Idris Elba took to Instagram on Monday to announce February 24th, 2023 as the release date for his upcoming Netflix feature, Luther: The Fallen Sun. A continuation of his Luther TV series on Netflix, reimagined for film, The Fallen Sun centers on “a gruesome serial killer…terrorizing London while brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther — played by Elba — sits behind bars,” per the streamer. “Haunted by his failure to capture the cyber psychopath who now taunts him, Luther decides to break out of prison to finish the job by any means necessary.” Cynthia Erivo, Andy Serkis and Dermot Crowley also star…
Awards shows have seen a dip in ratings over the past few years, and the CW’s telecast of the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards was no exception. Deadline reports the ceremony drew just 900,000 viewers, according to Nielsen. Last year’s ceremony drew 1.1 million viewers, however it was simulcast across The CW and TBS. While The CW’s portion of the viewership was actually larger, the overall audience marked a low for an in-person ceremony. The virtual 2021 edition of Critics Choice Awards drew just 365,000 total viewers…
C.J. Harris, a contestant on American Idol‘s 13th season, died Sunday night in Jasper, Alabama, after suffering cardiac arrest, The Walker County Coroner’s Office confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. At this time, they believe Harris’ cause of death was possibly a heart attack. He was 31. “C.J. Harris was an incredible talent, and the news of his passing deeply saddens us,” American Idol wrote on its Instagram Story. “He will be truly missed.” The singer, who finished in sixth place, went on to release his debut single, “In Love,” in 2019…
Jeremy Renner continues his recovery in a Nevada hospital following injuries he suffered after a snow plow accident on January 1, but admits he’s “missing home.”
The Hawkeye star took to his Instagram Story on Monday, sharing a picture of a snowy area outside of what appears to be his house in Reno, Nevada.
“Missing my happy place…,” read the caption.
The post comes after the 52-year-old actor suffered “blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries” when his 14,300-pound snowcat ran him over, requiring emergency surgery.
This past Friday, Renner shared a video on his Instagram story in which he updated fans on his condition. The clip showed him being wheeled into a room with a CT scanning machine. “I wish you all a very special night,” read the caption.
On the latest installment of his Armchair Expert podcast, Dax Shepard spilled some serious tea with guest Anna Kendrick about his wife, Kristen Bell.
“She has only had jealousy over a single human, and it’s been you,” Dax confessed to the Pitch Perfect alumna. “I’d never seen it [before]. It blew my mind.”
Dax told Kendrick, “Kristen was like, ‘Who is this other short person? Oh, so she can sing like that, too? I’m already here. We got another one.'”
Dax said he had permission to spill, explaining his wife has “nothing but benevolence for everyone,” yet added, “She monitored you, recognized how brilliant you were, lost some roles to you, and slowly processed the whole thing, and has nothing but wonderful feelings for you. But you’re the only person who ever made her jealous that I witnessed.”
For the record, Kendrick admitted she felt the chill from the Frozen star, adding she thought Bell “never really liked me.”
She added the caveat, “But I do think a massive percentage of that is just genuinely when it comes to really sweet, angelic, blond girls I just assumed they think I am weird, they think I am, like, this weird little troll.”
She added, “I think of her as just an angel, and she’s so sweet. And I feel so rough around the edges that I was like, ‘Oh, she must not like me.’ I am sure that’s just my projections, that’s not actually how she feels.”
To that end, Dax reiterated, “I have to be ultra clear with you: She never disliked you.”
When the trailer for Marvel Studios’ upcoming Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania recently debuted, fans were struck by how different it appeared than the previous two hit Ant-Man movies.
While director Peyton Reed‘s first two installments leaned heavily into the action-comedy genre, Paul Rudd‘s third standalone go-round has real end-of-the-universe stakes, thanks to Jonathan Majors‘ Kang the Conqueror.
In an exclusive cover story with the United Kingdom’s Empire, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige explains, “We wanted to kick off Phase Five with Ant-Man because he’d earned that position. To not simply be the back-up or the comic relief, but to take his position at the front of the podium of the MCU.”
Reed explains, “We’re not running around the streets of San Francisco anymore. We’re fighting one of the most powerful villains in Marvel history, and maybe these are the most unlikely Avengers to be the first to go up against this guy.”
Feige teases it won’t be easy, as Kang, who Majors brought to life in another form in Loki, can “re-write existence and shatter timelines.”
The movie once again reunites Rudd’s Scott Lang with Evangeline Lilly‘s Hope van Dyne/The Wasp, Michael Douglas as Hank Pym and Michelle Pfeiffer as his wife, Janet van Dyne. This time around, Lang and company get sucked into the Quantum Realm, where Kang tempts Scott with his powers, promising the hero more time he lost with his daughter Cassie, this time played by Kathryn Newton.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania debuts in theaters July 6 from Marvel Studios, which, like ABC News, is a subsidiary of Disney.
