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I'll be honest: if your tolerance for cringe comedy is low, "The Comeback," the HBO series that stars Lisa Kudrow fresh off her turn in "Friends," may not be for you. I would, however, urge you to give it a shot even if your shoulders ache from said cringing, because it's one of the funniest shows the premium network has ever made, and it's returning for a third and final season after its second outing concluded in 2014.

Kudrow — who, as pretty much everyone knows, starred as Phoebe Buffay on "Friends," which made her into one of the biggest sitcom stars of all time — stars on the series, which she created alongside Michael Patrick King, as Valerie Cherish, who's also a sitcom star. Valerie, unlike the real Kudrow, is a fading star ... and in the first season, she's offered the role of the older, mumsy Aunt Sassy on a series called "Room and Bored,...

Image Source: Max YouTube Get ready, fans of reality TV and uncomfortable laughs! It’s been two decades since we first met the unforgettable Valerie Cherish in The Comeback, and now, 10 years after her second season, HBO has officially announced that our favorite embattled actress is returning for a third and final season! Created by the brilliant minds of Michael Patrick King (And Just Like That…) and the iconic Lisa Kudrow, The Comeback has always offered a unique and often cringeworthy look at the world of Hollywood fame. And it seems Valerie, ever the survivor, just couldn’t stay away. Production for this highly anticipated final season kicks off this summer, and we can expect to see it hit HBO and HBO Max in 2026. The gang’s (mostly) all here! Lisa Kudrow will, of course, reprise her role as the one and only Valerie Cherish. She’ll be joined by returning series regulars Dan Bucatinsky,...

Lisa Kudrow is stepping back into one of her most loved roles, and this time it’s official—HBO is bringing back “The Comeback” for a third season. The network confirmed the news after the show’s 20th anniversary on June 5.

Created by Kudrow and Michael Patrick King, the comedy series first came out in 2005. It was revived for a second season in 2014, and now, after more than a decade, it’s set to return again in 2026. HBO says this will be the “final season,” but considering how the show keeps coming back, that label might not really mean much.

Kudrow returns as Valerie Cherish, a former sitcom actress who’s always chasing her big moment. She’ll be joined by Dan Bucatinsky as her publicist, Laura Silverman as Jane, the producer behind the reality show inside the show, and Damian Young as her husband Mark.

One cast member who...

After celebrating its 20th anniversary on June 5, the comedy series “The Comeback” is officially coming back for a third season on HBO. The show, co-created by Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King, stars Kudrow as Valerie Cherish, a struggling actress trying to make a comeback.

Even though the announcement calls this the “final season,” fans might want to take that with a grain of salt. Since the show first aired in 2005, returned in 2014, and is now set to come back again in 2026 after starting production this summer, the idea of “final” doesn’t feel so final.

Lisa Kudrow will be back as Valerie, along with Dan Bucatinsky playing her publicist, Laura Silverman as Jane, the reality show producer, and Damian Young as Mark, Valerie’s husband. Sadly, Robert Michael Morris, who played Valerie’s best friend and hair stylist Mickey and passed away in 2017, won’t be returning. The 2014 season...

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HBO has renewed The Comeback, from Emmy winners Lisa Kudrow (Friends) and Michael Patrick King (Sex and the City), for a third and — the network swears — final season, the network announced Friday. It has been 20 years since the first season debuted in 2005, and 11 years since Season 2 aired in 2014.

Season 3 of the comedy series will begin production this summer with returning cast members Kudrow as Valerie Cherish, a washed-up actress who's now the subject of a documentary; Dan Bucatinsky as Billy Stanton, Valerie's publicist; Laura Silverman as Jane Benson, Valerie's producer; and Damian Young as Mark Berman, Valerie's husband.

The new season will air on HBO and stream on HBO Max in 2026.

The Comeback is one of those that shows that TV fans often cite as being "robbed" at the Emmy Awards. Meaning it never took home a trophy in any category,...

Lisa Kudrow is primarily known for her role as Phoebe Buffay in Friends. One year after the ten-season hit sitcom ended, the actress scored her own sitcom, The Comeback.

The satirical sitcom premiered on June 5, 2005, and aired for 13 episodes before it was canceled. Honoring its name, the comedy series returned after nine years with a new season of eight episodes, which aired from Nov. 9 to Dec. 28, 2014. Deadline reports Lisa Kudrow is now officially making a comeback, as the series The Comeback has been revived for a third and final season.

The series was created by Kudrow herself in collaboration with Sex and the City producer and director Michael Patrick King. The comedy gave a look inside the entertainment industry, and was shot by a two-camera crew. Kudrow played Valerie Cherish, a veteran B-list sitcom actress who fell out of the spotlight. However, she chronicles her return to the world of...

