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John Wick: Chapter 4, the highest-grossing movie in the Keanu Reeves hitman franchise, will come home on digital streaming on May 23.

The movie will have its release on Blu-ray, 4K, and DVD on June 13.

The action epic grossed more than $402 million worldwide, and like Baba Yaga himself, the latest home video release promises to come fully loaded.

There will be featurettes on the extensive training Reeves underwent to once again play the man in black, including the movie’s climactic staircase fight in Paris as Wick tries — repeatedly — to make his date with Bill Skarsgård‘s Marquis de Gramont to face him in single combat and clear his name.

The film also stars Donnie Yen, Rina Sawayama, Shamier Anderson, Ian McShane, Laurence Fishburne, Hiroyuki Sanada, Clancy Brown and the late Lance Reddick, who passed away at 60 in March, just before the movie’s $137.5 million worldwide box office debut.

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Jamie Foxx has released his first statement since he was hospitalized for what was described by his daughter Corinne as a “medical complication” on April 12.

“Appreciate all the love!!!” began the message on the Oscar winner’s Instagram. “Feeling blessed,” the short message concluded, along with prayer hands, a heart and a fox emoji.

Celebrities were quick to throw their support behind the message, with Chris “Ludacris” Bridges offering his own prayer hands. DJ Khaled replied with the “raising hands” one, and AJ McLean of the Backstreet Boys commenting, “your [sic] in my prayers day and night bro. Lets get you better and home.”

Tamar Braxton offered “Love to you my brother,” and The Purge and Marvel movie star Frank Grillo noted, “Lets go brother. You have lots to do and more people that love you. Heal up. Prayers in abundance warrior.”

Nothing is known about what landed Foxx in a Georgia hospital, which sidelined him from production on Back In Action, the Netflix action comedy in which he stars with Cameron Diaz, but previous comments from friends led to some fearing the worst.

TMZ reported Foxx’s Fox game show Beat Shazam was rolling on without him; the gossip site updated that Tuesday afternoon to say his pal Nick Cannon would be taking Foxx’s place temporarily, with Kelly Osbourne taking Corinne’s place in the DJ booth.

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With the promos tagging the Guardians of the Galaxy‘s “one last ride,” that means Bradley Cooper had to say goodbye to his beloved buttkicker, Rocket, in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.

The actor-director has voiced the character since the team of misfits became unlikely box office superheroes with 2014’s original film, and at its recent world premiere, he was emotional. He explained it felt like just yesterday writer-director James Gunn asked him to play the part, which he’s reprised throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe. “It’s been incredible,” Cooper said of his run.

The final film shows how Rocket came to be, and it isn’t pretty. Shown as a baby — and voiced in his youth by Sean Gunn, who has performed as Rocket on set since the original movie — Vol. 3 shows the animal experimentation that elevated him to the ship-piloting little warrior fans know and love. And it adds poignancy to one of his lines from the first film, “Ain’t no thing like me, ‘cept me.”

Cooper expressed, “I love Rocket a lot, and it was a real privilege to play him, to be part of the team that is Rocket. And then to do — in this last incarnation of Guardians that they really were able to focus on his story meant a lot to me to be able to help tell that.”

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which also stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Karen Gillan, Dave Bautista, Pom Klementieff, Will Poulter, Sylvester Stallone and Chukwudi Iwuji, starts sneak previews on IMAX Wednesday, May 3, before an official opening Friday, May 5.

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The official trailer for Dune: Part Two has arrived.

The preview of Denis Villeneuve‘s highly anticipated sci-fi sequel begins with Timothée Chalamet‘s Paul Atreides sitting in the sand of Zendaya‘s character Chani’s desert planet Arrakis. He tells her about a world covered not by sand, but by water. “You can just dive in,” he says.

“I don’t believe you,” she replies.

“In the shadows of Arrakis lie many secrets,” warns franchise newcomer Florence Pugh as Princess Irulan. “But the darkness of them all may remain the end of House Atreides.”

She continues, “What if Paul Atreides is still alive?”

