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Back in December, producer Jerry Bruckheimer spoke with Variety about the future of the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ franchise. At the time, he revealed that Disney was considering two different scripts. One version of the movie would bring Johnny Depp back, while the other would take the series in a completely new direction without him.

Ever since Depp’s legal battle with his ex-wife Amber Heard, his relationship with Disney has been uncertain. Many believed that Disney would move forward without him. However, new information suggests that the studio may have finally worked things out with Depp and is preparing to bring him back after all.

According to a source at The DisInsider, Disney is quietly getting ready to begin production on the next Pirates film. While no official start date has been confirmed, the source claims that filming will take place at a Hollywood soundstage. Even more exciting, this...

Note: This story contains spoilers from “Family Guy” Season 23, Episode 1.

The Season 23 premiere of “Family Guy” saw Peter, Lois and the rest of the Griffin family head to flight school in a parody of the Tom Cruise-led film franchise “Top Gun.” The episode marks a new wave of Hollywood spoofs ahead for the beloved Fox animated comedy.

Sunday’s episode, aptly named “Fat Gun,” chronicled Maverick’s (Peter) relationship with Charlie (Lois) as he copes with the death of Goose (Joe) and a new relationship with his son Rooster (Chris). It also featured a cameo appearance from tiny Tom Cruise, a miniature version of the actor who’s appeared in previous seasons voiced by Sean Kenin.

“We did an episode a couple of seasons ago where Stewie is shopping in the little kids section for all these reasons, and he pulls an article of clothing and you see another...

Aside from the peculiar appearance of a certain flightless waterfowl, Saturday night’s WGA Awards were a familiar affair.

“Hacks” won its second trophy in four years for Best Comedy Series, as well as its second trophy in the same span for Best Episodic Comedy, continuing a victory parade that began at the 2024 Emmys when it upset “The Bear” for the top prize. That hot streak has continued into 2025 with wins at the Casting Society of America, Costume Designers Guild Awards, Directors Guild Awards, Producers Guild Awards, and AFI Awards, among others. With Season 4 having wrapped production in January, creators Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky’s Max original should enter the 2025 Emmy season as the presumptive favorite.

The season’s dominant drama, “Shōgun,” won’t be back in time to compete in 2025 — the writers’ room is still plugging away at Season 2 — but its Season 1 winning streak also...

The democratization of celebrity in the 21st century has accelerated the process of audience capture: Tell fans what they want to hear and reap the rewards. Lurker portrays an even more contemporary permutation of this feedback loop by dismantling the presumed hierarchy of its participants. The artist and audience member are coequal—and codependent—in this perceptive drama about a parasocial relationship that enters the realm of reality.

The value exchange is clear from the moment in Alex Russell’s film where Matthew (Théodore Pellerin) steals an Av jack at the clothing store where he works to blast a song meant to resonate with rising music star Oliver (Archie Madekwe). Instead of professing his deep knowledge of Oliver’s work, Matthew plays dumb and lies that his selection of the song, which inspired the artist, was just pure coincidence. Mistaking the artificial meet-cute for an authentically serendipitous connection, Oliver invites...

As the 2025 Ee BAFTA Film Awards got underway on Sunday in London, a slew of stars hit the red carpet. The guest list includes a number of performers nominated this year, including Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Demi Moore, Timothée Chalamet, Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña, Isabella Rossellini, Mikey Madison, Ralph Fiennes, Denis Villeneuve, Colman Domingo, Kieran Culkin, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Strong, Sebastian Stan, Saoirse Ronan, Sean Baker, Marianna Jean-Baptiste, Guy Pearce, Hugh Grant and plenty more.

“Conclave” leads the pack of 2025 BAFTA Film Awards nominees with 12 nods, one more than “Emilia Pérez.” “The Brutalist,” meanwhile, received nine nominations, including best film, director (Brady Corbet) and actor (Adrien Brody), followed by seven each for “Anora,” “Dune: Part Two” and “Wicked.” Of those three, only “Anora” made the cut for best film and director (Sean Baker). Coralie Fargeat landed the last spot in the director category, for “The Substance.” She, like Baker and Corbet,...

The 77th annual Writers Guild Awards were handed out on Saturday in concurrent ceremonies at the Edison Ballroom in New York and Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

Shōgun took home the prize for Best New Series, beating out fellow first-time nominees such as English Teacher, Nobody Wants This, Fallout and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The Hulu series also won for Best Drama and Episodic Drama, while Max’s Hacks took home the trophy for Best Comedy, and HBO’s The Penguin won for Limited Series.

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Awards-watchers are accustomed to waiting for the end of every awards show to see the big film categories handed out, but Saturday’s Writers Guild Awards threw everybody for a loop by making the film awards the first two categories of the night in simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York.

