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“Scary Movie,” the comedy franchise that parodied horror movies like “Scream” and “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” is getting rebooted. It’s in the works at Miramax and Paramount, the companies announced Tuesday.

The Wayans brothers are reuniting for the first time in 18 years to write an original script for the restart of the franchise. The Wayans brothers and Rick Alvarez will write and produce.

“Scary Movie” was one of the highest-grossing R-rated horror movies of all time. The film opened at $42.5 million, the biggest opening for an R-rated horror movie and a Black director at that time.

The Scary Movie film franchise was developed by Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans and Keenen Ivory Wayans. Keenen Ivory Wayans wrote and directed the first two films. Marlon and Shawn wrote and starred in the first two films. This will be the sixth film in the franchise.

“Scary Movie” is set to be released in theaters,...

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Viewership for CBS’ fall premieres soared when accounting for streaming and delayed viewing, with the “Matlock” series premiere reaching nearly 16 million viewers.

After first debuting on Sept. 22, the “Matlock” series premiere reached 15.8 million viewers across linear and streaming platforms within its first 30 days, according to VideoAmp and CBS Research estimates and internal streaming data (CBS and Nielsen are currently in the midst of an ongoing contract dispute).

When accounting for the two encore airings of “Matlock’s” series premiere, the first episode of the Kathy Bates-led show scored 22.8 million multiplatform viewers.

As CBS debuted “Young Sheldon” spinoff series “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage” during its October premiere week, the series premiere of the Montana Jordan and Emily Osment-led series scored 10.6 million multiplatform viewers in its first seven days,...

Teri Garr, the comic actress and singer who brought her buoyant personality to “Young Frankenstein” and was Oscar-nominated for “Tootsie,” died on Tuesday in Los Angeles after a long battle with Ms. She was 79.

An influential performer to comedians including Tina Fey, Garr was a familiar face in dozens of TV shows and films of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. The actress revealed in 2002 that she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and she suffered an aneurysm in 2006.

After starting her career as a dancer, Garr first gained attention as Inga, the saucy assistant in Mel Brooks’ 1974 “Young Frankenstein,” who greeted Gene Wilder’s Dr. Frederick Frankenstein with the memorable “Vould you like to have a roll in ze hay?”

On “Friends,” she played Phoebe Abbot in three episodes in 1997 and 1998.

In Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” Garr was the wife of Richard Dreyfuss’ character. She...

Dave Bautista, Steven Yeun, Zoë Kravitz, Léa Seydoux, Riley Keough and Channing Tatum have joined the cast of “Alpha Gang,” an alien invasion comedy by “Sasquatch Sunset” filmmakers David and Nathan Zellner.

“Alpha Gang,” which also stars Cate Blanchett, centers on a group of alien invaders sent to conquer Earth. “Disguised in human form as an armed and dangerous 1950’s leather-clad biker gang, they show no mercy… until they catch the most toxic, contagious human disease of all: emotion,” reads the synopsis.

MK2 Films is handling international sales for the project, while CAA Media Finance is repping North American distribution rights. The film is scheduled to shoot in Spring 2025.

Bautista is represented by CAA, Meisner Entertainment Group, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Tatum is represented by CAA, Relevant, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox. Keough is represented by CAA, Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman,...

Paul Morrissey, a fixture of New York’s cinema scene whose collaborations with Andy Warhol in the ’60s and ’70s reinvented the American underground and made local legends of amateur actors and transgender performers, died Monday at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 86.

Morrissey’s death was confirmed by archivist Michael Chaiken to the New York Times, which reported that the cause was pneumonia.

Warhol and Morrissey were first introduced in 1965, when the former had begun to tinker with experimental films in his infamous loft hub, dubbed The Factory. Working on budgets of under $10,000, the pair completed a series of features, reaching the most commercial success with a trilogy starring Warhol fixture and gay sex symbol Joe Dallesandro that consisted of “Flesh,” “Trash” and “Heat.” Warhol served as producer, while Morrissey’s cinéma vérité direction and largely ad-libbed scripts provided his leads, such as Dallesandro, Jackie Curtis, Holly Woodlawn and Viva,...

Production is officially underway on the upcoming Bruce Springsteen movie, “Deliver Me From Nowhere.” The movie is slated for a 2025 theatrical premiere.

The film will be directed by Scott Cooper, who is known for his work on “Crazy Heart” and “Black Mass,” and stars the Emmy-winning star of “The Bear” Jeremy Allen White as Springsteen. Specifically, “Deliver Me From Nowhere” is based on Warren Zanes’ book of the same name, which chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 “Nebraska” album. Check out the first look as White in the role above.

In a statement to press, Cooper called the beginning of production “an incredibly humbling and thrilling journey.”

“Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska’ has profoundly shaped my artistic vision. The album’s raw, unvarnished portrayal of life’s trials and resilience resonates deeply with me. Our film aims to capture that same spirit, bringing Warren Zanes’ compelling narrative of Bruce’s...

