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The 2022 mega hit Top Gun: Maverick has been hit with another lawsuit – this one involving its screenwriter’s cousin.

A year after one case was dismissed, Paramount Pictures again finds itself in court in a lawsuit related to its 2022 blockbuster, Top Gun: Maverick. This time, the cousin of one of its credited screenwriters is suing the studio, alleging that he carried out uncredited – and unpaid – work on its script.

The lawsuit’s plaintiff is Shaun Gray, the cousin of screenwriter Eric Singer. Gray’s better known for his digital effects work on such films as Get Smart and Piranha 3D, but according to his complaint, Gray spent “five months” working on the Maverick script at the invitation of his cousin.

Maverick’s script was ultimately credited to Singer, Christopher McQuarrie and Ehren Kruger, but Gray alleges that he “wrote key scenes for the screenplay that became the film’s central edge-of-your-seat dramatic action sequences.

Celebrate 30 years of gut-busting laughs with the 90s classic Tommy Boy, arriving for the first time ever on 4K Ultra HD™ March 25, 2025 from Paramount Home Entertainment. Tommy Boy stars “Saturday Night Live” alumni Chris Farley and David Spade in one of cinema’s funniest on-screen pairings as two drastically different personalities on a hellish road trip to save a family business. Produced by Lorne Michaels and directed by Peter Segal, Tommy Boy scored with audiences when it debuted in 1995 and continues to attract new fans three decades later. Newly remastered under the supervision of director Peter ... Read more...

Blake Lively has been embroiled in a legal drama and ‘war of narratives,’ and her reputation has taken the most hit. The internet is full of videos of the actress dating years back showcasing her alleged rude and insolent behavior, making it even harder for the public to accept her views and narrative. While Lively is figuring her way out, another actress has been dragged into the limelight for being rude: Anne Hathaway.

Blake Lively in A Simple Favor | Credit: Starz Entertainment Corp

Recently, a video of a celebrity hairstylist has been going viral for revealing his worst encounters with actors and apparently, so while Hathaway tops the list, Lively is close behind.

Celebrity hairstylist reveals how it was working with Blake Lively and Anne Hathaway Anne Hathaway in a still from Get Smart | Credits: Warner Bros. Pictures

Emanuel Miller has been in the film industry for decades and has...

As Fuller House, The Conners and Frasier — by that, we mean the crappier Frasier — have illustrated, no sitcom is ever truly finished, so long as it’s still profitable and the majority of its cast members haven’t been canceled.

There’s certainly been a glut of sitcom reboots in recent years. I mean, does anyone even remember that they brought back Murphy Brown for an 11th season?

A lot of people might assume that this is a new trend, and a symptom of our current nostalgia-obsessed culture, but these throwback cash-grabs go way, way back. Some sitcom reboots have been completely forgotten about at this point, such as…

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Unchecked Boomer nostalgia for the 1950s gave us the ‘80s revival The New Leave It to Beaver. But instead of an adorable child, Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver is now a middle-aged divorcee with two kids who...

Anne Hathaway is an actress famous for her bubbly personality, and her high net worth certainly doesn't hurt her sunniness. Hathaway was a breakout star from her first film, Disney's The Princess Diaries (2001). While she continued to make family-friendly fare, like Ella Enchanted (2004) and Hoodwinked (2006), Hathaway also transitioned into both mainstream Hollywood comedies — The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Get Smart (2008) — and arthouse Oscar films — Brokeback Mountain (2005), Rachel Getting Married (2008). Hathaway won an Oscar for her role as Fantine in 2012's Les Misérables, and she remains at the top of the A-list.

Hathaway was born in Brooklyn, New York City to parents Gerald and Kate, and is the second of three siblings. Named after Shakespeare's wife and the daughter of an actress, Hathaway knew from an early age that she wanted to perform. Outside of acting, Hathaway dated Italian real estate developer Raffaello Follieri from 2004-2008. Their relationship ended after Follieri pled...

Archie and Hawkeye and Mary and Bob and Carol are being reunited for a hot Saturday-night date on the Catchy Comedy broadcast television network.

TVLine has learned exclusively that starting Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025, Catchy Comedy (fka Decades) will recreate what is widely regarded as one of the greatest TV line-ups ever — Saturday night circa 1973-74 — by leading off with All in the Family at 8/7c, followed by M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Bob Newhart Show.

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Terry Crews has signed with CAA for representation.

Crews started his career as a professional linebacker and defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams, San Diego Chargers and Washington Commanders before he retired from the NFL in 1997 and pursued acting.

His breakout role was in the 2004 comedy “White Chicks,” and since then he has starred in “Everybody Hates Chris,” “The Expendables” franchise, “Idiocracy” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” in which he portrayed the eccentric Lieutenant Terry Jeffords.

Crews is also seen as the host of “America’s Got Talent” for the past six seasons, and he also held hosting duties on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” and Netflix’s “Ultimate Beastmaster.”

