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Looking for something to stream that won’t cost an arm and a leg in subscriptions and rental fees? A slew of shows and films like “Kick-Ass,” “Rush Hour,” “Sicario,” “Training Day,” “The Departed” and “Quiz Lady” and more will be arriving on the free ad-supported streaming service Tubi starting on Dec. 1.

With the holiday season quickly approaching, Tubi has a slew of holiday offerings with “Arthur Christmas,” “Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas” and “Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights.”

As for originals, Tubi will premiere five new projects — one documentary and four thrillers.

Here are all the new titles coming to Tubi in December:

Tubi Original Documentary

“Swipe Left or Death”: Ordinary people fall victim to the dangers of online dating apps and suffer deadly consequences. (12/18)

Tubi Original Thrillers

“Toxic Harmony”: A singer finds both fame and danger after parting from her girl group and catching the...

Believe it or not, Sarah Jessica Parker and Robert Downey Jr. dated for seven years before calling it quits for good. However, their relationship was far from smooth sailing. Parker had to navigate the complexities of being with a man who was dealing with significant challenges during that time, largely due to his struggles with addiction.

Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man (image credit: Marvel)

Despite their deep connection, it was a tumultuous period say the least. Parker although stood by him through many of his battles, ultimately did decide to part ways.

The Doomed Love Story of Robert Downey Jr. and Sarah Jessica Parker

The two met while co-starring in the 1984 movie Firstborn, and soon after, they moved to Los Angeles together. However, Robert Downey Jr.’s well-documented struggle with addiction was far from over during their relationship, he wouldn’t achieve sobriety until 2003.

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Smile 2 star Naomi Scott has added her name to the growing list of recent genre performances that deserve(d) awards consideration. From James McAvoy (Split) and Toni Collette (Hereditary) to Lupita Nyong’o (Us) and Mia Goth (Pearl), Scott is the latest example of an actor whose committed work in a highly difficult role shouldn’t be overlooked just because of the genre in which it resides. It’s well past time to have more than a half-dozen exceptions who managed to take home Oscar statuettes via the horror genre, such as Ruth Gordon (Rosemary’s Baby), Kathy Bates (Misery) and Jodie Foster (Silence of the Lambs).

In Parker Finn’s sequel to his 2022 smash hit, Scott plays Skye Riley, a troubled pop star who’s attempting to mount a comeback after surviving a car accident that took the life of her equally famous boyfriend, Paul Hudson (Ray Nicholson). Skye’s return...

Over the years, Sex and the City has become synonymous with Sarah Jessica Parker, whose portrayal of Carrie Bradshaw became iconic over the show’s six seasons. With the series and films focusing on her girl gang’s closeness and her love life, there were a lot of cameos from many popular actors. However, the one face that everyone expected to see was the 59-year-old’s husband, Matthew Broderick. Unfortunately, that was just a fever dream that never ended up coming true.

Matthew Broderick in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off | Credits: Paramount Pictures

Although Broderick never made an appearance on the show or in the films, it was not from the producer’s and Parker’s lack of trying. In fact, the 62-year-old recently opened up about a role that was offered to him that he had turned down.

Matthew Broderick reveals why he never starred in Sex and the City...

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are back in the headlines, but this time, it’s a bit messier. Reports are swirling that Affleck might be messing with J.Lo’s head amid their ongoing marital struggles, and trust us, it could spell disaster for him. If the rumors hold any weight, Affleck could find himself in hot water real fast.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez in Gigli | Credit: Sony Picutres

Lopez ain’t one to take emotional games lightly, especially when her name’s been through the ringer before. While they’ve been a Hollywood power couple, this latest drama might just push things too far. Could this be the tipping point for their relationship? Affleck better tread carefully—things could get real ugly.

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Jennifer Lopez is one of the most successful celebrities in Hollywood, the singer-actress is multitalented with a huge fanbase. She became hugely popular after her hit songs and appearances in several films of a diverse range.

However, co-star Jason Statham claimed the actress was like any other woman her age. Statham collaborated with the On the Floor actress for the 2013 action-thriller Parker. Having worked together on set he discovered her humble and down-to-earth nature. Speaking to the media, Statham affectionately claimed that Lopez was extremely regular.

Jennifer Lopez is just like other girls

Jennifer Lopez rose to fame with her unique incorporation of elements of pop, Latin, and hip-hop genres into her songs. Her top hits included Let’s Get Loud, On the Floor, All I Have, Dance Again, and many more.

Jennifer Lopez in The Mother | Credits: Netflix

Soon, the artist ventured into the big screen and started experimenting with movies.

Hollywood stars Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez shared the screen in the 2013 action thriller Parker, which follows the titular thief seeking revenge with the help of an unexpected ally after being betrayed by his crew and left for dead.

