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“Invincible” is back for Season 3 and boasting the same stellar cast that made the first two so great.

Much of the actors return again to voice their characters based on the Robert Kirkman comic book. Season 3 finds Mark at odds with Cecil all while trying to prepare mentally and physically for the threat of more Viltrumites heading to Earth.

Here are all the “Invincible” characters coming back for Season 3 — and the voice cast behind them.

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Steven Yeun plays Mark Grayson, a.k.a Invincible. Yeun is most well-known for playing Glenn for years in “The Walking Dead” – a series based on a different comic book series by “Invincible” creator Robert Kirkman. He has also appeared in “Minari,” “Nope,” “Okja” and the Netflix series “Beef.”

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Diretor Jason Reitman on the set of Columbia Pictures’ Saturday Night. Photo Credit: Hopper Stone Copyright © 2024 Ctmg, Inc. All Rights Reserved. **All Images Are Property Of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc Jason Reitman, a four-time Academy Award nominee, continues to showcase his versatility as a filmmaker with an impressive portfolio of projects, including Juno, Up in the Air, Thank You for Smoking, and the Ghostbusters reboot. With his latest film, Saturday Night, Reitman takes audiences behind the scenes of one of television’s most groundbreaking moments. Set on the evening of October 11, 1975, Saturday Night captures the chaos, creativity, and excitement as a fearless team of young comedians and writers geared up for a night that would make television history. The film brings to life the 90 frantic minutes leading up to the debut broadcast of Saturday Night Live, taking viewers into the heart of the action, where emotions ran high and every second counted.

Since the start of the millennium, there have been some especially strong Best Original Screenplay winners. It’s an especially eclectic list that ranges from Little Miss Sunshine (2007) to Juno (2008) to Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris (2012) to Spotlight (2016). The five most recent victors are Bong Joon-Ho and Han Jin-won for Parasite in 2020, Kenneth Branagh for Belfast in 2021, Emerald Fennell for Promising Young Woman in 2022, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All at Once in 2023, and Arthur Harari and Justine Triet for Anatomy of a Fall last year.

This year’s group includes three writers also nominated for Best Director and whose movies also received Best Picture bids: Sean Baker for Anora, Brady Corbet (and partner Mona Fastvold) for The Brutalist, and Coralie Fargeat for The Substance. Also honored in the category are Previous Oscar nominee (for acting) Jesse Eisenberg for A Real Pain and Moritz Binder,...

Fresh off the Grammys. where she claimed two trophies at Sunday’s ceremony, Sabrina Carpenter has announced a deluxe version of her smash album, Short n’ Sweet. Carpenter announced the project with the tracklist reveal, which features a new version of “Please Please Please” with the one and only Dolly Parton. Appropriately, the album will land on Valentine’s Day, February 14th.

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On Instagram, Carpenter called the deluxe version a “thank you for giving this album two Grammys” and expressed her excitement around the A-list guest. “Yes that does say featuring Miss Dolly Parton,” she wrote. “She wouldn’t want me to swear but holy shit!”

At this weekend’s Grammy Awards, Carpenter brought the house down with her musical theater-inspired performances of “Espresso” and “Please Please Please.” Next, the artist will continue the “Short n’ Sweet Tour” throughout Europe and the UK.

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Christopher Nolan has is taking four more actors on his hero’s journey — and most are familiar faces to his world.

Elliot Page, Himesh Patel, Bill Irwin and Samantha Morton round out the supporting cast of The Odyssey, Nolan’s adaptation of the epic poem by Homer that he is making for Universal.

Page is a Nolan veteran, having the memorable role of architecture grad student Ariadne in 2010’s Inception. Patel too is a Nolan alum, with a role in 2020’s Tenet, while Irwin had the memorable voice role of Tars the robot in Interstellar.

Universal had no comment on the castings. The quartet of actors join a cast including Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Anne Hathaway, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal and Benny Safdie.

The studio describes the project as a “mythic action epic shot across the world across the world using brand new Imax film technology.

Christopher Nolan’s next big epic at Universal, The Odyssey, has added Himesh Patel, Elliot Page, Bill Irwin and Samantha Morton.

For Patel, Page and Irwin, it’s a reteam with the 2x Oscar-winning filmmaker. Patel starred in Nolan’s 2020 Tenet, Page in 2010’s Inception, and Irwin in 2014’s Interstellar. For 2x Oscar nominee Morton, it’s her first time working with Nolan.

The foursome join a booming ensemble that counts Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Benny Safdie and Charlize Theron.

