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Matthew Lillard, who played Stuart ‘Stu’ Macher in the first 1996 Scream movie, is returning to the franchise for Spyglass/Paramount’s Scream 7.

How is that possible? We will see. Does Stu have a twin? Doesn’t look like it from Lillard’s Instagram post. Last we saw the horror-movie obsessed Stu, he was chasing Neve Campbell’s Sidney down 29 years ago, attempting to kill her. However, she had the upper hand, dropping a TV on his head. Also, you’ll remember that Billy and Stu began stabbing each other to make themselves look like the victims — just moments before Sidney kicked their ass.

Scream launched Lillard’s career out of a cannon with the actor continuing on to star in the Scooby-Doo live-action franchise, She’s All That, The Descendants and even a key role in the Blumhouse/Universal hit Five Nights at Freddy’s.

Disney+ is gearing up for a fresh adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera, this time with a modern twist aimed at young adults. According to scooper Mttsh, Rachel Zegler, known for her roles in West Side Story and Shazam! Fury of the Gods, is reportedly being considered for the role of Christine, the young soprano who becomes the obsession of the mysterious Opera Ghost.

However, it’s unclear if she’s already in talks or just on the studio’s radar.

This upcoming version, simply titled Phantom, will be directed by Kenny Ortega, the mind behind High School Musical and The Descendants. Ortega’s adaptation will stick to the classic storyline: Erik, a disfigured musical genius living under the Paris Opera House, falls for Christine and manipulates her rise to stardom.

Over the years, The Phantom of the Opera has seen countless adaptations. The most famous is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway musical,...

Yet another adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera is in development for Disney+, and the project may now be honing in on its female lead.

According to scooper Mttsh, Rachel Zegler is being eyed to play Christine, the object of the titular Opera Ghost's obsession. Whether this means she's actually in talks for the role or simply someone the studio is interested in is not clear.

Titled Phantom, this YA take on the classic novel by Gaston Leroux will be directed and executive produced by Kenny Ortega, who has led two major Disney franchises with High School Musical and The Descendants.

It doesn't sound like Ortega's version will be changing up the basic premise, with the story focusing on Erik, "a mysterious, disfigured musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House. He becomes obsessed with a young soprano, Christine, and manipulates events to make her the star of the opera.

After years and years of delivering epic performances in multiple masterpieces spread across numerous genres in a professional acting affair that started back in the late 1970s, George Clooney is finally all set to make his splash in the Broadway world as well. For one, after the television and film sets, it’s finally time now for the stage to experience his expertise.

For about more than four decades, the now-63-year-old Academy Award winner had been busy showcasing his immaculate acting chops in both blockbuster and independent films, earning numerous accolades for the same. That said, jumping into the world where he would be performing in stage adaptations is a significant milestone in his star-studded career.

George Clooney. | Credits: Ocean’s Eleven / Warner Bros. Pictures.

Additionally, this move will also require the four-time Golden Globe winner, who is famous for pieces like Gravity (2013), Ocean’s Eleven (2001), and The Descendants (2011), to...

Ever since just after punk music's messy birth amid the ascent of the Ramones and the Sex Pistols in 1975, there have been punks accusing each other of not being punk enough. That accusation has been levied for pretty much every reason imaginable, but most commonly the cries of "sellout" have been linked to the music not being hard enough, which led to the genesis of pop punk.

While "real" or "traditional" punk music is generally steeped in anti-authoritarian and anti-establishment ideologies, its poppier cousin tends to take itself a little less seriously, and has since given birth to subgenres like skate punk and power pop. For all the name has been used derisively, though, there's no denying pop punk is a genre with mass appeal and decades of history, and pop punk is very much not dead. Here are some of the greatest albums in that history, from pop punk's...

Shailene Woodley began her career as a child artist in the 1999 TV film Replacing Dad. She played a child actor for a long time on television before landing the lead role in five seasons of the teen drama, The Secret Life of the American Teenager. She starred as George Clooney’s daughter in The Descendants and did some indie films before landing her franchise role in the Divergent trilogy.

Shailene Woodley in a still from Divergent | Credits: Lionsgate

Divergent was a star-studded affair with many young stars and a few veteran stars in the mix. Lionsgate took up the project after their success with Jennifer Lawrence’s The Hunger Games, another book-to-film adaptation. Interestingly, her big franchise film did not turn out to be the high-paying gig that Shailene Woodley expected.

How Much Did Shailene Woodley Make From The Divergent Trilogy? Shailene Woodley as Beatrice “Tris” Prior in Insurgent | Credits:...

“Ghosts” Season 4 has cast Nat Faxon in a guest star role, Variety has learned.

Faxon will appear in an upcoming episode of the hit CBS comedy as founding father Alexander Hamilton, who fans of the show know is the rival of Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones). The episode will air in early 2025.