“Nickel Boys” won the first award of the night, for Best Adapted Screenplay, and “Anora” won the second, for Best Original Screenplay. The awards led off the shows because the BAFTA Awards are taking place in London on Sunday, with the categories’ early placement giving “Nickel Boys” writers RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes and “Anora” writer Sean Baker more time to get to London.

In the television categories that ended the show, “Shōgun” and “Hacks” continued the roll they’ve been on since last September’s Emmy Awards, with the former show winning three awards and the latter show winning two.

Anora kept up its impressive run to the Oscars on Saturday, adding the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay to its considerable haul. The win for the the Sean Baker film came a week after Anora swept the Directors Guild of America and Producers Guild of America top prizes, cementing itself as the frontrunner heading into the Academy Awards on March 2.

RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes‘ script forNickel Boys, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, scored for Best Adapted Screenplay at the WGA Awards, which honor the best writing in movies, television, news, and radio.

The key WGA categories of Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay are seen as a bellwether for the impending Academy Awards, though the nominees rarely match up. Scripts produced outside the guild’s collective bargaining agreement or written by a non-union member are deemed ineligible. This year, six...

With last year’s ceremony taking place in the shadow of the 2023 strikes and this year’s function in the aftermath of the Southern California wildfires, the 2025 WGA Awards have a lot of work to do when it comes to lifting the spirits of the entertainment industry. Thankfully, good writing always has.

As is tradition, events for the east and west coast branches of the Writer’s Guild are held concurrently today at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles and the Edison Ballroom in New York City. LA’s affair is hosted by actor/comedian Joel Kim Booster and kicks off at 4:30pm Pt. For those who want to tune in at home, you can watch the west coast soiree via livestream at that time.

While under normal circumstances, tonight’s results wouldn’t necessarily carry much water when it comes to the Oscars, this year’s awards race...

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Benny Blanco has been making waves in the music business for almost two decades. Working with some of the biggest names in music on major hits has netted the producer a pretty penny.

While Benny has made a name for himself behind the boards, he became an even bigger star when he started dating Selena Gomez in 2023. Since getting together, the pair have gushed about each other on social media.

Benny’s romance with the Only Murders in the Building actress has been wonderful. In fact, the couple revealed that the producer had popped the question in December 2024.

Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco attend the Second Annual Rare Impact Fund Benefit Supporting Youth Mental Health, hosted by Selena Gomez, at Nya Studios on October 24, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

Selena posted a photo of her ring, which boasts an impressive diamond, on December 11. “Forever begins now,...

Exclusive: Red-hot comic Nate Bargatze is in negotiations to star in Christmas in Paradise, a holiday family comedy from Amazon MGM Studios and United Artists’ Scott Stuber that’s in the early stages of development.

The film will have him playing a beloved small-town doctor (Bargatze) who finds himself with a unique bounty on his head just a week before Christmas, in a town where everything is not as it seems. It’s the second he’s signed on to in the last few months, on the heels of The Breadwinner, a TriStar comedy based on his and Dan Lagana’s original pitch, on which he’ll also serve as a producer.

Jeff Tomsic (Tag) is on board to direct from a script by Johnny Rosenthal (Bad Santa 2). UA’s Stuber and Nick Nesbitt will produce alongside Tom McNulty (The Spectacular Now) and Nathan Reimann (Mr. Woodcock), who developed and...

While Sundance hasn’t had a plethora of the late night bidding wars we used to see in the good old days of the festival, the weirdness of the Los Angeles fires and the advent of the online platform suggest we will still see some deals close in a matter of days. That’s a good thing considering over 60 films came into this year’s Sundance looking for homes. As we previously reported, the hope is that even more distributors could get creative.

Below we’ll update all the acquisitions out of the festival as they arrive. Here are the movies we think could sell big.

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Buyer: Oscilloscope

Director: Albert Birney

Cast: Albert Birney, Callie Hernandez

Buzz: In a slow Sundance, it’s good to see some of the smaller titles get some love. Oscilloscope’s acquisition of Birney’s “Obex” will give the film a theatrical release later this year,...

This year’s Atx TV Festival in Austin, Texas, will honor Emmy-winning actress Christine Baranski with the 2025 Achievement in Television eXcellence Award, it was announced on Wednesday morning.

Henry Winkler, Norman Lear, Michael J. Fox, James Burrows are among the award’s previous recipients.

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The award presentation and conversation will celebrate Baranski’s TV career,...

Actor Matthew Rhys has been set to lead the upcoming Apple TV+ series “Widow’s Bay“ from creator Katie Dippold, Variety reports today.