His credits also include “Norbit,” “Balls of Fury,” “Street Kings,” “Get Smart,” “Bridesmaids,” “Blended,” “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,” “Sorry to Bother You,” “Sandy Wexler,” “Deadpool 2” and 2024’s “The Killer’s Game.” On the television side, he led the...

Although most of today's viewing audiences weren't watching 1960s television live, it speaks to the quality and relatability of shows from that decade that many of its shows are cemented in popular culture. If they're not being rerun on cable or made available on several different streaming apps, they're being transformed for modern viewers with feature-length homages, for better or worse.

From spy dramas and family sitcoms to science fiction adventures and dark gothic soap operas, the 1960s had a little something for everyone. When we look back on the decade's television, we see a rapidly changing landscape, one where shows nostalgic for a simper time screen opposite imaginative, forward-thinking programs. Although many 1960s shows feel very much of their time, there's a stylish charm that makes them still enjoyable to watch today.

Here are some of the best TV shows that the 1960s has to offer -- take a...

Dwayne Johnson's $177 million box office disappointment lands on Netflix's global chart seven years later. Johnson, also known by his ring name The Rock, began his career in professional wrestling and became one of the most celebrated stars in the WWE, his charisma and physical prowess leading to opportunities in Hollywood. His first film role came in 2001's The Mummy Returns, which spawned the spin-off The Scorpion King. This led to a variety of roles for The Rock from action-hero to comedic lead, becoming one of the most bankable stars.

Over the years, he has starred in family-friendly comedies like The Game Plan, Tooth Fairy, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, and Jumanji: The Next Level. Dwayne Johnson's action movies include Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Hercules, San Andreas, Skyscraper, Rampage, and the Fast & Furious franchise. In turn, Johnson's bread and butter has been blending...

Hollywood hairstylist Emanuel Millar has worked in the industry for over four decades and has come across several actors and actresses during his work. He has worked as the head of the hair department in iconic films like Kill Bill, Cinderella Man, Public Enemies, and Inglourious Basterds. He recently made headlines by highlighting some of the bad experiences he faced from celebrities.

Emanuel Millar | Credits: @emanuel_millar6/Ig

On the receiving end of these horrible accusations are actresses Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Lopez, and Blake Lively. Millar shared that these actresses were rude to him and did not treat him as a fellow human being, let alone as a co-worker.

What Do We Know About Celebrity Hairstylist Emanuel Millar? Emanuel Miller with Angelina Jolie | Credits: @emanuel_millar6/Ig

Emanuel Millar recently appeared on the What It Was Like podcast, where he revealed the horrible celebrity encounters he had. Millar explained his roots in the podcast,...

From film to television, the action genre has long been one of the best sources of escapist entertainment. Known for playing into a variety of popular tropes and clichs, it houses some brilliant heroes, eccentric villains and over-the-top premises. Since the rise of the genre, it has also been associated with comedy, with the likes of buddy cop detective movies and parodies showing how funny action can be.

The blend of comedy and action continues to be a fan favorite, both on film and TV, with such classics as Austin Powers and Get Smart being a testament to this. While some shows are a blend of multiple genres, even leaning more on horror or fantasy, others embrace parody and satire, using action as a vehicle to entertain while poking fun at a genre's tropes.

Updated by Jordan Iacobucci on October 15, 2024: In an age of high-budget television shows from major franchises,...

Considering that so many sitcom contemporaries of Gilligan’s Island — The Brady Bunch, Bewitched, Beverly Hillbillies, Get Smart, The Addams Family — were made into feature films, it’s kinda weird that the show’s exotic locales and inherent live-or-die stakes didn’t get the same treatment. As it turns out, it wasn’t for lack of trying.

There have been multiple attempts to bring Gilligan and pals to the big screen, but like the S.S. Minnow, every one of them crashed into the rocks. For example, when the show’s creator, Sherwood Schwartz, was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Hall of Fame in 2008, he announced that he and his son Lloyd had just inked a deal for a Gilligan’s Island feature film. The agreement “just happened in the last 48 hours,” Schwartz told TV Guide. “I can’t take this much excitement at my age.”

Maybe because the elder...

Jamie Farr's role as Corporal Klinger in M*A*S*H evolved from a bit character to a fan favorite over 11 seasons. Klinger's transition from cross-dressing to more traditional army attire happened slowly following Colonel Potter's introduction and Klinger's own eventual promotion to sergeant. The decision for Klinger to stop wearing dresses was a mix of character development and societal pressure, with actor Jamie Farr pushing for the change.

A landmark television series that set the tone for decades to come, M*A*S*H has maintained a rabid fanbase even decades after its release. This is thanks to a colorful cast that included the wisecracking surgeon Hawkeye Pierce, the strict head nurse Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, and the eccentric corpsman Corporal Maxwell Klinger. Fans of the series grew up with many of these characters, seeing them evolve and face all sorts of challenges and triumphs.

Sometimes,...

