The era of ’90s remakes continues as a new teaser has dropped for a remake of the 1991 comedy Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead.
A teaser for the 2024 version, which was shared by Nicole Richie on Instagram, shows Richie alongside Simone Joy Jones and June Squibb carrying the same quirky humor as the original.
The now-famous “I’m right on top of that, Rose!” tagline that has been used with popularity since the original movie’s release also appears to be referenced in the new teaser.
“If we’re not alone, and I ask you for something, you just say —” Richie says in the teaser, a reference to the line from 1991 film.
According to the film’s synopsis, a mother leaves her four kids at home with an unlikeable babysitter who subsequently dies. Rather than ruin her mother’s vacation, Tanya Crandell, played by Jones, decides to seek employment as an assistant to a fashion executive and take care of her siblings on her own.
The film is directed by actor-director Wade Allain Marcus and is produced by Treehouse Pictures and Lighthouse Productions.
The screenplay was penned by WandaVision writer Chuck Hayward.
The 1991 classic starred Christina Applegate and Concetta Tomei, and revolved around a similar plot of a teen forced to get a job to take care of her family after their babysitter dies.
The film has gained a cult following in the 30 years since its initial release.
The 2024 version of Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead will hit theaters on April 12.
Oprah Winfrey has parted ways with WeightWatchers after nearly 10 years on the company’s board of directors, two months after her admission in December that she used a prescription medication to help her lose weight.
According to the company, “Winfrey will still continue to work as a public advocate on behalf of weight health and obesity issues,” and she will donate her stock holdings in the company — at one point estimated to be worth $18 million — to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
The donation will “support the NMAAHC’s goal to promote and highlight the contributions of African Americans and to eliminate any perceived conflict of interest around her taking weight loss medications,” according to a company statement.
In a statement, Oprah said, “I look forward to continuing to advise and collaborate with WeightWatchers and CEO Sima Sistani in elevating the conversation around recognizing obesity as a chronic condition, working to reduce stigma, and advocating for health equity.”
She added, “Weight Health is a critically important topic and one that needs to be addressed at a broader scale. I plan to participate in a number of public forums and events where I will be a vocal advocate in advancing this conversation.”
Thilo Semmelbauer, chairman of the company’s board, called Winfrey “an inspiring presence and passionate advocate for our members, providing critical insights and counsel that has helped shape WeightWatchers over these last 8 years.”
He also thanked her for “her energy, dedication, and for continuing to play a role as collaborator and thought partner going forward.”
The 96th annual Academy Awards are on Sunday, March 10, and with that in mind, the financial wonks at WalletHub took a dive into the numbers behind Hollywood’s biggest night.
For example, according to the site, the ceremony will reportedly cost $56.9 million.
Thirty-three percent of this year’s nominees are women, the site’s analysts say, noting that’s the highest percentage in three years. And speaking of the fairer sex, considering the outfit and jewelry, your average A-list actress’s getup is worth $10 million.
At $18.1 million, Oscar winner Cate Blanchett‘s 2014 gown was the most expensive in history, though Lady Gaga‘s Tiffany diamond necklace from the 2019 ceremony was the most expensive piece of bling, at $30 million.
The average female nominee’s outfit costs $1.5 million, but for a first-timer, the average is $266,000, WalletHub says.
The 50,000-square-foot red carpet on which the celebs will stride apparently takes 18 rolls to complete and costs $24,700. It takes 18 workers 600 hours to roll out.
A Best Actress or Actor winner can see a 20% boost in pay for their next job, which is handy, because a pair of tickets to the Vanity Fair Oscar party reportedly costs $100,000.
Considering all the green that goes into the big show, it might not come as a surprise that the City of Los Angeles sees a $170 million economic boost from the Oscars, according to WalletHub.
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Curb Your Enthusiasm stars Larry David and Cheryl Hines are remembering Richard Lewis, who died Tuesday, February 28, from a heart attack. He was 76.
Lewis, who is known for his role on the HBO comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm and more, was remembered by his Curb Your Enthusiasm co-star, Larry David, who called Lewis a “brother to me.”
“Richard and I were born three days apart in the same hospital and for most of my life he’s been like a brother to me,” David said in a statement. “He had that rare combination of being the funniest person and also the sweetest.”
“But today he made me sob and for that I’ll never forgive him,” he added.
Hines, who also starred in the comedy series, took to Instagram to remember Lewis and said working with him was “a dream come true.”
“When I was young I had the biggest crush on Richard Lewis,” Hines began. “He was the funniest person on stage and the most handsome comedian. Then when I was cast on Curb Your Enthusiasm, I got to work with him and it was a dream come true.”
“Through the years I learned who Richard really was and the gifts he gave,” she continued. “Yes, he was the comedian I fell in love with, but he was also one of the most loving people I know. He would take time to tell the people he loved what they meant to him — especially in recent years. In between takes on Curb, he would tell me how special I was to him and how much he loved me.”
