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Chuck Lorre’s Two and a Half Men went through some unexpected casting shifts throughout its run. However, long before the show faced the controversial exits of two of its leading stars, Lorre recast the role of the self-absorbed, materialistic, and rude matriarch of the Harper family, Evelyn Harper.

Evelyn Harper in Two and a Half Men | Credit: CBS

The character was initially portrayed by the Emmy-winning actress Blythe Danner in the unaired pilot of the show. However, Lorre later revealed she was recast because he did not find Danner to be a good fit for the role.

Chuck Lorre explained the recasting of Evelyn Harper in Two and a Half Men

The lengthy process of creating a show has many stages, including a pilot, through which a series is pitched to networks. And oftentimes, it is followed by several changes, as happened with Chuck Lorre’s biggest hits, including...

Since 1975 nearly a thousand hosts have graced the stage at Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center for “Saturday Night Live.”

Actors, comedians, musicians and even politicians have taken the stage to make America laugh on Saturday night for 50 seasons. Twenty five of these hosts have been inducted into the “Five Timers Club.” The club was first introduced during Tom Hanks’ 1990 monologue, featuring Steve Martin, Elliott Gould and Paul Simon.

During Martin Short’s December 2024 appearance, several Five Timers Club members popped up on the show to welcome him into the club, including Emma Stone, Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Kristen Wiig and more, to give him the ceremonial robe.

Alec Baldwin has hosted the show 17 times, the most in the series’ history, with Martin, Hanks, Buck Henry and John Goodman following close behind.

As the show celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, we have rounded up every person who has hosted the sketch show.

It’s taken Ben Stiller 35 years to return in a lead role for TV, but the multihyphenate filmmaker is officially back on the small screen.

Stiller, who infamously left “Saturday Night Live” after only a few episodes to create his own 1990 sketch series “The Ben Stiller Show,” is set to lead HBO series “The Band,” which is currently in development at the network, an individual with knowledge told IndieWire. This will be Stiller’s first lead role in a narrative scripted series, though he previously had cameos in “Arrested Development” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

Of course, Stiller has more recently been a TV staple behind the scenes: the writer/director/producer is the executive producer and director of “Severance.” He also helmed true crime series “Escape from Dannemora.”

“The Band” is the latest project produced by Stiller’s Red Hour Films. The series is co-created by “Search Party” filmmakers Sarah Violet Bliss...

Robert De Niro is sticking with Netflix, as Deadline reports that the actor is set to star in The Whisper Man. The crime thriller is based on Alex North’s New York Times bestselling novel of the same name and will be directed by James Ashcroft. Ben Jacoby and Chase Palmer are writing the script.

The film “revolves around a widow crime writer who, after his 8-year-old son is abducted, looks to his estranged father, a retired former police detective, for help, only to discover a connection with the decades-old case of a convicted serial killer known as ‘The Whisper Man.’” Production is slated to kick off this spring on the East Coast, with Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Angela Russo-Otstot, and Michael Disco producing for Agbo.

“Agbo is excited to be embarking on our 6th film with our incredible partners at Netflix,” said Russo-Otstot, Agbo’s chief creative officer. “The Whisper Man...

The Harvey Weinstein episode has been a dark age in Hollywood’s eccentric and colorful history. Throughout the megaproducer’s scandalous career, he has preyed on actresses, starting from Gwyneth Paltrow to Angelina Jolie. The lawsuit that unceremoniously ended his career finally landed him in prison in February 2020.

Harvey Weinstein [Photo Credit: Sky News]

However, trauma often lingers even after much time has passed. Despite shredding the hopes and dreams of many young and wide-eyed debutantes in the field, Weinstein’s actions remained unheard of and unspoken among friends and family.

Now, in the post-Me Too era, actresses have been more confident about voicing their own stories regarding their one fateful encounter with Harvey Weinstein.

Harvey Weinstein creeped out Marvel actress Gwyneth Paltrow in Iron Man 2 [Credit: Marvel Studios]

In her early 20s, Gwyneth Paltrow had already found a footing in Hollywood as the daughter of Hollywood power couple Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner.

Ben Stiller is still thinking about an opinion piece from more than 20 years ago.

The “Severance” director said during The New York Times’ “The Interview” podcast that after starring in 1996’s “The Cable Guy,” 1999’s “There’s Something About Mary,” and 2000’s “Meet the Parents,” the Los Angeles Times published a plea to stop casting Stiller in comedies.

“I remember opening up the L.A. Times and there was this writer who wrote a letter: ‘Dear God, stop putting Ben Stiller in comedies,’” Stiller said. “I was just like, I don’t know, I’m here, I love doing what I do. But it’s only in retrospect that I can go, ‘Wow, there was a thing happening that I was fortunate to be a part of.’ But I don’t know what the zeitgeist was.”