Clint Eastwood didn’t turn up for “Jury” duty in Los Angeles on Sunday, but that didn’t stop his lead actors and a few hundred moviegoers from sending him well wishes.

The 94-year-old screen legend’s latest film, “Juror No. 2,” served as the closing night gala screening for this year’s AFI Fest. At the top of the program held at the historic Tcl Chinese Theaters, AFI president Bob Gazzale informed disappointed fans that Eastwood “could not be here with us tonight, but we are here for him.”

After noting his dozens of film credits – including the “Dirty Harry” franchise and directorial efforts like “Richard Jewell” and “Play Misty for Me” – Gazzale introduced “Juror No. 2” stars Toni Collette and Nicholas Hoult. The pair last graced a screen together 22 years ago, Collette recalled, in 2002’s “About a Boy.”

Collette said she was honored to work with Eastwood “as a director,...

Netflix just added a way for you to watch that carriage scene from “Bridgerton” over and over and over again — and share it with your friends — without breaking a sweat.

Launching on Netflix’s iOS app Monday with Android to follow, Moments is a new mobile feature that lets members save, rewatch and share their favorite scenes across Netflix titles.

Per Netflix, “With Moments, members can quickly bookmark a scene while watching on their phone, saving it directly to their My Netflix tab for easy access later. Members can also share their favorite scenes across platforms like Instagram and Facebook,...

Clint Eastwood’s 40th directorial effort is a twisty courtroom drama-slash-thriller that finds a good man in an impossible situation – both in the sense of “How can he get out of this?” and “Well, that’s highly improbable.” Then the movie settles into a taut, understated good time with a strong lead performance … before stumbling confoundingly at the finish line.

“Juror #2” finds magazine journalist Justin (Nicholas Hoult) lovingly helping his wife (Zoey Deutch) through a delicate pregnancy when he’s called for jury duty. To put this in the least spoilery way possible, he shockingly discovers that, through an extremely unlikely set of circumstances, he’s intimately involved in a case that concerns a capital crime, with the defendant’s life in the balance. Coming forward, however, could have dire consequences for his family, so this ordinary guy has to find another answer from within the workings of the trial itself,...

Modern Films has taken on the film adaptation of Jessica Au’s award-winning novel “Cold Enough for Snow,” with theater veteran Jemima James set to make her feature directorial debut. The project is at Tiffcom’s Tokyo Gap-Financing Market.

The source material, which won the inaugural Novel Prize from publishers Fitzcarraldo Editions, New Directions and Giramondo, follows a mother and daughter’s journey through Tokyo as they navigate their complex relationship amid autumn rains and modern art galleries. The 2022 novel was selected from more than 1,500 entries.

The project, structured as a U.K.-Japan-Australia-Hong Kong co-production with a £3.5 million ($4.5 million) budget, is slated to begin filming in fall 2025. The production plans include 32 shooting days spread across Japan (18 days), Australia (11 days), and Hong Kong (3 days), with post-production expected to take place in the U.K.

“I read ‘Cold Enough For Snow’ just after it was published in the U.K. and...

Wendell Pierce is ready to return as Robert Zane in the Suits spinoff.

The actor recently shared on SiriusXM’s The Spotlight with Jessica Shaw that he would be interested in reprising his role for the upcoming Suits: LA, following the original show’s unexpected streaming resurgence.

“I think it’s the most fascinating thing that all of a sudden, our show got on Netflix and it blew up,” Pierce said before recalling when he learned about the Suits boost in 2023. “We got a text, a chain text, from Gabriel Macht who’s the lead, and he just sent this text to everyone saying, ‘Wtf.’ We were all like, ‘What?’”

After Suits premiered on Netflix last year, the show, which initially ran from 2011 to 2019, sat at the top of the streaming charts in the summer and fall. It also became the most-streamed show over the course of a year. The show also streams on Peacock.

Hirokazu Koreeda confessed he had wanted to have an in-depth talk with Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia ever since he saw her film All We Imagine as Light at the Cannes Film Festival this year. On Tuesday, the Japanese auteur finally got his chance as part of the intimate TIFF Lounge talk series held during Tokyo Internation Film Festival at the plush Lexus Cafe.

All We Imagine as Light is Kapadia’s second full length feature after her 2021 debut, the documentary A Night of Knowing Nothing. Her sophomore feature has been an international critical sensation and was the first Indian film to compete in Cannes’ main competition in 30 years. The film ultimately won the French festival’s Grand Prix, the second most prestigious award. In recent weeks, All We Imagine as Light has been in the news again, as the film was widely expected to be India’s submission to the...

What does life look like for Justin and Alex Russo now? Well, fans are going to find out in “Wizards Beyond Waverly Place.”

The new series, premiering on Disney Channel on Tuesday night, is a continuation of the original “Wizards of Waverly Place,” this time focusing on grown-up Justin (David Henrie) and his own family.

Don’t worry, Alex (Selena Gomez) is still around to cause trouble for him, and you’ll see her in the first episode.

Here’s everything you need to know about the new series.

When does it premiere?

