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Warner Bros is filling out the 2025, 2026 calendar and beyond. Today, the Burbank, CA studio announced that New Line Cinema’s Mortal Kombat 2 will hit cinemas on Oct. 24, 2025 in Imax, while Drew Hancock’s Companion will kick off on Jan. 10, 2025, also in Imax.

The Jeremy Slater written, Simon McQuoid directed Mortal Kombat 2 comes in the wake of the first film, which was released in 2021 as theaters were reopening, and in day-and-date theatrical plan with streaming service HBO Max. Mortal Kombat opened to $23.3M stateside and ended its run at $42.3M domestic, $84.4M WW. Pic stars Karl Urban, Adeline Rudolph, Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Tadanobu Asano, Mehcad Brooks, Ludi Lin, Damon Herriman, Tati Gabrielle, Martyn Ford, with Chin Han, Joe Taslim, and Hiroyuki Sanada. Producers are Todd Garner, James Wan, Simon McQuoid, E. Bennett Walsh, Toby Emmerich. The movie, natch, is based on the videogame by Ed Boon and John Tobias.

Steve Carell has taken on plenty of memorable roles in his life, from the depressed scholar Frank in "Little Miss Sunshine" to the sexually frustrated Andy in "The 40-year old Virgin" to sweet supervillain Gru in "Despicable Me." Yet no matter how many great performances he puts in, he'll always be known first and foremost to many people as Michael Scott from "The Office." The tactless, cringe-inducing, hilarious boss of Dunder Mifflin Paper Company is the sun around which all the show's workplace chaos revolves.

"The Office" wouldn't have succeeded without Carell's faux-sly glances to camera, perfectly uncomfortable line deliveries, and contagious outbursts of laughter. Yet as with so many great roles, it almost went to someone else. In fact, lots of familiar names were considered for the role. 

In Andy Greene's authoritative oral history book, "The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s," the...

Will Forte (The Last Man On Earth) and Kaitlin Olson (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) learn home renovations can be dangerous in Quibi’s new comedy series Flipped.

The streaming platform released the first teaser today for the series, which finds self-proclaimed home renovation “experts” Forte and Olson stumbling onto a cartel stash house. The clueless pair end up in the clutches of drug dealers and must design their way out of the scary situation.

Desperate Housewives alum Eva Longoria, Arturo Castro (Alternatino) and Andy Garcia (Mama Mia: Here We Go Again) also star.

Created and written by Steve Mallory and Damon Jones, the series is directed by Ryan Case. Mallory and Jones executive produce with Ryan Case. Joe Farrell and Jim Ziegler are also executive producers along with Steve Burgess. Adrien Finkel and Whitney Hodack serve as producers. Funny or Die is the studio.

Earlier today, Quibi released the teaser for The Fugitive,...

Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s frosh mobile short-form streaming service Quibi is making a big splash here at Sundance ramping toward its April 6 launch, following a stop earlier this month at CES.

Today at the Chase Sapphire lounge on Main Street, Quibi gave indie film fans a taste of what to expect with Katzenberg bringing some of its talent roster including director Veena Sud (filmmaker of their short The Stranger), Emmy winner Lena Waithe (Ep of Quibi short doc You Ain’t Got These) and Kaitlin Olson, star of the service’s upcoming comedy Flipped.

Tonight at the Chase Sapphire lounge, Quibi is showing off several pieces of its short-form content.

At the top of the panel, Katzenberg showed on mobile phone how Quibi will display content that is conducive to both a horizontal and vertical view. Sud said,...

Will Forte (The Last Man On Earth) and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Kaitlin Olson are set to star in Flipped, a new comedy series, from Groundlings alums Steve Mallory and Damon Jones, and Funny or Die, for Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s short-form video platform Quibi. Desperate Housewives alumna Eva Longoria, Arturo Castro (Alternatino) and Andy Garcia (Mama Mia: Here We Go Again) also star in the series which begins production today.

Written by Mallory and Jones, Flipped centers around chronically underemployed couple Jann (Forte) and Cricket Melfi (Olson), self-proclaimed home renovation “experts” who are more than confident they are television’s next great home design celebrity duo. Flipped follows the clueless pair as their dreams of basic cable fame and glory are derailed when they get themselves kidnapped by members of a drug cartel, and are forced to renovate their sprawling homes.

