FX The critically acclaimed FX comedy Better Things debuts its fifth and final season today. Star and creator Pamela Adlon based the show — in which she plays Sam, a single mom with three daughters — on the trials and tribulations of her own life. “I feel like in a way, FX paid for my therapy and you guys …
“Be the bad guy”: New ‘Morbius’ trailer shows Jared Leto torn by his new powers
Sony Pictures The final trailer for Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man adjacent action film Morbius just dropped, showing star Jared Leto torn between his character’s horrific vampiric super powers, and his alter-ego’s dedication as a life-saving scientist. An attempt to cure himself, and humanity, of a deadly disease, Dr. Michael Morbius’s treatment gives himself all the powers of a real-life bloodsucker, and more: Flight, inhuman …
Andrew Garfield has a laugh at Tom Holland nearly spoiling ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’
Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for GQ (SPOILER WARNING) “Tom’s a really bad liar.” That’s what fellow Brit, and fellow Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield had to say about Tom Holland, during a recent interview with BBC Radio regarding the very moment that Holland nearly spoiled the movie’s rumored multiverse-mashing three Spider-Man plot. While sitting down with Garfield, host Ali Plumb showed an older clip from his interview with Holland …
Same Indy, new hat: Producer Frank Marshall reveals fifth ‘Indiana Jones’ movie has wrapped
Robino Salvatore/GC Images With a production dogged by the pandemic, and an injury to its 79-year-old lead, Harrison Ford, franchise producer Frank Marshall revealed over the weekend that the fifth Indiana Jones movie has finished production. In a tweet that was re-tweeted by director James Mangold, Marshall displayed a crew hat reading “Indy,” in that unmistakable slanted Raiders of the Lost Ark font. “That’s …
South Dakota senators reject sales tax cut proposal
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Senate Republicans on Friday rejected a proposal from the House to cut the sales tax by half a percentage point. The House passed the proposal this week on a narrow [Read More…]
Lawmaker: Time is right for Nebraska-South Dakota expressway
YANKTON, S.D. (AP) — A lawmaker is promoting construction of a long debated four-lane highway between Yankton and Norfolk, Nebraska, citing the recent availability of federal money. Nebraska state Sen. Mike Flood has proposed a [Read More…]
Trial set for man charged with killing daughter’s boyfriend
ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota man is set for trial in the death of his daughter’s boyfriend in January 2020. Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday in the case of Jarrett Jones, [Read More…]
In Brief: Spielberg reloading ‘Bullitt’, and more
Variety reports that Steven Spielberg is developing an original feature film based on Frank Bullitt, the fictitious San Francisco cop first played by Steve McQueen in the 1968 thriller Bullitt. The original was based on the 1963 novel Mute Witness, which followed Bullitt’s investigation into the death of a mob informant that he was tasked with protecting. No script is in place for …
‘Uncharted’ repeats at #1 at the box office with $23.2 million
Sony Pictures With no new major releases, this weekend’s box office top five was a repeat of last weekend’s. Uncharted held on to first place, earning an estimated 23.2 million dollars in its second week of release. That puts the film’s current domestic tally at $83.3 million. Uncharted is now the top-grossing film of the year so far, …
‘American Idol’ recap: Judges give out first ever platinum ticket
ABC/Eric McCandless American Idol is back! That’s right — the show dedicated to finding the next singing superstar returned Sunday night with judges Katy Perry, Luke Bryan, and Lionel Richie along with host Ryan Seacrest. This isn’t just your average season of American Idol though, it’s the 20th season, and, as part of the milestone year, they’ve introduced the coveted Platinum ticket. “We …