Alex Kurtzman Says ‘The Mummy’ Was “Brutal,” But “The Failure Rebuilt Him Into A Tougher, Clearer Filmmaker”

Star Trek: Picard composer Jeff Russo says he tweaked the streaming series’ main theme for the just-concluded second season in order to capture the current tone of Jean-Luc Picard’s latest adventures in the final frontier.

Kim Kardashian has revealed that she is open to being married a fourth time. In a preview clip for the fourth episode of The Kardashians, which airs on Hulu on 5 May, the Skims founder shared her thoughts about love while discussing sister Kourtney Kardashian’s upcoming wedding to Travis Barker. “I don’t think they’re going to wait too long to get married,” Kardashian’s mother Kris Jenner told her daughter and friends following Barker’s proposal in the clip.

EXCLUSIVE: Original Star Trek character T’Pring is making a return in Strange New Worlds. We’ve confirmed Gia Sandhu (The Mysterious Benedict Society) will be reprising the role in the upcoming new series, premiering tomorrow, May 5, on the streaming service. She can be seen briefly in the trailer, which you can watch below.

The runway has been cleared for Wednesday’s world premiere of Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick, the long-awaited sequel to the iconic 1986 original that sees Tom Cruise back in the cockpit.

Lady Gaga is giving fans a taste of her  song. The singer made it official Wednesday on Instagram that she wrote a song for the film, and explained that the track, «Hold My Hand,» is a «love letter to the world.»Then on Friday, Gaga released a teaser of the track, and what appears to be a snippet of the music video.

Director Alex Kurtzman is not a fan of his film The Mummy.

The Mummy director Alex Kurtzman has called the 2017 film the “biggest failure of my life, both personally and professionally”.Tom Cruise starred in the Universal franchise film, which was shunned by critics and underperformed at the box office with a $410million (£345m) global taking.“I tend to subscribe to the point of view that you learn nothing from your successes, and you learn everything from your failures,” Kurtzman recently said on The Playlist’s Bingeworthy podcast.“And The Mummy was probably the biggest failure of my life, both personally and professionally.”Kurtzman went on to say “there’s about a million things I regret” about the film, but he also said “it gave me so many gifts that are inexpressibly beautiful.“I didn’t become a director until I made that movie, and it wasn’t because it was well-directed – it was because it wasn’t.

“I was taken by all of the themes that Alex and Jenny had put into this story,” says Chiwetel Ejiofor of Showtime’s The Man Who Fell To Earth series from Jenny Lumet and Alex Kurtzman. “Themes that really are relevant today. I’m mean are right up to the minute really, in how we engage with each other in our human connections, but also our connection with our planet..”

The first film that was due to kickstart Universal’s monster cinematic universe (which was to include Javier Bardem and Johnny Depp), was The Mummy (2017) starring Tom Cruise and directed by Alex Kurtzman.

In today’s episode of Bingeworthy, our revitalized TV and streaming podcast co-hosts Mike DeAngelo and Rodrigo Perez dive into Showtime’s new sci-fi sequel/reboot series, “The Man Who Fell to Earth” from Alex Kurtzman (“Fringe,” “Alias,” “Star Trek: Discovery”) and Jenny Lumet (“Star Trek: Discovery,” “Rachel Getting Married”).

Sasha Urban editorNATPE has revealed the winners of its 18th annual Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards, which will take place in Los Angeles for the first time, on June 2 at the Beverly Wilshire hotel.This year’s winners include actress and “The View” host Whoopi Goldberg, star and producer Amy Poehler, retiring talk show personality Maury Povich, writer-director Alex Kurtzman, Warner Bros. Television Group chairman Channing Dungey, producer and former network exec Jeff Sagansky and actor-producer-director William Shatner.The Tartikoff awards are normally held in January at the NATPE convention in January, but this year’s event was scrapped due to the rising rate of COVID-19 cases at the start of the year.

Whoopi Goldberg, William Shatner, Amy Poehler, Alex Kurtzman, Maury Povich, Warner Bros Television Group chairman Channing Dungey and producer and media investor Jeff Sagansky have been selected as the recipients of NATPE’s 2022 Tartikoff Legacy Awards. The awards, in their 18th year, are given to acknowledge a select group of television professionals who have demonstrated the highest degree of excellence in their field.

, Kim Kardashian is still preparing for her debut, while remaining chummy with her ex, Kanye West. Kourtney Kardashian is addressing the behavior of her ex, Scott Disick, while also trying out IVF with her current love, Travis Barker. And little does she know that there's a very romantic proposal on the horizon. Here were the biggest moments from Thursday's episode. Kanye Was Almost Much More Involved in Kim's DebutKim reveals that comedian Sarah Silverman suggested that her rapper ex be present in the audience in an obvious disguise and as she answered questions from the audience, he would have asked, «So, do you believe in second chances in marriage?» To which Kim was to respond, «No!» Kim later says that Kanye «literally took a coach, commercial flight, sat in the seat next to the bathroom,» to come to New York for the taping. Kanye Had a Plan for Kim's Fashion and StyleDespite no longer being together romantically, Kim tells her sisters that Kanye still wanted to be very involved in her style journey.  «He says he wants to quit everything and dedicate his life to being my stylist,» Kim says of her ex. «Well, I think he should still do maybe a little music, a little Adidas designing, and then he can do that on the side,» Khloe quips. Kourtney Confronted Scott Disick About DMing Her Ex Younes BendjimaThough Kourtney didn't speak publicly about Scott's alleged direct messages to her other ex, Younes Bendjima, in the summer of 2021, she shares on the show that she confronted the father of her three children about the exchange.

Showtime’s reboot/sequel of Nicolas Roeg’s exquisite “The Man Who Fell to Earth” is better appreciated if one divorces it from comparisons to the original. Who could possibly imitate David Bowie’s remarkable alien quality in that film? A singer and entertainer who always seemed slightly out of this world, Bowie played a humanoid alien who crashed to Earth in an effort to bring water back to his home planet, but the plot was secondary to Roeg’s craft and Bowie’s otherness.

Alma Har’el is set to direct her passion project, the feature adaptation of Walter Tevis’ seminal science fiction novel Mockingbird, for Searchlight Pictures. Nightmare Alley producer J. Miles Dale and Iron Will producer Robert Schwartz are producing along with Har’el and her partner Christopher Leggett. Alejandro Laguette and Rafael Marmor are executive producing.

Khloé Kardashian to try to make situations better and see the good in people. The reality tv personality knows that although Scott Disick isn’t in a relationship with her older sister Kourtney Kardashian, he is still part of the “family.” During the premiere episode of The Kardashians, Khloé talks with Scott about Kourtney’s relationship with Travis Barker and why he wasn’t invited to Kim Kardashian’s BBQ party.During the conversation, the businessman revealed that he is saddened to lose Kourtney as his girlfriend and as a “best friend,” but still doesn’t want to be left behind or forgotten by the Kardashians and Jenners.

Khloe Kardashian isn’t afraid to have tough conversations with her family.

Not taking sides. Khloé Kardashian told fans she’s sometimes caught between a rock and a hard place due to her close bond with Kourtney Kardashian‘s ex Scott Disick.

Sharing her struggles. Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker’s attempts to conceive their first child together have not been effortless.