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Adam Sandler's Happy Gilmore 2 is going to be a hoot. Even the trailer brings some laughs, and we can assume, based on the previous Happy Gilmore, that the flick will be worth watching. It might not be Oscar material, but that isn't the point. The point is to have a fun time.

The sequel will, of course, star Sandler as Happy but also feature Julie Bowen, Ben Stiller, Bad Bunny, Margaret Qualley, and, of course, Christopher McDonald. There will also be a number of cameos from well-known celebrities and athletes.

One part of the original film that will not be part of the second is an alligator named Morris. Unfortunately, he passed away recently from old age at his gator farm home in Colorado. Based on his teeth and growth rate, he was presumed to be around 80 years old. But he wasn't just a one-film star.

Morris the...

The NFL schedule reveal has quietly transformed from a casual date drop to a full-out entertainment event. In recent years, teams have gone all-in on turning their schedule announcements into small, high-quality productions of parody trailers and popular pop-culture references woven into the team’s announcements, to show who they will be going against in this season. And does all of this have any impact? Well, looks like the fans seem to eat it up.

The full 2025 schedule dropped at 8 p.m. Et on Wednesday, May 14, and social media started doing what it does best—turning heads. Each team’s reveal looks better than the last one, each team trying to out-viral each other, and it looks like this year they have really upped the production value a notch.

While many teams had notable revelations, it’s the Baltimore Ravens that turned heads with their creative way of revealing the 2025-26 schedule.

As the stars of Happy Gilmore reunite for a long overdue sequel, Adam Sandler is paying tribute to one original cast member.

The 2x Golden Globe nominee mourned the death of his alligator co-star Morris, who played the titular character’s nemesis in the 1996 golf comedy, on Wednesday with a sweet tribute to the reptilian actor on Instagram.

“Goodbye, Morris. We are all gonna miss you,” he captioned the post. “You could be hard on directors, make-up artists, costumers – really anyone with arms or legs – but I know you did it for the ultimate good of the film. The day you wouldn’t come out of your trailer unless we sent in 40 heads of lettuce taught me a powerful lesson: never compromise your art. I will never forget at craft service that time when we split the Three Musketeers bar and you let me have the bigger half. But that’s who you were.

I’ve been writing a lot lately about my lengthy Zoom with The Naked Gun! and Airplane! creator David Zucker. Our interview was ostensibly set up to discuss his upcoming web series MasterCrash, a more-sincere-than-usual sendup of MasterClass, and to provide space for him to gripe about being left out of Seth MacFarlane and Akiva Schaffer’s new Naked Gun movie — a classic win-win media & PR collab! The residual impact has been how much I’ve since thought about parody, and how not everybody knows how to do it right.

Time will tell if MacFarlane and Schaffer’s take starring Liam Neeson as the new Lt. Frank Drebin, son of the old one (Leslie Nielsen), strikes the right tone. Considering the IP and talent attached — and even factoring in the talent not attached — Naked Gun (August 1, 2025) has a shot. The big Baltimore Ravens short film released this week, on the other hand,...

Tom Cruise isn’t ruling out a Les Grossman movie, now that his Mission: Impossible work is pretty much complete. More here.

Straight up front: that’s not a clickbait headline. It is a story about the tiniest of hints. Nothing more, nothing less.

Back in 2008, Tom Cruise did something it’s hard for one of the most famous actors in the world to do: he appeared by surprise in a movie. It was in the film Tropic Thunder, directed by Ben Stiller, with Cruise appearing under prosthetics as studio executive Les Grossman.

The character is one that Cruise has talked about with fondness, and at various times in the 17 years since, there’s been chat about a spin-off movie for him.

Lest we forget too, he danced for the film’s ending as well. Here’s a refresher, with some fruity language involved…

Separately, it’s unlike to have...

Apple TV+ has revealed its Emmy submissions for Severance with Adam Scott submitted for Best Drama Actor and Britt Lower for Best Drama Actress, Gold Derby has learned.

Ben Stiller, Jessica Lee Gagné, and Uta Briesewitz will be submitted for the Best Drama Directing, while creator Dan Erickson will be in the Best Drama Writing category.

The show’s other main cast members will run in the supporting categories: Michael Chernus, Zach Cherry, Tramell Tillman, John Turturro, Christopher Walken in Best Drama Supporting Actor, and Patricia Arquette, Sarah Bock, Dichen Lachman, and Jen Tullock in Best Drama Supporting Actress.

The show also has eight contenders in the Guest Actor/Actress categories:

Robby Benson, John Noble, Michael Siberry Jane Alexander, Sydney Cole Alexander, Sandra Bernhard, Gwendoline Christie, Merritt Wever

Three years ago, in its debut season, the series about office workers who sever their workplace memories from their personal ones earned...

