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Jamie Lee Curtis is opening up about her struggles with self image as a young actress.

The 66-year-old actress revealed that a comment a cinematographer made when she was filming the 1985 movie Perfect led her to get plastic surgery.

“He was like, ‘Yeah, I’m not shooting her today. Her eyes are baggy.’ And I was 25, so for him to say that, it was very embarrassing. So as soon as the movie finished, I ended up having some plastic surgery,” she told 60 Minutes.

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“That’s just not what you want to do when you’re 25 or 26. And I regretted it immediately and have kind of sort of regretted it since. I’ve become a really public advocate to say to women you’re gorgeous and you’re perfect the way you are. So yeah, it was not a good thing for me to do,...

Coming off the success of Halloween, in 1985 Jamie Lee Curtis joined forces with John Travolta for a movie that almost derailed the latter’s career. While the general public felt Travolta was severely miscast in Perfect, the consensus surrounding Curtis’ Jessie was the polar opposite.

While her stint in horror and slashers’ outings earned her the title of scream queen, the Travolta-led Perfect turned her career trajectory for the better. But amidst onscreen highs, the movie also pushed her to a decision that she continues to regret.

Perfect‘s cinematographer left Jamie Lee Curtis embarrassed on set Trading Places | Credit: Paramount Pictures

In addition to being an ally to the LGBTQ2A+ community and staunch supporter of issues, including children, animals, and the environment, Jamie Lee Curtis has also been an outspoken advocate for natural beauty. Having undergone plastic surgery in the past, the Oscar winner has expressed regret over...

Michelle Yeoh has her next project. The Oscar-winning actress, who played Emperor Philippa Georgiou on Star Trek: Discovery and the recent spin-off Paramount+ movie Star Trek: Section 31, will star in an action film titled The Surgeon. It will be produced by Thunder Road, the company behind the John Wick saga and its assorted sequels and spin-offs. Roshan Sethi, a physician and co-creator of the Fox television series The Resident, is set to write and direct The Surgeon.

Given Yeoh’s status as an international action icon, she will surely be called upon to beat up more than a few bad guys. According to the entertainment site Deadline, “The film will follow a retired surgeon (Yeoh) who is abducted and forced to operate on a mystery patient. Though greatly outnumbered, her captors have overlooked her greatest weapon: 35 years of surgical experience, leading to an explosive and brutal confrontation during which...

Mad Duck Posters will release Halloween posters by Kevin Tong tomorrow, May 15, at 12pm Et.

The standard 24×36 screen print is limited to 225 for $85, the blue variant is limited to 125 for $105, and the rainbow foil version is limited to 55 for $150.

“There are a lot of scenes where Michael Myers is observing his victims through some kind of screen, window, or sheet until he’s suddenly on the other side and the result is unspeakable terror. The fence, whether it’s white picket or chain link, is a staple of suburbia, but ultimately, an illusion of safety,” said Tong.

“Michael Myers goes right through the fence and violently intersects the lives of all the characters in the film, all contained within the fence that could never have kept them safe. While there’s no scene that literally shows The Shape going through a fence, it was a great visual to organize the...

Oscar-winner says that a cinematographer remarking on her ‘baggy’ eyes led to a procedure that she regretted

Jamie Lee Curtis has revealed that she had plastic surgery at the age of 25 because of a comment made to her on the set of a movie.

In a 60 Minutes interview, the Oscar-winning actor said that a cinematographer wouldn’t film her one day because, he said, “her eyes are baggy”.

Jamie Lee Curtis said she had plastic surgery at 25 after a cinematographer on the 1985 film Perfect refused to film her, calling her “baggy-eyed.” In a “60 Minutes” interview, the Oscar winner described the comment as humiliating and arranged surgery as soon as production ended.

Curtis called the procedure “disastrous” and said she regretted it immediately. She developed a dependence on opioid painkillers prescribed afterward, recalling she “became enamored with the warm bath of an opiate.” The actor has maintained sobriety for 26 years and used her experience to support co-workers, even hosting daily recovery meetings during Freaky Friday.

Daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, she reflected on witnessing her parents undergo cosmetic work. Watching their careers shift without loss of fame underscored for her that surgical fixes cannot reverse aging in Hollywood. During a 2019 Variety interview, she said on-set recovery gatherings offered perspectives she found profoundly inspiring.

Curtis warned that...

Jamie Lee Curtis said in a new interview with “60 Minutes” that she got plastic surgery for the first time when she was 25 years old after a cinematographer refused to shoot her one day on a movie set because he didn’t like her face. The Oscar winner said she regrets her decision to this day. The movie was 1985’s “Perfect,” directed by James Bridges and co-starring John Travolta.

“I took it very seriously as an actor,” Curtis said of the film, in which she played an aerobics instructor who meets a journalist (Travolta) during his investigation into fitness clubs.