Faxon is an Academy Award winner, sharing the award for best adapted screenplay with Alexander Payne and Jim Rash for the 2012 film “The Descendants.” He currently stars in the Apple TV+ comedy series “Loot” opposite Maya Rudolph, which is going into its third season. Faxon’s other TV credits include “The Conners,” “Our Flag Means Death,” “Gaslit,” and “Friends From College.” He is also known for films like “The Way Way Back,” which he co-wrote and co-directed with Rash.

He is repped by CAA, Artists First, and Goodman Genow.

“Ghosts” continues to be one of the most popular comedies in the CBS lineup.

“Loot” star Nat Faxon is set to guest star on CBS’ “Ghosts” in an episode slated to air in early 2025.

The series stars Rose McIver as cheerful freelance journalist Samantha and Utkarsh Ambudkar as up-and-coming chef Jay, who throw both caution and money to the wind when they decide to convert a huge run-down country estate they inherited into a bed and breakfast — only to find it’s inhabited by the many spirits of deceased residents.

The “Our Flag Means Death” star is set to portray Alexander Hamilton, the famous founding father who was Isaac’s rival in life and obsession in death. Faxon’s other notable credits include “The Way Way Back,” “The Descendants,” “Bad Teacher” and “Club Dread.”

“Ghosts,” which airs Thursdays at 8:30 pm Et, is executive produced by Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, Richie Keen, Matthew Baynton, Jim Howick, Simon Farnaby, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond and Martha Howe-Douglas,...

Image Source: Paramount Pictures Before he won two Oscars (for Sideways and The Descendants), Alexander Payne earned his first nomination for writing the dark comedy Election. Starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon, the film struggled to find its footing at the box office upon its initial release, but years of cable TV showings and streaming have turned it into a cult classic, highly acclaimed for its biting humor. In the film, Witherspoon played a student running in a high school election, though she was already in her 20s when she made the film. To prepare herself for the role, she went back to high school for a while; when the film was released, Witherspoon told us what it was like to find herself back in the classroom again. (Click on the media be below to hear Reese Witherspoon.) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Reese_Withersoon_Election_.mp3

Election is...

Dancing With the Stars has opened the door for new opportunities for some celebrities who have competed on the show. In Season 33, The Bachelor's Joey Graziadei and his fiance Kelsey Anderson went from reality TV stars to popular influencers. Model Brooks Nader and Gleb Savchenko's showmance made constant headlines. Even former mirrorball trophy winner and 90s actor, Alfonso Ribeiro, found himself with a brand-new career as the show's co-host.

However, not every celebrity who gets approached to be on DWTS finds it a great opportunity for their career. A certain Hollywood actor turned down the chance to be a contestant for fears that he wouldn't be able to land any more serious acting roles. For this actor, the thought of competing on the beloved reality TV show would just do the opposite for his career.

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Shailene Woodley has been credited with delivering some of the most entertaining pieces of all time, including her fan-favorite Divergent film series and even the 2013 romcom The Spectacular Now. That said, the fact that she once nearly got kicked out of a $177 million film co-starring George Clooney because of her overacting sounds unbelievable. And yet, it couldn’t be truer.

Shailene Woodley. | Credits: Divergent/Lionsgate.

Turns out, when she auditioned for the 2011 comedy-drama masterpiece The Descendants, the actress was called out about her acting out the scene in a bit too overly exaggerated manner, leading to her nearly getting kicked out of it. In fact, if she hadn’t begged her agents to get a callback for this particular piece, perhaps Woodley may have even ended up losing out on the role!

Shailene Woodley Nearly Lost Out on The Descendants for Her Overacting

In the late 2000s, when she auditioned for The Descendants,...

Matthew Lillard thought his career would take off after the success of 2002’s live-action Scooby-Doo, which made $275 million worldwide and launched a sequel. He signed on to play Shaggy again in 2004’s Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, scoring his biggest payday yet and believing his career was only going up from there.

“I thought I’d be the top choice for the next 10 years,” Lillard recently revealed. “But the opposite happened.”

When Scooby-Doo 2 flopped and didn’t reach the $200 million the original earned, Lillard’s career stalled, forcing him to rethink his goals. He admitted he’d been too focused on chasing fame and getting big roles.

At one point, he considered doing Dancing With the Stars but realized it might shift him further from his goal of becoming a respected actor. “I told my agent, ‘I just want to act. I want to be in movies. I need to reset my expectations.

Matthew Lillard had much, much higher expectations for the infamous 2004 box-office bomb “Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.”

At the time, Lillard had secured the biggest salary of his career to reprise the role of Shaggy for the sequel film. The original live-action/CGI feature “Scooby-Doo” was a massive success in 2002, and the James Gunn-penned film franchise poised Lillard to become an A-list star…or so he thought.

“I thought I’d be No. 1 on the call sheet for the next 10 years of movies,” Lillard told Business Insider. “And the reality was the exact opposite happened.”