The Fall Guy has sparked interest in action, comedy, & romance genres, leaving audiences eager for sequels or similar projects. Director David Leitch's background as a stuntperson shines through in the film, delivering top-notch stunts & action-comedy fusion. Movies like Get Smart, The Nice Guys, & Atomic Blonde share themes with The Fall Guy, offering a mix of charm, action, & adventure.

As one of the best action films of the year, The Fall Guy has piqued audience interest in terms of the best movies like it in the action, comedy, and romance genres. Starring Ryan Gosling as Colt, the stuntperson, and Emily Blunt as Jody, the movie director, the film follows their romance as well as the unbelievable adventure they have to embark on to save the film they're working on. Audiences have high hopes that there will be a sequel to the hit film, but until then, projects with similar themes,...

The follow-up to 2020’s action comedy, My Spy, My Spy: The Eternal City, reunites Dave Bautista and Chloe Coleman in a feel-good family adventure set in some of Europe’s most storied destinations.

When Sophie’s (Coleman) high school choir is selected for an Italian tour culminating in a performance for the Pope in Vatican City, JJ (Bautista) sees this as an opportunity to bond with his new stepdaughter, so he volunteers to help chaperone the group through the Venetian canals, across Florence’s renowned bridges and into Rome’s most historic sites. Instead, he finds that he and Sophie have become unwitting pawns in a terrorist plot that could end the world as we know it.

Directed by Pete Segal and featuring returning stars Ken Jeong and Kristen Schaal, who are joined by Anna Faris, Craig Robinson and Flula Borg, My Spy: The Eternal City will premiere globally on Amazon Prime on July 18th.

Tony Lo Bianco, the Brooklyn actor who oozed criminal charm in the gritty 1970s New York City dramas The French Connection and The Seven-Ups, has died. He was 87.

Lo Bianco died Tuesday night of prostate cancer at his horse farm in Poolesville, Maryland, his wife, Alyse, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Lo Bianco was also memorable as a smooth-talking con man with a lonely nurse (Shirley Stoler) for a girlfriend/accomplice in Leonard Kastle’s documentary-style The Honeymoon Killers (1970), which Francois Truffaut once said was his favorite American film.

In another cult classic, the horror thriller God Told Me To (1976), directed by Larry Cohen, Lo Bianco starred as a New York cop who investigates a series of bizarre murders orchestrated by the leader of a religious group (Richard Lynch).

He received a best actor Tony nomination in 1983 for playing Eddie Carbone in a revival of Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge,...

Streaming globally on Prime Video July 18 is My Spy The Eternal City.

The eagerly awaited follow-up to 2020’s action comedy, My Spy The Eternal City, reunites a beloved cast led by Dave Bautista and Chloe Coleman in a feel-good family adventure set in some of Europe’s most storied destinations.

When Sophie’s (Coleman) high school choir is selected for an Italian tour culminating in a performance for the Pope in Vatican City, JJ (Bautista) sees this as an opportunity to bond with his new stepdaughter, so he volunteers to help chaperone the group through the Venetian canals, across Florence’s renowned bridges and into Rome’s most historic sites. Instead, he finds that he and Sophie have become unwitting pawns in a terrorist plot that could end the world as we know it.

Returning stars Ken Jeong and Kristen Schaal are joined by Anna Faris, Craig Robinson and Flula Borg...

Prime Video has debuted the trailer for the sequel to the 2020 ‘My Spy,’ ‘My Spy The Eternal City.’

The movie reunites a beloved cast led by Dave Bautista and Chloe Coleman in a feel-good family adventure set in some of Europe’s most storied destinations.

When Sophie’s (Coleman) high school choir is selected for an Italian tour culminating in a performance for the Pope in Vatican City, JJ (Bautista) sees this as an opportunity to bond with his new stepdaughter, so he volunteers to help chaperone the group through the Venetian canals, across Florence’s renowned bridges and into Rome’s most historic sites. Instead, he finds that he and Sophie have become unwitting pawns in a terrorist plot that could end the world as we know it.

Returning stars Ken Jeong and Kristen Schaal are joined by Anna Faris, Craig Robinson and Flula Borg in this all-new international...

Dave Bautista tried his hand at the family comedy sub-genre where tough guys take care of children in the 2020 film My Spy. That film joined the likes of Kindergarten Cop, The Nanny, The Pacifier, The Game Plan and The Chaperone. My Spy would become Prime Video’s third most-watched streaming title of 2020, so a sequel would definitely be in the books. Wait no further as Amazon MGM releases the trailer for My Spy The Eternal City (the title does not include a colon punctuation). The film is set to hit home screens on July 18.

The official synopsis reads,

“The eagerly awaited follow-up to 2020’s action comedy, My Spy The Eternal City, reunites a beloved cast led by Dave Bautista and Chloe Coleman in a feel-good family adventure set in some of Europe’s most storied destinations. When Sophie’s (Coleman) high school choir is selected for an Italian tour culminating...

