Bill Skarsgård Says ‘It’ Studio Was ‘Kind of Mean’ to Release First Pennywise Photo Before Filming as It Ignited Fan Backlash and ‘So Many Hateful Opinions’

EXCLUSIVE: To commemorate the launch of production on its untitled film starring Lily James as Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, 20th Century Studios has unveiled a first look photo of James from set, which you can view below.

Comedian Bill Burr called out the hypocrisy of liberals during a show on UC Berkeley’s campus over the weekend, reportedly telling the audience that he “f—ing hate[s]” them.Burr, never one to shy away from controversial topics, covered everything from his relationship with his wife and the ongoing Israel-Gaza war, to transgender rights and Biden’s cognitive decline, before wading into his issues with liberals, the San Francisco Gate reported.“I f—ing hate liberals,” Burr reportedly told the audience on Saturday. The outlet said it was clear he was referring specifically to “White liberals,” and that he took issue with their hypocrisy, not necessarily their political ideology.He proceeded to call out people who put “Black Lives Matter” signs in their windows without taking any quantifiable actions.“That’s like if I told you my great-grandmother in Germany had a ‘Knock it off, Nazis’ sign,” he said, according to the outlet.The comic continued, “If you run into a White person who says they’re an empath, run the other way.” Burr said such people “like making other peoples’ suffering about [themselves].”At a different point in the show, Burr seemed surprised at how the Berkeley crowd laughed at a joke about President Biden having dementia, SF Gate reported.This isn’t the first time Burr took the opportunity to air his frustration with liberals in public.

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Hostel is being adapted for a TV series.Per a Deadline Hollywood report, a TV series is in the works, even though a network or streaming platform have yet to be attached to the show. Eli Roth is due to return to direct and write for the upcoming series with Chris Briggs, who also co-wrote the 2005 film.Deadline Hollywood also reports that the TV series will be an “elevated thriller with Roth’s trademark kills” and “a modern reinvention of the horror franchise”.

EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Burleigh, the screenwriter/playwright whose credits include the Marvel movies The Eternals and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, has turned in a scripted adaptation of the award winning children’s book The Last Bear by Hannah Gold. The producers are now going out to directors.

HBO Max‘s It prequel series Welcome To Derry has scored its Pennywise – and it’s a returning Bill Skarsgård.Skarsgård, who famously donned the clown makeup in 2017’s It and 2019’s It: Chapter Two, has been confirmed to reprise his role as the creepy intergalactic clown-looking creature known as Pennywise for the upcoming TV prequel series.Per a Deadline report, Skarsgård will rejoin the two movies’ director Andy Muschietti, producer Barbara Muschietti and Chapter Two co-producer Jason Fuchs for Welcome To Derry.Welcome To Derry is tapped to run for nine episodes, with Muschietti in the director’s seat for four of its episodes. A release date for Welcome To Derry has yet to be announced.Skarsgård previously said in March 2023 that he wasn’t involved in the prequel series, though he left the door open for a future return.2019’s It: Chapter Two scored a four-star review, with NME‘s Alex Flood writing: “For the most part, Muschietti’s sequel is a tightly-constructed potboiler that balances humour and horror in a satisfying way.

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It’s official: Pennywise will return in “Welcome To Derry.” Deadline reports that Bill Skarsgård, who played the evil entity that terrorizes the fictional Maine town, mostly in the form of a clown, will reprise his role from 2017’s “It” and its 2019 sequel “It Chapter Two” for Max‘s upcoming prequel series. Skarsgård will also serve as executive producer on the series, which Deadline confirms will be nine episodes.

Bill Skarsgard is gearing up to return to the It franchise playing the iconic horror character Pennywise in a new series called Welcome to Derry.

EXCLUSIVE: A familiar face is coming back to terrorize the children of Derry, Maine. Bill Skarsgård is set to star in and executive produce the Max It prequel series Welcome To Derry (working title), He will be reprising his title role as It/Pennywise from the hit 2017 New Line movie It and its sequel, It Chapter Two.

It, and then again in 2019’s It Chapter Two.In a new interview with Esquire, Skarsgård admitted that he was nervous about taking over the mantle from Tim Curry, who previously portrayed the character in the 1990 mini-series.“When you are 26, you don’t feel young at all, but now, looking back at it, I was a kid,” he said. “It was fairly early on in my career to take on something that had so many eyeballs and expectations on it.”The actor then explained why he thought it was “mean” for the studio to share first-look images of his Pennywise before the film’s release, given his worries about fan expectations.“They did a thing that I felt was kind of mean.

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Bill Skarsgard is opening up about the possibility of being Pennywise again.

Billie Eilish has said that she won’t be doing a three-hour long set when she takes to the stage on her upcoming tour.The singer recently dropped her third album ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’ and announced a world tour to celebrate the release, but has told fans she won’t be performing hours’ worth of material during the show.Speaking to fans on the app StationHead for a Q&A, the artist shared her thoughts on the idea of her performing an especially lengthy concert.“I’m not doing a three-hour show, that’s literally psychotic,” she said, according to an audio snippet shared on X.She continued: “Nobody wants that. You guys don’t want that.

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Billie Eilish has said that her latest album ‘Hit Me Hard And Soft’ feels like “the most genuine thing” she’s ever made.The 22-year-old singer opened up about her attitude towards her third studio album during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert earlier this week (May 21), and described the project as her most authentic music to date.“I think that with ‘Hit Me Hard and Soft’, it’s the first time since I’ve been an adult and maybe ever in my kind of creative life,” she told the host of the late-night chatshow. “It truly is the most genuine thing I’ve ever made”.She continued: “It feels very, very me and it feels like all of the music is exactly who I am.

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Katcy Stephan Raimi Productions, the genre-focused company run by Sam Raimi and Zainab Azizi, has signed a first-look film and television deal with Ara Keshishian and Petr Jákl’s development and financing company ZQ Entertainment. The deal extends the long-standing relationship between the two companies, which most recently collaborated on the upcoming thriller “Locked,” directed by David Yaroveksy and starring Bill Skarsgård and Anthony Hopkins, and the horror-thriller “Don’t Move,” which was acquired by Netflix earlier this month.