The film’s cinematographer criticized the way she looked, with Curtis explaining: “He was like, ‘I am not shooting her today because her eyes are baggy.’ I was 25. For him to say that was very embarrassing. As soon as the movie finished, I ended up having some plastic surgery.”

When asked how the surgery went,...

Even though we've barely reached the summer movie season yet, it's been another killer year for horror. Particularly for slashers. Heart Eyes has already carved up Valentine’s Day, but later this month, Fear Street: Prom Queen will turn the end of the school year blood-red. The R.L. Stine Netflix film is returning genre fans to the cursed town of Shadyside. Now, the film is paying tribute to high school slashers' past with some new deadly posters.

The two new Prom Queen posters honor 1976’s Brian De Palma adaptation of Carrie and 1980’s Prom Night, the latter of which starred horror icon Jamie Lee Curtis. The Carrie-inspired poster mirrors the two-image classic design, showing the before and bloody aftermath of star India Fowler at Shadyside’s Prom. The tagline, “If You're Hungry For Horror… Come To Shadyside’s Senior Prom” is also very similar to Carrie’s chilling warning. Finally,...

Available this September from 1984 Publishing, we have the first details on Screaming and Conjuring: The Resurrection and Unstoppable Rise of the Modern Horror Movie. From Clark Collis, this extensive look at modern horror is a 504-page hardcover that I guarantee will have something new for even the most seasoned horror fans.

From the Press Release: "On September 2, 2025, 1984 Publishing will release Screaming and Conjuring: The Resurrection and Unstoppable Rise of the Modern Horror Movie—a definitive 504-page hardcover that pulls back the curtain on the horror film industry. Beginning with 1996’s genre-redefining Scream, entertainment journalist Clark Collis traces the blood-spattered path of horror’s evolution through exclusive behind-the-scenes accounts, untold stories, and in-depth interviews with key figures who shaped the era. For the first time, the full story of horror’s modern renaissance is revealed in one essential volume.

From Get Out and M3GAN to The Substance and Sinners, the horror...

On September 2, 2025, 1984 Publishing will release Screaming and Conjuring: The Resurrection and Unstoppable Rise of the Modern Horror Movie! The new book, written by entertainment journalist Clark Collis, is a definitive 504-page hardcover that pulls back the curtain on the horror film industry. Beginning with 1996’s genre-redefining Scream, Collis traces the blood-spattered path of horror’s evolution through exclusive behind-the-scenes accounts, untold stories, and in-depth interviews with key figures who shaped the era.

The modern era of horror has delivered a string of classic terror tales, including The Blair Witch Project, The Sixth Sense, Final Destination, The Others, Pan’s Labyrinth, 28 Days Later, Resident Evil, Saw, Hostel, Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and The Conjuring, which launched the horror genre’s first multi-billion dollar franchise. Screaming and Conjuring dives deep into the challenging and often chaotic production stories behind these films—and many more—offering readers an inside look at the creative turbulence...

After countless books exploring horror’s output from bygone eras, 1984 Publishing is gearing up to release a definitive hardcover that examines horror’s current renaissance in Hollywood.

1984 Publishing will release Screaming and Conjuring: The Resurrection and Unstoppable Rise of the Modern Horror Movie, a definitive 504-page hardcover that pulls back the curtain on the horror film industry, on September 2, 2025.

Starting with 1996’s horror gamechanger Scream, entertainment journalist and author Clark Collis “traces the blood-spattered path of horror’s evolution through exclusive behind-the-scenes accounts, untold stories, and in-depth interviews with key figures who shaped the era. For the first time, the full story of horror’s modern renaissance is revealed in one essential volume.”

Screaming and Conjuring will offer a deep dive into films like The Blair Witch Project, The Sixth Sense, Final Destination, The Others, Pan’s Labyrinth, 28 Days Later, Resident Evil, Saw, Hostel, Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and The Conjuring and their production history.

The high-rise restaurant disaster that kicks off “Final Destination Bloodlines” has a “Looney Tunes” quality to it that some critics will falsely pin on a single falling piano. Yes, there is a thousand-pound string instrument that comes crashing down several stories before flattening a bratty kid in a bow tie. But that’s just the cherry on top of a perfectly cartoonish opening to the best film this fiendish horror franchise from the 2000s has ever known. Delivering the most visually impressive, emotionally compelling, and quick witted “Final Destination” to date, co-directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein work wonders with a reboot that shouldn’t land nearly as well as it does.

Twenty-five years since Flight 180 failed to reach Paris, New Line’s freak accident series — infamous for its mass-casualty events and Rube Goldberg-inspired kill sequences — returns with an unconventional script written by Guy Busick and Lori Evans. Here,...

The culinary dramedy The Bear has been a major hit since its release in 2022. Unlike other shows, the series hasn't kept fans waited and consistently released new seasons every year.