The series premieres on Tuesday, October 29 at 8 p.m. Et on Disney Channel.

Is “Wizards Beyond Waverly Place” streaming?

Not right away, but you won’t have to wait very long at all. After its premiere on Disney Channel on Tuesday, you’ll be able to stream the series on Disney+ on Wednesday.

When do new episodes come out?...

Hong Kong-based sales firm Cappu Films will use Tiffcom, the rights market attached to the Tokyo International Film Festival, to launch world sales activities on two films that were recently at the Busan festival.

Psychological thriller “Waterdrop,” was winner of two awards at the Busan festival earlier this month while crime comedy “So It Goes” was competitor in the Jiseok Award section.

Cappu was founded by independent filmmaker Janice Woo in 2018 and has offices in Hong Kong, Beijing and Los Angeles. It focuses on rising filmmakers and genre films and television with global appeal and has activities that that span international sales and distribution. Woo is leading the sales effort in Tokyo from Oct. 30 – Nov. 1.

A coming-of-age thriller, “Waterdrop” is the debut feature by Korean director Choi Jongyong. It follows a 13 year-old girl Su-yeon who is left alone after her grandmother passes away. Faced with being placed in a childcare...

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Game 3 of this year’s World Series scored a 63% bigger audience than last year.

As the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees went head-to-head for the third game of the series, Game 3 brought in 13.64 million viewers across Fox, Fox Deportes and Fox Sports streaming platforms, according to Nielsen figures. On Fox alone, the game averaged 13.21 million viewers, and peaked with 14.25 million viewers on Fox from 9-9:15 p.m. Et.

That’s up 63% from last year’s Game 3 between the Texas Rangers and the Arizona Diamondbacks, which scored a viewership of 8.13 million. In fact, Monday’s Dodgers-Yankees matchup marked the most-watched Game 3 since 2018, when the Boston Red Sox and the Dodgers brought in 13.3 million viewers.

In addition to ranking as Monday’s most-watched TV program, Game 3 also...

The U.S. has an aging male president who’s expected to pass the torch to his younger female vice president. But something happens that disrupts these plans, and the White House scrambles to find a solution that will allow them to build on their commander-in-chief’s legacy.

That’s the political landscape in the fictional Washington of Netflix’s The Diplomat, as viewers learn early in the Netflix series’ first season that the show’s vice president, Grace Penn (played by Allison Janney in the show’s second season, dropping Thursday), has a scandal that, White House aides say, will force her to resign. The aides are also secretly vetting Keri Russell’s career diplomat, Kate Wyler, newly installed as the American ambassador to the U.K., as Penn’s replacement.

Despite distinctly different circumstances around The Diplomat‘s succession drama, fans could be forgiven for thinking of the...

Peter Gallagher reveals which of his former co-stars on The O.C. he’s “very protective” of.

The actor, who played Sandy Cohen in the hit teen drama, recently opened up to The Independent about the negative impact of fame and how he always found himself looking out for Mischa Barton, who played Marissa Cooper on the show centered on wealthy teens living in Newport Beach, California.

“I’ve always felt very protective of her,” Gallagher said. “First fame is toxic. First fame can kill you. She was 16 years old when she started working with us, so just the fact that she’s still alive, I’m just so grateful.”

Gallagher and Barton worked alongside each other throughout the first three seasons of the show, which ran from 2003 to 2007. Marissa was the love interest of Ryan Atwood (Ben McKenzie), who was taken in by the Cohen family, including Peter, Seth Cohen...

Sony’s “Venom: The Last Dance” dominated the U.K. and Ireland box office with a £4.3 million ($5.6 million) debut weekend, according to numbers from Comscore.

Universal’s animated feature “The Wild Robot” maintained momentum in week two with £1.9 million for a £6.4 million cume. Also in its sophomore session, Paramount’s horror sequel “Smile 2” took third with £1 million, reaching a £4 million total.

Three weeks into release, “Transformers One” from Paramount secured fourth place with £377,581 (cume: £3.4 million), while Studiocanal’s “The Apprentice” completed its second week in the top five with £372,778 for a £1.5 million total.

Warner Bros.’ “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” displayed remarkable staying power in its eighth week, adding £367,938 to reach £25.3 million. Horror entry “Terrifier 3” from Signature Entertainment held seventh in its third week with £269,971 (cume: £2.8 million).

Newcomer “The Room Next Door” (Warner Bros.) debuted at eighth with £239,043. Mubi’s “The Substance,” in its sixth week, added £150,604 for a £3.4 million total,...

Mehcad Brooks will play an “award-winning editor” who falls for Nicole Ari Parker’s character on “And Just Like That,” the “Law & Order” star recently told TheWrap.

“It’s like ‘When Harry Met Sally?,’ a very quintessential, New York romcom,” he said, referencing Rob Reiner’s romantic 1989 classic. “I love this kind of thing. There’s a lot of really funny interactions and boundary crossing with designer clothes on.”

