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Taika Waititi and Brockmire star Utkarsh Ambudkar are joining Ryan Reynolds and director Shawn Levy for Free Guy, a sci-fi action-comedy set up at 20th Century Fox and 21 Laps Entertainment.

Levy is directing from a script by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn. The ensemble cast also includes Jodie Comer, Joe Kerry and Lil Rel.

Free Guy centers on a background character who realizes he’s living in a video game. With the help of an avatar, he tries to prevent the makers of the game from shutting down his world.

The studio picked up the project as a spec script in 2016....

This weekend's release of Disney's live-action re-imagining of Dumbo will serve as the third new #1 in as many weeks at the domestic box office. Right behind it, last weekend's #1 film, Us, and Disney's holdover release of Captain Marvel will continue to perform well, helping deliver a strong March at the domestic box office. Meanwhile, Pure Flix will debut Unplanned and Neon releases Harmony Korine's The Beach Bum, both in over one thousand locations. Looking at a #1 finish is Disney's latest live-action re-imagining of one of their classic animated features in the Tim Burton-directed Dumbo, which takes the 64-minute animated 1941 feature and delivers a nearly two-hour retelling. Disney will debut the film in over 4,200 theaters and forecasting the film's opening weekend performance is not at all clear cut. The studio is anticipating a $50+ million debut while other sources are suggesting a debut close to $60-65 million. The critical response

Tom Hanks is in negotiations to play Elvis Presley’s iconic manager Colonel Tom Parker in Baz Luhrmann’s untitled Warner Bros. biopic[/link] about the legendary musician.

Luhrmann will direct the movie. He also penned the script with Craig Pearce.

Parker discovered Presley when he was just an unknown and quickly moved in as his lone representation. Parker was responsible for various milestones, including Presley’s record deal with RCA and his successful acting career.

While Luhrmann always envisioned a star for Parker’s part, he wants a newcomer for the role of Presley. The director has begun meeting with talent for the part.

Insiders say a budget is still being ironed out, but Hanks’ commitment will urge the studio to push the project forward. Luhrmann hopes to get the pic into production sometime this year.

Hanks is no stranger to portraying real-life figures like astronaut Jim Lovell in “Apollo 13,

Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand are taking on Shakespeare.

The Oscar winners are in talks to star in Joel Coen’s adaptation of “Macbeth.” Coen will direct from his own original script, and expects to shoot the movie before the end of the year. This marks his first film without frequent directing/writing/producing partner and brother Ethan.

A24 will distribute the pic, which Scott Rudin will produce.

The iconic Shakespeare tale follows a lord (Washington) who’s convinced by a trio of witches that he’s destined to become the king of Scotland. With the help of his ambitious wife (McDormand), Macbeth tries to seize the crown by any means necessary.

After taking a brief break, Washington has a busy schedule ahead of him for the foreseeable future. He will first shoot the Warner Bros. thriller “Little Things” in the fall, followed by “Macbeth” at the beginning of 2020. He

Sam Mendes' World War I movie 1917 is heading into production and adding A-list talent to the cast.

Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth and Mark Strong have joined the production, along with The Bodyguard star Richard Madden. They will join the previously announced stars George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman, who will play young British soldiers on a single day at the height of World War I.

Andrew Scott, Daniel Mays, Adrian Scarborough, Jamie Parker, Nabhaan Rizwan and Claire Duburcq have also joined the cast.

Mendes will direct from a screenplay he wrote with Krysty Wilson-Cairns.

Mendes will also produce the film via ...

Horror master John Carpenter is to receive the 2019 Golden Coach Award (Carrosse d’Or) at the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival.

Carpenter, who helmed such classics as “Halloween,” “The Fog,” “Christine” and “Escape From New York” will receive the accolade May 15, on the opening night of the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes. The French Directors’ Guild, which chooses the recipient of the Golden Coach, called Carpenter “a creative genius of raw, fantastic and spectacular emotions.”

In its letter to Carpenter, the directors’ guild said that each of his films “enhances the irresistible delight of staging. In each of them, the work on space, on what is off-screen, on the visible and on the invisible, is constantly renewed and regenerated in order to redefine fear – a fear that is always prone to trigger emotions in characters and actors who have now become iconic,” including Jamie Lee Curtis, Adrienne Barbeau and Kurt Russell.

Angelina Jolie is getting ready to make her first foray into the world of superhero movies.

The Oscar-winning actress is in talks to star in Marvel Studios' The Eternals, a superhero team adventure feature being directed by Chloe Zhao.

Jolie has chosen the Marvel project based on the Jack Kirby-created title about superpowered and near-immortal beings known as Eternals and a more monstrous offshoot known as the Deviants that were created by the cosmic beings called Celestials.

