ENTERTAINMENT

Michael B. Jordan has another film lined up and this time it is to direct and star in the remake of the classic heist film Thomas Crown Affair. Deadline reports that Jordan is now signed to direct the film for Amazon MGM Studios and an exclusive theatrical release worldwide. This film marks the third remake of the classic, the most recent starring Pierce Brosnan in 1999. Brosnan played the rich playboy who is a kleptomania, stealing art as a hobby before meeting his match in an insurance investigator who later fall for one another. The original 1968 film directed by Norman Jewison featured Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway.Jordan and his Outlier Society banner have been working on the development of the project for a while now. Following the success of Creed III, Jordan was eager to get back ...

Luca Guadagnino‘s tennis drama Challengers is officially set to release on Prime Video this month.Deadline reports that the Zendaya-led title is slated to hit the streamer on September 19, although release dates on Prime Video could change by a day or two. The film arrives on streaming about five months after its wid premiere, when it grossed $94.2 million USD in the global box office against a $55 million USD budget.Challengers stars Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy whose career got derailed early by an injury. As an adult, she serves as the coach of her husband Art (Mike Faist), a champion who is suffering from a losing streak and is forced to go up against his former best friend and Tashi's ex-boyfriend Patrick (Josh O'Connor). The film chronicles the trio's journey from...

At the start of the year, Netflix announced that a second season of Gyeongseong Creature is on its way. With the latest promotional trailer, the streaming services confirm the series’ return for fall.While the first season was set in Gyeongseong (the former name of Seoul) amid a tumultuous era, season two takes its premise to South Korea’s capital in 2024. Han So Hee continues to play the role of Yoon Chae-ok, a sleuth who’s conflicted with her identity following the events of last season. In present-day Seoul, Yoon encounters Ho-jae (Park Seo-joon), a young man with a deceptive resemblance to Jang Tae-sang — a person whose fate collided with her during the spring of 1945.According to Chung Dong-yoon, the series’ director, “Season 2 presents a story with a completely different charm,” addi...

HBO is searching for child actors to play the starring trio of Harry, Ron and Hermione for its upcoming Harry Potter TV series. The production studio posted an open call for child actors who will be between the ages of nine and eleven.Actors must be residents of either the UK or Ireland. HBO is requesting 30-second self-tapes in which they read a short poem or story of one’s choosing in their own accent. Another self-tape requests that actors talk about personal information, like where they live and their height.In the casting call, HBO notes that it’s committed to “inclusive, diverse casting.”For every role, please submit qualified performers, without regard to ethnicity, sex, disability, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis protected by law unless otherwise speci...

Larry David will be heading on tour around the US this fall. The run is simply called A Conversation With Larry David and will see the comedian joined by a series of surprise moderators for an “informal conversation” spanning his work on Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm and "everything in between.”The tour will kick off on September 20 in Denver, where David will be joined by Peyton Manning, followed by stops in Seattle, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago and more.David and Jerry Seinfeld teamed up in the late 1980s to create Seinfeld, which went on to run for nine seasons across a decade, with David himself writing 62 episodes.Following the end of Seinfeld, what was supposed to be a one-off hour-long comedy special, Curb Your Enthusiasm, was picked up as an HBO series. David play...

The first trailer for The Apprentice is out, offering a preview of Sebastian Stan’s portrayal of Donald Trump decades before the presidency. Set in the 1970s and 80s, the film charts Trump’s rise in the real estate business in New York, working alongside cutthroat attorney Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong).Maria Bakalova plays Trump’s first wife, Ivana Trump, while Martin Donovan portrays his father Fred Trump.Ali Abbasi directed the film based on a script written by Gabriel Sherman. The movie takes its name from the business reality show Trump hosted beginning in the early 2000s, where aspiring businesspeople competed for a contract to promote one of Trump’s properties.“It’s going to be the finest building in the country, maybe the city, the world,” Stan’s Trump says on a phone call as he prepares...

Denis Villeneuve has officially confirmed that the third Dune film will be the franchise's last. While Dune 3 will complete a trifecta of films in that universe, Villeneuve has also clarified that it is not a trilogy. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair Villeneuve said, "It's important that people understand that for me, it was really a diptych. It was really a pair of movies that will be the adaptation of the first book. That's done and that's finished." He added, "If I do a third one, which is in the writing process, it's not like a trilogy. It's strange to say that, but if I go back there, it's to do something that feels different and has its own identity." The third film, expected to be titled Dune: Messiah, is slated to set 12 years after the events of the first Dune novel, meaning...

Netflix has delivered the final trailer of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s MONSTERS: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story ahead of its premiere on September 19.The nearly three-minute teaser dives into the dynamic of the Menendez family, starting off with the volatile and allegedly sexually, physically and emotionally abusive relationship that Lyle and Erik had with their father, José. The brothers' mother, Kitty, can also be seen verbalizing her disdain for the two as she tells them that she "regret[s]" having them.Leading the main cast are Javier Bardem as José, Chloë Sevigny as Kitty, Cooper Koch as Erik, Nicholas Alexander Chavez as Lyle, Nathan Lane as Dominick Dunne and Ari Graynor as Leslie Abramson.The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is based on the true story of the Menendez brothers who w...

It looks like another Tom Holland-led Spider-Man film is on its way and Marvel is reportedly eyeing Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings's director Destin Daniel Cretton. According to Variety, a source close to the production of the sequel of Shang-Chi has confirmed that Spider-Man 4 is currently the studio's priority. Cretton is currently in the middle of developing the sequel to Shang-Chi. The ending of the most recent 2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home saw Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange appear to cast a spell that caused the world to forget Peter Park was Spider-Man, meaning that Zendaya's MJ and Jacob Batalon's Ned would forget Peter Parker ever told them who he was. While the plot has not yet been confirmed, the reports confirm that Holland will be returning to another Spider-Ma...

Prolific TV, film and theater actor James Earl Jones, widely known as the actor and voice of Star Wars villain Darth Vader has died at the age of 93. Variety has confirmed that the actor died on Monday morning at his home in Dutchess County, N.Y.Jones has been considered as one of the pioneering Black actors of his generation. With a career spanning across six decades, Jones had his start in Broadway in 1958. Most recently, he appeared in 2021's Coming 2 America where he reprised his role of King Jaffe Joffer from the original 1988 comedy with Eddie Murphy. Other iconic roles include lending his baratone voice to play King Mufasa in Disney's animated feature The Lion King in 1994 and appearing as CIA deputy director Vice Admiral James Greer in three Jack Ryan movies. Jones starred in Stanl...

With less than a month until the premiere of MF Ghost season two, the production company has shared a new trailer offering fans an ear to its new Eurobeat soundtrack.In the new promotional video, protagonist Kanata Katagiri is shown driving in his red Toyota GT86, showing no signs of deceleration even amid heavy rain. Picking up from where season one left off, the trailer offers glimpses into the intense race on the Lake Ashinoko GT course that fans have been anticipating for months.The video also previews “Side U (Prod. AmPm),” a new City pop-style track by Himika Akaneya, who also performed season one’s ending theme song, “Stereo Sunset (Prod. AmPm).”The second season of MF Ghost will begin airing on October 6  across a number of TV networks in Japan. Simultaneously, overseas fans will b...