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The Walt Disney Company has reportedly found a way to “fairly compensate” its talent irrespective of a movie’s release arrangement. Disney CEO Bob Chapek shared the news during a recent earnings call and arrives just shortly after Scarlett Johansson‘s Black Widow lawsuit. “Since COVID has begun, we’ve entered hundreds of talent arrangements with our talent and by and large, they’ve gone very very smoothly, so we expect that that would be the case going forward,” he said, adding that, without naming Johansson or the Marvel film, the Walt Disney Company is “trying to do the best thing for all our constituents and make sure that everybody whose in the value chain … feels like they’re having their contractual commitments honored both from a distribution and a compensation standpoint.” Johansso...

On a recent Your Mom’s House episode with Tom Segura and Christina Pazsitzk, Bill Burr revealed that his role as Migs Mayfield on The Mandalorian was largely due to his stand-up comedy background. In the past, a lot of his comedy gigs would see Burr roast Star Wars fans. When asked how his stand-up was related to his role on the Disney+ series, Burr told the story of Mike Binder’s birthday party, where he met up with Jon Favreau. Burr goes into the conversation they had and shared, “[Favreau] said, ‘Hey, we’re writing this thing. We kind of have you in mind. Do you want to do it?’ And I said, ‘I don’t know, Jon. I have teased Star Wars people a lot.’ He goes, ‘I know. I listen to the podcast a lot. I think it would be funny if you got in it.’ My wife was kicking me under the table and I wa...

Famed Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino recently made a statement, promising that his mother would never receive a “penny” from his film successes. Tarantino was inspired to pursue a career that involved screenwriting at an early age, but since it was difficult for him to focus at school, his mother, Connie Zastoupil was not too thrilled with him focusing so much on his “little writing career.” Clearly, still holding onto his mother’s words, Tarantino vowed that she “will never see one penny from [his] success.” Now, his mother has come out with her own statement, responding to Tarantino’s claim, “Regarding my son Quentin—I support him, I’m proud of him and love him and his growing new family. It gave me great joy to dance at his wedding and receive his news upon the birth of my grandso...

FX has unveiled the first official trailer for American Horror Story: Double Feature, the hotly-anticipated 10th season of Ryan Murphy‘s anthology horror series. The visual provides context for the first half of the season, which is split into “two horrifying stories” —  the former, titled Red Tide, features terrifying shark-like creatures, while the latter, Death Valley, centers on aliens. As per the trailer, Red Tide follows Harry Gardener (Finn Wittrock), a struggling writer who relocates to a beachfront town with his pregnant wife (Lily Rabe) to break through his creative block on a new book. While Wittrock’s character manages to make progress on his story, Provincetown’s sinister residents swiftly claim center stage in the plot. Wittrock meets with two locals,...

Disney and 20th Century Studios’ action-comedy film Free Guy — starring Ryan Reynolds and directed by Shawn Levy — debuted at No. 1 after grossing $28.5 million USD from 4,165 North American theaters in its opening weekend. Internationally, the movie tallied an additional $22.5 million USD from 41 markets for a global opening of $51 million USD. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the numbers surpassed expectations as Disney and 20th Century had predicted North American opening figures to land between $17 million USD and $20 million USD prior to the film’s premiere. Levy’s movie topped The Suicide Squad‘s box office debut of $26.5 million USD last week, though it’s important to note that Free Guy has received a 45-day exclusive theatrical release before landing on Disney+, ...

The highly-anticipated return of Donald Glover and FX‘s Atlanta is still set for early 2022, however an exact date is still unconfirmed. According to reports, FX chairman John Landgraf shared that they “haven’t locked down the scheduling for Season 3 yet” because it just finished shooting, with filming primarily done in Europe. “It’s in post-production and it’s a lengthy post-production process, and part of that is because they’re currently in production of Season 4 in Atlanta,” he explained. “All the scripts for that season have been written, and I absolutely adore the scripts for both seasons.” Landgra added, “The reason I can’t lock down a date right now is that it’s being driven by Donald Glover and Hiro Morai’s schedule and availability and the length of post, both for Season 3 w...

Back in May 2020 during the police brutality protests triggered by the murder of George Floyd, Jake Paul was claimed to be part of the looting of a mall in Scottsdale, Arizona. According to a statement by Paul’s lawyers sent to The Verge as well as TMZ, the US Attorney will not be filing charges against the American Youtuber. Paul was found in the same mall being filmed during the looting but denied any participation in the situation and was also not seen in the act in videos posted on social media. The Scottsdale Police Department still charged him for criminal trespassing and unlawful assembly which was followed by an FBI raid of his house for the supposed involvement. In August of 2020, Paul uploaded a video that has been deleted, which confirms that the raid was conducted for the inves...

For all Star Trek aficionados, this could be your star-crossed dream. Gene Roddenberry’s estate has announced a new venture in partnership with OTOY titled The Roddenberry Archive. The new venture is aimed at preserving the entire history of Roddenberry’s legacy, specifically the Star Trek franchise. The Roddenberry archive will be curated by Star Trek artists and authors include Denise and Mike Okuda, Daren Dochterman and Doug Drexler. The project will function as a large multi-disciplinary digital archive, meant to preserve blueprints, models, scripts and more. Perhaps the most interesting project coming from the archive is its plan to create a life-sized model of the Starship Enterprise as a fully immersive hologram. To bring this idea to life, the archive is partnering with LightF...

The South Korean military court has reached a conclusion for former BigBang member Seungri’s involvement in the infamous sex scandal that rocked the K-pop industry. Allegedly partaking in the facilitation of prostitutes that ultimately funneled into avenues that involved investors, nightclubs, embezzlement, bribery, and illegal gambling, the 31-year-old Korean star was thrown to the center of the ordeal after 2019’s Burning Sun scandal due to his 20 percent stake in Burning Sun Entertainment. The court revealed that Seungri will now be facing three years of jail time and a ₩1.15 billion KRW ($$990,000 USD) fine. Seungri continues to stand firm on his innocence, reiterating that it was his business partner that initiated all the illegal activities. This statement was regarded as an attempt ...

Originally announced back in 2018, Netflix has now revealed the main cast for its Avatar: The Last Airbender live-action series. Gordon Cormier will star as Aang, Kiawentiio is set to play Katara, while Ian Ousley will portray Sokka and Dallas Liu will play Zuko. The streaming platform also announced Albert Kim, who previously worked on Sleepy Hollow, Deadly Class and Nikita, will serve as the show’s writer, executive producer and showrunner. Kim notes that he became a fan of the series after watching the show with his daughter in a blog post. “Flash forward 15 years. Netflix offers me the opportunity to develop a live-action remake of Avatar. My first thought was, ‘Why? What is there I could do or say with the story that wasn’t done or said in the original?’ A:TLA had only grown in popula...

Announced last month, MTV Cribs has made its official return on Wednesday night with its first episode starring Big Sean and his California home. The Detroit 2 rapper previously opened up his home to viewers through a tour on Architectural Digest back in May. Cribs originally debuted in 2000 which was the OG home tour series that offered a look into wild abodes of celebrities and their collections of some of the most random items you may not think to actually house. Sean’s digs open up to airy cream interiors with light wooden floors and a custom art piece that commemorates his 2015 collaboration with Kanye West and John Legend, “One Man Can Change the World.” “It’s a song I wrote about my grandma,” explains Sean. “My grandma was a real g. She’s sadly not with us here today but she was def...