Nolan’s mythic action epic, shot with new Imax cameras, is based on the ancient Greek poem by Homer which follows Odysseus, King of Ithaca, and his perilous journey home after the Trojan War. The classic explores themes of heroism, loyalty, cunning and the struggle against divine will. The tale includes iconic stories like Odysseus’ encounters with the Cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens and the witch-goddess Circe,...

Gold Derby’s top news stories for Jan. 31, 2025 Reality Smash Married at First Sight heads to Peacock

The hit long-running wedding-themed reality series Married at First Sight has been snapped up by the NBCU streamer Peacock and will begin running there with its 19th season later this year. No terms were announced in the deal for the show that’s produced by Kinetic Content and Chris Coelen that originally launched in July 2014 and has run for more than 200 episodes on the A&e Networks channels. Deadline reports that there was a bidding war for the series among multiple companies interested in the format, which is one of the most popular reality formats around the world. It casts stranger couples who meet for the first time at the alter.

The 18th season of Married at First Sight, featuring couples from Chicago, premiered on Lifetime in October – the show’s home since its fifth season.

Warner Bros horror Companion leads new releases at the UK and Ireland box office this weekend in 561 cinemas.

Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid star in the dark comedy about a weekend away that goes wrong when a human android, built for companionship, reveals itself. It marks the feature debut of Drew Hancock while further cast include Rupert Friend, Lukas Gage and Jaboukie Young-White.

Thatcher most recently starred in fellow horror title Heretic which surpassed £6m late last year and Quaid had a role in 2023’s Oppenheimer (£60m). Companionis produced by Zach Cregger who wrote and directed Barbarian which cracked £1m...

Jennifer Garner is headed to Peacock for the TV adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s “Five-Star Weekend.”

Garner will star in the series based on the book by “The Perfect Couple” author, which was granted a series order at the streamer, Peacock announced Monday. In the series, Garner will star as Hollis Shaw, a famed food influencer known for her delicious recipes, impeccable taste, and warm demeanor who suffers a devastating loss.

The official logline for the series is as follows: “Unable to move forward, the death starts to expose the cracks in Hollis’s picture-perfect life—her strained marriage, her complicated relationship with her daughter, and her growing pursuit of validation from her followers. In an effort to overcome grief and find herself again, Hollis gets the idea to host a weekend away at her house on Nantucket with three friends from different stages in her life: her childhood, her twenties,...

Jason Bateman, a name synonymous with versatility, has been lighting up screens for over 40 years. From his unforgettable comedic timing in rom-coms to his intense portrayal of Marty Byrde in the gripping drama Ozark, he’s proven time and again that he can do it all. But while his on-screen charm is hard to miss, there’s a lot more to this talented actor and director than meets the eye.

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His journey hasn’t always been smooth, but he is as inspiring as his performances. If you think you know Jason Bateman, think again. Here are ten unknown facts about the man behind the characters we all love.

10. Jason Bateman started his acting career as a child actor

Jason Bateman’s journey into acting began at a young age, long before he became the household name we know today.

How many times can the characters say “cabbages” in a movie before making you want to throw cabbages at the screen? With “Bubble & Squeak,” writer-director Evan Twohy sets out to answer that question — and little else of relevance to contemporary audiences. Not all movies need to serve up profound insights into the human condition, but the ones that don’t should at least be entertaining, and Twohy’s particular strain of absurdism is not just contrived, but deeply unfunny.

Set in a small, unnamed Slavic nation (most of which appears to have been shot in Estonia), “Bubble & Squeak” begins with a silly premise, with the interrogation (by an eccentrically disfigured Steven Yeun) of a newlywed American couple accused of smuggling cabbages into a country where the vegetables are expressly forbidden. The husband and wife are Declan (“Yesterday” star Himesh Patel) and Delores (Sarah Goldberg of “Barry” fame), a...

The 2025 Oscar nominations were revealed bright and early Thursday morning, with Spanish-language “Emilia Pérez” topping all nominees with 13, including Best Picture.

Karla Sofía Gascón, who plays the film’s title character, lands herself in the Oscar history books as the first out trans actress to receive a nomination. Coralie Fargeat is this year’s only woman to break into the male-dominated Best Director category, for her body-horror shocker “The Substance.”

Here are notable highlights from this year’s Oscar nominations.

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Karla Sofía Gascón solidifies her place in Oscar history as the first out transgender woman to land an acting nomination. The “Emilia Pérez” star, who received a Best Actress nod, isn’t the first trans actor to be recognized by the Academy. Elliot Page, who came out as trans in 2020, was nominated for an Oscar for their lead role in “Juno” back in 2008.

