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Idris Elba In Early Talks for 'Star Trek 3' Villain
20 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Idris Elba is in early talks to play the villain in Star Trek 3, sources confirm to The Hollywood Reporter. Elba would be one of the new additions to the third installment of the franchise, which is in pre-production with Justin Lin at the helm. Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, John Cho and Simon Pegg are reprising their respective roles. Pegg is also writing the script with Doug Jung. Details for Elba’s role are being kept hidden somewhere on Ceti Alpha V. Elba is on screens now with Sean Penn in The Gunman, and
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- Borys Kit
HBO Cancels ‘Looking,’ Sets Series Finale Special
20 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
HBO has canceled gay-themed comedy “Looking” after two seasons, but will give the San Francisco friends a farewell special. Here’s the network’s statement: After two years of following Patrick and his tight-knit group of friends as they explored San Francisco in search of love and lasting relationships, HBO will present the final chapter of their journey as a special. We look forward to sharing this adventure with the show’s loyal fans. Also Read: ‘Looking’s’ Jonathan Groff Teases 6 Titillating Secrets From Season 2 Despite having the coveted lead-in of Lena Dunham‘s “Girls,” “Looking” sinked to abysmal ratings levels during its second season. »
- Jethro Nededog
Shonda Rhimes (and Everyone Else) Hated That Deadline Story on Diversity
19 hours ago | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
It takes a special kind of person to look at the success of shows like Empire, black-ish, and Fresh Off the Boat as something to fear, but that's just what Deadline did last night, in a story that asked, "Ethnic Castings — About Time, or Too Much of Good Thing?" As the site's TV editor Nellie Andreeva argued, the industry's recent shift toward more diverse casting, which has generally been regarded as a long-overdue step in the right direction, is actually unfair to white actors, who have found themselves passed over for quality roles this pilot season. As expected, Twitter treated Andreeva's post with the appropriate amount of scorn, as showrunners, actors, critics, and viewers all stepped up to express their displeasure with her prose. Here are some of the reactions: »
- Nate Jones
Bradley Cooper in Talks to Direct Warner Bros.' 'A Star Is Born' Remake
20 hours ago | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
Bradley Cooper is in talks to direct Warner Bros.' remake of 1937 musical "A Star Is Born," which would make this his first feature. Cooper, along with Jon Peters, Bill Gerber and Basil Iwanyk, will also produce this version of William A. Wellman's Oscar-nominated Tinseltown tale of aging movie star Norman Maine who ushers a hopeful young starlet's rise to fame while grappling with alcoholism and the near-end of his career. The film has already been remade twice: first in 1954 with Judy Garland, who was in the hospital during her notorious Oscar snub, and in 1976 with Barbra Streisand. Clint Eastwood was attached to this latest remake back in 2011, with Beyonce Knowles in talks to play Esther Blodgett. That fell through and Eastwood shifted to another musical, "Jersey Boys." According to THR, Cooper is shopping several projects to direct for Warner Bros. In 2014 he and "Hangover" director Todd Phillips signed a three-picture, »
- Ryan Lattanzio
Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young Is a Long Anticlimax
33 minutes ago | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
In While We’re Young, writer-director Noah Baumbach gets hold of a good satirical premise and does halfway well by it, maybe even two-thirds. His protagonists are sad 40-somethings Josh (Ben Stiller) and Cornelia (Naomi Watts), who can’t have kids and grow increasingly alienated from their child-centric friends, but who meet a pair of 20-something hipsters, Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried), and discover an exhilarating new design for living. Josh and Cornelia are dimly aware — especially at first — of how ridiculous they look trailing breathlessly behind flaky kids 20 years their junior. But they’re invigorated by the company and elated by the sudden sense of what’s possible. For much of the film, the often-bilious Baumbach stakes his claim on the wobbly-but-fertile border between mockery and sympathy. He seems to have found his inner Paul Mazursky, the satirist who can poke fun at his characters’ foolish self-delusions »