More than 1.4 billion people are estimated to have traveled in 2024, while the number of tourists was expected to grow to more than five billion in 2025 for the first time ever. We're no sociologists, so we won't pretend to know exactly why travelers feel the need to escape from their everyday lives in search of ... what exactly? What beckons billions of people the world over to traverse the roads, seas, and skies to arrive at a new destination beyond their familiar surroundings? Many things: pleasure, entertainment, adventure, peer pressure, Fomo, Yolo, Ig-worthy backdrops for their social media (#takemeback), and self-discovery.

Cinema has sought to capture this essential drive for a century. We're celebrating the best by highlighting travel movies, which we define as "movies where characters go from A to B for personal reasons." So we won't be looking at movies about traveling for work ("Midnight Run") or set in a...

Exclusive: Severance, Apple TV+’s most-watched series launch of all time, could become “the foundation” of Fifth Season’s library in the future, according to the studio’s new global TV sales boss.

Despite the show currently being available on Apple globally and with at least one more season to come, Jennifer Ebell said there is plenty opportunity to monetize Severance both now and further down the line, while the smash sci-fi thriller is a perpetual reputation builder for Fifth Season.

“Being the number one show on Apple is such a loud calling card,” Ebell told Deadline in her first interview since replacing Prentiss Fraser and as she prepped for today’s L.A. Screenings. “Having great shows like Severance is the foundation of the library in the future. It speaks to the testament of what we are trying to do and what we continue to do.”

Severance Season 2 took the TV world by storm.

Happy Gilmore 2. (L to R) Christopher McDonald as Shooter McGavin and Adam Sandler as Happy Gilmore in Happy Gilmore 2. Cr. Scott Yamano/Netflix © 2024. Nearly three decades after the original film came out, Happy Gilmore 2 will be released this summer as a streaming film on Netflix. Many of the original cast members are returning, including Adam Sandler, Julie Bowen, Ben Stiller, Dennis Dugan, and Christopher McDonald. In the first film, McDonald’s Shooter McGavin character was the perfect foil for Sandler’s Happy Gilmore, and one would think we’ll see that dynamic continue in the new film. When McDonald recently appeared at Steel City Con, he told the story about how he was specifically recruited for the role. (Click on the media bar below to hear Christopher McDonald.) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Christopher_McDon-ald_Happy_Gilmore.mp3

Happy Gilmore is available on DVD, Blu-Ray, and most...

If you're a longtime fan of Adam Scott, you probably know him best for his comedic roles. Think of his douchey "Step Brothers" character Derek, or his hilariously awful Bad Place demon from "The Good Place," or his exasperated struggling actor Henry Pollard on "Party Down" -- or, most famously, his lovable but goofy Ben Wyatt on NBC's beloved sitcom "Parks and Recreation." So how did this funny guy end up starring in one of TV's biggest dramas? Specifically, "Severance," the massively successful and critically adored Apple TV+ drama spearheaded by Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller.

I should get one thing out of the way here, which is that "Severance" is, at times, very funny. Even in its season 2 finale "Cold Harbor," Scott's character Mark S. gets some genuinely hilarious moments, including one where he's confusedly waving a gun at a freaked-out Sandra Bernhard. Still, the show is much...

After two hit seasons, a lot of the mysteries of Dan Erickson's bizarre anti-corporate sci-fi series "Severance" remain unsolved. Central among them: What exactly does Lumon do? Lumon, as fans of the show can tell you, is a threatening corporate entity that has developed a system of severing its employees from their outside lives while they're in the office. Lumon employees volunteer to have a computer chip implanted in their brains that erase all their memories of the outside world when they step into the office. While at work, they only have memories of their job. When they go home, the chip restores their outside memories, but masks everything they encountered at work. The "Innies" and the "Outies" have no personal memories they share.

The premise seems like a drama about work/life balance, but Lumon is clearly up to something far more insidious. The main characters, led by...

Acclaimed actor Ben Stiller fondly remembers his late, great father, Jerry Stiller, on social media.

Ben Still shared a classic image of his father from all the way back in the elder Stiller's first heyday in 1974. The image, shared in a May 11 X post, was accompanied by the caption, "5 years today. Will always miss this man who was so incredibly generous, loving and funny. And the best dad."

5 years today. Will always miss this man who was so incredibly generous, loving and funny. And the best dad.â¤ï¸â¤ï¸â¤ï¸ pic.twitter.com/DJFTkINMGt— Ben Stiller (@BenStiller) May 11, 2025

Jerry Stiller's career in entertainment began in the early 1950s, during which time he appeared in numerous productions of Shakespearian classics. It was also around this time when Jerry met his future wife and fellow comedian, Anne Meara. Together, Stiller and Meara found success as a comedy duo, making...

The New York Knicks may not have one their latest game, but Timothee Chalamet was cheering them on as usual!