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Emilia Pérez first picked up Oscar buzz when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May, where film pundits praised the musical-drama-comedy’s leading lady, Karla Sofía Gascón’s performance. Gascón received her flowers Thursday morning making history as the first openly trans actress to earn an Oscar nomination.

Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez, follows a cartel leader, played by Gascon, who is in search of gender affirming surgery and seeks help from a Mexico city lawyer Rita, played by Zoe Saldaña. After becoming Emilia Perez, the former drug boss returns to Mexico,...

Karla Sofía Gascón made Oscar history Thursday as the first openly transgender actor to land an Academy Award nomination.

Gascón scored her first career nomination Thursday morning in the Best Actress category for her lead role in Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language operatic musical, “Emilia Pérez,” cementing her place in the Oscar history books.

The landmark Oscar nomination is groundbreaking for the transgender community as it marks the first time an out trans actor has broken through in a major acting category with the Academy.

Gascón isn’t the first trans actor to be recognized by the Academy, however. Elliot Page, who was nominated for an Oscar in 2008 for their leading role in “Juno,” came out as trans through an Instagram post in December 2020, 12 years after being nominated.

The Academy has also previously nominated trans filmmakers and musicians. Composer Angela Morley was the first openly transgender Oscar nominee in 1975 for co-writing...

Critics have had mixed feelings about “Emilia Pérez.” Some praised it for its bold and unique blend of crime drama and musical elements, while others criticized it for its portrayal of Mexico and the lack of Mexican actors. Overall, it’s been a controversial film that has sparked a lot of discussions – but one thing was sure during the release – it’s going to be nominated for a lot of awards.

The Oscar nominations have dropped and the star of the movie Karla Sofía Gascón has been nominated for her role in the film. Gascón is the first openly transgender actor to get an Oscar nomination.

In the Netflix movie, Emilia (played by Gascón) is a feared drug lord who asks a lawyer, Rita (played by Zoe Saldaña), to help fake her death and get gender-affirming surgery. Variety’s main film critic, Peter Debruge, praised the film, saying Gascón “lights up” in her role.

Spanish actress Karla Sofía Gascón has made Oscar history. The titular Emilia Pérez star was just nominated for Best Actress, making her the first openly transgender performer ever nominated in the category. She stars in the musical as a Mexican drug lord who undergoes a gender transition but can’t fully escape her past.

This nomination is historic, but it didn’t come as a surprise. Beginning at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2024, Gascón and costars Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz were jointly named Best Actress. Emilia Pérez was then acquired by Netflix, which released it in theaters on Nov. 1 and on its streaming platform on Nov. 13.

Since then, the film has been enthusiastically embraced by awards groups. It received 10 Golden Globe nominations, the most ever for a comedy or musical, including one for Gascón. It went on to win four of those awards, including the top prize for best film.

Karla Sofía Gascón has become the first openly transgender actor to be nominated for an Academy Award. The Spanish star is recognized for her performance in the titular role of Jacques Audiard’s musical crime film “Emilia Pérez.”

The Netflix film follows Emilia (Gascón), a feared drug lord who seeks the help of a lawyer, Rita (Zoe Saldaña), to fake her death and undergo gender-affirming surgery. Variety‘s chief film critic Peter Debruge praised the Spanish-language film in his review, writing that Gascón “electrifies” in her role.

This isn’t Gascón’s first history-making nod this awards season: She became the first transgender woman to win the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival and was the first trans woman nominated for film acting at the Golden Globes.

Only three openly trans people have been nominated in any categories at the Oscars before: composer Angela Morley, musician Anohni and documentarian Yance Ford.

Fresh from making Golden Globes history, Karla Sofía Gascón has now become the first openly transgender actress to be nominated for a BAFTA Film Award.

The Spanish performer has been recognized in the Leading Actress category for her role in Emilia Pérez, in which she stars as a Mexican drug kingpin who transitions into a woman.

Gascón will compete for the BAFTA prize alongside five other nominees: Saoirse Ronan (The Outrun), Demi Moore (The Substance), Mikey Madison (Anora), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths), Cynthia Erivo (Wicked).

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BAFTA counts Elliot Page as a past transgender film nominee for his role in Juno, but this was before his transition. Annie Wallace, a transgender actress, was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA Award in 2016 for her role in soap Hollyoaks.

Gascón got a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy,...

