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Courtesy Paramount+ – Photo: Daniel Smith On Wednesday Paramount+, Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios jointly announced that Guy Ritchie will direct and executive produce The Donovans, a gangster drama “loosely based” on one of Showtime’s biggest hits, Ray Donovan. The producers tease, “With the most powerful clients in Europe, The Donovans will see family […]

Stand-up comedian and actor Richard Lewis has died, ABC Audio has confirmed. Lewis, a fixture on the stand-up comedy scene in the ’70s and ’80s, who also appeared in comedies like Robin Hood: Men in Tights and dramas including the Oscar-winning Leaving Las Vegas, was 76.  On Wednesday, Lewis’ publicist Jeff Abraham said the comedian […]

Prime Video/Laura Radford A little more than a month after Road House remake director Doug Liman said he “signed up to make a theatrical motion picture for MGM” only to have it instead head exclusively to streaming on Prime Video, the movie’s star, Jake Gyllenhaal, is weighing in. Liman stated in an editorial to Deadline […]

Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images (NOTE LANGUAGE) In a chat on the podcast Reign with Josh Smith, Mission: Impossible franchise veteran Rebecca Ferguson had listeners guessing as to whom she was referring when speaking about an “absolute idiot” of an abusive A-list movie co-star. And Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, her co-star in 2014’s Hercules, says he […]

AMPAS The forthcoming 96th annual Oscars will reportedly take a page from the telecast some 15 years ago, having groups of past Oscar winners in a particular category welcome the newest member of their tribe. This news comes from The Hollywood Reporter, which pointed out the popularity of that element from the 2009 telecast. Traditionally, […]

Deadline reports Emmy-winning Schitt’s Creek co-creator and star Eugene Levy is moving into Only Murders in the Building for its fourth season. The announcement comes just days after it was announced that Eva Longoria has joined the cast of Hulu’s whodunit comedy series, which also stars Steve Martin, Selena Gomez and Martin Short. Incidentally, Levy’s career […]

Warber Bros. Pictures The first trailer for Kevin Costner‘s western epic, Horizon: An American Saga, has arrived. The two-part cinematic event chronicles the “Civil War expansion and settlement of the American West,” according to a description about the upcoming films. In the trailer, audiences get a glimpse of the Old West and how it was […]

Pop TV Eugene Levy, Emmy-winning star and co-creator of Schitt’s Creek, who is also known to a generation of moviegoers as Noah’s dad in the American Pie movies, will be given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Steve Nissen, the president and CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, announced that Levy, who […]

NBC/Rosalind O’Connor In May, NBC will celebrate 10 years of viral Classroom Instruments remixes, celebrity Water Wars and Whisper Challenges with an anniversary salute to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The special airs May 14 at 9 p.m. ET and will stream the next day on Peacock. “To be able to sit in the same chair as […]

Randy Shropshire/Getty Images for Prime Video While he recently went on the record saying he’d “love” to play Batman, hulking Reacher star Alan Ritchson says a blown audition for a different superhero inspired him to work out his acting muscles, too. To Men’s Health, Ritchson explains that once upon a time, he was up for […]