Also in the trailer are Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling and Javier Bardem, all of whom are returning as their characters from 2021’s Oscar-winning adaptation of Frank Herbert‘s sci-fi classic. Also glimpsed is Elvis Oscar nominee Austin Butler as the villainous Feyd-Rautha. 

Paul, the prince of his line, has gone native and is later shown summoning one of Arrakis’ fearsome sandworms to ride. “Don’t try to impress anyone,” Bardem’s Stilgar warns. “Be simple. Be direct. Nothing fancy.” 

To the natives’ surprise, he manages to snag one of the massive beasts with a pair of grappling hooks.

As war is at hand — and revenge is on Paul’s mind for the murder of his father — Chani tells him, “You will never lose me,” before they’re seen sharing a smooch.

The trailer ends with Chalamet’s character directly quoting Herbert’s words before a duel, “May thy knife chip and shatter.”

The film from Warner Bros. Pictures hits theaters November 3.

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(NOTE LANGUGE) A slightly hesitant Gwyneth Paltrow spilled the organic chamomile tea regarding her ex lovers Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck, and in the end, both guys scored well in the scoring department.

Paltrow’s interview on Alex Cooper‘s Call Her Daddy podcast dropped on Tuesday, and during a game of “Brad or Ben” the Oscar winner blurted out “Brad” — before realizing a series of questions was coming.

Gwyneth admitted it was “really hard” to suss out who was better in bed.

Affleck, whom she dated between 1997 and 2000, won praise for being “technically excellent” at the act. An embarrassed Paltrow added, “I can’t believe my daughter is listening to this! Am I blushing?”

Pitt, who preceded Ben, hit Gwyneth in the feels.

“Brad was like the sort of major chemistry, love of your life, kind of, at the time,” the 50-year-old said, explaining he was more romantic. Ben made her laugh the most — and was also the one she was more likely to argue with.

Both leading men were also rated good kissers, for the record.

In a subsequent game of “F***, Marry, or Kill,” Pitt scored the “eff,” while Chris Martin earned “marry.” While she wouldn’t “kill” Ben, he made the last slot by default.

Paltrow went on to marry Coldplay‘s Martin in 2003, before consciously uncoupling in 2014; the pair share Apple, 18, and son Moses, 17.

Gwyneth married producer Brad Falchuk in 2018.

Pitt married Jennifer Aniston in 2000, but divorced in 2004; he married Angelina Jolie in 2014, but they divorced in 2019.

After splitting from Jennifer Lopez in 2004, Affleck married Jennifer Garner in 2005, and had three children — daughters Violet, 17, and Seraphina, 14, and 11-year-old son Samuel — before the couple divorced in 2015; he married Lopez in 2022.

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Emma Watson hasn’t acted in a movie since 2018’s Oscar-winning Little Women, and to the Financial Times, the Harry Potter franchise veteran revealed why.

“I wasn’t very happy, if I’m being honest,” says Watson, in a feature about her family’s endeavors in the wine and spirits industry. “I think I felt a bit caged.”

She adds, “The thing I found really hard was that I had to go out and sell something that I really didn’t have very much control over … It was very difficult to have to be … the spokesperson for things where I didn’t get to be involved in the process.”

Watson explains, “I started to realize that I only wanted to stand in front of things where if someone was going to give me flak about it, I could say, in a way that didn’t make me hate myself, ‘Yes, I screwed up, it was my decision, I should have done better.'”

To that end, she’s making the foray into directing, cutting her teeth on a campaign for Prada and a music video for a famous star she won’t reveal. “People always told me I should direct and produce, even when I was on Potter,” she says. “Being a director seemed unattainable. I don’t think I had any confidence in that. I know it seems weird. I mean, I grew up on a film set.”

Watson revealed she is returning to school in September to get a master’s in creative writing at Oxford University. That said, she’s not closing the door on being in front of the camera.

“But I’m happy to sit and wait for the next right thing,” she says. “I love what I do. It’s finding a way to do it where I don’t have to … switch into robot mode anymore.”