Despite its star-studded cast, which has gone on to star in major productions, The Bear Season 4 will be released one year after Season 4. The showrunner recently spilled the release date as June 15 at the Thunderbolts* Los Angeles red carpet premiere, however, the actual release date is slightly different. Per Variety, FX confirmed The Bear Season 4 will premiere on June 25 on Hulu.

The new season will premiere almost exactly one year after the previous installment. Season 3 was released in full on June 26, 2024. Now, Season 4 will follow in Season 3's footsteps almost on the same date, with a release on June 25. Similar to the previous season, Season 4 will also release all 10 episodes on Hulu at 5 pm Pt/ 8 pm Et.

Luckily for international The Bear fans,...

Jamie Lee Curtiswas at the height of her fame when she began to do commercials, and she has a very practical reason for becoming a product spokesperson. Curtis first burst on the scene in the late 1970s as a horror movie scream queen thanks to movies like Halloween and Prom Night, but she would soon jump to mainstream movies as the decade wore on, playing a wide variety of roles from comedic to dramatic and everything in between. Movies like True Lies were some of her biggest financial hits, but that was also when she began doing commercials.

Curtis continued to find success in film, but it was her spokesperson gigs for the yogurt company Activia that began to gain a lot of attention. With spoofs on shows like Saturday Night Live, Curtis' new gig as a commercial actor overshadowed her big-screen work. Curtis would announce a retirement from acting in 2006 that didn't last long,...

Principal photography has officially wrapped on Trüebadour, the upcoming sci-fi thriller starring Ryan Bergara, and an official first look at its star has been revealed.

From director Jennifer Zhang, Cbr has obtained an exclusive first look at Ryan Bergara as Mike, the bombastic CEO of the tech start-up at the center of Trüebadour’s premise. The photos showcase the star in a role completely different from what his fans are accustomed to.

Bergara, co-host of Watcher Entertainment’s Ghost Files, took to Instagram to celebrate the completion of filming (which occurred in April), telling his fans, “And just like that @truebadour_film is Wrapped. What an amazing experience with an amazing group of people.” Kevin Kreider, also appearing in Trüebadour, shared a similar sentiment and revealed “The last time I got this same exact butterfly feelings when I wrapped Bling in 2021.”

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Get ready to bend and snap because Prime Video has officially announced a Summer 2026 release window for its upcoming Legally Blondeprequel series Elle, which stars Lexi Minetree as the teenage version of Reese Witherspoon's Elle Woods, long before she became a Harvard law student to win back her ex-boyfriend. The announcement was made during Prime Video's upfront presentation at New York's Beacon Theatre, an event that saw Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis have a surprise True Liesreunion.

Witherspoon shared a post online to coincide with the release announcement for Prime Video's Elle. The Legally Blonde actress posted a photo on Instagram (seen below), offering a further glimpse of Minetree in the show's titular role following a first-look tease in April. "I'm so thrilled to introduce Lexi Minetree as Elle Woods. The new star of our TV show Elle!" Witherspoon excitedly wrote in the caption, adding, "She is stepping...

What Do We Know About season 4 of The Bear? More thank you may think. The FX on Hulu series debuted in 2022 and instantly became one of the most acclaimed television shows. With the third season dropping earlier this year, we have many questions and confidence that we know a lot of what is to come. With Season Four now confirmed to drop all ten episodes on Hulu on June 25th, here’s everything we know about the new season!

Season Four will pick up from the Season Three cliffhanger finale.

After two seasons building towards the opening of the titular restaurant, the third season slowed things down to focus on the main characters dealing with the anxiety of first reviews for their establishment. Sydney (Ayo Edibiri) has an intriguing offer to leave the restaurant and branch out. Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) has yet to reply to his ex-wife’s wedding invitation.

There was a lot of star power at the Amazon MGM Studios 2025 Upfront Presentation last night!

Stars from the streamer’s biggest movies and TV shows got on stage and spoke at the Beacon Theatre on Monday (May 12) in New York City.

Some guests in attendance included Fallout stars Walton Goggins, Ella Purnell, and Aaron Moten, plus Octavia Spencer, Elizabeth Banks, and Jamie Lee Curtis (who all have projects in the work with Prime Video), The Man with the Bag‘s Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Kelce brothers, Heads of State‘s John Cena with his wife Shay Shariatzadeh, and the stars of the Legally Blonde prequel series Elle, including lead Lexi Minetree with Jacob Moskovitz, Chandler Kinney, Zac Looker, Gabrielle Policano, and Lauren Neustadter. The Prime Video sports commentating crews were also in attendance!

Some highlights from the presentation…Jamie Lee and Arnold had a reunion on stage: they co-starred in...

FX has unveiled the release dates for “The Bear” Season 4, Noah Hawley’s “Alien: Earth,” as well as the drama series “The Lowdown” starring Ethan Hawke.