The Art Directors Guild has announced the nominees for its 29th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards. The Adg Awards celebrate excellence in production design across theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, music videos, and animated feature films. The 2025 Cinematic Imagery Award will be presented to Academy Award®-nominated director and filmmaker Jason Reitman, whose body of work includes “Juno,” “Up in the Air” and “Saturday Night.”...

The Art Directors Guild Awards has announced the nominations for its 29th annual kudos, and all five of this year’s predicted production design Oscar nominees received bids from the guild on Thursday: The Brutalist and Gladiator II in the period race, Dune: Part Two and Wicked in the fantasy category, and Conclave in the contemporary contest.

This group, which celebrates excellence in theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, and music videos, has an impressive track record for previewing the Academy Awards. Over the past 28 years, the eventual Oscar winner for Best Production Design has always numbered among the Adg nominees in the various categories, including last year when Poor Things prevailed at both events.

This year’s honors will be distributed on Feb. 15 during a ceremony hosted by comedian and actress Rachael Harris at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown. (See the complete list of names below.) Final voting for guild members opens on Jan.

The Art Directors Guild has announced the nominees for its 29th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards. Production design is all about worldbuilding, and so it’s fitting that the nominees are spread out by the kinds of worlds production designers are asked to create and the demands of their setting. The feature film nominee categories are amongst period settings, contemporary settings, and fantasy settings and the television shows are divided further by format between single-camera hourlong, half-hour, multicamera series, limited series, and TV movie, among others.

But the nominees themselves align with IndieWire’s predicted frontrunners for the Oscar category. “Dune: Part Two” and “Wicked,” among others, are nominated in the fantasy feature film category, while “The Brutalist,” and “Conclave” each received nominations in period feature and contemporary feature, respectively. On the TV side, “Shōgun” continues its conquest of guild nominations with one for period single-camera series, but “Squid Game,...

The Art Directors Guild (Adg, IATSE Local 800) has announced the nominees for its 29th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, set to be held Feb. 15 at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.

Feature nominees include the production designers on A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, Gladiator II, Nosferatu and Saturday Night in the period film category; Alien: Romulus, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Dune: Part Two, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and Wicked for fantasy film; and Civil War, Conclave, Emilia Pérez, The Substance and Twisters in the contemporary film category.

Over the past six years, the winner of the Adg’s fantasy film prize has gone on to win the Academy Award for production design three times: Poor Things in 2024, Dune in 2022 and Black Panther in 2019. During that time, the winner of the period film prize won the production design Oscar twice: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in 2020 and Mank in 2021. In 2023, the...

“The Substance,” “Conclave” and “Wicked” are among the films nominated by the Art Directors Guild (IATSE Local 800) for its 28th Excellence in Production Design Awards in motion pictures, television, commercial and music video categories.

The Adg divides live-action features into three categories: period feature film, fantasy feature film and contemporary feature film. “A Complete Unknown,” “The Brutalist,” “Gladiator II,” “Nosferatu” and “Saturday Night” were nominated in the period feature film category. In the fantasy film category, “Alien: Romulus, “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, “Dune: Part Two,” “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” and “Wicked” all landed nods. “Civil War,” Conclave,” “Emilia Pérez” and “The Substance” and “Twisters” earned contemporary film nominations.

While it’s difficult to use the Adg winners as a precursor to the Academy Awards, last year’s winner “Poor Things” (Shona Heath and James Price) went on to win the Oscar. Previously, 2023 winners “Dune” (Patrice Vermette and Zsuzsanna Sipos) also won the Oscar for production design.

Jonathan Kimble Simmons, aka J.K. Simmons, is the Academy Award-winning actor who first came to fame as a song-and-dance man on Broadway. He then segued to a celebrated career in television and finally began an illustrious film career that has endured for 30+ years.

Simmons was a long-time theater actor — he had a memorable turn on the 1992 Tony broadcast in a striped purple suit raising his jazz hands in a number from “Guys and Dolls” — until he made his way to television and stunned audiences as white supremacist inmate Vern Schillinger in the HBO series “Oz.” Hollywood then came calling, making a big splash in the “Spider-Man” films and capping it off by winning the Oscar, the Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild Award for his chilling performance as a music teacher in “Whiplash.” He has since gone on to join the DC and Marvel universes.

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The nominations won’t be announced till January 9, but the Art Directors Guild has found a host for its 29th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards. Actress Rachael Harris will command the stage for the February 15 ceremony at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown.

“I am honored to host the Adg Awards this year,” Harris said in a statement. “Production designers and their teams are the unsung heroes of film and television, creating the worlds we inhabit on screen. Their artistry and craftsmanship inspire me and I’m delighted to celebrate their incredible work.”