"I need my number one bull elephant heading this mission!" Prime Video has revealed the official trailer for an action comedy sequel titled My Spy The Eternal City (aka My Spy 2), which is skipping theaters and launching straight-to-streaming in July this summer. This is the eagerly awaited follow-up to 2020's action comedy My Spy, with the same director and cast returning for this next one set mostly in Italy. Back by popular demand, My Spy's amusing dynamic duo, veteran CIA operative JJ and his 14-year-old stepdaughter and protégé Sophie, reunite to save the world when a high school choir tour of Italy is interrupted by a nefarious nuclear plot targeting the Vatican. Dave Bautista & Chloe Coleman are back as JJ and Sophie, respectively. Returning stars Ken Jeong and Kristen Schaal are joined in this sequel by Anna Faris, Craig Robinson, and Flula Borg in this international action comedy from director Pete Segal.

Gloria Stroock, who played Rock Hudson’s secretary on McMillan & Wife and appeared in films including Fun With Dick and Jane, The Competition and The Day of the Locust, has died. She was 99.

Stroock died May 5 of natural causes in Tucson, Arizona, her daughter, Kate Stern, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Stroock was married to Emmy-winning writer-producer Leonard B. Stern (Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, The Phil Silvers Show, The Honeymooners, Get Smart and much more) from 1956 until his death in 2011 at age 87.

Her late younger sister was Geraldine Brooks, a Tony nominee and Warner Bros. contract player (Cry Wolf, Embraceable You).

Stroock recurred as Maggie, the secretary of Hudson’s San Francisco police commissioner Stewart McMillan, on the final three seasons (1974-77) of McMillan & Wife, the NBC series created by her husband.

She portrayed the wife of Richard Dysart’s art director in John Schlesinger’s The Day of the Locust...

Anne Hathaway's new movie The Idea of You earned a Certified Fresh score of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie has earned the star her best Rotten Tomatoes score in five years and tied for her second best score ever. Despite her career being dominated by low Rotten Tomatoes scores, Hathaway has had major successes as well.

The Idea of You has earned Anne Hathaway one of her best Rotten Tomatoes scores ever. The Harry Styles-inspired romance movie, which is based on Robinne Lee's novel of the same name, stars Hathaway as single mother Solne Marchand, who stumbles into a whirlwind romance with boy band superstar Hayes Campbell (Nicholas Galitzine). The ensemble cast of the movie also includes Ella Rubin, Reid Scott, Jordan Aaron Hall, Jaiden Anthony, Raymond Cham Jr, Annie Mumolo, and Perry Mattfeld.

Rotten Tomatoes has now aggregated an official score for the Anne Hathaway age-gap romance after its Prime Video premiere.

"The Love Boat" holds a fascinating place in pop culture history. While most of the shows with reruns playing in heavy rotation today were in some way groundbreaking upon their initial release, "The Love Boat" is a novelty the likes of which modern TV rarely – if ever – tries to emulate. An anthology-like rom-com set aboard a cruise ship, "The Love Boat" featured a revolving door of guest stars and little connective tissue to speak of aside from the cast playing the crew aboard the ship.

The deeply '70s series earned high ratings for much of its run, yet was considered pretty silly even at the time of its release. John J. O'Connor called it a "dreadful porridge of a conception" in The New York Times, while the Orlando Sentinel's Noel Holston said it needed "sharper writing, better casting, more original situations, an end to the indefatigable laugh track or,...

So what can be said about Andy Dick that the paparazzi and nearly every Judge from West Virginia to Los Angeles hasn’t already said? He was once a rising star in the comedy world with lovably nerdy characters on hit TV series before his demons grabbed a hold of him and took him down an over 25 year path of endless headlines with his name often times preceding the word “arrested.” In those years, he has compiled more Mug Shots than Head Shots and went from Star on the Rise to Registered Sex Offender. Yeah, I don’t know how else to say this other than: Wtf Happened to Andy Dick?!

But as always we must begin at the beginning and the beginning began on his birthday, December 21, 1965 in Charleston, South Carolina. After graduating high school in the suburbs of Illinois, Andy would study at the famed Second City and...

Anne Hathaway has opened up to Vanity Fair about her 25-year career in Hollywood. The actress revealed that when she was a young actor who had just started her Hollywood journey, she was told she had zero s*x appeal.

Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine in The Idea of You | Credit: Prime Video

Having starred in numerous romantic comedies, she has developed a solid fanbase in the industry. The Oscar winner boasts of a successful career despite the critics not being favorable to her during her early days.

Suggested‘The Idea of You’ Has Anne Hathaway Tearing Up as Rom-Com With Nicholas Galitzine Becomes One of the Best Experiences of Her Life

And now, in the interview, the actress who starred in The Devil Wears Prada and as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises shuts down her critics.

Anne Hathaway Gives Back to Those Critics Who Previously Said She Had...

