Marvel Studios has released a statement about the death of a crew member who passed away from injuries sustained on the set of its small-screen project Wonder Man.
Deadline reports shooting on the Disney+ series hasn’t yet started. The victim was a rigger who fell from the rafters at Radford Studio Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
“Our thoughts and deepest condolences are with his family and friends, and our support is behind the investigation into the circumstances of this accident,” Marvel Studios said in a statement.
Wonder Man will star Aquaman‘s Yahya Abdul-Mateen IIas the title character aka Simon Williams.
Oscar winner Ben Kingsley reprises as Trevor Slattery, the washed-up actor who pretended to be The Mandarin in Iron Man 3 and its follow-up short All Hail The King, before he reprised in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
The latter movie’s director, Destin Daniel Cretton, is developing Wonder Man.
Marvel Studios is owned by Disney, the parent company of ABC News.
In a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday, a judge did not sentence former Marvel actor Jonathan Majors as scheduled.
Attorneys for the embattled Creed III star filed a motion with Judge Michael Gaffey to set aside the actor’s December conviction on one count of misdemeanor third-degree assault and one count of second-degree harassment.
He was acquitted of two other charges related to a March 2023 altercation with his then-girlfriend Grace Jabbari.
Majors appeared virtually for Tuesday’s proceedings, appearing on screen wearing a tan crewneck sweater.
“The case will not go forward with sentencing today because the defense has filed a motion to set aside the verdict,” Gaffey said.
Instead, sentencing was reset for April 8.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office was given until March 5 to respond to the defense motion to set aside the verdict, which Majors told ABC News’ Linsey Davis he plans to appeal.
It seems Eddie Murphy has picked up another comedian for his forthcoming heist project for Prime Video, The Pickup.
Deadline reports Murphy has tapped Andrew Dice Clay to join the cast of the hush-hush project, which already stars their fellow stand-up comic/actor Pete Davidson as well as Nope‘s Keke Palmer.
Apart from making fans laugh on social media with a running gag of interacting with strangers he insists want to take a selfie with him, Dice continues to tour as a stand-up.
Incidentally, Dice is one of only a handful of comedians to ever sell out Madison Square Garden; Murphy did it in 1987.
Dice also appeared in front of the camera as an actor in films like Bradley Cooper‘s A Star Is Born, projects including Pam & Tommy, and his own former Showtime series, Dice.
A Super Bowl spot for Uber Eats reunites Friends former love interests David Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston — but the latter seems to have forgotten about Ross and Rachel.
The gist of the ad has people remembering that Uber Eats can also deliver everyday items — at the expense of other important information.
In Aniston’s segment, she’s on a movie set when an assistant brings her the goods she’s Ubered and admits she’s forgotten you can do that. “You know what they say,” Aniston says. “You gotta forget something else, make a little room.”
Just then, Schwimmer happily approaches Aniston and goes in for a hug, which she rebuffs. “Have we met?” she asks. “Gimme a hint.”
Schwimmer replies, “Worked together for ten years.”
“Ten years!” she replies. “You were great.”
Exasperated, Schwimmer says, “You still don’t know, do you?”
They separate, and Aniston says to herself with a laugh, “Yeah, like I’d forget 10 years of my life.”
Schwimmer, peeved, then says to himself, “I hate this town.”
The spot has other stars being equally forgetful: Jelly Roll is confused as to how his face tats got there, and Victoria Beckham forgets the name of the girl group that made her famous, The Spice Girls. “Pepper ladies?” her husband, David Beckham offers, confused. “Paprika girls?” she struggles.
Tom Holland, who got his start as a young actor in the stage version of Billy Elliot the Musical, is headed back to the theater for the first time as an adult.
Holland will play William Shakespeare‘s tragic romantic hero in a West End revival of Romeo & Juliet for director Jamie Lloyd, who has incidentally worked other Marvel stars like Loki‘s Tom Hiddleston, Daredevil‘s Charlie Cox and Black Panther‘s Martin Freeman.
The production will be staged at The Duke of York’s Theatre in the U.K., and according to the theater’s website, it promises to be “a pulsating new vision of Shakespeare’s immortal tale of wordsmiths, rhymers, lovers and fighters.”