Valerie Cherish making a return for a new season of The Comeback on HBO? We do want to see that! And we will see that thanks to the unexpectedly delightful announcement made by the network on Friday, June 27. It's time to run back another rewatch on the first two seasons of the Emmy Award-nominated comedy series because season 3 is officially and finally on the way!

The Comeback season 3 will be the final season

In a video featuring Lisa Kudrow in character as Valerie Cherish, The Comeback season 3 renewal announcement reveals HBO will be bringing the series back for a third and final season in 2026. According to HBO's press release, filming on The Comeback season 3 begins this summer but doesn't reveal how many episodes have been ordered for the supposedly final run.

The show's creators Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow teased the upcoming third season with a preview of what...

Lisa Kudrow in ‘The Comeback’ season 2 (Photo by John P. Johnson/HBO)

HBO’s revived The Comeback starring Lisa Kudrow for a third and final…until it’s not…season. Never ever count The Comeback out. Season one premiered way back in 2005, and season two didn’t arrive until 10 years later. Season three is expected to debut in 2026.

Kudrow created the series with Michael Patrick King (And Just Like That) and stars as Valerie Cherish, a former TV star whose career has tanked. The cast of the upcoming final season also includes returning series regulars Dan Bucatinsky, Laura Silverman, and Damian Young.

“Valerie Cherish has found her way back to the current television landscape. Neither of us are surprised she did,” said Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow.

Filming’s expected to get underway this summer with King, Kudrow, Bucatinsky, and John Melfi executive producing.

“No matter what the industry throws at her,...

Lisa Kudrow and HBO aren’t letting the Friends star’s cult comedy go without a proper goodbye, and so it is that The Comeback is getting revived for a third and final season. The series, created by Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow, celebrated the 20th anniversary of its launch earlier this month, making today’s news monumental for fans. The revival speaks to the show’s lasting appeal, Kudrow’s endearing screen presence, and HBO’s desire to bring a familiar face back for more much-needed laughs.

The third and final season of The Comeback heads to production this summer for a 2026 HBO and HBO Max debut. In The Comeback, Lisa Kudrow plays Valerie Cherish, an ex-a-list celebrity attempting to rekindle the flame of her once prominent acting career with nothing but a camera crew and some determination.

“Valerie Cherish has found her way back to the current television landscape.

Twenty years after the first season debuted in 2005, and 10 years after the second season, HBO has announced that the original comedy series The Comeback, from Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow, will return for a third and final season.

Season three will begin production this summer and is expected to debut on HBO and HBO Max in 2026.

The returning regulars for The Comeback Season 3 include Lisa Kudrow, Dan Bucatinsky, Laura Silverman, and Damian Young.

“No matter what the industry throws at her, Valerie Cherish is a survivor,” said Amy Gravitt, Executive Vice President, HBO & Max Comedy Programming.

“On the 20th Anniversary of her debut, Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow have brilliantly scripted her return to HBO, and we can’t wait to see that.”

Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow added, “Valerie Cherish has found her way back to the current television landscape. Neither of us are surprised she did.

Every 10 years, it looks as though Lisa Kudrow will stage a brand-new “Comeback.” Exactly 20 years after the beloved comedy series’ first season debuted in 2005, and 10 years after Season 2 in 2015, Kudrow officially is reprising her cult favorite role of Valerie Cherish for “The Comeback” Season 3.

Creator Michael Patrick King, who is now pulling double duty at HBO with “And Just Like That,” will return as showrunner. HBO is billing “The Comeback” Season 3 as “the final season,” but who knows if, in 2035, there will yet be another iteration. The third season will premiere in 2026 on HBO and HBO Max; production will begin this summer.

“The Comeback” centers on has-been sitcom actress Valerie Cherish (Kudrow) who makes her big return to network TV with a reality show called “The Comeback.” Valerie previously led comedy “Room and Board” and is looking to stage a reboot. Season 2 saw Valerie being Emmy-nominated (Kudrow also was nominated...

Lisa Kudrow's The Comeback is making its comeback for a third season, 11 years after the last season premiered and 21 years after the ending of Friends. The Comeback follows Valerie Cherish (Kudrow), a former sitcom actor who gets a second big break a decade later, with the caveat that she has to star in a reality TV show at the same time. The series originally debuted in 2005, though The Comeback season 2 wasn't released until 2014. It was easily one of Lisa Kudrow's best performances and a great follow-up to the ending of Friends, and now The Comeback is back for more.

