Saturday Night Live featured another Joe Biden in its cold open tonight, this time with Mikey Day portraying the POTUS in an offbeat Halloween-themed skit that featured a cameo by Christopher Walken.
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EXCLUSIVE: More than 2,300 film and TV producers on Tuesday are delivering a message to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers: leave us out. The group delivered a petition to AMPTP President Carol Lombardini this morning demanding the dropping of the “P” from the acronym of the organization that just concluded a brutal negotiation with the WGA, and hopefully is in the final stages of a SAG-AFTRA deal after one of the longest strikes in Hollywood history.
Taking them out of a labor fight they were never part of is just the first step in what producers hope will lead to a redrawing of rules that leave them without health care, and being the last to be paid despite them being the early catalysts for film and TV projects.
The producers have amassed 2,338 signatures since June, when they first posted a petition on Change.org. The document has been signed by many heavyweights including Andrea Sperling (Transparent), Bonnie Curtis (Saving Private Ryan), Cathy Schulman (The Woman King), Dede Gardner (12 Years a Slave), Grant Heslov (Argo), Guymon Casady (Game of Thrones), Jason Reed (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), former MGM Motion Picture Group president and Glickmania principal Jonathan Glickman (Creed III), Jennifer Fox (Nightcrawler), Fred Berger (La La Land), AMPAS president Janet Yang, Blumhouse’s Jason Blum, Lynette Howell Taylor (A Star Is Born), Mark Vahradian (Transformers), Nina Jacobson (The Hunger Games), Mollye Asher (Nomadland), Wyck Godfrey (The Twilight Saga), Todd Garner (Mortal Kombat), Peter Saraf (Little Miss Sunshine), and Kimberly Steward (Manchester by the Sea) to name just a few.
See the full list of signatories and the letter below.
It is not surprising producers want out of being
Saturday Night Live featured another Joe Biden in its cold open tonight, this time with Mikey Day portraying the POTUS in an offbeat Halloween-themed skit that featured a cameo by Christopher Walken.
Mauricio Umansky would like to sidestep the Emma Slater dating rumors now, please.
James Bond producers have shared an update on the next instalment, saying they are planning on “reinventing” the franchise.Speaking in an interview with The Guardian, producer Barbara Broccoli explained why it will be a while before we see 007’s return following Daniel Craig’s departure in No Time To Die.“I think these movies reflect the time they are in, and there’s a big, big road ahead reinventing it for the next chapter and we haven’t even begun with that,” Broccoli said.She explained how, with Craig, they “wanted to focus on what a 21st-century hero would look like”, adding that modernisation is necessary when a new actor takes on the role.“I go back to GoldenEye when everyone was saying ‘the Cold War is over, the wall is over, Bond is dead, no need for Bond, the whole world’s at peace and now there’s no villains’ – and boy was that wrong!” Broccoli said.Broccoli is currently promoting Amazon reality series 007 Road To A Million, which sees nine pairs of contestants compete in various Bond-themed challenges to win £1million.
K.J. Yossman Over 10,000 individuals — many of them prominent figures from British culture — have signed a letter condemning the atrocities perpetrated by Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in Israel on Oct. 7 and demanding the immediate release of the more than 200 civilians still being held hostage.
As Strictly Come Dancing enters its fifth week, Anton Du Beke, Craig Revel Horwood, Shirley Ballas, and Motsi Mabuse have returned as regulars on our screens. In 2021, the show's judging panel underwent a major transformation when former professional dancer Anton took the place of Bruno Tonioli, who had been a part of the show since its inception in 2004. While we are all familiar with the judges on screen, here’s a closer look at their love lives off screen.
James Bond have said that they “haven’t even begun” the process of moving the franchise into the post-Daniel Craig era.Barbara Broccoli, who helms the Bond estate along with her half-brother Michael G. Wilson, was speaking ahead of the release of the Bond-themed Prime Video reality series 007: Road to a Million.She told The Guardian there is “a big road ahead” for them, adding that the Bond character will be “reinvented for the next chapter” when he does return.She stressed that their goal is for the next incarnation of the legendary film character to reflect how the world has changed since Craig first appeared in the role in 2006.“[We] wanted to focus on what a 21st-century hero would look like,” she said.
