. 1, 2023 and Dec. 31, 2023. Additionally, it must complete a minimum qualifying run of seven consecutive days in the same venue.

To be eligible for the best picture category specifically, the movies must be eligible for the general entry and have “submitted a confidential Academy Representation and Inclusion Standards entry form.” Additionally, the film must meet two of the four standards required, in addition to the theatrical component.

Florence Pugh‘s date to the 2024 Golden Globes has been revealed!

CBS snapped photos of Florence arriving with actress Zoe Lister-Jones, who she co-starred with in A Good Person. They held hands on the red carpet for a bit before heading inside to mingle with guests.

Inside the Globes venue, Florence was seen posing for photos with Selena Gomez and Elizabeth Banks, among others!

Florence is on hand to present an award tonight and also to support her film Oppenheimer. See photos of the Oppenheimer cast at the event!

The Golden Globes will air on CBS this year, marking a change in network after many years on NBC. The show is being hosted by comedian Jo Koy. Make sure to check out the full list of nominations!

Fyi: Florence is wearing Valentino with Tiffany & Co. jewels.

Before Florence Pugh suited up as Yelena Belova in Black Widow, a new report claims a multiple Academy Award nominee was the first choice to play the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

During an interview on The Town with Matthew Belloni, Deadline senior reporter Justin Kroll revealed the role of Yelena was initially offered to Oscar-nominated actor Saoirse Ronan before Pugh landed it eventually ahead of Black Widow's 2021 premiere. According to Kroll, Roman turned down the part because she was not a fan of what the MCU was doing at the time. "The Saoirse thing, I’ve heard stuff she’s passed on. She passed on Florence’s role in Black Widow, the sister. Marvel has not been her cup of tea, and she was not interested," he said.

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Florence Pugh has achieved an impressive Rotten Tomatoes streak through 2023 despite only having four movies considered "Rotten." A Good Person and Don't Worry Darling received high audience scores, indicating that Pugh's performances were well-received by viewers. Pugh's lowest-rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes is Don't Worry Darling, scoring 38% with critics, but her performance helped elevate its audience score to 74%.

Florence Pugh has achieved a remarkable Rotten Tomatoes streak through 2023, and it will be interesting to see how Dune: Part Two will affect the trend. The English actress has been working in the industry for nearly a decade, but she rose to prominence in 2019 after starring in three notable movies: Fighting with My Family, Midsommar, and Little Women. Her stardom grew shortly after she was cast as Yelena Belova in the MCU, having portrayed the character in 2021's Black Widow and the Hawkeye series later that year. From there, Pugh continued to acquire extremely noteworthy roles.

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Screen is listing the 2023 release dates for films in the UK and Ireland in the calendar below.

For distributors who wish to add/amend a date on the calendar, please get in touch with Screen here. Screen is also running a calendar for festival and market dates throughout 2023 here.

December

December 31

Berliner Philharmoniker Live: New Year’s Eve Concert 2023 (Trafalgar - event cinema)

Previous releases January

January 6

Piggy (Vertigo), The Enforcer (Vertigo), Alcarràs (Mubi), A Man Called Otto (Sony), Rashomon (BFI), Till (Universal)

January 7

Andre Rieu In Dublin 2023 (Piece of...

Primo is a coming-of-age comedy available to stream on Amazon Freevee, with potential for a second season to explore various plotlines. Ignacio Diaz-Silverio and Christina Vidal discuss their excitement about the show's scripts and the possibility of a season 2. The unique mother-son bond between Rafa and Drea, as well as the chaos created by Rafa's uncles, adds depth and comedy to the show's dynamic.

All eight episodes of the coming-of-age comedy, Primo, are currently available to stream on Amazon Freevee. While a second season is yet to be confirmed, the finale left plenty to be explored in future installments. Rafa's college admissions, romance with Mya, and relationship with his chaotic uncles are just a few of many plotlines that the series could address in a potential season 2.

Ignacio Diaz-Silverio stars as Rafa, with Christina Vidal portraying his mother, Drea. Diaz-Silverio has been featured in projects such as A Good Person and Suspicion.

Our Pmc sister website Variety is reporting that the motion picture academy has named 149 movies as eligible for Best Original Score at the 2024 Oscars. See the complete list below of every score currently on the ballot for the music branch. A total of 15 will be announced this Thursday, December 21, on the Oscar short list. A final five will be revealed on January 23 as the the actual nominees.

SEEOscars 2024: Which 94 tunes are eligible for Best Original Song?

Gold Derby has been offering you the opportunity to predict the Best Original Score category for the past few weeks. Among some of the surprise omissions: “Asteroid City,” “Flora and Son,” “The Little Mermaid” and “Wonka.” Each film used too much non-original music to remain qualified.

