• HBO gives Bottoms star Rachel Sennott her own TV pilot

    Curb Your Enthusiasm is quickly approaching its ending, but HBO might already be lining up its next big comedy star: Rachel Sennott, star of Shiva Baby and star/co-writer of last year’s Bottoms. According to Deadline, which calls Sennott a “fresh female comedy voice,” HBO has ordered half-hour pilot from Sennott that will be about “a codependent friend group” that reunites after some time apart and must then work through whatever sort of changes they’ve all experience during their separation. ...

  • The world must know how Sydney Sweeney feels about Madame Web

    In between starring in a romantic comedy that actually made money and sending the internet into a tailspin for having breasts, Sydney Sweeney has had some explaining to do. Like, does she know that she was in Madame Web, the first bad superhero movie? Of course, she does. In fact, she’s already answered for it, telling The Los Angeles Times some weeks back that she was “just hired as an actor” and “happy to bring to life a character that my little cousins are excited about.” That’s nice, but...

  • Original The Crow director Alex Proyas is still very mad about the remake

    Get your “likely place for him to be” memes ready, because original The Crow director Alex Proyas has A Problem with Rupert Sanders’ new Crow remake just like the problem he’s had with every other attempt to reboot The Crow. But he’s not alone in his lack of faith in the new Crow, since a lot of old Crow fans were pretty unhappy with the recent trailer for the Bill Skarsgård and FKA twigs-starring remake (one clever comment on YouTube said: “Original movie has angry Crow, this movie has angry...

  • Katy O'Brian looked to Thelma & Louise as well as Showgirls for inspiration on Love Lives Bleeding

    The actor says David Cronenberg's Crash was also a big influence on the movie

  • Celeste O'Connor says Bill Murray is their favorite Ghostbuster

    The actor also talks about meeting Morgan Freeman on the set of A Good Person

  • Lawyers seek new trial, release for Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed

    The long, upsetting saga of 26-year-old Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed may be getting another chapter. After 10 frustrating days of back-and-forth testimony in court, Gutierrez-Reed was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter earlier this month. After two hours of deliberation, the New Mexico jury determined the armorer’s “willful disregard” for safety procedures on set was what led to the 2021 death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was struck by a live bullet discharged from Alec...

  • Amazon seems to be preparing for a Netflix-esque investment in foreign TV

    In a move that feels reminiscent of Netflix’s decision to throw money at South Korean TV shows last year just ahead of the Writers Guild Of America strike, Amazon has come up with its own way to avoid talking to American labor unions—whether that was the official goal or not. According to Deadline, Amazon has signed a “first-of-its-kind” deal with Japanese TV network Nippon TV to get the streaming rights to hit drama Acma: Game (a manga adaptation about the devil challenging people to a twisted...

  • William Shatner thinks Gene Roddenberry "is twirling in his grave" over new Star Trek

    With a property as sprawling as Star Trek, of course everyone has their own opinions on which entry is the best and which entry is their favorite. (Those might be two distinct answers!) It shouldn’t be a surprise that OG Star Trek star William Shatner thinks OG Star Trek is the truest version, not just because of his involvement but because of creator Gene Roddenberry’s particular vision. “He was in the military, and he was a policeman,” Shatner says in a new interview with The Hollywood...

  • RuPaul's Drag Race alum Shangela accused of multiple sexual assaults

    Shangela—one of the most recognizable drag performers in the world, who has appeared on multiple seasons of RuPaul’s Drag Race and a recent season of Dancing With The Stars, as well as a number of films and television shows like A Star Is Born, Broad City, and Station 19—has been accused of sexual assault by multiple people. These allegations come from a new, detailed report by Rolling Stone, which picked up reporting previously initiated by BuzzFeed News in 2022 before the outlet was shuttered...

  • Bill Hader and Quinta Brunson team up for The Cat In The Hat

    Bill Hader and Quinta Brunson created two of TV’s best comedies, albeit in very different ways, of the past decade. The creators and stars of Barry and Abbott Elementary, respectively, are now teaming up for another project. Sadly, it’s not an enticing, hilarious small-screen adventure or a fun rom-com (yet?). But they will lead the voice cast of Warner Bros. Animation’s The Cat In The Hat. The source material is, of course, Dr. Seuss’ acclaimed 1957 children’s book about an anthropomorphic...

  • SXSW review: The Idea Of You

    A good romantic comedy is a hard thing to make. Let’s be clear: A good movie of any genre is a hard thing to make, but I mention this specifically with regard to rom-coms because, too often, they’re viewed as a kind of day off for the talent involved. Or worse, as a kind of professional valley in an actor’s career. Despite a decades-old proud Hollywood tradition and entries in the genre starring some of the most talented people in the history of cinema, we still spend too much time thinking of...

  • The battle of Don Lemon vs. Elon Musk heats up with release of hour-long interview

    After Don Lemon was ousted from CNN over a sexist remark about Nikki Haley—and in the wake of an exposé about his allegedly poor treatment of female colleagues—it made a certain sense when news broke he’d be partnering with Elon Musk to bring his own show to X (formerly Twitter). On the other side of the aisle, ousted Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson was doing the same. Musk has been advocating to make the platform friendly for video, and starting by funding shows for a bunch of semi-disgraced...