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Following his breakout performance in Luca Guadagnino‘s Queer (2024), Drew Starkey is staying quiet about whether they’re teaming up again. Amid speculation that Starkey is in the mix for the role of Patrick Bateman in the Oscar-nominated director’s highly-anticipated adaptation of the 1991 Bret Easton Ellis book American Psycho, the actor offered a “no comment” but teased that he’s read the script. “The script is amazing, though,” Starkey told GQ before realizing he’s already said too much. “Fuck! I’ve read the script, but Luca’s my friend. I think I’ve read all of his scripts.” After Deadline exclusively announced Guadagnino and…
Frazer Harrison/Getty Images “American Blue” will not be getting its badge and gun after all: The cop drama pilot starring Milo Ventimiglia is not being picked up at HBO Max, Deadline reports. Producers Warner Bros. Television will shop the project to other networks, however. “This Is Us” alum Ventimiglia was set to star in “American Blue” as Brian “Milk” Milkovich, with his casting first announced in January. In the pilot, Milk returns to his hometown of Joliet, Illinois “to rescue a beleaguered police force while seeking redemption of his own,” per the official description. Jeremy Carver…
Which of Matthew McConaughey‘s films would you guess pays him the highest residual checks of any film he’s done? Interstellar? The Wolf of Wall Street? Magic Mike? You already know the real answer — it’s in the headline, after all — but it’s still surprising that the answer is 2003’s How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is the gift that keeps on giving,” McConaughey told the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “I think it’s probably my favorite rom-com I’ve done. And a lot of people love that rom-com. It still pays the best ‘mailbox…
Thank you to everyone who has continued to check in and send prayers and kind words for Perez and our family. The past several days have been incredibly difficult. I rarely give interviews, but I felt it was important to speak on the record about what happened, share what I personally witnessed, and address some of the misinformation circulating. You can read my full interview HERE. Please note that the interview includes difficult discussions of self-harm, mental health, and medical trauma. To anyone who is struggling, please ask for help. You do not have to face it alone. For resources…
Amazon-owned Twitch has begun allowing the use of streamers’ channel content to train the company’s generative artificial intelligence models by default, requiring users to manually disable the feature if they wish to prevent their material from contributing to future AI development. The policy update, which came to light this week through a new settings toggle and accompanying support documentation, covers a wide range of material produced on the platform, including live streams, video-on-demand recordings, clips, chat messages, channel images, and accompanying text, according to a report by TechCrunch. Under the current arrangement, content from channels where the setting remains enabled…
Box office: Spider-Man Brand New Day to hold No. 1 over Oak Street You will be redirected back to your article in seconds Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor’s dinosaur thriller and Paramount’s PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie battle for second, while The Odyssey closes in on a $500 million domestic milestone. ad
Jenna Ortega’s sister weighed in after fans began to express concerns about the actress’ weight loss. After a recent Esquire interview went viral, a social media user shared a lengthy message defending Ortega, 23, and reminding others to “mind [their] business.” The actress’ sister Aliyah Ortega subtly showed her support for the person’s opinion, adding three exclamation points in the comments section. The social media post further claimed that fans online have been making “assumptions about [Jenna’s] health.” “She has every right to make whatever decisions she feels are best for herself without being judged, discriminated against or subjected to…
Ewan McGregor holding a lit match in The End of Oak Street.Image via Warner Bros. / courtesy Everett Collection Seven years after one of the Star Wars franchise’s most controversial movies, producer J.J. Abrams is back with an original sci-fi offering from director David Robert Mitchell. The movie arrives against the backdrop of skepticism from audiences and also the industry, especially with Warner Bros. having a difficult run so far this year. The studio has experienced the tragic underperformance of The Bride! and Supergirl. These results represent a setback following a strong 2025, when the studio delivered seven successive hits. Mitchell…
A Child of My Own (now on Netflix) is a true crime documentary that isn’t at all interested in genre cliches. The situation is unquestionably juicy and sensational — this is truly Netflix’s Summer of True Crime Fake Pregnancies. But Chilean director Maite Alberdi (Oscar-nominated for both The Mole Agent and The Eternal Memory) subverts the formula by using true crime tropes to explore emotional and contextual subtleties that the genre isn’t typically engaged in. It’s a wild and twisty story that, per her telling, seems less wild and twisty — and the film is all the better for it.…
A Ukrainian queer couple face challenges unimaginable for most Western LGBTQI+ folk in I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming, a nuanced, finely lined drama that premiered in Locarno’s main competition. Produced by Tom Tykwer and Uwe Schott, this represents a second feature collaboration, after Grand Jeté, for married couple Anna Melikova, a Ukrainian writer, and German director Isabelle Stever, who were inspired by friends’ experiences back in Ukraine after the Russian invasion of 2022. Dreaming explores what happens when 21st-century gender fluidity collides with the more rigid identity categories enforced by the state in a time of war. The core dramatic…