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Actor Ashley Judd is adding her voice to calls for President Joe Biden to step aside from the presidential race following his performance in last month’s debate, arguing that she worries he could lose to Republican Donald Trump in November. In an opinion piece for USA Today published on Friday, Judd called on Biden to

Director Kevin Costner in New Line Cinema’s Western drama ‘Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1’, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Richard Foreman. Copyright: © 2024 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. Preview: The next chapter Kevin Costner’s Western saga is delaying its theatrical release. ‘Chapter 1’ has stumbled at the domestic

Eleven o’clock on Friday night is easily one of the worst time slots in what remains of linear TV. But, for the past five weeks, that’s been the designated drop for Fantasmas. A surrealist odyssey through New York, one rendered via sets that recall Dogtown and Gremlins 2: The New Batch in equal measure, each half-hour depicts

(Left) Brendan Gleeson in the film ‘The Banshees of Inisherin.’ Photo by Jonathan Hession. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2022 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved. (Right) Lamorne Morris in ‘Woke’. Photo: Mark Hill/Hulu. Preview: ‘Spider-Noir’ is adding Lamorne Norris and Brendan Gleeson to its cast. The live-action series will star Nicolas Cage as the

Serena Williams joined her sister, Venus, and Quinta Brunson in calling out Pat McAfee for his comments about WNBA star Caitlin Clark earlier this year at the 2024 ESPY Awards. The trio also took shots at Harrison Butker. Onstage at the ESPYs show, host Serena shared the stage with Venus and Quinta for a segment

(L to R) Donkey (Eddie Murphy), Shrek (Mike Myers), Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) and Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow) in ‘Shrek’. Photo: DreamWorks Animation. Preview: DreamWorks Animation has set the fifth ‘Shrek’ entry for 2026. Voice stars Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz are all returning. No story details have been released. While on his

Shelley Duvall, the saucer-eyed, rail-thin waif who starred in seven films directed by her mentor, Robert Altman, and avoided the ax wielded by an unhinged Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, died Thursday. She was 75. Duvall died in her sleep of complications from diabetes at her home in Blanco, Texas, Dan Gilroy, her

Tom Cruise in ‘Edge of Tomorrow’. Photo: Warner Bros. Preview: Doug Liman says he and Tom Cruise still discuss an ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ sequel. The 2014 original saw Cruise stuck in a time loop. There has been chatter about a sequel in the past. It has been 10 years since director Doug Liman sent Tom

Netflix is getting deeper into business with hit-making Japanese producer Aki Isoyama. The streamer revealed Thursday that it has signed an exclusive agreement to produce and distribute new series and films from Isoyama over the next five years. The deal continues Netflix’s increasingly bullish investments in the Japanese content space. Isoyama has been behind some

(L to R) Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt in ‘The Devil Wears Prada’. Photo: 20th Century Fox. Preview: Disney is in early development on a ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ sequel. Writer Aline Brosh McKenna is scripting the new movie. Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt may return, but Anne Hathaway is yet to be

Australian rapper and new crypto entrepreneur Iggy Azalea has launched her own podcast, Mother Knows Best. The “Fancy” singer’s audio partnership with podcast publisher The Volume will see Azalea from the cozy backdrop of her own bed reach into the worlds of pop culture and business by discussing the work and lives of chart-topping musicians

Billy Bob Thornton as Tommy Norris in season 1, episode 2 of ‘Landman’ streaming on Paramount+. Photo Credit: Emerson Miller/Paramount+. Preview: The first pictures of new Paramount+ series ‘Landman’ are online. Billy Bob Thornton, Jon Hamm and Demi Moore are among the cast. It’s the latest show from ‘Yellowstone’ creator Taylor Sheridan. While ‘Yellowstone’ might

Marvel Animation has tapped Matthew Chauncey to pen the third season of Disney+’s wildly popular X-Men ’97 series, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Chauncey, who was a writer on Marvel’s Disney+ animated series What If…?, will take over writing duties from Beau DeMayo. In March, a THR exclusive revealed that Marvel had suddenly fired DeMayo

Paul Mescal plays Lucius in ‘Gladiator II’ from Paramount Pictures. Preview: The first pictures from ‘Gladiator II’ are online. Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal and Connie Nielsen are among the cast. Ridley Scott directed the sequel to his 2000 epic. Though we’ve gotten used to legacy sequels landing years, sometimes decades after the original movie (Netflix’s

Prosecutors in the Harvey Weinstein case are investigating sexual assault claims from additional women who have come forward as they look to a possible new indictment against the former Hollywood mogul. In Manhattan criminal court Tuesday, Assistant ADA Nicole Blumberg said prosecutors have not yet summoned a grand jury but are continuing to investigate a

(Left) Paramount Pictures logo. Photo: Paramount. (Right) Skydance logo. Photo: Skydance. Preview: After months of negotiating, Paramount Global and Skydance Media are to merge. Skydance boss David Ellison will become Paramount’s CEO. Other companies had looked to make their own deal for the studio. It has been months of feeling like Paramount Global was a

Fred R. Krug, a producer, director and cinematographer who worked on such nature-focused TV programs as Animal World, Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom and The Magical World of Disney, has died. He was 94. Krug died June 4 of natural causes at his home in Solvang, California, his daughter, Vivian Krug-Cotton, told The Hollywood Reporter.