In the fall of 2009, Kenan Thompson had a simple, ridiculous idea for a character that kept making him laugh: the host of a talk show obsessed with his own theme song. “He just can’t stop singing it,” Thompson says, in his interview for our recent profile. “I feel like …
Read More »Watch Bill Murray Crash Wedding, Kickball Game in New Doc Trailer
Bill Murray has a penchant for popping up in the most unexpected places. Over the last few years, he’s appeared at bachelor parties, ice cream socials and karaoke clubs, leaving behind a trail of awe-struck fans. Those remarkable encounters are the focus of the new documentary, The Bill Murray Stories: …
Read More »'Crazy Rich Asians' Sequel in Development
Just days after Crazy Rich Asians opened at Number One, Warner Bros. confirmed plans to begin work on developing a follow-up film, according to The New York Times. Crazy Rich Asians was based on a novel by Kevin Kwan; before the film version hit theaters, Deadline reports that the rights …
Read More »MTV Announces 'The Hills: New Beginnings' Reunion Series
MTV revealed during the 2018 Video Music Awards that the stars of The Hills, the network’s mid-2000s reality series about a group of young women in Los Angeles, will reunite for a new series dubbed The Hills: New Beginnings. “Based off the docuseries that changed the landscape of TV history, …
Read More »Robert Redford to Retire From Acting After Next Film
Robert Redfordtold Entertainment Weeklythat he would retire from acting following the release of his next film. “Never say never, but I pretty well concluded that this would be it for me in terms of acting, and [I’ll] move towards retirement after this ’cause I’ve been doing it since I was …
Read More »Thai Cave Rescue Film in the Works
The daring rescue of a Thai youth soccer team trapped in a cave has ignited a Hollywood race to bring the feel-good story to the big screen. Pure Flix Entertainment, the production company behind the God’s Not Dead Christian film series, have already announced plans to adapt the cave rescue …
Read More »Samantha Bee Addresses Ivanka Controversy, Regrets 'One Bad Word'
Samantha Bee addressed the controversy surrounding her “feckless cunt” remark about Ivanka Trump during the Full Frontal host’s speech at the Television Academy Honors Thursday night. Earlier in the day, Bee apologized for the insult, which occurred during a segment about the migrant crisis at the U.S. border. “I would …
Read More »Watch 'SNL' Reenact 'Sopranos' Finale With Trump's Legal Team
The season finale of Saturday Night Live borrowed from another classic series finale as Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump and his Mueller investigation legal team reunite at a diner in a cold open sketch that reimagined the famed closing scene from The Sopranos. Trump sits in the booth of a New …
Read More »'Killing Eve': The Cracked Female Spy-Thriller Buddy Comedy of the Year
It’s a spy thriller that moves with the languidness of an indie comedy, a tight procedural that allows for vast gulfs of idiosyncrasy, a stylish story of obsession and psychopathy that’s disarmingly warm and lived-in. It’s a TV show that undermines every rule of TV, Prestige/Peak or otherwise – sauntering …
Read More »Courtney Love on Milos Forman: 'We Have Lost a Cinema Giant'
Courtney Love, who starred in Milos Forman’s The People Vs. Larry Flynt and Man on the Moon, paid tribute to the Oscar-winning director following Forman’s death at the age of 86. “He was always gentle and always brought out my best,” Love wrote of filmmaker on Instagram. “I was surrounded …
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