- David Edelstein
Naomi Watts on Her 3 Toughest Scenes in While We’re Young
38 minutes ago | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
In the past three years, Naomi Watts has played such varied roles as Princess Diana (Diana), a mom injured and separated from her family by the 2004 tsunami (The Impossible), a neurotic actress making her Broadway debut (Birdman), and a pregnant Russian stripper-prostitute (St. Vincent). Her latest movie offers more proof of her seemingly unlimited range: In Noah Baumbach’s comedy While We’re Young, she co-stars with Ben Stiller as half of a 40-something married couple who befriend a pair of 20-something Bushwick hipsters (Amanda Seyfried and Adam Driver). Watts moves fluidly between playing the straight woman to a manic Stiller and battling her own character’s midlife crisis. She and Baumbach explain what they were thinking during the making of her three most memorable scenes. *******Tripping Cornelia (Watts) and Josh (Stiller) attend an ayahuasca ceremony, where they drink a hallucinogenic stew. Watts: “It’s difficult to play high, and »
- Vulture Editors
Jeremy Clarkson Could Return to BBC, According to Network Topper
43 minutes ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
London — The BBC has not ruled out a return for Jeremy Clarkson, who was sacked as the presenter of hit auto show “Top Gear” yesterday.
Speaking on the BBC’s “Newsnight,” the broadcaster’s creative director Alan Yentob said he could not rule out Clarkson working again for the network at some point.
“Of course I wouldn’t rule that out, but that’s not for now,” he said.
Yentob added that the show’s future was now in the hands of Kim Shillinglaw, the head of BBC Two, the channel on which the show airs, and the show’s exec producer, Andy Wilman.
“The question of what happens next for ‘Top Gear’ is a conversation which must go on between the controller of BBC Two Kim Shillinglaw, between Andy, and the team,” Yentob said.
For Clarkson, his troubles are far from over. The police have started their own investigation »
- Leo Barraclough
Jon Hamm Breaks His Silence After Rehab Revelation!
58 minutes ago | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Sobriety looks sexy on Jon Hamm! The actor returned to the red carpet just one day after his rep confirmed to E! News that the 44-year-old had recently completed a 30-day treatment program for alcohol addiction. Hamm looked dapper as ever in an ivory suit coat and black pants. Hamm happily posed for photographers at AMC's celebration of the final seven episodes of Mad Men—dubbed the Black and Red Ball—at L.A.'s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Co-stars including Christina Hendricks, January Jones and Kiernan Shipka also attended the event. The event marked Hamm's first public appearance since news broke that he entered rehab at Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, Conn. at the end »
Tony Awards experts' predictions: 'Fun Home' will win Best Musical, 'Something Rotten' could spoil'
59 minutes ago | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
In the first wave of predictions from our 11 Tony Awards Experts, eight of them think that the off-Broadway hit "Fun Home" will win Best Musical when these awards are handed out on June 7. Two are touting new arrival "Something Rotten" while one likes the look of the UK import "Finding Neverland." Nominations for the 69th annual edition of these kudos will be announced on April 28. -Break- Predicting "Fun Home," which swept the off-Broadway precursor prizes last season, to prevail are: Entertainment Weekly's Melissa Bernardo and Jason Clark, Thom Geier, Brian Lipton (Cititour), Michael Musto (Out.com) and all three of us -- Tom O'Neil, David Sheward and me -- here at Gold Derby. That support gives it leading odds of 15/8. Those backing "Something Rotten" are Harry Haun (Playbill) and Andy Humm (Gay USA). That translates into odds of »
Carsten Schmidt Replaces Brian Sullivan at Sky Deutschland
1 hour ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
London — Brian Sullivan is to step down on June 24 as chief executive of German-language pay TV service Sky Deutschland. Carsten Schmidt, Sky Deutschland’s chief officer sports, advertising sales and internet, will take over as topper.