Now, Warner Bros. has confirmed that The Comeback season 3 will be released 11 years after season 2 ended. Lisa Kudrow will reprise her role as Valerie Cherish, and Dan Bucatinsky, Laura Silverman, and Damian Young are all returning as well. Kudrow co-created The Comeback with Michael Patrick King, who is also returning for the third season.

Two decades after it premiered — and nearly 11 years after its most recent installment — The Comeback is making another comeback.

HBO announced a third, and final, season of the comedy starring Lisa Kudrow on Friday. The show, created by Kudrow and Michael Patrick King (And Just Like That), will begin production later in the summer for a 2026 premiere.

The Comeback stars Kudrow as Valerie Cherish, an actress who appeared on a hit sitcom in the early 1990s who’s trying to make her way back into the spotlight. The first season, which premiered in June 2005, follows her as she’s cast in a new comedy, with the stipulation that she also appear in a reality show about the making of the scripted series.

Season two saw Valerie cast in an HBO project about the sitcom writer who made her life hell in season one, earning widespread acclaim professionally even as her personal life was falling apart.

“The Comeback” is coming back one last time.

HBO renewed the beloved Lisa Kudrow comedy for a third and final season on Friday. This renewal comes 20 years after the premiere of the comedy’s first season and 10 years after its second season.

Season 3 is expected to begin production this summer with an HBO and HBO Max debut date planned for 2026. Michael Patrick King, who co-created the series and developed the currently airing “And Just Like That,” will also return. In addition to Kudrow, the series will star Dan Bucatinsky, Laura Silverman and Damian Young. “The Comeback” is created by King and Kudrow, who also executive produce alongside Bucatinsky and John Melfi.

“No matter what the industry throws at her, Valerie Cherish is a survivor. On the 20th anniversary of her debut, Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow have brilliantly scripted her return to HBO and we can’t wait to see that,...

Valerie Cherish will be given another take as HBO is bringing back The Comeback for a third and final season.

The pickup comes on the heels of the cult comedy created by Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow, marking the 20-year anniversary of its launch earlier this month and more than a decade after the show’s Season 2 revival. The official green light follows weeks of speculation about a potential return of The Comeback, including chatter about a mini-room for the project this spring.

The third and final season will begin production this summer and is expected to debut on HBO and HBO Max in 2026. Kudrow will reprise her role as Valerie Cherish, a one-time sitcom star who chronicles her return to show business on a companion reality TV series called The Comeback.

“Valerie Cherish has found her way back to the current television landscape. Neither of us are surprised she did,...

After having celebrated its 20th anniversary on June 5, “The Comeback” — the beloved comedy co-created by Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King that stars Kudrow as actress Valerie Cherish — has been renewed at HBO for Season 3. The announcement also says “final season,” but when a show has been on once in 2005, a second time in 2014, and will be again in 2026 the word “final” feels meaningless, and we reject it.

Kudrow returns as Valerie, of course, alongside Dan Bucatinsky (who plays Val’s publicist), Laura Silverman and Damian Young. Missing from the ensemble is the late Robert Michael Morris, who died in 2017, and played Valerie’s best friend and hair stylist, Mickey. No other cast is listed, but the show’s 2014 iteration was loaded with guest stars, including Seth Rogen and Malin Åkerman, appearing as her character from Season 1.

In the announcement, HBO shared a statement from Kudrow and King: “Valerie Cherish...

Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King are reviving their acclaimed satire The Comeback for a third and final run… and we definitely need to see that!

The series — which enters production this summer and returns to HBO/HBO Max in 2026 — originally hit screens in 2005. An eight-episode Season 2 followed nearly 10 years later in 2014. The show tells the story of a B-list sitcom star who’s so desperate to revive her career that she agrees to star in a reality television show called The Comeback. “Cameras follow her every move as she angles to keep her head above the Hollywood fray, even...

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Hacks is a comedy-drama series created by Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky. The Max series revolves around the toxic professional relationship between Deborah Vance, a once legendary Las Vegas stand-up comedian and Ava Daniels, a down-on-her-luck young comedy writer, as they work together to get Deborah her respect and career back. Hacks stars Jean Smart, Hannah Einbinder, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Megan Stalter, Paul W. Downs, Rose Abdoo, Mark Indelicato, Kaitlin Olson, and Christopher McDonald. So, if you loved the hilarious comedy, unlikely friendship, and compelling characters in Hacks, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Exclusive: Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), Michael Boatman (The Good Fight), and Karen Allen (Indiana Jones franchise) are set to topline The Cutting Room Floor, the first feature from writer-director Victoria DeMartin.

