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People is celebrating its 50th birthday, and to commemorate, it has packed the cover of its anniversary issue with a galaxy of stars: Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Viola Davis, Michael J. Fox, Dwayne Johnson, Nicole Kidman, John Legend, Matthew McConaughey, Serena Williams, Oprah Winfrey and Reese Witherspoon.

The magazine notes the cover features winners of “14 primetime Emmys, 16 Golden Globes, five Oscars, four Tonys and 14 Grammys,” as well as “three Sexiest Men Alive, two EGOTs, two humanitarian award winners, a World Champion, and a G.O.A.T.”

The cover stars also shared some exclusive thoughts about the magazine, with actor and activist Michael J. Fox calling People “this chronicler of my life, and I appreciate it.”

Barrymore echoed that sentiment, calling herself “a lifelong lover of this magazine.” Drew expressed, “At every interval that’s been symbolic in my life, there is a People cover to show for it.”

Aniston recalled the first time she appeared on the cover, in its first Friends feature. “Oh, everything was the most exciting thing on the planet. It was just magic,” she enthused.

Witherspoon remembered her first People cover story, saying, “The reporter came to my trailer, and I was so scared. I said, ‘Please don’t write anything mean about me!'” She said being on the cover the first time “was surreal — you can’t believe it’s happening.”

The issue is dedicated to “a half-century of captivating storytelling, celebrity features, and cultural snapshots that have defined generations.”

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For those just getting to know director Christopher Nolan after his epic Oppenheimer Oscar night — or for fans of the filmmaker looking to revisit his films — Regal Cinemas is bringing back five classic Nolan movies to the big screen for the month of April.

Best part, tickets are just $5 apiece.

As part of its Regal Forever Favorites initiative, the chain will play the 2002’s thriller Insomnia starring Al Pacino and the late Robin Williams; 2008’s Oscar-winning Batman film The Dark Knight, also starring eventual Oppenheimer Oscar winner Cillian Murphy; 2010’s mind-and-building-bending Inception starring Leonardo DiCaprio; 2014’s sci-fi film Interstellar with Matthew McConaughey, and 2017’s World War II epic Dunkirk.

Incidentally, in the lead-up to the Academy Awards, Nolan’s 2020 time-twisting thriller Tenet also revisited theaters.

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Kevin Costner says if Yellowstone will have him back, he’d “love to” saddle up as John Dutton once again. 

Entertainment Tonight caught up with the Oscar winner at the Warner Bros. Pictures presentation at CinemaCon 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he teased his mostly self-funded passion project, the Western Horizon: An American Saga. 

His drive to work on that project took him away from Yellowstone‘s Dutton ranch for the still-unfinished fifth season, reportedly causing static with its producers and creator Taylor Sheridan. But Costner tells ET, he’d like to return to the show.

“I’d like to be able to do it but we haven’t been able to,” Costner says, adding, “I’ve loved making that series. I thought I was going to make seven [seasons] but right now we’re at five.”

He continues, “So how it works out — I hope it does — but they’ve got a lot of different shows going on. Maybe it will. Maybe this will circle back to me. If it does and I feel really comfortable with [it], I’d love to do it.”

Sheridan has spun Yellowstone off into a ratings-minting machine with the hit prequels 1883 and 1923, and the forthcoming 1944 and 2024, the latter of which could reportedly star Michelle Pfieffer and Matthew McConaughey.

And for how John Dutton will go off into the proverbial sunset, Costner tells ET, “I’ve kind of had my own fantasy how it might be, but that’s Taylor’s thing. I said as much to him a while back. I had thoughts how it could happen, but we just have to see.”

Chapter One of Horizon: An American Saga is due in theaters June 28; Chapter Two drops August 16.