The irony of starring in two back-to-back wedding-themed movies isn’t lost on Jennifer Lopez, especially since she just tied the knot with actor Ben Affleck.
JLo starred in the romantic comedy Marry Me last year and will soon play a different bride in the action rom-com Shotgun Wedding.
“I didn’t plan any of it this way,” she told Entertainment Tonight. “I mean, Marry Me ... we wound up filming it, like, right before the pandemic happened and then they held onto that for a year and a half … and Shotgun Wedding, that was the first one I did when people started filming again.”
Jennifer reflected on the differences between the two films. While Marry Me also highlighted her musical talents through various original songs, Shotgun had her choreographing fight scenes.
“I had to get my inner Lucille Ball on for this, you know what I mean?” she said of her latest movie. “It’s more hijinks, more kind of raw — the action added a whole other element to it.”
She also praised co-star Josh Duhamel for being “the most amazing leading man who could do the comedy, do the action, and really nail the emotional stuff.”
But what about her real-life leading man, Ben Affleck? Duhamel took over for the singer and declared, “He is dreamy.”
Shotgun Wedding hits the Amazon Prime streaming service on January 27.
Tony-winning stage actor and Emmy-nominated TV star Alan Cumming takes on a very different role as the host and games master of new Peacock reality show The Traitors.
This unscripted competition series, which dropped its full season on the streaming service, is “a nail-biting psychological adventure in which treachery and deceit are the name of the game.”
Twenty contestants, including reality stars like Brandi Glanville and former BachelorArie Luyendyk Jr., compete in a series of challenges, with a quarter of a million bucks at stake. But the twist is, three of their kind are secretly traitors trying to undermine them — and even conspiring to “murder” them.
For Cumming, it was a chance to let his hair down, he told ABC Audio in December. “I did have an absolute blast. I mean, I really think it’s my favorite thing I’ve done all year. I’ve done some really exciting projects and played some great parts. But actually, if I had to choose one thing to do again, it would be this.”
He adds, “It was so hilarious and playing the character, a sort of heightened character, and it was so campy and Bond villain-y. And then I became really, you know, invested in the game myself.”
The traitors are chosen in dramatic fashion, with all contestants blindfolded and Cumming secretly tapping the undercover baddies on the shoulder. The actor ate it up. “I would make the producers text me who … the traitors were going to murder every night in their ‘turret.’ It’s the campest thing, and there’s cloaks and everything. So I just I had such a hoot.”
He explained, “I love a game … I love all kind of sort of confusing people. And that was really up my street.”
One of the most lucrative deals in Amazon’s history is likely stalled, after fan favorite Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson‘s infamous written rant about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle late last year.
In a now-deleted December 16 piece he wrote for The Sun, the car expert and TV presenter went on a tear against the former Suits actress, saying he was “dreaming of the day when she is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while crowds chant, ‘Shame!’ and throw lumps of excrement at her.” He later called it a “clumsy reference to Game of Thrones” in an apology tweet.
The Sun also apologized and deleted the piece, which was slammed by readers as misogynistic and vile.
However, Variety reports Amazon wasn’t pleased in the least about the firestorm caused by the host of their shows Grand Tour and Clarkson’s Farm, and has taken away his keys.
The trade reports the streamer has “parted ways” with Clarkson and won’t be producing any more episodes of the shows that weren’t already underway.
Clarkson issued a lengthy new apology via social media Monday, noting he personally emailed the so-called Runaway Royals on Christmas morning. “I said I was baffled by what they had been saying on TV but that the language I’d used in my column was disgraceful and that I was profoundly sorry.”
He also expressed he was horrified to read what he’d written, noting, “I really am sorry. All the way from the balls of my feet to the follicles on my head. This is me putting my hands up. It’s a mea culpa with bells on.”
According to the Financial Times, Amazon shelled out some $250 million to work with original Top Gear hosts Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May.
While Hollywood couplings aren’t usually made to last, Courtney B. Vance and Angela Bassett have been making marriage work for 25 years.
While on the red carpet at Sunday night’s Critics Choice Awards, the pair spoke with People about their relationship. As a metaphor for how they keep things rolling, Vance offered: “It’s like a rock band, The Temptations or The Stones or The Eagles.”
He explains, “Initially it was about, ‘They made it,’ and then ‘What about my individual glory?’… And then going, ‘You know what? We’re better together and stronger together.'”
Vance, 52, added, “To see those groups still doing it 30, 40, 50 years later and making even more money is just, it’s a good feeling, the same thing.”
Of course, love has a lot to do with it, but Bassett, 54, also described as keys: “Talking, communicating and allowing each other to have your own space and then come back together.”
The pair are also each other’s biggest fans. “A lot of times you don’t know that it’ll come back around and I’ve been there … letting her know that, just hang in there,” says Emmy winner Vance.
