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While fans (and embittered directors) may be somewhat skeptical about the upcoming reboot of The Naked Gun, the movie does boast an impressive cast, including Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr., Cch Pounder as the new Police Squad chief and Pamela Anderson as the femme fatale sister of a possible murder victim.

From what we’ve seen so far, Anderson, fresh off of receiving rave reviews for her performance in last year’s The Last Showgirl, seems to fit in perfectly with the seriously silly world of The Naked Gun. This makes sense, considering that she’s previously appeared in other Zaz-style parody movies like Scary Movie 3 and Superhero Movie.

But Anderson likely wouldn’t have gotten the gig had she starred in one of the original Naked Gun films, which, apparently, came very close to happening.

The Baywatch star recently spoke with Empire Magazine, and explained that she...

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week Miley Cyrus releases her disco-infused, Pink Floyd-influenced LP Something Beautiful, Lorde bares her truth in a cathartic song from her forthcoming Virgin, and Haim step back into the past with a punchy retro-rocker. Plus, new music from Clipse, Addison Rae, and Santana and Grupo Frontera.

Miley Cyrus, “Easy Lover” (YouTube)

Lorde, “Man of the Year” (YouTube)

Haim, “Take Me Back” (YouTube)

Clipse, “Ace Trumpets” (YouTube)

Addison Rae,...

Nicole Kidman will soon be in motion heading back to Cannes.

The Oscar winning actress — coming off a dizzying 2024 that included screen outings in Babygirl, Holland, Lioness, The Perfect Couple, A Family Affair and Expats — has been confirmed to receive the next Women in Motion Award. The honor, presented during the Cannes Film Festival from the fest itself and longtime partner Kering, will be doled out May 18 during a glamorous gala, which is typically attended by the Cannes jury, A-list stars, auteurs and industry insiders.

Kidman will be the milestone 10th Women in Motion recipient, joining a roster of honorees that includes NBCUniversal chief Donna Langley, Jane Fonda, Isabelle Huppert, Patty Jenkins, Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, Viola Davis, Michelle Yeoh, Gong Li and Salma Hayek Pinault. The award is designed to honor “female artists who, through their career and commitment, advance the place of women in cinema and in society.

Nicole Kidman is one of the most recognizable actors in Hollywood today, and she has acted in numerous genres throughout her decades-long career, leading to her most recent success with the erotic thriller Babygirl. Kidman's breakout role was in the 1989 ocean thriller Dead Calm, and she gained even more attention for her roles in movies throughout the 1990s. Kidman has even starred in erotic thrillers before, such as Eyes Wide Shut, proving that she was a perfect casting choice for Babygirl, and Babygirl's positive reviews confirm this.

However, while some of Nicole Kidman's movies have fared very well with audiences and critics, garnering numerous award nominations and wins, some of her other movies have not been so successful. In fact, the recent success of Babygirl has helped Kidman break a negative Rotten Tomatoes streak from 2023 and 2024, which was the worst she had seen in over 10 years. Luckily, Babygirl is able...

Though the story of the Bad Sisters on Apple TV+ may be over following the Season 2 finale on Christmas Day, creator Sharon Horgan is already working on another project.

During an interview for Bustle’s “One Nightstand,” Horgan revealed her hopes to bring an adaptation of Vladimir by Julia May Jonas to the screen. Jonas sought out Horgan.

“I was making Bad Sisters and had no headspace whatsoever, and Julia hadn’t written a screenplay before… so it was sent to me as a sort of, ‘Is this something we could do together?’” Horgan told Bustle. “And I was like, ‘No, no, no, I just don’t have time.’ Then they said, ‘Just read the first chapter.’ So I read the first chapter and then I just made time.”

The book tells the story of a college professor who cultivates an obsession with a new faculty member on campus after...

Wanting to even deeper into sports stories than TV broadcasts are able? The best sports documentaries have you covered, giving cinematic sweep and depth to athletes and their stories (both in the arena and out). Whether it’s football movies or movies about combat sports or sports movies for those who don’t like sports there’s some inherent alignment between athletic competition and film and TV storytelling. Documentary filmmakers have been able to look beyond the kineticism (or capture it even more dynamically) to present stories that look at the psychology and the struggles of athletes, and the cultural significance of their careers. Here are the 17 best sports documentaries ever made.

With editorial contributions from Brandon Latham.