He continued, “You can look at 2000s comedies, and they were a specific kind of thing,...

Gwyneth Paltrow is reflecting on her family.

While celebrating Hanukkah with Noa Tishby, the 52-year-old actress and Goop founder revealed that her mother Blythe Danner and late father Bruce Paltrow caused some scandal with their romance.

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“My mother’s Christian, my father’s Jewish,” she explained.

“It’s interesting — I grew up in a time in the ’70s where interfaith marriage was still kind of a big deal. And so it was really hard for both of my parents’ parents that they were marrying each other.”

“It was a bit scandalous. Nobody was happy about it,” she continued, adding, “They definitely grew to accept it later in life and kind of let go of all of that.”

“I felt so fortunate because I got to grow up with these two very different worlds and very different faiths. I always felt an incredible pull to...

Christmas just went by—what did you do? Open presents? Gorged on festive treats? Maybe you had a cozy night by the fire, sipping hot cocoa like a Hallmark movie star. Or maybe, just maybe, you pulled off a prank so epic, that it could give even the mischievous Loki a run for his money. Well, if you’re Aubrey Plaza, the MCU’s latest witch, you definitely went the prank route—and took it straight to Instagram for all of us to enjoy.

Brie Larson enjoys White Christmas | Credit: Instagram @brielarson

So, while the MCU usually has us glued to our seats, watching superheroes save the universe, Plaza decided to inject a little real magic into the world by pranking a kid. Forget intergalactic battles or world-ending threats—Plaza turned her witchy powers into an opportunity to make us all laugh till our sides hurt.

Meanwhile, Brie Larson (aka...

Shailene Woodley made her Broadway debut with a ton of celebs in the audience supporting her!

The Emmy-nominated actress took her opening night bow in the new play Cult of Love on Thursday night (December 12) at the Hayes Theater in New York City.

Shailene is starring in the play alongside Zachary Quinto, Barbie Ferreira, Chris Lowell, Molly Bernard, and more.

Here’s the play’s synopsis: “It’s the holiday season for the Dahl family! The four adult children return to their childhood home with partners in tow. The Dahl traditions include singing carols in harmony at the drop of a hat, but the gathering is anything but harmonious. Old conflicts resurface, new issues battled, and dinner is taking absolutely forever to be served. Will the love the Dahls have for each other be enough to get them through, or will this be their last Christmas together?”

Cult of Love...

A new Meet the Parents sequel is in development with the original cast returning — and it’s timed perfectly to go back to the franchise’s roots. It’s been 14 years since the last movie in this series, 2010’s Little Fockers, and now, a fourth Meet the Parents film is in the works. Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Teri Polo, and Blythe Danner are all in talks to reprise their roles from the original trilogy in the new reboot (via Deadline), and John Hamburg, the co-writer of all three previous movies, is back working on the script.

No plot details have been revealed about Meet the Parents 4, but the story that the reboot should follow seems obvious. The first movie, the endlessly quotable Meet the Parents, revolved around Stiller’s Greg Focker trying to win over his fiancée Pam’s stubborn parents. The second one, Meet the Fockers, revolved around Greg and Pam’s wedding,...

Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller are in talks to return for a new 'Meet the Parents' film.A new project is in development at Universal Pictures and fellow cast members Teri Polo and Blythe Danner are also in negotiations about reprising their roles.'Meet the Parents' was released in 2000 and centred on the comically awkward and tension-filled dynamic between male nurse Greg Focker (Stiller) and his fearsome ex-CIA father-in-law Jack Byrnes (De Niro).The dynamic between the pair both evolves and stays the same as Greg marries Jack's daughter Pam (Polo) and has children with her.'Meet the Parents' was critically and commercially acclaimed and went on to inspire the sequels 'Meet the Fockers' and 'Little Fockers' – which were released in 2004 and 2010 respectively.Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand also appeared in the franchise as Greg's parents Bernie and Roz although it isn't clear whether they will be returning.

Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller are returning for Meet The Parents 4, continuing a franchise which has been tolerated since the start of the millennium.

Though Robert De Niro is quite rightly acclaimed as one of the greatest actors of all time, his forays into comedies have been mixed, to say the least. Analyze This and Analyze That did a good job of parodying his tough guy screen persona, and Midnight Run is one of the all time great buddy comedies. But in recent years, you really do have to wonder why he put his name to films like The Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle and gross out comedy Dirty Grandpa. Cash, presumably.

His most successful foray into comedy – commercially if not critically – is easily the Meet The Parents franchise, which was a remake based on a 1992 independent film of the same name written by Greg Glienna (who directed) and Mary Ruth Clarke.

