After a successful box office run, and a strong performance on paid streaming, Cocaine Bearis headed to Peacock.
The Elizabeth Banks-directed movie, based on a real series of events, about a bear who ate a ditched cache of drugs — but didn’t go on a bloodthirsty rampage, as in the film — will be free to stream for Peacock subscribers starting April 14.
The movie, which also starred the late Ray Liotta, as well as Keri Russell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, O’Shea Jackson Jr. and Alden Ehenreich, will stream exclusively on the streaming service.
The Late Late Show with James Corden is coming to a close and going out with a bang. The CBS chat show has announced an all-star lineup for its final weeks, including Tom Cruise, Ben Affleck and Emmy winners Billy Porter, Brett Goldstein and Bryan Cranston.
Other guests include the Kardashian family, Josh Gad, Jennifer Garner, Kate Hudson, Sharon Stone, Seth Meyers and Allison Janney, the latter of whom will make her record-breaking 16th appearance on the show.
The producers also announced there will be a farewell performance of Crosswalk the Musical, a Carpool Karaoke segment with K-Pop superstars Blackpink and two other installments of the popular musical segment with two “iconic” guests.
The final broadcast of The Late Late Show will air Thursday, April 27, at 12:37 a.m. ET on CBS. It will be available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+.
(NOTE LANGUAGE) InPaint, Owen Wilson plays a Carl Nargle, a Bob Ross-like public broadcasting painting superstar — a very big fish in the very small pond of Vermont.
He’s got a ’70s perm, a sweet van and a bevy of groupies, but when a new painter comes along (newcomer Ciara Renée), the soft-spoken star faces a crisis.
The Goldbergs‘ matriarch Wendi McLendon-Covey plays Wendy, one of Nargle’s fangirls, who waits on him hand and foot as a fellow public TV channel employee.
She explained to ABC Audio the allure of the man in the van. “Wow,” she exclaims. “What is the appeal? What isn’t the appeal? Someone who looks that fly just driving down the streets of Vermont with a pipe, speaking out of his loudspeaker on the top of his van. I mean, what’s not to love?”
She adds, “I never grew up watching painting shows, but I do know what it’s like to fall in love with someone’s potential, which of course leads to nothing.”
Wendi adds, “She’s stayed in love far too long and it’s time to move forward, and she just can’t do it and neither can any of these groupies of Carl Nargle’s until a new painter comes in and just disrupts everything. And then we realize, ‘Oh, wait, we’ve really been wasting our lives.'”
Michaela Watkins plays Katherine, Carl’s long-suffering ex.
She says of the experience, “We laughed our a**** off.”
Unlike other comedies, Paint doesn’t go for big gags or broad laughs, in spite of its spoof-ready conceit. “You’re right,” Watkins agrees. “Like, that is my sweet spot for comedy. Dry, real, subtle and going for the long joke. That’s for me.”
After Star Wars left the big screen in 2019 with the finale of the divisive Star Wars “sequel trilogy,” Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, it was announced Friday one of the sequel stars will be returning.
At Star Wars Celebration in London, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy announced one of the first three new Star Wars films to head back to theaters will center on Daisy Ridley‘s Rey.
After years of schedule shifting, and the eventual apparent scuttling of the heavily touted Rogue Squadron from Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins, Kennedy teased the trio.
The Rey project will be directed by Ms. Marvel episode director and two-time Academy Award winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. It will be set 15 years after Episode IX and will center on “the rebuilding of the new Jedi Order and the powers that rise to tear it down,” Kennedy said.
Another will be directed by Oscar-nominated Logan screenwriter and director James Mangold, who also directed Lucasfilm’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. His as-yet untitled movie will delve “into the deep past, telling the tale of the first Jedi to wield the Force and harvest its liberating power in an era of chaos and oppression.”
Another film will be directed by Star Wars: The Clone Wars Emmy winner Dave Filoni, who first stepped behind the live-action camera in season 1 of the show he executive produces, The Mandalorian. Kennedy said the movie, on which he and Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau will collaborate, will “bring together many of the threads of our series in that cinematic event that we’ve been promising you.”
