Lizzy Caplan is opening up about the scrapped X-Men spinoff Gambit movie. During a recent interview with Business Insider, the Party Down actress, who was in talks to star opposite Channing Tatum, detailed the film’s pre-production before it ultimately got axed. “It was a really cool idea,” Caplan said. “It’s kind of odd that it got scrapped. Those movies don’t seem to …
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Following a blow by Los Angeles’ new district attorney last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom has now planted himself firmly in the good graces of the Menendez brothers, their family and legion of supporters, signaling on Wednesday that he’s potentially leaning toward offering clemency to the incarcerated convicted killers, should all other avenues fail, by calling for the California Parole Board …
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A federal judge has rejected Pepperdine University’s bid for a court order to block Netflix from releasing parts of episodes of its upcoming series Running Point that allegedly infringe on its basketball team’s trademarks. With the denial on Wednesday of the temporary restraining order, Netflix will continue with plans to release the sports comedy tomorrow. The legal battle revolves around …
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Paramount is stepping back from some policies aimed at boosting diversity among its ranks amid a larger retreat from DEI initiatives in the private sector driven by the Trump administration. The changes include eliminating staffing goals tied to race, ethnicity, sex and gender, according to an internal memo obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. The company will also stop collecting gender …
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Netflix has released its latest six-month trove of viewing data, and if the compilation of more than 15,000 series and movies points to anything, it’s how big a phenomenon Squid Game is. Season two of the Korean hit was the most watched series worldwide in the second half of 2024, in both Netflix’s preferred view metric (86.5 million, measured by …
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“From the Heart of Europe: Austria on Screen” promises to bring “an eclectic mix from hard-hitting drama to absurdist comedy” to the 2025 Glasgow Film Festival, which kicked off on Wednesday and runs through March 9. Across 12 days, Scotland’s largest annual celebration of cinema will bring out such stars as James McAvoy, Ed Harris, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth, George …
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Amalia Ulman’s Magic Farm will plant roots as the opening night screening of the second edition of the Los Angeles Festival of Movies. Presented by MUBI and Mezzanine, LAFM is set to take place from April 3-6, and it will feature a program of more than 20 feature films, a curated shorts roster, an inaugural animation program and featured artists …
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You may not know his name, and you’ve never heard his voice, but you’ve probably seen his face. It’s the same one staring out at you in hundreds of TikTok and Instagram videos that have been viewed billions of times. But unlike most social media stars, Jarred Jermaine has earned his internet celebrity performing an essential cultural service: He breaks …
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TKO Group Holdings, the owner of UFC, WWE and soon IMG, PBR and other sports brands, is launching its first “takeover” over a city, bringing its three tentpole companies under one roof over the course of a long weekend. The company said Wednesday that it would launch a takeover of Kansas City’s T-Mobile Center in April, bringing a Professional Bull …
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Fox is going all-in on its first-year medical drama Doc. The network has renewed the series, starring Molly Parker, for a second season — and the order is an old-school, 22-episode season, showing a vote of confidence after solid early returns in the ratings. Doc is averaging about 2.3 million same-day viewers, per Nielsen, but grows substantially with streaming on Hulu …
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