Brooks, who plays Detective Jalen Shaw on “Law & Order,” explained that even though Parker’s character, the memorably named Lisa Todd Wexley, and his are already married to other people, they find an “undeniable attraction” that leads to “an acrobatic sort of dance” as they get closer.

Here’s more of TheWrap’s chat with Brooks:

TheWrap: Tell me more about your character:

Mehcad brooks: His name is Marion Odin, and he’s a he’s a award-winning editor,...

Video game company Electronic Arts saw revenue rise to $2.02 billion in its second quarter, up 6 percent on a year-earlier $1.9 billion, on the strength of American football video game sales expansion.

EA posted net income at $294 million, or $1.11 per share, compared to a year-earlier net income at $399 million, or $1.47 per share. The company saw its latest results come out amid steady demand for video games globally after a boom during pandemic-era lockdowns.

EA reported $2.07 billion in total net bookings for the past three months, a record for the second financial quarter and up 14 percent from year-earlier net bookings at $1.82 billion. The company said its American football sports video game series was on track to surpass $1 billion in net bookings for full year 2025. That’s after total hours of football game play rose in the second quarter 140 percent year-over-year.

“EA delivered another strong quarter with record Q2 net bookings, driven by our incredible teams,...

Joe Russo revealed to GamesRadar+ at McM Comic Con 2024 that Marvel approached the Russo Brothers and Robert Downey Jr. to return for another “Avengers” movie of their record-breaking “Avengers: Infinity War” when the trio was already in discussions with each other for another project. It was announced at Comic-Con in July that Anthony and Joe Russo are directing two new Marvel movies, “Avengers: Doomsday” and “Avengers: Secret Wars,” the former of which will introduce Downey as the MCU’s Doctor Doom.

“We’re all very close,” Joe said about the brothers relationship with Downey. “We had been working on another project before Marvel approached all of us – so we’re working on another project with Robert – and there was a story that evolved through conversations [with Marvel] that we got very excited about. Because it’s always got to be the story.”

“Why would we come back if we didn’t feel...

Skydance Media CEO David Ellison will control 100% of the Ellison family’s voting interests in Paramount Global when the two companies’ $8 billion merger closes in the first half of 2025, according to an amended filing with the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday.

The filing, which is required due to the sale involving the transfer of broadcast licenses related to the CBS Television Network and local TV stations, states that David will be new Paramount’s chairman and CEO and the “sole manager” of Hikouki LLC, Furaito LLC, and Aozora LLC — the entities through which the Ellison family will own and control National Amusements Inc. and the media giant following the transaction’s closing.

The amendment comes after it was initially revealed that David’s father and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison would own 77.5% of National Amusements through a trust and series of corporations, with the remaining 22.5% of Nai owned by RedBird Capital Partners...

Strong winds are benefiting Moana 2 as it sails into shore.

The Walt Disney Animation Studios tentpole set records Monday in terms of first-day advance ticket sales, according to online retailer Fandango.

It sold more tickets than any other 2024 animated film, including fellow Disney/Pixar summer 2024 blockbuster Inside Out 2. It’s also the fourth-best showing of the year among any movie behind Deadpool & Wolverine, Wicked and Dune: Part 2. (It’s no wonder why box office observers have bequeathed the sequel with its own special moniker: “Moanapocalpyse.”)

The event pic hits theaters on Nov. 27, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and five days after Paramount’s Gladiator II and Universal’s Wicked open nationwide in North America. Theater owners are counting on the trio of highly anticipated tentpoles to shore up ticket sales after a tough start to the third quarter.

David Derrick Jr., Jason Hand and Dana Ledoux Miller directed the animated feature,...

Larry Ellison won’t control Paramount after all.

A month after Skydance told the Federal Communications Commission that the Oracle founder and tech mogul would have voting control of Paramount when the company closes its $8 billion deal, it has filed revised applications with the FCC to clarify that, in fact, David Ellison will have control.

In order for the deal to close, Skydance needs approval not only from antitrust regulators at the FTC or DOJ, but also the FCC, which needs to approve the transfer of broadcast licenses owned by Paramount.

In its initial filing, Skydance said that Larry Ellison (who is contributing the bulk of the cash in the deal) alongside Gerry Cardinale’s RedBird Capital would control the new company through various corporate entities. In the new filing Tuesday, the company clarified that David Ellison will have voting control over the companies that own the new Paramount, even...

Quentin Tarantino stands proudly as one of the few people praising “Joker: Folie à Deux” after it bombed with both critics and at the and box office.

The acclaimed director couldn’t say enough good things about the Joaquin Phoenix-led sequel as he appeared on “The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast.” Tarantino proclaimed his love for a film that he thought going in might not “quite work as a movie,” while explaining that he’s “nihilistic enough” to still enjoy a feature like that.

“I really, really liked it, really. A lot. Like, tremendously, and I went to see it expecting to be impressed by the filmmaking,” Tarantino said. “But I thought it was going to be an arms-length, intellectual exercise that ultimately I wouldn’t think worked like a movie, but that I would appreciate it for what it is. And I’m just nihilistic enough to kind of...