Hinting at Bassett’s Oscar nomination for 1993’s What’s Love Got to Do With It? and now her march to what most believe will be her first Oscar, for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, he says, “… when it comes around, people know what happened 30 years ago and it didn’t come around for you … they’ve been waiting for a moment like this to lift you up. So it’ll be even bigger now … they want it more than you want it, if that’s possible.”
Bassett, who won the night’s Best Supporting Actress award for the film, says having someone in your corner “makes the success all the more sweeter.”
Saturday Night Live‘s Melissa Villaseñor and Crashing‘s Pete Holmes are among the many guests set to appear in the first season of NBC’s Night Court revival, according to Deadline. Melissa Rauch will portray judge Abby Stone, the unapologetic optimist daughter of the late Harry Stone — played in the original series by Harry Anderson, who died in 2018 at age 65 — as she follows in her father’s footsteps, presiding over a crew of oddballs and cynics. John Larroquette reprises his role as prosecuting attorney Dan Fielding for the sequel. Other season one guests include figure skaters Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski, A.P. Bio‘s Lyric Lewis, veteran actor Kurt Fuller and Mad TV vet Stephanie Weir, who join previously announced Faith Ford, as Rauch’s’s TV mom. Season one of Night Court launches with back-to-back episodes Tuesday, January 17 starting at 8 p.m…
Syfy has renewed Chucky and Reginald the Vampire for a third and second season, respectively. Chucky, which builds on the original Child’s Play movies and takes place as a vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, ranked as a top 10 cable drama in the 18-49 demo, according to the media company. Reginald the Vampire — led by Jacob Batalon, star of the Spider-Man films — was the No. 2 cable drama on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. in the 18-49 demo, according to the studio… (Trailers contain uncensored profanity.)
Snowpiercer, TNT’s adaptation of the 2013 Bong Joon-ho sci-fi film, has been scrapped as part of the-cutting measures following Discovery’s acquisition of WarnerMedia, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show’s fourth and final season will not air on TNT despite production having been completed. The show joins a host of other titles Warner Bros. has pulled from various platforms, including the finished Batgirl movie, season two of TBS’ comedy Chad, which ended up at Roku, and HBO Max’s Minx, which landed at Starz…
The Kelly Clarkson Show is eying a move to the East Coast’s New York metro tri-state area, which encompasses New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, according to Variety. The daytime chat show, which has been renewed through 2025, has called Los Angeles’ Universal lot its home since launching in 2019. Host Kelly Clarkson asked NBCU to explore the move east, which would bring the American Idol alum closer to her family and provide “a new adventure for the show, which continues to elevate and evolve,” a source tells the outlet…
Netflix has pulled the plug on the Neil Patrick Harris comedy Uncoupled, according to Deadline. The series, in which Harris played a gay man in his mid-forties navigating the single life in New York City after being unceremoniously dumped by his partner of 17 years, barely managed to crack the streamer’s weekly top 10, though it should be noted that half-hour series are at a disadvantage due to Netflix’s ratings system, which measures hours viewed. Uncoupled also stared Tisha Campbell, Brooks Ashmanskas, Emerson Brooks and Marcia Gay Harden…
Legendary screen siren Gina Lollobrigida has died. According to the Italian news agency ANSA, the actress once called “the world’s most beautiful woman” was 95, and passed away at a clinic in Rome. Her acting career began in 1953 and saw her share the screen with icons including Rock Hudson, Frank Sinatra and Sean Connery. Lollobrigida won a Golden Globe award for 1961’s Come September, and her 1968 hit film Buona Sera, Ms. Campbell, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination, in part inspired the plot for the Broadway musical and hit film adaptation Mamma Mia!…
Avatar: The Way of Water continues to rule the box office. James Cameron‘s Avatar sequel notched a fifth straight week at #1, banking an estimated $33.1 million between Friday and Sunday. That number is expected to reach $38.5 million for the four-day Martin Luther King Jr. weekend. Its total domestic gross now stands at $570 million and $1.89 billion worldwide.
Avatar 2 is poised to dethrone 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, which stands at #6 on the list of all-time top-grossing movies worldwide, with $1.91 billion.
The sci-fi horror flick M3GAN held onto second place in week two, adding an estimated $17.9 million over the three-day and $21.2 million through Monday. That brings its North American tally to $59 million and its worldwide take to $90 million.
The animated Puss in Boots: The Last Wish also held steady in third place, adding an estimated $13.4 million for the traditional weekend and $17.3 million over the four-day.
Tom Hanks and A Man Called Otto took fourth in its first week of wide release, delivering an estimated $12.6 million between Friday and Sunday. It should make it to $15 million through Monday.
Rounding out the top five is the debut of Gerard Butler‘s action thriller Plane, opening with an estimated $10 million for the three-day and $11.6 million over the long weekend.
Elsewhere, House Party, a reboot of the 1990 comedy, fizzled in its opening weekend, coming in sixth with an estimated $3.9 million from Friday through Sunday and $4.5 million through Monday.
After a little over a month in limited release, The Whale surpassed $10 million in ticket sales domestically.