Parker | Credit: FilmDistrict

Lopez, who portrayed the role of Leslie Rodgers, the unlikely ally to Statham’s character, had to step out of her comfort zone in the movie. However, she still managed to impress her co-star, who later appreciated her efforts while reflecting on the tense chemistry between their on-screen characters.

Jason Statham Reflected on Tense Chemistry with Jennifer Lopez in Parker

Based on Donald E. Westlake’s novel Flashfire and directed by Taylor Hackford, the 2013 action thriller, Parker, brough in a surprising collaboration of Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez.

Jennifer Lopez and Jason Statham in Parker | Credit: Netflix

Marking their only on-screen collaboration so far, Lopez appeared to have...

Jennifer Lopez’s love life have had its fair share of ups and downs and with her recent marriage with Ben Affleck on the verge of falling, the acclaimed performer has once again become the hot topic for many tabloid stories. But long before filing for divorce from Ben Affleck, the acclaimed singer hit rock bottom after she opted to part ways with her third husband, Marc Anthony.

Jennifer Lopez | Credit: Parker/FilmDistrict

In this period of emotional turmoil, Lopez found solace in the shoes of Leslie Rodgers, the character she played in the 2013 heist thriller Parker, starring Jason Statham.

The Gig of Leslie Rodgers Was Therapeutic for Jennifer Lopez Parker | Credit: FilmDistrict

Considering that Leslie in the movie was a destitute divorcée, who was in the worst period of her life, given Lopez’s situation at the time, the actress heavily resonated with the character.

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As Pigeon Shrine FrightFest 2024 unfolds, audiences are in for a treat with the International Premiere of Hauntology, a queer horror anthology that blends ghostly tales with deeply personal narratives.

Written and directed by Parker Brennon, Hauntology takes viewers on a journey with two siblings who embark on a road trip through Ohio, uncovering interconnected ghost stories that span the seasons. With a cast featuring the legendary Nancy Loomis and rising stars like Samantha Robinson and Zoey Luna, Hauntology is set to be one of the festival’s standout films. In this exclusive interview, Parker Brennon shares the inspiration behind the film, their path into filmmaking, and what excites them most about FrightFest.

Parker Brennon, writer/director 1. Tell us about your film

Parker Brennon: Hauntology is a queer horror anthology where two siblings go on a road trip. Each place they visit has a different ghost story, and the stories...

When you think of an "Alien" movie, you would be forgiven for thinking primarily of...well, you know, of the alien at the center of each story. The people in each film in this long-running franchise may come and go, but we all know who and what the Xenomorph is, and its propensity for killing as many people as possible. But an iconic horror movie bad guy is just one piece of what has made the "Alien" franchise stand the test of time. With the arrival of an all-new entry, the so-called interquel "Alien: Romulus" from genre director Fede Álvarez, let us now consider the 10 best characters in the decade-spanning series.

Be warned, though, this article contains spoilers for "Alien: Romulus" after a certain point (we'll let you know when). Also, you might just be surprised at the top pick.

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Park Chan-wook, the eminent director of Oldboy and Stoker, is about to start filming his latest thriller – I Can’t Help It.

Acclaimed director Park Chan-wook has begun work on his latest movie, it’s been announced. Called I Can’t Help It, it’s based on The Ax – one of the later novels by prolific novelist Donald E Westlake.

Filming is due to begin this Saturday – the 17th August if you’re reading this in the future – and will star Lee Byung-hun and Son Ye-jin according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Published in 1996, The Ax introduced Burke Devore, a middle-aged chemist who, when he loses his job at a paper firm during a round of cost-cutting, goes to violent lengths in order to get his job back. There’s black comedy as well as violence in the story, then, which sounds of a piece with some of Park’s best-known films,...

Hailed as Marvel’s “Peter Parker of this generation”, Kamala Khan hasn’t had the best introduction in the MCU. Her Disney+ show failed to connect with audiences, and her feature film debut barely made any returns at the box office. But could Marvel’s Spider-Man replacement still find her feet and become the future of the MCU? Maybe. […]

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Jennifer Lopez once starred in a movie playing a character experiencing martial problems. The action thriller’s plot was very familiar to Lopez’s own life at the time, who was in the midst of a devastating breakup.

Jennifer Lopez personally related to her character in ‘Parker’ Jennifer Lopez | Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

The 2013 feature film Parker couldn’t have come at a better time for Lopez. The movie was an action thriller where Lopez starred alongside Jason Statham. But the project ended up being a lot deeper for Lopez than she initially thought. Lopez played a real-estate agent who hit rock bottom after going through a heavy divorce. The film’s director, Taylor Hackford, recruited Lopez for the role because he had faith she’d be able to strip away her glamour for the sake of the film.