The Oscar-nominated actor stepped out in full Knicks gear to attend game three of the playoffs on Saturday afternoon (May 10) at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Timothee sat in courtside seats alongside other celebs like Tracy Morgan and Ben Stiller. They watched as the Knicks were defeated by the Boston Celtics in a score of 115-93.

Just days earlier, Timothee was in Italy with his girlfriend Kylie Jenner and they made their red carpet debut as a couple at an event where he was honored with an award. One of his exes even reacted to the photos of the couple.

Browse through the gallery for more Timothee Chalamet photos…...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for "Severance" season 2.

At the beginning of season 2 of Dan Erickson's semi-surreal anti-corporate sci-fi drama "Severance," Mark S. (Adam Scott) discovers that Ms. Casey (Dichen Lachman), one of his co-workers at Lumon, is actually Gemma, Outie Mark's presumed-dead wife. Mark, recall, has had his mind "severed" by Lumon, which means he only has memories of his 9-to-5 job when he's at work. Outside of work, Mark has no memories of what happened while he was on the clock. The procedure allowed Lumon to hire both Mark and Gemma before putting them in a room together, assuring they wouldn't recognize each other. There is a further scandal, of course, in that Lumon seemingly faked Gemma's death for its own insidious purposes.

Over the course of the show's second season, Outie Mark not only learns that Gemma is alive but also aims to locate her and free her from Lumon's clutches.

Ben Stiller's dark comedy, which made over $128 million at the box office, has landed on Netflix's global chart 18 years after its release. Stiller has been a consistent comedic presence since the 1990s, starting with his sketch comedy series, The Ben Stiller Show. He went on to make guest appearances in television shows like Friends, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, and Extras, the last of which earned him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.

After beginning his career in television, Stiller transitioned to film and starred in a string of successful studio comedies, including romantic comedies like There's Something About Mary and Along Came Polly, and more absurdist and satirical style comedies such as Zoolander, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, and Tropic Thunder. Since the mid-2010s, Stiller has shifted back to television, directing episodes of Severance and other shows. However, many of Stiller's...

Severance composer Theodore “Teddy” Shapiro said during a sit-down conversation at Deadline’s Sound & Screen Television awards-season event how the music evolved from the first to the second season of the Apple TV+ series.

“I said my first thought was that we could do something that contrasted one world for the innies and one world for the outies,” Shapiro said about the vision he had for the score working alongside producer Ben Stiller. “So I sent Ben a bunch of ideas and he was really enthusiastic about sort of what I was coming up with.”

While getting ready to shoot Season 1, Shapiro noticed Stiller kept “coming back to this section of peace,” which was “based on four chords.” With Stiller’s “incredible instincts,” Shapiro then “sat down at the piano and played those four chords,” which turned into the main title.

Theodore Shapiro

Shapiro noted that the music was influenced by 1970s cinema,...

Okay, so the broomsticks, margarita glasses, and sisterly screaming from Practical Magic are happening again. Yep, Practical Magic 2 is officially on its way, and we’re all set to rewind the golden age of VHS. Seriously, it’s been over 25 years since Sally and Gillian Owens first cast their chaotic charm on us. Now they’re back, still witchy, fabulous, and hopefully still making midnight drinks while breaking generational curses.

With Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman returning, we’re about to dive into the magic mix of potions, drama, and probably dancing in the moonlight. But while we wait for this magic to happen on September 18, 2026, let’s rewind the ‘90s mood of cult classics. Yep, we’re talking about those slightly weird, wildly lovable movies that stuck us like glitter on a velvet dress.

So, before the iconic Owen sisters return, let’s revisit the vibes that actually...

The latest iteration of Deadline’s Sound & Screen showcase, one of our most soulful jams that we put together, has kicked off Wednesday at UCLA’s Royce Hall, where a fantastic orchestra will play the music from some of the year’s best television shows.

Sound & Screen Television grows every year and puts a smile on the faces of audiences in a way no other awards-season event does. Tonight will be no different, and we hope there’s as much sonic charm as there always is.

We’re confident that there will be, given the music from the 11 shows featured. From epic dramas, comic book capers, video game adaptations, classic remakes and some of the year’s most original titles, we promise that the music from this season’s crop of projects will bring you closer to these stories than ever before.

Tonight, you’ll hear from an assortment of...

It’s that time of year again, where people want some statues.

The final Emmy submissions are due Thursday, May 8, at 10 p.m. Pt, and if you listen closely, you can almost hear the collective scrambling across Hollywood. For those of us who live and breathe awards season strategy, this is when things get interesting. On the surface, it’s just paperwork. But in reality? It’s game theory with golden statues (and egos) at stake.

This year, the races are unusually fluid — categories could shrink or expand based on how many entries are submitted, and several major contenders are still holding their cards close. Below, I’ve broken down the most urgent and talked-about questions insiders are still debating, with implications that could echo all the way to nomination morning in July.

