Warber Bros. Pictures Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures — the division that translated movies including Beetlejuice and Elf into Broadway musicals — will be doing the same with its 2018 hit Crazy Rich Asians. ABC Audio has confirmed that the blockbuster’s director, Jon M. Chu, is aboard for the adaptation, which would mark his Broadway debut. …
Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images About a month after news broke that Poor Things‘ Margaret Qualley was to executive produce and star in a Hulu project about Amanda Knox, Deadline reports the twice Emmy-nominated actress has exited the project. Scheduling reasons were to blame, the trade says. Knox, an American studying abroad, spent almost four years …
Darko Sikman/Hulu The brutal murder of a teen girl shocked a peaceful enclave of Victoria Island, British Columbia, Canada in 1997. Reena Virk was the victim of bullying by her classmates, the murder trial got worldwide attention, and now the story is the basis of the Hulu limited series Under the Bridge, premiering today, April …
Pamela Anderson has been tapped to star opposite Liam Neeson in Paramount Pictures’ Naked Gun reboot, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The new movie is based on the Naked Gun film franchise and the TV series Police Squad! which starred Leslie Nielson as bumbling detective Frank Drebin. The new project, from Chip ‘N Dale: Rescue …
Corey Nickols/Getty Images for IMDb On a new installment of her podcast The Breakdown, former child star Mayim Bialik welcomed former colleagues Jenna von Oy, with whom she starred on Blossom, and Christy Carlson Romano from Even Stevens to discuss the bombshell documentary Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV. Bialik expressed, “Of course it touched me …
Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal appeals court has voted to overturn West Virginia’s law that bans transgender athletes from playing on teams consistent with their gender identity. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling argues that the law violates Title IX, which protects against sex-based discrimination in schools. The …
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUESeattle 3, Cincinnati 1Atlanta 6, Houston 2St. Louis 3, Oakland 2 AMERICAN LEAGUEKansas City at Chi White Sox (Postponed)Detroit 4, Texas 2Baltimore 11, Minnesota 3Toronto 5, NY. Yankees 4Tampa Bay 7, LA Angels 6Cleveland 10, Boston 7 NATIONAL LEAGUEArizona 12, …
Netflix Netflix’s epic sci-fi adaptation 3 Body Problem has spent a fitting three weeks atop the streaming service’s English language list. Netflix just released its weekly rankings, and the show, about aliens’ not-so-friendly first contact with Earth, was tops again from April 8 to April 14, with 4.8 million views in that time. The series has …
Courtesy OSF In a clever — and cuddly — bit of corporate synergy, Warner Bros. Discovery has announced the beloved Animal Planet docuseres Meerkat Manor is becoming a movie for Warner Bros. Pictures Animation. The film’s executive producers are Caroline Hawkins and Clare Birks of Oxford Scientific Films, who created the original series that debuted …
Kansas City Star / Tribune News Service via Getty Images After reports that he was in talks for the job, Travis Kelce has landed it. Taylor Swift‘s other half is the new host of Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity? — a spin-off of the popular game show Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? — which will stream …