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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“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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The U.K. version of Rebel Wilson’s new memoir Rebel Rising will be a bit different from the version previously published in the United States—to the tune of most of the material contained in the attention-heavy chapter “Sacha Baron Cohen And Other Assholes,” and specifically all of the stuff about Cohen himself. The…Read more...

https://www.avclub.com/publisher-cuts-the-sacha-baron-cohen-stuff-out-of-u-k-1851434136

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1985’s Clue has long been the gold standard for movies based on board games. While the toxic thinking that led to the subgenre has added a handful of worthy titles to the game closet, most probably think of Battleship, which sunk the genre back in 2012. Very few end up as good as Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among ThievesRead more...

https://www.avclub.com/sony-acquires-film-and-tv-rights-to-clue-1851430902

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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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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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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...

https://www.avclub.com/brad-pitt-winery-claims-angelina-jolie-mostly-dismissed-1851355256

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Earlier this week, a red flag fired up like an errant optic blast from Disney’s upcoming X-Men ’97 cartoon, when it was revealed that showrunner Beau DeMayo had abruptly departed the nostalgia-minded project under some very cloudy circumstances. Given that this happened roughly a week before the show was set to…Read more...

https://www.avclub.com/marvel-addresses-fired-x-men-97-showrunner-beau-demayo-1851340565

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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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Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki is one of the most talented and influential filmmakers in the history of film, but especially animation, and you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who wasn’t at least a little happy to see him win his second Best Animated Feature trophy at the Academy Awards last night for The…Read more...

https://www.avclub.com/spider-verse-shameik-moore-sore-loser-apology-miles-1851326462

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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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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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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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If you’re a Twitter/X user, perhaps you’ve seen someone quote-tweet this post from Bridgit Mendler: “k sit tight for news.” The joke is that Mendler had fans sitting tight for almost two full years. The other joke is that a lot of people probably don’t even know who Bridgit Mendler is, or what kind of news she was…Read more...

https://www.avclub.com/bridgit-mendler-disney-channel-announced-space-startup-1851272009

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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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If you’ve ever wondered what Veep would look like if Selina Meyer got everything she ever wanted and became an all-powerful autocrat, then HBO just might have you covered with The Regime. Coming in March, the limited series stars Kate Winslet as the fairly evil chancellor of a fictional European country in the midst…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...

https://www.avclub.com/max-cancels-julia-lanchashire-david-hyde-pierce-2-seaso-1851157800

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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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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...

https://www.avclub.com/new-york-s-hottest-stefon-movie-would-ve-killed-off-set-1851044061

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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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Rudolph Isley has died. As a founding member of the Isley Brothers, he co-wrote many of the band’s biggest hits and provided melodic backing vocals for three decades. Though a cause of death has not been released, TMZ confirmed that the singer died Wednesday at his home in Illinois. He was 84. 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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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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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...

https://www.avclub.com/christopher-nolan-played-a-preview-of-oppenheimer-at-ci-1850380725

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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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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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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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