In a statement to the BBC, Lloyd expressed, “Tom Holland is one of the greatest, most exciting young actors in the world. It is an honour to welcome him back to the West End.”
Holland will start his run on May 11, and the play is slated to run through August 3.
Celebrity baker and Food Network star Duff Goldman was left injured after a drunk driver crashed into his vehicle.
On his Instagram, alongside a photo of a hand mummified in bandages, Goldman wrote, “On my way home from the airport I was thinking about what kind of cake I was going to make for my daughters [sic] birthday. Next thing I knew I bleeding and surrounded by airbags.”
He added, “A drunk driver had swerved into my lane on a windy country road.”
Goldman was apparently the passenger in the vehicle, and all parties survived the crash — but he faces a “long road to recovery,” he noted in the post Sunday.
The 49-year-old baker added, “for someone like me who makes a living with my hands you can imagine that this is no joke.”
While the Ace of Cakes veteran says he’s thankful to be alive, he vented, “My daughter almost didn’t have a dad because this guy was stupid.”
He added, “There’s no excuse for driving drunk. None. Uber, taxi, call a friend. No excuse. Stay safe friends, count your blessings. If you’re drinking don’t drive, and if you’re driving, don’t drink.”
Duff got plenty of support from followers, including fellow celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito, who offered his services. “Thank god all is ok. Happy to stand in for birthdays and bar-mitzvahs,” he joked.
Apple TV+ released a sizzle reel of its 2024 slate of projects. Included is the already streaming Oscar-nominated Martin Scorsese film Killers of the Flower Moon, as well as Masters of the Air, the World War II epic starring Austin Butler that has begun rolling out. Others include the highly anticipated new series Palm Royale, starring Allison Janney and Kristen Wiig; Constellation with Noomi Rapace; The New Look withBen Mendelsohn andJuliette Binoche; Sugar with Colin Farrell; Jake Gyllenhaal‘s remake of Presumed Innocent; and the documentary The Dynasty: New England Patriots …
Production is officially underway on season 1 of Outlander: Blood of My Blood, the prequel series to the Starz time-traveling drama Outlander. The 10-episode series will “center on the lives and relationship of Jamie Fraser’s parents, Brian Fraser and Ellen MacKenzie” — played by Condor’s Nest‘s Jamie Roy and Pennyworth‘s Harriet Slater — per the cable network. The “love story … will explore what lengths a person will go to find love in a time when love is considered a luxury, and when marriages are made strategically, often for political or financial gain.” The series is being filmed in Scotland …
A new, yet-to-be-titled Jurassic Park movie is slated for a July 2, 2025, release, with BulletTrain‘s David Leitch in talks to direct, according to Deadline. Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp will pen the script for the movie, to be executive produced by Steven Spielberg‘s Amblin Entertainment. The film will start a fresh storyline for the decades’ old franchise, per the outlet. It’s not clear if any previous stars, such as Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Neill, Laura Dern or Jeff Goldblum, will return …
CBS reports viewership of Sunday’s 66th Annual Grammy Awards telecast on CBS was up 34% from last year, averaging 16.9 viewers — a four-year high for the awards show, based on Nielsen time zone-adjusted fast national and Out of Home ratings for Sunday, February 5 and internal data. Live 3-day viewership should lift hat number past 17 million viewers. The Grammys remains the No. 1 music awards show for the 18th consecutive year. The show also recorded its highest viewership on Paramount, up 173% from a year ago, and ranked as the top social media event of 2024, so far …
CBS has unveiled the 18 contestants for the 46th installment of Survivor.
The forthcoming season kicks off with two two-hour episodes starting Wednesday, February 28, at 8 p.m. ET, followed by a second episode on Wednesday, March 6, at 8 p.m. Each subsequent episode will run for 90 minutes on CBS and stream on Paramount+.
CBS teases, “Building upon its legacy, this groundbreaking series continues to be the ultimate test of physical and mental endurance as this new set of castaways embarks on the adventure of a lifetime when they are left stranded on the breathtaking islands of Fiji.”
