Russell Crowe will star alongside Jacob Tremblay and Shailene Woodley in the upcoming Netflix film Unabom.
Unabom, which is currently in production, is a new thriller about the domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski. Janus Metz directs the film, which will star Tremblay as a young Kaczynski and Crowe as controversial Harvard professor Henry Murray.
The film follows the transformation of Kaczynski from Harvard prodigy to the infamous Unabomber. After he’s “subjected to controversial psychological experiments by Professor Henry Murray, Kaczynski’s troubled past resurfaces decades later,” according to Netflix.
Woodley will play FBI agent Joanne Miller, who led the manhunt for Kaczynski, while Annabelle Wallis will play Christina Morgan, Murray’s academic partner and the co-director of the Harvard Psychological Clinic.
The film’s title comes from the FBI’s code name for the Kaczynski case, which was Unabom, standing for UNiversity and Airline BOMbing.
Metz told Netflix he was fascinated by how the hunt for the Unabomber “was the FBI’s longest and most expensive operation to date.”
“But what really drew me in was the story about Ted Kaczynski’s years at Harvard when he was a young math student. This was a side to the story I didn’t know about; it helps uncover a very dark chapter in American history,” Metz said.
The choice to select Tremblay to play Kaczynski came after the pair had their first conversation.
“Jacob Tremblay is an immensely talented young actor,” Metz said. “He has a sensitivity that feels perfect for my vision of Ted when he was a young student at Harvard. There’s a vulnerability and intelligence to Jacob’s look and performance that this story needs.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger is proud of his son, Patrick Schwarzenegger, following his performance in The White Lotus.
The father-son duo, were featured in Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” issue, talked about acting and more, including Patrick Schwarzenegger’s most recent role in season 3 of The White Lotus.
“Everyone is coming up to me in the gym and saying, ‘Your son is fantastic,'” Arnold Schwarzenegger said. “Someone else comes up to me and says, ‘I hated your son in the series.'”
The Terminator actor continued, saying, “Hated him? What kind of compliment is that? They said, ‘He was fantastic, but the character he played was so believable.'”
Patrick Schwarzenegger replied and said, following The White Lotus, his biggest learning experience was “how much people associate you with your character.”
“The first weeks, people came up to me and told me how much they hated me,” he said. “By the end of it, they came up to me saying how much they felt bad for me. It was a roller coaster.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger went on to tell his son that he was “blown away” by his performance in the hit HBO Max show.
“Your acting surprised the hell out of me,” he told his son. “I didn’t recognize you.”
The duo drew a parallel between their acting journeys and realized they both had done nude scenes. Arnold Schwarzenegger recalled doing the opening scene in The Terminator naked, and his son mentioned a scene from The White Lotus too.
“It was a shock to me that you were following my footsteps so closely,” Arnold Schwarzenegger joked.
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A bonus episode of The Sandman season 2 is coming to Netflix. According to Variety, fans will be getting one more episode of the show than they previously thought. In addition to the 11 episodes that were already announced, a surprise episode of the show titled The Sandman Presents: Death: The High Cost of Living will drop on July 31. The first six episodes of the show arrive on July 3, while the following five will debut on July 24 …
Created by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal, the festival celebrates storytelling in all forms, including film, TV and music. This year marks the 24th edition of the festival and features diverse programming with many premieres, performances and anniversary retrospectives.
De Niro and Rosenthal will join forces with Ben Stiller for a panel celebrating the 25th anniversary of Meet the Parents. So, does it feel like 25 years have passed since De Niro first starred as Jack Byrnes?
“The classic answer is no, but then, you know, I can account for all the years that have passed if I get into it,” De Niro said. “But it’s still, you know, passed, so it’s a strange thing. It’s 25 years.”
The festival panel comes after the news that a fourth Meet the Parents film is in the works.
“I’m looking forward to it, it’s gonna be fun,” De Niro said of filming the new movie.
Ariana Grande has just joined the cast of the fourth Meet the Parents film. De Niro says he’s met her once before.
“I met her a few years ago at SNL,” De Niro said. “We did the same SNL. I remember, I had one of my kids meet her who wanted to meet her.”
So, De Niro has met Grande, but did he watch her Academy Award-nominated performance in Wicked?
“I didn’t, but I want to see it. I heard it’s really good,” De Niro said.
Rosenthal, who produced Meet the Parents, agreed that it is a strange thing for all of that time to have passed.
“What’s really fun for us in getting back together for the next one is … our families have grown and we’ve grown up together. It’s kind of special.”
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni in a scene from the movie, ‘It Ends With Us.’ Sony Pictures
The ongoing legal dispute between It Ends With Us co-stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni escalated Tuesday over Lively’s decision to withdraw claims of emotional distress from her lawsuit.