Apple gave the series order for 10 episodes in September 2024.

The series will follow “a mysteriously cursed New England island and its superstitious citizens, led by a mayor (Rhys) who refuses to believe their warnings.”

Dippold will also serve as showrunner and executive producer. “Station Eleven” and “The Bear” producer Hiro Murai is attached to direct the pilot of the 10-episode series in addition to executive producing. Rhys will executive produce in addition to starring.

Matthew Rhys recently starred in HBO’s “Perry Mason“ and appeared in opening sequence of the comedy-horror movie Cocaine Bear. The actor also stars in the upcoming psychological thriller Hallow Road from Under the Shadow director Babak Anvari, set to make its premiere next month at SXSW.

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“Better Man,” the Robbie Williams biopic, emerged as the leading winner at the 14th Aacta International Awards, securing both best film and best direction for Australian filmmaker Michael Gracey.

The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts’ celebration of global screen excellence saw the film add to its impressive nine-award sweep at the domestic Aacta Awards.

Zoe Saldaña continued her awards season momentum, taking home best supporting actress for “Emilia Pérez,” following her recent Golden Globe win. Nicole Kidman claimed her fourth Aacta International Award, winning best lead actress for “Babygirl.”

Guy Pearce strengthened his Oscar campaign with a best supporting actor win for “The Brutalist,” while Ralph Fiennes took home best lead actor for his commanding performance in “Conclave.” Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain” secured the best screenplay award, building momentum for its Oscar campaign.

In television, “Shōgun” claimed best drama series, while “The Bear” was named best comedy series.

JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray had the chance to watch the comedy Friendship at the Toronto International Film Festival last year – and he loved it, giving it an 8/10 review that you can read at This Link. A24 picked up the distribution rights to the film back in September, and they’re planning to give it a theatrical release on May 9th (after screening it at SXSW in March). To start building the hype, A24 has just released a trailer for Friendship, and you can check it out in the embed above.

Written and directed by Andrew DeYoung, the film stars Tim Robinson (I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson) and Paul Rudd (Ant-Man) in the story of a suburban dad (Robinson) who becomes hellbent on being BFFs with his charismatic new neighbor (Rudd). Bumbray wrote that the film is, in addition to being very funny, “surprisingly nuanced about how...

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In this golden age of television, there is no shortage of great television shows that will keep you entertained throughout their runtime. But there are only a few shows that will have you reaching for the remote to watch the next episode as soon as possible. So, we thought of compiling a list of the most addictive shows you should check out right now.

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Fleabag is a British dark comedy-drama series created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Based on Waller-Bridge’s one-woman show of the same name, the Prime Video series follows a dry-witted young woman in London as she tries to deal with a past trauma through various sexual partners. Fleabag stars Waller-Bridge, Sian Clifford, Andrew Scott, Olivia Colman, Ben Aldridge, Hugh Skinner, Bill Patterson, and Jenny Rainsford.

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Oscar-nominated actor Sebastian Stan is back to his MCU roots.

The “Apprentice” star reprises his role of reformed villain Bucky Barnes in “Thunderbolts,” alongside fellow misfit Marvel characters played by the likes of Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and more.

The official synopsis reads: “‘Thunderbolts’ is about an irreverent team-up featuring depressed assassin Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) alongside the MCU’s least anticipated band of misfits. The film also returns to the screen Marvel Cinematic Universe characters Bucky Barnes (Stan), Red Guardian (David Harbour), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), and Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), in addition to some exciting new faces.”

Jake Schreier directs “Thunderbolts” with Kevin Feige producing. Louis D’Esposito, Brian Chapek, Jason Tamez, and former MCU staple Scarlett Johansson serve as executive producers.

The film was scripted by Eric Pearson, Lee Sung Jin (“Beef”), and Joanna Calo (“The Bear”). Both...

Mikey Madison as Ani and Mark Eydelshteyn as Ivan in ‘Anora’ (Courtesy of Neon)

Hot off the film’s Critics Choice Awards Best Picture win, Anora‘s Sean Baker took home his first DGA Awards win in the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film category. Winners of the 77th Annual DGA Awards were announced on February 8th at a ceremony hosted by filmmaker Judd Apatow in Beverly Hills.

In addition to the competitive categories, Ang Lee was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award and Unit Production Manager Mary Rae Thewlis earned the Robert B. Aldrich Service Award. Unit Production Manager Thomas J. Whelan was recognized with the Frank Capra Achievement Award.

“I am thrilled to congratulate all our nominated directors for their brilliant work, which is visionary, inspirational, and speaks to the depth of the human experience. To be chosen by one’s peers is the true marker of...