Season 4 of the Emmy-winning culinary dramedy “The Bear” hits Hulu June 25, with all 10 episodes available at 5 p.m. Pt/8 p.m. Et. Season 4 will also be available at the same time internationally on Disney+.

All 10 episodes of Season 3 of “The Bear” dropped on Hulu on June 26, 2024. It followed Jeremy Allen White’s Carmy Berzatto after he reopened his restaurant The Beef into the fine dining establishment The Bear. Finally fed up with Carmy’s kitchen’s dysfunction, Ayo Edebiri’s Sydney also debates leaving The Bear behind and joining a new restaurant.

“The Bear” cast includes Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Richie Jerimovich, Lionel Boyce as Marcus Brooks, Liza Colón-Zayas as Tina Marrero, Abby Elliott as Natalie “Sugar” Berzatto and Matty Matheson as Neil Fak. The...

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis reunited on stage at Amazon's upfront presentation in a moment that is sure to delight action movie fans. It's been more than 30 years since the two actors starred in James Cameron's 1994 box office blockbuster True Lies, and the event gave them both a chance to reminisce about working together as husband-and-wife duo Harry and Helen Tasker in the critically acclaimed feature, which centered on an international espionage plot involving the outwardly ordinary married couple.

As reported by Deadline, Schwarzenegger made an appearance at Amazon's 2025 upfront presentation at New York's Beacon Theatre to talk about his starring turn as Santa Claus in the Christmas-themed action-comedy The Man with the Bag, which is expected to hit Prime Video this December. However, after a short while, his former True Lies co-star Curtis showed up to escort him off the stage, but not before humoring the crowd...

Generative AI models continue to grow in complexity, leading more and more people to be fooled by deepfake videos. Scammers have used the public image and brands of celebrities to sell fake products, and even made a woman fall in love with a fake Brad Pitt for financial gain. Halloween star and all-round Hollywood legend, Jamie Lee Curtis, is the latest actress to be embroiled in a deepfake AI scam, and she has taken directly to social media to call out those responsible, including Meta boss, Mark Zuckerberg.

Jamie Lee Curtis took to Instagram to share a lengthy plea for Mark Zuckerberg and Meta to do something about the various AI scams circulating on Facebook and Instagram. "My name is Jamie Lee Curtis and I have gone through every proper channel to ask you and your team to take down this totally AI fake commercial for some bullsh*t that I didn't authorize,...

Oscar-winner Jamie Lee Curtis could only get a fake AI ad featuring her likeness taken down when she went to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg directly.

The vast majority of people who are having their work and likeness purloined by AI and AI companies don’t have any kind of recourse when big tech takes what they’ve created. But occasionally, they pick on somebody who does have a little bit of clout, and so we come to Jamie Lee Curtis.

The Oscar-winning actor had, she revealed in an Instagram post, been trying to have removed a fake AI advert using her likeness. It was put up without her authorisation, and her attempts to go through Meta customer support to get it removed? Well, yeah. You can imagine.

Still, there’s power to having over six million followers on Instagram, and Curtis posted a message to Meta CEO and The Social...

Amazon made its play to be the cool advertising partner on Monday night with a relatively zippy Beacon Theater presentation that followed an extremely loud DJ set from Steve Aoki.

Perhaps the aspiring pizza impresario was instructed to keep the arriving crowd awake after enduring both NBCUniversal and Fox earlier in what proved to be an egregiously long day. Whether people were annoyed or enamored with Aoki, the masses seemed to be satisfied by the surprise performance from Lizzo that followed. Flanked by David Bautista and Jason Momoa (co-stars of Amazon MGM Studios’ The Wrecking Crew), the flautist marched through the lobby, down one of the center aisles and onto the stage while singing “About Damn Time.” It was the highest concentration of talent the week had seen thus far.

Amazon’s pitch is relatively straightforward. In short, everybody has it. Why waste time dwelling on numbers when there’s...

After Arnold Schwarzenegger’s self-described “speech” about Christmas movie The Man with the Bag ran on a bit at the Amazon upfront Monday, Jamie Lee Curtis came to the rescue.

Schwarzenegger plugged the movie (repeatedly misidentifying it as The Man in the Bag) in his customary machine-like fashion. After initially wowing the crowd and earning the night’s biggest ovation at the Beacon Theatre event, he began filibustering as though he were still governor of California.

“Marketing, and communicating to the mass, and publicity is the most important thing,” he told the room full of advertisers. “You can have the best product in the world, but if they don’t know about it, you have nothing! Absolutely nothing.”

As the crowd started to titter nervously and Schwarzenegger pounded out talking points as though they were free weights, Curtis started inching across the stage toward him. Though it was pre-planned, it...

Amazon made its second formal appearance at the upfronts in New York on Monday night, and once again, it pulled out all the stops.

Like their 2024 presentation, Amazon made a number of splashy announcements with major star power to rev up excitement in the normally sedated crowd of advertising executives at the storied Beacon Theater in Manhattan.

