In a chat with Variety alongside her co-star and co-executive producer of The Morning Show, Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston opened up about the recent loss of her former Friends co-star Matthew Perry.
In fact, she revealed she had been texting with Perry the morning of October 28, the day the actor was found dead at his Los Angeles home.
Aniston said she would like Perry to be remembered “as he said he’d love to be remembered“: someone who struggled with addiction and helped others get sober.
“He was happy. He was healthy,” Aniston continued. “He had quit smoking. He was getting in shape. He was happy — that’s all I know.” She added, “[F]unny Matty … was not in pain. He wasn’t struggling. He was happy.”
Witherspoon, who said she was “lucky to have played Aniston’s little sister on Friends,” noted, “It’s important people know that.”
Aniston added, “I want people to know he was really healthy, and getting healthy. He was on a pursuit. He worked so hard. He really was dealt a tough one.”
She expressed, “I miss him dearly. We all do. Boy, he made us laugh really hard.”
Aniston also said Perry’s “dialect, his way of speaking, created a whole different world. We went with his lead, in a way. It just added something to our joy.”
She called the outpouring of love after Perry’s death “so beautiful,” adding, “I hope he can know that he was loved in a way he never thought he was.”
Stand-up comic and Bookie actor Sebastian Maniscalco‘s 47-city 2024 It Ain’t Right tour just got bigger.
Live Nation reports that due to popular demand, a third show has been added to his stand in New York City — including a return to Madison Square Garden, a venue he’s sold out in the past.
Additionally, a second show has been added to Boston’s TD Garden, and a show at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena was also added.
In the announcement, the About My Father star teases, “Hop on the ‘It Ain’t Right’ tour, where I’ll roast today’s absurdities – non existent manners, wallet-wincing prices, and the social media circus. Join me in laughing at the wrongs in this shameless world!”
Tickets for New York City will be available starting with a Chase presale beginning Monday, December 11. Full details can be found at SebastianLive.com.
Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan, his co-star Emily Blunt and Ted Lasso‘s Hannah Waddingham were among those reacting to their 2024 Golden Globes nominations, which were announced Monday.
Barbie dominated as the most-nominated film of the year, and Succession once again reigned supreme on the television side. Both received nine nominations.
A “delighted” Nolan reacted to his Oppenheimer getting eight nominations, saying, “Working with the great ensemble cast … has been one of the highlights of my career, so I am thrilled the Golden Globes have recognized Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr. and Cillian Murphy‘s incredible work in this film,” he said. “I’m delighted with all of the nominations, including Ludwig’s [Oscar winner LudwigGöransson‘s] magnificent score.”
For her part, Blunt, nominated for her supporting performance, said in a statement that she is “overjoyed and very moved to be recognized in this way. Made all the more special that it’s for THIS staggering and beautiful film that we are all deeply proud to be a part of….so thank you to Chris Nolan for bringing me into the fold in the first place!”
Waddingham posted to X, formerly Twitter, “I’ve died and gone to heaven! @goldenglobes I AM SHOOKETH!!!!! Thank you SO, SO MUCH. This list is the greatest gift! Thank you for including me. I’m FLOORED!”
Brie Larson, who was nominated for best performance by a female actor in a limited series, anthology series, or a motion picture made for television for Lessons in Chemistry, shared an Instagram post of her and her canine co-star from the show. “Me and Six Thirty say thank you,” she wrote. “This show and [her character] Elizabeth Zott has my heart!!”
The 2024 Golden Globes will take place Sunday, January 7, at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET, with the ceremony airing live on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. A host for the awards show has yet to be announced.
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On his Instagram, James Gunnfinally confirmed a long-held rumor: X-Men series veteran Nicholas Hoult will play Superman’s archnemesis Lex Luthor in Gunn’s upcoming Superman: Legacy.
To a smiling photo of him and Hoult, with a backdrop of blown-up covers of Superman comics, Gunn said he can “finally” confirm the news, adding, “I couldn’t be happier.”
Gunn says the pair had dinner on Sunday night “to celebrate and discuss how we can create a Lex that will be different from anything you’ve seen before and will never forget.”
The Guardians of the Galaxy franchise veteran also referenced the rumors that Hoult, who played Dr. Hank McCoy/Beast in some of the X-Men movies, had the role.
“But, James, we heard this weeks ago, why didn’t you tell us it was true?” the filmmaker continued.