Instead, “Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed” forced Lillard to reexamine his career. After appearing in Wes Craven’s “Scream” prior to “Scooby,” Lillard had to decide whether he wanted to be famous or a “great actor,” in a binary sense.

“I was caught up in the success of what I was doing, I was caught up...

Matthew Lillard thought his career would explode when the success of 2002’s live-action “Scooby-Doo” (the film earned $275 million worldwide) launched a franchise. The actor signed up to reprise the role of Shaggy in 2004’s “Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed” and earned the biggest payday of his career. The only way forward for his career was up. Or so he thought.

“I thought I’d be No. 1 on the call sheet for the next 10 years of movies,” Lillard recently admitted to Business Insider. “And the reality was the exact opposite happened.”

“Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed” was a critical dud and flopped at the box office, failing to cross the $200 million mark worldwide that the original easily cleared. The failure of the “Scooby-Doo” sequel resulted in Lillard’s career coming to a screeching halt and forced him to reprioritize his goals as an actor.

“I was caught up in the success of what I was doing,...

The 2025 Oscars race for Best Adapted Screenplay has a new front-runner.

“Conclave,” the Edward Berger-directed film that’s written by Peter Straughan and based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Robert Harris, now holds the #1 position to win the adapted screenplay contest at Gold Derby. The movie just opened in U.S. theaters on Friday, October 25. Note that our Oscar odds will continue to change as our Experts, Editors and Users keep making or updating their predictions.

The Focus Features drama stars Ralph Fiennes as Thomas Lawrence, a Cardinal who is tasked with overseeing the election of the late Pope’s successor. But he soon realizes that many of the candidates have personal scandals that could upend the church. Other cast members include Stanley Tucci as Cardinal Bellini, John Lithgow as Cardinal Tremblay, Sergio Castellitto as Cardinal Tedesco, and Isabella Rossellini as Sister Agnes.

Straughan received an...

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Cord cutters have a new way to save on Hulu + Live TV with the streamer’s latest fall deal.

Now through Nov. 19, new and eligible returning subscribers pay only $59.99 per month for three months of Hulu + Live TV with ads — a savings of 28 percent during the promo period. The subscription includes over 95 live channels, Disney+ and ESPN+ (both with ads), and auto-renews at the current rate of $82.99 per month after three months. Previous customers who have not been Hulu subscribers in the past one month can enjoy the deal.

The streaming discount comes after Hulu recently increased prices on its live TV streaming subscriptions. Previously $76.99 and up per month, Hulu + Live TV costs $82.99 per month for the bundle that includes Disney+ (reg. $9.99 and up monthly) and ESPN+ (reg. $11.99 and up monthly) with ads.

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Quick Links Everything Arriving On Disney+ In October 2024 The Best Movies And Shows Arriving On Disney+ This Month

There are twice as many new shows and movies coming to Disney+ in October 2024 than there were in September. There are more episodes of Marvel Cinematic Universe shows in addition to Disney+ shows for its international audience. In addition to those originals, October will also see a lot of Disney Channel original TV series episodes being added to the Disney+ library so that families can rewatch episodes of their favorite shows.

The influx of serial programming in October follows a relatively light September for the streamer. The most popular content on Disney+ last month included the animated kids' series Bluey and the new MCU series Agatha All Along. There's also been a huge resurgence in interest in animated movies like Inside Out because of Inside Out 2. Disney+ also saw a lot...

Shailene Woodley and Kate Winslet first met when they collaborated on the hit film adaptation Divergent. After they got to know each other, Woodley confided that Winslet had a profound impact on her life that ultimately shaped who she’d become.

Kate Winslet helped guide Shailene Woodley through Hollywood Shailene Woodley and Kate Winslet | Kevin Winter/Getty Images

It seems that Winslet and Woodley were able to relate to each other immediately when they came together on the Divergent set. Woodley was just entering another realm of superstardom at the time. She’d graduated from doing her hit television series Secret Life of the American Teenager and went on to the big screen. Soon after her critically acclaimed performance in The Descendants, Woodley was quickly becoming one of Hollywood’s biggest stars.

She was aware that Divergent might only expand her fame even more, which was why she was hesitant...

The iconic movie studio Searchlight Pictures is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1994 under the name Fox Searchlight Pictures, they dropped "Fox" after Disney bought 21st Century Fox The cinema chain Picturehouse in the UK is celebrating "30 Years of Searchlight Pictures" with a screening series of 11 films. Below is their lovely trailer. "An independent film powerhouse formed in 1994 as Fox Searchlight Pictures, to tell the story of Searchlight is to tell the story of the last thirty years of indie film itself: follow the company's decades-spanning thread, weaving award winners and cult classics together, and find a slate of modern masterpieces dear to the hearts of both the most devoted cinephile and the casual movie-goer." Some of my fave Searchlight films: Sunshine, 500 Days of Summer, Napoleon Dynamite, Black Swan, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Slumdog Millionaire, 28 Days Later, Juno, The Menu, Super Troopers, Thank You for Smoking, The Tree of Life,...