“I say that I’m doing a film starring Jason Statham and...

Tubi, Fox’s free streaming service, has announced its list of June titles. The June 2024 slate features new Tubi Originals as well as numerous action, art house, Black cinema, comedy, documentary, drama, horror, kids and family, romance, sci-fi and fantasy, thriller, and Western titles.

As a leading ad-supported video-on-demand service, the company engages diverse audiences through a personalized experience and the world’s largest content library: over 200,000 movies and TV episodes, a growing collection of Tubi Originals, and nearly 250 Fast channels.

You can watch the Tubi June 2024 lineup for free on Android and iOS mobile devices, Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Comcast Xfinity X1, and Cox Contour.

You can also watch the service on connected television devices such as Amazon Fire TV, Vizio TVs, Sony TVs, Samsung TVs, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and on the Tubi site.

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“Monk” is the epitome of the classic blue-sky show. Its mysteries are gripping, but the show’s characters are inviting — always giving viewers a reason to laugh. That’s still the case with Peacock’s reunion movie “Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie.” And yet, there’s something surprisingly dark about the state of obsessive-compulsive detective Adrian Monk when we catch up with him, post-pandemic.

“At this point we find Monk is really in a in a dark, dark place,” star Tony Shalhoub tells Variety‘s Awards Circuit Podcast. “He’s in a deep hole. His team is not really close by and he’s kind of lost his purpose. And (exec producer) Andy (Breckman) presented this idea that Monk was entertaining thoughts of suicide. It hit us hard in the beginning. We thought, ‘geez, we’ve gone dark in the show before, but not this dark!'”

But...

The Bloody Disgusting-powered Screambox is home to a variety of unique horror content, from originals and exclusives to cult classics and documentaries. With such a rapidly-growing library, there are many hidden gems waiting to be discovered.

Here are five recommendations you can stream on Screambox right now.

Norway

At the Abigail premiere, Dan Stevens listed Norway among his four favorite vampire movies. “I just saw a great movie recently that I’d never heard of,” he told Letterboxd. “A Greek film called Norway, about a vampire who basically exists in the underground disco scene in ’80s Athens, and he can’t stop dancing ’cause he’s worried his heart will stop. And it’s lovely. It’s great.”

You won’t find a better endorsement than that, but allow me to elaborate. Imagine Only Lovers Left Alive meets What We Do in the Shadows by way of Yorgos Lanthimos. The...

Lakeith Stanfield has joined Mark Wahlberg on the cast of Shane Black’s crime thriller ‘Play Dirty.’

The adaptation Donald E. Westlake’s Parker novels sees Wahlberg as the hardened professional thief who is, naturally, double-crossed and left for dead. His hunt for revenge, however, brings with it a shot at the biggest heist of his career. But, even with the help of his partner, an actor-slash-con artist named Grofield (Stanfield), he’ll still need to outsmart a South American dictator, the New York mob and the world’s richest man if he hopes to stay alive.

The feature will be directed by Black, who also co-wrote the script with Charles Mondry and Anthony Bagarozzi. Jules Daly and Marc Toberoff are the producers while Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey from Team Downey, along with Black, Mondry, Bagarozzi, and James Skotchdopole are the executive producers. Additionally, Ezra Emanuel is serving as the co-producer.

For the past few years, Joel Silver has kept a relatively low profile, his most recent credit on the little-seen “SuperFly” remake of 2018. Still, the hard-charging producer behind some of the biggest hits of the ’80s and ’90s was attempting to mount a comeback. And his prospects looked promising with a series of feature film and TV projects at Amazon that were based on Donald E. Westlake’s Parker noir crime novels.

Alas, the Silver comeback has hit a snag. Sources say Amazon has fired the polarizing Hollywood figure from at least two films — one starring Mark Wahlberg, the other Jake Gyllenhaal — for being verbally abusive to two female executives. But sources close to Silver say Amazon is retaliating against the producer after he pushed back on the studio’s calls to use artificial intelligence to finish a movie during the strike. Amid the chaos, Silver’s longtime friend Robert Downey Jr....

Sarah Jessica Parker is set to executive produce “Front Row,” a gripping documentary feature following a group of talented Ukrainian ballet dancers.

Directed by Miriam Guttmann, the award-winning filmmaker of “Seeds of Deceit,” the documentary is produced by Scenery (“Human Playground”), a joint venture with Banijay Benelux. Parker and Alison Benson are exec producing via Pretty Matches Productions, alongside The Ruderman Family Foundation.

“Front Row” is represented globally by Banijay Rights and will be introduced to buyers at Mipcom, the international TV conference kicking off Oct. 16. The documentary is expected to be completed in 2024.