Christopher Nolan's film Interstellar rescued Anne Hathaway's career by offering her a significant role. Despite online negativity affecting her casting opportunities, Nolan backed Hathaway for the role. Hathaway's career was at a tipping point, but Interstellar maintained her momentum with a dramatic role.

Anne Hathaway explains how Interstellar saved her career. Hathaway played opposite Matthew McConaughey in Christopher Nolan’s 2014 science-fiction adventure film. In Interstellar, Hathaway played Amelia Brand, one of the researchers involved in the film’s space exploration mission.

Speaking with Vanity Fair, Hathaway explains how Interstellar helped her career. The actress explained that “a lot of people wouldn’t [her] roles because they were so concerned about how toxic [her] identity had become online.” Nolan did not care about this fact, and still cast her in Interstellar. Hathaway described her part in Interstellar as “one of the most beautiful roles [she’s] had.” Because of her work in Interstellar,...

Perhaps you've had this experience:

You hear about an interesting movie or show, or you remember an old favorite, and you reason that since it's a well-known title, it's several years old, and you subscribe to several streaming services, you should be able to watch it for free somewhere.

Then you conduct the research that's necessary to find anything in the vast streaming landscape, and you realize that you're gonna have to shell out to rent or buy this thing.

Or worse, that film or series simply is not available. Anywhere.

If you're lucky, you can go on Amazon and have the DVD delivered in a couple of days, but you haven't seen your DVD player since Obama was in office, and you need something to watch now.

From comedy classics like Cocoon to Oscar winners like Il Postino to beloved children's movies like The Brave Little Toaster to action...

Plenty of classic TV shows have gotten the big-screen reboot treatment — among them Get Smart, 21 Jump Street, Baywatch, and, of course, Mission: Impossible. Bullet Train filmmaker and John Wick co-director David Leitch hopes to bring a new vision to the ‘80s series The Fall Guy with Ryan Gosling as its lead, but despite the best efforts of everyone involved, it ends up being just another underwhelming studio action flick.

In the film, Gosling plays a stuntman who gets pulled out of retirement to track down the missing star of his ex-girlfriend’s new film, only to be thrown into a complex web of conspiracies. With his background being in stunts, it’s understandable what Leitch likely saw in Drew Pearce and Glen A. Lawson’s script. Unfortunately, this potential is largely squandered on a middling entry to the genre.

The approach of the stunts is very different from the...

Katy O’Brian is about to be a big star — and for audiences who check out Rose Glass’ “Love Lies Bleeding,” in which the actress stars alongside Kristen Stewart in an audacious, sexy, unpredictable mash-up of body horror, crime thriller, and love story, that concept will prove to be literally true by the film’s wild end. But she’s not slipping into any Hollywood starlet habits just yet.

Case in point: O’Brian signed on to our Zoom interview a full five minutes early this week (practically unheard of!), and offered to spend our extra time “just chatting.” And O’Brian, whose pre-acting resumes includes everything from bodybuilding to a seven-year stint as a police officer in her native Indiana, is a very good conversationalist.

Before joining “Love Lies Bleeding,” which electrified its Sundance audience and seems destined to join the annals of A24’s boldest films, O’Brian spent time on the small screen,...

“A role model is somebody that does things because of what they believe in regardless of what other people think.” – Anne Hathaway

Actress, acclaimed New York soprano, and recognized as one of “the world’s 50 Most Beautiful People”, Anne Hathaway or “Annie” to her friends, notes that “it’s lovely to think that my audience is growing up with me”.

She credits an upbringing of “really strong values” with defining her shape as a person and no better portrayal is her time spent with The Lollipop Theater Network, a non-profit 501c3 organization dedicated to bringing the magic of movies currently in theaters to children confined to hospitals nationwide due to chronic or life-threatening illnesses. In 2008, she hosted a special screening of Get Smart for teenagers, and has also shown The Devil Wears Prada.

Charities & foundations supported

Anne Hathaway has supported the following charities:

10x10Alzheimer's AssociationClinton FoundationCreative CoalitionFeeding AmericaFriends Without...

Despicable Me 4 continues the story of Gru, the reformed supervillain, as he tries to bond with his infant son and protect his family from a new threat. The original cast, including Steve Carell as Gru and Kristen Wiig as Lucy, will be returning for the fourth film in the franchise. With its release in 2024, Despicable Me 4 is expected to surpass $5 billion in franchise earnings, thanks to its original story and lovable characters.

Despicable Me 4 is the next entry in Illumination Studio’s hugely popular animated franchise, and much of the original cast is returning to continue the story of international super villain Gru. The main plot of Despicable Me 4 will see the protagonist and his family adjusting to the newest arrival: Gru Jr. The trailer for Despicable Me 4 confirms Gru's attempts to get his new baby to like him, but it also reveals that the...

Exclusive: Independent Artist Group (Iag) is making a big push in lit with the hire of A3 Artists Agency’s Adam Kanter.