John Waters somehow can’t find funding for a new movie starring Aubrey Plaza, but Hollywood is apparently more than happy to throw millions of dollars at a fourth entry in the Meet the Parents franchise. At least we’ll finally have answers to all of those lingering mysteries from Little Fockers.

Yes, Deadline is reporting that original stars Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner are all in talks to appear in the movie, which is currently in development at Universal Pictures.

But we would like to offer a counterpoint: don’t. Don’t make any more of these movies.

The first Meet the Parents worked because it had a very simple, extremely relatable premise: a character meets their romantic partner’s parents and feels both intimidated and embarrassed. Most adults have experienced some version of this scenario. And Meet the Parents took that shared experience to comedic extremes,...

As a wise Focker once said, "You can milk anything with nipples." But in the case of the Meet The Parents franchise, turns out you actually just need Ben Stiller playing a man called Gaylord Focker and Robert De Niro playing his ever-alert, ex-CIA Father-In-Law Jack Byrnes. And having already encompassed a whole trilogy — Meet The Parents, Meet The Fockers, and Meet The Parents: Little Fockers — to date, it looks like the time has come to enter Focker-Byrnes' circle of trust once again. Per Deadline's reporting, a fourth film in the franchise is in the works at Universal Pictures, with Stiller and De Niro in early talks to return for more farcical family shenanigans.

Plot details on the fourquel remain hush-hush, at least for now, but as well as De Niro and Stiller circling comebacks for this one, we do know that longtime franchise co-writer John Hamburg is on script duties,...

We will be watching this. “Meet the Parents,” the beloved 2000 comedy that begat sequels “Meet the Fockers” and “Little Fockers,” has a third sequel in the works, Deadline reports.

Stars Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Teri Polo, and Blythe Danner are reportedly in early talks to return for the fourth film in the franchise, which follows Greg Focker (Stiller) as he navigates his relationship with his wife Pam (Teri Polo) and her parents, Dina (Danner) and intimidating former CIA agent Jack (De Niro). Plot details are being kept in a circle of trust, but John Hamburg, who co-wrote the first three films, is writing the script. No director has been attached yet, nor have any of the franchise’s other cast members, which include Owen Wilson as Pam’s ex-fiancé and Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand as Greg’s parents.

Universal is the studio behind the project. De Niro and Jane Rosenthal,...

Universal Pictures is in early talks with the main cast of “Meet the Parents” — Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner — to return for a fourth installment in the 2000s romantic comedy film series, TheWrap has learned.

John Hamburg, who wrote the screenplays for the three previous films, will also return in the same role. Jane Rosenthal and De Niro will produce through Tribeca Productions, while Stiller and John Lesher will produce through Red Hour Films and “Meet the Parents” director Jay Roach will produce through Delirious Media.

EVP of Production Development Matt Reilly and director of Production Development Jacqueline Garrell will oversee the project for Universal.

Released in 2000, “Meet the Parents” starred Stiller as Greg Focker, a nurse looking to propose to his longtime girlfriend Pam (Polo). But first, he hopes to gain the approval of Pam’s parents, played by De Niro and Danner, with...

Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro are in talks to reprise their characters for a new comedy follow-up

Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller are in talks to reprise their roles in a new Meet the Parents sequel.

According to Deadline, the actors, along with their fellow co-stars Blythe Danner and Teri Polo, are in discussions to return for an as yet untitled follow-up.

The Fockers are back. Universal Pictures is in development on a new entry in the “Meet the Parents” franchise, and stars Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, and Blythe Danner are all in early talks to return to what will be the fourth film in the series, an individual with knowledge of the project told IndieWire.

No director is set, but John Hamburg is writing the screenplay. The “Meet the Parents” franchise is one of the more successful comedy series ever, with a total franchise gross of over $1.13 billion at the global box office.

Plot details are being kept under wraps for the untitled film.

The series kicked off with “Meet the Parents” in 2000, which starred Stiller as a man trying to win the affection — or join the “circle of trust” — of his fiancé’s (Polo) hard-nosed parents, played by De Niro and Danner, made especially more complicated by...

Universal Pictures is ready to enter the circle of trust again with a new Meet the Parents movie in the works.

Original franchise stars Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner are in early talks to return for a new film. John Hamburg, who worked on the screenplay for the 2000 original and the two subsequent sequels, is writing the script. A director has not yet been announced.

Producers include De Niro and Jane Rosenthal for Tribeca Productions, Jay Roach for Delirious Media and Stiller and John Lesher for Red Hour Films. Universal’s executive vp of production development Matt Reilly and director of production development Jacqueline Garrell are overseeing the project for the studio.

