Prime Video At the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, on Friday, Priyanka Chopra Jonas had a few things to say about equality. On the positive side, she noted that the series she was promoting, Citadel, from Avengers blockbuster directors Joe and Anthony Russo, represented the “first time” she’d been paid what her male co-star got. Sitting with Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke, …
Christopher McQuarrie welcomes ‘Ted Lasso’ Emmy winner Hannah Waddingham to the ‘Mission: Impossible’ team
Waddingham in ‘Ted Lasso’ — Apple TV+ Director and co-writer Christopher McQuarrie and star and producer Tom Cruise are hard at work on Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One and Two, but they’ve had time to add another big star. On Friday, McQuarrie posted an Instagram shot of the Emmy winner looking serious, wearing a …
Snark attack: Move over ‘Cocaine Bear’, here’s ‘Cocaine Shark’
Getty Images Just when you thought the water was safe from cocaine bears comes news of Cocaine Shark. A trailer just dropped for that very film, and if one suspected it’s an apparent zero-budget rush job after Elizabeth Banks announced she was making Cocaine Bear, you’d likely be right. Complete with bargain-basement effects, the trailer …
‘Selective’ edit: Chris Rock’s ‘Concussion’ joke flub deleted from Netflix special
Kirill Bichutsky/Courtesy of Netflix (NOTE LANGUAGE) During Chris Rock‘s widely hyped live special, Selective Outrage, he flubbed a joke in the heat of the moment — but Netflix has now apparently edited it out. The bit came in the closing minutes of the stand-up, which was filmed live from Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre March 4, when …
Michael B. Jordan reportedly in talks to bring the ‘Creed’ universe to the small screen with Amazon Prime
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures With Amazon-owned MGM’s knockout debut for Creed III, Deadline reports Amazon is eager to work with director and star Michael B. Jordan for small-screen entries in the Creed universe. The trade reports talks were already underway with the star-turned-filmmaker before his first film as both Adonis Creed and director bested expectations with a …
Road to the Oscars 2023: Best Actor nominee Austin Butler on his first awards season
George Evan Photo Austin Butler put everything into his performance as the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Elvis, and now he’s up for Best Actor at this year’s Academy Awards. This is his first awards season, and he tells ABC Audio about what he’s enjoyed the most. “It’s meant a lot to me that I’ve been …
2023 Oscars, by the numbers
A.M.P.A.S./Richard Harbaugh Sunday evening is Hollywood’s biggest night, the 95th Annual Academy Awards. But before Jimmy Kimmel takes the stage as host for the third time, the financial wonks at WalletHub crunched some numbers about this year’s Big Dance. For example, the total cost of the Oscars ceremony was calculated to be $56.6 million. While …
Apple TV+ renews ‘Shrinking’, and more
Shrinking has been renewed for a second season at Apple TV+. The dramedy, from Jason Segel, Ted Lasso showrunner Bill Lawrence and Emmy-winner Brett Goldstein, stars Segel as a grieving therapist who decides to start being brutally honest with his clients. Harrison Ford also stars as Dr. Paul Rhoades, one of Jimmy’s colleagues at the …
Jimmy Kimmel shares his thoughts ahead of Sunday’s Oscars show
ABC/Jeff Lipsky Hollywood’s biggest night is Sunday — Is Jimmy Kimmel ready? Jimmy’s hosting the Oscars again this year, his third time as MC, and he has a philosophy about hosting the event that he shared with ABC Audio. “Number one is you want to make the audience laugh,” he notes. “Number two is you have to remember …
Scoreboard roundup — 3/9/23
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SPRING TRAINING INTERLEAGUE Toronto 3, Atlanta 1 Philadelphia 7, Baltimore 6 Detroit 10, Pittsburgh 7 Oakland 1, LA Dodgers 0 San Diego 6, Cleveland 4 Atlanta 9, Puerto Rico 0 St. Louis 6, Nicaragua 4 Venezuela 6, NY Mets 4 …