The company is looking to bolster its ranks with directors and writers with Kanter becoming Head of Motion Pictures at the company.

Kanter, who spent three years as Head of A3’s Motion Picture literary department and partner, will bring a slew of clients with him including Girls Trip’s Malcolm Lee, Get Smart’s Pete Segal and There’s Something About Mary’s Bobby Farrelly.

The move was just announced internally by Iag CEO Jim Osborne and EVP, Head of Content Development Kyle Loftus.

The move will see Iag, which was created after APA merged with music touring agency Artist Group International last summer, look to build out its director and writing clients, bringing in more agents and helmers and scribes.

The Motion Picture Department that Kanter will...

The "Twilight Zone" episode "The Midnight Sun" took place on an Earth that had fallen out of its orbit and was drifting very slowly closer and closer toward the sun. The episode was an exploration of humanity during its waning hours, as seen through the eyes of Norma (Lois Nettleton), a painter who tried desperately to hang on to water and stay cool as temperatures rose and rose. Norma's only recourse is to paint the fires she sees out the window and the burning, growing sun in the sky. Eventually, her neighbor breaks down and implores Norma to paint something cool and refreshing, like a waterfall. The episode ends with Norma being overwhelmed by the heat and her neighbor dying of heat stroke.

There is a twist, of course. Norma wakes up in bed, having dreamed the entire episode. It's revealed that the Earth is, in fact, drifting away from...

Exclusive: Patrick Warburton will star in and produce The Unearthly, an indie blending elements of sci-fi, comedy and horror that will go into production in Connecticut early this year. Directing the pic for Centerboro Productions is Josh Sternfeld (Fortress: Sniper’s Eye).

In The Unearthly, a team of paranormal investigators live-stream a “Halloween Special” ghost hunt of a notorious haunted mansion, finding the source of the evil at hand to be far more deadly than they ever could have imagined. Warburton plays Tank McCrary, an old school paranormal investigator in the style of Ed Warren and Peter James, who hosted over 20 live television specials in the ’90s before an incident ruined his career. Stubborn and egotistical, he likes to do things his way. He doesn’t trust technology, relying on his analog tape recorder, archaic Emf meter, and his own smarts in his ghost hunting. His goal is to reclaim...

Obliterated is a high-octane action comedy series created by Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, and Josh Heald. The Netflix series revolves around an elite team from various branches of the US armed forces in order to stop a terrorist attack that could wipe out Las Vegas. When the team thinks that they have completed their mission, they spend their night celebrating with lots of alcohol and drugs but disaster strikes when they find out that the threat is still active and they only have a day to save Vegas. In the haze of alcohol and drugs, the team gathers and goes on a mission to save Sin City. Obliterated stars Nick Zano, Shelley Henning, Terrence Terrell, and Alyson Gorske. So, if you loved Obliterated here are some similar shows you could watch next.

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Synopsis: The suave, confident and devastatingly handsome Sterling Archer may...

It’s a lean month for new original content on HBO/Max. November will see the return of two scripted series in Julia and Rap Sh!t, both of which are debuting their respective second seasons, but this month’s fresh highlight is likely to be Bookie, a new comedy series from the partnership of The Big Bang Theory creator Chuck Lorre, and Nick Bakay. The show tracks an LA bookie called Danny (Sebastian Maniscalco), whose business is in peril as California movies to legalize sports gambling.

Elsewhere in November, there quite a few interesting documentaries to keep an eye on, and two that jump out as “must watch”. The first is Albert Brooks: Defending My Life, which chronicles the aging comedian’s life and career. The second is the previously-released Little Richard: I Am Everything, which tries to peel back the whitewashed canon of Richard Penniman in a true...

Gayle Hunnicutt, best known for playing Vanessa Beaumont in the final three seasons of Dallas, has died. She was 80. According to The Times (U.K.), Hunnicutt passed away on Thursday, August 31, at a hospital in London. Born on February 6, 1943, in Fort Worth, Texas, Hunnicutt made her television debut in 1966 on the NBC sitcom Mister Roberts and went on to appear in several more TV series throughout the 1960s and 70s, including The Beverly Hillbillies, Get Smart, and Hey Landlord. She married British actor David Hemmings in 1968 and moved to the U.K, where she had roles in many British TV series, including The Golden Browl, Fall of Eagles, Thriller, and Return of the Saint. Hunnicutt also starred in numerous films, perhaps most memorably playing a glamorous Hollywood actress alongside James Garner in the 1969 neo-noir detective drama Marlowe. Her other film work includes The Wild Angels, Eye of the Cat, Fragment of Fear,...

Gayle Hunnicutt, the Texas-born actor known for 1969’s “Marlowe” and her role as Vanessa Beaumont in “Dallas,” died on Aug. 31 in London, according to The Times of London. She was 80.

Hunnicutt played Vanessa Beaumont, an English aristocrat who shares an illegitimate son with Larry Hagman’s J.R. Ewing, in the final three seasons of “Dallas” from 1989 to 1991.