Helmed by Roach, Meet the Parents focuses on a nurse (Stiller) having trouble getting accepted by his girlfriend’s overbearing father (De Niro). The 2000 film surpassed $330 million at the global box office, and 2004’s sequel Meet the Fockers,...

When he’s not directing episodes of Severance or learning how to be a parent to estranged nephews in the David Gordon Green-directed holiday comedy Nutcrackers, Ben Stiller likes to map out his next move, which could take him back to the Circle of Trust for a new Meet the Parents movie. According to Deadline, Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, and Blythe Danner are in early talks for a new film in the Meet the Parents franchise.

John Hamburg, who wrote all three Parents films, including Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers, and Little Fockers, returns to write the screenplay. Sources say no director is attached, but the studio is on the hunt. Jane Rosenthal and De Niro produce through Tribeca Productions alongside Jay Roach. Roach directed the first two films in the franchise and helped produce all three in the trilogy via Delirious Media. Ben Stiller...

Meet the Parents 4 with Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller is in development.

According to Deadline, Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, and Blythe Danner are in early talks to return for a new film in the Meet the Parents franchise. John Hamburg, who co-wrote the three previous films, will pen the screenplay.

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Meet the Parents

Ben Stiller stars in Meet the Parents as Greg Focker, a male nurse who attempts to gain the sympathy of his girlfriend's parents when meeting them for the first time. Robert De Niro and Teri Polo co-star alongside Stiller in the 2000 comedy, which spawned two sequels: Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers.

Release Date  October 6, 2000Rating  PG-13Runtime  108 minutesGenres  Romance, ComedyCast  Robert De Niro, Teri Polo, Owen Wilson, Blythe Danner, Ben StillerDirector  Jay RoachWriters  Jim Herzfeld,...

Another movie in the Meet the Parents universe is in the works!

Universal Pictures is in early talks with some of the film’s original stars to return for another film, which would be written by John Hamburg, who co-wrote the first three films in the universe.

Keep reading to find out more…

In talks to return are stars Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner, Deadline reports. Plot details are not known at this time, but

Ben and Teri portray a married couple in the franchise with Robert and Blythe portraying her parents. Chaos and in-law issues ensue.

The first film was released in 2000 with the most recent, titled Little Fockers, released in 2010.

Stay tuned as we learn more!

There was a Meet the Parents reunion in 2018 and we have video!

A fourth Meet the Parents film is in development at Universal Pictures, with franchise stars Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, and Blythe Danner all in talks to return, according to Deadline.

John Hamburg, who co-wrote the three prior films in the franchise, is penning Meet the Parents 4. There’s no word on who is directing the movie, and plot details are being kept under wraps at present moment.

The original Meet the Parents film, released in 2000 and directed by Jay Roach, was a commercial blockbuster, earning more than $330 million worldwide. Its first sequel, Meet the Fockers, also directed by Roach, followed in 2004. A second sequel, the Paul Weitz-directed Little Fockers, arrived in 2010.

Meet the Parents 4 in the Works with Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller

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Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner are in early talks to star in the next installment in the “Meet the Parents” franchise. Plot details for the fourth film in the series remain under wraps.

John Hamburg is set to write the screenplay. Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro will produce through Tribeca Productions. Jay Roach will produce through Delirious Media. Ben Stiller and John Lesher will produce through Red Hour Films. Executive vice president of production development Matt Reilly and director of production development Jacqueline Garell will oversee the project for the studio.

“Meet the Parents” grossed over $330 million in the global box office, becoming the seventh highest-grossing film globally in 2000. Its sequels, “Meet the Fockers” and “Little Fockers,” were also box office successes, culminating in a total franchise gross of over $1.13 billion in the global box office.

Variety reviewed the first film from 2000 positively, with Todd McCarthy writing,...

Exclusive: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner are in early talks to return for a new film in the Meet the Parents franchise, in development at Universal Pictures.

Plot details are being kept inside the circle of trust. John Hamburg — who co-wrote all three prior films in the franchise, and produced the most recent, Little Fockers — is set to write the screenplay. No word yet on who’s directing.

Jane Rosenthal and De Niro are returning to produce through Tribeca Productions, along with Jay Roach — who directed the first two films and produced all three past installments — through Delirious Media. Stiller and John Lesher will also produce through Red Hour Films. Executive Vice President of Production Development Matt Reilly and Director of Production Development Jacqueline Garrell will oversee the project for the studio.

A comedy juggernaut hinging on uncomfortable situations with in-laws, Meet the Parents centers...

Because we are doomed to seeing the same ten or so movies with the same ten or so actors spun-off, sequel-ed, and remade over and over again for the rest of our lives, there's going to be a new Meet The Parents. The original cast, which notably includes Ben Stiller,...

