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Steven Spielberg puts ‘Dune’ franchise director up with filmmaking’s greats

Steven Spielberg puts ‘Dune’ franchise director up with filmmaking’s greats

Monica Schipper/Getty ImagesIn the latest installment of the Director’s Guild of America’s Director’s Cut podcast, Steven Spielberg put Dune franchise director Denis Villeneuve up with some of the most famous filmmakers of all time.Spielberg called it “an honor” to sit and talk with the director and showed that by immediately heaping historic praise on him.…read more »

‘Power Book III: Raising Kanan’ gets season 5 renewal

‘Power Book III: Raising Kanan’ gets season 5 renewal

StarzGood news for fans of Starz’s Power universe: The network announced Wednesday it has given an early fifth season renewal to Power Book III: Raising Kanan. The show explores the early life of fan-favorite character Kanan Stark, originally played by 50 Cent in the flagship series.Season 4 of Raising Kanan is currently in production in New York City.”We know…read more »

Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe featured in teaser to Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Kinds of Kindness’

Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe featured in teaser to Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Kinds of Kindness’

Searchlight PicturesA teaser debuted Wednesday for Kinds of Kindness, the follow-up to Poor Things from its director, Yorgos Lanthimos, and producer/star Emma Stone.Their fellow Poor Things alums Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley also star, as do Jesse Plemons, Hunter Schafer, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn and Mamoudou Athie.The teaser opens on Stone recklessly driving a sports car, followed by shots of…read more »

Glee: Lea Michele expecting baby #2

Glee: Lea Michele expecting baby #2

Roy Rochlin/Getty ImagesLea Michele announced on Instagram Wednesday that she is expecting her second baby with husband Zandy Reich.”Mommy, Daddy and Ever are overjoyed,” the actress and singer captioned a profile photo of her cradling her exposed baby bump; the latter refers to their son, who was born in 2020.The post got more than 212,000…read more »

Jessica Biel to star in, produce thriller series ‘The Good Daughter’ for Peacock

Jessica Biel to star in, produce thriller series ‘The Good Daughter’ for Peacock

Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagicOn Wednesday, Peacock announced that Jessica Biel will star in and produce the thriller series The Good Daughter for the streaming service. Based on Karin Slaughter’s book of the same name, Biel will play Charlotte Quinn. She and her sister Samantha “have spent the last twenty-eight years trying to piece together the lives that…read more »

‘Good Times’: J.B. Smoove, Yvette Nicole Brown and more get animated in trailer from Netflix

‘Good Times’: J.B. Smoove, Yvette Nicole Brown and more get animated in trailer from Netflix

NetflixGood Times, the classic Norman Lear sitcom, gets animated in a new trailer from Netflix.Curb Your Enthusiasm’s J.B. Smoove, Community’s Yvette Nicole Brown, black-ish alumna Marsai Martin and more lend their voices to the project, which was co-produced by the late TV icon’s production company, Steph Curry’s Unanimous Media and Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door.According to…read more »

Jerry Bruckheimer talks next ‘Top Gun’, reveals next ‘Pirates’ movie will be a “reboot”

Jerry Bruckheimer talks next ‘Top Gun’, reveals next ‘Pirates’ movie will be a “reboot”

Jeff Spicer/Getty ImagesWhile promoting his next project, Guy Ritchie’s action film The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, super-producer Jerry Bruckheimer spilled some tea about the next Top Gun and Pirates of the Caribbean movies.The latter, Bruckheimer tells ComicBook.com, will be a “reboot,” which could be perceived as sinking the hopes of fans who were hoping Johnny…read more »

In Brief: Julia Roberts signs up for thriller ‘After the Hunt’, and more

In Brief: Julia Roberts signs up for thriller ‘After the Hunt’, and more

Julia Roberts is teaming up with Call Me by Your Name filmmaker Luca Guadagnino for the Amazon MGM thriller After the Hunt, Variety reports. Roberts, per the studio, stars as a college professor who, “finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues,” and,…read more »