Ken Burns’ “Baseball” (1994) Ken Burns with Ted Williams when producing ‘Baseball’Courtesy Everett Collection

Ken Burns has a weird tendency to turn over his entire documentary to one particular talking head, whose...

The movie To Have and Have Not is a classic Hollywood romance set during World War II, known for its strong onscreen chemistry between Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The movie is an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's book, but it deviates significantly from the original story, focusing more on the romance between the main characters instead of the political themes. The movie was born out of a bet between Hemingway and director Howard Hawks, who believed he could make a good film out of Hemingway's worst book. The bet turned into a rich and promising collaboration, resulting in a beloved film.

The books of legendary American writer Ernest Hemingway gave rise to amazing Hollywood productions, such as the many versions of The Killers and A Farewell to Arms, as well as foreign, independent productions, such as the Russian animated adaptation of the classic The Old Man and the Sea.

There’s more to Prime Video this month! As the calendar turns to November, the streamer will ring in the new month with something for everybody— from an autobiographical documentary from and about former NFL superstar Barry Sanders to the highly anticipated Season 2 of the adult animated series “Invincible,” which will pick up where it left off (and pick up the mess) beginning on Friday, Nov. 3.

So, check out The Streamable’s top picks for what’s coming to Prime Video this month, as well as the full list of everything arriving on the platform in the next 30 days!

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The wait is over and “Invincible” has returned to finish what it started. The long-awaited second season will debut with a new episode weekly for four weeks,...

Josephine Chaplin, actor and daughter of Charlie Chaplin, has died. She was 74.

Chaplin died on July 13 in Paris, according to an announcement from her family.

During her career, she starred in a number of foreign films. In 1972 she was featured in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s award-winning film “The Canterbury Tales” and Richard Balducci’s “L’odeur des fauves.” The same year, she also starred alongside Laurence Harvey in Menahem Golan’s 1972 drama “Escape to the Sun” about a group of people attempting to flee the Soviet Union.

In 1974, Chaplin starred as Martine Leduc in Georges Franju’s European crime-thriller “Shadowman” alongside Gayle Hunnicutt and Jacques Champreux. The film follows the Man Without a Face, a criminal attempting to find the elusive treasures of the Knights Templar. Chaplin then reprised her role as Martine in the subsequent French mini-series “The Man Without a Face,” an extended eight-episode version of Franju’s film.

Josephine Chaplin, whose father was screen legend Charlie Chaplin, died July 13 in Paris, her family announced on Thursday. She was 74. A cause of death was not immediately given.

As a child, she appeared with her father in his 1952 film “Limelight” and 1967’s “A Countess From Hong Kong.” She went on to star in the 1972 films “L’odeur des fauves” with future partner Maurice Ronet, Menahem Golan’s “Escape to the Sun” opposite Laurence Harvey; and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s X-rated “The Canterbury Tales” as May, the adulterous wife of the elderly Sir January (Hugh Griffith).

Her later films include 1984’s “The Bay Boy” with Kiefer Sutherland and Liv Ullman. In 1998, she played Hadley Richardson to Stacy Keach’s Ernest Hemingway in the miniseries “Hemingway.”

For years she managed the Chaplin office in Paris and sponsored a statue of her father by sculptor Alan Ryan Hall as his Little Tramp character in Waterville,...

Last Year’s Winner: “The Apollo”

Still Eligible: No.

Hot Streak: After Netflix took home back-to-back trophies in 2016 and 2017 (“13th”), HBO has rattled off three consecutive wins in the Best Documentary or Nonfiction Special category: “The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling” (2018), “Leaving Neverland” (2019), and “The Apollo” (2020). HBO remains the most-awarded network in the category’s 23-year-history, with 11 total wins.

Fun Fact: This year, 78 documentary or nonfiction specials made the Emmy ballot, falling just three submissions shy of qualifying for an additional nomination. Due to the sliding scale the Emmys instituted last year, categories with 20-80 submissions will nominate five projects, while categories with 81-160 submissions will nominate six projects. Had a few networks known an extra nomination was that close, perhaps they would have scrounged up three more documentaries for the ballot.

Notable Ineligible Series: “Hemingway” (the three-episode PBS documentary is running in the Documentary Series category); “My Octopus Teacher,...