Lively will not be able to refile the claims — included in the lawsuit she originally filed against Baldoni in late December — back into the lawsuit in the future, according to a ruling issued Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman.
Liman also ruled that Lively does not have to provide her medical records to the court following the withdrawal of the claims of emotional distress.
“The parties shall stipulate to whether the dismissal is with or without prejudice, or Lively shall renew her request by formal motion,” Liman wrote in his ruling. “For avoidance of doubt, if the claims are not dismissed, the Court will preclude Lively from offering any evidence of emotional distress.”
In her original lawsuit, Lively claimed she experienced “severe emotional distress” after Baldoni and key stakeholders in It Ends With Us allegedly sexually harassed her and allegedly attempted, along with Baldoni’s production company, Wayfarer Studios, to orchestrate a smear campaign against her.
On Monday, lawyers for Baldoni and Wayfarer filed a motion to compel Lively to provide her medical and mental health care records, in order to prove she experienced distress, according to court filings seen by ABC News. Baldoni’s lawyers asked for the emotional distress claims to be dismissed with prejudice so they cannot be refiled at a later time.
“By alleging that she suffered physical and emotional injuries, Ms. Lively has placed her physical and mental condition at issue and, in turn, must produce relevant information and documents,” the court filings state.
Lively’s legal team responded with a letter to the judge Monday asking for the motion to be dropped, calling it a “public relations stunt.”
Lively’s lawyers, Esra Hudson and Mike Gottlieb, told ABC News in a statement Tuesday, after the judge’s ruling, that the actress will “continue to pursue emotional distress damages through other claims in her lawsuit.”
“The court denied Wayfarer’s motion. He told the parties to continue their discussions about the technicalities of how 2 of the 15 claims will be voluntarily dismissed. Ms. Lively has offered to dismiss those claims because they are no longer necessary, and she will continue to pursue emotional distress damages through other claims in her lawsuit, including sexual harassment and retaliation,” Hudson and Gottlieb said. “In addition, the Baldoni-Wayfarer strategy of filing retaliatory claims has exposed them to expansive damages under California law. This is exactly where both parties were before the Baldoni-Wayfarer Parties rushed to file this utterly pointless motion to compel, all searching for yet another press moment.”
Baldoni’s legal team had no additional comment on the judge’s ruling when reached by ABC News.
Lively and Baldoni’s legal feud began after Lively filed a complaint against Baldoni with the California Civil Rights Department in December, accusing him of sexual harassment on the set of It Ends With Us, which he also directed.
Baldoni denied the allegations at the time in a statement issued through his attorney BryanFreedman, who called Lively’s actions “shameful” and the allegations “serious and categorically false.”
Freedman claimed that Lively’s complaint was “another desperate attempt to ‘fix’ her negative reputation which was garnered from her own remarks and actions during the campaign for the film.”
Lively and Baldoni subsequently launched dueling lawsuits against each other, with Lively’s lawsuit reiterating the allegations outlined in her earlier California Civil Rights Department complaint.
Baldoni filed a civil lawsuit against Lively, her husband, Ryan Reynolds, the couple’s publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s public relations company, Vision PR, in January this year, alleging, among other things, extortion and defamation.
Baldoni accused Lively of having “robbed” him and Wayfarer Studios LLC of control of It Ends with Us, which he also directed, as well as destroying Baldoni’s “personal and professional reputations and livelihood.” He accused Sloane of having gone “so far as to propagate malicious stories portraying Baldoni as a sexual predator” and Reynolds of using the term to describe Baldoni in a call with Baldoni’s agent. The suit claims Reynolds told Baldoni’s rep to “drop” him as a client.
Lively’s lawyers responded with a statement calling the lawsuit “another chapter in the abuser playbook.”
Lively and Baldoni are due to appear in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on March 9, 2026, with Liman overseeing the case.
Ahead of their court date, Lively filed an amended version of her lawsuit against Baldoni in February.
In March, Reynolds filed a motion to dismiss Baldoni’s complaint against him. Lively also filed a motion to dismiss Baldoni’s countersuit against her.
The director is in talks to direct the film Artificial for Amazon MGM Studios, ABC Audio has confirmed.
While plot details for the film are under wraps, it is described as a comedic drama about the world of artificial intelligence.
The script is by Simon Rich, who will also produce the film with Heyday Films’ David Heyman and Jeffrey Clifford.
Deadline reports that Andrew Garfield, Monica Barbaro and Anora breakout actor Yura Borisov are in talks to star in Artificial.
This would mark the third collaboration between Guadagnino and Amazon MGM Studios. He directed the 2024 film Challengers for the studio, as well as the upcoming movie After the Hunt, which is set to arrive in theaters on Oct. 10. After the Hunt follows a college professor at a crossroads and will star Garfield, Julia Roberts and Ayo Edebiri.
Apple announced the premiere date and first-look photos of the fifth season of the espionage drama series on Tuesday.