Gwyneth Paltrow fought with Harvey Weinstein? ( Photo Credit – Instagram; Flickr )

Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t just win an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love—she went to war with Harvey Weinstein behind the scenes. Paltrow didn’t hold back in her Variety cover story celebrating two decades since her Oscar win, calling the disgraced producer a “bully” and revealing just how many battles they had.

“I wasn’t scared of him,” Paltrow said, recalling her early days at Miramax. As the studio’s golden girl, she felt it was her job to stand up to Weinstein. And boy, did she.

The Emma Money Showdown

The first significant fight? Emma is the 1996 flick in which Paltrow earned praise and a big paycheck. When Weinstein tried withholding her back-end compensation, Paltrow didn’t just roll over. “I got him to pay me something,” she said, describing the legal letter they sent with the check.

Gwyneth Goes Skiing, an immersive stage musical inspired by Gwyneth Paltrow’s legal battle with optician Terry Sanderson, is headed to the U.S.

The musical initially debuted in London with two sold-out runs. Producers Awkward Productions are now planning to bring it to Park City, Utah in January of 2025 followed by stops at Soho Playhouse in New York City and the Elysian in Los Angeles later that month.

Gwyneth Goes Skiing tells the story of Paltrow’s legal battle with Sanderson, who sued her after she collided with him on the ski slopes.

“And there’s the internet. At this very moment your kids are on YouTube watching a cat on a toilet. Instead of watching that footage where it belongs: On the Fox network!”

Conan O’Brien said that as part of his “Trouble at NBC” song-and-dance number at the 2006 Emmys, which enumerated the many challenges facing NBC, even though the awards show was airing on NBC. For this writer’s money, that entire Emmys broadcast was the most successful of this young century. And all thanks due to O’Brien’s whipsmart but never truly cynical energy. It’s a formula he should replicate at the 2025 Oscars, where the Academy just announced this morning that O’Brien will host.

There are some incredible lessons to learn from that 2006 Emmys ceremony, which was O’Brien’s second gig for TV’s biggest night. The most important one is: He’s a TV fan,...

Bleecker Street executives Kent Sanderson and Myles Bender can vividly remember their first time seeing “Eye in the Sky,” a drone warfare thriller starring Helen Mirren and Alan Rickman that premiered in 2015 at Toronto Film Festival with hopes of finding distribution. Not long into the Canadian screening, they were held rapt by film but quickly realized their contemporaries in the room didn’t feel the same way.

“Within 15 minutes, I started watching a lot of other buyers get up and leave. I guess they felt the film was too challenging,” says Sanderson, Bleecker Street’s president. He and Bender, head of marketing and creative advertising, pushed for their boss, the film company’s co-founder and CEO, Andrew Karpen, to watch the film so they could bid on the distribution rights. Bender recalls, “We were looking at each other and saying, ‘What are we seeing that they aren’t?’”

Karpen shared...

Gwyneth Paltrow has been a modern fashion and lifestyle icon in the Hollywood landscape, especially after the actress’ legendary picture-perfect relationship with Brad Pitt that birthed countless trends and unforgettable photos in the ’90s. But the power couple was only one minuscule part of Paltrow’s stalwart presence in the industry and her classical beauty.

Shakespeare in Love feat. Gwyneth Paltrow [Credit: Miramax]

As the industry legends Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner’s daughter, the Shakespeare in Love actress has already been stapled with the label of a nepo-baby. However, the actress has carved out a platform for herself and her fans with the privilege that her background granted her. Now a highly proficient businesswoman, Gwyneth Paltrow can proudly boast of a career well-served and a life well-lived, if only for a few alterations via plastic surgery.

Gwyneth Paltrow Considers Going Under the Knife? Gwyneth Paltrow in Se7en (1995) [Credit: co0046718 autoNew Line Cinema...

Miyazaki has become one of the most celebrated directors of kids movies for a reason, and viewers will find his films on-demand on Max.

Hayao Miyazaki has had a remarkable career. Miyazaki’s career started in 1963, and for the past six decades he has captured the imagination of audiences with his groundbreaking work. The legendary animator and filmmaker’s newest movie “The Boy and the Heron” is coming to streaming on Max on Friday, Sept. 6, joining the other Studio Ghibli titles available to stream on that service. We’ll run through the other Miyazaki films on Max below, and explain your subscription options for the streamer as well!

Sign Up $9.99+ / month Max.com Where to Stream Miyazaki’s Films:

Castle in the Sky

The Cat Returns

From Up on Poppy Hill

Howl’s Moving Castle

Kiki’s Delivery Service

My Neighbor Totoro

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

Only Yesterday

Pom...

Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including events for 1992, The Deliverance and Only Murders in the Building.