“Although we were discussing it, it wasn’t final until a couple days ago and I don’t want to tell you all something that isn’t certain. Anyway, here’s to Lex (and Nicholas!), one of my very favorite characters in the DCU,” Gunn concluded.
Superman: Legacy, which DC Films co-CEO Gunn wrote and is directing, will star Hollywood‘s David Corenswet as Clark Kent/Superman and Rachel Brosnahan as his love, Lois Lane.
The Righteous Gemstones star Skyler Gisondo has been cast as overeager Daily Planet reporter Jimmy Olsen; Sara Sampaio will play villainess Eve Teschmacher, an ally of Luthor’s, while María Gabriela De Faría will also break bad as The Engineer.
On the hero side of the coin, Isabela Merced will be Hawkgirl; Edi Gathegi will play Mister Terrific; Anthony Carrigan plays shapeshifter Metamorpho, and Nathan Fillion, Gunn’s friend and collaborator on all his films, will play Green Lantern Guy Gardner.
The nominations for the next Golden Globe Awards are in the books, and as reported, Barbie topped the movie entries while Succession topped TV; both tied with nine nominations apiece.
Best Motion Picture (Comedy) nominee Barbie was also honored with nominations including Best Actress for producer and star Margot Robbie; Ryan Gosling scored a Supporting Actor nom.
Director Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer scored eight noms in all. Barbie‘s release date bestie now also share a Best Cinematic and Box Office Achievement nomination.
The biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer also scored noms for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Actor in a Drama for Cillian Murphy, and Best Performance in a Supporting Role for Robert Downey Jr. and for Emily Blunt.
HBO’s Succession wrapped up its run with a TV-topping nine noms, including Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Drama for both Brian Cox and Kieran Culkin. Sarah Snook was nominated in the corresponding Female Actor category.
Rounding out the cast, Matthew Macfadyen, Alan Ruck, and Alexander Skarsgård were nominated as supporting actors. The show also was honored in the Television Drama category.
In the TV comedy category, The Bear and Only Murders in the Building tied for five, sharing noms for Best Television Series – Comedy Or Musical; The Bear‘s leads Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri were heralded in the Actor and Female Actress category, and the show’s Abby Elliott and Ebon Moss-Bachrach were nominated in their respective supporting categories.
Only Murders saw nominations for Selena Gomez in the Best Actress in a Comedy category, with Steve Martin and Martin Short earning Best Supporting Actor recognition.
Speaking of numbers, Meryl Streep has broken her own Golden Globes record: Her nod in the Best Supporting Female Actor category for Only Murders in the Building is her 33rd.
On Monday morning, Cedric the Entertainer and Wilmer Valderrama revealed the nominees for the next Golden Globe Awards, with Barbie and HBO’s Succession tied for the top spot at nine nominations each.
This is the first year the Globes will air on CBS. It is also the first year the awards will not be run by the now-disbanded Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization that was embroiled in scandals including that its membership of journalists didn’t include a single person of color. Dick Clark Productions is now the owner of the awards show.
The next Golden Globes will also be the first to give flowers to the best stand-up special, and one for box office achievement.
The 81st annual Golden Globe Awards will air live from the Beverly Hilton on CBS and stream on Paramount+ Sunday, January 7, 2024, at 8 p.m. ET.