“To be loved by Richard Lewis. A true gift,” she said and ended her note with a message to David: “Larry, Richard adored you. But you know that.”
Keep reading to see more tributes to Lewis:
Jamie Lee Curtis: “[W]e were casting the ABC pilot Anything But Love and asked the casting people to bring him in to audition to play my best friend/maybe boyfriend, Marty Gold …He blew everyone else away It was a love triangle show and they didn’t pick up that pilot but they came back to me and said that the chemistry with Richard was so great and could we revamp the original pilot which is the show we ended up making for a couple years … He also is the reason I am sober. He helped me. I am forever grateful for him for that act of grace alone. He found love with Joyce and that, of course, besides his sobriety, is what mattered most to him.”
Mark Hamill: “So sad to hear we have lost @TheRichardLewis. He was one-of-a-kind & always hilarious. Thank you for a lifetime of laughter.”
Tim Allen: “So very sad to hear about the loss of my dear friend Richard Lewis. God bless your wife. So much legacy comedy you have left here. So very sad you’re gone.”
Cary Elwes: “Noooo….. We were literally just making plans to get together. Besides your remarkable talent there was no one sweeter or more generous than you, my friend. I miss you already & forever. Rest in Power, Richard. Our sincere condolences to Joyce, his family, friends & fans.”
Jeff Garlin: “How many people get to work with their hero? I’m heartbroken.”
Jeffrey Ross: “First time I saw Richard Lewis perform was at Carnegie Hall in Dec 1989. (He recently reminded me of the date). I was just an aspiring comic in the crowd and Richard’s performance showed me that you don’t have to play guitar or write songs to be a rockstar. We called each other ‘son of a caterer’ because both our dads ran famous catering halls in New Jersey. He was such a mensch. Long Live King Richard! —son of a caterer.”
Dane Cook: “Aww @TheRichardLewis I love you and will miss you man. You were a champion. RIP”
Paramount is finally moving forward with its long-planned Naked Gun reboot with Liam Neeson in the lead role, ABC Audio has confirmed. The new movie is based on the Naked Gun film franchise and the TV series Police Squad! by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker. The new project, from Chip ‘N Dale: Rescue Rangers filmmakers Dan Gregor and Doug Mand, along with Lonely Island’s Akiva Schaffer and Seth MacFarlane‘s Fuzzy Door, is set for a July 18, 2025, release …
Butterfly in the Sky, a documentary about the beloved 1980s PBS children’s series Reading Rainbow, will have a limited theatrical release beginning on March 17 in select AMC theaters, followed by a full run in New York and additional cities. The doc takes viewers behind the scenes of the show, and host LeVar Burton offers an inside look at the challenges he and the show’s creators faced in “cultivating a love of reading through television” …
Paramount+ has given a series order for the as-yet-untitled NCIS spinoff starring Cote de Pablo and Michael Weatherly, who will reprise their roles as Ziva David and Tony DiNozzo. “After Ziva’s supposed death, Tony left the NCIS team to go raise their daughter,” reads the synopsis. “Years later, Ziva was discovered alive, leading her to complete one final mission with NCIS before she was reunited with Tony and their daughter in Paris.” In the new series, “Tony and Ziva have been raising their daughter, Tali, together. When Tony’s security company is attacked, they must go on the run across Europe, try to figure out who is after them and maybe even learn to trust each other again so that they can finally have their unconventional happily ever after” …
The fifth episode of Apple TV+’s star-studded drama The New Look dropped on Wednesday. The series explores what life was like in Paris during the Nazi occupation, and especially what choices designers like Coco Chanel and Christian Dior made at the time.
Chanel cast her lot with the Nazi high command and had personal relationships with high-ranking officers.
Dior and his mentor Lucien Lelong plied their craft for the spouses and girlfriends of Nazi party members, as distasteful as it may have been to them — indeed, Dior’s sister was tortured by the Gestapo for her membership in the French Resistance.
Oscar-nominated actor John Malkovich plays Lelong in the project, and he explained to ABC Audio, “I really knew nothing about this backstory.”
The fluent French speaker continued, “The French, the occupation in Paris and of a large part of France I knew about, and had read books about it and seen movies about it, etcetera. But I didn’t know anything of Chanel’s backstory or Dior’s backstory.”
The series centers on the choices these icons made during what the actor called “one of the darkest times in human history.”
“I don’t think French waiters loved Nazi clients,” Malkovich insists.
“I don’t think French news vendors loved Nazi clients. And I don’t think Lucien Lelong loved Nazi clients. People made accommodations. People are programed to survive, both genetically and psychologically. They make accommodation and they survive to live and maybe to fight another day.”
A little more than a month after Road House remake director Doug Limansaid he “signed up to make a theatrical motion picture for MGM” only to have it instead head exclusively to streaming on Prime Video, the movie’s star, Jake Gyllenhaal, is weighing in.
Liman stated in an editorial to Deadline he was protesting the movie’s theatrical bow at SXSW over the move away from theaters.