In “Front Row,” Guttmann charts the journey of a group of Ukrainian dancers in exile as they form a new ballet company, ‘United Ukrainian Ballet’. While performing Alexei Ratmanskiy’s version of ‘Giselle’ in Washington D.C., Alexis, one of the leading ballet dancers, befriends Oleksandr, a front-line soldier, who lost both his legs in a...

Washington, Aug 24 (Ians) NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed its sixth Venus flyby using the planet’s gravity to aim toward a record-setting series of flights around the Sun that start next month.

On August 21, just before 8:03 a.m. Edt, Parker Solar Probe zoomed past Venus moving approximately more than 24 km per second.

The spacecraft passed 4,003 km above the Venusian surface as it curved around the planet toward the inner solar system.

“Parker Solar Probe remains on track to make its closest flybys yet of the Sun,” said Nick Pinkine, Parker Solar Probe mission operations manager from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (Apl) in Maryland.

“Parker’s success is a tribute to the entire mission team, but I’m especially proud of the mission operators and the job they’ve done over the past five years to ensure the flawless operation of this incredible, history-making spacecraft,...

Actor Jason Statham has starred in many hit action movies like The Expendables and The Meg. There came a point where Statham was the face of his own series of thrilling films. But salary issues forced him to leave his franchise behind.

Jason Statham left this franchise for financial reasons Jason Statham | Rich Fury/Getty Images

Statham once had his own action franchise in The Transporter films. The actor played anti-hero Frank Martin in the thrillers, who would offer to transfer goods for potential customers. According to The Numbers, the films made $315,536,842. The first film was directed by Luc Besson, who cast Statham in the role after a brief conversation. The Hobbs and Shaw star was honored to be a part of the film just based off of Besson’s involvement.

“It was an idea dreamt up by my manager who’s good mates with Luc Besson, who I’d...

Jennifer Lopez once teamed up with Jason Statham in the action thriller Parker. Statham remarked that he was impressed by Lopez’s ability in the movie, as she had to do certain things that were out of her element.

Jason Statham once explained what it was like working with Jennifer Lopez Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez | Uri Schanker/FilmMagic

Statham didn’t have much of an opinion on his Parker co-star Lopez prior to working with her on the thriller. This was an attitude that Statham had about most actors that he worked with.

“When I meet somebody, it doesn’t matter who they are. I don’t have any preconceived ideas about who they are and how they’re going to behave and rumors. I don’t listen to all the crap that comes with it,” Statham once told Collider.

So when they first collaborated, Statham had little idea...

And Just Like That, Samantha Jones is back.

Kim Cattrall will reprise her Sex and the City role in a brief appearance in And Just Like That’s second season. The Satc sequel, which Cattrall famously opted out of, is due to premiere June 22 on Max.

Cattrall will appear as Samantha in the season two finale, having filmed the top-secret cameo in March with limited crew and no interaction with her former co-stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon or Kristin Davis.

And Just Like That has explained Samantha’s absence by saying that she had moved to London following a fallout with Carrie (Parker), although the two eventually reconnect via text messages. In the first season finale, they made plans to meet up and talk through their estrangement.

Cattrall and Parker had a falling out after the former decided she didn’t want to be part of a third Sex and the City movie.

In a movie career that stretches back 25 years, Jennifer Lopez has on occasion done flaked-out underworld thriller romance (“Out of Sight”), capery action (“Parker”) and revenge (“Enough”). Yet she has never placed herself at the center of such a down-and-dirty, grimly overwrought, execute-now-and-ask-questions-later B-movie as “The Mother.” I’m tempted to call the film “minimalist,” because if you consider its bare-bones screenplay (by three writers!), its convoluted utilitarian set-up, its 2D villains, and its essential formulaic momentum, it’s a prime example of action filmmaking made basic.

Yet “The Mother” is a Netflix action movie, which means that it has a certain flavor of ambition mixed into its pulp stew. The movie, which should have been 90 minutes long (it’s 116), is lumpy and inflated, it’s sketchy yet a touch grandiose, and it’s full of tersely dramatized scenes that somehow feel overly broad. Lopez, as a military sniper turned...

Bron Theron’s Half Dead Fred starring Corin Nemec (Parker Lewis Can’t Lose), Jason London (Dazed and Confused), and Tiffany Shepis (Victor Crowley) will be available on Amazon Streaming come March 15th.from White Ninja Productions.

Synopsis:

A mysterious murder takes place in Flint Michigan and Medium detective Freddy Nash is on the case. Years ago Fred was victim to a fatal car accident that left not only Fred but his 9 year old son dead. A few seconds after his death he came back to life in the hospital. Since this traumatic accident he has acquired the ability to see the dead. The case turns out to be much more than a murder.

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An adaptation of his own short film Laura Hasn’t Slept, Parker Finn’s Smile was a huge horror hit last year, and we’ve learned today that Paramount is planning to make Smile 2.

