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Warner Bros. has apparently listened to angry fans — and miffed theatrical agents — and reversed its decision to shelve its already-completed, high-concept live-action/animated hybrid Coyote vs. Acme. Instead, Deadline reports the studio has set up screenings of the John Cena/Wile E. Coyote movie for competing streaming services to pick it up. According the trade, the movie follows the cartoon coyote’s legal dispute with the Acme corporation over its defective products; Cena was to play an attorney representing the company…

AMC has released a teaser to Parish, the “action packed” drama starring Better Call Saul and The Mandalorian‘s Giancarlo Esposito. The six-episode series headed to AMC and AMC+ in 2024 has Esposito playing Gracian “Gray” Parish, a former getaway driver-turned family man who takes on a criminal syndicate after the murder of his son…

Entertainment Weekly reports Big Brother runner-up Matt Klotz and fifth-place finisher Cirie Fields will appear on CBS soap opera The Bold and The Beautiful — following a tradition of former players appearing on the soap that first happened back in 2004…

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Jamie Lee Curtis reunited with her Freaky Friday co-star Lindsay Lohan on Friday, November 10, for an Instagram selfie teasing a sequel to the 2003 film.

“Too late. YOU GREW UP and SO BEAUTIFULLY! Well, it’s Friday, and the strike is over so hopefully, we can switch places again in the near future!” Curtis captioned a selfie of the two.

Followers expressed their excitement over the prospect of a second movie, with one commenting, “Ladies… DO IT! (Also, I want in!).”

Another wrote, “Please god make this happen,” while a third shared, “Yesss please please !!!!!!! We need more Freaky Friday.”

The post comes six months after the Mean Girls actress told The New York Times in a joint interview with Curtis that she and the Halloween star were open to the idea of a remake.

Curtis hinted something was in the works back in 2022, telling E! News, “It’s not up to us right now, but I think everyone who needs to know knows, and clearly we are in conversation.”

Freaky Friday starred Curtis and Lohan as a mother and daughter, respectively, whose bodies are switched by a mysterious and magical Chinese fortune cookie.

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Jason Sudeikis and his Ted Lasso co-star Hannah Waddingham united for a good cause and treated fans to an epic cover of “Shallow” over the weekend.

The duo sang the lead song by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper from the 2018 film A Star Is Born at a benefit concert on Saturday in Kansas City, Missouri.

Sudeikis opened the performance, standing alongside fellow SNL vet Will Forte onstage, and told the crowd, “There is nobody I would rather sing this song with.”

After Sudeikis delivered his rendition of the first verse and refrain of the hit song, which famously won the Oscar for Best Original Song at the 91st Oscars, Waddingham walked onstage, surprising the audience to sing Gaga’s part of the duet.

The charity concert, known as THUNDERGONG!, was co-founded in 2017 by Sudeikis and his friend Billy Brimblecom, executive director of the Steps of Faith Foundation.

The event is held annually to support the Steps of Faith Foundation, a nonprofit that provides prosthetic care to amputees in need of financial support.

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With “a heavy heart,” Queer Eye star Bobby Berk says he will be leaving the show after its eighth season.

“It’s not been an easy decision to be at peace with, but a necessary one,” the designer writes on Instagram. “Although my journey with ‘Queer Eye’ is over, my journey with you is not. You will be seeing more of me very soon.”

He added, “I love you all so so much and I’ll meet you all in [New Orleans] for one final season.”

Berk also thanked the show’s fans and those he helped transform in front of the cameras. “It’s all because of you that I’ve kept going all these years and each and every one of you have changed me for the better. I’m so very proud of all of you! Being able to help guide you to find the best version of yourselves is something I never took for granted and never will.”

In a joint statement, show producers ITV Entertainment, Scout Productions and Netflix expressed, “We appreciate the heart and dedication Bobby Berk brought to Queer Eye over eight amazing seasons. He will always be a member of the Fab Five family and we wish him the very best.”

Bobby’s co-stars also sounded off.

Karamo Brown pleaded, “@bobby we are #ForeverTheFab5 | no matter what. I’m about to be [at] Netflix’s door & e-mails telling them you can’t leave! Who is coming with me?”

Karamo added, “I love you!”

Jonathan Van Ness simply responded with three heart emoji, while Antoni Porowski said, “#foreverthefab5 indeed, and don’t forget it.”

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While his leading role in 2018’s The Kissing Booth made him famous — and a heartthrob — Jacob Elordi is over it.

“I didn’t want to make those movies before I made those movies,” he tells GQ in a Man of the Year cover story, calling the rom-coms ridiculous. He adds, “They’re not universal. They’re an escape.”

The actor, currently starring as Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola‘s Priscilla, admits his attitude toward lighter fare earned him the label pretentious — but the Australian actor doesn’t get it.

“How is caring about your output pretentious?” Elordi asks. “But not caring, and knowingly feeding people s***, knowing that you’re making money off of people’s time, which is literally the most valuable thing that they have. How is that the cool thing?”

While many actors take the tactic of doing one project to keep the studios happy and one to stretch as a performer, Jacob isn’t on board.

“That one’s a trap as well,” he insists. “Because it can become 15 for them, none for you. You have no original ideas and you’re dead inside.”

He adds, “My ‘one for them,’ I’ve done it.”

When asked if he could see himself joining a superhero franchise, the 26-year-old says, “Not particularly, no.”