Adam Sandler: Love You special screening

Sandler debuted his new Netflix comedy special in NYC on Aug. 20, alongside director (and former Uncut Gems collaborator) Josh Safdie.

Josh Safdie and Adam Sandler The Crow premiere

Bill Skarsgard and FKA Twigs walked the carpet at the NY premiere of their new version of The Crow on Aug. 20. The premiere was followed by an afterparty hosted by Lionsgate, TikTok and Ssense.

Bill Skarsgard and FKA Twigs Director Rupert Sanders at the afterparty. Only Murders in the Building premiere

With season four of the hit Hulu comedy heading to Los Angeles, stars Steve Martin, Martin

Short, Selena Gomez and Meryl Streep followed suit for the premiere on the Paramount lot on Aug. 22.

Meryl Streep,...

Gwyneth Paltrow is making her return to the big screen for the first time in five years. The “Shakespeare in Love” Oscar winner will join Timothée Chalamet in “Marty Supreme,” a new film for A24 about a ping pong champion, directed by Josh Safdie.

Since reprising her role as Pepper Potts in 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame,” Paltrow has somewhat stepped away from Hollywood (she also appeared in the series “The Politician” in 2020), saying she doesn’t miss screen acting and had a desire to one day do a Broadway play.

She did, however, joke that if anyone could get her back to acting, it would be Robert Downey Jr., her “Iron Man” co-star. Coincidentally, Downey Jr. is returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as mega villain Doctor Doom — though it’s not as if Paltrow has ever been super aware of the goings on of the MCU.

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Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen are stepping out in The Hamptons promoting their new movie.

The two actress stepped out for a special screening of their movie His Three Daughters hosted by Netflix on Saturday evening (August 24) in East Hampton, New York.

The ladies were joined at the screening by their director Azazel Jacobs.

Other stars at the screening included Christie Brinkley, designer Donna Karan, Revenge actress Margarita Levieva, Katie Couric and husband John Molner, Deborra-Lee Furness, and Blythe Danner.

Here’s the movie’s synopsis via Netflix: “Emotions run high when three estranged sisters reunite in a cramped New York City apartment to watch over their ailing father during his final days.”

His Three Daughters, which also stars Carrie Coon, will be released on Netflix on Sept. 20.

Click through the gallery for 45+ pictures of the stars at the screening…...

It Ends with Us is a romantic drama film directed by Justin Baldoni from a screenplay by Christy Hall. Based on a 2016 novel of the same name by author Colleen Hoover, the romantic drama film follows the story of Lily Bloom as she moves to Boston to achieve her lifelong dream of opening a business. While running her business she meets Ryle, a charming neurosurgeon, and falls in love with him. But when she sees a side of Ryle that reminds her of her parent’s relationship, their relationship begins to crumble and that’s when her first love Atlas reenters her life. It Ends with Us stars Blake Lively in the lead role with Justin Baldoni, Brandon Sklenar, Isabela Ferrer, Jenny Slate, Alex Neustaedter, and Hasan Minhaj starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the drama and romance in Blake Lively’s It Ends with Us here are...

Warning: This article covers Disorder Eating behaviors Introduction On a recent podcast,’The Art of Being Well,’ actress and businesswoman Gwyneth Paltrow, star of Shakespeare in Love, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and The Royal Tenenbaums, discussed her diet with Dr. Will Cole. On this podcast, she talked about how she does not eat much and practices intermittent fasting. This is a practice in which people are focused on eating or not eating at certain times, regardless of an impulse to eat. She said that she also eats bone broth for lunch most days and eats a paleo diet. This is a diet that excludes non-processed foods and focuses on increasing the intake of fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, lean meat, and fish. She also stated that she enjoys getting an IV injection of chemicals and acids that are commonly found in proteins. This has caused a backlash on the internet due...

Emma Roberts appeared on the “Table for Two” podcast (via Vanity Fair) and was asked whether becoming a “massive movie star” was a priority for her when she decided to follow in the career footsteps of her father, Eric Roberts, and her aunt, Julia Roberts. Not quite. Emma said that watching her aunt become an A-list superstar as a kid showed her how scary that level of fame can be.

“I saw very up close what that really looks like,” Roberts said. “It’s obviously fun and it’s great, but there is a part of it that’s really scary. So I’ve wanted to kind of carve my own path. … Fame has never been the goal, because fame at a certain level is kind of scary.”

“Even in my later teens, I was like, I never want my fame to outweigh my work,” she continued. “Because there’s...

If the Toyota Prius, the world’s first modern hybrid car, had landed with a thud, we’d be living in a different world. Carmakers would have thought twice before launching rival models. And we’d have less reason for hope in the battle against rising temperatures. That it instead proved a hit is thanks in no small part to Hollywood — and Deborah Levin.