The Hollywood Reporter brings word this afternoon that Parker Finn has signed a multi-year, first-look deal with Paramount Pictures; “a Smile sequel is one of the priorities.”

THR notes, “Lips are sealed as far as deal details go, but Parker is expected to write, produce and direct features in the horror genre.”

“Smile’s breakthrough success is a testament to Parker’s unique and fresh filmmaking, and we are thrilled that he will make Paramount his home,” said Paramount CEO Brian Robbins.

“Parker knows how to keep people on the edge of their seat and we’re happy that we get to keep scaring audiences together,” Paramount’s Michael Ireland and Daria Cercek added.

Stay tuned...

Multimedia Music has closed an eight-figure deal to acquire the music publishing and music master rights from the entire film music library of STX Entertainment, including film titles such as “Bad Moms,” “The Gentlemen,” “Den of Thieves,” “Greenland” and “The Foreigner,” and music from leading composers including Hans Zimmer, Cliff Martinez, Marcelo Zarvos, Hauschke, Chris Lennertz, Andrew Lockington, Clinton Shorter and Nicholas Britell.

The Multimedia Music deal does not include rights in any of STX’s current or future films, which include Michael Mann’s “Ferrari”, “Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre”(Guy Ritchie’s latest film, which STX is currently distributing internationally and Lionsgate will be releasing domestically), Guy Ritchie’s “The Covenant” (slated for release by Amazon and MGM on April 21), “My Spy 2”, and “I Slept with Joey Ramone” (starring Pete Davidson for Netflix).

Multimedia Music partner James Gibb, who leads the company with Phil Hope, said: “We...

New York was its own character in Sex and the City. Carrie Bradshaw, Miranda Hobbs, Charlotte York, and Samantha Jones lived and breathed the city, as millions of New Yorkers do. Carrie often spoke of her love for Manhattan and that NYC was the “greatest city in the world.” It’s hard to imagine Sex and the City taking place anywhere else. And the show’s biggest celebrity is also a diehard New Yorker, having starred on Broadway in the ’70s and made her home there for decades. So it’s no surprise Sarah Jessica Parker’s favorite movie takes place in the Big Apple.

Sarah Jessica Parker loves New York Sarah Jessica Parker | James Devaney/Getty Images

Not only does Carrie Bradshaw live in NYC, but her portrayer does too. Sarah Jessica Parker moved to the city when she debuted on Broadway at 11 years old. She has been there ever since.

This article contains spoilers for Poker Face episode 4.

With a charged reference to the 1976 death of The Yardbirds singer Keith Relf, Peacock’s Poker Face teaches a valuable music industry lesson: Song pluggers should check their cables before plugging in. Especially drummers, surrounded by metallic conductors, trying to break out original material. When they do, as Phil Collins of Genesis or Don Brewer of Grand Funk Railroad can attest, those songs can change the group dynamic and take center stage. Electricity like that should be channeled.

Which is why the human lie-detector goes metal detector in Charlie Cale’s (Natasha Lyonne) case-of-the-week, “Rest in Metal.” The signature hit song for Robin Ruin’s (Chloe Sevigny) metal band Doxxxology, “Staplehead,” was written by the drummer. Said drummer moved on, and not only is the band now stuck with it as the closing song for every show, but they have to pay...

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Wednesday and Thursday’s episodes of “The Masked Singer”

“The Masked Singer” two-night event started Wednesday with a fright night-themed episode, featuring Snowstorm, who beat Avocado (Adam Carollo) and Bride (Chris Jericho), completing against two new singers to earn a spot in the semifinals.

That brings us to Thursday, where the contestants will give thanks in the “Battle of the Semi Finals” Thanksgiving-themed episode and the new round winner will compete against Round 1 winner Harp and Round 2 winner Lambs.

But before any unmasking happens, let’s discuss some theories. Thanks to an exclusive clip from TheWrap ahead of the episode, Ken Jeong, who previously guessed that the Lambs were the Kardashian sisters, makes yet another bold claim, guessing that the Lambs are a British girl group sensation.

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It was fright night on Wednesday’s episode of “The Masked Singer,” but the only thing to be truly afraid of was elimination. And unfortunately, that was the case for Sir Bugaboo. But he wasn’t afraid of being guessed right away (and he certainly wasn’t afraid of no ghosts).

Heading into the episode, fans didn’t get much in the way of clues on Sir Bugaboo’s identity. All they knew was that his costume was very reminiscent of the Cheshire Cat from “Alice in Wonderland,” and his mask-ray revealed a bow tie. As a result, some fans speculated it might be Bill Nye the Science Guy, known for his bow ties in each video. Other suggested it could be “Modern Family” star Jesse Tyler Ferguson, who has released bow tie collections in the past.