While details about the movie are being kept under wraps, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that one aspect to the story involves ...

"Killing Eve" and "A Very English Scandal" are leading the line at this BAFTA TV Awards and BAFTA TV Craft Awards after scoring 26 nominations between them.

The BBC America drama and the BBC/Amazon co-pro have scored the most nominations for the event, which takes place at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 12 May. "Killing Eve" has scored 14 nominations for the TV awards and the TV craft awards, which takes place on Sunday 28 April at The Brewery, London, while "A Very English Scandal" has picked up 12 nominations.

"Patrick Melrose" has secured six nominations across the two events, while "Bodyguard" and "The Little Drummer Girl" have picked up five each.

Lara Jean has a new boy in her life, or maybe it would be more accurate to say she's got an old boy back in her life. The To All the Boys I've Loved Before sequel has officially found its John Ambrose, Aka the last boy who got a love letter from Lara Jean (Lana Condor). She met him in Model Un, and while we saw a boy claiming to be John Ambrose at the end of the first movie, the second movie is going in a different direction—the direction of Jordan Fisher. Fisher is a Disney Channel alum who won season 25 of Dancing with the Stars and recently starred as Mark in Fox's Rent Live(ish), and now he'll be playing the fifth boy who stole Lara Jean's heart, and might turn out to be some...

Justin Theroux and Pierce Brosnan have joined Ilana Glazer in A24’s latest horror film, “False Positive.”

Zainab Jah, Gretchen Mol, Sophia Bush, and Josh Hamilton have also joined the ensemble cast.

The pic is Glazer’s first film role following the end of her Comedy Central series “Broad City,” which wraps after five seasons on Thursday night. She’s also producing and co-writing the movie with John Lee, who will direct the film. Jonathan Wang will also produce.

Plot details have not yet been revealed. Production is currently underway.

Following his role in the critically acclaimed HBO series “The Leftovers,” Theroux’s 2018 also included Paramount’s “Bumblebee,” Focus Features’ “On the Basis of Sex” opposite Felicity Jones and Armie Hammer, and “The Spy Who Dumped Me.” He is repped by CAA and Lighthouse Management & Media.

The former James Bond star, Brosnan returned to his other famous franchise “Mamma Mia!

Roadside Attractions and Vertical Entertainment have acquired American Woman, the drama directed by Jake Scott that stars Sienna Miller. Brad Ingelsby penned the pic, which had its bow at the Toronto Film Festival last fall. Christina Hendricks, Aaron Paul and Amy Madigan also star in the movie, which is now set for a June 14 release date.

The distribution partnership include Roadside, Vertical, Mill House Motion Pictures and Romulus Entertainment. Endeavor Content is handling international rights.

Set in rural Pennsylvania, the life of Deb Callahan (Miller) is changed forever when her teenage daughter mysteriously disappears. Deb is left to raise her young grandson and navigate the trials and tribulations of subsequent years, until a long-awaited discovery of the truth is revealed.

Ridley Scott, Kevin Walsh, Michael Pruss and Brad Feinstein produced the film, which is executive produced by Erika Olde, Shea Kammer, Joseph F. Ingrassia, Ryan Stowell, Jordan Foley, Jonathan Rosenthal and Ingelsby.

Rita Moreno will be honored with the Career Achievement Award, presented by Mercedes Benz, at this year’s Peabody Awards, Variety has learned.

This honor puts Moreno in the extremely rare category of having achieved “PEGOT” status — winning a Peabody, two Emmys, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award.

“Rita Moreno is a unique talent who has not only broken barriers, but whose career continues to thrive six-plus decades after her acting debut,” said Jeffrey P. Jones, executive director of Peabody. “We are delighted to celebrate her many contributions to entertainment and media, as well as her passion for children’s programming and important social issues.”

The Career Achievement Award is reserved for those whose work and commitment to electronic media has left an indelible mark on the field. Moreno will be celebrated with fellow Peabody Award winners on Saturday, May 18 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York.

Most recently Moreno starred

Kelsey Grammer and Julia Stiles have been set to star in The God Committee, a medical thriller that offers a lens into the U.S. organ transplant system. Austin Stark wrote and is directing the pic from Paper Street Films, Phiphen Pictures and Crystal City Entertainment, and shooting is underway in New York City.

The story moves between two timelines: In one, a donor heart is being flown to a New York hospital and a transplant committee has an hour to decide which patient deserves the life-saving organ. The other, which takes place six years later, explores the impact of that one decision. Colman Domingo, Janeane Garofalo and Dan Hedaya are co-starring.