Harris most recently starred in Season 1 of Disney+’s “Goosebumps,” but you’ve seen her in everything from “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” to “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Modern Family,” “Suits,” “Happy Endings,” and as a series regular on “Lucifer.” Harris’ film credits include “The Hangover,” “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” trilogy, “Best in Show,” and “Natural Selection.

Sabrina Carpenter had the biggest year of her career in 2024, and she further proved herself as one of the biggest stars in music with her recent NPR Tiny Desk concert. Carpenter's 2024 album Short n' Sweet debuted at #1 on Billboard 200 and is nominated for Album of The Year at the 2025 Grammy Awards. The former Disney actress recently concluded the North American leg of her tour, which produced several viral social media moments. From covering songs like Abba's "Mamma Mia" and trying new poses during "Juno" every night, Sabrina Carpenter's tour took social media by storm.

Furthering her star power, the "Espresso" singer released a Netflix Christmas special called A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter. It included performances from Carpenter of songs off her 2023 Christmas EP, Fruitcake, as well as covers of classic Christmas songs like "Last Christmas" featuring Chappell Roan. As the year comes to a close, Carpenter has a lot to prepare for.

Sabrina Carpenter wants to know if NPR is hiring! The pop star packed her sultry, country-tinged Tiny Desk performance Friday with sweet storytimes of the songs on Short ‘n Sweet as she joked about the radio station’s “working environment.”

“NPR, I’ve been watching this show… everyone says this, whatever. You guys are great! You guys know you’re great!” joked Carpenter, backed by a full band and string ensemble that could barely fit in the minuscule corner cubicle.

Carpenter opened her show with “Taste,” with Carpenter showing off...

The Art Directors Guild will present director Jason Reitman with the 2025 Cinematic Imagery Award at the 29th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, the Adg announced on Monday.

Reitman will be honored for a career that includes “Juno,” “Up in the Air,” “Thank You for Smoking,” “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” and the new “Saturday Night,” for which production designer Jess Gonchor created a two-story, 360-degree set.

“Jason Reitman’s body of work demonstrates how collaboration between directors, production designers and all of the talented filmmakers in the art department can create visual worlds and stories with emotional depth and lasting impact,” says award show producers Michael Allen Glover and Megan Elizabeth Bell in a statement.

“Between script and screen, a director must navigate 20 crafts and art forms,” added Reitman in the statement. “My movies stand on the shoulders of brilliant artists including the production designers Jess Gonchor, Francois Audouy, Kevin Thompson and Steve Saklad.

Netflix's Carry-On includes a cast of talented and seasoned actors. Directed by Jaume Collete-Serra, the film sees Ethan Kopek, a Tsa agent who finds himself in a precarious position when a mysterious traveler tries to get him to allow a dangerous package onto a flight leaving on Christmas Eve. As the events of the Netflix action movie unfold, Ethan has to find a way to outsmart the villain, who seems to be one step ahead of him.

One of the most anticipated films of the year, the Netflix original movie has a cast led by Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman, who help bring Carry-On’s writer, T.J. Fixman's vision to life. Other actors in the high-stakes action thriller include Sophia Carson, Danielle Deadwyler, and Logan Marshall-Green.

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Megan Fox's divisive 2024 sci-fi thriller with a 48% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes finds streaming success on Netflix. Fox’s starring role in Michael Bay’s Transformers franchise-starter rocketed her to stardom. She later appeared in the sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, reuniting her with a director she would later accuse of dictatorial on-set behavior.

Fox followed up her Transformers double-down by exploring other roles in genre films. She had a cult hit with Jennifer’s Body, from Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody. Josh Brolin was her co-star in the bomb comic book supernatural Western Jonah Hex. Fox then joined another franchise for a pair of films, playing April O’Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. In recent years, Fox has undergone an action-star makeover, earning herself a spot alongside Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham in Expendables 4.

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During a key moment on her triumphant Short n’ Sweet tour, Sabrina Carpenter poses a winking question to the audience while singing the song “Juno”: “Wanna try out some freaky positions? Have you ever tried … this one?” She then picks one of 17 different sex positions, just before being raised into the air on a giant heart-shaped platform.

Carpenter deployed the missionary pose in New York for a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden, then saddled up in cowgirl for Nashville and Houston before hitting reverse in Columbus and Toronto.