Long before she became one of the most popular and well-known presenters on This Morning, Josie Gibson found TV fame in an entirely different way. The Bristol-born star was the first housemate to enter the Big Brother house in 2010, and her down-to-earth attitude and a sweet romance with Aussie housemate John James Parton won her legions of fans - leading her to be crowned the winner of the series.
This is day 99 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.
EXCLUSIVE: Actor and writer Melissa Navia has signed with Innovative Artists for representation.
Brent Lang Executive Editor Samuel Goldwyn Films has signed a worldwide catalog deal with Concord Originals for rights to three Rodgers & Hammerstein films. The distribution pact involves two classic Hollywood films, 1958’s “South Pacific” and 1955’s “Oklahoma.” It also includes a filmed Royal National Theatre production of “Oklahoma!” that was staged in 1998 and starred a pre-Wolverine Hugh Jackman.
If you weren’t already aware, Matthew Vaughn’s history with the “X-Men” franchise goes beyond making “X-Men: First Class,” attempting to cast Tom Hardy as a younger version of Wolverine, and developing “X-Men: Days of Future Past” before handing it over to now-disgraced director Bryan Singer. Once upon a time, 20th Century Fox was lucky enough to convince Vaughn to direct “X-Men: The Last Stand,” but he ultimately exited and was replaced with Brett Ratner (something of another Hollywood pariah due to his own sexual misconduct/sexual assault allegations).
Michael Caine is ready to move on from acting.
Naman Ramachandran Top Indian actor and emerging producer Taapsee Pannu is on a tear with a welter of projects lined up. Pannu debuted as a producer with horror-thriller “Blurr” (2022) that she co-produced via her Outsiders Films. The company’s next, “Dhak Dhak,” which follows four women who set out for a road trip to the highest motorable pass in the world on a motorbike journey of self-discovery, went on theatrical release on Oct.
EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed Fisher Stevens and his production company Highly Flammable, which he launched last spring alongside producers Maura Anderson and Zak Kilberg. They’ll rep the Academy Award-winning multi-hyphenate, going forward, across all scripted and documentary projects.
EXCLUSIVE: Reptile co-stars Alicia Silverstone and Karl Glusman have been set to lead The Bird and the Bee, a sexually charged thriller that marks Justin Kelly‘s third film for Yale Productions, on the heels of Welcome the Stranger and gay porn world-set crime drama King Cobra.
The explosive dinner parties on Married at First Sight UK have become legendary, with tensions running high as couples confront each other. But what goes on behind the scenes of these dramatic gatherings? Here's a sneak peek into the hidden secrets of the MAFS UK dinner parties. Former MAFS UK bride Amy Christophers, who appeared in the 2021 series, spilled the beans on one significant factor contributing to the tension: the food.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Martin Scorsese has not seen Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” or Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” but that didn’t stop him from celebrating the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon during a recent interview with the Hindustan Times. Scorsese himself has ties to “Barbie,” as it stars and was produced by his “Wolf of Wall Street” breakout Margot Robbie and shot by his longtime cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto. The latter filmed “Barbie” after wrapping up work on Scorsese’s own “Killers of the Flower Moon.” “I do think that the combination of ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Barbie’ was something special,” Scorsese said.
Rudie Obias editor If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Although the seventh installment in the “Mission Impossible” film franchise was a moderate box office hit when it was released in theaters back in June, it may find a wider audience now that it’s available on home video. Here’s how to watch “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One” at home: It’s available to stream as a digital purchase in 4K Ultra HD for $19.99 on Prime Video — on Oct.
Hundreds of people have voiced their opposition to the introduction of parking charges in Castle Douglas.
David and Victoria Beckham are one of the most famous couples in the world and their four children have also grown up in the limelight, having gone on to establish their own careers in different industries. With a combined net worth of £425 million, according to The Sunday Times Rich List, it comes as no surprise that the former footballer, 48, and ex-Spice Girls star Victoria, 49, live very lavish lifestyles, as do their children - Brooklyn, 24, Romeo, 20, Cruz, 18, and 12 year old Harper. The couple's only daughter Harper is definitely used to the finer things in life and has even started to follow in Victoria's fashion footsteps with her latest style choices, having recently stepped out sporting a pair of £840 Prada mule heels.