What a weekend. Just like “Anora,” which has fully jumped back into the Best Picture race, the television show “Hacks” also had an incredibly auspicious weekend, adding a PGA Award and DGA Award to join its Critics Choice Awards 2025 statue for Best Comedy Series.

Though other current reigning Emmy winners like “Shōgun,” “Baby Reindeer,” and “Ripley” were big winners as well, those shows have either ended or are far off from a new season, so their PGA and/or DGA Award wins have little effect on the upcoming Emmys race. But “Hacks” is expected to premiere its fourth season in the spring, most likely making it eligible for a possible back-to-back Outstanding Comedy Series win.

At the DGA Awards 2025, “Hacks” director and co-showrunner Lucia Aniello got emotional thanking the room full of peers for awarding her work directing the Season 3 finale “Bulletproof.” “I’m very proud to be a member of this union,...

Every week, many things happen in the worlds of sci-fi, fantasy, movies, books and TV. Every week, we write about them, and every week, we round up some of the stuff we wrote here, in WiC Weekly. It happens now. Let's start with something to tide over the House of the Dragon fans during this inter-season wait:

9 Times Daemon Targaryen was both the hero and villain in House of the Dragon: https://t.co/KXjpaxUDrR https://t.co/KXjpaxUDrR

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Oberyn Martell, Princess Margaret, Eddie Munson and Richie from The Bear star in one of the next big Marvel movies:

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— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) February 9, 2025

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The Producers Guild of America named Anora the best picture of the year at the 2025 PGA Awards. The surprise win came just an hour after director Sean Baker took home the DGA’s top prize — establishing the Neon film as the official Oscars frontrunner for Best Picture. Anora also won Best Picture at last night’s Critics Choice Awards.

Anora defeated fellow Oscar nominees The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Dune: Part Two, Emilia Pérez, The Substance, and Wicked — as well as non-Oscar nominees A Real Pain and September 5. The two Oscar nominees that missed out on PGA noms were I’m Still Here and Nickel Boys.

Since 2009, both the PGA and the Academy Awards have selected their Best Picture with ranked-choice voting, aka the preferential ballot. Since the two groups aligned their voting procedure, the PGA has been one of the most reliable Oscar predictors, forecasting 13 of 16 Oscar champs including...

In a surprising win that resets the Oscar race, Anora director Sean Baker took home the Feature Film Director prize at Directors Guild of America Awards Saturday, instantly becoming the frontrunner for the Best Director trophy at the Academy Awards.

Baker, a first-time DGA nominee, toppled a strong field that included fellow Oscar nominees Brady Corbet (The Brutalist), Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez), and James Mangold (A Complete Unknown), along with Conclave director Edward Berger, who failed to land an Oscar bid. The DGA victory came on the same night Baker’s film — which personally earned him four Academy Award bids — unexpectedly won the top prize at another major precursor, the Producers Guild of America Awards, and one night after the film scored at the Critics Choice Awards.

Corbet had still been considered the prohibitive favorite for both the DGA honor and directing Oscar going into Saturday.

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Anora helmer Sean Baker won the marquee Theatrical Feature Film prize at the 77th annual DGA Awards, which were handed out tonight at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. Check out the winners list below.

Baker solidified his position as the front-runner for Best Director at the Academy Awards on March 2, besting fellow nominees Jacques Audiard (Emilia Perez), Edward Berger (Conclave), Brady Corbet (The Brutalist) and James Mangold (A Complete Unknown). Baker also is coming off last night’s Critics Choice Award best picture win for Anora.

RaMell Ross took the Michael Apted First-Time Theatrical Feature Film prize for Nickel Boys.

The DGA is a strong predictor of Oscar success historically, missing the eventual Best Director winner only eight times in its 76 years. Last year, the group handed its top trophy to Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer, and he went on to snag the Academy Award a month later. The film also won Best Picture.

The Producers Guild of America Awards brought some clarity for the upcoming Oscars race as “Anora” took the evening’s top prize after it also won the top DGA prize for director Sean Baker just a few moments earlier as well as the Critics Choice award on Friday.

DreamWorks’ “The Wild Robot” gained momentum by earning the PGA animated film prize, while “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story,” which missed out on the Academy Awards shortlist, took home the PGA prize for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Picture.

On the television side, “Hacks” followed up its strong showing from Friday’s Critics Choice Awards, landing the Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Comedy. Meanwhile, Netflix’s “Baby Reindeer” landed the David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited or Anthology Series Television. Other TV winners include “Saturday Night Live” in the Live Entertainment, Variety, Sketch, Standup & Talk...