(L to R) Garret Morris (Lamorne Morris), Chevy Chase (Cory Michael Smith), Laraine Newman (Emily Fairn), John Belushi (Matt Wood), Gilda Radner (Ella Hunt), Jane Curtain (Kim Matula) and Dan Aykroyd (Dylan O’Brien) in Saturday Night. Photo By Hopper Stone. Copyright © 2024 Ctmg, Inc. All Rights Reserved. **All Images Are Property Of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc Jason Reitman, the acclaimed director behind films like Juno and Up in the Air, took a deep dive into the world of 1970s television with his latest project, Saturday Night. This captivating film recounts the electrifying 90 minutes leading up to the first-ever broadcast of Saturday Night Live on October 11, 1975. Reitman wasn’t just the director; he was the driving force, immersed in every aspect of the production as director, producer, and co-writer. He meticulously recreated the iconic Studio 8H, ensuring the sets exuded the authentic atmosphere of that bygone era. But Reitman’s commitment to authenticity went beyond set design.

In light of several viral moments and a wider conversation among fans, it's time to reevaluate the controversy surrounding Sabrina Carpenter's stage performances. Carpenter has been on a steady climb to the top for years now, but the 2024 release of her sixth album - mainly the top charting singles "Taste," "Espresso," and "Please Please Please" - officially solidified her as a juggernaut presence in pop. Naturally, listeners have been eager to see her in concert, but not every attendee is happy.

Sabrina Carpenter has been lambasted by critics who believe her performances are too sexually explicit, particularly during her performances for "Juno." Fan recordings online of these performances have continued to circulate across social media, inspiring outrage from audiences who think that Carpenter simulating sexual acts onstage is going too far.

have you ever tried this one ? pic.twitter.com/nJ9xPPUtMD best of sabrina carpenter (@carpenterfiles) November 21, 2024

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The third annual Sony Future Filmmaker Awards has announced the jury members for its 2025 kudos.

Four-time Oscar nominee Jason Reitman, filmmaker Minhal Baig, President of 3000 Pictures Elizabeth Gabler, and director Justin Chadwick make up this year’s panel. Reitman is currently in the Oscar discussion for directing, writing, and producing the feature film “Saturday Night.”

Mark your calendars for April 29, 2025, as that’s when this year’s group of 30 shortlisted filmmakers will be announced. The 2025 Sony Future Filmmaker Awards will include a five-day program at the legendary Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, Calif., from June 2 to June 6.

The special event includes hands-on workshops for the aspiring filmmakers, plus industry intuition from top professionals, backstage access, keynotes by major cinematographers, screenings, Q&a sessions, talent agency resources, and more.

The awards ceremony will take place on June 5, 2025, which is when the winners of the four major categories will be...

Sabrina Carpenter surprised guests by “arresting” Marcello Hernandez, the actor who played the infamous Domingo character in a Saturday Night Live skit with Ariana Grande, at her Inglewood, California concert on Nov. 17.

Footage filmed and posted to TikTok by user @c.hloemadison shows Carpenter asking Hernandez, who was standing in the crowd at Carpenter’s concert at the Kia Forum, if he’d like to say anything before getting “arrested.”

Hernandez can be heard responding, “Came all this way, had to explain direct from Domingo, Sabrina’s a friend, she’s like my sis, but I would hook up though,” referencing the SNL skit.

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According to a local news report, Hernandez’s appearance was during Carpenter’s concert bit before her song “Juno,” during which she “arrests” someone in the crowd for being “too hot.

Margaret Qualley is a “hottie with substance,” indeed. During the last stop of Sabrina Carpenter’s U.S. tour in L.A. Monday, the pop star joked with her producer Jack Antonoff, and made his wife Margaret her “Juno girl.”

During each show on her recent tour run, Carpenter selects one person in the crowd to handcuff before performing her sexy song, “Juno.” At the Kia Forum show, Carpenter first selected Antonoff, who appeared on-screen with his arms crossed, before Carpenter pulled back her decision: “This is super awkward… I...

Sabrina Carpenter has become an icon very quickly in the world of music and pop culture. Although many have accused the singer of being an ‘industry plant’, she has been working towards her career in music since she was a Disney star. The singer has come a long way since Eyes Wide Open was released in 2015, having sold out stadiums and dominating the charts.

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Recently, the artist announced artists who will be a part of her very own Netflix Christmas special, titled A Nonsense Christmas. There were several musical guests announced in the trailer for this special. However, one specific name could be opening old wounds for Carpenter.

Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan Join Forces

Sabrina Carpenter recently posted the trailer to A Nonsense Christmas, and fans cannot help but be excited about the special. While several elements have them looking forward, there was one...