Entering production this summer, the indie follows an aspiring film editor who receives the opportunity of a lifetime but sees her world begin to spiral out of control when the film starts to mirror her own life, blurring the lines between fiction and reality. DeMartin’s script recently won First Place in the Golden Script Fellowship, an extension of the international Golden Script Competition.

Damian Young (Ozark), Jennifer Sklias-Gahan (FBI: Most Wanted), Kuhoo Verma (Murder Mystery 2), and Michael Benz (Joker) were tapped for supporting roles by casting directors Lina Todd and Byron Beane. Simon TaufiQue and Danielle Eva Schwob will produce, with the latter also set to pen the score. Ben Leong is also producing.

An Oscar nominee,...

There have been countless scandals involving game shows over the years. The most famous adaptation of such an event was Robert Redford’s acclaimed Quiz Show, starring Ralph Fiennes and John Turturro. Still, there have been more recent instances, including a bizarre one in 1984 involving a man who figured out how to beat one of the most popular game shows on American television, Press Your Luck. The Luckiest Man in America dramatizes that event with a fantastic cast led by Paul Walter Hauser.

The film tells the story of ice cream truck driver Michael Larson (Paul Walter Hauser), an unemployed ice cream truck driver from Ohio who cons his way onto Press Your Luck. As he begins to win record-breaking prizes, those behind the scenes figure out he may be doing more than just playing the game. As the truth becomes apparent, Michael’s true motivations become evident, revealing a...

Plot: Based on a true story, the film is set in May 1984, when an unemployed ice cream truck driver from Ohio steps onto the game show Press Your Luck, harboring a big secret: the key to endless amounts of money. His winning streak is threatened when the bewildered executives in the control room start to uncover his real motivations.

Review: As someone who has been trying to get on Jeopardy! for a while, I have always been fascinated with the contestants’ backstories who have made their way onto shows watched by millions. While few controversies have compared to the one chronicled in Robert Redford’s Quiz Show, the circumstances surrounding Michael Larson’s then-record-breaking appearance on Press Your Luck is a bizarre chapter in pop culture history. The Luckiest Man in America dramatizes the events of Larson’s run on the popular game show with the great Paul Walter Hauser in another fantastic performance.

Playing like the kinkier granddaughter of Russ Meyers’ Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Annapurna Sriram’s Fucktoys has an axe to grind, and then some. At its core, this is a critique of modern capitalism that feels increasingly relevant, arriving in a time when billionaires are forcing the middle and lower-middle class to go on a diet budget. Younger people have been squeezed, left behind, and fucked-over by a massive transfer of wealth and, in turn, some have viewed young generations as a commodity to project their fantasies. In essence, if you’re unlucky in this economy, you might find yourself becoming a fucktoy. Needless to say, this is a film that’s not safe for work or polite society.

Sriram plays AP, a dominatrix on call in a post-apocalyptic landscape that was never rebuilt after the last storm. She works out of abandoned houses with a band of punk rockers in places to crash,...

After her tooth falls out, AP, the young woman at the center of Annapurna Sriram’s delightfully audacious feature debut F*cktoys, visits a tarot reader for answers. The cards — an upright Sun, a Five of Cups and the Hanged Man — are not in her favor. The bad news, according to her seer (Big Freedia), is that someone has cursed AP (played by Sriram). The good news? The doomed sex worker can change her luck with one thousand dollars and a sacrificial lamb.

F*cktoys, which won a special jury prize in the narrative feature competition after its SXSW premiere, follows AP as she embarks on a chaotic journey to spiritual freedom. Her adventures through Trashtown, U.S.A, the fictional locale where the film is set, are marked by unexpected reunions, surprise encounters and occasional flirtations with real danger. Sriram takes bold swings in F*cktoys, which adopts John...

With a title like “Fucktoys,” Annapurna Sriram’s directorial debut boldly announces its wild intentions. A provocative name like that has been known to backfire, especially as it can over-inflate one’s expectations for the gonzo filmmaking they’re about to witness. But Sriram’s movie — a grotesque odyssey through a place called Trashtown, which has shades of New Orleans and a hint of Los Angeles — is at least impressively strange. It’s the kind of project that, despite some flaws, allows Sriram to stake her claim as a filmmaker to watch, with a distinctive voice that mashes up rockabilly aesthetics with Tarot mysticism and an incredible dig at James Franco. This is the kind of thing you want to see at a festival like SXSW: Messy, but wholly original in its genre mashup.

As an actress, Sriram appeared on the likes of “Billions” and “The Blacklist,” shows that are tonally miles apart from “Fucktoys.

