George Lopez must have seen his fair share of unruly crowds over his long career, but he’s reached a place where he doesn’t want to (or need to) listen to hecklers. Last Friday, the comic caught heat for walking out of his show at Eagle Mountain Casino in Porterville, California after just 30 minutes. Lopez blamed the…Read more...

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If you were one of the many, many people that tweeted something along the lines of “Challengers was so good, I wish tennis was real” last month, do we have some news for you. Art, Tashi, and Patrick’s favorite game doesn’t just exist in the real world, but is actually happening on your screen right now. If you’ve seen…Read more...

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Out of all of the Dreamworks animated features that have spilled out into theaters over the last two decades, few have stuck to the Disney playbook more faithfully than How To Train Your Dragon—mostly to pretty good effect. (Eight billion Toothless plushies and a handful of Oscar nominations can’t be wrong!) Even so,…Read more...

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Where else would Christopher Nolan be this week but CinemaCon? No director cares about the cinematic experience more than he does. His next film, Oppenheimer, like the ones before, will be available in all formats, from IMAX 70mm to 35mm DCP, which is the perfect way to see every molecule of the nuclear explosions…Read more...

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The Blair Witch Project has never been a cut-and-dry Hollywood project. This scrappy $35,000 mockumentary wasn’t meant to be a blockbuster, but it went on to become one of the most profitable independent films ever made. Now, due to the creative marketing and filmmaking savvy of co-directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo…Read more...

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“I have this sneaking suspicion that something is going to happen today,” Milwaukee Dan sagely introduced Wednesday night’s edition of Top Chef: Wisconsin. And he was quickly proven right: Even before host Kristen Kish could delight the chef-testants by bringing out baking great Christina Tosi—the James Beard…Read more...

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As the days grow shorter and the nights grow darker, all eyes turn toward the holidays, when we dust off our copies of Carol and remember all the good director Todd Haynes has brought the yuletide. Haynes is so into Christmas that he gifted us an early present: a trailer for his calendar-themed film May December. It’s…Read more...

https://www.avclub.com/forget-september-todd-haynes-has-a-trailer-for-may-dec-1850876249

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By this point, city correspondent Stefon is a Saturday Night Live legend. His obsession with hyper-specific fetishes and holding his hands to his face made “Weekend Update” a must-watch segment in the late 2000s. Bill Hader’s indelible character spilled the tea on New York’s hottest clubs and inevitably made “Weekend…Read more...

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Max no longer loves Julia, with the streaming service announcing tonight that it’s killing off the series—about the life and times of culinary superstar Julia Child—after two seasons on the network. Created by Daniel Goldfarb, and showrun by Chris Keyes, the show starred Sarah Lancashire as Child and David Hyde Pierce…Read more...

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It’s starting to look more and more like all of the Oscars will be Christopher Nolan’s to lose in March, with the director adding a bunch of BAFTAs to his trophy cabinet today—just a week after the Oppenheimer filmmaker won the top prize at the DGA awards, effectively guaranteeing Best Director at the Academy Awards.…Read more...

https://www.avclub.com/christopher-nolan-bafta-oppenheimer-1851267716

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As far as elaborate promposals go, this one is pretty ambitious: Students at Utah’s Payson High School—which, once upon a time, was the filming location for Kevin Bacon’s ’80s hit Footloose—have successfully wooed the star to collectively attend the school’s upcoming prom with them.Read more...

https://www.avclub.com/footloose-high-school-invites-kevin-bacon-to-prom-gets-1851361076

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A confession: Upon finishing last year’s long-delayed spooky season fantasy sequel Hocus Pocus 2, we did not find ourselves overly concerned with its wide-ranging and sweeping implications for Hocus Pocus lore. Sure, it was nice to see Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and King Of The Hill favorite Kathy Najimy…Read more...

https://www.avclub.com/hocus-pocus-3-writer-promises-to-explore-all-the-story-1850965244

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After 146 days, the Writers Guild of America has reached a tentative agreement. WGA leadership emailed strike captains on Sunday evening informing them of the news, saying the agreement was “subject to drafting final contract language.” According to The Hollywood Reporter, the provisional, three-year agreement still…Read more...

https://www.avclub.com/wga-studios-reach-tentative-deal-to-end-the-strike-1850861165

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A casting shake-up on AMC’s well-received Interview With The Vampire TV series tonight, as Variety reports that series star Bailey Bass, who plays immortal vampire child Claudia, has been recast. Bass will be replaced in the part by Delainey Hayles for the show’s second season.Read more...

https://www.avclub.com/interview-with-the-vampire-recasts-its-immortal-vampire-1850290450