Margaret Qualley and Jack Antonoff made a surprise appearance during the final show of Sabrina Carpenter‘s U.S. leg of the Short n’ Sweet Tour!

The married couple, who tied the knot in summer 2023, got “arrested” by the pop star during her concert on Monday night (November 18) at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles.

Jack and Margaret were photographed walking into the venue together before the show.

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Before performing her song “Juno” at every show, Sabrina “arrests” someone in the audience for being too hot. While it usually is an audience member, she’s had some celebs join in on the fun, including Millie Bobby Brown, Rachel Sennott, and SNL‘s Marcello Hernandez as his character Domingo.

During the final show of the U.S. tour, Margaret and Jack got arrested together. Sabrina even made a reference to Margaret‘s new movie The Substance...

Fans at Sabrina Carpenter’s final Short n’ Sweet tour stop at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum were treated to a special preview of the singer’s upcoming Netflix special, A Nonsense Christmas, on Monday night.

The trailer revealed a list of guests including duets with Chappell Roan, Tyla, Shania Twain, and Kali Uchis. Quinta Brunson, Cara Delevingne, Nico Hiraga, Kyle Mooney, Megan Stalter, Sean Astin, Owen Thiele, and Jillian Bell will also feature in the upcoming special. In perfect Sabrina fashion, the clip promised spectacular, campy sets and in one scene,...

Madonna took to Instagram Monday to ask her followers if her biopic should be a feature film or a TV series after sharing that she’s struggled to get a project based on her life made in Hollywood.

“After struggling for days in L.A., listening to producers and agents, tell me why I couldn’t make my film — I been working on it for 4 years! Downsize, downscale, think smaller they say. I realized that everything in my life is going to be challenged,” Madonna told her more than 19 million followers.

“If you want something badly enough in life — the whole universe will conspire to help you get it,” Madonna said before asking her fans: “Should I make the story of my life into a series or a feature film? Think before you answer.”

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Sabrina Carpenter had a surprise appearance from Saturday Night Live star Marcello Hernández in the character of Domingo.

As part of her Short n’ Sweet tour, Carpenter made a stop at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 17, where Hernández made a cameo.

Before performing “Juno,” Carpenter “arrests” someone from the audience at every show and Domingo was that person on Sunday night.

“Sabrina, I’m here,” Hernández said from the audience in the viral video shared on TikTok.

Hernández introduced himself as Domingo from “Miami, baby,” adding that he’s the “cute boy with the blue jacket and the thick accent,” in a nod to the lyrics of Carpenter’s “Bad Chem.”

Carpenter asked Domingo if he had anything left to say, to which he broke into song, singing, “Came all the way/Had to explain/Direct from Domingo/Sabrina’s a friend/She’s like my...

Marcello Hernández’s beloved and viral Saturday Night Live character Domingo was arrested by Sabrina Carpenter this weekend. The charge? He’s far too hot.

Carpenter “arrests” a fan for being “too hot” at each of her Short n’ Sweet tour concert stops. The bit occurs just before she performs “Juno.” The singer arrested Millie Bobby Brown at an Atlanta show last month, and did the same to Rachel Sennott and Margaret Qualley earlier this weekend in Los Angeles.

Hernández’s Domingo character originated during Ariana Grande’s Oct. 12 episode of SNL, when the Wicked star joined the show’s cast as a group of bridesmaids singing a parodied version of Carpenter’s “Espresso,” accidentally revealing to the groom that the bride was unfaithful to her fiancée during their bachelorette trip, where she hit it off with a man named Domingo.

“Sabrina, I’m here!” Hernández can be heard shouting...

Audiences roared their approval when Domingo, a character played by Marcello Hernández on “Saturday Night Live,” popped up at Sabrina Carpenter’s concert on Sunday night.

Just a day after reprising the character with host Charli Xcx to cover Chappell Roan’s “Hot To Go!,” Hernández surprised the Inglewood crowd by flirting with the “Espresso” singer before getting ‘arrested’ as part of her “Juno” performance.

When he told her he was from Miami, Carpenter replied, “I wish you were from my bedroom. What are you doing later tonight?” She added that the “SNL” character made her “flustered and overwhelmed.”

“Came all this way, had to explain, direct from Domingo, Sabrina’s a friend, She’s like my sis, but I would hook up though,” he said, quoting his lyrics from the original “SNL” sketch.