"Wanna swim?" "Duh!" Trashtown Pictures has revealed a first look teaser trailer for a kinky indie comedy known as F*toys that is premiering at the 2025 SXSW Film Festival this month. No this is not porn, this is an artistic indie film shot on 16mm grainy film stock, exploring sex and intimacy. Both written and directed by filmmaker Annapurna Sriram as her feature directorial debut, she also stars in F**ktoys as the lead character known as "AP". Join AP on a bubblegum funky adventure through sunny & romantic Trashtown, USA. In this raucous odyssey a across a dreamy landscape of smut, filth and psychics, wanton minx quests hard to make $1000, find love, and lift a curse. A woman needs $1000 for psychics in a pre-millennium alternate universe. She navigates the seedy underbelly of Trashtown via scooter, encountering bizarre folks along the way. Sriram co-stars with Sadie Scott, François Arnaud, Damian Young,...

Shot on 16mm film, Fucktoys reimagines The Fool’s Journey of the Major Arcana of the Tarot as a bubblegum grindhouse odyssey.

Watch the teaser below ahead of the movie’s world premiere at SXSW this weekend.

Join AP, a rosy young woman seeking salvation from a curse, on an adventure through a dreamy landscape of smut, filth and psychics, where she collides with a series of larger-than-life characters and absurd situations as she winds her way towards the inevitable.

AP is promised by not just one but multiple psychics that her curse can be lifted for a cool $1,000 and a simple teeny tiny sacrifice of a baby lamb. So she makes money the only way she knows how: scootering her way deeper into the night and into the uncouth underbelly of Trashtown, USA.

The dark yet campy romp explores the intersection of intimacy, exploitation, and class in a pre-millenium...

How far would you go to lift a deadly curse?

Ahead of the film’s world premiere at this year’s SXSW, Annapurna Sriram’s “Fucktoys” has unveiled its trailer exclusively to Variety, teasing a grindhouse adventure through a town named Trashtown, USA. After a woman named AP (Sriram) loses a tooth and is unexpectedly cast with a curse, psychics promise that it can be lifted by a measly $1,000 payment and animal sacrifice. AP immerses herself in the underbelly of Trashtown to earn the money she needs to live another day.

The trailer teases the film’s outrageous tone and 16mm cinematography, as AP looks to psychics for advice and proudly proclaims that “I love trash.” The film’s official synopsis teases that: “In this irreverent and sexy dark comedy, AP collides with a series of larger-than-life characters and absurd situations, each more unhinged than the last, as she winds her way toward the inevitable.

The great child actress Michelle Trachtenberg died today, Feb. 26, 2025. This follows a liver transplant the actor received, along with several Instagram posts which had alarmed some friends and fans, with the images portraying an extremely gaunt Trachtenberg. As The New York Post writes, "Trachtenberg was found by her mother at around 8 a.m. Wednesday at One Columbus Place, a 51-story luxury apartment complex in Manhattan’s Central Park South neighborhood, the sources said [...] The NYPD confirmed Trachtenberg was found 'unconscious and unresponsive' by police and pronounced dead by Ems workers."

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Trachtenberg, born on Oct. 11, 1985, began her career as a child actor, eventually joining a live-action Nickelodeon series, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, at the age of nine. That series began as little interstitial shorts in 1989, which became popular enough to warrant a handful of TV specials. Going from...

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A Simple Favor is a dark comedy mystery thriller film directed by Paul Feig from a screenplay by Jessica Sharzer. Based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Darcey Bell, the 2018 film follows Stephanie Smothers, a young widowed single mother who runs a vlog, but when her new friend, Emily Nelson, suddenly vanishes, she tries to find her. A Simple Favor stars Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding, Andrew Rannells, Linda Cardellini, Dustin Milligan, Jean Smart, Rupert Friend, and Eric Johnson. So, if you loved the dark comedy, thrilling mystery, and compelling characters in A Simple Favor, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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A super-meta, super-prescient skewering of the showbiz world, and in particular, the relatively primitive phenomena of celebrity reality TV, “The Comeback” looked destined for the status of one-season wonder when HBO pulled the plug in 2005. “I was aware that it was mainly straight, white guys who couldn’t watch it,” its star Lisa Kudrow later acknowledged, perhaps explaining how douchebro counterpart “Entourage” — whose ratings it often matched — was allowed to run for eight (plus a truly loathsome film).