In 2000, when Levin took over as CEO of the Environmental Media Association (Ema), she was uncertain. “I had never done nonprofits. I didn’t know anything about the environment. I knew nothing. I sort of fell into this because I was incredibly inspired by the mission,” Levin tells The Hollywood Reporter. The organization, founded in 1989, was known for its advocacy of green initiatives and environmentally themed entertainment, leveraging Hollywood’s social influence to change industry and consumer behavior. Levin needed a transformative new campaign.

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The arrival of Hawkeye's former love Carlye during a season 4 episode highlighted his struggle with commitment, ultimately choosing medicine over romance. Despite viewers wanting a Hawkeye/Margaret romance, his doomed proposal to Carlye proves it was always doomed. The characters' focus on their careers and differing views on the war also made them an unrealistic pairing.

An important season 4 episode of Mash underlined why a romance between Hawkeye and Margaret was always doomed. Hawkeye and Margaret are the only actors to appear in both the first and final episodes, and it's fascinating to chart how they evolved over Mash's 11 seasons. Alan Alda's "Hawkeye" Pierce quickly became the breakout star, but his drunken, womanizing ways were later revealed to be his way of coping with the unyielding horrors of the war. Alda was also instrumental in the show's gradual shift from sitcom to dramedy.

Loretta Swit's Margaret...

Gwyneth Paltrow is an incredible actress who broke into the mainstream thanks to her roles in movies like Se7en and Emma. An incredibly talented actress, it is a fact that not many know; Steven Spielberg is her Godfather. A good friend of her father, film producer-director Bruce Paltrow, the actress has thus been often hailed a nepo-baby by several fans.

Gwyneth Paltrow [PC: ABC/ Shark Tank | YouTube]While she has tried to deny it, and she is in fact a very talented actress, Paltrow might never beat such allegations after fans know how her highly acclaimed Godfather put her on the map.

Gwyneth Paltrow is Never Beating Nepo Baby Allegations

Hollywood director Steven Spielberg [PC: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons]Gwyneth Paltrow was born to actress Blythe Danner and the film producer-director Bruce Paltrow. having several of her family members in the entertainment business, the actress too started as an actress at a young age, making...

With Warner Media merging with Discovery back in 2022 and consolidation within the entertainment industry on the rise ever since, many fans of TCM — which is owned by Warner — fear their favorite home for cinema history might fall victim to these drastic cuts. Thankfully the channel continues to sparkle and shine like the Hollywood of old with filmmakers Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Paul Thomas Anderson jumping on board to help curate and boost recognition of the channel. With their help, other directors have also come aboard — Guillermo del Toro, Wes Anderson, and Jason Reitman to name a few — offering their picks each month in the hopes of bringing in more viewers and keeping the love for classic cinema alive. This month’s curator is multi-hyphenate Viggo Mortensen, whose second directorial effort, “The Dead Don’t Hurt,” was released today.

In reflecting on his cinematic influences, Mortensen reached back to one of the heydays of Hollywood,...

In 2019, Sandra Oh simultaneously received her seventh and eighth acting Emmy nominations for “Killing Eve” (drama lead) and “Saturday Night Live” (comedy guest). Five years later, her performance bid total is set to reach an even dozen thanks to her respective lead and supporting performances in the telefilm “Quiz Lady” and the limited series “The Sympathizer.” Earning TV academy recognition for these two roles would make her the eighth woman to compete for both possible limited program acting awards at once.

In “Quiz Lady,” which premiered on Hulu last November, Oh plays Jenny Yum, a vivacious yet reckless woman who reunites with her estranged younger sister (Awkwafina) to resolve their mother’s gambling debts. “The Sympathizer,” which began airing on HBO in April, features her in the role of Sofia Mori, a 1970s Japanese American secretary who becomes entangled with a communist spy (Hoa Xuande).

Prior to amassing her four...

Following his 2015 Emmy win for the final season of “Mad Men,” Jon Hamm took a large step back from TV stardom in order to beef up his film resume with titles such as “Baby Driver,” “Richard Jewell,” and “Top Gun: Maverick.” Now that he has made a splashy return to the small screen by playing new roles on “Fargo” and “The Morning Show” and reprising one on “Good Omens,” his Emmy nominations total could instantly rise from 16 to 19. If all of his possible 2024 bids come to fruition, he will be only the fourth person and second man to ever compete for three acting Emmys at once.

Hamm’s string of recent TV acting gigs began last July when he returned for season two Prime Video’s “Good Omens” as supporting character Gabriel – a humanoid version of the biblical archangel. He then fulfilled the new role of ambitious tech billionaire Paul Marks...