On the heels of their Netflix documentary, Will Ferrell and Harper Steele have another collaboration in the works as honorees at the ACLU Foundation of Southern California’s annual Bill of Rights Awards.

Per the organization, the pair is being singled out “for sharing their journey in the Netflix documentary Will & Harper, a celebration of allyship, trans joy and friendship, and an invitation for us to ride along and empower each other.” The film, directed by Josh Greenbaum, follows the close friends of 30 years and onetime Saturday Night Live colleagues as they go on a cross-country road trip to examine a new chapter in their relationship after Steele comes out as transgender.

The awards event, scheduled to take place at the Beverly Hilton on Nov. 10, will also honor Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and USC Professor Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer), actor and activist Mark Ruffalo and Brittney and Cherelle Griner.

Skydance Media submitted an updated filing with the FCC to reflect that David Ellison, CEO of Skydance, will hold 100% percent of the Ellison family’s voting interests in the newly combined Skydance-Paramount.

According to the amended FCC filing Tuesday, David Ellison’s role will be chairman and CEO of New Paramount, combining the assets of Skydance and Paramount Global after the deal closes, expected in the first half of 2025. He also is designated as “sole manager” of the Ellison family entities — Hikouki LLC, Furaito LLC, and Aozora LLC — through which the Ellison family will own and control National Amusements Inc.

Skydance Media submitted an updated filing with the FCC to reflect that David Ellison, CEO of Skydance, will hold 100% percent of the Ellison family’s voting interests in the newly combined Skydance-Paramount.

According to the amended FCC filing Tuesday, David Ellison’s role will be chairman and CEO of New Paramount, combining the assets of Skydance and Paramount Global after the deal closes, expected in the first half of 2025. He also is designated as “sole manager” of the Ellison family entities — Hikouki LLC, Furaito LLC, and Aozora LLC — through which the Ellison family will own and control National Amusements Inc. (currently the controlling shareholder of Paramount Global) and New Paramount.

Previously, Skydance documentation filed with the FCC said Larry Ellison, the multibillionaire founder of Oracle and David Ellison’s father, would be the majority shareholder of Nai and control the newly merged Paramount-Skydance.

Pinnacle Media Ventures, formed as special...

Quentin Tarantino may no longer be making The Movie Critic as his 10th and final film, but the Hollywood auteur became one when he gave two thumbs up to Todd Phillips’ antihero musical Joker: Folie à Deux during a podcast appearance.

“I really, really liked it, really. A lot. Like, tremendously, and I went to see it expecting to be impressed by the filmmaking. But I thought it was going to be an arms-length, intellectual exercise that ultimately I wouldn’t think worked like a movie, but that I would appreciate it for what it is,” Tarantino told The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast on Tuesday.

Never mind the Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga-starrer got a D Cinemascore on its release in early October, and then bombed at the box office to set up steep losses for Warner Bros. Tarantino begs to differ with his fellow movie critics, it appears.

Hungary’s 30% tax incentive for film and TV, which has helped attract recent Hollywood shoots like “Dune: Part Two,” “Maria” and “The Brutalist” to the country, has been extended by six years.

Hungary, continental Europe’s biggest production hub, has attracted direct annual production spend totalling $910 million, a fourfold increase in the last five years.

The extension of the tax incentive was revealed on Monday in Los Angeles by government commissioner for the development of the Hungarian film industry, Csaba Kael, who was in the city to reveal the winners of Hungarian Film Institute’s inaugural awards for Best International Production Filmed in Hungary.

Originally launched in 2004, the Hungarian film support scheme has contributed to such Hollywood films as “Hellboy II: The Golden Army,” “A Good Day to Die Hard,” “The Martian” and “Terminator: Dark Fate.” Other international productions to have filmed in Hungary include “Poor Things,” Ridley Scott’s “Alien: Romulus,...

An emotional and uplifting scene unfolded in front of CAA’s Century City headquarters on Monday as power agent and co-chairman Kevin Huvane teamed with Project Angel Food to honor his late brother Chris Huvane.

The ceremony — attended by CAA insiders, Chris Huvane’s colleagues at Entertainment 360, Project Angel Food CEO Richard Ayoub and Huvane family members — saw the unveiling a new white van that will be used by the nonprofit to deliver meals to seriously ill individuals across Los Angeles County. Dedicated to Chris thanks to a $50,000 donation from Kevin, the van features Chris’s face and an inscription: “In loving memory of Chris Huvane. May this van carry his legacy on every journey. Love always goes the distance…”

Offered Kevin: “Project Angel Food truly captures the essence of compassion and community, creating a profound impact on the lives of many individuals and families throughout Los Angeles County.

Upcoming CBS soap opera “Beyond the Gates” has completed its castings, with veteran actor and Broadway star Clifton Davis joining the daytime series as the Dupree family patriarch.