Born on Feb. 6, 1943, in Fort Worth, Texas, Hunnicutt made her television debut in 1966 on the NBC sitcom “Mister Roberts.” She guested on several series in the ’60s, including “The Beverly Hillbillies,” “Hey Landlord,” “Love on a Rooftop” and “Get Smart.”

On the film side, Hunnicutt starred opposite James Garner in the 1969 neo-noir crime film “Marlowe,” in which she played television star Mavis Wald. She appeared in more than 30 films during her career, including “The Wild Angels,” “P.J.,” “Freelance,” “Running Scared,” “Target” and “The Legend of Hell House” opposite Roddy McDowell.

Hunnicutt married...

Gayle Hunnicutt, whose best-known work came as Vanessa Beaumont, the mother of J.R. Ewing’s illegitimate son, in the final three seasons of Dallas, has died per multiple U.K. reports. Hunnicutt died last Thursday at a hospital in London, according to her ex-husband Simon Jenkins. She was 80 years old.

That Hunnicutt would find fame playing Vanessa Beaumont, a Brit, on a TV show called Dallas was a bit ironic for a woman born in Fort Worth. But it was entirely sensible given that the actress spent much of her career in British TV and movies, even marrying the be-knighted Jenkins before returning to work in the U.S.

Her TV career began with a role on the shortlived small-screen adaptation of Mister Roberts and included roles on The Beverly Hillbillies, Get Smart and in Marlowe opposite James Garner.

In 1970, Hunnicutt met and later married David Hemmings, who himself...

We will update this article throughout the season, along with all our predictions, so make sure to keep checking IndieWire for the latest news from the 2023 Emmys race. The nomination round of voting takes place from June 15 to June 26, with the official Emmy nominations announced Wednesday, July 12. Afterward, final voting commences August 17 and ends the night of August 28. The 75th annual Primetime Emmy Awards will now take place Monday, January 15, live on Fox at 8:00 p.m. Et/ 5:00 p.m. Pt.

See our previous thoughts on what to expect at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards here.

The State of the Race

Although comedy is subjective, Jeremy Allen White giving the most acclaimed performance among the 2023 Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Emmy nominees is not. The young star has already won a Golden Globe, Critics Choice Award, and SAG Award so far this year for his work on...

To understand just how long the TV Academy has struggled to define “comedy series,” look no further than the first decade or so of the category’s life: Between 1952, when Red Skelton’s titular variety show claimed Emmy’s first-ever comedy prize, and 1964, when The Dick Van Dyke Show scored its second win, the category had no fewer than six name changes, ranging from the terse “best comedy show” to the rather unwieldy “outstanding program achievement in the field of comedy.”

And it only grew more complicated from there. Unlike in the drama series category, whose contenders have been consistently hourlong and usually serialized, comedy competitors also started to assume widely different formats: multicam sitcom (All in the Family, Friends); single-camera, half-hour dramedy (The Wonder Years, Sex and the City); single-camera mockumentary (The Office, Modern Family); and hourlong ensemble dramedy (Orange Is the New Black, Shameless), to name a few.

The spy genre has a series of tropes and cliches that enrich their stories and keep things interesting, sometimes deploying subversions of the classic formula. However, like with any genre of film, these tropes intended for a twist can become repetitive and predictable - especially when used too often within the same franchise.

Spy movies have carved out their own unique genre, through franchises like James Bond, Mission: Impossible, 24 and many more. The genre is centuries old, but reached its peak at the height of the Cold War, through shows and movies like The Man From Uncle, Get Smart, 007 and I Spy. These stories would follow a predictable formula - the heroes would prepare for a mission, get a series of gadgets and a nice car and go about their operation to bring down the bad guy. Understandably, spy projects that moved into the 21st century started to buck many of these tropes,...

Whenever people find out what I do for a living lately, it’s the first thing out of their mouth. And I never have a good answer for them.

“Why are shows like ‘The Bear,” “Barry” and “Atlanta” contending at the Emmys in comedy series?

It’s a perfectly good question that has no single accurate response. But it isn’t for lack of trying. It’s the same conundrum that I had when “The Bear” in particular was nominated for a bunch of Golden Globes last January. I’ve watched both seasons of the show closely over the past several weeks, checking to see if maybe there was just something I’d been missing. I found a couple of moments that were worth a modest chuckle – such as the time Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) had only a vague notion of what Ups was until reminded by Sydney (Ayo Edebiri). But in the main,...

Imagine a time before 90 inch TV screens were sold at Walmart for $200 on Black Friday, a time when the family would gather around one rabbit eared black and white television to watch a show on one of the four channels they had available to them. Now imagine a world in the immediate aftermath of World War 2, when everyone needed a good laugh. In that time you may turned on your TV’s after enjoying your mother’s pot roast and carrot dinner to see young men such as Carl Reiner, Sid Caesar and Mel Brooks performing comedic routines that gave you truly guttural laughs. The premises seemed so simple, yet the genius that went into crafting these bits would soon shape the entire direction of comedy. These men would go on to become some of the most iconic figures in the history of entertainment. Sadly, as time does to us all,...