Completing one of the most remarkable two-day stretches in awards-season history, “Anora” won the top feature film prize at the Producers Guild Awards on Saturday night. The victory came about an hour after its director, Sean Baker, won at the Directors Guild Awards two blocks away, and a little more than 24 hours after the film scored a surprise win for Best Picture at the Critics Choice Awards.

The Critics Choice/DGA/PGA trifecta took the Palme d’Or-winning tragicomedic indie from a film that didn’t seem to have much Oscar momentum to the closest thing to a frontrunner in this weird, unsettled season.

TheWrap ran into a dazed Baker in a corner of the lobby after his PGA win and commented, “Hell of a two days.” Baker smiled, shook his head and agreed. “Hell of a two days,” he said.

If “Anora” can win with the Producers Guild and...

The Producers Guild of America had to delay the voting process and nominations announcement for its annual award show due to the Los Angeles wildfires, but the PGA Awards proceeded as planned tonight from the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

The guild award show, which is often seen as a barometer of the Best Picture race, is always watched closely by anyone looking to get a leg up on their Oscar ballots. And to anyone paying attention to the Oscar race, there was only one conclusion to draw from Saturday night: voters are high on “Anora.” Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner won the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures on the same night that Baker took the top prize at the DGA Awards.

TV was also well-represented, with Emmy favorites like “Shōgun,” “Hacks,” and “Baby Reindeer” taking the Drama, Comedy, and Limited Series categories,...

Some of Hollywood’s biggest stars stepped up to attend the 77th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards on Saturday night (February 8) in Beverly Hills, California.

Hosted by Judd Apatow, the event took place at The Beverly Hilton and featured an impressive guestlist of actors including the likes of Elle Fanning, Mikey Madison, Ayo Edebiri (who was also nominated for directing an episode of The Bear), Ali Wong (nominated for Ali Wong: Single Lady) and Bill Hader.

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Other stars in attendance included Adrien Brody, Bowen Yang, Justine Lupe, Maude Apatow, Michelle Yeoh, Demi Moore and Timothy Simons.

Some of the directors who were nominated and in attendance included Anora director Sean Baker, The Brutalist director Brady Corbet, A Complete Unknown director James Mangold, Didi director Sean Wang, Nickel Boys director Ramell Ross, Armand director Halfdan Ullman Tondel, Shogun directors Hiromi Kamata and Jonathan van Tulleken,...

Sean Baker won the top film prize for “Anora” at the Directors Guild Awards on Saturday, putting himself in the driver’s seat for the Best Director Oscar. Last year’s winner, “Oppenheimer” director Christopher Nolan presented Baker with the DGA Award.

Baker and “Anora” are on a huge high following the film’s surprise Best Picture win at the Critics Choice Awards on Friday. And about an hour after winning the DGA Award on Saturday, Baker collected the Producers Guild Awards’ top feature film prize in a stunning turn of events. The DGA, PGA and Critics Choice accolades are the first major honors the film has won this awards season, catapulting it into the front of the Oscar conversation.

“Oh my god, incredibly unexpected,” Baker said as he accepted the DGA honor alongside his directorial team. After acknowledging Nolan and “maestro” Ang Lee, he admitted his “imposter syndrome is skyrocketing right now.

With Oscar nominations firmly set and multiple guild award shows every week between now and the big show in March, the race to the Academy Awards has entered its final leg. This weekend is a crucial one for award watchers, with the Producers Guild of America and Directors Guild of America both giving out their annual prizes at ceremonies that could predict the Best Picture and Best Director race.

The 77th annual DGA Awards, which took place at the Beverly Hilton on Saturday, February 8, honored the year’s finest achievements in feature filmmaking, episodic TV, and commercial directing. The evening’s top prize, Theatrical Feature Film, went to Sean Baker for “Anora,” while other nominees included Jacques Audiard (“Emilia Pérez”), Edward Berger (“Conclave”), Brady Corbet (“The Brutalist”), and James Mangold (“A Complete Unknown”).

It remains to be seen what Baker’s big win means for his Oscar campaign — but last...

Ayo Edebiri is definitely looking forward to some Season 4 action on The Bear. During a red carpet interview with deadline at the Directors Guild of America Awards Saturday night, all she would reveal about the upcoming new season was, “I can let you know that I’m going to be in Chicago and the vibe will be that I’m cold,” but she did dig into what she loves most about working on the the show.

“It’s just the collaboration,” she said. “It’s like a real family feeling and there’s no bad ideas, and we all get in there. You just show up ready to do the work and everybody just goes their hardest, and leaves space for each other, I think, to share what they know and what they’re excited about, and I think that’s just what makes for a good work environment.”

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“The Substance” distributor Mubi has acquired Sundance favorite “Lurker” following a highly competitive bidding war and will release the movie in theaters later this year. The film will receive its international premiere at the 2025 Berlinale.