Along with Davis (“Godfather of Harlem”), Alex Alegria (“Gossip Girl”), Lauren Buglioli (“Bad Monkey”), Ben Gavin (“Super 8”), Jibre Hordges (“Grown-ish”), Jen Jacob (“The Union”) and Mike Manning (“This Is Us”) have also signed on to star. Come 2025, the show will be the first-ever one-hour Black daytime soap and the first new daytime drama to premiere since “Passions” in 1999.

Previously announced cast members include Tamara Tunie, Daphnee Duplaix, Karla Mosley, Brandon Claybon, Timon Kyle Durrett, Sean Freeman, Marquita Goings, Maurice Johnson, Trisha Mann-Grant, RhonniRose Mantilla, Ambyr Michelle, Colby Muhammad and Arielle Prepetit.

According to CBS, Davis will star as Vernon Dupree, the husband of Anita and the father of Dr. Nicole Dupree Richardson and Dani Dupree. Hordges will play Jacob Hawthorne, Naomi...

Julia Roberts is the latest Hollywood celebrity to champion Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. The Oscar winner is featured as the narrator in a new Harris-Walz campaign video created by the progressive evangelical group Vote Common Good (via The Daily Beast). The ad finds Roberts reminding women that their vote is their choice, regardless of how their husbands or anyone else may be voting. One woman in the ad is seen voting for Harris in the booth, even though her husband appears to be leaning towards Trump.

“In the one place in America where women still have a right to choose, you can vote any way you want and no one will ever know,” Roberts says, nodding to how reproductive rights are in jeopardy if Trump is reelected president.

The woman in the ad who votes for Harris is seen leaving the voting booth and meeting her husband, who asks: “Did you make the right choice?...

The 2024 World Series continues tonight at Yankee Stadium, where the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers play their fourth (and potentially final) game.

The Dodgers currently lead the Yankees 3-0, and the team that wins four games in the best-of-seven championship will take home the Commissioner’s Trophy. All games will be broadcast on Fox, and the first two American League vs. National League MLB games took place Friday and Saturday at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. The next three games will be played at Yankee Stadium starting Monday, and the final two (if necessary) will return to L.A.

At a Glance: How to Watch Dodgers vs. Yankees World Series game online

When: Oct. 29-30, Nov. 1-2, starting at 5:08 p.m. Pt/8:08 p.m. Et Channel: Fox Stream online: DirecTV, Fubo, Hulu + Live TV, Sling

Ice Cube performed “It Was A Good Day” and other hits during game two,...

Ke Huy Quan, who made a Hollywood comeback with Oscar-winning work Everything Everywhere All at Once, is continuing his action hero streak.

The actor has closed a deal to star in Fairytale in New York, an action thriller that will be directed by Jalmari Helander, the filmmaker behind the pulpy Nazi-crushing flick Sisu.

Beau Flynn, whose credits include the action spectacles Red Notice, Jungle Cruise and Black Adam, will produce the feature via his FlynnPictureCo. banner.

Lionsgate is launching international sales for Fairytale at AFM.

With a script by Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani, the story is set on Christmas Eve in New York City and centers on an unassuming cab driver, to be played by Quan, who takes one last ride before going to celebrate the holiday with his estranged son. After a run-in with a gang of criminals, he embarks on a relentless pursuit to retrieve his kid’s priceless Christmas gift.

Ilona Maher will be dominating it on the rugby field for Team USA at one moment, and then the next, she’s spinning around on the dance floor on Dancing With the Stars.

And while the 28-year-old Olympics medalist is making the most of every opportunity coming her way, there’s a much deeper meaning behind what she chooses to take on. As an outspoken advocate for women, Maher is out to prove that “you’re so much more than the stereotypes that sometimes people put you in.”

She uses her platform on social media to show that women of all shapes and sizes can still feel confident in anything they do. It’s also why she created her slogan, #beastbeautybrains, and decided to go on ABC’s Dancing With the Stars (with her pro partner Alan Bersten) following the Paris Olympics.

“I believe I can be a beast on the field,...

Snap Inc. says that its Snapchat app added 37 million daily active users in its third quarter, giving it 443 million total, and that time spent watching content rose by 25 percent year over year.

Revenue was $1.37 billion, up 15 percent year over year, while the company posted a net loss of $153 million, a significant improvement compared to a year earlier, when its losses were over $368 million.

“I’m proud of the team’s progress this quarter, delivering strong community growth and deepening engagement while driving improved financial performance,” said Snap CEO Evan Spiegel. “Our investments in AI and Ar are powering new creative experiences for our community and driving innovation across our advertising platform, underpinning our long-term growth opportunity.”

The growth in active users comes at a pivotal moment for Snap, which says it will begin to roll out its new “simple” Snapchat app in Q1 2025 “at the earliest.” The company says that...

Michael Keaton, Paul Feig and David Letterman are among the Hollywood figures paying tribute to Teri Garr after she died on Tuesday at 79.

The Oscar-nominated actress was known for films like Tootsie and Young Frankenstein, among many others, before her career was derailed by multiple sclerosis, which she revealed she was diagnosed during an appearance on Larry King’s CNN show in October 2002. She appeared onscreen for the last time in 2011.