World famous DJ Steve Aoki opened the show with over half an hour of blasting beats on behalf of Twitch, which was no doubt welcome by weary advertisers who had been making their way around the city to different network presentations since morning. What better than some good Edm to wake you up on a Monday evening, after all?

Not long after, Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista made their way onstage with Lizzo leading the way. Yes, you read that right. Lizzo sang her hit song “About Damn Time,” with Momoa and Bautista...

Jamie Lee Curtis has succeeded in having Meta remove an AI-generated ad featuring her likeness.

The Oscar winner took to Instagram on Monday to publicly “shame” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg into taking down a “totally AI fake commercial” on his social media platform.

“It’s come to this @zuck,” she started in the caption. “Hi. We have never met. My name is Jamie Lee Curtis and I have gone through every proper channel to ask you and your team to take down this totally AI fake commercial for some bull— that I didn’t authorize, agree to or endorse. I tried to Dm you and slide on in, but you don’t follow me so I’ve had to take to the public Instaverse to try to reach you.”

Curtis continued, “If I have a brand, besides being an actor and author and advocate, it is that I am known...

Jamie Lee Curtis has a really good reason for signing on to hawk pantyhose, yogurt and rental cars despite being a huge star.

In an interview that aired on CBS’ 60 Minutes on Sunday night, the actress was asked why she signed on as a spokesperson for L’eggs pantyhose, Activia yogurt and Hertz rental cars while her acting career was thriving. She began pitching those products despite starring in the critically acclaimed A Fish Called Wanda (1988), which earned her a BAFTA Film Award nom, and amid the success of True Lies, which earned her a Golden Globe and pulled in about $387 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1994, among other noteworthy credits.

Curtis shared perhaps a perfect response for this question, given that it aired on Mother’s Day.

“For the most part, because [doing the commercials] allowed me to stay home with my kids,” she shared. “I am an imperfect working mom.

What is a producer’s job? On a fundamental level, it’s to put all the pieces together that allow for film and television to be made. Maybe it’s pairing the right material with the right director. Maybe it’s location scouting. Maybe it’s having 10 dinners with that one actor who won’t commit. The role of the producer is every-changing, but there are certain constants the best in the business have learned to adhere to.

Whether it’s Christine Vachon using Celine Song’s script for “Past Lives” as a selling point for the project or Ram Bergman advising Rian Johnson to make “Brick” on a smaller budget than he intended, the greatest producers in cinema today know that setting a project up for success means pinpointing its value. This isn’t just on a financial level, but in terms of popular culture as well. Keep reading...

Freaky Friday 2 is coming out later this summer, but first, let’s look back at the first film!

The Disney body-swap comedy, released in 2003, was based on the Mary Rodgers 1972 novel of the same name and more than quadrupled it’s budget in box office earnings.

Throughout the years, there have been calls for a sequel, but the idea didn’t really pick up steam until around 2022 and the next year, Disney officially greenlit the sequel, with most of the original film’s stars reprising their roles, including leads Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan!

With the second film, titled Freakier Friday, coming out, we’re diving back into the first film and uncovering some of the behind-the-scenes secrets you may not have known.

For instance, we learned that the movie almost featured two entirely different actresses in the lead roles. Additionally, a big plot point involving Gwen Stefani...

CBS’s newsmagazine “60 Minutes” returns this Sunday with a characteristically diverse lineup of investigations and interviews. The episode tackles everything from government fraud to medical breakthroughs, with a detour into Hollywood royalty along the way. First up, correspondent Cecilia Vega digs into the pervasive problem of fraud within government programs. Her report exposes how scams […]

60 Minutes: Fraud | To Walk Again | Jamie Lee Curtis...

This article is part of ScreenRant's Exclusive 2025 Summer Movie Preview. Keep an eye out for the full feature next week!

A new image offers a closer look at Fear Street: Prom Queen. The 2025 horror movie is the fourth installment in Netflix's Fear Street franchise, which is adapted from the R.L. Stine young adult series of the same name. The upcoming Fear Street: Prom Queen is set in the unlucky town of Shadyside in 1988. In the movie, which stars India Fowler, Ella Rubin, Suzanna Son, Ariana Greenblatt, David Iacono, Fina Strazza, Chris Klein, Lili Taylor, and Katherine Waterston, a killer begins to stalk the local high school's prom queen candidates one by one.

ScreenRant can now share a first-look image from Fear Street: Prom Queen ahead of its Netflix debut on May 23. The image shows a trio of students looking concerned at prom. While they do not look entirely panicked,...

This Sunday at 7:00 Pm, CBS will air a new episode of “60 Minutes,” the well-known newsmagazine that dives deep into the stories shaping the world. With its signature investigative style, the show will explore a mix of human interest features and significant events that often go beyond the headlines.