The film, which made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year, tells the story of a retail employee who infiltrates the inner circle of a music artist on the verge of stardom. But, “as he gets closer to the budding music star, access and proximity become a matter of life and death.”

Writer and director Alex Russell has been part of major shows like “Dave” and “The Bear,” but “Lurker” marks his feature directorial debut.

“It was already such a privilege to show our movie at Sundance last week. I’m honestly still reeling and recovering from that experience” said director Russell in an official statement. “To have found such an ideal...

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about Severance, FBI: International, The Way Home, the Grammys and more!

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The AFI Awards have always been the softest place to land during awards season.

A roster of honorees — 10 films and 10 television shows — is announced weeks in advance, so if a contender snags an invite to the Four Seasons ballroom, they’re a winner. American Film Institute CEO Bob Gazzale came quick with the reminder during Thursday’s event.

“I don’t know if anyone’s told you, but you won,” the long-serving and well-respected executive explained to generous laughter from an A-list crowd. “There’s no envelopes, there’s no speeches, there’s no sweat. We simply tell you, ‘you’re great,’ we tell you why and then we run a clip. Then in the dark, you cheer and you applaud and you scream for each other. You appreciate and you love each other. That’s what this room is about, and it’s never been anything different. It’s about community.

Ahead of a busy weekend on the awards circuit — the Critics Choice Awards, the PGA Awards, the DGA Awards — a veritable Hollywood who’s-who gathered on Thursday to celebrate the American Film Institute’s 10 finest films and television shows of 2024 in a luncheon event rescheduled from a month due to the devastating series of fires that ravaged the Los Angeles area.

And while there were quiet murmurings here and there about Emilia Pérez and the controversy enveloping its star Karla Sofia Gascón, the film was received with warm applause, if not an overabundance of enthusiasm, when it came time to play a clip. The movie was represented at the lunch by director Jacques Audiard, stars Zoe Saldaña, Edgar Ramirez, and Adriana Paz, and composers/songwriters Clément Ducol and Camille. Gascón, unsurprisingly, was a no-show, reportedly holed up in her native Spain after being sidelined by Netflix.

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The 2025 AFI Awards Luncheon brought together some of the most-acclaimed actors of the past year!

Wicked cast members Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, The Bear‘s Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri, and Nobody Wants This stars Kristen Bell, Adam Brody, and Jackie Tohn were among the celebs in attendance on Thursday afternoon (February 6) at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles.

AFI selects its Top 10 Movies of the Year and Top 10 TV Programs of the Year each season. This year’s film honorees are Anora, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, Dune: Part Two, Emilia Perez, Nickel Boys, A Real Pain, Sing Sing, and Wicked. The TV honorees are Abbott Elementary, The Bear, Hacks, A Man on the Inside, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Nobody Wants This, The Penguin, Shogun, Shrinking, and True Detective: Night Country. A special award is also being given to Baby Reindeer.

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Originally slated for Jan. 10 but postponed due to the Los Angeles wildfires, the American Film Institute’s AFI Awards took place nearly a month later Thursday afternoon at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills.

As always, the event was a starry affair with a guest list that included actors Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Harrison Ford, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Boyd Holbrook, Kristen Bell, Adam Brody, Quinta Brunson, Jesse Eisenberg, Michelle Yeoh, Colin Farrell, Mark Indelicato, Meg Stalter, Ralph Fiennes and Jodie Foster.

Directors included Sean Baker, Denis Villeneuve, James Mangold, RaMell Ross and Edward Berger.

The ceremony opened with footage of the late David Lynch talking about how much he loved AFI. The video ended with a title card that read, “We love you too, David. And always will.”

No surprise, but the Karla Sofía Gascón controversy was a hot topic of conversation. “Emilia Perez” was represented at the luncheon by stars Zoe Saldaña,...

The Disney Plus streaming app on a smartphone. (Photo by Mika Baumeister via Unsplash)

The Walt Disney Company saw its revenue increase during the last three months of 2024, brought on by price increases across some of its streaming services and an influx in cash from its sports businesses.

During its first fiscal quarter (Q1) of 2025, Disney earned $27.4 billion from its various operations, including streaming platforms, sports businesses, television broadcast channels and networks, and theme parks. The company’s Q1 coincides with calendar Q4 2024, which ended December 31.

Disney saw a modest bump in the number of customers who pay for its two flagship streaming services, Disney Plus and Hulu, with a total count of 178 million subscribers. The figure was up by 900,000 paid accounts compared to Q1 2024 (coincides with calendar Q4 2023), but Disney Plus logged a standalone loss of 700,000 subscribers to end the period with 124.6 million, marking one of the first financial...

