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EXCLUSIVE: Barbie actor and longtime SNL vet Kate McKinnon and Flight of the Conchords maestro Jemaine Clement are joining the mushrooming ensemble of Jared Hess’ Minecraft at Warner Bros. Also news today is that Domain has boarded as a co-financier on the feature take of the Mojang videogame alongside previously announced Legendary. McKinnon and Clement

EXCLUSIVE: Pranutan Bahl, granddaughter of Indian icon Nutan, and Rahsaan Noor are leading Coco & Nut, an English- and Hindi-language romantic comedy shot in Chicago. Billed as a “spirit-lifting romance,” the film will follow an ambitious young woman (Bahl), who feels worthless while fighting to save her marriage before she gets a “pick me up

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has optioned the rights to Anthony Kiedis’ New York Times Best Seller Scar Tissue and the project is currently in early development at the studio. The project will be produced by Brain Grazer through Imagine Entertainment, Kiedis, and Guy Oseary. The very candid book profiles Kiedis, the famed frontman of The Red

A year after the Jonathan Majors disturbed bodybuilder drama Magazine Dreams took Sundance by storm, the pic is now back in the hands of its filmmakers and being shopped, Deadline has confirmed. Searchlight acquired the hot title last year out of Park City for an estimated seven figures; the movie, an 84% fresh on Rotten

EXCLUSIVE: Oscilloscope Laboratories has taken North America on Flipside, a new documentary from filmmaker Chris Wilcha, which world premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival. Exec produced by Judd Apatow, the film is slated for release in theaters this year. Flipside sees Wilcha revisit the New Jersey record store he worked at as a teenager,

The entertainment industry came together tonight to celebrate the achievements in film and television for the 75th Emmy Awards held at the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live. Succession dominates this year’s Emmy nominations, leading with an impressive 27 nods, closely trailed by The Last of Us with 24, The White Lotus securing 23, and Ted

EXCLUSIVE: It is only after Eric Roth invites you to sit on his front porch and discuss screenwriting and the thorny process of making great movies that you find yourself saying, wait, you wrote that one too? He’ll tell you you’re sitting in a chair where Nobel Laureates and Pulitzer winners held court — as

Harrison Ford was honored at the Critics Choice Awards with the Career Achievement Award and delivered a heartfelt speech. “I’m really happy to be here tonight [and] to see what our business is turning into,” Ford said, accepting his award after a standing ovation from the crowd. “And all of the talented people who are

The prospect of working with Jessica Chastain under the direction of Michel Franco was enough to pique Peter Sarsgaard’s interest in Memory, but what really sealed the deal was how Franco had written his character, Saul. Since Franco rarely defines the character on the page, Sarsgaard was given the freedom to create a personal portrait of

Adam Sandler has taken to social media to express his condolences following the loss of Alec Musser. Musser appeared in the 2010 film Grown Ups, which Sandler co-wrote with Fred Wold and produced alongside Jack Giarraputo. “I loved this guy. Cannot believe he is gone. Such a wonderful, funny good man. Thinking of him and

Albert Einstein had his theory of relativity, and Breaking Baz has his theory of party lift-off. Friday night at the Universal filmed entertainment soiree, the moment of fusion came when Snoop Dogg hit the room at the Sunset Tower and was immediately embraced by Oppenheimer stars Emily Blunt and Florence Pugh. No wait. Surely, it was when Blunt

Mia Goth, known for the films X and Pearl, is among those being sued by a background extra of her upcoming film MaXXXine after allegedly kicking him in the head on purpose during a take, an incident that led to his dismissal from the film last April. James Hunter claims in court papers that he

Casting Society has made its 2024 callbacks. The group today revealed the film nominees for its 39th Artios Awards, which honor the contribution of casting professionals. Vying in the Feature Big Budget – Drama category are The Color Purple, Maestro, Killers of the Flower Moon, Oppenheimer and Saltburn. The Feature Big Budget – Comedy race will be

Even though Tom Cruise inked a non-exclusive pact at Warner Bros earlier this week, it looks like he’ll continue to be busy with Paramount for some time. Reports tonight are that Top Gun 3 is in development at Paramount with Top Gun:Maverick co-writer Ehren Kruger currently writing a draft. The word is that the project

It was only a matter of time before Willem Dafoe worked with Yorgos Lanthimos, and the result is everything you might expect and more. In Poor Things, the actor plays Dr. Godwin Baxter, a Scottish scientist given to sewing dog’s heads onto chickens, and we meet him after completing the most important experiment of his

Kate Beckinsale attended the Golden Globes as a presenter, then hit the Netflix party. But she ended her night in a hospital, where her stepfather, TV director Roy Battersby, is recovering from a stroke. The British actress has been caring for her mother and stepfather as they struggle with serious illnesses. Beckinsale shared red carpet

In department head interviews for her satirical thriller Saltburn, Emerald Fennell heard a lot about beauty. This, of course, made sense, given the film’s setting within high-society England of the mid-2000s, a stunning world of entirely unrelatable luxury. But it wasn’t until Fennell spoke with Academy Award nominee Suzie Davies that she knew she’d found

After being delayed due to the strikes, the 14th Annual Governors Awards took place in LA to hand out the honorary Oscars. Angela Bassett, Mel Brooks, and Carol Littleton received honorary Oscars, while Michelle Satter was honored with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. The gala at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Ovation Hollywood was attended

Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav and the Motion Picture Group’s co-chairs and CEOs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy have hammered out a new strategic partnership deal with Tom Cruise that takes effect this year. The $13 billion-grossing star and producer will develop and produce original and franchise theatrical titles which he’ll star in. Cruise and his production company

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney won five awards at the Creative Arts Emmys for Welcome to Wrexham, the FX series that follows the duo buying the third oldest professional soccer club in the world. In an acceptance speech Reynolds shared on social media, he appears dressed as Deadpool, holding Hugh Jackman’s broken Emmy. “Wow, an