Here are the biggest questions still hanging in the balance:

Will “The Studio” overplay its guest acting hand?...

IndieWire, the definitive outlet for creative independence in film and TV, announced on Wednesday, May 7 the return of the Spring edition of its IndieWire Honors event celebrating the creators and stars responsible for some of the most impressive and engaging work of this TV season.

Hosted by comedian Robby Hoffman, known for her memorable guest appearances on “Hacks” and “Dying for Sex” this year, IndieWire Honors will celebrate its honorees at an intimate cocktail reception taking place Thursday, June 5 in Los Angeles. Exclusive editorial content, including honoree profiles, will also be featured on IndieWire beginning May 28 and will continue throughout the lead-up to the awards night, followed by video interviews and more content from the event.

“Each year, IndieWire Honors celebrates the artists who are redefining the boundaries of storytelling and pushing the industry forward,” said Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire’s senior VP and editor-in-chief. “The 2025 honorees exemplify the innovation, courage,...

Reece Feldman — the viral creator who made a name for himself online with his Guy With a Movie Camera accounts on TikTok and Instagram (totaling nearly 3 million followers) — has long credited a love of film and television for leading him to become one of Hollywood’s most in-demand creators. It was only a matter of time that he lived up to his online name and picked up a camera to direct his first project.

Feldman wrote and directed a short film titled Wait, Your Car? starring Whitney Peak (Gossip Girl), Ruby Cruz (Bottoms), Minnie Mills (The Summer I Turned Pretty) and Noa Fisher (Uncut Gems). The project follows four friends whose relationship is tested when one claims that her car is literally trying to kill her. The short film was produced by Roger Mancusi’s Fair Oaks Entertainment, Timothy Mendonça and Danielle Kampf.

Cruz, Fisher, Mills and Peak are pictured...

Ben Stiller frequently engaged with Severance fans during the airing of the hit Apple TV+ show. The actor/director says that he found the interactions with the show’s fans “inspiring,” because he didn’t have the chance to do that growing up. Stiller has directed 11 episodes of the series and acts as the show's executive producer.

Season 2 of Severance earned a huge fan following, with people soon taking to social media to comment on theories, romantically pair together their favorite characters, and predict what they thought would happen in the season finale. Stiller was often seen liking and interacting with these fan posts, which were sometimes as fun to follow as watching the show itself.

During a Sxw panel the filmmaker said the huge critical and fandom reception is a testament to the show because audiences had so many options to choose from. “In this day and age, it...

Not every hero wears a cape — some curse, cheat, and still save the day.

I’ve always been more of an anti-hero guy than a full-blown superhero fan. Don’t get me wrong, I respect the capes — but there’s just something way more interesting about characters who break the rules, bend the line between right and wrong, and still manage to save the day (sort of). That’s why I’m genuinely excited for “Thunderbolts*.” It looks like Marvel is finally embracing the messier side of heroism. So if you’re like me and prefer your heroes a little rough around the edges, here are my top seven anti-hero action movies you can stream right now, ranked.

Top 7 anti-hero action movies on streaming right now.

No. 7: ‘Mystery Men’

No. 6: ‘Joker’

No. 5: ‘Kick-Ass’

No. 4: ‘The Suicide Squad’

No. 3: ‘Logan’

No. 2: ‘The Dark Knight’

No.

Netflix is doubling down on Adam Sandler movies in 2025. Roughly four months after Happy Gilmore 2 drops onto the streamer, fans of the comedic actor will be able to watch the comedy-drama Jay Kelly, in which Sandler stars alongside George Clooney.

Per Deadline, Netflix has announced the release dates for Jay Kelly. The coming-of-age comedy-drama by writer-director Noah Baumbach will have a limited run in theaters beginning Nov. 14, 2025, before being added to the streaming service a couple of weeks later on Dec. 5, 2025. Plot details remain largely under wraps for Jay Kelly, with the logline merely stating, "Everybody knows Jay Kelly, but Jay Kelly doesn't know himself." Netflix has unveiled a first-look still of Clooney as the title character, which can be viewed below.

Image via Netflix

Described as a "heartbreaking comedy," Jay Kelly marks Baumbach's fourth outing with Netflix, following 2017's The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), 2019's Marriage Story,...

Netflix announced this morning that Jay Kelly, Noah Baumbach’s new film starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler, is slated for release in theaters on November 14 and will debut on streaming on December 5.

The service also unveiled a first-look still of Clooney as the title character, which you can view below.

In announcing Jay Kelly, Netflix referred to the project as a “heartbreaking comedy,” though little about the project is known apart from that. Per the logline, everybody knows Jay Kelly…but Jay Kelly doesn’t know himself.

