Award-winning actor Ted Danson will receive another honor: the Carol Burnett Award for Career Achievements at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards. The news about Danson, who’s following in the footsteps of previous recipients Norman Lear, Ryan Murphy, and Ellen DeGeneres, was announced on Monday. “Ted Danson has entertained audiences for …
Read More »In Praise of Denzel Washington, Supervillain
You will know the most gleeful, instantly gratifying, oh-this-is-going-to-be-good moment in Gladiator II when you see it. The dopamine peak of Ridley Scott‘s long-awaited sequel to his 2000 Oscar-winning epic isn’t the opening battle scene, in which Paul Mescal and his neighbors unleash hell on Roman centurions attacking them. It …
Read More »Marshall Brickman, Co-Writer of 'Annie Hall' and 'Jersey Boys,' Dead at 85
Marshall Brickman, who co-wrote hit films with Woody Allen including Annie Hall, and the musical Jersey Boys, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 85. His daughter Sophie Brickman confirmed the news to The New York Times. Born in Rio de Janeiro and raised in Brooklyn, Brickman originally wanted to …
Read More »James Van Der Beek Is Selling 'Varsity Blues' Jerseys to Fund Cancer Treatments
James Van Der Beek, who starred in Dawson’s Creek and Varsity Blues, is selling movie merch to help ease the “financial burden” stemming from his colorectal cancer treatments and to help other families in the same situation. The actor announced the sale via his Instagram reel, where he shared photos …
Read More »Keira Knightley Goes Undercover in the Darkly Comic 'Black Doves'
When we meet Helen Webb in the first episode of the new Netflix miniseries Black Doves, she seems a picture-perfect example of a politician’s wife: impeccably styled, cheerful, tending to home and children while her husband, Wallace, works as Great Britain’s defense secretary. She has it all, and makes it …
Read More »Comedian Caleb Hearon Is a 'Big Lover Boy.' Now He's Got the Movie Roles to Prove It
To his 700,000 TikTok followers and thousands of online fans, Caleb Hearon is a stand-up comedian, podcaster, actor, and screenwriter known for his absurdist take on zillennial comedy. Take, for instance, one of his most famous viral clips: When an anonymous troll commenter wrote that Hearon looks like “he broke …
Read More »How 'The Piano Lesson' Uses Music to Excavate America's Dark History of Slavery
For Malcolm Washington, an appreciation for August Wilson plays runs in the family. Several years ago, his father Denzel committed to producing film adaptations of Wilson’s Century Cycle plays — a collection of 10 works, each covering one decade of the Black experience in 20th-century America. Denzel started with the …
Read More »Why Demi Moore Says the 'Ghost' Script 'Scared the Crap Out of Me'
Demi Moore celebrated her 62nd birthday by eating spicy wings and reflecting on Ghost. On Friday, the actress visited Hot Ones and went through every wing without flinching as she looked back at some of her most famous roles. Right away, host Sean Evans asked about her 1990 hit co-starring …
Read More »'Moana 2' Breaks Thanksgiving Day Box Office Record, Raking in $28 Million
Moana 2 is the most successful Thanksgiving movie ever. On Friday, Walt Disney Animation Studios revealed that the animated musical, released Nov. 27, hauled in $28 million at the box office on Turkey Day, surpassing the previous record held by Frozen II at $14.9 million. The film is also on …
Read More »Jude Law Stalked Nicholas Hoult to Prep for New Film
Director Justin Kurzel asked Jude Law to go to extremes as they prepped to shoot an upcoming crime thriller, including following co-star Nicholas Hoult without his knowledge and making a dossier on what he saw. Law and Hoult co-star in Kurzel’s film The Order, based around the story of FBI …
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