Sandra Bullock’s friendship with George Clooney goes back a long way. Ever since they met, they’ve been very supportive of each other’s careers. But fans wondered if Bullock might’ve backstabbed Clooney by taking this film away from him.

How Sandra Bullock reacted when she was told she stole this George Clooney movie George Clooney and Sandra Bullock | Ian Gavan/Getty Images

Bullock starred in the 2015 political drama Our Brand Is Crisis, where she played a political strategist. The role initially wasn’t Bullock’s to take, and was a film that Clooney was tied to for a number of years. But The Blind Side star came across the project when she was looking for meaningful work. She was too impressed by the movie’s script to let it go.

“About two-and-a-half years ago, I just put out the feelers saying, ‘I’m not reading anything I’m excited about.

Shailene Woodley has joined the cast of the upcoming Broadway play Cult of Love from Leslye Headland, the creator of The Acolyte.

She joins Zachary Quinto and Euphoria star Barbie Ferreira, who have also boarded the play about four adult children from the Dahl family returning to their childhood home with their partners for the Christmas holidays, only to see their harmony interrupted as old and new conflicts arise.

Big Little Lies star Woodley, who currently appears in the Three Women TV series for Starz, is making her Broadway debut, as is Headland. The play’s ensemble cast also includes Molly Bernard, Roberta Colindrez, Rebecca Henderson, Christopher Lowell and Christopher Sears.

Woodley’s other credits include the Divergent film series and roles in The Fault in Our Stars, The Spectacular Now and The Descendants. Bernard is best known for playing Lauren Heller on Younger. She also starred in Milkwater and...

Four years after his untimely death, Jenna Ortega recalled a moment when Cameron Boyce once stopped an audition because the two young stars felt “uncomfortable” kissing one another as teens.

“Cameron Boyce, the last time I saw my friend Cameron Boyce, I’d known him since I was like 11 or 12, and we were supposed to kiss,” Ortega explained to her “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice” costars Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara in an interview for Canal+.

“He knew me since I was 11 or 12. This is a few years later, 15, 16, came in, we were supposed to be love interests, but because he obviously felt weird and he was a bit older, he was like … we both just kind of looked at each other and were like, ‘No, we can’t do this.’ It was so sweet, because I was uncomfortable and I was having a hard time in the audition. And then we wished each other well.

A story known for its horror elements and which is now a horror classic is getting a new adaptation on Disney+, and its not the revival I expected for it. The current trend of reboots, revivals, remakes, and legacy sequels has seen both hits and misses. While I admit Im not a big fan of these, some of them have been surprisingly good and have successfully revived franchises or brought back attention to forgotten characters. That said, I would have expected a completely different treatment for a character whos part of the select group of Universals Classic Monsters.

Disney has grown its power in the entertainment industry with its acquisitions and mergers, which have allowed the Mouse House to branch out to other genres under its different banners. Its streaming platform has also allowed Disney to constantly bring a lot more movies and TV shows that are somewhat more accessible to the audience,...

Fall marks the start of the traditional TV season. And while streaming has made television a year-round spectacle, an avalanche of new and returning series make this autumn feel more special than recent years.

Hollywood’s content contraction, along with the post-pandemic and strike landscape results in less shows overall. But upcoming streaming, cable and broadcast offerings come with such promise that we had to double our traditional preview to fit a fraction of the noteworthy titles set to premiere in the coming months. Ryan Murphy is set to take over the conversation with four new shows across three networks — including FX’s “American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez” and “Grotesquerie,” Netflix’s “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” and ABC’s “Doctor Odyssey” — while returning favorites like “Abbott Elementary,” “The Diplomat” and “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon” will keep fans entertained as the air starts to cool. Then there...

Exclusive: Alexander Payne has lambasted a report from earlier this year that the script for his five-time Oscar-nominated film The Holdovers, which he directed from a script by David Hemingson, was plagiarized.

“It was the stupidest thing in the world,” Payne told us at the Sarajevo Film Festival when asked about the Variety report earlier this year, which dropped on the eve of the Oscar ceremony.

In the piece, Luca screenwriter Simon Stephenson accused The Holdovers script of being plagiarized from his 2013 Black List screenplay Frisco.

“It was irresponsible of Variety to report on that without having read the scripts and comparing them themselves,” claimed Payne. “Do you think The New York Times would have done that?”

He added: “I haven’t heard anything more about it and I wish him [Stephenson] well but there was just no merit to it. I mean, I didn’t even pay attention to...