According to our most current Gold Derby odds with over 6,800 people predicting, here are the scores ranked in the top 10:

1. “Oppenheimer” – 71/20 odds

2. “Killers of the Flower Moon...

Our Pmc sister website Variety is reporting that the motion picture academy has named 94 tunes as eligible for Best Original Song at the 2024 Oscars. See the complete list below of every song currently on the ballot for the music branch. A total of 15 will be announced this Thursday, December 21, on the Oscar short list. A final five will be revealed on January 23 as the the actual nominees.

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Gold Derby has been offering you the opportunity to predict the Best Original Song category for the past few weeks. Among some of the surprise omissions:

“Barbie” producers have chosen not to submit “Barbie World,” “Speed Drive” and “Pink.” That film’s three official submissions are “I’m Just Ken,” “Dance the Night” and “What Was I Made For?”

“Trolls Band Together” producers have not entered “Family,” “Watch Me Work” and “Let’s Get Married.

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Orlando: My Political Biography is an unlikely contender but you gotta love its boldness.

The Academy has released a couple of eligibility lists, including one for the Best Original Song race. Ninety-four different tunes have been submitted for the Oscar. It's three maximum for each movie, from which only two can be nominated for the same title. Barbie, The Face of the Faceless, A Good Person, The Little Mermaid, State of the Unity, and Wish have submitted three, while many other projects went for double trouble. There are no significant surprises in terms of omitted contenders, but some submission choices delight with their boldness, and others shock because their origin is so obscure. For example, I quibble with the one song chosen from Dicks: The Musical and Carmen. I'm also delighted that Orlando: My Political Biography threw its hat in the race and just found out...

Ninety-four songs and 149 scores have been deemed eligible in the music categories for the 96th annual Academy Awards, Variety has learned.

Voting began Thursday, with 390 members of the Academy music branch eligible to vote in this year’s competition. And for the first time in years, there appear to be no surprises or glaring omissions.

Any film can submit up to three songs, and the “Barbie” entries were as expected: Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made for,” Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night” and the Mark Ronson-Andrew Wyatt song “I’m Just Ken.”

Five other films submitted the maximum of three songs, including two from Disney: the live-action “The Little Mermaid,” with “For the First Time,” “The Scuttlebutt” and “Wild Uncharted Waters,” all by Alan Menken (who won Oscars for the original in 1989) and Lin-Manuel Miranda; and “Wish,” the Julia Michaels-Benjamin Rice tunes including “I’m a Star,...

Zach Braff has nothing but amazing praise for his ex girlfriend Florence Pugh.

While promoting their film, A Good Person, which Florence stars in and Zach directed, he was asked about their past relationship.

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If you don’t know, Florence confirmed their breakup in the summer of 2022. They had dated for three years.

Zach said on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show, “Well, we love each other. We love each other and we’re friends, and I was on the Today Show this morning, and she said she wanted to see pictures of what my outfit was to give approvals, so we love each other a lot and listen, I think it’s pretty clear across the world that I’m not biased when I say that she is one of the finest actresses working today and I think anyone who gives watching a...

Prime Video is nothing if not a goldmine of content, with basically something to watch for everyone, and today we are making a list of the best 7 new movies and shows on Prime Video in November 2023 that you can watch next month. The movies in this list are arranged according to their availability on the streaming service.

Batman (November 1)

Synopsis: Tim Burton directs; Michael Keaton stars as Batman; and Jack Nicholson stars as his arch foe, The Joker. As the Dark Knight, defender of law and order in Gotham City, Batman treads the shadow zone between right and wrong, fighting with only his skill in martial arts and his keenly honed mind to defend the innocent and to purge the memory of his parents’ brutal murder–always keeping his true identity as millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne a closely guarded secret. Based upon Batman characters created by Bob Kane and published by DC Comics.

Prime Video has a fair amount in store for subscribers in November, as the uber-violent hit animated show Invincible returns for its highly anticipated second season. Based on the iconic comic book by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley, season two will find super-powered protagonist Mark attempting to rebuild his life after finding out the truth about his father Nolan.

Elsewhere on the streamer, the producing team behind the James Bond movies are out to spin the franchise in a completely different direction by debuting their curious new globe-trotting adventure series, pitched somewhere between a quiz show and a treasure hunt. 007: Road To A Million features Brian Cox as the game’s “mastermind”, watching over the contestants as they try to win a million quid.

Here’s everything coming to Amazon Prime Video and Freevee this month. Amazon Originals are accompanied by an asterisk!

New on Amazon Prime...

Clockwise from top left: Batman Returns (Warner Bros.), A Good Person (MGM/United Artists), Evil Dead Rise (Warner Bros.) Image: The A.V. Club It’s almost Thanksgiving, which means streaming services are starting to add holiday-themed movies—or just movies set on or around Christmas—to their libraries. Prime Video...