In the end though,...

Richard Stark's Parker books are pure pulp pleasure. They're nasty, unsentimental crime novels written with a brutal economy. The prose is stiletto sharp, the stories shaved to the narrative bone. Once you read "The Hunter," which introduces us to the underworld shenanigans of a skilled robber named Parker, you have to read them all – and you can do so in a remarkably short span of time. These books are short and addictive.

Stark's work is so thrillingly vicious that you're occasionally concerned for the author's mental well-being. The author might actually be worried, too, as Stark is the pen name for legendary noir novelist Donald E. Westlake. By all accounts, Westlake, who passed away in 2008, was a lovely man, which makes Parker's adventures the most entertaining therapy sessions ever put to paper. Better to type out one's worst, repressed impulses than act on them.

Unsurprisingly, Quentin Tarantino is a massive Stark fan.

On Thursday at the 13th annual espnW: Women + Sports Summit 2022 in Ojai, California, ESPN Films announced the completion of W. Studios’ first feature documentary, about WNBA star Candace Parker.

The docu about Parker, a two-time WNBA champion, was directed by Joie Jacoby (“Return to Mexico City”). The untitled doc is a portrait of Parker, filmed over the past year, pivoting from private, verité moments to personal and professional archival footage. The doc follows Parker as she shares her life on and off the court including time with her wife, Anya, and their family as she plays for her hometown team, the Chicago Sky, in the latter part of her professional career.

“I’m excited to give people a special inside look into the balance of my life on and off the court,” says Parker. “I’m thrilled to be the subject of the first feature documentary from W. Studios.”

In May,...

Smile Review — Smile (2022) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Parker Finn and starring Sosie Bacon, Jessie T. Usher, Kyle Gallner, Caitlin Stasey, Robin Weigert, Kal Penn, Judy Reyes, Kevin Keppy, Rob Morgan, Gillian Zinser, Marti Matulis, Dora Kiss, Sara Kapner, Matthew Lamb, Jerry Lobrow, Scot Teller, Vanessa Cozart and Nick [...]

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The box office is suffering the worst September it has seen in decades. This weekend, Universal’s gay rom-com “Bros” and Paramount’s horror movie “Smile” will continue the slow process of pulling the film industry out of this deep slump — even if neither film is expected to open higher than Warner Bros.’ “Don’t Worry Darling” and Sony’s “The Woman King.”

Like those two current releases, “Bros” and “Smile” are relatively low-budget films that their studios are hoping will turn a decent profit from turnout among a niche audience, with any moviegoers from outside demographics credited to strong word-of-mouth. Both films also have lower production budgets and break-even points than “Darling” and “The Woman King.”

“Smile,” the feature film debut of Parker Finn and has a 17 million production budget, is projected for an opening in the mid-to-high teens from 3,400 locations. “Smile” has gotten some viral buzz from its recent...

Exclusive: Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds), Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix franchise), Isabelle Fuhrman (The Novice) and Liana Liberato (To the Bone) have signed on to star in Justine Bateman’s upcoming feature Face, based on her 2021 bestseller, Face: One Square Foot of Skin.

The film penned by Bateman consists of 14 vignettes, both comedic and dramatic, which look at women’s faces getting older, and why that makes people angry. While much of society appears to assume that women’s faces are somehow broken and need to be fixed, Face reveals some of the many ways in which women, and those around them, allow this idea to take root at all.

Parker will play Tanya, an actress balancing her need to use her face for her job and the pressure to not move it at all, with Moss as Mrs. Foster, a kindergarten teacher whose young students remind her of the magical functionality of the face.

Andrea-Rachel Parker (Power), Lil Mama (CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story), Columbus Short (Scandal), K.D. Aubert (Friday After Next), Cocoa Brown (Never Have I Ever), Tobias Truvillion (Brooklyn’s Finest) and De’aundre Bonds (Father Stu) will lead the cast of the crime drama Sisters, from writer-director Jahmar Hill (Run), which is heading into production in October.

The film tells the story of three family members reunited by tragedy. After their mother’s early passing, Diamond and her “sisters” grew up under the care of their loving grandmother. But when her health deteriorates, threatening that relationship, the trio is willing to do anything to save her life — even take someone else’s.

The cast for Sisters also includes Hill, Alisa Reyes, Christine Lakin, Jensen Atwood, Ciera Angelia, Sade Whiting, Heidy Javier, Latoya Ward, Isaac J. Sullivan, Mia Mendez, Eduardo M. Pulido, Charles W. Harris III, Crystal T. Williams, Del Harrison, Devon Ray and Nabillah Nahim.