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FBoy Island, which was canceled by HBO Max back in December after two seasons, is officially moving to The CW. The network has ordered a third season of the reality dating series, as well as a new spinoff, FGirl Island. FBoy Island, hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, follows three women who move to a tropical island where they’re joined by 24 men — 12 self-proclaimed “Nice Guys” looking for love and 12 self-proclaimed ‘FBoys,’ there to compete for cold, hard cash. It’s slated for a fall 2023 debut. FGirl Island switches genders, with three men trying to identify 24 women as either womanizers or seeking a serious relationship and is set for a midseason premiere…

Eileen Saki, who portrayed Rosie, owner of the popular bar frequented by Hawkeye Pierce, Hot Lips Houlihan and other characters on the CBS series M*A*S*H, died Monday in Los Angeles after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January, her rep, Camilla Fluxman Pines, tells The Hollywood Reporter. She was 79. Saki’s other TV credits include Good Times, CHiPs, The Greatest American Hero, Gimme a Break! and Without a Trace. On film, she appeared in such films as Meteor, Mel Brooks’ History of the World: Part I and Splash…

Jesse Spencer, who left Chicago Fire in 2021, but has made multiple appearances since then, will return to the ABC drama once again for the season 11 finale on May 24, according to Variety. Meanwhile, Taylor Kinney, last seen on the February 22 episode before stepping away to deal with a personal matter, won’t be returning. Kinney had been taking a leave of absence, according to the outlet. The drama has been renewed at NBC for a Season 12…

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Kevin Costner and his wife, Christine Baumgartner are getting a divorce.

In a statement obtained by People, Costner’s publicist Arnold Robinson said that “circumstances beyond his control” led to the end of their relationship. 

“It is with great sadness that circumstances beyond his control have transpired which have resulted in Mr. Costner having to participate in a dissolution of marriage action,” Robinson said. “We ask that his, Christine’s, and their children’s privacy be respected as they navigate this difficult time.”

Costner, 68, and Baumgartner, 49, who met in 1998 and wed in 2004, have three kids together, sons Cayden, 15, and Hayes, 14, plus daughter Grace, 12. The Yellowstone star also has four older children from previous relationships, daughters Annie and Lily and sons Joe and Liam.

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As expected, the first casualty of the writers strike is late night TV. ABC Audio has confirmed NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers will air repeats starting Tuesday, May 2, as will Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC. 

The Daily Show will also be affected by the strike; the show had been finding success with a rotating series of guest hosts following Trevor Noah‘s exit in September. Its current week of shows, hosted by Dulcé Sloan, will also go dark, and reruns will air in its place “until further notice.”

Saturday Night Live was gearing up for former cast member-turned-Bupkis star Pete Davidson to take the stage at Studio 8H as a first-time host on Saturday, joined by Lil Uzi Vert as the musical guest. But reps for the show tell ABC Audio the show won’t go forward as planned, and reruns will air in SNL‘s time slot starting this week.

In fact, the only late night show that will keep the lights on will be Gutfeld! on Fox News Channel, ABC Audio has confirmed. The upstart has performed consistently well in the ratings, and ranked as the number one late night show from August to December 2022.

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Warner Bros. Pictures on Tuesday released the first footage for the follow-up to its adaptation of the sci-fi classic Dune, ahead of a full trailer release Wednesday, May 3.

In the snippet, we see someone sticking a device known as a thumper into the sand. The device creates vibrations in the ground and can be used to summon one of the desert planet Arrakis’ feared sandworms.

We also see quick glimpses of all the main characters, including returning stars Timothée Chalamet as Paul Atreides, Zendaya as Chani and Dave Bautista‘s Glossu Rabban; newcomer Florence Pugh‘s Princess Irulan is also there, and sporting a completely shaved head and eyebrows; so is Elvis Oscar nominee Austin Butler as the villainous Feyd-Rautha.

Denis Villeneuve is back to direct the Dune: Part Two, coming to theaters November 3.

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