After exploring “The Civil War,” “Baseball” and “Country Music,” award-winning documentarian Ken Burns and his frequent collaborator Lynn Novick examined the importance of being Ernest Hemingway in their three-part PBS documentary “Hemingway.” Premiering in April to strong reviews and Emmys buzz, the series weaves Papa’s biography with excerpts from his fiction, non-fiction, and personal correspondence. The series also reviews the mythology around the larger-than-life Hemingway, who penned such classic novels as “The Sun Also Rises,” “A Farewell to Arms,” “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and “The Old Man and the Sea,” to reveal the truth behind the bravado.

Feature film adaptations of Hemingway’s works had mixed results. Hemingway Bff Gary Cooper excelled in 1932’s “A Farewell to Arms” and 1943’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” receiving an Oscar nomination for the latter. John Garfield gave one of his strongest performance in 1950’s superb noir “The Breaking Point,” based...

Continuing their attempts to chronicle every foundational moment or figure in American history, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s exhaustive six-hour documentary, “Hemingway,” traces the historical formation of the titular author. Utilizing Burns’s now routine formal devices – photo pans and zooms, talking heads, Peter Coyote narration – “Hemingway” grafts the author’s life onto his novels in ways that may trouble literary critics who have moved on from biographical criticism but will be captivating for fans of Burns’ particular form of reporting.

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In the beginning of the end for Ernest Hemingway, as a 1954 trip to Africa is called in the new PBS documentary “Hemingway,” the great American novelist breaks his skull for the second time in his life during a plane crash in the outback.

Trapped as flames spread to the cabin, Hemingway is forced to use his head as a battering ram to create an opening in the twisted metal of the plane’s wreckage.

It’s the last of at least five major concussive head injuries that Hemingway sustained throughout his adult life and punctuates a growing problem. This time, his symptoms include slurred speech, double-vision and recurring deafness.

The Ken Burns documentary on Hemingway features two themes — his fascination with shotguns and his many concussions — that foreshadow what’s to come. Hemingway was long assumed to have suffered from a mental illness such as biploar depression, exacerbated by his...

(Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic.) The Movie: Hemingway Where You Can Stream It: PBS The Pitch: A six-hour, three-part documentary from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that explores the life and work of Ernest Hemingway. Why It’s Essential Quarantine Viewing: Ernest Hemingway […]

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Ernest Hemingway means different things to different people. To some, he’s little more than a name on a required reading list in school, one of those white males whose work makes up the canon of Western literature. To others (and thanks to “10 Things I Hate About You”) he was an “abusive, alcoholic misogynist.” As directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick lay out in their six-hour documentary for PBS, “Hemingway,” he was all of those things.

Per Burns’ reputation for thoroughness, “Hemingway” is one of the most comprehensive examinations of the man and the myth around him. Each episode, clocking in at nearly two hours over each of three episodes, isn’t just a historical biography of Hemingway’s life and relationships. It’s also an exploration of his writing process, how his life influenced his art, and a critical reexamination of how his literary endeavors hold up in...

How impressive is Ken Burns as a documentarian? Think of it like this: In the 1980s, the Brooklyn-born filmmaker earned Oscar nominations for making compelling docs on the history of a pair of inanimate objects. Granted, “Brooklyn Bridge” and “The Statue of Liberty” were films on America’s strength and exceptionalism as much as they were on the landmarks themselves, but those early projects set Burns on a path to utilize the same kind of majestic storytelling to connect with human subjects, whether dead or alive.

From founding father and U.S. President Thomas Jefferson to celebrated humorist Mark Twain to the wrongly convicted Central Park Five, Burns builds on these legacies by also taking the pulse of the entire nation at the time through comprehensive reporting and a respect for the facts that might be skimmed over by other directors with less time to afford. Even when he was...

For around four decades between the 1920s and 1950s, Ernest Hemingway dominated American arts and letters in a way it would be hard to imagine any novelist doing today. He wrote novels and nonfiction and short stories and dispatches from the frontlines of World War II. His books won awards and they were bestsellers and the only thing critics could compare Hemingway’s work to was whatever Hemingway had written before. He built a persona defined by uncompromising masculinity. It was a paradigm. It was a construction, a myth.

As powerful as that mystique was in the first half of ...

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With nearly 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.

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Welcome to Episode 114 of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast.

Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executive and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as the case may be).

This week’s five topics are:

1. April TV preview.

Following a slow first quarter of the year, April swings into action with a wide swath of high-profile new and returning shows. During this segment, we discuss the month’s most-anticipated ...

For TV, this typically is the lull period between the slew of winter program launches and the summer rush of originals. But spring is busier than ever this year as more and more series that restarted production in the fall after the Covid shutdown are ready to debut their new seasons.

