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Hailee Steinfeld and Rashida Jones will star in Disney’s next animated movie, “Hexed,” the company revealed during its CinemaCon presentation to theater owners on Thursday. “Hexed” is a new original film that “follows a teenage oddball and her Type A mom, who

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The Hulu revival “Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair” has been deemed eligible for consideration at this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards and will compete in comedy categories, Variety has learned exclusively. Despite running only five episodes, the revival qualifies under the Television Academy

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Last year, Marvel Studios announced that “Avengers: Endgame” would get a theatrical re-release ahead of the next superhero team-up movie, December’s “Avengers: Doomsday.” Turns out, there’s more to the “Endgame” than previously advertised. During the W

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Finally, at long last, the Avengers are assembling again! This much-anticipated reunion of Earth’s Mightiest heroes can’t come soon enough. It’s been six difficult years for movie theater owners since their last heroic team-up in 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.” To the

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Singer D4vd has been arrested for the murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who was found dead in Hollywood in the trunk of his Tesla in September. According to the LAPD, D4vd, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, was arrested by the Robbery-Homicide Division for the murder of Hernandez and is being

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Only a species suffering from terminal main character syndrome would, when describing intimately human experiences like love, reach for the language of global cataclysm. Tsunami, earthquake, meteor strike, volcano: We’re barely in love at all unless our metaphor is a natural catastrophe with t

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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for “9:00 pm,” the Season 2 finale of “The Pitt,” now streaming on HBO Max. Supriya Ganesh’s Dr. Mohan said her goodbyes(ish) on the Season 2 finale of “The Pitt.” After spending most of her shift butting heads with Noah Wyle’s Dr. R

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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for “9:00 pm,” the Season 2 finale of “The Pitt,” now streaming on HBO Max. The final two episodes of “The Pitt” were extremely heavy as Noah Wyle’s Dr. Robby admitted he wasn’t sure he wanted to be alive anymore — but in the end, it

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Grief is one of the most confounding aspects of the human experience. To live is to experience loss, and yet, we are never truly prepared. This type of agony is always a detriment to mental health, even more so when someone is already predisposed to instability. In the first Broadway revival of Puli

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Jill Biden is a “Heated Rivalry” fan. So much so that the former First Lady, just minutes ago during the live auction at the NYC LGBT Community Center’s Center Dinner, bid $35,000 to have a walk-on role in the queer hockey series’ second season along with a dinner with the cast, according to sources

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Fresh off a triumphant Oscar win, Michael B. Jordan hit CinemaCon to showcase his latest directorial effort: a slick remake of “The Thomas Crown Affair.” The annual convention of movie theater owners got a sneak peek at Jordan’s project — the third big-screen take on the stor

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“Project Hail Mary” and its $525 million dollar global box office haul was not a fluke, Amazon MGM Studios swore on a stack of James Bond novels in Las Vegas on Wednesday night. The tech monolith’s film arm took the main stage at CinemaCon — the annual gathering of movie thea

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James Bond will return… Well, at some point. Amazon MGM Studios gave the barest of updates on the next 007 film. The studio, which recently took over creative control of the spy franchise, has hired Denis Villeneuve to direct the next installment. Given Villeneuve’s success with the &#82

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Mel Brooks brought the Farce to CinemaCon. Brooks didn’t attend the annual convention in Las Vegas, but the 99-year-old comedy legend sent a pre-taped video for the long-awaited sequel to his 1987 sci-fi parody “Spaceballs.” In the short clip, he also announced the sequel’s official titl

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Henry Cavill’s “Highlander” reboot got a first look during Amazon MGM’s presentation at CinemaCon, the annual convention for movie theaters owners that’s underway in Las Vegas. Filming is still underway, but CinemaCon attendees saw behind-the-scenes footage and some ser

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Yo Adrian, the Italian Stallion is back in the ring. Amazon MGM brought a teaser of “I Play Rocky,” a drama about the true story behind the tumultuous making of the 1976 boxing classic “Rocky.” Anthony Ippolito, best known for “The Offer,” portrays a young Sylvest

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Oasis’ 2025 reunion tour won the Major Tour of the Year award at the 2026 Pollstar Awards, held Wednesday night in Hollywood as the centerpiece event of the annual Pollstar Live! conference, hosted by the primary trade magazine focused on the live music business.. Other top winners in genre-ba

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In transitioning from a standalone story to a multi-season anthology, all shows in the genre Ryan Murphy took mainstream with “American Horror Story” face the same existential question. If a series isn’t defined by a stable set of characters or locations, what does define it? For HBO’s “The White Lo

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Richard Kind is back in the fraudulent theatrical agency business. Twenty-two years after playing Max Bialystok on Broadway following Nathan Lane in the role, the veteran actor has brought the character to the West End for the first time, starring in the revival of Mel Brooks’ “The Produ

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What is Australian independent cinema making of the wider world right now? Five answers are set to emerge at the Cannes Film Festival next month, where the Adelaide Film Festival Goes to Cannes program will present works in progress to international buyers and programmers. The selection is notable f

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Billy Crystal is returning to Broadway. The beloved performer has announced a new one-man show, “860,” which is opening this fall. “860” was written by Crystal and named after the address of the home he lost in the 2025 Palisades fire. Crystal was one of thousands whose house

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“Saturday Night Live” creator and longtime producer Lorne Michaels may be involved with the recently launched U.K. version of the sketch comedy show, but he insists he’s not too hands-on. “My design for it was that it would be the cooler of the two shows, and it would be the thing they beat us up [&

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Pan Nalin’s award-winning Gujarati-language drama “Last Film Show” will open in French cinemas on June 10, with Friday Entertainment bringing the picture to more than 100 screens under its French-language title “La Dernière Séance,” following an acquisition from Studioc

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Vietnamese romantic drama “Meet Me at the Eclipse” (Hẹn Em Ngày Nhật Thực) will open theatrically across North America on May 8, distributed worldwide by Mockingbird Pictures, following a dominant run at the Vietnamese local box office that has seen it clear $4 million and climb into the

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Cannes is set to welcome a Japan IP market at this year’s festival. Cannes market, the film festival’s business hub, is collaborating with Tokyo International Film Festival Content Market (TIFFCOM) on the strategic gathering, which will run from May 15 to 17. The news comes as Japan readies to take

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