Will Forte and Kaitlin Olson will star in a home-renovation comedy from Quibi, the upcoming mobile-only streaming service from Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, the company shared on Monday morning. The new show, titled “Flipped,” comes from Funny or Die.

“Flipped” is the latest series picked-up as part of a development spree by Quibi as it readies its 2020 launch. The service has already greenlit about two dozen shows from stars including Justin Timberlake, Jennifer Lopez, Tyra Banks, Don Cheadle, Stephen Curry, Anna Kendrick, Idris Elba, Lorne Michaels and Seth Meyers.

Here’s the quick rundown: Jann (Forte) and Cricket Melfi (Olson) are a couple of slackers that have delusions their self-proclaimed expertise on home furnishing will lead them to become TV’s next big home design team; that dream quickly goes sideways when they’re kidnapped by a drug cartel and are forced to fix-up their giant homes. Eva Longoria,...

The ranks of talent signing on at Quibi keeps on growing.

This time it’s Will Forte and Kaitlin Olson joining Jeffrey Katzenberg’s short-form platform. The duo will star in a comedy series entitled “Flipped,” which hails from Funny Or Die.

Forte and Olson will play chronically underemployed couple Jann (Forte) and Cricket Melfi (Olson) who are self-proclaimed home renovation “experts,” more than confident they are television’s next great home design celebrity duo. The series follows the clueless pair as their dreams of basic cable fame and glory are derailed when they get themselves kidnapped by members of a drug cartel and are forced to renovate their sprawling homes.

“Flipped” was created and written by Steve Mallory and Damon Jones. Both serve as executive producers on the project alongside Ryan Case, Joe Farrell and Jim Ziegler. Ryan Case will direct with Steve Burgess on board as a co-ep...

What's it like to be attacked with chicken tortilla soup? It Sucks. And now, the guy who was on the receiving end of J.R. Smith's infamous broth beatdown is spilling the beans on what Really happened that night. It all went down in March 2018 ... when Smith got into it with his Cleveland Cavs assistant coach, Damon Jones, and things got so heated, J.R. used his meal as a weapon. "For a long time...

Warner Bros’ Crazy Rich Asians is expected to reign supreme in its second weekend with $16 million-$18 million as the summer box office winds down.

Those K-12 schools off according to comScore fall from 57% last Friday to 40% this weekend, but an even harder drop is among colleges, which move from 90% off to 57% off over the same time frame.

Crazy Rich Asians earned $5.5M yesterday, bringing its week’s cume to $44.4M. As we mentioned before, this film will easily get to $100M-$110M stateside, but it will emulate a different gross pattern than DreamWorks’ The Help, another big diversity hit based on a bestselling femme novel. While that movie played deep into the South and even touched churchgoers, Crazy Rich Asians crushes in big cities.

Stx’s gross-out puppet Melissa McCarthy comedy The Happytime Murders is making one of summer’s last stands for a genre that has been pained at...

Kenny Smith says J.R. Smith's soup-throwing incident could create some Major issues with the Cavs' chemistry ... telling TMZ Sports J.R.'s actions will affect the whole team. We spoke with the Jet about J.R.'s 1-game suspension for reportedly hurlin' soup at Cleveland asst. coach Damon Jones ... and Kenny calls it "the ultimate disrespect" for not solving his issue with words. Kenny says it's still possible for the Cavs to move on from it ... but admits,...

J.R. Smith weaponized soup. Sip that in ... because that's why the Cleveland Cavs suspended the NBA star for Thursday's game against the 76ers. Team officials had announced Smith was hit with a 1-game suspension for conduct detrimental to the team ... and now ESPN is reporting that conduct was a soup attack on a Cavs coach.   The target of Smith's delicious rage ... Damon Jones -- a former Cavs player who's now an assistant with the team.

Melissa McCarthy is about to make a try for the holiday musical canon; per The Hollywood Reporter, McCarthy has signed on to produce and star in Margie Claus, a new musical comedy that she’s working on with her husband and frequent production partner, Ben Falcone.