Fraud – Correspondent Cecilia Vega reports on rampant fraud in government programs like unemployment, food stamps, disaster aid and more. With few safeguards at state and federal levels, taxpayers are falling victim to complex schemes carried out by scammers, hackers and transnational criminal organizations, costing the government hundreds of billions of dollars each year. Ayesha Siddiqi and Kit Ramgopal are the producers.

To Walk Again – For people who’ve suffered traumatic spinal cord injuries that have caused paralysis, positive news has been scarce. However, as correspondent Anderson Cooper discovers, innovative technology now in an early clinical trial is allowing participants to...

This Sunday, May 11, 2025, from 7:00 to 8:00 Pm Et/Pt, 60 Minutes brings viewers an informative and diverse lineup, covering a range of critical topics from fraud and groundbreaking medical technology to a Hollywood icon’s remarkable career.

Fraud

In the first segment, correspondent Cecilia Vega investigates the rampant fraud affecting various government programs, including unemployment benefits, food stamps, disaster aid, and more. With minimal safeguards in place at both the state and federal levels, scammers, hackers, and transnational criminal organizations are costing taxpayers billions of dollars every year. This report reveals the complexity of these schemes and the widespread impact of government fraud. 60 Minutes sheds light on how fraudsters have taken advantage of the system, with producers Ayesha Siddiqi and Kit Ramgopal providing in-depth coverage.

To Walk Again

In a groundbreaking report, correspondent Anderson Cooper explores new hope for people with spinal cord injuries. With the help of innovative technology,...

TCM’s “Two for One” returns this Saturday, letting another celebrated filmmaker curate a double feature of classic films. This time, it’s the turn of the incomparable Jamie Lee Curtis, who has selected a pairing that features a night of suspense and sharp dialogue: “The Manchurian Candidate” and “Sweet Smell of Success.” The evening kicks off […]

Two for One: Jamie Lee Curtis – The Manchurian Candidate & Sweet Smell of Success...

Audiences have countless associations with John Mulaney. He’s a virtuosic comic. He’s a sketch performer. He’s a Broadway star. He’s an Emmy-winning writer. He’s a talk show host. In a sense, he’s Spider-Pig. What we don’t talk about enough is how great Mulaney is as a TV comedy guest star, but now that he’s popped up in Season Two of Poker Face, we really should.

To be clear: I’m not talking about Mulaney’s work as a series regular or sketch comic. In the former case, this would potentially require us all to engage with his short-lived namesake sitcom Mulaney, something I didn’t care to do at the time, which put me squarely in the majority of critics and TV owners. I’m also not addressing his work as a sketch comic, largely because his character George St. Geegland — a...

This article is part of ScreenRant's Exclusive 2025 Summer Movie Preview. Keep an eye out for the full feature next week!

A new image from Clown in a Cornfield showcases one of Frendo's many victims. The 2025 slasher movie, which was directed by Eli Craig (Tucker & Dale vs. Evil), is based on the 2020 young adult novel of the same name by Adam Cesare. It follows high schooler Quinn Maybrook (Katie Douglas) moving to the small town of Kettle Springs, Missouri, where a killer dressed as the local Baypen corn syrup factory mascot, Frendo the clown, begins murdering teenagers. The Clown in a Cornfield release kicks off on May 9.

ScreenRant can now share an exclusive first-look image from Clown in a Cornfield. The image features both elements of the horror movie's title, as it focuses on a scared teenager looking off into the distance while hiding in a cornfield, not realizing that...

Modern genre favorites David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil) and Georgina Campbell (Barbarian) will star in the horror-thriller The Shepherd, Variety has learned.

Production is set to begin in the fall with John Hyams directing from a script written by Alexander Gustaveson.

Set in the desolate Nevada night, the film follows a young woman in labor fleeing an abusive past who has her escape hijacked by a mysterious stranger hiding an ominous threat in the back of her car.

Steven Schneider and Roy Lee produce for Spooky Pictures with Ben Cornwell, Jordan Foley and Nick Smith for Paperclip Ltd., Sébastien Raybaud for Anton, and Jonathan Rosenthal (Alone).

Dastmalchian is executive producing under his Good Fiend Films banner. Anton and Image Nation are financing.

“Once I turned the first few pages of The Shepherd I was hooked,” said Dastmalchian. “I immediately wanted to see this high-octane, horrifying world brought to...

Horror fans who are planning to drop by a Fan Expo-backed event from now until the end of 2028 are in for the greatest chill and thrill of their lives. Today, Fan Expo HQ announced a multi-year deal signed with the maestro of terror, John Carpenter, that will place the iconic genre filmmaker at a slew of the company’s events over the next few years. The partnership kicks off in just a few days at Fan Expo Philadelphia with more appearances set to be revealed in the upcoming weeks. From up-close-and-personal interactions with fans through signings and photo ops to one-of-a-kind Q&As at panels, Carpenter is slated to take part in every aspect that has made Fan Expo such an important part of the fandom experience.

