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With ancient Greek tale The Odyssey still slashing its way to peak box office, the sword and sorcery age remains a potent genre for Hollywood. Now, Paramount Primal, Paramount’s smartly-budgeted genre label formed by producers J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules, has picked up Tower Defense, an original Medieval fantasy from longtime adventure movie scribe Evan Daugherty. The spec script sale comes with no filmmaker or producer attachments. Plot details are being kept in the castle keep, but it is being described as a Medieval and supernatural fantasy twist on the concept seen in the early John Carpenter movie Assault on…
Taylor Frankie Paul Ex-Husband Tate Asks Court To Unseal Drug Test Results Published August 13, 2026 7:36 PM PDT Taylor Frankie Paul’s ex-husband, Tate Paul, filed a motion to unseal drug test results as part of their bitter custody battle, TMZ has learned. Tate, who shares kids Indy and Ocean with Taylor, filed court docs on Thursday with his request. The move comes weeks after Tate asked the court to grant him a restraining order against Taylor due to her alleged increasingly erratic behavior. Tate said he believed he should have sole legal and physical custody of the kids. Taylor…
Picture Credit: Netflix / Universal Television Charles Nieuwendyk is officially heading back into the field. Following the big news back in February that Netflix’s hit Mike Schur comedy A Man on the Inside is returning for a third season, we now have an update on when cameras will be rolling—and when we think the new season will drop on Netflix. As we noted back in February, many months after season 2 dropped, viewership for that second season fell sharply, leading us to question whether the show would be back. Thankfully, Netflix didn’t want to let Charles retire and picked up…
Phoebe Bridgers’ ‘Lost Weekend’ earns some of the year’s best reviews You will be redirected back to your article in seconds As the Grammys eligibility window closes, the Boygenius member could become a late-breaking threat. ad
Chris Evans is opening up about how his mindset has shifted since becoming a father. “I have a daughter now and … you need a really good reason to want to go to work now,” Evans, 45, said at a recent Fan Expo, per a clip shared via social media. “So, you know, priorities have shifted a bit.” Evans and wife Alba Baptista welcomed their first child, a daughter, in 2025. A source revealed to People at the time that their daughter’s name is Alma Grace Baptista Evans. “They’re enjoying their privacy and these special first few days as a…
As Coyote vs. Acme finally gets its day in court, John Cena has a pretty levelheaded reaction to the once-shelved movie premiering in theaters. The Emmy nominee explained how he “can accept both the positive and the negative” of the situation after Ketchup Entertainment saved the Dave Green-helmed Looney Tunes movie, which premieres Aug. 28 in theaters, from Warner Bros. Discovery following the newly-merged company’s decision to cancel the release in 2023. “I am hired by an employer to do a task, and it’s my job to prepare as much as I can, be early, be coachable, be passionate, and…
Prime Video Tamara Green — a bold, witty, no-nonsense detective – is one of several new characters introduced in “Season 4” of Reacher, which landed on Prime Video with three action-packed episodes on August 12. But you’ve likely seen her face before. Tamara is played by Sydelle Noel, an actor who’s been in the business for roughly 20 years. Noel is probably best known for the beloved sports show “GLOW,” a comedy-drama where she played Cherry Bang, one of several female misfits who turn to the not-always-glamorous (but always entertaining) world…
Glendale’s historic Alex theater is back in the picture business. For 35 years, since Terminator 2: Judgment Day debuted in 1991, the venue — where Walt Disney liked to test his cartoons — hadn’t screened first-run films. Then the Alex’s artistic director, Miles Williams, invested $500,000 in time for its centennial last year so that it could host state-of-the-art screenings. Now, the 900-seat house has been holding three screenings a day of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey on 70mm, becoming the epic’s highest-grossing venue in the country on the film format. “This is a reclamation,” says Williams, a veteran live show curator…
Black Bear Pictures Matthew McConaughey is back on the big screen! The 56-year-old Oscar-winning actor stars alongside Angelina LookingGlass, Kurt Russell, Cole Sprouse, Tony Revolori, and Rob Morgan in the new movie The Rivals of Amziah King, written and directed by Andrew Patterson. What is The Rivals of Amziah King about? Set within the deep backwoods of rural Oklahoma, the film follows the charismatic and musically gifted Amaziah King (McConaughey) who herds a bluegrass-playing band of misfits while overseeing the premier honey-making operation in town. When Amaziah’s estranged foster daughter unexpectedly returns, he leaps at the possibility to renew connection…
Picture: ABC Netflix’s latest pickup from Australia has been revealed! Following a string of major announcements, Netflix has acquired the global rights (excluding Australia) to the live-action family comedy series Caper Crew. Produced by the acclaimed Australian studio Easy Tiger (the team behind Colin from Accounts and Scrublands) for the ABC, Caper Crew originally premiered in Australia back in April 2026. Now, thanks to a deal with the Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF) (via If), the 10-part series is set to bring its unique brand of mischief to Netflix subscribers in over 190 territories worldwide. The acquisition marks the second…