Filoni is also co-producing the Disney+ shows Ahsoka — based on the character he created for Clone Wars — and Skeleton Crew with Favreau.
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(NOTE LANGUAGE) The trailer for Apple TV+’s STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie dropped Thursday, and it’s a can’t-miss documentary for fans of the beloved actor.
Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim helms the film, which takes a deep dive into Fox’s incredible acting career and his battle with Parkinson’s disease.
“What did it mean to be still?” an off-screen voice asks Fox at the beginning of the trailer, likely a reference to the doc’s title.
“I wouldn’t know,” Fox replies. “I was never still.”
The trailer whizzes through Fox’s many iconic film and TV roles that shot him to fame. As the Back to the Future star says, “I was bigger than bubblegum.”
Soon enough, it arrives at Fox’s diagnosis with Parkinson’s disease at 29 years old. Fox recalls his wife Tracy Pollan whispering to him at the time, “In sickness and in health.”
“I’m a tough, uh, son of a b****,” the actor says, highlighting his refusal to let the disease take over his life and his advocacy for continued research for a cure.
The off-screen voice returns once again at the end of the trailer, saying, “The sad-sack story is … Michael J. Fox gets this debilitating disease and it crushes him.”
Fox replies, “Yeah, that’s boring.”
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie releases May 12 on Apple TV+.
Harrison Ford‘s Dr. Henry “Indiana” Jones is a man out of time when we first see him in the just-released new trailer to Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
The professor is jolted awake in 1969 to the sounds of The Rolling Stones‘ “Sympathy for the Devil,” which plays through most of the new footage, and we see his university colleagues throwing him a retirement party.
He’s later joined by his goddaughter Helena, played by Emmy winner Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who reminds him about the Dial of Destiny. It’s an elusive MacGuffin, the pursuit of which apparently drove her father — played by Toby Jones — crazy, according to Indy. It can “change the course of history.”
Through flashbacks that set up the film — with Ford de-aged with the help of digital magic — we see Jones’ pursuit of the dial. In the present, 1969, Mads Mikkelsen‘s former Nazi officer Jürgen Voller wants to use it to change Hitler’s “mistakes” and presumably win WWII.
“You stole it,” Indy says. “Then you stole it,” Voller replies. “Then I stole it,” Helena says. “It’s called capitalism.”
Amid action in both the past and present, Jones recalls to Helena, “I’ve been tortured with voodoo. I’ve been shot nine times, including once by your father, but I’ve been looking for this all my life.”
Ford’s last ride as Jones debuts in theaters June 30.
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Fans attending the Star Wars Celebration expo in London were treated to tons of new news from that galaxy far, far away.
A teaser was revealed for Ahsoka, which also debuted online. The festival crowd was also treated to a cast reveal for Skeleton Crew, and were the first to see the hints of another upcoming Star Wars Disney+ show, The Acolyte.
The Ahsoka trailer stars Rosario Dawson reprising her role as the former Jedi and fan favorite Ahsoka Tano, who is reunited with characters from the animated series Star Wars: Rebels, shown for the first time in live action.
Also shown are Mary Elizabeth Winstead as ace Rebels pilot and green-skinned Twi’lek Hera Syndulla and Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Mandalorian Sabine Wren. Also shown was the animated show’s plucky droid Chopper.
“Something’s coming, something dark, I can sense it,” Ahsoko says in voice-over, amid shots of battles in space, and with lightsabers, one of which is wielded to deadly effect by a bearded Ray Stevenson, playing a Sith.
Also shown, from behind, is the show’s main villain, Grand Admiral Thrawn. “I started hearing whispers of Thrawn’s return as heir to the Empire,” Ahsoka says. The series, which will also star Eman Esfandi as another Rebels character, Ezra Bridger, and Hayden Christensen as Darth Vader, debuts in August on Disney+.
The Jude Law-starring Skeleton Crew is set during the same period as The Mandalorian and Ahsoka, a few years after the events of Return of the Jedi. The Acolyte, which takes place hundreds of years before the events of the Star Wars prequels, is about a Sith threat to the High Republic.