Starring McCarthy as Santa Claus’ wife, Margie, the film hopes to give the actress an Elf-style Christmas vehicle of her very own. Falcone—who also helmed Tammy and The Boss—will direct, from a script he’s co-writing with Benched creator Damon Jones.

Meanwhile, it’s unclear where Margie Claus—in which McCarthy’s character is forced to venture out of the workshop when her husband disappears on Christmas Eve—will fall in the wider “People With The Last Name Claus” Cinematic Universe, or if the producers have approached Fred Claus star Vince Vaughn about reprising his classic role.

Christmastime has come early for Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone.

New Line Cinema has picked up Margie Claus, a holiday family film project from the comedy power couple and co-writer Damon Jones, co-creator of the USA show Benched.

The project is described as a broad holiday family musical that New Line hopes will be in the same spirit (and have the same success) as another company Christmas movie, Elf.

Margie Claus will not only act as a starring vehicle for McCarthy but will also be the comedienne’s musical debut. McCarthy and Falcone will produce through their On the Day banner. Falcone...

In a competitive situation, ABC has bought Wheeler Dealer, a half-hour comedy pitch from Benched co-creator Damon Jones, with Bridesmaids co-writer Annie Mumolo. Wheeler Dealer (not to be confused with the fictional Wheelin’ Dealin’ record label on ABC drama Nashville) is inspired by the true story of Jones’ sister, a suburban housewife and mother who inherits her deceased husband's struggling car dealership in rural West Texas — Friday Night Lights country. In an attempt…...

Eliza Coupe, best known for her role as Jane Kerkovich-Williams on the ABC comedy series “Happy Endings,” has closed a production deal under which she will develop projects for ABC Studios and ABC Signature Studios. Coupe most recently starred on the USA/ABC Signature series “Benched,” created by Michaela Watkins and Damon Jones and just completed a five-episode arc on the new Hulu series “Casual,” created by Harris Danow and executive produced by Jason Reitman and Helen Estabrook. Her other television credits include Showtime’s “House of Lies,” CBS’ “The Millers,” NBC’s “Scrubs,” HBO’s “Flight of the Conchords” and ABC’s “Samantha Who.

It’s one and done for USA’s “Benched. The half-hour comedy, produced by ABC Studios, has been cancelled by the network, TheWrap has confirmed.

“Happy Endings” alum Eliza Coupe starred in the series as a high-stakes, tough-as-nails attorney whose bad attitude leads to a major life adjustment. She loses her job and winds up working at the public defender’s office for Los Angeles County.

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While the series held onto consistent ratings of approximately 800,000 viewers throughout its 12-episode run in the fall. Those numbers were below those for “Siren,...

Michaela Watkins is best known for her roles on Saturday Night Live, Trophy Wife, and Enlightened. But she's also a writer and producer, and with partner Damon Jones (who Watkins met when they were part of L.A.'s comedy stage show The Groundlings), is behind the USA comedy, Benched. Eliza Coupe stars as a high-powered lawyer who falls from grace and looks to rebuild her life as a public defender. Watkins and Jones tell us why we should do time with Benched....

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When Nina's ex-fiancé tells her he's engaged mere minutes before she's passed over for law partner by a big breasted colleague, she can't help but break everything in the room—champagne flutes, a candy dish, even a vase that Sir Elton John gave the firm. And since her day's going just peachy, the elevator doors refuse to close after she double flips off the entire office, leaving her looking sheepish as elevator music plays.On USA's new comedy Benched, the more uncomfortable it is for Nina (Happy Ending's Eliza Coupe), the more hilarious it is for us. Her "I quit...

We finally had our first network cancellation of the fall season last week, when ABC dropped the ax on "Manhattan Love Story." Had the Alphabet waited one more week, we'd have made it through the first season in a while where all the new fall shows got to debut before one was canceled. But that was not to be, and instead we have our final new network fall show (with plenty more on the bench for midseason, or whatever the broadcast nets are willing to call it these days) coming up this week, along with a new cable comedy. Both, oddly, feature Jack McGee in a supporting role (the result of cable and network shows often filming on different schedules), and that — along with the fact that I don't feel strongly about either one at this stage — is enough excuse to put them together in the same post for a...