Prepare yourself for a multiverse of Spider-Men with the latest web-slinging entry into the MCU — Spider-Man: No Way Home. The new Spider-Man movie will finally be available to stream online July 15 on Starz, so if you want to know more, read ahead.

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Spider-Man: No Way Home is the third Spider-Man movie in the latest reboot, and the direct sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019). The film has Tom Holland reprising his role as Peter Parker (a.k.a. Spider-Man...

Rio Hackford, prominent club owner, actor and son of Oscar-winning filmmaker Taylor Hackford, has died. He was 51.

Friend of Hackford and screenwriter D.V. DeVincentis confirmed his death in an Instagram post on Friday, and Hackford’s stepmother Helen Mirren also posted an image tribute on Saturday.

“Rio was more attuned to experience than anyone I’ve ever known. He would stop what was happening to point it out, compel you to pay attention,” Divincentis wrote. “He would order you a must-have experience from a beloved menu and hold your eye as you paid attention to what was happening in your mouth.”

“Not simply obsessed with movies and how they mirrored and compelled, he was something more: a superfan of enumerable scenes, of particular gestures of unsung actors, weird career turns, roaring comebacks, cinema swan songs — all real experiences for you, when beheld consciously,” Divincentis continued.

His brother Alex Hackford told Variety that Hackford died Thursday,...

Robert Downey Jr. and Filmmaker Shane Black are set to reunite to develop a new Amazon series based on Donald E. Westlake’s ‘Parker’ crime fiction series.

Out of the stalls first will be a feature titled ‘Playing Dirty’ which will see Downey in the role of Parker, a professional thief with a brutal, mercenary work ethic.

Black will direct and co-write the adaptation alongside Charles Mondry and Anthony Bagarozzi. Joel Silver is attached to produce alongside Susan Downey for Team Downey and Marc Toberoff. Ezra Emanuel will co-produce.

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Black and Downey had previously worked together back in 2005 on ‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang’ alongside Susan Downey. Black made his directorial debut on the film while Downey starred opposite Val Kilmer.

Downey is set to star opposite Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt and Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s biopic ‘Oppenheimer’ at Universal.

Shane Black and Robert Downey Jr. have set up their much-anticipated reunion, after having collaborated on the cult classic "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" and the criminally underrated "Iron Man 3." It was recently announced that the two would work with Amazon Studios on a series of film and TV adaptations of Donald E. Westlake's "Parker" novels, which have previously been adapted into movies that starred the likes of Jason Statham, Robert Duvall, and Mel Gibson.

Now, we may finally know what the first "Parker" adaptation will be. According to Deadline, the first project to emerge from the production deal will be a feature film...

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Robert Downey Jr. and writer-director Shane Black are reuniting once again. The pair are teaming at Amazon Studios to develop a series of movie and television projects adapted from Donald E. Westlake’s “Parker” crime fiction series, Variety has confirmed.

The first project emerging from the deal will be a feature film titled “Play Dirty,” in which Downey Jr. stars as Parker, a professional thief with a brutal, mercenary work ethic. Black will direct and pen the adaptation alongside Charles Mondry and Anthony Bagarozzi. Joel Silver is attached to produce alongside Susan Downey for Team Downey and Marc Toberoff. Ezra Emanuel will co-produce.

“Play Dirty” serves as reunion for Silver, Black and both Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey. The four worked together on the 2005 neo-noir “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” which served as Black’s directorial debut and saw Downey star alongside Val Kilmer and Michelle Monaghan. Black and Downey Jr.

Robert Downey Jr. will be working once again with “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang” and “Iron Man 3” filmmaker Shane Black, although this time to play a character who is markedly less charming than Tony Stark.

Downey and Black are teaming up on a new film for Amazon Studios based on the character Parker, created by author Donald E. Westlake (writing under the pseudonym Richard Stark). Black is co-writing the screenplay with Anthony Bagarozzi (“The Nice Guys”) and Chuck Mondry (“The Cold Warrior”), TheWrap has learned from a source close to the project.

The character of Parker first appeared in the 1962 novel “The Hunter,” where he’s introduced as a professional thief who’s left for dead by a past associate and spends the rest of the novel trying to track down his former accomplice. The book was adapted to film twice before, in 1967’s “Point Blank” starring Lee Marvin and...

Move over, Jason Statham, because there's a new Parker in town. As Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr. may be associated with a certain Peter Parker, but that's not the Parker that he and his old pal Shane Black are reuniting to adapt. The actor and his two-time director are reportedly headed to Amazon Studios for a new film adaptation of Donald E. Westlake's "Parker" novels.

According to the Hollywood insider newsletter, "Puck's What I'm Hearing" (via ComicBook.com), Black will script the film, though it doesn't mention if he is also directing. Black directed Downey in "Iron Man 3," of course, but their history goes...