Two-time Academy Award winner Alexander Payne (“The Holdovers”) teased the upcoming sequel to his beloved black comedy “Election” Sunday in Sarajevo while dishing on his desire to dabble in genre, sharing more details of an upcoming Western while also expressing his hopes “to do a good car chase film.”

Payne, who’s appearing at the Sarajevo Film Festival to receive a lifetime achievement award, gave an update on the anticipated sequel to his 1999 adaptation of the novel by Tom Perrotta, starring Reese Witherspoon as the ruthless go-getter Tracy Flick.

Paramount is reported to be developing a sequel for streaming service Paramount+, “Tracy Flick Can’t Win,” based on Perrotta’s follow-up novel, published in 2022, with Witherspoon reprising her iconic role and Payne tapped to direct.

“There is talk. Jim Taylor and I are conceiving that now,” Payne said on Sunday, describing conversations with his longtime collaborator, also in attendance. “If...

Some TV actors criticize their shows due to bad messaging or unwanted character arcs. These concerns can lead to actors quitting shows abruptly, sometimes despite the show's massive success. Hollywood actors like Katherine Heigl and Harold Perrineau have openly criticized their TV shows.

Some actors have been known to criticize their own TV shows, especially TV shows that get worse as they continue. The fact is, Hollywood is a difficult and competitive business and actors may take roles to get their careers off the ground that they are not particularly proud of later on. However, it is also possible that the actor genuinely believed the show in question was worthwhile, but the writers took the story in directions they (and sometimes also the critics) didn't approve of.

Things TV actors have criticized about their shows include bad messaging, their character's arc going in a specific direction, or the inherent issues...

Matt Damon's new movie, a heist comedy produced by Apple called The Instigators, has received mixed reviews from critics. Since it was released in select theaters on August 2, 2024, The Instigators has mostly underwhelmed top critics, earning it a Rotten Tomatoes score of just 41%. If this score were to stand after The Instigators releases on Apple TV+ on August 9, Damon's latest film would be his lowest-rated since 2017's Downsizing, which was a rare miss from celebrated directed Alexander Payne.

Damon stars in The Instigators with Casey Affleck, who he notably appeared onscreen with in Good Will Hunting. He and Affleck also co-wrote the 2002 adventure drama Gerry with Gus Van Sant and starred in that as well. Outside of their collaboration on the Ocean's trilogy, Affleck and Damon also both starred in two Christopher Nolan movies despite not appearing onscreen together in either, Interstellar (2014) and Oppenheimer (2023). Similar to the Ocean's movies,...

The Instigators offers a chance for Damon to bounce back from the flop of Downsizing with a heist thriller and familiar co-stars. Although reviews are mixed, the star power of Damon and Affleck in a Boston-centric setting should attract viewers on Apple TV+. The film's premise and solid cast make it a promising watch, but the 40% Rotten Tomatoes score raises concerns about its success.

Matt Damon's new movie The Instigators has an opportunity to redeem one of the worst-rated movies of his career from 2017. Damon stars in The Instigators with Casey Affleck, who he notably appeared onscreen with in Good Will Hunting. He and Affleck also co-wrote the 2002 adventure drama Gerry with Gus Van Sant and starred in that as well. Outside of their collaboration on the Ocean's trilogy, Affleck and Damon also both starred in two Christopher Nolan movies despite not appearing onscreen together in either, Interstellar...

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New Disney Halloween costumes are available on the Shop Disney site. Do you want to wear any of them?

Disney Store has a wide range of new Halloween costumes available for both adults and kids, featuring popular Disney characters and ranging in price from $6.99 to $129.99.

00:00 Disney Store has new Halloween costumes available online, so you can get a jump on it early.

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02:22 New Disney Store Halloween costumes available for adults and kids, ranging from $6.99 to $54.99, including characters from Inside Out, Rapunzel, Anna,...

Alexander Payne, whose most recent film “The Holdovers” picked up five Oscar nominations and one win, will receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award at the 30th Sarajevo Film Festival, in recognition of his “outstanding contribution to the art of film.”

Payne’s longtime collaborator Jim Taylor, with whom he shared the 2005 adapted screenplay Oscar for “Sideways,” will join him at the festival, which runs Aug. 16 to 23. Payne will present a special screening of “Sideways,” which earned five Academy Award nominations.

Payne also will hold a masterclass, which will be “an opportunity for the film enthusiasts to learn from him about film production, directing, screenwriting, and other key aspects of his career,” according to a statement from the festival.

Payne’s eight feature films have been nominated for 24 Oscars, including four times for best picture and three times for director. He has won twice for adapted screenplay, and “The Holdovers” won supporting actress this year.

Say hello to the new Blue Bloods. Production company Awesomeness, which is owned by Paramount, has begun developing a show based on the best-selling YA book series of the same name by Melissa de la Cruz.

Despite the identical title, this Blue Bloods doesn’t have any connection to the CBS cop drama starring Tom Selleck and Donnie Wahlberg. Instead, the new Blue Bloods focuses on an elite group of immortal vampires who secretly rule New York City, Deadline reports.

