With negotiations a week away for its new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers, the Writers Guild of America has released its pattern of demands. On Friday, the WGA detailed multiple objectives for its upcoming minimum basic agreement with the AMPTP, which was approved by 97.4% of voting guild members, including … Read more
Jeremy Larner, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Candidate (1972), has died. He was 88. The writer’s son Jesse Larner told The New York Times that his father died on Feb. 24 in a nursing facility in Oakland, California. Although he was diagnosed with lymphoma in January and had Parkinson’s disease since 2013, a specific cause … Read more
As Pixar celebrates its best opening for an original animation title since 2017’s Coco with Hoppers this weekend ($40M current forecast in U.S./Canada), there’s a bunch of buzz coming out of the Emeryville, CA studio. Specifically, there’s a Monsters Inc. 3 in early works, as well as the studio’s first ever musical from Turning Red … Read more
FRIDAY PM: Pixar is bound for its best opening since 2017’s Coco with Hoppers springing to a wonderful $40M weekend opening at 4,000 locations. Hoppers first day/previews alone are estimated $12.7M (possibly $13M by end of night), which is higher than the Friday/previews of 2020’s Onward ($12M, $39.1M opening), 2023’s Elemental ($11.7M, $29.6M opening) and … Read more
Nearly three months after Rob Reiner and wife Michele Singer’s deaths, the actor/filmmaker’s loved ones are paying tribute on what would have been his 79th birthday. Cary Elwes, who starred in the Reiner-helmed Princess Bride (1978), honored the late Oscar nominee on Friday, after Rob and Michele’s son Nick Reiner was arrested for allegedly killing … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Following its SXSW premiere last March, Satisfaction is continuing its international festival run this weekend. In an exclusive new clip from the Alex Burunova-written/directed drama, which makes its U.K. premiere on Saturday at Glasgow Film Festival, Emma Laird‘s Lola has a tense exchange with her partner Philip (Fionn Whitehead) over dinner with their new … Read more
A conversation with the cast of “Ted” can be as wild as the show itself — something this reporter discovered quickly during TVLine’s latest interview with the Peacock prequel’s stars. Case in point: the absolutely unhinged energy from on-screen spouses Alanna Ubach and Scott Grimes at … Read more
Bill Lawrence can breathe a sigh of relief — likely helped by nostalgia and curiosity, the Scrubs reboot launched to impressive ratings last week, amassing 11.36M total cross-platform viewers on ABC, Hulu, Disney+ and digital platforms in its first five days, per Disney. “I’m so happy and grateful that anybody still cares about that show,” … Read more
As Hollywood’s concern around artificial intelligence grows, Seth MacFarlane is justifying the technology after bringing one of his long-running impressions to life. The Oscar nominee recently explained why he used AI in the sophomore season of the 1990s-set Ted, now available to stream on Peacock, to turn himself into President Bill Clinton for a cameo … Read more
Katherine “Kitty” Song Covey’s (Anna Cathcart) time at KISS isn’t over. A third season of XO, Kitty, the spinoff Netflix series of the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before films, based on Jenny Han’s trilogy of the same name, is on the way. New adventures, faces and opportunities lie in wait for Kitty and … Read more