Scroll through our photo gallery to see our official 2023 Emmy predictions for Best Comedy Actor. As the star of Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso,” Jason Sudeikis is tipped to win a third consecutive Best Comedy Actor Emmy trophy. He does, however, face a serious challenge from Golden Globe, Critics Choice, and Screen Actors Guild Award winner Jeremy Allen White (FX’s “The Bear”), who is running first in the race according to Gold Derby’s odds.

Sudeikis would follow Don Adams (“Get Smart”), Carroll O’Connor (“All in the Family”), and Michael J. Fox (“Family Ties”) as the fourth man to take this prize three times in a row. If “Ted Lasso” doesn’t end up returning for a fourth season, he will be the only one in the group with a perfect track record.

Aside from White, this lineup also includes his fellow first-timer, Jason Segel (Apple TV+’s “Shrinking...

Scroll through our photo gallery to see our official 2023 Emmy predictions for Best Comedy Actor. As the star of Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso,” Jason Sudeikis is tipped to win a third consecutive Best Comedy Actor Emmy trophy. He does, however, face a serious challenge from Golden Globe, Critics Choice, and Screen Actors Guild Award winner Jeremy Allen White (FX’s “The Bear”), who is running first in the race according to Gold Derby’s odds.

Sudeikis would follow Don Adams (“Get Smart”), Carroll O’Connor (“All in the Family”), and Michael J. Fox (“Family Ties”) as the fourth man to take this prize three times in a row. If “Ted Lasso” doesn’t end up returning for a fourth season, he will be the only one in the group with a perfect track record.

Aside from White, this lineup also includes his fellow first-timer, Jason Segel (Apple TV+’s “Shrinking...

Alan Arkin, who won an Oscar for Little Miss Sunshine, was nominated for Argo and two other films, scored six Emmy noms and won a Tony Award, died Thursday at his home in San Marcos, CA. He was 89.

The news was announced Friday morning by his sons, actors Adam, Matthew and Anthony, in a joint statement. Matthew Arkin told The New York Times that his father had suffered from heart ailments.

The statement read: “Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature, both as an artist and a man. A loving husband, father, grand and great grandfather, he was adored and will be deeply missed.”

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In addition to his Oscar-winning film work, Arkin won a Tony Award for acting in Enter Laughing) and was Tony-nominated for directing The Sunshine Boys. He also was nominated for a half-dozen Emmy Awards spanning 53 years,...

Alan Arkin, the Academy Award-winning actor known for his roles in films including Little Miss Sunshine, Argo, Catch-22, and Glengarry Glen Ross, has died at the age of 89.

Arkin passed away on Thursday, June 29th at his home in California. “Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature, both as an artist and a man. A loving husband, father, grand and great grandfather, he was adored and will be deeply missed,” his sons said in a statement.

Born March 26th, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, Arkin began taking acting lessons at the age of 10 and studied at multiple drama academies before making his 1957 feature film acting debut in the musical Calypso Heat Wave. After a few TV cameos, he made his Broadway debut in 1961 with From the Second City.

A star turn in 1963’s Enter Laughing earned Arkin the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play, which he...

Alan Arkin, the Oscar and Tony-winning actor who starred in films ranging from “Catch-22” to “Little Miss Sunshine,” has died at the age of 89. His death was confirmed by his sons Adam, Matthew and Anthony in a statement obtained by TheWrap. A cause of death has, as of this time, not been given.

“Our father was a uniquely talented force of nature, both as an artist and a man. A loving husband, father, grand and great grandfather, he was adored and will be deeply missed,” the statement reads.

Borning in Brooklyn, New York on March 26, 1934, Arkin was the son of a painter and a teacher. He was raised Jewish, albeit with “no emphasis on religion,” and his family moved to Los Angeles when he was 11. His father worked as a set decorator until losing that job due to an eight-month Hollywood strike. Arkin’s parents were accused of being Communists...

Starz released today the trailer and key art for season two of the critically-acclaimed drama “Heels,” which returns to the ring for season two on Friday, July 28 at midnight (Et) on the Starz app. Starring Stephen Amell (“Arrow”) and Alexander Ludwig(“Vikings”), the small-town sports drama series based on a wrestling league in rural Georgia will also debut via linear tv on Starz at 10:00 Pm Et/Pt in the U.S. and Canada on Friday, July 28, 2023.

“Heels” is aptly named after the wrestling term for a villain or antagonist. Most stories center around heroes vs. villains, but in wrestling, it’s faces vs. heels. Season two brings fans back to the family-owned wrestling organization, Duffy Wrestling League (Dwl), where brothers and rivals, Jack (Amell) and Ace Spade (Ludwig), continue to fightover their late father’s legacy and their individual versions of success, while also working to find their own...