“Lady Like,” a documentary about “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Season 14 standout Lady Camden, aka Rex Wheeler, has been acquired by Freestyle Digital Media for North American distribution. The banner has set a release date of Jan. 3, 2025 for digital rental and purchase, with a DVD launch to follow on Jan. 7, 2025. Directed by […]

New rule: if Donald Trump is getting back his old job, then it might not be worth staying at your current job. That’s the premise that Bill Maher floated on his “Club Random” podcast speaking with Jane Fonda in an episode released Sunday. While interviewing the actor and activist, Maher expressed exhaustion at the prospect […]

Scott L. Schwartz, a former professional wrestler turned screen actor who made an impression playing the heavy Bruiser in Steven Soderbergh’s “Ocean’s” heist trilogy, died of congestive heart failure on Nov. 26, 2024 at his home in Covington, La. He was 65. Schwartz’s death was confirmed by a representative. “Those who know Scott personally associated […]

The big splash continues for Disney’s “Moana 2,” which earned a massive $54.5 million on Black Friday from 4,200 locations, shattering the $34.1 million record that was notched by “Frozen II” in 2019. Not only that, but the film has now earned $140 million and already surged past the five-day holiday weekend record by “Frozen […]

Miles Mussenden, best known for his roles in the Marvel series “Cloak & Dagger” and the DC Comics series “Doom Patrol,” will co-lead the coming thriller “Croatoan” with filmmaker Britt Bankhead. The project marks Bankhead’s feature directorial debut. The cast of “Croatoan” also includes Nico Tirozzi, Grace Patterson and Mike Markoff. Principal photography begins in […]

Marilyn Manson, whose legal name is Brian Warner, has settled his lawsuit against Evan Rachel Wood, in which the musician had alleged defamation a year after Wood came forward with sexual abuse allegations against him. As part of the agreement reached on Nov. 19, Manson will pay roughly $327,000 in attorneys’ fees for the “Westworld” […]

“Wicked” is pocketing lots of green, with the Universal release coming in on the upper side of projections to head toward the third-biggest domestic opening of the year. Now forecasting a $117 million sum for the weekend, that’d only be behind “Deadpool & Wolverine” ($211 million) and “Inside Out 2” ($151 million) among 2024 releases. […]

Three months after Apple inked a deal with director Jon Watts to develop a follow-up to his crime caper “Wolfs,” starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt, plans for the sequel have now been halted, Variety has learned. The confirmation comes after Collider published an interview with Watts Friday morning. Promoting his new Disney+ “Star Wars” […]

Robert Pattinson is re-teaming with his “Tenet” director Christopher Nolan for the filmmaker’s closely guarded project at Universal Pictures, Variety has confirmed. Pattinson joins an impressive ensemble that already includes Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Lupita Nyong’o, Anne Hathaway and Zendaya. Universal and Nolan’s follow-up to their Oscar-winning drama “Oppenheimer” is projecting a production start date […]

Sean Duffy is entering the real world of Washington D.C., with Donald Trump tapping the Fox Business host and former Representative of Wisconsin to be his nominee as his secretary of transportation. Duffy would replace Pete Buttigieg, who was selected by sitting President Biden to lead the department under his administration. Duffy represents a double-dip […]

The Lonely Island’s latest song debuted on “Saturday Night Live,” recruiting pop sensation Charli XCX who sang with Andy Samberg about white people in suburban neighborhoods calling the cops. Samberg can be seen polishing his different telephones in varying bright colors with a self-satisfied grin as he prepares to call the police. The sign above […]

The Weekend Update desk at “Saturday Night Live” devoted its opening to hocking some loogies at Donald Trump’s picks to lead his presidential administration. That list includes billionaire Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, who has been tapped by Trump to lead the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency taskforce, which aims to […]

The election results continue to take center-stage on “Saturday Night Live,” as this week’s cold open featured Dana Carvey as Joe Biden and James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump in a sketch that drew from the pair’s recent meeting at the White House. Sitting in front of a crackling fireplace near a bouquet of roses, […]

It’s beginning to look a lot like $30 million for the opening weekend of Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans’ mega-budget Christmas actioner “Red One,” coming in on the shorter side of projections. The Amazon MGM Studios feature unwrapped $10.9 million from 4,032 theaters across opening day and preview screenings in North America. That’s not exactly […]

Underground filmmaking duo Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn aren’t exactly honing a style with their new feature “Dream Team,” their fourth in 15 years. That would imply that there’s some fully realized form that their offhand humor and nonsense divergences are working toward. The film, which is receiving a limited theatrical release in New York […]

Sylvester Stallone welcomed Donald Trump to the stage at the President-elect’s Mar-a-Lago event Thursday evening, praising him as the “second George Washington.” The two shook hands before Trump’s headlining speech for the America First Policy Institute gala, which took place at the President-elect’s resort in Palm Beach, Fla. Several of the figures Trump has tapped […]

“Well America, I hope you like measles,” Jake Tapper joked Thursday evening on CNN, segueing into a breaking report on vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. being tapped by President-elect Donald Trump’s administration to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. The timing couldn’t have been more apt, as Tapper had been hosting a […]

“Nightingale,” an action thriller set against the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has pulled the curtain back on its ensemble, casting “Special Ops: Lioness” and “1883” star LaMonica Garrett to lead the picture. Jason Patric, Andrew Howard and Daniel Bernhardt are also starring. The picture comes from producers Isaac Lewis and Andrew Lewis of […]