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Francis Ford Coppola‘s Megalopolis will officially premiere in competition May 17 at the Cannes Film Festival, an insider tells Deadline. Coppola began working on the screenplay in the 1980s and invested $100 million of his own money to finally bring it to fruition. The all-star cast includes Adam Driver, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Shia LaBeouf, Coppola’s sister Talia Shire and her son, Jason Schwartzman, Chloe Fineman, Kathryn Hunter, Dustin Hoffman, D.B. Sweeney and Grace VanderWaal …

CBS has renewed its FBI series for the 2024-25 broadcast season, with the original FBI being renewed for three seasons, the network announced on Tuesday. FBI is the #3 broadcast series overall while FBI: Most Wanted and FBI: International are, respectively, the #10 and #11 broadcast dramas. CBS reports that since its FBI block returned this season, the network has won every Tuesday night with original programming …

Colin Farrell has been tapped to star in All Quiet on the Western Front director Edward Berger‘s next feature for Netflix, The Ballad of a Small Player, according to Deadline. The Ballad of a Small Player follows, “a high-stakes gambler — played by Farrell — who is dealing with debts and his questionable past while trying to keep a low profile in Macau when he meets a kindred spirit,” per the outlet. Farrell will next be seen reprising his role as the titular character in Max’s Batman spinoff series The Penguin …

Deadline reports 2 Broke Girls alum Kat Dennings will produce and star opposite Tim Allen in a pilot for ABC, tentatively titled Shifting Gears. The pilot follows Allen’s character Matt, a, “stubborn, widowed owner of a classic car restoration shop,” per the outlet. His estranged — and now divorced — daughter Riley, played by Dennings, is forced to move back home with her teenage kids, in hopes she and her dad can restore their relationship as well …

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The night of April 9, Warner Bros. released the teaser trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux. 

Starring Joaquin Phoenix — who won an Oscar for playing the title character, aka Arthur Fleck, in the blockbuster 2019 original — the sequel also stars Lady Gaga as the Clown Prince of Crime’s eventual queen, Harley Quinn.

The trailer is set to a rendition of the Burt Bacharach/Hal David song “What the World Needs Now Is Love.” First we see Phoenix’s Fleck in prison, where he meets Gaga’s Harleen Quinzel, who is clearly an admirer.

“I’m nobody,” a bedraggled-looking Harleen tells him. “I haven’t done anything with my life like you have.”

We then see Joker in full makeup onstage, clutching a microphone, while Harleen and Fleck seem to watch from the audience. “Let’s get outta here,” she whispers to him. Suddenly, she’s in full glam, waltzing with Joker, intercut with footage of her wearing her normal clothes, waltzing with Fleck in traffic, oblivious to the chaos on the street around them.

Actor Steve Coogan, seemingly playing a prison counselor, asks Fleck, “Tell us, what’s changed, Arthur?”

“I’ll tell you what’s changed,” Fleck replies. “I’m not alone anymore.”

What follows is a montage of music and mayhem, including a striking shot of Fleck laughing maniacally while standing in the rain.

The clip closes with Harleen seated across from Fleck, a plastic prison barrier between them. She draws red lips on the barrier with lipstick and says, “I wanna see the real you.” He lines up his lips with the lipstick, until he looks like Joker — and then flashes an evil grin.

According to Variety, director Todd Phillips says the film isn’t exactly a musical, though it will feature song and dance, and music will be “an essential element.” The film arrives October 4.

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On Tuesday, TKO Group Holdings announced that WWE’s WrestleMania XL extravaganza was the “most successful and highest-grossing event in company history.”

Tickets sold for the two-night event at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were up 78% from 2023’s event, the previous record holder. The 40th installment of WrestleMania drew 145,298 people from all 50 states and 64 countries, WWE says. 

Further, viewership jumped 41 percent from 2023, what with The Rock‘s tag team victory with cousin Roman Reigns over Seth Rollins and Cody Rhodes Saturday night; the appearance of superstars John Cena and The Undertaker; and even stars like the NFL’s Jason Kelce getting in the ring during the weekend’s festivities.

Ultimately, Rhodes beat Reigns to win the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship on Sunday, and the organization says the WWE’s YouTube channel saw more than 67 million views in 24 hours. Overall, the event attracted some 660 million views across social media, the press release said.

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As a person who grew up in front of the camera, Saved by the Bell veteran Mark-Paul Gosselaar says he feels awful about what the alleged victims revealed in the hit documentary series Quiet on the Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.

The Investigation Discovery docuseries detailed emotional and even sexual abuse suffered by former Nickelodeon stars, including Drake Bell, who revealed he was repeatedly sexually assaulted by former dialogue coach Brian Peck.

