Chris Rock says he turned down offers to join ‘The Sopranos’

HBO and HBO Max chief programmer Casey Bloys has a key message to get across: the storied pay network and the year-old streamer are both on full throttle creatively with ample funding despite all the noise around corporate mergers.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban like to keep things spicy.

Since the end of his run as Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Robert Downey, Jr. has really taken a step back from acting and focused primarily on his producing work with Team Downey.

Bridgerton following the latter’s departure from the Netflix period drama.The Star Wars actor appeared as part of a Hollywood Reporter roundtable with Page, Jonathan Majors, Josh O’Connor and Chris Rock when he joked about donning skintights for the drama.“I’m trying to get that Bridgerton money, man,” Boyega said. “I need to wear them skintights.

The vaccine-mandatory world premiere of Dave Chappelle: This Time This Place reopened Radio City Music Hall Saturday night for the first time since Covid hit.

Monica Lewinsky had some kind words for an HBO Max intern after they had a rough day at work. On Friday, a strange email was mistakenly sent to HBO Max subscribers with the subject line "Integration Test Email #1." The body of the email only read: "This template is used by integration tests only." The streamer was quick to apologize for the email on Twitter and confirm that, "yes, it was the intern." "No, really," the statement continued.

Chris Rock has revealed that he turned down a major role on HBO’s The Sopranos multiple times.

Variety ‘Actors on Actors’ interview.Rock said: “I’ve fired people because they couldn’t listen to a woman. I was like, ‘How come he’s not doing…?’ And then I realise, ‘Oh.'”The pair were speaking in the context of Kidman’s upcoming role as Lucille Ball in Amazon’s Being The Ricardos.Speaking of Ball, Kidman said: “She was a trailblazer.

Nicole Kidman is getting candid about her new movie Being the Ricardos.

One of HBO Max’s breakout hits (well, at least that’s what social media tells us), “Hacks” has been the third jewel in the Jean Smart renaissance that began with “Watchmen” and was followed by definite ratings hit, “Mare of Easttown.” Of course, you could argue that the veteran Hollywood actor never went anywhere or that her “comeback” really started with an Emmy-nominated turn in the second season of “Fargo” or maybe her run in another FX standout, “Legion.” Whatever the case, Smart has gotten

Chris Rock (“Fargo”) and Nicole Kidman (“The Undoing”) sat down for a virtual chat for Variety‘s Actors on Actors. For more, click here.Chris Rock, it turns out, loves Nicole Kidman as much as the rest of us do.

Nine years ago, the original “Gossip Girl” website shut down. But after a new generation of New York’s young elite takes control of private school Constance Billard, the notorious blogger remerges as the number one source into their scandalous lives.

not having Kim Cattrall as Samantha Jones, almost all of the original “Sex and the City” gang will be back for the revival series, “And Just Like That.”HBO Max announced Wednesday that Mario Cantone, David Eigenberg, Willie Garson and Evan Handler will reprise their roles on the show. Cantone, 61, will bring back sassy event planner Anthony Marentino, who married 57-year-old Garson’s character Stanford Blatch in the second film.

Showtime has acquired The One and Only Dick Gregory, a feature-length documentary about the comedian and activist who specialized in cultural disruption. The pic about the late icon will air, appropriately, on the Fourth of July — following its June 19 world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.

When it was announced late last year that WarnerMedia was going to release all 2021 Warner Bros. films on HBO Max and in theaters on the same day, one of the biggest names that spoke out against the move was “Dune” filmmaker, Denis Villeneuve.

After already landing a buzzworthy breakout with “The Flight Attendant,” HBO Max has done it again with the critically acclaimed dramedy “Hacks.” Created and produced by Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello, and Jen Statsky, the series focuses on a legendary Las Vegas comedienne, Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), who finds herself dealing with a “canceled” television writer, Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder), who wants nothing more to return to her life in Hollywood.

Mike Myers has a new series coming to Netflix, titled “The Pentaverate,” and he’s joined by a cast of his favorite co-stars…himself. READ MORE: New David O.

“Starstruck” is a refreshing comedy about what happens when a young woman’s meet-cute with a movie star takes a romantic, awkward turn.New Zealand comedian Rose Matafeo co-wrote and stars in the six-episode series, premiering Thursday (June 10) on HBO Max. It’s a co-production with the BBC and premiered in late April in the UK.Matafeo plays Jessie, a 28-year-old New Zealander living in London and holding down two uninspiring jobs, one working the concession stand at a local movie theater.