Elordi also reveals he was asked to read for Superman. “That was immediately, ‘No, thank you.’ That’s too much. That’s too dark for me.”

To avoid his agent “getting mad” at him, he adds, “[O]bviously anything can happen, but at this stage in my life, I don’t see myself having any interest in that. I like to make what I would watch, and I get very restless watching those movies.”

Elordi is likely talking about Superman: Legacy, James Gunn‘s forthcoming franchise reboot. The role of Superman/Clark Kent eventually went to David Corenswet.

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Denzel Washington has signed on to play the Carthaginian military legend Hannibal in an as-yet-untitled movie for Netflix.

The streamer announced that the Oscar winner will reunite with his Equalizer franchise director Antoine Fuqua for the project, which is being written by John Logan, who earned an Oscar nomination for another movie set in ancient times, Ridley Scott‘s Gladiator.

Incidentally, with the strike over, Washington is back to work on Gladiator 2, the anticipated sequel also directed by Scott.

According to Netflix, the Hannibal project “covers the pivotal battles he led against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War.”

The war famously saw Hannibal deploying a never-before-seen weapon — battle elephants — in a daring march over the alps to attack the Romans and their Gallic allies. The hulking animals scattered Hannibal’s enemies in the battle of Trebia in December of 218 B.C., scoring a decisive victory for the general.

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In an episode of the show that aired on October 22, Homer makes a comment regarding the strength of his handshake, joking to Marge, “Strangling the boy has paid off.”

He quickly adds, “Just kidding. I don’t do that anymore. Times have changed.”

One viewer noted the exchange, and it got more than 400,000 views on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Brooks, however, tells People the story is much ado about nothing. “Don’t think for a second we’re changing anything,” he explains. “Nothing’s getting tamed. Nothing, nothing, nothing.”

Of Bart, Brooks says, “He’ll continue to be strangled — [if] you want to use that awful term for it. He’ll continue to be loved by his father in a specific way.”

Brooks’ words echo a reply post on The Simpsons‘ official account on X. Last week, the account posted a black and white sketch of Homer indeed choking out his firstborn, who’s holding up a cellphone displaying the headline, “Simpsons: No More Strangling.”

Homer is pictured yelling, “Why you little clickbaiting – !!”

As if the picture wasn’t enough, the caption reads, “Homer Simpson was unavailable for comment as he was busy strangling Bart.”

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Bachelor in Paradise stars Kenny Braasch and Mari Pepin have tied the knot!

The couple exchanged “I do’s” over the weekend in Puerto Rico, home to a lot of Pepin’s family, with 65 guests in attendance.

Although Braasch, 42, and Pepin, 27, chose to keep the destination wedding “more intimate,” the former pageant queen hinted at a potential celebration with Bachelor Nation, telling People, “But we’ve always had the idea to do a couple of other celebrations so we can include more people as well.”

Pepin also shared some insight into the wedding date, explaining, “I do believe in signs and numbers, and so 11/11 is obviously seen as a special number and it means good things.”

Braasch, 42, and Pepin, 27, met and got engaged in 2021 while on season 7 of Bachelor in Paradise.

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Adam Driver had some choice words for a fan who criticized some scenes from his upcoming film Ferrari.

Footage online shows a brief exchange between Driver and an audience member who asked, “What do you think about [the] crash scenes? They looked pretty harsh, drastic and, I must say, cheesy for me. What do you think?”

Driver plainly answered, “F*** you, I don’t know? Next question.”

The exchange came during a Q&A following the screening of Ferrari at Poland’s Camerimage Film Festival, where Driver was accepted the Special EnergaCamerimage Award for an Actor, according to Variety.

Ferrari, due out on Christmas Day, follows the life of Enzo Ferrari, portrayed by Driver. The film chronicles the life of the iconic sports-car magnate in 1957, focusing on his company’s preparations to participate in the Mille Miglia, a challenging 1,000-mile open-road motorsport race. Joining Driver in the Michael Mann-directed drama are Penelope Cruz, Shailene Woodley, Gabriel Leone, Sarah Gadon, and Patrick Dempsey.

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Netflix on Sunday unveiled the full trailer for Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire, the first installment of director Zack Snyder‘s two-part, sci-fi epic. The plot follows a peaceful settlement on a blackwater moon that finds itself threatened by a totalitarian empire. A mysterious stranger living among its villagers — played by Kingsman‘s Sofia Boutella — becomes its best hope for survival. Deadpool‘s Ed Skrein, Guardians of the Galaxy‘s Djimon Hounsou and The Princess Bride‘s Cary Elwes also star. The film launches on Netflix December 22, following a weeklong limited theatrical run from December 15 to December 21…

Janet Landgard, best known for her starring role opposite Burt Lancaster in the 1968 film The Swimmer, as well as a recurring role as the love interest of Paul Peterson‘s character on the final three seasons of The Donna Reed Show, has died after a very brief bout with brain cancer, Petersen confirmed on his Facebook. Landgard’s other credits include the ABC series My Three Sons, the telefilm The Deadly Dream, the TV special The Hollywood Deb Stars of 1965, and as a hostess on Dream Girl of ’67. On the big screen, she appeared in Land Raiders and Moonchild…

Deadline reports Matthew Perry‘s official death certificate was released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health on Thursday, November 9, though a cause of death was not given, pending toxicology reports. Perry died at his Los Angeles home on October 28…

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