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After reigning in reality TV and most recently earning praise for her turn on American Horror Story, Kim Kardashian is ready for features. She is attached to star in and produce the The 5th Wheel, a comic pitch that will be scripted by Paula Pell and Janine Brito. Pell will produce with Kardashian, and Deadline hears that multiple bids are already on the table.
Kardashian has been very hands-on in the positioning of the female-driven comedy, appearing at each meeting to deliver the pitch, and studios are lining up to get in business with her (and her tens of millions of social media followers).
Kardashian has done limited work as an actress, including lending her voice to two Paw Patrol films. She stepped it up with a scene-stealing part in the most recent season of FX’s American Horror Story. Her portrayal of a publicist earned her strong notices. Now, she’s looking to build off that and jump into the feature film realm. >>>Five Studios Battling For Package |
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A Spotify Spotlight - For the theatrical release of Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, the studio teamed with Spotify for a multi-faceted partnership that shines a spotlight on music’s legacy in the Suzanne Collins franchise. >>>Olivia Rodrigo's Playlist
'Creed' Goes Another Round - Creed III producer Irwin Winkler said Saturday at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles event that Creed IV is in the works, with franchise star and Creed III director Michael B. Jordan back to helm it. >>>"A Really Good Story"
'Wish' Review - “Be careful what you wish for” is the moral of Disney’s latest animation, an odd sort of greatest-hits package that ticks all the boxes for what passes as inspirational fare these days. Sadly, that message mostly applies to the studio bosses, who appear to have closed their eyes and blown out 100 candles in return for a 95-minute movie. >>>Damon Wise's Take
Specialty B.O. Sizzles - In a strong weekend for specialty films, Saltburn had a lofty opening on seven screens and The Holdovers posted a substantial $2.7 million. The latter's third-week expansion vaulted it to No. 6 at the domestic box office. >>>Full Accounting
The Film That Lit My Fuse: Emerald Fennell - The Saltburn director describes her early influences, specifically, one formative experience when she was just 11. >>>Watch |
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“At first it was written to be very flowery and beautiful and wonderful hugs and loving,” reveals Colman Domingo of the final partings in last night's Fear the Walking Dead series finale. “That’s just not the truth of our characters,” the Emmy-winning actor adds of why that was not the ending viewers saw with his often devious Victor Strand, Kim Dickens’ Madison Clark or Rubén Blades’ Daniel Salazar. >>>Read The Interview |
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Ciarán Hinds (Belfast) and Odessa Young (Mothering Sunday) are among the cast joining Jacob Elordi in the Prime Video Australia Original series The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a TV adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name.
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Adivi Sesh‘s action pic G2 has found its female lead. Banita Sandhu has been cast to play opposite Sesh in the spy thriller form the makers of Major, Kashmir Files and Kartikeya 2. Sandhu has been making her name in Bollywood through features such as October and Sardar Uddham.
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Director Michelle Danner has finished principal photography on The Italians, a quirky dramedy about family, love and Italian cooking. The film stars Matthew Daddario, Rob Estes, David DeLuise, Perrey Reeves, Olivia Luccardi, with Lainie Kazan and Abigail Breslin. |
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🖥️ Barely 48 hours after being abruptly removed as CEO of ChatGPT parent OpenAI, Sam Altman was hired by Microsoft to head up an artificial intelligence research group inside the tech giant. Microsoft said it will maintain its partnership with OpenAI, in which it has amassed a 49% stake.
🐺 Masterpiece PBS and the BBC are set to begin production on Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, an adaptation of the final novel in Hilary Mantel’s award-winning trilogy. Mark Rylance will reprise his role as Thomas Cromwell, while Damian Lewis will return as King Henry VIII.
🤠 Hallmark has canceled Ride, its Yellowstone-like drama about a bucolic but cash-strapped ranch that’s operated by a widowed parent who loses a beloved family member. The show ran for just one season.
🧟 AMC Networks has set Sunday, February 25 for the premiere of the latest TWD spinoff The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live. The trailer for the series, starring Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira in a reprisal of their roles as Rick Grimes and Michonne, dropped last night. |
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$3 a month - The monthly price for Max's ad tier in a discount offer for new and returning subscribers to the Warner Bros. Discovery streaming service |
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🕯 Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter , who was an influential partner to her husband, Jimmy Carter, in his unlikely rise to the Georgia governor’s mansion, then to the White House and later in his impactful post-presidency, died Sunday at the age of 96, the Carter Center announced. Carter, who suffered from dementia, entered hospice care on Friday. Jimmy Carter said in a statement, “As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.” The Carters were married for 77 years. 🕯 Peter Spellos, a star on the TV series American Dreams and a voice on the animated Transformers: Robots in Disguise series, died early Sunday of pancreatic cancer complications. Spelllos voiced the character Sky-Byte on the Transformers cartoon series. He played the role for 39 episodes. Other credits as an actor included his portrayal of Motorman in Men in Black II. 🕯 British actor Joss Ackland has died at the age of 95, his family said in a statement. No cause or location were given. The stage and screen actor had been in more than 100 movies and TV series, among them the films White Mischief and 1989’s Lethal Weapon 2. 🕯 Goodfellas actress Suzanne Shepherd has died aged 89. The veteran actress was best known for her roles in Martin Scorsese’s big screen hit about the mob, as well as The Sopranos on TV. She enjoyed a career of more than three decades, after her first role as Aunt Tweedy in 1988’s Mystic Pizza. On TV, she appeared in shows including Law & Order and Blue Bloods. 🕯 George “Funky” Brown , the drummer, founding member and one of the main songwriters of pop-R&B group Kool & The Gang, died in Los Angeles Thursday night following a battle with lung cancer. He was 74. Brown, along with Robert “Kool” Bell on bass, his brother Ronald Bell on tenor and lead vocalist James “J.T.” Taylor, was one of the songwriters in a band with such hits as “Jungle Boogie,” “Hollywood Swinging,” “Celebration,” and “Get Down on It.” 🕯 Hollywood & Media Deaths in 2023: A Photo Gallery |
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Mon - World of Frozen opens at HK Disneyland; Vice President Harris hosts Biden fundraiser in L.A.; Letterman on Colbert
Tue - "A Celebration of Taylor Swift" on DWTS; Oppenheimer arrives on DVD
Wed - Rust negligence suit hearing in L.A.
Thurs - Thanksgiving Day
Sat - College football's "The Game" between Ohio State and Michigan |
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'Tis The Season - Mariah Carey descended to the stage on a ski lift chair at the Billboard Music Awards to sing her now classic holiday hit, "All I Want For Christmas Is You." She also accepted the Chart Achievement Award, due in part to the tune's remarkable performance as the only song to lead the Hot 100 chart in five distinct years. |
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