Eddie Redmayne to star in Peacock’s ‘The Day of the Jackal’ series

Eddie Redmayne has been cast in Peacock and Sky’s  “The Day of the Jackal,” a modern reimagining of Frederick Forsyth’s novel, and the 1973 Edward Fox film it inspired. Redmayne will play the Jackal, who is hired by the OAS, a French dissident organization, to kill then-president of France Charles de Gaulle. Production is to begin this …

Grey’s Anatomy is renewed for Season 20 at ABC

ABC has renewed the hit medical drama Grey’s Anatomy for Season 20. The network also announced that executive producer Meg Marinis will take the reins as showrunner next season, replacing the departing Krista Vernoff.  The Season 20 renewal now extends Grey’s Anatomy’s record as the longest-running primetime medical drama in TV history (Grey’s premiered on …

Take a look at Keri Russell in the Netflix series ‘The Diplomat’

Netflix shared a first-look photo of their upcoming new drama series The Diplomat, featuring Keri Russell.  The streaming service tweeted the photo with the caption: “Keri Russell stars in The Diplomat, a new series created by Debora Cahn (Homeland, The West Wing), premiering April 20. She plays a career diplomat who lands a high-profile job she’s unsuited …

Producer Steven Spielberg bringing ‘Smash’ musical to Broadway

A stage musical adaptation of the NBC series “Smash” is heading to Broadway, expected to debut during the 2024-2025 season.  The new stage musical will be based on the NBC series of the same name, which aired for two seasons from 2012-2013. Steven Spielberg, Robert Greenblatt and Neil Meron, who produced the original TV series, …

‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ leads the weekend box office with $73.5M in domestic earnings

‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ took first place at the box office, earning $73.5 million domestically in its opening weekend. The film easily beat ‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods,’ now in its second weekend. In North America, the fourth installment in the John Wick franchise bested the $56.8 million opening of 2019’s John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum — and …

Actor Jonathan Majors arrested in NYC following domestic dispute

Actor Jonathan Majors, who currently stars in “Creed III” and “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” was arrested on Saturday in New York City, accused of a domestic dispute. Majors plays the villain Kang in “Quantumania,” and in “Creed III” he plays Damian “Diamond Dame” Anderson who goes up against Michael B. Jordan’s “Adonis Creed.” NYPD …

Netflix shares trailer for ‘Beef’ starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong

Netflix shared the trailer for the dark comedy series “Beef,” starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong and set to debut on April 6. The show is comprised of 10, half-hour episodes. The series follows the aftermath after two strangers get into a road rage incident and cause a big reaction. Failing contractor Danny Cho (Yeun) …

Drew Barrymore to host MTV Movie & TV Awards

Drew Barrymore is set to host the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards, which honors the best in movies and television. MTV shared the news on Twitter, writing:“INTRO-DREW-ING OUR 2023 #MTVAWARDS HOST  @DrewBarrymore  Mark your calendar and get ready for the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards – LIVE on Sunday, May 7th on @MTV!”  The 48-year-old …

Mindy Kaling, Bruce Springsteen among those awarded National Medal of Arts by White House

Actress Mindy Kaling and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, singers Gladys Knight and Bruce Springsteen, and designer Vera Wang were among those honored at the White House for the 2021 National Humanities Medals and the National Medal of Arts ceremony.  The ceremony marks the first time President Joe Biden has presented awards at the White House since taking …

Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel to star in the film ‘Mother Mary’ for A24

Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel will star in ‘Mother Mary’, an “epic pop melodrama” from director David Lowery for A24 — the studio behind the Oscar-winning ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once.’ Lowery wrote the script for Mother Mary, which the studio describes as an “epic pop melodrama following a fictional musician (Hathaway) and her relationship …