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The initial cast has been announced for Tales of the Walking Dead, AMC’s new spinoff series set in The Walking Dead universe. Anthony Edwards, Parker Posey (Lost In Space), Terry Crews (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Poppy Liu (Dead Ringers) and Jillian Bell (Rough Night) have been tapped to star in the AMC Studios-produced episodic anthology series.

Additionally, Haifaa al-Mansour, Deborah Kampmeier (Star Trek: Picard) and Tara Nicole Weyr have been tapped to direct one episode with series producer Michael Satrazemis set to direct three episodes.

Each one-hour standalone episode of Tales of the Walking Dead will focus on both new and established characters set in the world of the original series. It’s set to premiere this summer on AMC and AMC+.

The series will be executive produced by Scott M. Gimple, chief...

“And Just Like That,” the HBO Max revival of “Sex and the City,” is set to debut with its first two episodes on Dec. 9.

The following eight episodes of the 10-episode season will then release one at a time on subsequent Thursdays.

“And Just Like That” follows a new chapter in the lives of Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) as they continue to navigate complicated New York City lives, love and careers — now in their 50s.

The series, which is still in production in New York, also stars Sara Ramírez, Sarita Choudhury, Nicole Ari Parker, Karen Pittman, Chris Noth, Mario Cantone, David Eigenberg, the late Willie Garson and Evan Handler.

King serves as writer and executive producer. Other executive producers are Parker, Davis, Nixon, Julie Rottenberg, Elisa Zuritsky and John Melfi, while other writers include Samantha Irby, Rachna Fruchbom, Keli Goff, Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zuritsky.

Gerard Butler filed a lawsuit on Friday against production company Nu Image/Millennium Films, charging that he is owed at least $10 million in backend compensation for the 2013 film “Olympus Has Fallen.”

Butler’s suit comes on the heels of another high profile legal battle between a star and a producer over compensation. On Thursday, Scarlett Johannson filed suit against Disney, citing the simultaneous release of “Black Widow’ on Disney+ and in theaters. The breach of contract lawsuit charged that Disney “intentionally induced Marvel’s breach of the agreement, without justification, in order to prevent Ms. Johansson from realizing the full benefit of her bargain with Marvel.”

Butler’s representatives, as well as Nu Image/Millennium Films, did not immediately respond to a request from TheWrap for comment.

In Butler’s lawsuit, obtained by Variety, Butler claims the producer Nu Age/Millennium Films had underestimated the domestic and foreign receipts for...

Even with new titles on VOD and streaming charts, the Oscar nominations may shake things up. Netflix received 35 total nominations among 14 titles, providing an unprecedented chance to see how many titles return to charts. The two top performers to date have been “Hillbilly Elegy” and “The Midnight Sky.” Nomination leader (with 10) “Mank” barely caused a wrinkle on the charts, placing tenth for a single day when it was released.

Currently, the dominant VOD titles are Sony’s standard-price ”Monster Hunter” and PVOD “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run.” However, the other #1 is Nicholas Jarecki’s “Crisis” (Quiver) in its second week. The tripych of opiate-crisis stories starring Gary Oldman and Armie Hammer showed initial response last week and is now tops at Apple TV (which often foretells success later at other sites). For some reason (possibly a listed price of $9.99?), it doesn’t show up on the top 500 titles at Google Play.

Royalty is in vogue. Amazon Prime reported that its Eddie Murphy sequel “Coming 2 America,” per Screen Engine/Asi, had the most opening-weekend viewings of any original film in the past 12 months. Over the weekend, Prime Video also became the top downloaded Entertainment app on the App Store, and the #2 downloaded app across all free apps. Paramount Pictures initially planned to release the $60 million title in theaters last August, but sold worldwide rights to Amazon for a reported $125 million.

Another Paramount title, “SpongeBob: Sponge on the Run,” finally made its American debut as a Premium VOD for $19.99. It bested all premium titles and took #1 on the revenue-based FandangoNow chart. It’s the latest breakout success among animated films that includes “The Croods: A New Age,” “Soul,” and “Tom & Jerry.”

“Raya and the Last Dragon” also debuted this weekend in theaters and on Disney+ for those subscribers willing to pay...

The streaming wars are just as fiery and competitive as ever. Disney+ now has one Marvel TV show under its belt (WandaVision), with another one to come in March (The Falcon and The Winter Soldier). In response, Netflix is broadening its reach with its list of new releases for March 2021.

Netflix always features plenty of international options for viewers across the globe, but March is the first month where it seems as though international releases make up roughly half of Netflix’s originals. And that’s great! China’s The Yin Yang Master and Spain’s Coven of Sisters both look to be intriguing films this month.

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On the U.S. domestic side of things, however, pickings are bit slimmer. March 3 sees the release of the intensely American-sounding...