The network continues, “The participants will be divided into three tribes of six and endure a faster, more intense season from the moment they step foot on the beach.”
Here are the contestants:
Q Burdette
Age: 29
Hometown: Senatobia, Mississippi
Current Residence: Memphis, Tennessee
Occupation: Real estate agent
Jessica “Jess” Chong
Age: 37
Hometown: Hong Kong, China/Toronto, Ontario
Current Residence: San Francisco, California
Occupation: Software engineer
Charlie Davis
Age: 26
Hometown: Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts
Current Residence: Boston, Massachusetts
Occupation: Law student
Tevin Davis
Age: 24
Hometown: Goochland, Virginia
Current Residence: Richmond, Virginia
Occupation: Actor
Tiffany Nicole Ervin
Age: 33
Hometown: Franklin Township, New Jersey
Current Residence: Elizabeth, New Jersey
Occupation: Artist
Moriah Gaynor
Age: 28
Hometown: Boca Raton, Florida
Current Residence: San Diego, California
Occupation: Program coordinator
Maria Shrime Gonzalez
Age: 48
Hometown: Dallas, Texas
Current Residence: Dallas, Texas
Occupation: Parent coach
Bhanu Gopal
Age: 41
Hometown: Visakhapatnam, India
Current Residence: Acton, Massachusetts
Occupation: IT quality analyst
Jemila “Jem” Hussain-Adams
Age: 32
Hometown: Berbice, Guyana
Current Residence: Chicago, Illinois
Occupation: International brand mentor
David “Jelinsky” Jelinsky
Age: 22
Hometown: Las Vegas, Nevada
Current Residence: Las Vegas, Nevada
Occupation: Slot machine salesman
Ben Katzman
Age: 31
Hometown: Miami, Florida
Current Residence: Miami, Florida
Occupation: Musician
Hunter McKnight
Age: 28
Hometown: French Camp, Mississippi
Current Residence: French Camp, Mississippi
Occupation: Science teacher
Randen Montalvo
Age: 41
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York
Current Residence: Orlando, Florida
Occupation: Aerospace tech
Tim Spicer
Age: 31
Hometown: Arlington, Virginia
Current Residence: Atlanta, Georgia
Occupation: College coach
Soda Thompson
Age: 27
Hometown: Long Island, New York
Current Residence: Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey
Occupation: Special education teacher
Venus Vafa
Age: 24
Hometown: Hill, Ontario
Current Residence: Toronto, Ontario
Occupation: Data analyst
Kenzie Petty
Age: 29
Hometown: Gibraltar, Michigan
Current Residence: Charlotte, North Carolina
Occupation: Salon owner
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival announced Monday that the Oscar-nominated Oppenheimer star Robert Downey Jr. will be presented with the highest honor — the Maltin Modern Master Award — later this week.
Leonard Maltin, the film scholar for which the award was renamed in 2015, will moderate a panel with the star after the presentation on Friday, February 9, at the Arlington Theatre.
For his part, Maltin commented, “Robert Downey Jr. has staged one of the most spectacular second acts in show business history … and we in the audience are the beneficiaries. He commands the screen without any visible effort, which is perhaps the greatest feat of all.”
Previous Maltin Master Award winner — and Oppenheimer‘s Oscar-nominated director Christopher Nolan — expressed, “It’s thrilling to see audiences responding not just to Robert Downey Jr.’s incredible charisma, but to a performance which, stripped of any movie star trappings, shows once again that he is one of the greatest actors.”
While stars of music were being honored at the Grammy Awards, Burbank, California, was the site of the Academy of Science Fiction’s 51st annual Saturn Awards.
Presenters and winners included Nicolas Cage, James Cameron, The Walking Dead‘s Norman Reedus and Danai Gurira, Star Trek: Picard‘s Patrick Stewart, Ghostbusters‘ Ernie Hudson, Blue Beetle‘s Xolo Maridueña and What We Do in the Shadows‘ Harvey Guillén.
Also at the awards show, hosted for the second year in a row by actor/comedian Joel McHale, Christopher Nolan was presented with the Saturn’s Visionary Award by Oppenheimer co-star Emily Blunt, who won Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film.