The Gary Oldman-starring show returns to Apple TV+ on Sept. 24. The six-episode season premieres with two episodes on that date, with one episode weekly on the Wednesdays that follow through Oct. 22.
Slow Horses follows a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents led by Jackson Lamb, played by Oldman.
In season 5, “everyone is suspicious when resident tech nerd Roddy Ho has a glamorous new girlfriend,” according to its official synopsis. “When a series of increasingly bizarre events occur across the city, it falls to the Slow Horses to work out how everything is connected. After all, Lamb knows that in the world of espionage, the London Rules — cover your back — always apply.”
The cast also includes Kristin Scott Thomas, Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves and Jonathan Pryce. Ted Lasso star NickMohammed also joins season 5 in a guest star role.
A star-studded lineup of presenters will take to the stage at this year’s Tony Awards.
CBS announced on Tuesday the celebrities who will present the trophies at the 78th annual Tony Awards.
Among the big names are Oprah Winfrey, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Stiller, Allison Janney, Bryan Cranston, Jesse Eisenberg, Jean Smart, Sarah Paulson, Michelle Williams and Katie Homes.
It will mark a Bill & Ted reunion on the Radio City Music Hall stage as both Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are set to present at the show.
TikTok star and Dancing with the Stars winner Charli D’Amelio is also set to present at the ceremony. She made her Broadway debut in the ensemble of & Juliet this season.
Additionally, musicians and Broadway stars Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lea Michele, Sara Bareilles, Aaron Tveit, Adam Lambert, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Ariana DeBose, Carrie Preston, Danielle Brooks, Kelli O’Hara, Kristin Chenoweth, LaTanyaRichardson Jackson, Lea Salonga and Rachel Bay Jones are also set to present.
Cynthia Erivo hosts the Tony Awards live on June 8. It will air on CBS and stream on Paramount+.
The trailer for Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell‘s upcoming rom-com has arrived.
Sony Pictures has released the official trailer for A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. Kogonada directed the film that was written by TheMenu screenwriter Seth Reiss.
Robbie and Farrell play Sarah and David, single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding.
Through a shocking twist of fate, the pair find themselves on “a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present…and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures,” according to the film’s official synopsis.
In the trailer, we watch Sarah and David walk through a mysterious red door in the middle of the forest. It transports them to a world where every door unlocks a new memory they get to revisit together.
“Are you going to tell me what’s going on?” Sarah asks David.
“I don’t know, but I think I’ve been here before,” he responds.
This film marks Farrell’s second collaboration with Kogonada. He previously starred in the director’s 2022 film After Yang.
Kevin Kline and Phoebe Waller-Bridge also star in the film.
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey arrives in theaters on Sept. 19.
Pictured: (l-r) Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, Jonathan Joss as Ken Hotate — Photo by: (Ben Cohen/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)
Jonathan Joss, known for his roles in King of the Hill and Parks and Recreation, has died following a fatal shooting, according to the San Antonio Police Department. He was 59.
According to a police report, officers were dispatched to a location for a “shooting in progress” on Sunday night. When officers arrived, the victim, identified as Joss, was “found near the roadway of the location” and officers “attempted life saving measures until EMS arrived.”
“EMS pronounced the victim deceased,” the report stated.
Police say a suspect, Sigfredo Ceja Alvarez, is in custody. An investigation is ongoing.
Joss, who was born Dec. 22, 1965, was an actor and producer. He voiced John Redcorn on the hit animated television series King of the Hill from 1998 to 2009.
Joss also appeared on several television shows including Walker, Texas Ranger, ER, Charmed, Friday Night Lights and Parks and Recreation, in which he starred as Chief Ken Hotate.
In January, Joss revealed that his home in South San Antonio had been destroyed by a fire, according to ABC San Antonio station KSAT-TV. The home had been built by his father in 1957. The fire also took the lives of his three dogs, he said.
Joss is survived by his husband Tristan Kern de Gonzales, with whom he exchanged vows on Valentine’s Day, according to Facebook.
Kern de Gonzales shared a statement about Joss’ death on the actor’s Facebook page Monday, claiming that the incident was allegedly preceded by multiple threats and harassment from “individuals” in the area. Kern de Gonzales claimed he and Joss were “checking the mail at the site of our former home” when a man approached them and allegedly “started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired.”
Kern de Gonzales claimed he and Joss were unarmed at the time of the shooting and that when the man allegedly fired at them, Joss pushed Kern de Gonzales out of the way.
“He saved my life,” Kern de Gonzales wrote. “Jonathan is my husband. He gave me more love in our time together than most people ever get. We were newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the process of looking for a trailer and planning our future. He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other. I was with him when he passed. I told him how much he was loved.”
He then thanked those who supported Joss and vowed to continue “protecting Jonathan’s legacy and honoring the life we built together.”