And the nominees are:
Best Cinematic and Box Office Achievement Barbie Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 John Wick: Chapter 4 Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One Oppenheimer Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Best Motion Picture – Drama Anatomy of a Fall Killers of the Flower Moon Maestro Oppenheimer Past Lives The Zone of Interest
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Leonardo DiCaprio – Killers of the Flower Moon
Colman Domingo – Rustin
Barry Keoghan – Saltburn
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Andrew Scott – All of Us Strangers
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Annette Bening – Nyad
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulligan – Maestro
Greta Lee – Past Lives
Cailee Spaeny – Priscilla
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Willem Dafoe – Poor Things
Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling – Barbie
Charles Melton – May December
Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple
Jodie Foster – Nyad
Julianne Moore – May December
Rosamund Pike – Saltburn
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy Air American Fiction Barbie May December Poor Things The Holdovers
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Nicolas Cage –Dream Scenario
Timothée Chalamet –Wonka
Matt Damon – Air
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
Joaquin Phoenix – Beau Is Afraid
Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Fantasia Barrino – The Color Purple
Jennifer Lawrence – No Hard Feelings
Natalie Portman – May December
Margot Robbie – Barbie
Emma Stone – Poor Things
Best Television Series – Drama Succession – HBO/Max The Crown – Netflix The Diplomat – Netflix The Last of Us – HBO/Max 1923 – Paramount+ The Morning Show – Apple TV+
Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Drama
Brian Cox – Succession
Kieran Culkin – Succession
Gary Oldman – Slow Horses
Pedro Pascal – The Last of Us
Jeremy Strong – Succession
Dominic West – The Crown
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Helen Mirren – 1923
Bella Ramsey – The Last of Us
Keri Russell – The Diplomat
Sarah Snook – Succession
Imelda Staunton – The Crown
Emma Stone – The Curse
Best Television Series – Comedy Or Musical Abbott Elementary – ABC Barry – HBO/Max Jury Duty – Amazon Freevee Only Murders in the Building – Hulu Ted Lasso – Apple TV+ The Bear – FX
Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Comedy Or Musical
Bill Hader – Barry
Steve Martin – Only Murders in the Building
Jason Segel – Shrinking
Martin Short – Only Murders in the Building
Jason Sudeikis – Ted Lasso
Jeremy Allen White – The Bear
Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series – Comedy Or Musical
Rachel Brosnahan – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Quinta Brunson – Abbott Elementary
Elle Fanning – The Great
Selena Gomez – Only Murders in the Building
Natasha Lyonne – Poker Face
Ayo Edebiri – The Bear
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical-Comedy or Drama Television Series
Matthew Macfadyen – Succession
James Marsden – Jury Duty
Alan Ruck – Succession
Alexander Skarsgård – Succession
Billy Crudup – The Morning Show
Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Jerskin Fendrix – Poor Things
Ludwig Göransson – Oppenheimer
Mica Levi – The Zone of Interest
Daniel Pemberton – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Robbie Robertson – Killers of the Flower Moon
Joe Hisaishi –The Boy and the Heron
Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television All the Light We Cannot See – Netflix Beef – Netflix Daisy Jones & the Six – Amazon
Best Original Song – Motion Picture
“Addicted to Romance” – Bruce Springsteen – She Came to Me
“Dance the Night” – Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt – Barbie
“I’m Just Ken” – Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt – Barbie
“Peaches” – Jack Black, Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Eric Osmond & John Spiker – The Super Mario Bros. Movie
“Road to Freedom” – Lenny Kravitz – Rustin
“What Was I Made For?” Billie Eilish & Finneas – Barbie
Best Motion Picture – Animated The Boy and the Heron Elemental Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Suzume The Super Mario Bros. Movie Wish
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture Barbie Poor Things Oppenheimer Killers of the Flower Moon Past Lives Anatomy of a Fall
Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television
Chris Rock – Selective Outrage
Sarah Silverman – Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
Wanda Sykes – I’m an Entertainer
Ricky Gervais – Ricky Gervais Armageddon
Trevor Noah – Trevor Noah: Where Was I
Amy Schumer – Amy Schumer: Emergency Contact
Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language Anatomy of a Fall – France Io Capitano – Italy Past Lives – United States Society of the Snow – Spain The Zone of Interest – United Kingdom
Anna “Chickadee” Cardwell, the eldest daughter reality TV star Mama June Shannon and sister of Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson, died Saturday, December 9, following a 10-month battle with stage 4 adrenal carcinoma, a cancer of the adrenal glands. She was 29. Shannon made the announcement on Instagram, sharing, Anna “gave one hell of a fight for 10 months. She passed away with her family around her”…
Station 19 will end with its upcoming seventh season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Grey’s Anatomy spinoff, which follows a group of heroic Seattle firefighters as they put their lives and hearts on the line, stars Jaina Lee Ortiz, Jason George, Boris Kodjoe, Grey Damon, Barrett Doss, Jay Hayden, Okieriete Onaodowan, Danielle Savre and Miguel Sandoval. Station 19 returns March 14 on ABC…
Bob Odenkirk‘s luck has run out. Deadline reports his series Lucky Hank has been canceled at AMC. The series, from the executive producers of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, starred Odenkirk as “an English department chairman at an underfunded college” who “toes the line between midlife crisis and full-blown meltdown, navigating the offbeat chaos in his personal and professional life – oddly proving tantrums get better with age,” according to AMC…
The Boy and the Heron, the latest effort from animation whiz Hayao Miyazaki, opened at number one at the North American box office with an estimated $12.8 million, and became the first original anime film to top the domestic box office. The Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke filmmaker’s triumphant return after announcing his retirement in 2013 has collected $114.2 million worldwide.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes hangs on to second place, collecting an estimated $9.4 million, to bring its four-week domestic tally to $135.6 million. The Hunger Games prequel has amassed $278.9 globally.