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Though she popped up in two of this year’s biggest superhero fiascos and returned to Vin Diesel hat in hand, like another wounded DC hero, Gadot isn’t hanging up the lasso of truth quite yet. During Netflix’s Tudum fan festival, which gave the world a good look at all the new animes the stream is translating into…Read more...

https://www.avclub.com/gal-gadot-will-return-as-wonder-woman-maybe-1850558763

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Following in the grand tradition of HBO Max, Showtime will begin removing Showtime-exclusive content from its streaming platform and Paramount+. The network is starting with short-lived originals, including last year’s star-packed Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber and the Jim Carrey-vehicle Kidding. But they aren’t…Read more...

https://www.avclub.com/showtime-gets-its-hbo-on-removes-old-shows-from-its-pl-1850051852

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Few directors are as enigmatic and unpredictable as Steven Soderbergh. Less than a year after directing the only good movie about COVID lockdown, Kimi, he’s back with the third part in what he calls his “version of a superhero movie,” Magic Mike’s Last Dance. But before Mike hits the stage for one final hip thrust,…Read more...

https://www.avclub.com/steven-soderbergh-reveals-why-he-loves-below-deck-1850081263

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Even before the release of her two-part docu-series, Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, the tide was turning on The Blue Lagoon. Not that there was ever much of a place for this weird tale of two naked teens, one of whom, a 15-year-old Shields, going through puberty and falling in love on a remote island. Pitched as a…Read more...

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Few things are less scary than the one sentence premise of a horror movie/thriller that the studio doesn’t want to spoil. Case in point: Blumhouse and Universal’s American remake of Danish film Speak No Evil (a.k.a. Gaesterne), which a Hollywood Reporter story says “centers on a family that takes a dream holiday to an…Read more...

https://www.avclub.com/james-mcavoy-american-remake-of-speak-no-evil-1850346601

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It’s been ten years since Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazki released a new film, 2013's animated historical drama The Wind Rises. (Which, in turn, arrived fully five years after his previous feature, Ponyo.) Since then, Miyazaki has technically been retired, having devoted most of his attention to the Studio…Read more...

https://www.avclub.com/hayao-miyazakis-super-mysterious-final-film-is-coming-t-1850643507

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We all predicted this, much like the man standing by the little pond with Albert Einstein reflecting on the terrifying future that he was instrumental in creating before he became powerless to stop it, Oppenheimer has won Best Picture at the 2024 Academy Awards. After a somewhat awkward presentation from Al Pacino,…Read more...

https://www.avclub.com/christopher-nolan-oppenheimer-best-picture-oscars-2024-1851323998

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In an event that feels like it could have been ripped straight out of an unused script from Succession, a group of activists interrupted Jeremy Strong’s Broadway play An Enemy Of The People last night to protest the government’s inaction concerning the climate crisis. Shouting things like “no theater on a dead…Read more...

https://www.avclub.com/enemy-of-the-people-interrupted-protest-jeremy-strong-1851338939

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been locked in a legal battle of one kind or another since Jolie filed for divorce in 2016. Most recently, Pitt filed a lawsuit against Jolie over her 2021 sale of her shares in their winery Château Miraval to the Stoli group. Pitt’s suit, which sought monetary damages, legal fees and…Read more...

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There have been 13 'official' ‌Doctors in the increasingly confusing world of Doctor Who. While there have been deviations in this in the form of spin-offs and specials, the Doctor role remains coveted, and when a new one makes their way through the Tardis and onto TV screens, it's an event. With Jodie Whittaker, the current Doctor, stepping down from the role next year, the hunt for a new Doctor is on. Who's it going to be? Well, if you ask Whoopi Goldberg, it should be Whoopi Goldberg. Per Deadline, Goldberg told the crowd at the Edinburgh TV Festival, where she was named this year's International Icon, that she wants the gig and has been interested in it for a while.

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What a year, huh? It feels like we’ve been saying that since March (in the spirit of a 30 Rock meme) but, finally, the expression is earned. Every year is weird at this point; they have been since at least 2020, and you could make the case the weirdness started even earlier. Maybe life itself is weird. It probably is. Read more...

https://www.avclub.com/the-biggest-pop-culture-news-stories-of-2023-1851124603

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Last April, Jamie Foxx was hospitalized for some kind of medical emergency, the details of which still haven’t been publicly disclosed. In December, he made his first public appearance since whatever had happened, explaining that he had “been through something” and that there was a time during his recovery when he was…Read more...

https://www.avclub.com/jamie-foxx-medical-emergency-funny-way-1851307535

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The excellent Godzilla Minus One wasn’t Japan’s submission to the Best International Film category at the Academy Awards this year (that honor belongs to Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days, which was jointly produced in Japan and Wenders’ home country of Germany), but maybe that’s a good thing: If it had been, it might’ve…Read more...

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