Netflix has ordered more episodes of the sci-fi drama 3 Body Problem, Variety reports. “We’re thrilled that we get to tell this story through to its epic conclusion,” series creators David Benioff, D.B. Weiss and Alexander Woo said in a statement. “Ever since we read the last page of Cixin Liu’s magnificent trilogy, we hoped we’d …
Jake Gyllenhaal signs Marcello Hernández’s ‘SNL’ yearbook in new promo
Rosalind O’Connor/NBC Jake Gyllenhaal hosts Saturday Night Live‘s May 18 season 49 finale, and in a new promo for the episode, the Roadhouse actor tries to craft the perfect yearbook message. The clip opens with Gyllenhaal looking over a script for a sketch in a comical southern accent, when SNL castmember Marcello Hernández interrupts him …
Kansas City Chiefs player faces backlash for graduation speech criticizing working women, calling Pride a ‘deadly sin’
Harrison Butker speaks to the 2024 graduates of Benedictine College, May 11, 2024, in Atchison, Kan. (Benedictine College/YouTube) (NEW YORK) — The kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs is facing backlash after delivering a commencement address that touched on everything from Pride Month to women’s roles in the home, abortion and in vitro fertilization. “It …
Cannes crowd “mad” for ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ with nearly 8-minute standing O
Marc Piasecki/FilmMagic Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth were on hand at Cannes International Film Festival Wednesday, where the audience clapped theirs for the stars’ new film, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. According to video from Deadline, when the screening ended at the famed Grand Theatre Lumière, what followed was a seven-minute, 50-second ovation for the prequel film from …
Scoreboard roundup — 5/15/24
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUEMiami 2, Detroit 0Chi White Sox 2, Washington 0LA Angels 7, St. Louis 2 AMERICAN LEAGUEBaltimore 3, Toronto 2Seattle 4, Kansas City 2Tampa Bay 4, Boston 3Houston 3, Oakland 0NY Yankees 4, Minnesota 0Texas 4, Cleveland 0 NATIONAL LEAGUEMilwaukee 10, …
Netflix confirms Adam Sandler’s ‘Happy Gilmore’ sequel
Universal/Getty Images Although his pal and 50 First Dates co-star Drew Barrymore told fans in April that Adam Sandler was working on a sequel to 1996’s Happy Gilmore, Netflix just made it official. In releasing its lineup of forthcoming films for 2024 and 2025 on Wednesday, May 15, the streamer revealed Happy Gilmore 2 is …
Netflix’s animated ‘Terminator Zero’ coming out on Judgement Day: August 29
Netflix Netflix has chosen a very appropriate date to drop its animated series Terminator Zero — August 29, best known as Judgement Day for fans of the seminal sci-fi series. According to 1991’s Terminator 2, it is on that date in 1997 — at 2:14 a.m., to be exact — when the artificial intelligence system known as Skynet becomes …
Kevin Costner “doesn’t want to get down in the gutter” with ‘Yellowstone’ rumors, insists show was his “priority”
Paramount Network In a chat with Deadline at the Cannes International Film Festival, where the first installment of his mostly self-funded Western epic Horizon: An American Saga will debut on May 19, Kevin Costner talked about his future — and past — with Yellowstone. In a frank discussion with the trade’s Mike Fleming, Costner insisted …
See Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo as Glinda and Elphaba in new trailer for ‘Wicked’
© Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved A new trailer for the movie version of Wicked has arrived. The new look at the Jon M. Chu-directed film, starring Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Ariana Grande as Glinda, was released Wednesday. “Are people born wicked? Or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?” a voice-over says at the …
‘Conan O’Brien Must Go’ again: Travelogue show renewed for a second season
Conaco/Max Conan O’Brien better pack his bags. Not only was his hit travelogue comedy series Conan O’Brien Must Go been renewed by Max, it’s been expanded. Nina Rosenstein, the head of HBO Programming’s Late Night & Specials division, said during Warner Bros. Discovery’s upfront presentation, “Our audience told us in no uncertain terms that four …