The new ‘Blue Bloods’ will be based on book series by Melissa De La Cruz Melissa de la Cruz at a launch party for ‘Blue Bloods’ in 2006 | Christian Grattan/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Related

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Rather than giving an inside look at a family of NYPD officers, the new Blue Bloods will follow a 17-year-old named Sky, who is...

Exclusive: Awesomeness has launched development on Blue Bloods (wt), a series adaptation of the best-selling same-name book series from Melissa de la Cruz, for which Jacquie Walters will serve as writer and executive producer.

Additional executive producers of the series will include Richard Abate and Katie Newman Krandel for 3 Arts Entertainment, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell, Sarah Jones and DJ Goldberg for The Gotham Group, and De La Cruz.

In the universe of Blue Bloods, New York City is secretly ruled by an elite class of immortal vampires. But when one of their own disappears, they are faced with an existential threat: an ancient and evil breed of vampire has returned. Amidst this chaos, 17-year-old Sky, the first half-human-half-vampire, faces her own challenges as a newcomer to the prestigious Duchesne Institute. Previously exiled from the Blue Bloods,...

When one talks about charisma and panache, it is difficult to look past George Clooney. While the celebrity wooed audiences with his salt-and-pepper look and his inherent charm, he also proved that he had the acting chops to match his personality. But even Clooney couldn’t salvage his foray into the superhero world as Batman when his 1997 film Batman and Robin failed miserably and received a lot of criticism.

George Clooney as Bruce Wayne in The Flash (image credit: DC)

Despite this mishap, fans of the Oscar winner have always harbored hopes of seeing their favorite star taking on more roles of this nature. Now, with a rumored report suggesting that Clooney might be in talks to enter the MCU, many viewers believe that he would be tailor-made for the role of a Spider-Man villain among other parts.

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It seems odd to call someone who is just 32 years old a “longtime environmentalist.” And Shailene Woodley herself dismisses labels like “environmentalist” or “activist.” So … environmental enthusiast? Tree hugger? Whatever you call her, the Big Little Lies and Ferrari star has been actively championing environmental causes since she was a child actor appearing in films like Divergent and The Descendants, from campaigning to create a recycling program at her Simi Valley High School in California to getting arrested protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota in 2016.

Woodley says she has gotten judicious over the years about how and where she uses her platform. Her latest attempt to shed light on an environmental issue has her diving for purple urchins in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Catalina Island in the new PBS docuseries Hope in the Water, from Big Little Lies creator David E. Kelley and chef Andrew Zimmern.

Clooney's latest directorial effort "The Boys in the Boat" has a 97% Rotten Tomatoes audience score but only 57% critic score. The disparity between critic and audience reviews reflects a trend in Clooney's directorial career of high audience scores and mixed critical reception. Despite the divided reviews, audiences praise the film for its true story, emotional moments, and strong performances.

George Clooney's latest directorial effort The Boys in the Boat has received an outstanding Rotten Tomatoes score of 97%. The celebrated Oscar-winning actor, best known for his iconic leading roles as Danny Ocean in the Ocean's trilogy (2001 - 2007) and Matt King in The Descendants (2011), is also an accomplished director. Clooney made his feature directorial debut with 2002's Confessions of a Dangerous Mind which he starred in alongside Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts, and Sam Rockwell. Since then, he has directed a total of nine feature films, including 2023's The Boys in the Boat.

Former stars of The Descendants Dove Cameron, Booboo Stewart and Sofia Carson grabbed a cute group photo while arriving for the 2024 Cam For A Cause Gala held at The Beehive in Los Angeles. They were there to honor their late co-star, Cameron Boyce.

Cam For A Cause: A Fundraiser For The Cameron Boyce Foundation To End Epilepsy — is held every year to raise money and awareness for epilepsy and Sudep (Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy), which caused the young actor’s death in July 2019.

Cameron embraced a strapless look in a voluminous Prabal Gurung ballgown with gray tulle, bubble hem and black polka dots. The gown featured a sweetheart neckline, a fitted bodice and a black belt at the waist. Carson wore a sleeveless gown with layers of off-white feather embellishments. The dress featured a long train and loose fit with semi-sheer fabric. Stewart opted for this earth-toned matching set of loose trousers,...

The Divergent series cast includes rising stars such as Shailene Woodley and Theo James, who gained fame from the movies. The Divergent series was canceled due to lack of success, leading the original cast to move on to other projects. Characters like Tris and Four faced themes of loyalty and sacrifice, evolving into formidable leaders in the faction-divided world.

The Divergent series main cast includes 12 prominent actors, many of whom rose to fame during the 2010s. Some of them may not have been big names when these movies came out in 2014-2016, but all of them are now bonafide stars on film and TV. The Divergent series refers to the trilogy of movies based on books by Veronica Roth, titled Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant. The three Divergent movies starred Shailene Woodley and Theo James in the lead roles, with a massive ensemble cast, including veterans, rising stars, and several award-winning actors.