Garr died at home in Los Angeles, surrounded by family and friends,” her publicist, Heidi Schaffer, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Mel Brooks, who gave Garr her breakthrough role alongside Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein, paid tribute to the actress. “So very sorry to hear about Teri Garr’s passing,” he wrote on X. “She was so talented and so funny. Her humor and lively spirit made the Young Frankenstein set a pleasure to work on. Her ‘German’ accent had us all in stitches!

YouTube advertising revenue jumped to $8.9 billion in the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2024, up from $7.9 billion a year earlier.

YouTube’s parent company, Alphabet, beat Wall Street’s revenue and profit expectations with revenue increased 15% compared to last year to reach $88.3 billion, with Google advertising representing most of the revenue, while net income increased 34% to reach $26.3 billion.

Google’s subscriptions, platforms, and devices business, which includes YouTube TV, NFL Sunday Ticket and YouTube Premium among other offerings, had revenue of $10.6 billion, up from $8.3 billion a year ago.

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai noted that Youtube’s total ads and subscription revenues came in $50 billion over the past four quarters for the first time. Executives said that short-form video creation “continues to thrive on YouTube,” noting that of all channels uploading to YouTube each month, 70% are uploading shorts, with 70 billion shorts watched daily. The company has also been upping its monetization efforts on shorts.

“The Godfather” trilogy and “Apocalypse Now” filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola will be the 50th recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award.

The American Film Institute (AFI) Board of Trustees announced that Coppola will presented the award — the institution’s highest honor for a career in film — during a gala tribute ceremony held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on April 26, 2025.

“Francis Ford Coppola is a peerless artist — one who has created seminal works in the canon of American film, and has also inspired generations of filmmakers who now embody his artistry and his independent spirit,” stated Kathleen Kennedy, chair of the AFI board of trustees.

Coppola is a six-time Academy Award-winning writer, director and producer (including the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award from the AMPAS board of governors), with an acclaimed filmography that also includes “The Conversation,” “The Outsiders” and “Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Coppola’s latest film “Megalopolis,” launched...

A note from Scott: With October coming to a close and the presidential election just a week away, the Oscar race is humming all across the globe.

In the belly of the beast — Hollywood — Academy members had the opportunity to catch, at AFI Fest, the world premiere of Disney’s Music by John Williams on Oct. 23; the L.A. premieres of Janus/Sideshow’s All We Imagine as Light, A24’s Heretic and Sony Classics’ The Room Next Door on Oct. 24; the world premiere of Sony’s Here and the L.A. premieres of Sony Classics’ I’m Still Here, Amazon/MGM’s Nickel Boys, Searchlight’s Nightbitch and Vertical’s The Order on Oct. 25; the L.A. premieres of Netflix’s Maria, Searchlight’s A Real Pain, Paramount’s September 5 and Amazon/MGM’s Unstoppable on Oct. 26; and the world premieres of Warner’s Juror No. 2 and Netflix’s Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl...

Dozens of postproduction staffers employed by Paramount Global are protesting their impending layoffs in a letter to management, claiming that the employer is engaging in “union busting.”

As deep cuts to staff roil the conglomerate while it moves ahead with its plan to trim $500 million in costs, staffers of Paramount’s Digital Post Services unit delivered a letter on Oct. 28 to the company’s evp and chief technology officer Phil Wiser over the forthcoming elimination of their department. The 38 employees, unionized with the Motion Picture Editors Guild, were informed in late September that their positions will be terminated effective Dec. 31, according to the labor group.

Calling the move a “betrayal,” the staffers wrote that, on the day they were informed of the layoffs, work orders that were previously going to be fulfilled in-house were being prepared to be sent out to other vendors. “We all were left collectively feeling blindsided and asking the lingering question…...

Francis Ford Coppola has been named as AFI’s 50th Life Achievement Award honoree, the institute revealed on Tuesday.

The “Megalopolis” director will receive his award at a gala tribute held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on April 26, 2025.

“Francis Ford Coppola is a peerless artist — one who has created seminal works in the canon of American film, and has also inspired generations of filmmakers who now embody his artistry and his independent spirit,” Kathleen Kennedy, chair of the AFI board of trustees said in a statement. “AFI is honored to present him with the 50th AFI Life Achievement Award.”

In addition to “Megalopolis,” Coppola is also known for being the filmmaker behind “The Godfather,” “The Godfather Part II,” “Apocalypse Now,” “The Outsiders,” “The Godfather Part III” and “Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” to name just a few. He has won five Oscars, six Golden Globes, two Palmes d’Ors out...

Francis Ford Coppola has a date with American Film Institute next year.

The filmmaker has been selected to receive the 50th installment of the organization’s highest honor, the AFI Life Achievement Award, at a ceremony scheduled to take place at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre on April 26, 2025. He will be 86 at the time. The tribute will air on TNT with encore presentations on Turner Classic Movies. All proceeds from the gala will support AFI’s education and arts initiatives.