That said, here is Deadline’s annual list of spring premiere dates for new and returning series. It covers more than 150 broadcast, cable and streaming programs debuting from April 1 through June 15. The list includes a few one-off specials, such as awards shows, but not movies.

Please send any additions or adjustments to erik@deadline.com. We’ll update the list as more dates are revealed.

April 1:

The United States of Al (CBS, new comedy series)

Manifest

Law & Order: Organized Crime

The Moodys (Fox, Season 2)

Made for Love

Prank Encounters

Worn Stories

Magical Andes

Top Chef (Bravo, Season 18)

Wipeout (TBS, new competition show revival)

Major League Baseball Opening Day (ESPN, live sports season premiere)

Creepshow (Shudder, Season 2)

The Great Pottery Throwdown

The Challenge: All Stars (Paramount+, new competition series)

Comedy Bars (All Def Women, new competition series)

Check the Chat

Momfessions

The Touch Up

Kanisha vs. Joncea

April 2:

Bellator Mma

Sky High

Ready to Love (OWN, Season 4)

The Barbarian and the Troll

Murdoch Mysteries (Acorn, Season 14; U.S. premiere)

Moment of Truth

April 3:

Pit Bulls & Parolees (Discovery/Discovery+, Season 16)

Celebrity Sleepover (NBC O&o stations, new talk show series)

April 4:

27th Annual SAG Awards

Gangs of London (AMC, new drama series)

Atlantic Crossing (PBS, new drama miniseries)

My Grandparents’ War (PBS, new documentary miniseries)

Birdgirl

April 5:

Family Reunion (Netflix, Season 3)

Hemingway

Reel South (PBS, Season 6)

Home & Family

Gutfeld!

Mira, Royal Detective

AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange

Only Foals and Horses

April 6:

Chad (TBS, new comedy series)

Wild N’ Out (VH1, Season 15B)

April 7:

Home Economics

Kung Fu

Exterminate All the Brutes

Snabba Cash

The Wedding Coach

This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist

Queen of the South

Making Good

April 8:

Rebel

No Activity (Paramount+, Season 4)

Motherland: Fort Salem

Everything’s Gonna Be Okay (Freeform, Season 2)

Chef Boot Camp (Food Network, new competition series)

Bringing Up Bates (UPtv, Season 10)

April 9:

Them (Amazon Prime, new anthology drama series)

April 10:

Iyanla: Fix My Life

April 11:

Fear the Walking Dead (AMC, Season 6B)

The Nevers (HBO, new drama series)

BAFTA Awards (ABC, awards special)

Saints & Sinners (Bounce, Season 5)

The People v. the Klan

Wild West Chronicles

Pet Peeves (Revry, new comedy series)

April 12:

Miz & Mrs.

TechCheck (CNBC, new daily business news series)

Keeping Faith

April 13:

Prodigal Son

My Love: Six Stories of True Love

Kate & Koji

Retro Tech (YouTube, Season 2)

April 14:

Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!

The Circle (Netflix, Season 2)

Bargain Block

April 15:

Younger

Restaurant Recovery

Wahl Street

Spy City (AMC+, new drama series)

April 16:

Big Shot

Van Helsing (Syfy, Season 5; final season)

The Year Earth Changed (Apple TV+, new documentary series)

Tiny World

Earth at Night in Color

Fast & Furious: Spy Racers

Frank of Ireland

The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs

April 17:

Ghost Brothers: Lights Out

April 18:

Academy of Country Music Awards

Mare of Easttown

Godfather of Harlem

Couples Therapy (Showtime, Season 2)

Luis Miguel: The Series

Snack Sized (History, new docuseries)

WWE’s Most Wanted Treasures (A&e, new docuseries)

Confronting a Serial Killer

April 19:

American Dad! (TBS, Season 18)

VH1 Couples Retreat

Black Ink Crew: New York (VH1, Season 8)

Off the Beaten Track

The Parker Andersons

Amelia Parker

April 20:

Sasquatch

Cruel Summer (Freeform, new drama series)

Storage Wars (A&e, Season 13)

Hustle & Tow (A&e, new docuseries)

Izzy’s Koala World (Netflix, Season 2)

Chopped 420

April 21:

Zero

April 22:

Rutherford Falls (Peacock, new comedy series)

Action Planet (Discovery+, new docuseries)

Life in Color with David Attenborough

Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World (PBS, new documentary miniseries)

Big Trick Energy

Film Independent Spirit Awards

Bigger

The Bad Seed (Sundance Now, new drama series)

April 23:

Shadow and Bone

A Black Lady Sketch Show (HBO/HBO Max, Season 2)

Professional Fighters League (ESPN2/ESPN Deportes/ESPN+, new season)

April 25:

93rd Annual Academy Awards

90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?