The Native American Media Alliance announced the selections for the inaugural cohort of the Native Media Apprenticeship Program In Collaboration with the California Workforce Development Board, High Road Training Partnership and the Bric Foundation. This is a multi-month program that provides career and creative development for indigenous opportunity youth.

This program supports California-based Native American youth who aim to persue careers in media. This initiative provides mentorship and guidance from creative executives, working animation artists and television showrunners. The objective is to develop skills for careers in animation production and producing for television. This course prepares and explores placement for participants in these fields.

The goal is to provide new opportunities in education, training, and employment within the entertainment industry. Participating Native and Indigenous youth will focus on the technical aspects and practical knowledge needed for careers in animation and producing for television. This will involve the study of behind...

Shailene Woodley, Ben Foster and Pablo Schreiber will join the previously announced Alan Ritchson in the action thriller “Motor City.”

Potsy Ponciroli will direct the picture. Production begins July 10 in New Jersey and AlUla, Saudi Arabia as part of Stampede Ventures’ 10-picture slate deal with Film AlUla.

Greg Silverman and Jon Berg will produce for Stampede Ventures, alongside Rohini Singh, Paramdeep Singh and Manmeet Singh of Astro Lion Pictures, and Cliff Roberts and Chad St. John, who also penned the script. Mike Tadross Jr. and Eric Hedayat will executive produce.

Black Bear represents international rights with WME Independent co-representing domestic rights with Stampede, and Sacker Entertainment Law overseeing production legal.

“Motor City” follows John Miller (Ritchson), a Detroit auto-worker whose life and girlfriend (Woodley) are taken away from him when he’s framed by a local gangster (Foster) and sent to prison. On his release, Miller unleashes a maelstrom of...

Exclusive: The Gotham Film & Media Institute (The Gotham) announced today the 2024 fellows for the Festival De Cannes Producers Network Program. They are Deidre Backs (Fancy Dance), Apoorva Guru Charan (Joyland), Gabriel Mayers (A Different Man), Jhane Myers (Prey), Giancarlo Nasi (The Settlers), Stephanie Roush (Stress Positions), and Pierce Varous (The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed). This year’s Producers Network Fellows will be participating in person at Cannes, May 15 – 20.

As the sole U.S. Partner Organization for the Festival de Cannes Producers Network, The Gotham annually selects U.S. fiction and nonfiction producers to participate. Running concurrently with the Cannes Film Festival and the Marche du Film, the program is specifically designed for experienced producers to build up their international networks and learn more about international production, financing, legal and packaging.

In addition, The Gotham is proud to support the Gotham Edu partners Colgate University...

Double Oscar winner George Clooney has become one of the most successful people in his profession but despite family connections (his aunt was the late singer Rosemary Clooney), he struggled for years to make it as an actor.

After dropping out of college, Clooney would try his hand at acting. He struggled for a few years until finding a part on “E/R” in 1984. This wasn’t the “ER” that would make him a star 10 years later, but instead was a short-lived sitcom with the same name. In the decade between those shows, Clooney became known mostly for his track record of starring in an incredibly large number of pilots that weren’t picked up to be made into series. He would score a few successes with recurring roles on “The Facts of Life,” “Sisters” and “Roseanne,” but he would also suffer brutal humiliations like starring in “Return to Horror High...

RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Mar 22-24)Total gross to dateWeek 1. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Sony) £4.1m £4.1m 1 2. Dune: Part Two (Warner Bros) £2.6m £30.7m 4 3. Immaculate (Black Bear) £491,000 £522,000 1 4. Wicked Little Letters (Studiocanal) £373,413 £8.2m 5 5. Migration (Universal) £370,415 £19.5m 8

Sony’s Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire topped the UK-Ireland box office with a £4.1m opening weekend, ending the three-week run of Dune: Part Two atop the chart.

Opening in 687 sites, Frozen Empire took a £5,904 location average. Its opening was up 7.7% on the £3.8m start of 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the first in a reboot of the franchise in 2021, with that film taking a £5,721 location average.

It is also...

Actor Beau Bridges is being honored in a place of special significance to his family.

The star of The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Descendants, Norma Rae, and more than 200 other films and television series received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sonoma International Film Festival on Friday. His late father, actor Lloyd Bridges, traced his roots to the town in California’s wine country.

“I can really feel my dad, Lloyd’s spirit here with me in Sonoma, because this is where he was raised,” Bridges tells Deadline. “He was born in San Leandro and raised in Sonoma on Spain Street. He was an altar boy at the St. Francis Church, and then he moved to Petaluma, went to Petaluma High School. So, this is his territory, and to have this acknowledgement here in the seat of our family, so to speak, is really special to me.”