Keanu Reeves was in attendance to receive the very first Lance Reddick Legacy Award, named in honor of his late John Wick co-star; William Shatner presented Seth MacFarlane with the prestigious Robert Forster Artist’s Award, and Jodie Foster was presented with The Life Career Award by her True Detective: Night Country writer-director Issa López.
If the guest list seems impressive, that’s nothing new, previous winner Bruce Campbell told ABC Audio. “You want to see famous people in one room? Go to the Saturn Awards,” he laughs.
The Evil Dead star explains, “Frank Marshall, okay? He’s a big producer … And you know, we got to be sort of friendly. And I saw him at the Saturn Awards. I’m like, ‘Hey, Frank, you know, wow. Great to see you here at the Saturn Awards.’ He goes, ‘Are you kidding me? The only time I’m going to get an award is here he goes. I’ve been nominated for ten Academy Awards. I’ll never get one of them. I’ve got three Saturns.'”
Here’s a list of this year’s winners:
VISIONARY AWARD – Christopher Nolan
ROBERT FORSTER ARTIST’S AWARD – Seth MacFarlane
GEORGE PAL MEMORIAL AWARD – Dave Filoni
THE DAN CURTIS LEGACY AWARD – The Walking Dead Franchise
LANCE REDDICK LEGACY AWARD – Keanu Reeves
LIFE CAREER AWARD – Jodie Foster
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD – Star Trek: The Next Generation Cast
FILM
BEST SCIENCE FICTION FILM – Avatar: The Way of Water
BEST FANTASY FILM – Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
BEST HORROR FILM – Talk to Me
BEST SUPERHERO FILM – Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
BEST ACTION/ADVENTURE FILM – Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
BEST THRILLER FILM – Oppenheimer
BEST ANIMATED FILM – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
BEST INDEPENDENT FILM – Pearl BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM – Sisu
BEST FILM DIRECTION
James Cameron – Avatar: The Way of Water
BEST FILM SCREENWRITING
Avatar: The Way of Water – James Cameron and Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver
BEST ACTOR IN A FILM
Harrison Ford – Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny
BEST ACTRESS IN A FILM
Margot Robbie – Barbie
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A FILM
Nicolas Cage – Renfield
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A FILM
Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A YOUNGER PERFORMER IN A FILM
Xolo Maridueña – Blue Beetle
BEST FILM MUSIC
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny – John Williams
BEST FILM MAKE-UP
The Covenant – Donald Mowat
BEST FILM VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar: The Way of Water – Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, Daniel Barrett
BEST FILM COSTUME DESIGN
Barbie – Jacqueline Durran
BEST FILM PRODUCTION DESIGN
Barbie – Sarah Greenwood
BEST FILM EDITING
Oppenheimer – Jennifer Lame
TELEVISION
BEST SCIENCE FICTION TELEVISION SERIES
Star Trek: Picard
BEST SUPERHERO TELEVISION SERIES
Superman & Lois
BEST ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLER TELEVISION SERIES
Outlander
BEST TELEVISION PRESENTATION
Marvel’s Werewolf by Night
BEST ANIMATED SERIES OR SPECIAL
Star Wars: The Bad Batch
BEST NEW GENRE TELEVISION SERIES
Star Wars: Andor
BEST HORROR TELEVISION SERIES
The Last of Us
BEST FANTASY TELEVISION SERIES
Wednesday
BEST ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES
Patrick Stewart – Star Trek: Picard
BEST ACTRESS IN A TEVISION SERIES
Caitriona Balfe – Outlander
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES
Jonathan Frakes – Star Trek: Picard
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES
Jeri Ryan – Star Trek: Picard
BEST FEATURED GUEST STAR IN A TELEVISION SERIES
Paul Wesley – Strange Trek: Strange New Worlds
BEST YOUNGER PERFORMER IN A TELEVISION SERIES
Jenna Ortega – Wednesday
HOME MEDIA
BEST 4K HOME MEDIA RELEASE
John Wick, Chapter 4 – 4K – Lionsgate Home Entertainment
BEST FILM HOME MEDIA COLLECTION
Superman 1978-1987 4K Collection – Warner Home Video