Top Gear (BBC America, Season 30)

Worst Cooks in America: Best of the Worst

Extreme Sisters (TLC, new unscripted series)

April 26:

Inside Out (HGTV, new docuseries)

Bäckström

April 27:

Grace

April 28:

The Handmaid’s Tale

The Wizard of Paws

April 29:

Yasuke (Netflix, new anime series)

Deadhouse Dark

Duff’s Happy Fun Bake Time

Thin Ice

April 30:

The Mosquito Coast

Pet Stars

The Innocent

April Tba:

The Big Shot with Bethenny

Ellen’s Next Great Designer

Generation Hustle

Pray, Obey, Kill

May 2:

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow

Pose (FX, Season 3; final season)

The Girlfriend Experience (Starz, Season 3)

Home Town Takeover (HGTV/Discovery+, new docuseries)

May 3:

Antiques Roadshow: Celebrity Edition

Donkey Hodie

May 4:

Star Wars: The Bad Batch

The Real Housewives of New York City

Survivalists

May 6:

Million Dollar Listing New York

May 7:

Dynasty

Mythic Quest (Apple TV+, new comedy series)

Jupiter’s Legacy (Netflix, new drama series)

Shrill (Hulu, Season 3; final season)

May 9:

Ziwe

May 12:

The Upshaws

May 14:

The Underground Railroad (Amazon Prime, new drama limited series)

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

Selena: The Series

Trying (Apple TV+, Season 2)

Pride (FX, new documentary series)

May 16:

MTV Movie and TV Awards

Fall River

Good Witch (Hallmark Channel, Season 7)

May 21:

Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K.

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous

May 23:

The Chi

Black Monday

Flatbush Misdemeanors

May 25:

Chopped Next Gen

May 28:

The Kominsky Method

Lucifer (Netflix, Season 5B)

May 31:

American Ninja Warrior

Housebroken (Fox, new animated comedy series)

Duncanville (Fox, Season 2)

Small Fortune (NBC, new competition series)

May Tba:

The Haves and the Have Nots (OWN, Season 8B; final season)

In Treatment (HBO, Season 4)

Baddies Atl (Zeus, new unscripted series)

June 1:

America’s Got Talent

June 3:

American Ninja Warrior

Making It

June 9:

In the Dark

June 11:

Loki (Disney+, new drama series)

Home Before Dark (Apple TV+, Season 2)

Love, Victor

Shrill (Hulu, Season 2)

June 14:

The Republic of Sarah

Spring Tba:

Diana

History of Late Night

History of Sitcom

Jerusalem...

Sir Anthony Hopkins is one of the most acclaimed actors in modern film history, an Oscar winner in 1992 for his iconic performance as Hannibal Lecter in “Silence of the Lambs.” But despite his many accolades — an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, multiple citations from critics’ groups, and even an AARP Movies for Grownups Award — the 83-year-old actor has never won a competitive honor at the Golden Globes. Barring an upset, his Globes drought will continue on Sunday, where Hopkins is nominated in the Best Actor in a Drama category, a category in which Chadwick Boseman is the overwhelming favorite to win.

Ahead, every Golden Globe Award Anthony Hopkins has lost in his career.

1979: Hopkins received his first Golden Globe nomination for the 1978 film “Magic,” but he lost in the Best Actor in a Drama category to Jon Voight in “Coming Home.”

1989: Hopkins is mainly known for his film work,...

Danny Huston has joined the cast of Across the River and Into the Trees, the feature adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s final novel and New York Times bestseller, heading to Berlin’s virtual European Film Market with The Exchange.

Now in production in Venice, Italy, Huston joins six-time Golden Globe nominee Liev Schreiber, Josh Hutcherson and Italian actresses Matilda De Angelis (The Undoing) and Laura Morante (Cherry on the Cake, The Ball).

Produced by Robert MacLean of Tribune Pictures, the adapted screenplay by BAFTA-winning screenwriter Peter Flannery is being directed by award-winning Spanish director Paula Ortiz (The Bride) with director of photography Javier ...