Baumbach wrote the script for the pic — marking his fourth outing with Netflix — with Emily Mortimer, one of many others featuring in the ensemble. He also produced the film alongside David Heyman and Amy Pascal, the duo who recently inked a deal to produce the next Bond film at Amazon MGM. Additional cast includes Billy Crudup, Laura Dern, Grace Edwards, Stacy Keach,...

The new Netflix feature starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler is set for theatrical release during the prime awards-season corridor.

Director Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly will hit theaters Nov. 14 before it begins streaming three weeks later on Dec. 5. Baumbach helmed the movie from a script he co-wrote with Emily Mortimer, and a first-look image of Clooney in the project can be seen above.

Mortimer co-stars in the film that boasts an ensemble cast of Billy Crudup, Laura Dern, Grace Edwards, Stacy Keach, Riley Keough, Patrick Wilson, Nicôle Lecky, Thaddea Graham, Jim Broadbent, Eve Hewson, Alba Rohrwacher, Lenny Henry, Josh Hamilton and Greta Gerwig.

Limited plot details have been shared about the feature that centers on the titular character, who is well-known but has a lot to still learn about himself. Baumbach, David Heyman and Amy Pascal serve as producers.

George Clooney (left) and Adam Sandler

Jay Kelly marks Baumbach...

Severance Season 2 caused an explosion of fan theories. Everyone was trying to think fast and prove they'd outsmarted the writers. And one popular fan theory did in fact come true: the Helly (Britt Lower) that came in through the door in episode one was not Helly at all. It was her outie, Helena.

This wasn't revealed until episode four of the show, and even the cast members were shocked when they first read the scripts. Tramell Tillman, who plays Mr. Milchick, revealed to Variety exactly what he thought upon learning the twist. “I could not wait for people to experience that because when I was at home and I read the script for the first time, I nearly tossed my laptop down,” he said. “I felt betrayed. I felt lied to! I said, ‘The whole time?’ So it was really rewarding when that episode aired and I got to see...

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

Ben Stiller has been particularly active on social media lately. For the “Severance” director and executive producer, fan interactions are one of the positive things about being a public figure.

“I find it, actually, really inspiring to be interacting with the audience because we never had that, my generation growing up,” Stiller told Variety at the “Severance” Season 2 FYC event on Saturday in Los Angeles. “When somebody doesn’t like something, I’ll [still] go back and forth with them sometimes and I find that fun, too, because usually once you start talking to somebody or interacting, something positive can come out of it. It’s also kind of fun. And at the end of the day, I don’t really take it that seriously.”

Stiller’s social media interactions have come at a time when...

Apple TV+’s Severance has emerged as one of the most successful streaming platform projects. It has captivated audiences with its thrilling storyline and mind-bending narrative. But a huge chunk of the show’s immense success can be attributed to its spectacular cast.

Casting decisions profoundly influence a show’s trajectory and performance. In a show like Severance, the actors need to deliver with conviction. Hence, when it came down to picking the show’s main man, Mark Scout, the show’s executive producer and director, Ben Stiller, knew exactly who he wanted for the role.

Severance | Credits: Apple TV

Adam Scott, primarily known for his comedic chops, now helms the sci-fi thriller and wonderfully so. It was quite an unconventional choice on Stiller’s part, but it certainly proved to be a great one. In one particular instance, the show director revealed the reasons behind his pivotal choice for the protagonist of Severance.

Apple TV+ originals are slowly making their way into the minds of viewers thanks to shows like Ted Lasso, Severance, Silo, Pachinko, and more. The streaming platform has been competing with streaming giants like Netflix, but over the past couple of years, it has been seen that viewers have been shifting to Apple TV+ because of the original, authentic content.

Sure, Apple TV+ shows are exclusive to Apple users, but now they’re available for viewers who have smart TVs, consoles, and are online. Some viewers who have been watching the shows for a while now stated that the streaming platform should be given a chance because the shows on it know how to make the audience feel. It’s just quality over quantity for them, and I have no regrets in saying that I have canceled my Netflix subscription for Apple TV+, especially when it comes to these four shows.

The pilot for "Community" creator Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab's TV series "Heat Vision and Jack" was ordered by Fox back in 1999, but the network was a little put off by the show and never picked it up for a series. The pilot did end up airing on Fox as a 30-minute TV special, although it gained more notoriety among VHS traders and cult TV lovers. "Heat Vision and Jack," as directed by Ben Stiller, was to be a "Renegade"-style series about Jack Austin (Jack Black), an itinerant loner-on-the-road who helps random people in trouble. His only possession is his reliable motorcycle, and he is on the run from the law.

The twist is that Jack's motorcycle could talk to him, as it contained the spirit of his best friend Doug (Owen Wilson). Doug had been recently shot by an experimental ray gun, shunting his consciousness into the motorcycle.

