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This was apparently the week for slightly out-of-left-field choices in Hollywood. Anthony Hopkins is set to star in Bruno Penguin and the Staten Island Princess, the first major Hollywood production to ever shoot in Antarctica, for example. (It’s not yet clear if Hopkins’ scenes will actually be set in the pole.)…

Alex Proyas’ 1994 movie The Crow is arguably most remembered as the film in which Brandon Lee—son of legendary martial arts movie star Bruce Lee—was accidentally shot on set during filming, dying hours later in a hospital at age 28. But The Crow is so much more than that, as hardcore fans of both the movie and the…

An incredibly distressing video has emerged that appears to corroborate a number of claims recording artist Cassie Ventura made against her ex-partner, Sean “Diddy” Combs, in a suit she filed last November. The video was obtained by CNN and can be watched here, although be aware that it is quite graphic.

Tom Brady’s Netflix roast had some mildly remarkable aspects—it was live-streamed and three hours long, Kim Kardashian got booed, Brady objected to a Robert Kraft joke—but overall, it was not so interesting that we should still be talking about it almost two weeks later. Yet here we are, for some reason, unpacking…

So many things have happened since Timothée Chalamet was first announced as the ambassador for Chanel’s Bleu de Chanel fragrance way back in May of 2023. Dune: Part Two was supposed to premiere in November, got delayed due to the strike, and then actually did premiere four months later, for one. But finally, after a…

It’s been a great few years to be a Beatles fan. Peter Jackson’s Get Back was followed by the “final” track “Now And Then,” which was followed by the expanded and remixed Red and Blue albums, followed by the newly restored Let It Be documentary. All this good fortune now extends to the greater Beatles universe with One…

To describe something in the Star Wars galaxy as divisive is merely to say that it exists. With each new movie or TV series that comes out, the fandom gets increasingly fractured, with factions picking sides and digging in on multiple fronts. The discourse has gotten so toxic that it almost makes the debates from 25…

By and large, I’m not a fan of prequels. I prefer to relegate my “what ifs” to daydreams about the cinematic characters of note that live rent-free in my noggin. That’s because most often what is formally presented in official prequels comes across like a reverse-engineered writing exercise. Do I need a whole film to…

Francis Ford Coppola knows a little something about not having enough money to make the movie you want. The legendary director notoriously funded his controversial sci-fi epic, Megalopolis, directly from his own pocket (and at the expense of a few of his vineyard holdings). But to hear him tell it, he’s not the only…

Kevin Costner is premiering a film at the Cannes Film Festival for the very first time. That’s already an honor, but it’s made all the sweeter because it’s his passion project, Horizon: An American Saga. Costner has given pretty much everything for this film series—blood, sweat, tears, his marriage, his money (LOTS of…

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off the weekend by taking a look at the world of gaming, diving in to the ideas that underpin the hobby we love with a bit of Game Theory. We’ll sound off in the space above, and invite you to respond down in the comments, telling us what you’re playing this weekend, and what…

[Editor’s note: This piece contains spoilers for Sugar season one.]

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Welcome to the weekend edition of What’s On. Here are the big things happening on TV from Friday, May 17 to Sunday, May 19. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekly edition of What’s On publishes on Sundays.]

Regardless of how you feel about the Star Wars prequels—maybe they don’t actually deserve our hate, maybe The Phantom Menace is at least important, if not traditionally good, maybe they’re actually just terrible—there’s no denying that there are some amazing moments sprinkled throughout George Lucas’ least-beloved…

Earlier today, news broke of the death of Tony McFarr, a veteran stunt performer who appeared in more than 50 Hollywood projects across a decade-long Hollywood career—many of them as a stunt double for actor Chris Pratt, who McFarr doubled for on four different big-budget films. Today, Pratt issued a note of…

At the heart of The Big Cigar, the Apple TV+ miniseries centered on Huey P. Newton’s escape to Cuba aided by a pair of Hollywood producers, is a simple, oft-repeated idea: This entire thing could be a movie! Bert Schneider (played by Alessandro Nivola) means this literally. The lengths he and his producing partner,…

Earlier this week, we reported that Amazon was moving forward with one of the live-action TV projects it’s been developing based off characters in the Spider-Man multiverse, with Nicolas Cage set to star in Noir. That announcement notably avoided talking about the other Spider-Man spin-off show that’s been in…

Multiple celebrities—Liam Neeson, Sharon Stone, Stephen Fry, and F. Murray Abraham, to name the main ones you’ve heard of—have issued a series of statements to U.K. paper The Telegraph today, demanding that actor Kevin Spacey be returned to Hollywood safe and sound, and freed from the terrifying prison of “Nobody…

No matter how many times we tell them. No matter how carefully we explain it. Like a jealous long-distance boyfriend who refuses to believe you’re “just at your friend’s parent’s beach house,” Sony still wants to know what you did last summer. They’ve announced yet another reboot based on their concerns, proving that…

Today, in “Finally, somebody fucking said it” news: Chris Hemsworth has come out and admitted that getting seven minutes of a standing ovation in the aftermath of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’s debut at the Cannes Film Festival this year was “awkward,” and only got moreso as the applause continued.

Earlier today, FX announced that, with help from the James Clavell estate, the creators of Shōgun will begin work on more seasons of the supposedly one-and-done miniseries. It’s not surprising for those who’ve seen it, and those who’ve seen it are probably excited about returning to Japan for another round of…