John Leguizamo said during an interview on Andy Cohen’s SiriusXM radio show that it was “difficult” working with Patrick Swayze on their 1995 movie “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar.” The cult classic starred Leguizamo, Swayze and Wesley Snipes as three drag queens whose road trip across America to attend a competition in Hollywood is upended when their car breaks down.

“Rest in peace, I love him. He was just neurotic and I’m not … you know, I’m neurotic too but, I don’t know. He was just … it was difficult working with him,” Leguizamo said of Swayze. “Just neurotic, I think maybe a tiny bit insecure. And then Wesley and I, we vibed because we’re people of color and we got each other. And I’m also an improviser, and [Patrick] didn’t like that.”

Leguizamo said that Swayze “couldn’t keep up with” with his...

Chris Pine, Cynthia Erivo, Kieran Culkin, Sharon Stone and Rosie Perez celebrated Jeff Bridges’ seven-decade career at the 49th annual Chaplin Awards Gala in New York City on Monday night. But the Big Lebowski star almost chose a different career path.

During his acceptance speech for the Film at Lincoln Center‘s prestigious honor, the True Grit star shared that he originally “resisted” the idea of pursuing acting full-time for a few different reasons.

“It made me nervous, anxious, and I had other things I wanted to do,” he told the full auditorium at Alice Tully Hall. “I was very much into music. I loved ceramics, painting, and who wants to do what their parents do anyway?”

He recalled his father, actor Lloyd Bridges, explaining to him that he could do all of those things in this career path and use them all to some degree, which was one of the beauties of the job.

Jeff Bridges isn’t like other leading men. So goes the tale for over 50 years and 70 films. Where other actors of his generation—Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson—brought volume and bravado, Bridges excelled in the shadows. A charming pretty boy turned weary and soulful iconoclast, his characters have never been showy. As The Dude in “The Big Lebowski” or Bad Blake in “Crazy Heart,” he’s moved into his roles and lived in them—“enough,” as one critic wrote as early as 1973, “to make a picture worth seeing.”

“I’m not sure what to make of all that,” Bridges told Variety at Film at Lincoln Center Monday evening, where the actor received the prestigious Chaplin Award. “It’s shocking for myself to think about how many films I’ve done,” he said. “Each film is like a little lifetime. I was a reluctant actor at first. It took many...

Gwyneth Paltrow is opening up about the sacrifices she’s made as a mother of two children.

During an interview for Today With Hoda & Jenna, Zanna Roberts Rassi mentioned that Paltrow’s mother, actress Blythe Danner, “gave up some incredible roles” to raise her family, and was wondering if the actress-turned-wellness guru has done the same.

“There were a lot,” admitted the Oscar winner, who shares her daughter Apple, 19, and son Moses, 18, with ex-husband Chris Martin. She is currently married to Brad Falchuk.

“I mean it’s funny because it didn’t feel like a sacrifice to me at the time, but if I look back at it through a cultural lens, I think like, wow, if people know that I didn’t do this movie or that movie, they’d be quite shocked,” she added.

While Paltrow has starred in her fair share of movies throughout her acting career,...

Exclusive: Duplass Brothers Production recently wrapped production on the Katie Aselton-directed feature Magic Hour, starring Daveed Diggs. Aselton stars alongside Diggs in the project which she co-wrote with Mark Duplass.

Details regarding the project’s plot and character descriptions are under wraps. Magic Hour is executive produced by Duplass, Mel Eslyn and Jay Duplass. Emily Neumann produced.

Aselton is a multi-hyphenate with directing credits including The Freebie (2010), Black Rock (2012) and most recently, Mack & Rita (2022) and acting credits that span both TV and film. On TV, she starred in FX’s Legion and Apple TV+’s The Morning Show; and on the big screen, in Old Dads (2023), The Unholy (2021), Bombshell (2019) and the John Lithgow and Blythe Danner feature The Tomorrow Man. She is repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment.

Up next for Diggs, he will star as Josh in the indie film A Tree...

The classic sitcom series "M*A*S*H" was incredibly ahead of its time, managing to get quite a bit of mature material past network censors. Sometimes that material had to deal with the anti-war nature of the series and the difficult conditions the characters found themselves in, and sometimes that material was just bawdy. Seriously, there are a lot of sex jokes in "M*A*S*H" and quite a few people are knocking combat boots, but originally there was going to be even more sex, and more adultery. There's already an awful lot of adultery on "M*A*S*H," with several major characters cheating on their spouses, but the original plan would have taken that up several notches.

The adultery in "M*A*S*H" has a complicated legacy — the early seasons are a bit more laid-back with the characters' morals and there's quite a bit of marital infidelity, while...