Schmidt takes on the new role of deputy chief executive with immediate effect and will work alongside Sullivan before taking over as chief exec. Schmidt has served on Sky Deutschland’s management board since 2006, after joining the company in 1999. In his current position, his responsibilities include sports programming and rights acquisition, online activities and advertising sales.
Darroch, group chief executive of Sky and chairman of Sky Deutschland’s supervisory board, commented: “Brian has made a huge contribution to Sky Deutschland over the last five years. He has built an excellent team, who have delivered a step-change in growth and opened up the significant future opportunity for Sky in Germany and Austria.”
He added: “Carsten »
- Leo Barraclough
Chelsea Handler Claims Cosby Tried to ‘Cosby’ Her
2 hours ago | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
In an Esquire interview, Chelsea Handler revealed that Bill Cosby might have had plans to ‘Cosby’ her, as she put it. Handler said that roughly a decade ago the two were doing stand-up in Atlantic City and were staying at the same hotel. During some down time, Cosby asked one of the hospitality staffers to fetch her because the now-embattled comedian wanted to meet with her in his suite. "I said, That's really weird. I don't want to go alone. I go, I don't know him. So the three guys I was with — thank God these guys were with me. ... I brought them up with me to his room and thank God I did, because now I know what would've happened if I went up there alone," she recalled. One of her friends, who was with her at the time, texted her recently: "Do you remember that night we »
- Sean Fitz-Gerald
Super Troopers 2 Flies by Its $2 Million Indiegogo Campaign Goal
5 hours ago | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
It's been one day since Broken Lizard launched its Indiegogo campaign for Super Troopers 2, but the comedy team has already funded more than 120 percent of its $2 million goal. That means Super Troopers 2 is officially going into production this summer. More importantly, though, it means Farva can come out of that trunk. For what it's worth, you can still donate to the project over the course of the next 30 days if you want to vie for the remaining perks (digital download, advance screening, and beerfest, among others) and help make the movie "more amazing." »
- Sean Fitz-Gerald
'American Idol' recap: Did You predict eliminations of Adanna Duru, Maddie Walker?
6 hours ago | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
Did you predict the shocking eliminations of two of "American Idol's" leading ladies Wednesday night? If you predicted that Adanna Duru and Maddie Walker would receive the lowest number of votes, why are you not taking part in our "American Idol" prediction contest? Hurry -- make your own predictions now and you could win our weekly prize of a $100 Amazon gift certificate. It's fun and easy! -Break- During Wednesday's live show, host Ryan Seacrest announced that the following contestants would sing again for America's votes, thus making it through to Top 9 week: Daniel Seavey, Quentin Alexander, Joey Cook, Tyanna Jones, Jax, Nick Fradiani, Clark Beckham, Qaasim Middleton and Rayvon Owen. That left poor Adanna and Maddie as this week's double-elimination victims. Daniel was Gold Derby's official prediction to go home with 9/4 odds, while Adanna was our second-place choice with 7/2 odds and Maddie was our third-place choice »
Mitt Romney Reveals Why He Isn’t Running for President in Face-Off With Jimmy Fallon (Video)
6 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Mitt Romney officially bowed out of the Gop race in January, and on Wednesday he revealed why he ended his presidential aspirations — to himself. Well, it was actually Jimmy Fallon pretending to be the former Republican candidate in a “Tonight Show” skit, but the resemblance was uncanny. When asked if he was ready for the big interview with the real Fallon on the NBC late-night show, Romney admitted: “Well, actually I’m a little nervous. Jimmy is probably going to ask me why I didn’t run for president. What should I say? “Just tell him you enjoy the freedom. »
- Debbie Emery
SEC Ruling Changes Game for Hollywood Film Financing
7 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