Speaking to Page Six in New York City Monday, Gosselaar said, “I couldn’t relate because that’s not how our set was run at all.”

He said of his former co-stars Mario Lopez, Elizabeth Berkley, Lark Voorhies, Tiffani Thiessen and the late Dustin Diamond, “As a cast, I think we’re all pretty unscathed in a way.”

Gosselaar added, “We had good family, good producers protecting us, good teachers, so I feel awful that anyone had to go through that, especially children.”

That said, the now-50-year-old actor commented, “The only thing I can say from my experience is I was very aware of it being a business and people will do anything for the bottom line at times.”

The most recent installment of Quiet on the Set, which dropped on Max on Sunday, featured an interview with Bell, in which he was asked about young stars who sat on Peck’s side of the courtroom as he faced 11 counts of sexual abuse of a minor.

The documentary revealed other male stars, reportedly including Will Friedle and James Marsden, had written letters supporting Peck — who was eventually convicted. “Not one person who’s written one of those letters has reached out to me,” Bell told moderator Soledad O’Brien.

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The gang from the blockbuster Bridget Jones franchise is coming back.

Good Morning America has confirmed that Oscar winner Renée Zellweger will be reprising as the title role with her former film series co-stars Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.

The fourth movie based on author Helen Fielding‘s bestselling book series will debut in theaters globally and on Peacock in the U.S. on Valentine’s Day 2025.

Adapted from Fielding’s bestselling novel of the same name, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy will also star Love, Actually‘s Chiwetel Ejiofor and The White Lotus‘ Leo Woodall.

Better Call Saul vet Michael Morris will be directing the film, on which Fielding will serve as an executive producer.

It follows 2001’s Bridget Jones’s Diary, 2004’s Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby, which collectively have made more than $760 million worldwide, according to the announcement from Universal Pictures.

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Zendaya dazzles as the May cover star of both American and British Vogue.

For the American Vogue issue, which was photographed by Annie Leibovitz, the two-time Emmy winning actress appears in a red Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda dress for the cover shot.

In additional images from the spread, Zendaya, who is a co-chair for this year’s Met Gala, shows off her incredible fashion sense and talent posing in front of the camera.

The fashion editor for the shoot was her longtime stylist and fashion collaborator Law Roach, who told the outlets, “What she allows me to do is to come up with the big story, the big idea, and she takes that and she whittles it down a bit.”

Zendaya’s British Vogue shoot was photographed by Carlijn Jacobs and leans more into “sports luxe,” according to a press release. 

Zendaya told the outlets that on the red carpet, there’s “a different being that comes into me — my own Sasha Fierce.” She continued, “I got to get into a zone of being that part of myself, which is definitely not a thousand percent natural.”

The actress and producer also expressed how she deals with the downside of worldwide fame: finding privacy.

“You just kind of get used to the fact that, ‘Oh, I’m also one of these art pieces you’re going to take a picture of,'” she shared after discussing a time she visited the Louvre with her boyfriend, Tom Holland, and photographs from their trip went viral. “I just gotta be totally cool with it and just live my life.”

That said, she allows, “I don’t necessarily want my kids to have to deal with this.”

Challengers, the Dune franchise star’s next film, opens in theaters April 26. 

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The Cannes International Film Festival announced it will be awarding “Hollywood legend” and “visionary” Star Wars creator George Lucas with the Honorary Palme d’or on Saturday, May 25.

The award will be presented at the Grand Théâtre Lumière as part of the closing ceremony of the 77th annual event.

Lucas said of the honor, “The Festival de Cannes has always held a special place in my heart. I was surprised and elated when my first film, THX-1138, was selected to be shown in a new program for first time directors called the Directors’ Fortnight.”

He added, “Since then, I have returned to the festival on many occasions in a variety of capacities as a writer, director and producer,” noting, “I am truly honored by this special recognition which means a great deal to me.”

The event’s organizers noted, “Inseparable from the Star Wars and Indiana Jones sagas, George Lucas has forever given the blockbuster an illustrious history, and audiences the world over unrivalled pleasure.”

The announcement added, “The Festival de Cannes is delighted to pay tribute to one of the greatest figures of contemporary cinema, a man with an extraordinary career, who brings together great entertainment and innovation, mythology and modernity and cinephilia and technology.”

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