A24 FilmsOscar-winning indie studio A24 just dropped the trailer to Y2K, a horror comedy that, as its name suggests, centers on what some thought would be the end of the world, the so-called Y2K bug. While in reality it didn’t come to pass, in the film it does. Unfortunately for high school losers Eli and Danny…… read more »
LucasfilmLucasfilm has struck down the prospects for a second season of The Acolyte.The Disney+ show, starring Amandla Stenberg and created by Leslye Headland, launched on June 4 with two episodes, generating 4.8 million views for the first two chapters, enough to rank at #7 on Nielsen’s Top 10.As the series progressed, it continued to divide…… read more »
Apple TV+ has announced the premiere date for season 2 of Sharon Horgan’s dark comedy Bad Sisters. The new season will kick off with two episodes on Nov. 13. The series follows the Garveys — an Irish family with five sisters — portrayed by Horgan, Anne-Marie Duff, Eva Birthistle, Sarah Greene and Eve Hewson. Claes…… read more »
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty ImagesStranger Things’ Millie Bobby Brown is reportedly developing a feature adaptation of her debut novel, Nineteen Steps, for Netflix, sources tell Deadline.Brown will reportedly produce and star in the feature, which The Theory of Everything’s Anthony McCarten will direct.The New York Times bestseller, co-written by Brown and Kathleen McGurl, is set in WW2 era…… read more »
Warner Bros. DiscoveryIn a feature in GQ, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star Michael Keaton had a pretty plain-spoken response to Warner Bros. infamously shelving Batgirl, a film that would have had him reprising as Batman.”Big, fun, nice check,” he said when he was asked what his feelings were about the shelving of the movie that also starred…… read more »
Kelly Lee Barrett/CinespiaOscar-nominated actress Kirsten Dunst has come a long way since playing chipper cheerleader Torrance Shipman in 2000’s hit Bring it On, but on Sunday evening she showed she can still bring it.The actress surprised fans at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery during a Kirsten Dunst Sleepover Party at the venue. It was Cinespia’s 25th…… read more »
Warner Bros. PicturesZoë Kravitz doesn’t know when she’ll be called back into action by director Matt Reeves for the sequel to his blockbuster The Batman, but she has some hopes for the next time she plays Selina Kyle aka Catwoman.While promoting her directorial debut, Blink Twice, Zoë tells Collider, “Matt goes into his hole when…… read more »
Comedy CentralThe Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture in Chicago will be hosting the Democratic National Convention beginning Monday, and The Daily Show news team will be there.Michael Kosta kicks things off Monday at 10 p.m. CT, and his special guest will be Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.Desi Lydic will co-host Tuesday evening and welcome Illinois…… read more »
Robin Platzer/Getty ImagesTalk show hosts past and present took to social media to mourn Emmy winner and talk show icon Phil Donahue, who died Sunday night at 88 years old. Oprah Winfrey posted to Instagram a throwback photo of her hugging the man whose talk show dominance she challenged in the 1980s. “There wouldn’t have been…… read more »
Good Morning AmericaDanielle Fishel, who played Topanga on Boy Meets World and its follow-up, Girl Meets World, revealed on her podcast that she’s been diagnosed with breast cancer. The 43-year-old host of Pod Meets World explains her prognosis is very good, because it was caught “so, so early.” On the Aug. 19 episode, she began by referencing…… read more »