Will.i.am., The Bear co-showrunner Joanna Calo and Emmy-winning composer Laura Karpman are all set to participate in panel discussions as part of the Lighthouse Campus Festival, set for Feb. 11-12 in Venice, California.

The two-day event, from Whalar Group and Tribeca Festival, marks the official opening of The Lighthouse Venice campus designed to bring together Los Angeles’ creators and creatives and continues Tribeca’s move into the creators space after the launch of its creators vertical last year.

The festival will include screenings, talks and workshops with talent from film, TV, music, podcasting, food and more.

In addition to the panels with will.i.am., Calo and Karpman, the festival will feature a director’s screening of Bob Trevino Likes It followed by a discussion with Tracie Laymon. Additional speakers include CEO of iHeartMedia Digital Audio Group Conal Byrn, CEO of Liquid Death Mike Cessario, contemporary artist Hebru Brantley,...

‘Weird Al’ Yankovic has tapped into his inner sad girl, cosplaying Clairo in the indie darling’s new music video “Terrapin,” directed by Ayo Edebiri.

In the goofy Eighties-inspired video, a suited Yankovic emerges from a prop film set house to animatedly lip sync, as background dancers twirl around him. Clairo, born Claire Cottrill, makes a few brief cameos with her band before Yankovic hijacks the keyboard for a dramatic solo.

It’s the third music video from Clairo’s Grammy-nominated album Charm, which was released July 2024. The singer-songwriter broke...

Clairo is enlisting some famous friends for her new music video!

The 26-year-old singer-songwriter unveiled her music video for “Terrapin” on Thursday (February 6), directed by The Bear star Ayo Edebiri and starring Weird Al Yankovic in the role of Clairo.

“Terrapin” is from Clairo’s recent album Charm, which was released in 2024.

Keep reading to find out more…

The “Terrapin” music video finds Weird Al exploring a prop film set in black tie attire, complete with background dancers and a cameo from Clairo herself.

“It’s the first song I made where I felt really free in the process. That song is about getting drunk with a friend and just looking at them and being like, ‘I love you.’ Maybe you never say it to each other, but you say it then, and it’s this magical moment where you’re covered in love, you’re drenched in it, and nothing matters.

Are the 2025 Critics Choice Awards about to be a repeat of the recent Emmys and Golden Globes?

Television awards faves Hacks, Shōgun, and Baby Reindeer are expected to dominate Friday’s ceremony, which was delayed twice in the wake of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires.

Season 3 of Max’s laugh riot Hacks is predicted to walk away with four trophies: comedy series, comedy actress (Jean Smart), comedy supporting actress (Hannah Einbinder), and comedy supporting actor (Paul W. Downs). In fact, the only category Hacks is expected to lose is Best Comedy Actor … because it doesn’t compete there. Instead, our odds-makers believe Adam Brody (Nobody Wants This) had better start preparing a speech.

Likewise, Season 1 of FX’s historical epic Shōgun has four races locked up, per our rankings: drama series, drama actress (Anna Sawai), drama actor (Hiroyuki Sanada), and drama supporting actor (Tadanobu Asano). The remaining statuette is Best Drama Supporting Actress,...

Julia Robert is teaming up with James Gray to tackle an adaptation of New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson’s forthcoming novel, Kill Your Darlings.

Scott Stuber’s rebooted United Artists label, as well as its big brother Amazon MGM Studios, have picked up the powerhouse package that also comes with a bevvy of producers

Roberts will star and produce with partners Lisa Gillan and Marisa Yeres Gill through their Red Om Films banner, as well as Tribeca Studios’ Jane Rosenthal and Berry Welsh. Stuber and partner Nick Nesbitt are also producing.

The book, from HarperCollins, doesn’t come out until June, but Amazon and Stuber acted quickly to take the book off the Hollywood market. The story is a murder mystery told in reverse.

Darlings centers on Tom and Wendy Graves, a couple married for over 25 years who appear to have a picture-perfect life, but beneath the surface,...

From making Cinderella Castle look like a giant birthday cake to covering the park in toilet paper, Disney has pulled some strange promotional stunts in its day. While those two examples are laughable, some choices make us say "Are you sure about that, Disney?"

Disney+ is one of the biggest streaming services on the market, especially after the Hulu merger. As the service's collection of content continues to grow, Disney is pushing for more subscribers with its approach, but one recent ad isn't as magical as the company might think.

What did they just say?

Disney+ just dropped its "What If" Big Game trailer leading up to the Super Bowl. The footage above shows just a small sampling of what subscribers can expect from the realms of Walt Disney Animation, Star Wars, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and more, all narrated with the surreal silky tones of what we assume to be Josh Gad.