It’s an incredibly exciting time for Carpenter who, after decades in the industry, finally received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Martin Scorsese is rebooting one of his classics for Apple TV+. The fan-favorite director's Oscar-nominated 1991 neo-noir psychological thriller Cape Fear is heading to television, with its cast slowly coming together.

According to Deadline, three more actors have boarded Apple's Cape Fear series, which will be headlined by Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson. Anna Baryshnikov (Love Lies Bleeding), Jamie Hector (Bosch), and Clara Wong (Billions) have been cast in undisclosed roles. The trio joins an ensemble that includes Javier Bardem and Cch Pounder. Nick Antosca is writing and serving as showrunner on Cape Fear, with Scorsese and Steven Spielberg attached as executive producers.

Apple's Cape Fear will be based on John D. MacDonald's 1957 novel The Executioners as well as Scorsese's 1991 movie. The 10-episode series will mark the third time The Executioners has been adapted for the screen, with a 1962 movie starring Gregory Peck also having been made. In the upcoming series,...

Exclusive: Apple’s Cape Fear series has three new additions: Anna Baryshnikov (Love Lies Bleeding), Jamie Hector (Bosch), and Clara Wong (Billions).

Character details are under wraps. As previously announced, Javier Bardem, Amy Adams, Patrick Wilson and Cch Pounder are also set.

In Cape Fear — created, written, and showrun by Nick Antosca — a storm is coming for happily married attorneys Anna (Adams) and Tom Bowden (Wilson) when Max Cady (Bardem), a notorious killer from their past, gets out of prison. The 10-episode series is a tense, Hitchcockian thriller and an examination of America’s obsession with true crime in the 21st century.

Hailing from UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, and Amblin Television, the show is based on both the novel The Executioners, which inspired Gregory Peck’s 1962 film for Universal, as well as the acclaimed 1991 remake directed by Martin Scorsese, who’s among the executive producers here.

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This May, we are getting a ton of content from the much-anticipated return of Love, Death and Robots and Nine Perfect Strangers on streaming, to the release of some of the most anticipated movies of this year, such as Thunderbolts* and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. This upcoming month will see the release of many great movies, so we thought of compiling a list of all the best movies that are coming straight to streaming.

Another Simple Favor (Prime Video) – May 1, 2025 Credit – Amazon MGM Studios

Another Simple Favor is a dark comedy mystery film directed by Paul Feig from a screenplay by Jessica Sharzer and Laeta Kalogridis. The 2025 sequel film is set five years after the events of the first film, and it follows Stephanie as she is invited by Emily to her wedding in Italy. Stephanie fears...

Jamie Lee Curtis, the horror icon and star of films like Halloween, The Fog and the Academy Award winner of Everything Everywhere All at Once, has become the latest celebrity to praise the spectacular Ryan Coogler vampire movie Sinners. Curtis went old-school, displaying her love for the film by taking a picture of the screen when she attended a 70 mm Imax show. and saying the experience had a "profound effect."

Ever since its release last April 18, Sinners has taken Hollywood by surprise. It's not only a powerful cultural statement, but it is a horror movie as well, a genre that many in the industry look down on. Critics and audiences have fallen under the spell of Sinners, which currently holds a 98% Certified Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes.

However, the appraisal wave has also included several of Coogler's colleagues in the film industry, who have voiced their love for the movie.

When you hear John Carpenter’s 1998 classic, your mind immediately goes to Halloween H20: 20 Years Later. However, Carpenter was not involved in this seventh instalment of the Halloween franchise. He turned down the directing gig of the film after the Weinstein brothers rejected his salary demand of $10 million.

Carpenter instead committed to the vampire genre film, Vampires, starring James Woods. The 1990s weren’t kind to Carpenter, as none of his films up until Vampires made any financial gains for the studios despite the fact that many of them went on to become cult hits. The 1998 film broke this pattern and went on to become financially successful.

John Carpenter’s must-watch blood-sucking thriller of 1998 is on Netflix James Woods in a still from John Carpenter’s Vampires | Credits: Columbia Pictures

John Carpenter‘s Vampires came at a time when the director thought about quitting the industry. However, when the...

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Another Simple Favor is a dark comedy mystery crime film directed by Paul Feig from a screenplay co-written by Jessica Sharzer and Laeta Kalogridis. The 2025 sequel film is set five years after the events of A Simple Favor, and it follows Stephanie, who’s now a popular true crime vlogger, as she is invited by Emily to her wedding in Italy. The wedding is soon interrupted by a brutal murder, forcing Stephanie to investigate it. Another Simple Favor stars Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Andrew Rannells, Bashir Salahuddin, Elizabeth Perkins, Michele Morrone, Elena Sofia Ricci, Henry Golding, and Allison Janney. So, if you loved the biting dark comedy, thrilling mystery, and compelling characters in Another Simple Favor, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

A Simple Favor (Netflix & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Lionsgate

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Who doesn’t love John Carpenter’s Halloween? It’s one of the greatest horror films of all time. We have Halloween to thank for the slasher boom of the ‘80s. The flick was a resounding success that resonated with critics and fans in equal measure. Not to mention, it also inspired future generations of filmmakers. Speaking of filmmakers upon whom the film imprinted in a meaningful way, Guillermo del Toro counts himself a massive fan of this beloved feature.

