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TheStar Warsnovel Thrawn: Alliances hits bookstores at the end of this month and a new excerpt detailing Padme Amidala’s mission has been released. Additionally, an exclusive poster featuring Padme has been released and it looks pretty awesome. While there was a time when the prequel trilogy was largely dismissed byStar Warsfans, a younger audience has recently discovered the movies and they have embraced what George Lucas set out to do, which means that a new story including Padme is a pretty big deal....

Comedy superstarsPatton OswaltandGlenn Howertonhave signed on to star in an untitled high school comedy pilot that is set up at NBC, through writerMike O’Brien(Saturday Night Live). NBC’sLate NighthostSeth Meyersis serving as an executive producer alongside the writer andSaturday Night LivecreatorLorne Michaels. The project was originally titledAP Bio, but the producers are currently seeking a new title for the pilot. TV Linereports that the series centers onGlenn Howerton’s character Jack, described as a “hilariously cynical Ivy League professor” who takes a job teaching AP Biology after losing his dream job....

It was entirely predictable thatRobert De Niro, who has beendirected by Martin Scorsese in 10 filmsover 50 years, would transfer what he’d learned to a directorial career of his own. De Niro made his feature directorial debut with the 1993 coming-of-age crime drama filmA Bronx Tale, in which he plays Lorenzo, a working-class Italian-American family man who becomes increasingly concerned about his son’s relationship with a local Mafia bossin the Bronxthroughout the 1960s....

Tropic Thunderis a movie that has sparked significant controversy due toRobert Downey Jr.’s portrayal of a character in blackface for more than 15 years. However, the film has been heroically defended by its stars and director as a movie that is often talked about without considering the context of Downey Jr.’s character andthe film’s satirical take on the film industry. In a new conversation onRob Lowe’s Literally! podcast, Downey Jr. has once again attempted to defend the movie and explain why audiences just no longer understand the spirit in which movies and TV shows are made....

I’m not sure if you guys are aware or not, butThe Hills Have EyesandHigh Tensiondirector Alexandre Aja and producer Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead,Spider-Man) are teaming together for an all-new horror flick calledCrawl. The movie stars Kaya Scodelario (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials) as a young woman who becomes trapped in a flooding house during a Category 5 hurricane and must battle against Florida’s most savage and feared predators....

Saturday Night Livehas scored the show’s highest metered-market household rating since January 2011. The Feb. 11 telecast, with hostAlec Baldwinand musical guestEd Sheeran, scored a 7.2 rating, 18 share in “live plus same day” household results from the 56 local markets metered by Nielsen Media Research and a 3.6/18 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters. The 7.2 in metered-market households is the highest forSaturday Night Livesince Jun 23, 2025, when the telecast hosed byJim Carreyand featuring musical guestThe Black Keysaveraged a 7....

We are at that point in the year where the Oscar race is going to really heat up and studios will start campaigning for the movies they think are deserving of a statue. Sony is very seriously about to start one of those campaigns for theR-rated, animated comedySausage Party. Yes, theSeth Rogenanimated comedy that featured a spoilers food orgy. ThatSausage Party. The Hollywood Reporterhas revealed that the campaign forSausage Partywill officially begin with a special screening of the movie on November 1 at the iPic theater, which will also include a cocktail party....

Fresh off the critical and box office success ofTerrifier 3, horror fans will continue to eat very well this weekend with the release ofSmile 2. The first film, released in 2022, was a surprise box office hit that also scored with critics, and now its sequel, so far, is exceeding the critical expectations of its predecessor. As of this writing,Smile 2has aRotten Tomatoesscore worth smiling about at 86 percent with a total of 36 reviews counted....

It’s a good day to be Tom Holland, asSpider-Man: Far from Homeis officially the highest-grossing Spider-Man movie ever. Holland’s latest solo adventure as Peter Parker in the MCU made its way to theaters earlier this month and, ever since, it’s been collecting serious amounts of cash in a major hurry. With what the movie made over the weekend factored in, it’s now set to cross the coveted $1 billion mark worldwide any day now, which is more good news for fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

We have a little update on the status of theFirestarterremake. Stephen King is one of the hottest brands in all of entertainment right now, in no small part thanks to the massive success of bothITandIT Chapter Two. King’s 1980 novel has been on Universal’s to-do list for some time now. As revealed to us by screenwriter Scott Teems, the movie is, or at least was, eyed to begin production sometime this year....

Nickelodeon held theirannual Kid’s Choice Awardsover the weekend in Inglewood, California, which was hosted by John Cena. Cena started off the broadcast by acknowledging the March for Our Lives demonstrations that had taken place earlier in the day all over North America, noting that kids had already made the day special. As for winners,Stranger Thingswon the Favorite TV Show award and Millie Bobby Brown won the Favorite TV Actress award. She accepted the award and made a passionate speech about the March for Our Lives....

Good to his word, Quentin Tarantino is sticking to his guns and says he’s going to retire after directing one final movie. Now, thePulp Fictionfilmmaker has shared the very first details regarding his 10th feature. It’s not much, and it still hasn’t been revealed exactly what it’s going to be. In any event,Quentin Tarantino’s Final Movieis going to be climactic. Quentin Tarantinois making the press rounds internationally to promote the release of his latest,Once Upon a Time in Hollywood....

Children’s films are often attention-grabbing, vibrant, and most importantly, teach a central lesson to their audience of young viewers. These lessons are often taught through the main characters, who experience a story arc that helps them learn to become a better person and friend. However, some of the most widely beloved main characters, who are known for their ability to change and grow, can also be highly flawed, so much so, that they may even cross the line into becoming a bad influence....