“Paradise” had a heavenly opening week, per Disney, which says Hulu’s Sterling K. Brown-led drama from “This Is Us” creator Dan Fogelman drew 7 million views across its first nine days of streaming, Variety has learned.

Those stats (a rarity from a streamer that does not regularly release its viewership data) are based on streaming for the “Paradise” series premiere episode only, which debuted as a surprise release on Hulu and Disney+ at 9 p.m. Et on Jan. 26 ahead of the scheduled drop of the show’s first three episodes on Jan. 28. The episode streamed across Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ in the U.S. and Disney+ internationally.

Disney defines a “view” as total stream time for an episode divided by its runtime. Episode 1 of “Paradise,” titled “Wildcat Is Down,” clocks in at just-over-48-minutes long.

For some comparison, Disney said “The Bear” Season 3 premiere episode reached 5.4 million views...

Molly Gordon has a new movie in the works!

On Tuesday (February 4), it was announced that the 29-year-old actress – best known for her roles in The Bear, Theater Camp, and Booksmart – will be directing, writing, and starring in A24‘s upcoming comedy Peaked.

Keep reading to find out more…Peaked follows “the two girls who traumatized you in high school as they try to relive their glory days at their 10-year reunion,” according to Variety.

Molly will be co-writing the screenplay with her friend Allie Levitan, who was recently hired as a writer on Saturday Night Live.

The movie is scheduled to film later this year. As of right now, no other cast members have been announced.

Just last week, Molly was at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival promoting her new movie Oh, Hi! with co-star Logan Lerman.

The Fantastic Four are known are Marvel’s “First Family” but this summer, they will technically be newbies to the MCU. Of course, we’re using that term very loosely.

As the nickname denotes, the characters are true Marvel icons and the actors playing the core four are anything but newbies, each starring in massive projects before now. But more on that momentarily. For now, we’re here to tell you that “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” is starting to become a bit clearer, especially after finally getting a first trailer to kick off February.

Set to hit theaters on July 25, the film takes place “against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world” and follows the Fantastic Four as they take on the Devourer of Worlds — Galactus.

Here is who you need to know in the film.

Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards in Marvel’s “The Fantastic Four: First Steps...

Everyone remembers high school differently. For some, high school was an era of overachievement, leading to a false sense of how competitive life can become outside the hallowed halls of judgment, ridicule, and misguided lust. For others, high school is a specter of the past better left behind after years of jeers, rumors, and misinformation about how the world functions. For The Bear‘s Molly Gordon, high school is the setting of her new comedy project with A24 called Peaked.

As the film’s title suggests, Peaked focuses on the glory days of prom planning and experimentation and that fleeting time when we feel invisible. According to the official logline, the film follows “the two girls who traumatized you in high school as they try to relive their glory days at their 10-year reunion.” You remember them. I certainly do.

In addition to her starring role, Molly Gordon is co-writing...

After breaking out on “The Bear” and starring in last year’s “Theater Camp,” Molly Gordon is teaming with A24 for a new comedy film called “Peaked.” Gordon will direct and star in the movie, which she co-wrote with Allie Levitan.

“Peaked” was written by Gordon and Levitan, a writer for “Saturday Night Live.” The shoot is scheduled for later this year. David Hinojosa and Zach Nutman of 2Am will produce alongside Gordon and A24. Levitan will executive produce. Topic Studios, who previously collaborated with Gordon on Theater Camp, will co-finance.

The official synopsis says that “Peaked “follows the two girls who traumatized you in high school as they try to relive their glory days at their 10-year reunion.”

Gordon recently starred in “Oh, Hi!,” a romantic comedy that just debuted at Sundance. (Gordon also has a story by credit.) She also returns to co-star in the fourth season of “The Bear” later this year.

Molly Gordon, best known for “The Bear” and “Theater Camp,” is writing, directing and starring in the upcoming comedy “Peaked” for A24.

According to the official logline, the film follows “the two girls who traumatized you in high school as they try to relive their glory days at their 10-year reunion.” Gordon is co-writing the screenplay with her friend Allie Levitan, who was recently hired as a writer on “Saturday Night Live.”

A24 will finance and produce “Peaked,” which is scheduled to shoot this year. David Hinojosa and Zach Nutman of 2Am will produce alongside Gordon and A24. Levitan will executive produce. Topic Studios, who previously collaborated with Gordon on “Theater Camp,” will co-finance the film.

Gordon and Levitan are also collaborating on the Searchlight Pictures film “Small Parts,” with Gordon attached to direct and co-write with Levitan. That movie, described as a new take on the 1987 Shelly Long and...