The AFI Life Achievement Award is presented to an honoree “whose talent has in a fundamental way advanced the film art, whose accomplishment has been acknowledged by scholars, critics, professional peers and the general public, and whose work has stood the test of time.”

“Francis Ford Coppola is a peerless artist, one who has created seminal works in the canon of American film, and has also inspired generations of filmmakers who...

There was plenty of opining — like the hissing of a coiled rattlesnake — when Venom: The Last Dance opened to a franchise-worst $51 million in North America over the Oct. 25-27 weekend but prospered overseas to boast a worldwide opening of $175 million against a budget of $120 million-plus. It’s easy to forget that Venom does staggering business overseas, with The Last Dance pulling off the biggest China opening ($46 million) in recent memory.

Sony’s Marvel movies get savaged by critics — outside of Spider-Man and Spider-Verse titles — with few cracking the 30 percent mark on Rotten Tomatoes. (2021’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage is the high point with a 57 percent score.) And Venom doesn’t have cultural staying power ala Christopher Nolan’s Batman films or Marvel Studio’s Avengers movies. But in an era of superhero fatigue and ultra-expensive bombs such as Marvel Studios’ The Marvels and DC’s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,...

“West Side Story” actor Ansel Elgort is set to star in “Faster Than Horses,” a survival thriller directed by Emmy nominee James Erskine (“Shooting for Socrates “) and produced by survival expert Bear Grylls.

Inspired by a true story and based on an article by Hampton Sides, “Faster Than Horses” follows a former Olympic runner who attempts a return to glory in the world’s toughest footrace, the Marathon des Sables, a series of back-to-back marathons across the Sahara Desert. But when a devastating sandstorm engulfs the race, he finds himself lost in the Sahara Desert, locked in a 10-day battle not for victory, but for survival.

The film is currently in pre-production and will be unveiled to international distributors at the AFM which kicks on Nov. 5 in Las Vegas. Upgrade will handle international sales, with CAA Media Finance repping North American rights.

The script of “Faster Than Horses” was penned...

Virginia Carter, the feminist activist who was hired by Norman Lear to advise him on social issues and marginalized groups, providing insight the famed TV producer would use for plotlines and characterizations in his provocative shows, has died. She was 87.

Carter died Oct. 17 of natural causes at her home in Redondo Beach, documentary filmmaker Martha Wheelock, a longtime friend, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Carter had spent 11 years as a research physicist for the Los Angeles-based Aerospace Corp., a think tank for the U.S. government, and was president of the local chapter of the National Organization for Women when she was hired by Lear’s Embassy Television as director of creative affairs in 1973. (Lear’s then-wife, Frances, had met Carter at Now and brought her to his attention.)

Even though Lear had big hits at the time with CBS’ All in the Family and Maude, the Canadian-born Carter had never heard of him.

Sunset Blvd. continued to climb the grosses charts, bringing in $1.67 million in its first week of eight performances, which included several comped performances for press.

The revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, directed by Jamie Lloyd and starring Nicole Scherzinger, opened at the St. James Theatre on Oct. 20. The numbers gave Sunset a place in the top five grossing shows in the industry last week, behind the stalwarts of Wicked, with $2.2 million, The Lion King with $1.9 million and Hamilton with $1.7 million. Alicia Keys’ Hell’s Kitchen rounded out the top five with $1.5 million.

Job, the psychological work drama which counts Shari Redstone as a co-producer, played the final week of its limited run on Broadway and had its highest grossing week yet, with $363,992 and 91 percent capacity at the Hayes Theater.

Overall, grosses across the industry slumped slightly, down 2 percent from the previous week as productions gear up for Thanksgiving and the winter holidays,...

Awards season is underway, and the Gotham nominations are only a small blip for what could be on Oscar voters radar.

While any nomination (or win) from any industry group marks a chance at gaining momentum, it’s important to remember the Oscar punditry golden rule: It’s not about what everyone wants to win, it’s about what will win. And critics are not Oscar voters. Each Gothams category is determined by a set of five distinct critics and journalists from various disciplines.

The slate of feature film nominees, with Sean Baker’s hilarious and moving dramedy “Anora” leading the charge with four nods, is yet another compelling reason to think that the Neon-distributed Palme d’Or winner has what it takes to go all the way in the race. On the other hand, I wouldn’t read too much into the complete shutout of films such as...

Liam Payne producer Sam Pounds announced on Tuesday he will delay plans to release a posthumous single from the late singer, leaving the decision “to all family members.”

Pounds initially announced the release of “Do No Wrong” on Oct. 26, scheduled for Nov. 1, which would have been less than three weeks after Payne died when he jumped from a hotel balcony in Argentina. The producer returned to social media on Tuesday to say he had decided to hold off on the release “and leave those liberties up to all family members.”

“I want all proceeds go [sic] to a charity of [the family’s] choosing (or however they desire),” he continued. “Even though we all love the song it’s not the time yet. We are all still mourning the passing of Liam and I want the family to morn [sic] in peace and in prayer. We will all wait.”

In a since-deleted post about the...