The stars of the hit sci-fi thriller Severance reconvened Saturday night for a hilarious grilling by Conan O’Brien.

The Q&a, at Apple TV+’s FYC space at the Hollywood Athletic Club, started with a few mishaps, including a missing chair for O’Brien and a shortage of microphones, which left Ben Stiller, the show's executive producer and primary director, without an amplification device. “Really? You guys have to share a mic?” O’Brien asked with a trademark incredulity when Severance costar Tramell Tillman passed his microphone to Stiller. “It’s Apple! They make a billion dollars a second, and they had to find me a chair at the last minute, and you two are sharing a mic.” Over loud laughter from the crowd, Stiller joked, “They spent all the money on the rooms upstairs.” O’Brien nodded before quipping, “It’s the tariffs.”

O’Brien explained that, as an old friend of Stiller’s,...

LGBTQ audiences who wanted visibility in pop culture had it tough for most of 1995, when Morrissey’s “Boy Racer” was about as explicit as things got (“He’s just too good-looking…”). Two years before Ellen DeGeneres came out to a network TV audience of millions, several fresh shoots appeared in an otherwise largely barren field. The political ABC sitcom Spin City boasted a gay Black character, the third- or fourth-funniest cast member. A closeted lesbian chief of staff kept an eye on the hospital in NBC’s megahit E.R.

Exclusive: Part of Hollywood’s cohort of ethical AI advocates, Natasha Lyonne is walking the talk with her upcoming feature directorial debut.

Ahead of the Season 2 premiere of Poker Face, returning May 8 with three episodes on Peacock, the 2x Golden Globe nominee told Deadline how she plans to utilize artificial intelligence in Uncanny Valley, in contrast from the “dirty model” on which the tech is often built.

“I just heard we have this first clean foundational model that is copyright-clean that you can build on, but ultimately that is a tool,” explained Lyonne. “That’s not going to omit any department heads or production designers or cinematographers. This movie I’m doing with Brit Marling is actually a real film.”

Comparing the film’s use of AI to “a green screen or something like that,” Lyonne says the tool will allow her “to do a film at a greater scale,...

Netflix streams another brand-new episode of Everybody's Live with John Mulaney tonight, April 30. And once again, John Mulaney is calling in a Saturday Night Live great for some help.

So far, Everybody's Live has welcomed Saturday Night Live alumni Fred Armisen, Tracy Morgan, Ben Stiller, Vanessa Bayer, Pete Davidson, Aidy Bryant, Bill Hader, Tina Fey, and Conan O'Brien.

Tonight's all-new episode will feature Molly Shannon. The SNL alum appeared on the show from 1995 to 2001, becoming one of the best all-around performers of her era. Few Saturday Night Live cast members can match Shannon when it comes to physical comedy.

Shannon and Mulaney's paths never crossed during his tenure at Saturday Night Live. The writer arrived a year after Shannon hosted for the first time in 2007 and was long gone by the time Shannon hosted again in 2023.

However, Shannon did have a role to play in Saturday Night Live's 50th anniversary special.

One of the oddest things about the original Happy Gilmore is the fact that Ben Stiller’s villainous nursing home attendant, Hal L., faces zero repercussions for his crimes. We all cheered when a smarmy pro golfer was chased down and pulverized by a small army of violent fans, yet the guy who ran a literal sweatshop full of seniors was just allowed to continue his campaign of elder abuse?

As many fans are aware, the movie very nearly included a moment in which Happy informs Hal that his grandmother blew the whistle on his scam. In the deleted scene, Hal then tries to claim that Grandma Gilmore can’t be believed because she’s “in the advanced stages of senility.” Happy responds by throwing Hal L. out the window.

Why would the movie exclude such an important scene, which resolves a key plot point? Well, apparently the blame should be placed squarely on us,...

Apple TV+ has finally found its footing in the world of streaming platforms by delivering some of the most iconic shows, including Severance, Ted Lasso, Shrinking, Mythic Quest, Silo, Bad Sisters, Your Friends & Neighbors, and more. The audience has started to see and appreciate the content on the platform, which is now being viewed as diverse, engaging, interesting, and heartwarming.

The streaming platform has built a strong reputation for focusing on quality over quantity, which is one of the reasons why viewers go back to watching shows on Apple TV+. The month of April had some great shows, which premiered on the streaming platform and garnered the attention of the audience. But one show stands at the top of the board. And no, it’s not Severance.

Jon Hamm’s Your Friends & Neighbors was named the most popular show in April 2025

Jason Sudeikis’ Ted Lasso and Adam Scott...

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Netflix is one of the best places to find the best movies and TV shows you can watch on any streaming service. Every month, it adds hundreds of new titles to its content library. For instance, this month, we are getting the much-anticipated Season 4 of Love, Death & Robots and a new original comedy series titled The Four Seasons, but with that, some titles have to leave the service for a number of reasons. So, today, we are here to tell you about the best film and TV shows you should watch before they leave Netflix in May 2025.