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Let’s face it, no family is dysfunctional quite like the Bluths. The cult classic sitcom, Arrested Development, first aired in 2003 and redefined the chaotic comedy with its mix of zany characters and absurdly tangled storyline. From a banana stand with “always money in it” to endless chicken dances, the show has given us unforgettable moments and a memorable cast that felt more like a bizarrely entertaining extended family than fictional characters.

Leading the madness was Jason Bateman as Michael Bluth, the so-called “responsible” one trying to hold his trainwreck of a family together. Then there’s Will Arnett as Gob, the magician with an ego bigger than his tricks, and Portia de Rossi as Lindsay, the ultra-glamorous activist with questionable motives.

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Continuing with the iconic cast, Jessica Walter played Lucille Bluth, the queen of sass herself and the martini-loving,...

Back in September, Christina Aguilera tapped Sabrina Carpenter to perform “What a Girl Wants” together at a 25th anniversary celebration of her debut album. On Friday, Carpenter revisited the moment on a bigger stage by bringing out Aguilera to perform the hit single, as well as “Ain’t No Other Man,” at her concert at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena.

While playing a round of Spin the Bottle with her backup dancers, Carpenter announced the winner as “a little Christina,” at which point Aguilera emerged from a platform under the stage.

In this week's installment of "What people choose to watch on streamers will never make sense," the aughts comedy "Norbit" is somehow one of the most-watched movies on Amazon's Prime Video. This exceedingly random news comes courtesy of viewership data site FlixPatrol, which as of publication time has the widely panned Eddie Murphy vehicle hovering at number five on its list of the 10 most-watched Prime Video movies in North America. Sure, why not?

To be fair to "Norbit," subscribers seem to be having an odd week in general, with Adam Sandler's "The Longest Yard" also making the list and two Christmas films, "Almost Christmas" and "The Holiday," already entering Prime Video's upper echelons. Still, it's remarkable to see that more people are reportedly watching "Norbit" than are watching newer Prime Video originals, like the Peter Dinklage and Josh Brolin-led action comedy "Brothers" (currently number seven on the streaming...

The final moments of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire features a sweet tribute to Ivan Reitman, which is a fitting farewell to the legendary director. For most of its run-time, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire has fun bringing back characters and locations from the original Ghostbusters movies to interact with the next generation of the franchise. This includes a few key tributes to past characters and concepts, bringing back much of the original surviving cast for certain moments.

However, the sweetest tribute to the history of the series comes towards the end of the film, and takes on multiple additional meanings. Instead of just being a chance to highlight the franchise's past and future, the ending of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire also includes a sweet note that explains the film was "For Ivan." This is a reference to one of the creatives who was responsible for the original Ghostbusters, and whose impact on the franchise has been felt for decades.

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It’s safe to say that if you’re reading this, then you were probably one of the lucky ones who were able to snag tickets to Sabrina Carpenter’s Short N’ Sweet Tour. First off, we’re jealous. Second, we’re so happy for you and can’t wait to hear what you think of the show. And if you need us, we’ll be listening to...

Barry Keoghan just might be Sabrina Carpenter‘s biggest fan!

If you didn’t know, the 32-year-old Saltburn actor and the 25-year-old “Espresso” singer were first linked back in late 2023 when they were seen on a dinner date.

In a new interview on Spotify’s The Louis Theroux Podcast, Barry gushed over Sabrina.

Keep reading to find out more…“Are you in a relationship with Sabrina Carpenter?” host Louis Theroux directly asked Barry.

“Oh, I knew you’d do this,” Barry first responded with a laugh.

“Listen, all I’m going to say is I’m incredibly blessed,” Barry added. “Such a strong, independent lady who’s massively talented and yeah. Pretty special.”

A few weeks ago, Sabrina changed up the lyrics while performing her song “Juno” at a concert where Barry was in attendance!

Also on The Louis Theroux Podcast, Barry revealed if he wore in a prosthetic in...

The 2007 teen comedy Superbad has an outstanding ensemble cast full of big-name stars. Most of Superbad's best quotes are from its three main characters, Seth, Evan, and Fogell aka McLovin, who are played by Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse, respectively. Directed by Greg Mottola, Superbad is written by comedic partners Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, the latter of whom plays Officer Michaels in the film. The protagonists, Seth and Evan, are loosely based on Rogen and Goldberg and their real-life experiences growing up as seniors in high school in Vancouver, Canada.

Superbad was the 21st highest-grossing movie in 2007 with a domestic total of $121.46 million. It was a breakout movie for both Hill and Cera and is widely considered a landmark film in the modern comedy genre. It was the feature film writing debut of both Rogen and Goldberg, who went on to pen other classic comedy films...