Phiphen’s Molly Conners, Amanda Bowers, Vincent Morano and Jane Oster are producing alongside Crystal City’s Ari Pinchot and Jonathan Rubenstein and Paper Street’s Stark, Benji Kohn and Bingo Gubelmann. Joannna Meek, Ray Masucci, Erika Hampson,

Wrestling fans will be able to relive some of the most infamous moments and learn untold secrets with Viceland’s new docu-series, “Dark Side of the Ring.”

The six-episode series, which premieres April 10 at 9 p.m. Et., will dive into the biggest controversies from in and out of the ring involving professional wrestling’s most notorious superstars.

“Dark Side of the Ring” will examine the tragic love story between “Macho Man” Randy Savage and his former manager and wrestler Miss Elizabeth, plus the dark history of the multigenerational Von Erich wrestling family, victims of the so-called “Von Erich curse.” The

Warning: Do not read any further if you don’t want to read spoilers for Season 2 of “The Oa.”

When Netflix released the first season of “The Oa” way back in 2016, its big, mind-boggling ending left viewers with far more questions than answers. And more than two years later, Season 2 leaned hard into that same pattern, going even bigger and more mind-boggling.

This time around, Season 1’s philosophical musings about faith and storytelling were replaced with surprising plot twists befitting the season’s more film noir-esque storyline and one unexpectedly meta conclusion.

Many of the questions lingering from Season 1 — Was Prairie’s tale about being held captive real or just a story? Is she actually an angel? — were dispatched within the first 45 minutes of the second season, but by the last five a whole new set of questions had arisen to take their place.

Namely, what the heck just happened?

Tekashi 6ix9ine’s former manager, Kifano “Shotti” Jordan, pleaded guilty on Thursday to two federal weapons counts, Vulture reports.

Both Jordan and Tekashi 6ix9ine (given name Daniel Hernandez) face federal charges, which include racketeering allegations, stemming from their involvement with the Nine Trey Bloods, a New York gang whom are connected to an alleged string of robberies, shootings and other violent acts. In January, Hernandez pleaded guilty on nine counts, reversing his previous not guilty plea.

On Thursday, Jordan admitted to “using and possessing a firearm in furtherance

In August 2018, Jakiw Palij — a former concentration camp guard identified as “the last known World War II Nazi living in the U.S.” — was deported to his homeland, fully 15 years after a federal court had stripped him of his citizenship. No country, not even Germany, wanted to accept him, and so he remained in America until Trump booted him out last year.

But was Palij, who died in January, really the last of his kind? What if there were others? What if it turned out that there was a Nazi living undetected in your own family? These are but some of the head-scratching questions in Jeff Lipsky’s “The Last,” the latest wall-to-wall talkathon from the hyper-literate writer-director, a former independent film distributor who began his career as an advocate for other tough-sell voices and has become somewhat prolific making a frustratingly amateurish kind of low-budget feature.

Like a highbrow

Lil Uzi Vert is back. On Thursday, the rapper released his first solo song since 2018’s “New Patek.” It also ends his early retirement from music, which he announced via Instagram in January.

The new song — “Free Uzi” — arrives under strained circumstances. Since his announced “retirement,” Uzi has been embroiled in a cold war with his label heads, DJ Drama and Don Cannon, who signed him to their Generation Now imprint on Atlantic Records before he became one of the biggest rising stars on the planet. The conflict has ranged

Russell Jay Kagan, a prominent distribution executive known to his associates at Mip and Mipcom as the “Mayor of Cannes,” died on March 27 after a battle with cancer. He was 65.

Kagan, whose career spanned four decades and earned him widespread recognition, is best known for producing major television series and co-productions, including TNT’s “Joseph,” which earned him an Emmy Award for Best Mini-Series and Discovery Channel’s “Great Wall of Iron,” for which he received a Peabody Award.

Through his international work – with offices in New York, Hollywood and Europe – the respected executive forged strong relationships with many in

Holy Toledo did Wtol spark a lot of criticism Wednesday, after a video of members of its news crew spouting youth-skewing slang went viral on social media.

But the Toledo, Ohio, CBS affiliate offered an explanation for the video on Thursday, saying that the clip was “admittedly ‘cringe-worthy,'” but made for a good cause: to “encourage students to show up and be ready for” state testing that’s taking place for Toledo Public Schools students this week.

The video sent “Toledo” into the trending topics on Twitter on Wednesday night, thanks to a number of eyebrow-raising lines dropped by the news-crew members.

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Such as, “Good morning, Tps students, it is testing week, and it’s time to slay all day.”

And, “Stay woke, be on fleek, and get that Gucci breakfast.”

And, “Weather’s gonna be turnt,