The rules for movie financing were radically redrawn Wednesday by a landmark Securities and Exchange Commission ruling that opens the door for online investments in start-up businesses by the majority of Americans. Studios, independent filmmakers, talent and movie fans could all be impacted by the long-awaited approval of a key provision of President Obama’s 2012 Jumpstart Our Business Startups (Jobs) Act, which allows new companies to solicit investments — not donations, as has been the case with film-funding companies like KickStarter and Indiegogo — from virtually anyone. The new regulations also clear the way for what has been called an “Ipo Lite, »
- Todd Cunningham
Mariel Hemingway Says Woody Allen Tried to Seduce Her at 18
7 hours ago | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
In her forthcoming memoir, Out Came the Sun, Mariel Hemingway claims Woody Allen tried to coax her into joining him for a romantic getaway in Paris. The two had worked together on Allen's Manhattan when the actress was a minor. After she turned 18, Hemingway says the 44-year-old director flew to her parents' home in Idaho with the invitation. "Our relationship was platonic, but I started to see that he had a kind of crush on me, though I dismissed it as the kind of thing that seemed to happen any time middle-aged men got around young women," Hemingway writes, according to a book excerpt obtained by Fox News. Although Hemingway told her parents she was unsure of the room and sleeping arrangements, her parents encouraged her to go.Hemingway vetoed both parties after she awoke in the middle of the night "with the certain knowledge" she was being duped into »
- Sean Fitz-Gerald
Chelsea Handler Claims Bill Cosby Tried to ‘Cosby’ Her
8 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Chelsea Handler is the latest person to join the slew of accusers suggesting that Bill Cosby made inappropriate advances on her. While the comedienne didn’t claim that she was sexually assaulted by the controversial star, she did say that it could have ended up that way if not for her film crew. “He tried to Cosby me,” Handler told the April issue of Esquire during a joint interview with Nick Offerman. Handler and Cosby were both performing comedy at the same Atlantic City hotel around 10 years ago, she recalled, and “at like three o’clock in the afternoon, someone »
- Debbie Emery
Recap: 'Survivor: Worlds Apart' - 'Odd Woman Out'
8 hours ago | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Pre-credit sequence. We begin at Nagarote, as I try to remember where we left off and what the names of the tribes were. Shirin is sad to have been blindsided and to have lost Max. "I don't know that I can trust you," Carolyn tells Shirin, further shunting her aside. Shirin protests that Max made her isolate herself, but Carolyn is being rough, making it clear that she wants no part of the newly solitary Shirin. "Is anybody left in this game willing to play with me?" Shirin ponders, wondering if this is a reflection on her. Hali levels with Shirin and tells her that Max had been annoying and that people felt like she was annoying as well. Ouch. This hits home for Shirin, who grew up rich, but not popular. So sad. I guess. Kinda. "I'm trying to do now what I was incapable of doing back then, »
- Daniel Fienberg
Kevin Hart, Will Ferrell Address Claims That Get Hard Is Racist and Homophobic
8 hours ago | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
HitFix's Louis Virtel asked the Get Hard co-stars if they thought some of the blue humor in their forthcoming movie was mildly mean-spirited or dated. (The film has received a fairly consistent stream of backlash since its SXSW premiere, for what some critics are calling unnecessarily homophobic and racist quips.) Hart and Ferrell's answers are variations of, "Sorry, not sorry," and, "The buck doesn't stop here." Get Hard comes out Friday. »
- Sean Fitz-Gerald
Rihanna Teases She’s Dropping New Music, Social Media Explodes
8 hours ago | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Following a cryptic hint to fans on Wednesday afternoon, Rihanna is expected to drop new music online Thursday. A teasing Instagram message sent fans into a flurry as they debated as to whether the singer will be releasing her much-anticipated eighth album or a new single. Clever sleuths, especially those who could read Braille, devised that the message on the side of the post read: “Bitch Better Have My Money.” The acronym in the caption — “rihannaNOW.com #R8 #Bbhmm #March26” — backed up the theory, along with the link to her website where the file name was “Bbhmm-Single-Art_APPROVED,” indicating that »
- Debbie Emery
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