Thankfully, after a nine-year period in which the show had been reevaluated as a cult classic, Kudrow and co-creator Michael Patrick King were afforded the opportunity to reintroduce their glorious comic creation, the egotistical yet strangely sympathetic enigma that is Valerie Cherish for a second season. That hurrah ran beginning November 9, 2014, and inspired the very opposite response to her well-worn catchphrase, “I don’t want to see that.”

We’d last seen...

Mr. Throwback is a mockumentary-style comedy series created by Adam Pally and David Caspe. The Peacock series follows the story of Danny Grossman, a down-on-his-luck memorabilia salesman who was the top-rated 6th-grade basketball player in the country and also a teammate and friend with NBA legend Steph Curry. When Danny reaches out to Steph Curry, his life takes an unexpected turn. Mr. Throwback stars Adam Pally, Stephen Curry, and Ego Nwodim in the lead roles with Ayden Mayeri, Julian Sergi, Felix Jerry Droz, and Kyle Gibson starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the sports, comedy, and friendship in Mr. Throwback here are some similar shows you could watch next.

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The Comeback is a cringe satirical comedy series created by Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King. The HBO series follows the story of Valerie Cherish, a veteran sitcom actor who...

Is The Comeback coming back? (Fingers crossed.)

Lisa Kudrow says she would “love to” play Valerie Cherish again in a new interview with Newsweek, adding that series co-creator “Michael Patrick King and I are always talking about what would happen next. Always. And it’s been nine, 10 years now. So we’re due.” (When reached by TVLine about a possible third season, HBO had no comment.)

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The mystery thriller A Simple Favor has arrived on Netflix, but once this relatively short movie is over, those who enjoyed it will be looking for more like it. In A Simple Favor, Anna Kendrick's Stephanie and Blake Lively's Emily are both mothers of elementary-school-aged children; when they become friends, Stephanie becomes enamored with Emily's elegant and secretive life. When Emily goes missing, A Simple Favor begins to blend the characters' domestic lives, the murder mystery plot, and a...

Paul Walter Hauser has added another project to a packed upcoming slate.

The Emmy and Golden Globe winner, who in the last few weeks alone has been tapped to play Chris Farley in Josh Gad’s biopic and has joined the cast of both “Fantastic Four” and the “Naked Gun” reboot, is to lead “Press Your Luck,” a drama-thriller based on the true story of Michael Larson. Protagonist Pictures has unveiled the drama-thriller — from Plenty Good in co-production with Fabula — alongside a first look image and will handle international sales, while CAA Media Finance represents North American rights.

Set in 1984, “Press Your Luck” follows Larson, an unemployed truck driver from Ohio who stepped onto the game show “Press Your Luck” harbouring a secret: the key to endless amounts of money. But his winning streak gets threatened when the executives in the control room start to uncover his real motivations.

The...

The team could be walking into a dangerous trap on the next episode of CBS’s FBI: International. Season three episode five, directed by Jonathan Brown from a script by Wade McIntyre, will air on Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 9pm Et/Pt.

Luke Kleintank returns to lead the season three cast as Special Agent Scott Forrester. Heida Reed stars as Special Agent Jamie Kellett, Carter Redwood is Special Agent Andre Raines, Vinessa Vidotto plays Special Agent Cameron Vo, Eva-Jane Willis is Europol Agent Megan “Smitty” Garretson, and Christina Wolfe is Special Agent Amanda Tate.

“Death by Inches” Plot: When a disgraced former U.S. cabinet member is arrested in Vienna, the Fly Team is sent to investigate whether he and his assistant were peddling classified government documents. Meanwhile, Powell struggles as he is forced to stay behind on desk duty.

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February may be over, but Freevee is far from done! Despite rumors Amazon would be shutting the door on its free streamer, the service will instead open the gates to 15 new Fast channels and plenty of new titles this coming month, including 2020’s psychological thriller “The Invisible Man,” the heist comedy “Ocean's 8,” and more.

Check out The Streamable’s top picks for what to watch on Freevee in March, and continue below to see all the titles and channels getting added to the streamer in March!

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“Air,” the story of Michael Jordan’s game-changing collaboration with Nike directed by Ben Affleck, will receive the Gotham Visionary Icon & Creator Tribute at the 33rd annual Gotham Awards Ceremony, the Gotham Film & Media Institute announced on Monday. The in-person event will take place on November 27, 2023 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. Nominees for the Gotham Awards will be announced on Tuesday, October 24th.

According to the Gotham Film & Media Institute, the Icon & Creator Tribute was developed for the 2023 Gotham Awards to “recognize cultural icons and the filmmakers responsible for bringing that icon’s story to life.” In this case, the recognition goes to both Jordan and Affleck. The Gotham Film & Media Institute had previously announced that George C. Wolfe’s upcoming Rustin would be the recipient of the Icon & Creator Tribute for Social Justice at this year’s ceremony.