About Time (May 1) Credit – Universal Pictures

About Time is a sci-fi romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Richard Curtis. The 2013 film follows Tim Lake, a young man who his father tells that the men in his family have the...

The Tribeca Festival unveiled the talks, retrospectives and reunions that will dot the festival including milestone anniversaries of Casino with fest co-founder Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese; Best in Show with Christopher Guest, Parker Posey, John Michael Higgins, Jane Lynch and Michael McKean; Requiem for a Dream with Darren Aronofsky and Ellen Burstyn; American Psycho with Mary Harron; and Shivers with David Cronenberg.

De Niro also joins Ben Stiller and producer Jane Rosenthal, Tribeca Enterprises CEO, to celebrate 25 years of Meet the Parents.

“I’m beyond excited to be back with Bob and Ben to celebrate Meet the Parents—a movie that’s been making families laugh (and cringe) for a quarter-century,” Rosenthal said. “With the fourth installment of the franchise in the works, it feels like the perfect time to revisit some of the moments that made this film an instant classic. Tribeca is all about celebrating the stories that stay with us.

The 2025 Tribeca Festival will celebrate the 30th anniversary of Casino and 25th anniversary of Meet the Parents with reunion screenings for both films.

The Casino screening will be followed by a conversation between Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese, and De Niro will reunite with Ben Stiller and his Tribeca Festival co-founder and producer Jane Rosenthal after the Meet the Parents screening.

“I’m beyond excited to be back with Bob and Ben to celebrate Meet the Parents—a movie that’s been making families laugh (and cringe) for a quarter-century,” Rosenthal said in a statement. “With the fourth installment of the franchise in the works, it feels like the perfect time to revisit some of the moments that made this film an instant classic. Tribeca is all about celebrating the stories that stay with us, and this year’s lineup is full of those fan-favorite reunions and retrospectives that...

A fresh slate of films and events has been added to the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival lineup, including the world premiere of a new doc about Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper, and anniversary screenings of Casino, Paris Is Burning, and Best in Show.

Call Her Alex is a new two-part docuseries directed by Ry Russo-Young that promises to explore Cooper’s impressive rise from “podcasting rookie to media mogul.” Cooper and Russo-Young will also participate in a live conversation following the film’s premiere, which is scheduled to arrive on Hulu later this year.

The already highly-anticipated 2025 Tribeca Festival just got an extra boost of star power. IndieWire can announce that Martin Scorsese, David Cronenberg, Darren Aronofsky, and Christopher Guest are among the auteurs who will be in attendance for respective film anniversary reunions.

Tribeca staple Scorsese will be on hand to mark the 30th anniversary of “Casino” with a special screening and conversation alongside actor and Tribeca co-founder Robert De Niro. Scorsese will also introduce a special 35mm screening of “Kundun” in honor of the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday.

Cronenberg makes his Tribeca debut for the 50th anniversary of “Shivers,” while Aronofsky returns to the festival for the 25th anniversary screening of “Requiem for a Dream.” Mary Harron’s “American Psycho” will also screen alongside fellow 2000 film “Best in Show.” Director Christopher Guest and ensemble stars Parker Posey, Jane Lynch, John Michael Higgins, and Michael McKean will be part of a post-screening...

Natasha Lyonne is set to make her feature directorial debut — with a big assist from artificial intelligence.

The “Poker Face” star is teaming up with Brit Marling and renowned computer scientist Jaron Lanier to create “Uncanny Valley,” a “hybrid film” that combines live action and AI. The new flick was announced on Tuesday by Asteria Studios, the self-described “ethical AI film and animation studio” that Lyonne co-founded alongside Bryn Mooser.

“Uncanny Valley,” per a release from Asteria, will be “powered by ‘Marey,’ the first clean foundational AI model developed by the engineers at Moonvalley, ensuring creative integrity and copyright transparency.”

Lyonne, in a statement shared with TheWrap, said it is “astounding” what can be created with AI when it is used “ethically and creatively.”

“Bringing something so bold to life feels radically expansive and exciting,” she said. “I’m immensely grateful for this opportunity from Asteria and to witness this...

Jack Black and Kyle Gass first met in the mid-1980s, when the two young men were performing with the Actors' Gang, a performance troupe from Culver City, California. They bonded over their mutual taste in music, and the pair would end up spending a lot of time together at Gass' apartment, where Gass would teach Black how to play the guitar. By 1994, they had written one (1) song together, and performed live for the first time. As the lore goes, they hadn't settled on a band name yet, and put out a few choices to the audience. Their choices were the simple Pets or Meat, the silly Balboa's Biblical Theater, or Gass' favorite, The Axe Lords Featuring Gorgazon's Mischief. Eventually, though, the pair sort of insisted the audience choose Tenacious D, a term they got from a local basketball announcer (as in: tenacious defense). 

