‘Doula’ Review: Chris Pine-Produced Pregnancy Comedy Is a Labor of Love, Just Not a Very Funny One

J. Kim Murphy On the evening ahead of its official unveiling at San Diego Comic-Con 2022, “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” is offering a first look to those already wandering the San Diego Convention Center, displaying footage of characters played by Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page and more cast members.Variety has filmed a video from the Comic-Con floor depicting the character designs for the film’s cast, showcasing looks for Pine, Rodriguez, Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis and Hugh Grant.Pine’s character seems to be a bard, shredding on a lute before shredding the air with a sword.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“Saturday Night Live” breakouts Ben Marshall, John Higgins and Martin Herlihy — the comedy trio better known as Please Don’t Destroy — are preparing for their big-screen debut.Universal Pictures has acquired a buddy comedy from the writing trio and plans to release the movie in theaters on Aug. 18, 2023.

Just when you think the drama in Love Island may be coming into an end, bosses always have another trick up their sleeves. And the trick can't get much bigger than throwing in a bunch of bombshells with days to go until the ITV2 dating show's final.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterSalli Richardson-Whitfield has extended her overall deal with HBO and HBO Max for an additional two years.Under the terms of the deal, Whitfield will become an executive producer on the HBO basketball drama “Winning Time: Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” and will direct the second half of the show’s upcoming second season. She previously directed two episodes in Season 1, including both the penultimate episode and the season finale.

Love Island's Jessica Shears has hit back at "gross men" after she posted a picture of herself breastfeeding her newborn baby. Jess, 29, welcomed her second child – another baby boy – in June, with her husband Dom Lever, 31, who she met on Love Island in 2017. The couple are already parents to a two and a half year old son, whose name has not been revealed, nor has the moniker of their newest son, although Jess posts plenty of snaps of them both on Instagram.

EXCLUSIVE: DeWanda Wise is set to join the ensemble cast of Chris Pine’s directorial debut Poolman. She joins a cast that already includes Pine, Annette Bening, Danny DeVito and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticIf there were an award to bestow for the most accomplished living American pop songwriter who never doubled as a recording artist, the frontrunner would almost definitely be Mike Stoller, 89, half of one of the most famous writing duos of all time, Leiber & Stoller. Even if the memory of Elvis Presley were completely wiped away, like the Beatles’ in that “Yesterday” movie, this pairing would still be in the history books and collective consciousness for “Stand by Me,” “On Broadway,” “There Goes My Baby,” “Young Blood,” “Kansas City,” “Love Potion #9,” “Yakety Yak,” “Charlie Brown,” “I’m a Woman,” “Ruby Baby,” “Is That All There Is?” and other numbers deeply embedded in pop culture from the mid-‘50s forward.

Chris Hughes has joined celebrity dating app Raya just one week after announcing his split from Annabel Dimmock, OK! can exclusively reveal.The 29 year old has been spotted on the exclusive dating and networking app, regularly used by celebrities due as you have to be invited to sign up. A source has shown OK! a photo that sees former Love Island star Chris on the app, using a professional shot of himself as his profile picture and saying that he works in the television industry. A-Listers such as Adele, Harry Styles, Ben Affleck and Paul Mescal have all previously been linked to the app, which reportedly has a waiting list of over 100,000 people.

Chris Pine is barely recognizable in these new photos!

Love Island 2022 is well underway, and it's only a matter of weeks until this year's winning couple will be announced. While we all know the winners will receive £50,000, many fans of the ITV2 dating show have been wondering what else they are given for coming in first place.

A paedophile with an ‘attraction to children’ was caught with extreme porn showing a ‘threat to life’ on a mobile phone that he hid in a bin. Simon McDonald, 44, was also caught in possession of indecent images and videos of children aged between one month old and 11.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterMimi Leder has signed a multi-year overall deal with Apple, Variety has learned.Leder is currently an executive producer on the Apple drama series “The Morning Show.” She has also directed multiple episodes of the series, including the pilot. The show was renewed for a third season earlier this year, which is currently in production.

ITV has made a huge announcement about Love Island which is sure to delight fans. The ITV2 dating show returned to screens earlier this month and once again viewers have become hooked on the drama and everything else going on in the Mallorca villa.

Manori Ravindran International EditorWhite Pine Pictures executive Andrew Munger has re-launched his outfit Ultramagnetic Productions with a slate of drama and documentary projects.Munger first operated Ultramagnetic Productions from 1997 to 2004, producing non-fiction projects including “Walmart Nation,” “Campaign: The Making of a Candidate,” “Xanadu: In Search of Domestic Perfection” and “Make Some Noise!” for networks such as the CBC, Discovery, History and Life/Slice. He shuttered the company in 2005 to run television production at World Vision, Canada’s largest non-profit organization, before moving to Toronto’s White Pine Pictures in 2014.After eight years, Munger is stepping down from his role as director of unscripted development at White Pine in order to restart Ultramagnetic.

Kacey Musgraves puts a slower spin on Elvis Presley‘s “Can’t Help Falling in Love” for a newly released music video for the upcoming Elvis movie.