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The Air Jordan movie, directed by Ben Affleck, focuses on the story of salesman Sonny Vaccaro planning to sign Michael Jordan to a contract with Nike. Jordan is intentionally sidelined as a sign of respect and to avoid distracting audiences. Ben Affleck believed that having an actor portray Michael Jordan would be too distracting for audiences, as they would reject the idea of someone pretending to be him. Jordan's absence reinforces his mystique and legacy. The original script for Air included a moment where audiences would see Jordan's face, but the decision was made to leave him out completely due to the potential scrutiny and distraction it could cause. Leaving him out allows the film to focus on the business side and strengthen Jordan's legacy.

The Air Jordan movie is Ben Affleck's take on the story of Nike creating the famous shoes, but Michael Jordan is not in Air for a good reason.

If you’re looking for a slam dunk movie that tells the true story behind what’s now a household name, find out where to watch Air.

Air is a retelling of the story behind one of the biggest business partnerships the world has ever seen. This partnership was between two surprising underdogs at the time, Michael Jordan and Nike’s basketball division. Nike’s Marketing VP and CEO sent out a basketball talent scout to bring them back a player that would fill some big shoes — being their new spokesperson. The scout came back with Michael Jordan and the rest, as you probably know, is history (that’s explored in an entertaining fashion in this movie)!

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Editor's Note: The following article contains spoilers for Air.If you have seen Ben Affleck’s latest film, Air, you now realize that Michael Jordan, portrayed by Damian Young, is barely in the film. While Jordan is in the film, he’s generally in the background throughout the entire story. Young's face is never shown while he performs as Jordan. Jordan’s only full appearances in the film are from real-life archival clips, images, and footage, and those clips come off as a much more natural choice for the overall betterment of the viewing experience. Instead of integrating Young's Jordan as a fully realized character in Air, Affleck opts to focus on the backroom deals and the Nike employees attempting to secure the Michael Jordan sponsorship contract by negotiating with Jordan’s inner circle. Affleck and screenwriter Alex Convery's narrative decision was clear and deliberate, and it was ultimately...

Warning: This post contains major spoilers for Air

Based on a true story, Air has a hopeful ending that leaves audiences waiting with bated breath despite knowing what’s to come. Directed by Ben Affleck from a screenplay by Alex Convery, Air tells the story behind famed basketball player Michael Jordan’s historic deal with Nike, which ultimately changed the game for all involved.

Air premiered at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival and received a positive critical reception. A crowd-pleasing sports drama starring Matt Damon, Jason Bateman, Viola Davis, and Chris Tucker, Air ends with marketing executive Sonny Vaccaro and his team getting Michael Jordan signed with Nike in a massive deal that would benefit the shoe company and the athlete for decades. Before Jordan signed Nike, however, his mother Deloris Jordan stipulated that her son received a percentage of the revenue from the sale of each Air Jordan, and a car.

Legendary basketball player Michael Jordan is portrayed by an up-and-coming actor in Air, though not much is seen of him in the movie. Flashing back to the 1980s, Air tells the true story of how Nike shoe salesman Sonny Vaccaro hatched a plan to sign basketball rookie Michael Jordan to a revolutionary deal with the brand, which would go on to be the famous Air Jordan shoeline. Directed by Ben Affleck with a leading cast that includes Affleck himself, Matt Damon, Jason Bateman, and Viola Davis, Air is already a hit with critics as it boasts a Fresh 98% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Michael Jordan’s legacy and massive influence are certainly at the heart of Air, but he isn’t the star of the movie; in fact, the young version of the NBA all-star hardly appears in the 2023 Amazon film. Rather, the movie focuses on Nike’s side of the...

Ben Affleck wants to make sure you know that his new movie as a director, Air, is set in 1984. The film opens with a blizzard of images and sounds from that time, ranging from Ronald Reagan’s reelection to the “Where’s the beef?” Wendy’s commercials, to just about any other specific visual cue you can think of from that year. Once that’s over, however, the needle drops pick up the slack almost to a fault: We hear the “you’re motoring” line from Night Ranger’s “Sister Christian” in a shot of a car in motion. Meanwhile Big Country’s “In A Big Country” blares over another shot of a car driving through the wilds of North Carolina.

It would get annoying—and occasionally does—if Air wasn’t such an entertaining film overall. The story of how a ragtag bunch of Nike execs wooed Michael Jordan...