Few remember the "Tenacious D" TV specials,...

Look, actors have to eat too, and all the arthouse and award season favorite projects they do aren't always going to pay the bills. To put it simply, just as we all do jobs that we don't necessarily feel personally invested in, actors can also take on work primarily for the associated salary. This distinction doesn't take away from the work itself, and certainly doesn't diminish our own feelings for it, but it serves as an amusing reminder of the value of the dollar. If anything, it helps humanize the actors involved with the knowledge that they too have to make their own ends meet.

Whether it's celebrated, award-winning actors or beloved character actors looking for the next project, regardless of the material, all actors play a role only for the money in their career. Many of these actors have been forthcoming about their primary motivation for joining a project,...

Micheal B. Jordan made his debut in a Robert Downey Jr. movie? ( Photo Credit – Flickr )

Ryan Coogler’s period horror movie Sinners starring Michael B. Jordan in the lead role arrived in theatres on 18th April 2025 and has received a terrific response from critics and audiences alike. Sinners has a Rotten Tomatoes critics’ score of 98%, which is unusually high for a horror film. Before Sinners, the globally admired actor starred in several popular films, including Fruitvale Station, Creed, Creed II, and Black Panther. But are you aware in which film Michael B. Jordan made his acting debut?

Michael B. Jordan Made His Acting Debut In This Film

Michael B. Jordan’s acting debut happened much before he starred in the above-mentioned movies. His acting debut was in a movie starring the ‘Iron Man’ actor Robert Downey Jr., and the name of that film is ‘Black and White’. It belongs to...

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York is an upcoming drama film from T-Street Productions starring John Turturro as a career pickpocket forced into a high-stakes situation. The film has recently added Tatiana Maslany (She-Hulk: Attorney at Law), Steve Buscemi (Wednesday), and Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad) to the cast.

Per Deadline, Esposito, Buscemi, and Maslany have joined the cast, though their roles remain undisclosed. The film follows Turturro's character, Harry, in a desperate race against time through the streets of New York City. Turturro most recently starred as Irving in the hit Apple TV series Severance. His performance, as well as those of his cast members, along with the magnetic writing on the Ben Stiller-created series, led to a rapid third season renewal for the show.

The Ensemble Cast Grows

Esposito, who has been a force in the film industry for decades, having starred in movies like Spike Lee...

While Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos is swinging out of the gates with claims of theatres becoming outdated, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is eyeing to break industry records. For a movie that was reportedly scrutinized behind the scenes ahead of its release, Sinners is proving to be another commercial and critical success in Coogler’s filmography.

Even though some attempted to paint Sinners‘ impressive first week numbers in a grey light, leading to industry veterans, including Ben Stiller, coming to the movie’s defense, the projections for its second week are enough to put any remaining doubts to rest.

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners eyes for another record with second-week projections Sinners | Credit: WB

Given how arduous it has become to get original ideas running in the current mainstream climate, which often tend to bank on already-established IPs and remakes as of late, Sinners has elevated the hopes for original ideas moving forward.

On this week’s Screen Talk, co-hosts Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio dig into Ryan Coogler’s $90-million period vampire musical “Sinners,” starring Michael B. Jordan as twins Smoke and Stack, as well as the boffo box office and the controversial deal.

Warners opened the movie to a bigger-than-expected $48 million Easter weekend, and a weak $15 million overseas. The only other horror film to ever earn an A CinemaScore was James Cameron’s sequel “Aliens” in 1986. It’s rare and bodes well for a broader audience. Nearly half of the opening-day audience was Black, which increased to 38 percent by the weekend’s end.

Warners has bragging rights over this one and, with “A Minecraft Movie,” enjoyed two movies grossing over $40 million. It spells some relief for embattled studio heads Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy. The movie is original and unusual, and thoughtful and entertaining enough to warrant success. It’s...

As Ryan Coogler’s Sinners storms the box office—shattering expectations and resonating deeply with audiences—the buzz around its franchise potential is reaching a fever pitch.

In a recent interview, Coogler and Michael B. Jordan were asked about the possibility of expanding the Sinners universe with a prequel.

Fans are especially intrigued by the idea of diving into the gritty, untold origins of Smoke and Stack, tracing their rise through Chicago’s criminal underworld under the watchful tutelage of the legendary Al Capone.

Jordan expressed a clear openness to the idea, stating, "I'm always up for it. Not saying he wouldn't (pointing to Coogler) but I'm just saying, I would be up for it." When pressed for further comment, Jordan deferred to the director, adding, "He calls the shots," with a nod towards Coogler.

Coogler’s response was thoughtful and lighthearted, as he playfully deflected the “shot-caller” title by calling out to his wife,...