Paramount Pictures If you’re a baseball fan, you may have noticed an odd pattern recently: patrons seated behind home plate, staring into the camera with a creepy smile on their face for the entire game. In some cases, the people wore a brightly colored shirt reading “Smile.” Even if you’re not a sports fan, the internet certainly noticed, …
Sigourney Weaver talks all about her new drama ‘The Good House’
Lionsgate-Roadside Sigourney Weaver has battled everything from aliens to ghosts over the course of her long and storied career, but in her newest film The Good House, she’s fighting her character’s own inner demons. Weaver stars as Hildy Good, a New England real estate agent who struggles with alcoholism and the curveballs that life continues to throw her …
Rhea Perlman salutes ‘Cheers’ on its 40th anniversary: “It’s incomprehensible”
Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images Rhea Perlman refuses to believe Cheers is officially 40. The actress told ABC Audio she heard Cheers is turning the big 4-0 — “But, I don’t believe it.” “Maybe the 20th? Maybe the 27th? But the 40th?” she quipped. “It’s incomprehensible.” Perlman played wisecracking waitress Carla Tortelli and appeared in all 271 episodes of the long-running sitcom. She joked that she’s been playing …
Emily Watson, Paul Mescal talk dangerous lies in their new film, ‘God’s Creatures’
A24 A close-knit Irish community is torn apart by a lie in the new psychological drama film God’s Creatures. Emily Watson stars as Aileen O’Hara, a mother who protects her son from sexual assault accusations by lying on his behalf. “He’s charged with sexual assault, and she gives him an alibi,” Watson tells ABC Audio. “And that then …
‘Community’ movie is a go at Peacock
Peacock It is as the prophecy predicted: After six seasons, there will be a Community movie. As Peacock teases, “from the TV series that predicted its own movie, comes the least predictable movie of a TV series that referenced a lot of movies and TV.” Show creator Dan Harmon, who went on to co-create Rick …
Marvel Studios’ ‘Armor Wars’ shifts from Disney+ to the big screen
Marvel Studios Marvel’s Armor Wars, originally planned as a Disney+ TV series, is being redeveloped as a feature film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project stars Don Cheadle, reprising his MCU role of James “Rhodey” Rhodes, a.k.a. War Machine. Armor Wars is based on Marvel Comics’ seven-issue Iron Man story arc that follows Rhodes …
In Brief: New ‘Yellowstone’ trailer, ‘American Pie’ reboot, and more
“Power has a price,” reads a graphic at the end of Yellowstone‘s official season five trailer, released on Thursday, signaling the tough job Montana’s newly appointed governor John Dutton — played by Kevin Costner — has ahead of him. Yellowstone follows the Dutton family, led by patriarch John, who “control the largest contiguous ranch in …
Trevor Noah exiting ‘The Daily Show’ after seven years
Comedy Central Trevor Noah announced to his audience on Thursday that after seven years as host, he will soon be leaving Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. “It has been seven years since we started The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. This week is our anniversary, “ Noah told the audience. “And one of the overriding …
The witches are back! ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ hits Disney+ today
Courtesy of Disney+ There’s a new generation of wannabe witches in Hocus Pocus 2, out today on Disney+. Whitney Peak, Belissa Escobedo and Lilia Buckingham join Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy in the scary-funny new sequel. Buckingham tells ABC Audio the 90s original was a staple in her house growing up. “I watched it for …
Scoreboard roundup — 9/29/22
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 10, Kanas City 3 Chi White Sox 4, Minnesota 3 Boston 5, Baltimore 3 Cleveland 2, Tampa Bay 4 LA Angels 4, Oakland 0 Seattle 10, Texas 9 (11) NATIONAL LEAGUE Chi Cubs 2, Philadelphia 0 Florida …