Third place went to Godzilla Minus One, with the 33rd film in the Godzilla franchise earning an estimated $8.3 million in its second week of release. It’s now the highest-grossing live-action Japanese film to be released in North America with a total of $25.3 million. Its global haul now stands at $52.3 million.
Trolls Band Together took fourth place, delivering an estimated $6.2 million. The third Trolls movie has grossed $83.1 million at the North American box office, bringing its four-week tally to $83 million. Worldwide, the animated film has earned $173.8 million.
Rounding out the top five was Disney’s Wish, adding an estimated $5.3 million for a four-week total of $49.4 million domestically and $105.5 million worldwide.
Elsewhere, Beyoncé’s concert film, Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé, which topped the box office last week, dropped to number 6 its second weekend out, picking up an estimated $5 million.
(NOTE LANGUAGE) Ryan O’Neal, star of dozens of movies, including Love Story and Paper Moon, has died at 82, according to a social media post from his sportscaster son, Patrick.
O’Neal had reportedly been in poor health of late; he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2012 and a decade earlier had been diagnosed with chronic leukemia.
In a lengthy post, Patrick called his father “a very generous man who has always been there to help his loved ones for decade upon decade.”
Patrick also said, “This is just so hard for us. Ryan made such an impact and this will be difficult without him. This is and will be a huge void in our lives. And his dogs Mozart and Raven, who he loved dearly, are missing him very much. They were inseparable.”
The younger O’Neal, from Ryan’s second marriage, to Leigh Taylor-Young, also said, “My dad was 82 and lived a kick a** life.” He added, “I will share my father’s legacy forever.”
Ryan O’Neal was the son of Charles “Blackie” O’Neal and actress Patricia Callaghan, but eager to chart his own course, he trained as a boxer — with a lifetime record of 18 wins, 13 by knockout, and four losses.
His first role in front of the camera was as a stuntman on the series Tales of the Vikings, which aired in Germany, where his parents were living at the time.
Back in the States, O’Neal logged appearances in TV Westerns in the early ’60s, including Empire and The Virginian, and on dramas like Perry Mason before landing the role of Rodney Harrington on the prime-time soap opera Peyton Place in 1964.
Big-screen stardom followed, and in 1970, his role in Love Story opposite Ali MacGraw earned him a Best Actor Oscar nomination.
He also appeared opposite Barbra Streisand in the comedy What’s Up, Doc? and with his young daughter Tatum O’Neal in Paper Moon, in a performance that earned the 10-year-old the honor of being the youngest competitive Oscar winner in history. Tatum’s brother, Griffin, was also from Ryan’s first marriage to actress Joanna Moore.
O’Neal’s career made him a big-screen heartthrob, and he had a decades-long, on-and-off relationship with Farrah Fawcett, whom he first met through his friend and her then-husband, Lee Majors. O’Neal and Fawcett had a son, Redmond, in 1985.
Ryan and Tatum’s attempts to repair their relationship played out before the reality TV cameras in Ryan and Tatum: The O’Neals; Ryan also had a recurring role in Bones, wrapping in 2017.
(SPOILERS) The winner of the reality competition version of Netflix’s global phenomenon Squid Game says she’s yet to collect her $4.56 million grand prize.
Fifty-five-year-old Mai Whelan, player 287, beat her competitors in Squid Game: The Challenge, but now she says she has a different challenge: 10 months after the show wrapped, she claims she hasn’t gotten paid yet.
“I feel like Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire,” she told the U.K.’s TheTimes. “Show me the money!”
For their part, the producers of the show tell The Wrap, “The winner was always aware of the payment plan.” They added, “The winner will receive the prize fund now that the finale has aired.”
The prize — which was awarded, at least on camera, after the immigration adjudicator bested second-place finisher Phill Cain in a game of rock, paper, scissors — is the biggest in reality TV history, after the $5 million won by Tate Stevens on The X Factor in 2012.