Beau Bridges on-set...

The 2024 Oscars ceremony is history, and in come ways it was historic, as well.

Read on below for answers to all your questions about the 2024 Academy Awards.

When Was The 2024 Oscars?

The ceremony took place on March 10, 2024 at 4 p.m. Pt/7 p.m. Et. The event was broadcast on ABC.

Vanessa Hudgens hosted The Oscars Red Carpet Show. It marked the third Oscars in a row that the actress and singer fronted the official lead-in. She was joined by Dancing With the Stars vet Julianne Hough as co-host. The Oscars Red Carpet Show began at 3:30 p.m. Pt/6:30 p.m. Et.

Who Is Hosted The 2024 Oscars?

Jimmy Kimmel hosted the show, marking the fourth time (and second straight year) that the Jimmy Kimmel Live! mainstay took on the gig. Only Billy Crystal, Johnny Carson and Bob Hope hosted more times.

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Who Is Nominated For An Oscar This Year?...

On Jan. 12, screenwriter Simon Stephenson sent an email to the Writers Guild of America’s senior director of credits Lesley Mackey asking to set up a call to discuss an important matter. The CAA-repped writer, whose credits include Pixar’s “Luca” and StudioCanal’s “Paddington 2,” wrote, “I’ve encountered a credits-related issue on quite a high profile WGA-covered project.” According to the email exchange reviewed by Variety, a call between the two took place, and, in a follow-up missive, Stephenson wrote, “the evidence the holdovers screenplay has been plagiarised line-by-line from frisco is genuinely overwhelming – anybody who looks at even the briefest sample pretty much invariably uses the word ‘brazen.’”

Stephenson was referring to his own screenplay “Frisco,” a drama centered on a world-weary middle-aged children’s doctor and the 15-year-old patient he gets stuck looking after, and David Hemingson’s “The Holdovers” — a drama revolving around a...

The films in the running for the 2024 Best Film Editing Oscar are “Anatomy of a Fall,” “The Holdovers,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Oppenheimer,” and “Poor Things.” Our current odds indicate that “Oppenheimer” (31/10) is the frontrunner, followed in order by “Anatomy of a Fall” (4/1), “Killers of the Flower Moon” (9/2), “Poor Things” (9/2), and “The Holdovers” (9/2).

Having previously bagged trophies for “Raging Bull” (1981), “The Aviator” (2005), and “The Departed” (2007), Thelma Schoonmaker could now become this category’s first quadruple champion by winning for “Killers of the Flower Moon.” The 84-year-old is also the first cutter to reach a total of nine nominations, with all but her first for “Woodstock” (1971) having come for films directed by Martin Scorsese. Their other collaborations that brought her academy attention are “Goodfellas” (1991), “Gangs of New York” (2003), “Hugo” (2012), and “The Irishman” (2020).

This year’s second of two female nominees is Jennifer Lame (“Oppenheimer”), who would be the 14th unique woman to win this award,...

Alexander Payne movies always do well in two areas come the Oscar nominations: writing and acting. Five of Payne’s movies have been nominated for writing while five of his flicks have also snagged acting bids. However, while “Sideways” and “The Descendants” both took home Oscars for their writing (both for Best Adapted Screenplay), no Payne movie has ever won for acting. Here’s the record.

“About Schmidt” procured a Best Actor nomination in 2003 for Jack Nicholson. He was in a two-horse race for the Best Actor gong with “Gangs of New York” star Daniel Day-Lewis but it was Adrien Brody (“The Pianist”) who ended up winning by splitting the votes. Kathy Bates was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress for “About Schmidt” but she lost to Catherine Zeta-Jones (“Chicago”).

Paul Giamatti was cruelly snubbed for a Best Actor bid for “Sideways” in 2005 but two of his costars were nominated.

That’s Headmaster Uma to you. Disney+ has released the first official teaser for Descendants: The Rise of Red, which includes a revealing voiceover courtesy of returning star China Anne McClain.

Ursula’s daughter is now calling the shots at Aurodon Prep, where her first order of business is to enroll Red, the rebellious daughter of Wonderland’s merciless Queen of Hearts. But when Red’s mother uses the opportunity to seize control of the kingdom, Red must team up with Cinderella’s daughter Chloe to turn back time and undo the event that made the queen so evil in the first place.

The writers behind the feature American Fiction and the TV adaptation Slow Horses took home the top honors at the USC Scripter Awards, which honors the best adapted projects of the year. Both the original authors as well as the screenwriters share the award.

In the film category, American Fiction (Cord Jefferson’s adaptation of Percival Everett’s novel Erasure) topped fellow nominees Killers of the Flower Moon (Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of David Grann’s book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI); Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer); Origin (Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents); and Poor Things (Tony McNamara’s adaptation of Aliasdair Gray’s novel of the same name).

On the TV side,...