The Last Of Us star Bella Ramsey has been tapped to star in the period drama Monstrous Beauty, according to Deadline. The 19-year-old actress, whose other credits include Game of Thrones, will play an aspiring playwright in the court of King Charles II who, due to a rare medical condition, is entirely covered in hair. Dominic West, Ruth Negga and Fiona Shaw also star. Filming is set to begin in September…
Fox has canceled The Resident after six seasons, according to Deadline. The series — which depicts the good, the bad and the ugly of the medical profession, as seen through the eyes of doctors and nurses — starred Matt Czuchry, Emily VanCamp, Merrin Dungey, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Melina Kanakaredes and Bruce Greenwood. The Resident, which saw its ratings decline as the seasons progressed, wrapped up its sixth season on January 16…
Variety reports This Is Us alum Sterling K. Brown is reuniting with series creator Dan Fogelman for a new drama coming to Hulu. The title, as well as plot details, are still unknown, but it’s reportedly a thriller in which Brown will play the head of security for an ex-president. Brown will next be seen in the film Biosphere, hitting theaters in July…
Norman Reynolds, famous for his production design work for films in the Star Wars franchise and Raiders of the Lost Ark, “died peacefully with his wife Ann and three daughters by his side,” according to a statement obtained by BBC. He was 89. Reynolds worked as an art director on 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope, for which he won an Oscar in 1978. Reynolds’ other design work can be seen in films like Superman, Empire of the Sun, Alien 3, Return to Oz and the first Tom CruiseMission Impossible movie…
Jeremy Renner opened up about his life-threatening snow plow accident in his first interview since the incident, Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interview — A Story of Terror, Survival and Triumph, which aired Thursday on ABC.
The Avengers and Hawkeye star detailed the January 1 incident, recalling that he used his 14,330-pound Sno-Cat to help his nephew, Alex pull a truck out of the snow. After successfully freeing the vehicle, Renner’s plow began to slide on the ice. He stuck one foot out of the plow to look back at Alex, neglecting to set the parking brake, which caused him to lose his footing and fall out of the cab.
Renner attempted to jump back into the Sno-Cat, but ended up under the vehicle.
“You shouldn’t be outside the vehicle when you’re operating it…It’s like driving a car with one foot out of the car,” Renner said. “…And it’s my mistake, and I paid for it.”
Meanwhile, Alex summoned Rich Kovach and Barb Fletcher, the second of whom remembered Renner letting out loud moans, which he described as “the sound of someone that was dying.”
“I really feel he did pass away for a couple seconds. I really do,” he added.
Renner’s injuries were so serious that he wrote a goodbye note to his family in the hospital. “I’m writing down notes in my phone to — last words to my family,” Renner said through tears. “Don’t let me live on tubes on a machine, if my existence is going to be on drugs and painkillers, let me go now.”
“I have no regrets. I’d do it again,” Renner insisted. “That is a man that I’m proud of, because I wouldn’t let that happen to my nephew.”
In the new series Tiny Beautiful Things, out Friday on Hulu, Kathryn Hahn plays a writer whose life is falling apart, and she tells ABC Audio that her character Clare is just “a mess.”
“Professionally her job is not something that she had ever really aspired to be her marriage…she’s been kicked out, so she’s kind of couch surfing. Her daughter is in the middle of an identity crisis…figuring herself out, themselves out,” Hahn explains. “And Clare is trying to catch up and she’s just screwing everything up left and right.”
The limited series is based on the best-selling collection by Cheryl Strayed, and Executive Producer Liz Tigelaar shares that the show deals a lot with misconceptions surrounding loss and grief.
After being in the writers room with many who have experienced great losses, Tigelaar says, “it just showed me the importance of telling a story that’s not about moving past loss, but how grief and loss become embedded in you and woven into the fabric of who you are.”
“And that there even can be these tiny, beautiful things that even come out of the hardest, darkest things that you wish hadn’t happened,” she adds.
Ultimately though,TinyBeautiful Things is about love.
“I think that the story we’re trying to tell is a true one. And I don’t mean, you know, whether it’s autobiographical or not. I mean true to what what love is, which is it contains a lot of contradictions,” Hahn expressed. “You can be absolutely flattened by grief, by, for example, the loss of your mother. And you can also make really beautiful things of what was the hardest experience of your life.”