The Pacific Rim director once took to Twitter (I still refuse to call it X) to proclaim his undying appreciation for the flick. His tweet reads: “Halloween by John Carpenter. A genre supernova. Creates a taxonomic category that still lives. Unsparing precision, simplicity and elegance.”

Mr. del Toro said it far better than I could. Halloween is a benchmark of genre filmmaking to which all subsequent slashers will be compared,...

Horror films about facing your fears are an all-too-common type of movie in the genre. Rosario is one of those movies. It’s an above-average attempt at a tired subgenre, with a strong central performance from Emeraude Toubia and solid effects, all wrapped up in a brisk 85-minute runtime. It’s a nice tribute to Hispanic culture with a freaky twist.

Rosario Review

Rosario follows a young woman who, after the passing of her mother, begins to experience paranormal phenomena. Is it in her head? Are there really monsters after her? It’s left open to interpretation. We watch our main character slowly lose her grip on reality over the 85-minute runtime as she learns to cope with her mother’s death and other trauma she has experienced in her life.

One of the film’s strengths is its mostly single-location setting. Rosario locks herself in her apartment while a winter storm rages outside,...

More than two decades after portraying Jake in 2003’s Freaky Friday,Chad Michael Murray, who has starred in shows like One Tree Hilland Sullivan’s Crossing, is back in the role again for this summer’s Freakier Friday. The movie will reunite Murray’s Jake with Lindsay Lohan’s Anna Coleman and Jamie Lee Curtis’ Tess Coleman.

In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Murray talked about reprising his Jake role and the nostalgia it brought along with it. In the 2003 film, Murray played the motorcycle-riding love interest of teenage Anna (Lohan). Now, 22 years later, he talked about how he wanted to make sure everything was perfect as he stepped into the role once again, including his iconic hair.

“The hair had been locked in place for the entire day. I was trying to let it be free and let it loose, to get the helmet and to do the whole thing,...

The team behind Freakier Friday, the sequel to Disney's 2003 comedy Freaky Friday starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, have promised that the upcoming movie will correct the most "problematic" part of the original. The follow-up comes more than two decades after the first film, and while the sequel aims to retain many elements that made the body-swapping film so popular, Freakier Friday director Nisha Ganatra has admitted that she had the "complicated" task of reassessing the first film and making some necessary changes.

Ganatra told Entertainment Weekly that her Freakier Friday checklist included fixing the 2003 film's "hurtful" Asian stereotypes. She felt the past portrayal of two characters in particular needed to be addressed, making reference to Chinese restaurant owner Pei-Pei (Rosalind Chao) and her mother (Lucille Soong), who famously served Anna (Lohan) and Tess (Curtis) the magical fortune cookies that led to their body-swap. Chao and Soong are both...

Before Rachel Zegler joined the list of actresses to play beloved Disney Princesses, she had already starred in a few major films. From Maria in West Side Story to Lucy Gray Baird in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Zegler made a name for herself quickly. In March, she became Disney royalty, portraying Snow White in the film of the same name. Now, in her first movie post-Snow White, the actress will step into the life of a daughter with an ex-punk rocker mom in the comedy drama She Gets It From Mealongside Marisa Tomei(May Parker in the Marvel Cinematic Universe).

According to Variety, Tomei will play the rowdy, wild-living mother, and the project is apparently based on a true story. It follows Nicky (Zegler) as her engagement, a moment that was supposed to be a celebration, turns into a search for her pill-popping, ex-punk rocker...

The team behind Freakier Friday, Disney’s upcoming sequel to its 2003 body-swap comedy, has acknowledged that elements of the original film relied on stereotypes, particularly in its depiction of Asian characters. Director Nisha Ganatra and actor Manny Jacinto, both of Asian descent, say the new film takes a different approach.

Ganatra said she had long held concerns about the earlier film, particularly a pivotal scene set in a Chinese restaurant. “I remember watching it and feeling torn, mostly about the Asian representation, and also the soundtrack that was being used,” she told Entertainment Weekly. “It was something I brought up right away when I had my first meetings with the producers. I had a moment of the presentation that was like, ‘Problematic Asian representation!’”

In the 2003 film, Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan play a mother and daughter who argue during a dinner at a Chinese restaurant. Pei-Pei, the restaurant owner played by Rosalind Chao,...