Ahead of the release of Ben Affleck's fifth directorial effort Air next month, the actor-turned-director has shared why the film, which tells the story of salesman Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon) and his signing of a then-newcomer Michael Jordan to Nike, contains a deliberate lack of its main muse. While the film boasts such star power as Damon and Affleck—who appears as Nike founder Phil Knight—alongside Viola Davis and real-life husband Julius Tennon in the role of Jordan's parents, the character of Jordan appears only from behind (Damian Young) while Jordan himself is notably absent from the film altogether.

When Ben Affleck’s already critically beloved “Air” arrives in theaters next month, audiences will be treated to some serious star power on the big screen, with Affleck himself taking on the role of Nike founder Phil Knight, plus Matt Damon as marketing guru Sonny Vaccaro and Viola Davis and her real-life husband Julius Tennon as Michael Jordan’s parents Deloris and James.

Not present, however, is Jordan himself. While Affleck and Amazon Studios haven’t hidden the fact that “Air,” which chronicles Vaccaro’s attempts to sign a then-rookie Jordan to the floundering Nike label, barely includes the basketball superstar, Affleck’s actual reason for the artistic choice has been less discussed.

At a special screening of “Air” held on Monday evening in New York City, Affleck opened up about the choice to not include young Jordan as a true character in the film.

“It was not Michael’s decision,...

Los Angeles, March 19 (Ians) Hollywood star Ben Affleck said that he never would have made ‘Air’ without Michael Jordan’s blessing, but that blessing came with one major request. Her name? Viola Davis.

Directed by Affleck, the movie stars Matt Damon as Sonny Vaccaro, the Nike employee who convinced Jordan (Damian Young) to sign the deal that allowed for the creation of the Air Jordan shoe line, reports Variety.

Affleck also stars as Nike co-founder Phil Knight.

Introducing ‘Air’ at its South by Southwest world premiere, Affleck said: “I had a chance to sit down with Michael Jordan, because I just wasn’t going to make this movie without asking him, ‘What matters to you?’ Interestingly, and tellingly, he had a few things that mattered.”

“One of them was that Howard White needed to be in the movie,” Affleck said, referring to the vice president of the Jordan brand. Hearing...

Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Viola Davis and Chris Tucker scored a standing ovation at South by Southwest on Saturday night with their closing night film. “Air” was an immediate Mvp, even without the attendance of its subject, basketball legend Michael Jordan.

One year after “Everything Everywhere All at Once” debuted at SXSW on its way to seven Oscar wins, the Austin festival launched another major crowd pleaser.

“Air,” directed by Affleck and written by Alex Convery, received not only rapturous applause when its credits rolled, but also sustained cheering throughout the inspirational film — particularly in scenes involving Davis as Deloris Jordan, negotiating with Nike’s Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon) for her son’s worth.

The film follows the origin story of Nike’s Air Jordan shoe line, which began with Vaccaro’s strong belief in Michael Jordan (Damian Young) when he was just a rookie. On top of directing, Affleck...

Ben Affleck says he never would have made “Air” without Michael Jordan’s blessing, but that blessing came with one major request. Her name? Viola Davis.

Directed by Affleck, the movie stars Matt Damon as Sonny Vaccaro, the Nike employee who convinced Jordan (Damian Young) to sign the deal that allowed for the creation of the Air Jordan shoe line. Affleck also stars as Nike co-founder Phil Knight.

Introducing “Air” at its South by Southwest world premiere, Affleck said, “I had a chance to sit down with Michael Jordan, because I just wasn’t going to make this movie without asking him, ‘What matters to you?’ Interestingly, and tellingly, he had a few things that mattered.”

“One of them was that Howard White needed to be in the movie,” Affleck said, referring to the vice president of the Jordan brand. Hearing about White made Affleck realize he had an opportunity to cast Chris Tucker,...

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Exclusive: Vertical has secured North American rights to the MPI Original Film Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game, starring BAFTA- and Tony Award-nominated West Side Story breakout Mike Faist and Teen Wolf‘s Crystal Reed, slating it for a day-and-date release on March 17, 2023.

The film based on a true story centers on Roger Sharpe (Faist), a GQ journalist and real-life pinball wizard who, in 1976, helped overturn New York City’s 35-year ban on pinball.

An unsettled writer with a fantastic mustache, Sharpe finds solace and confidence in the one thing he has mastered: pinball. When a police raid destroys the only machines he can find in 1970s New York City, he learns the game is illegal in the state. Roger then reluctantly joins forces with the Music and Amusement Association to overturn the ban while falling in love with Ellen (Reed), an artist and single mother. Roger’s path...