But Road House‘s star now tells Total Film, “I adore Doug’s tenacity, and I think he is advocating for filmmakers, and film in the cinema, and theatrical releases. But, I mean, Amazon was always clear that it was streaming.”
While describing himself as a “deep lover of cinema and the theatrical release,” Jake says he has “also sat watching a film on my computer, or in different places, and been so profoundly moved.”
He expresses, “If the job of a story is to move people, I have been moved in both forms,” insisting, “I also do really embrace the streaming world.”
Gyllenhaal continues, “I just want as many people to see it as possible. And I think we’re living in a world that’s changing in how we see and watch movies, and how they’re made.”
Stand-up comedian and actor Richard Lewis has died, ABC Audio has confirmed.
Lewis, a fixture on the stand-up comedy scene in the ’70s and ’80s, who also appeared in comedies like Robin Hood: Men in Tights and dramas including the Oscar-winning Leaving Las Vegas, was 76.
On Wednesday, Lewis’ publicist Jeff Abraham said the comedian “passed away peacefully at his home in Los Angeles last night after suffering a heart attack.”
The star, who can currently be seen on the final season of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, revealed in April 2023 that he had been living with Parkinson’s disease for two years.
After acknowledging a “rocky” past few years, he told fans he was hanging up the stand-up mic for good. His last gig was on January 20, 2018, at Zanies in Chicago.
He recalled to his fans that he “felt great” about his decision, adding, “I’m at the top of my game, after 50 years almost.”
He then continued, “And then, out of the blue, the s*** hit the fan.” He said he had four surgeries “back to back” on his back, shoulder and hip.
“On top of all that,” Lewis said, a neurologist diagnosed him with Parkinson’s.
“Luckily, I got it late in life, and they say it progresses very slowly, if at all, and I’m on the right meds, so I’m cool.”
To Vanity Fair, he recently explained why he went public. “I thought for what it’s worth, I’m a drug addict and an alcoholic in recovery almost 30 years. That helped some people. Maybe I could go public on this and they’ll say, ‘Gee, I didn’t know Lewis had this!’ And maybe it’ll give them some encouragement.”
Incidentally, the final season of Curb has the comic making his final arrangements. He called it “an amazing season,” adding, “I’m so grateful to be a part of that show.”
He ended his April 2023 tweet optimistically: “I love my wife, and I love my little puppy dog, and I love all my friends and my fans. … God bless you.”
On Wednesday Paramount+, Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios jointly announced that Guy Ritchie will direct and executive produce The Donovans, a gangster drama “loosely based” on one of Showtime’s biggest hits, Ray Donovan.
The producers tease, “With the most powerful clients in Europe, The Donovans will see family fortunes and reputations at risk, odd alliances unfold, and betrayal around every corner; and while the family might be London’s most elite fixers today, the nature of their business means there is no guarantee what’s in store tomorrow.”
Written by Irish award-winning screenwriter, producer and novelist Ronan Bennett, the 10-episode series will debut later this year for Paramount+ subscribers who have the Paramount+ with Showtime plan.
The Donovans is a return to gangster fare for Ritchie, who came to fame with the beloved, comedic crime flicks Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels in 1998, followed by 2001’s Snatch.
In 2020, the live-action Aladdin director returned to the genre with The Gentlemen, starring Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey and Succession Emmy nominee Jeremy Strong.
Chris McCarthy, president of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios, called Ritchie and Bennett a “dream team,” adding, “Guy’s riveting and stylish directorial approach combined with Ronan’s captivating and brutally authentic writing will transfix audiences into a wild and twisted world full of new adventures.”
(NOTE LANGUAGE) In a chat on the podcastReign with Josh Smith, Mission: Impossible franchise veteran Rebecca Ferguson had listeners guessing as to whom she was referring when speaking about an “absolute idiot” of an abusive A-list movie co-star.
And Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, her co-star in 2014’s Hercules, says he wants answers.
The actress allowed it was neither Tom Cruise nor her Greatest Showman co-star Hugh Jackman, but didn’t go any further and was careful not to give away the project — or the offender’s gender.
“I remember there was a moment and this human being was being so insecure and angry because this person couldn’t get the scenes out,” she recalls.
“And I think I was so vulnerable and uncomfortable that I got screamed at. But because this person was number one on a call sheet … no one had my back. And I would cry walking off set.”
“This person would literally look at me in front of the whole crew and say, ‘You call yourself an actor?’ and ‘This is what I have to work with?'” Ferguson added, “I stood there just breaking.”
She recalled eventually standing up for herself, demanding to act against “a tennis ball” instead of the offender, but was denied.
Instead, the actress says she performed to the back of the co-star’s head for the remainder of the shoot.
For his part, Johnson chimed in, “Hate seeing this but love seeing her stand up to bulls***. Rebecca was my guardian angel sent from heaven on our set. I love that woman.”
The Rock added, “I’d like to find out who did this.”
