Imax CEO Richard Gelfond Extends Contract Through 2025

Colin Jost and Michael Che got right into poking fun at politics in Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update segment.

EXCLUSIVE: Austin Hébert (Unbelievable), Jonah Wharton (The Rookie) and Hannah Love Lanier (A Black Lady’s Sketch Show) are the latest cast additions to Taylor Sheridan’s CIA drama series Lioness at Paramount+. They join previously announced series regulars Zoe Saldaña, Laysla De Oliveira, Dave Annable, LaMonica Garrett and James Jordan.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Stephanie Nur is the latest addition to the cast of Taylor Sheridan’s upcoming Paramount+ drama series “Lioness,” Variety has learned exclusively. Nur joins previously announced series regulars Zoe Saldaña, Laysla De Oliveira, James Jordan, LaMonica Garrett, and Dave Annable in the series. Per the show’s official logline, “‘Lioness’ is based on a real-life CIA program and follows Cruz Manuelos (De Oliveira), a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine recruited to join the CIA’s Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within. Saldaña will play Joe, the station chief of the Lioness program tasked with training, managing and leading her female undercover operatives.”

Marsai Martin, the sports fantasy film follows Callie A. Coleman (Martin), who discovers that she can magically control her father’s (Omari Hardwick) performance as a running back for the Atlanta Falcons. Along with Martin and Hardwick, the film stars Kelly Rowland, Rome Flynn, Elijah Richardson, Hanani Taylor, Abigail Killmeier, Tyla Harris and Isac Ivan. “Fantasy Football” is produced in partnership with The SpringHill Company and Genius Entertainment. Based on an original screenplay by Richard T. Jones, Jeremy Loethen and Tim Olgetree, the film is directed by Anton Cropper and written by Zoe Marshall, Dan Gurewitch and David Young. LeBron James, Spencer Beighley, Jamal Henderson, Marsai Martin, Joshua Martin and Timothy Bourne produce, while Maverick Carter and Jamila Jordan-Theus serve as executive producers.

Ola Jordan has opened up about her hopes of welcoming another child with her husband James Jordan, saying she would undergo IVF treatment again if needed. The former Strictly Come Dancing star, 39, welcomed her first child, a baby girl named Ella, with fellow dancer James, 44, in 2020, after three years of trying to conceive. After just one round of IVF the couple conceived their daughter, and are now hoping to expand their family.

Finally reunited. The late Queen Elizabeth II will be interred alongside her husband, Prince Philip, after her funeral on Monday, September 19, but their respective ceremonies couldn’t have been more different.

Queen Elizabeth‘s funeral took place today (Monday, September 19) in both London, England and Windsor, England.

Yazmin Oukhellou on Sunday’s episode, after the reality star suffered a horror car crash in Turkey, which killed her on-again-off-again boyfriend. The TOWIE star, 28, suffered serious injuries in the crash and was taken to a wellness retreat in Marrakech, as she tries to recover two months after the tragic accident in Bodrum. The ITV reality show began with a card reading: “Yazmin has been in a car accident and is recovering in hospital in Turkey.

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Trucco (Midnight Mass) has joined the upcoming CBS drama series Fire Country as a recurring star.

Neon has acquired the North American rights to “How to Blow Up a Pipeline,” a heist thriller that made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this week and was being sought by multiple studios. The film from Daniel Goldhaber played in the Platform section of TIFF and is one of the first major acquisitions from the festival.

A five-year-old girl was forced to lie in a bath full of cold water by her mum and stepdad for 'between one to three hours' as a 'punishment for misbehaviour' a judge described as 'extreme, calculated and tortuous' - leaving her just 'minutes from death', a court heard.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Audiences can’t get enough of “Don’t Worry Darling.” After the movie’s Venice Film Festival premiere, which sent the internet ablaze after Harry Styles may or may not have spit on his co-star Chris Pine and Florence Pugh avoided eye-contact with her director Olivia Wilde, the buzz around the Warner Bros. release is only escalating. Imax’s live-event screening of “Don’t Worry Darling,” which includes a Q&A with the cast and director, has sold out in 21 locations. In less than 24 hours, more than 13,000 tickets have been purchased across 100 North American locations. Screenings in several markets, like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Seattle, are completely booked, while 15 additional locations are at least half full.

Carson Burton Variety has announced this year’s list of 10 Screenwriters to Watch. The selected screenwriters will be honored at the 45th annual Mill Valley Film Festival with a dinner on Oct. 15. Andrea Berloff, the writer behind upcoming film “The Mother,” will also be honored with the Creative Impact in Screenwriting Award. The annual 10 Screenwriters to Watch program celebrates breakthrough screenwriters, actors, directors, comics, animators, producers and cinematographers in the industry. Some of the screenwriters are being honored for films that have already been released and received critical acclaim, including “Fire Island” or “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.” Others, including the Brendan Fraser film “The Whale,” have yet to see wide release but are highly anticipated.

EXCLUSIVE: Kristin Chenoweth (Schmigadoon!), Kenny Ortega (Julie and the Phantoms) and producers Alan Powell, Steve Barnett and Vicky Patel of Monarch Media are teaming for the docuseries 1300 Miles to Broadway. Inspired by Chenoweth’s Broadway Bootcamp, the series introduces 8th to 12th graders to the world of performing arts through master classes in acting, singing and dancing, and goes on the emotional journey with them as they prepare for a future as performers.

Bring Me The Horizon have spoken about their storied history with Reading & Leeds festival in an interview with NME – check out the video below.The Sheffield band made their thrilling debut headline appearance at R&L last month, having first played the dual event way back in 2008.Talking to NME as part of their recent Big Read cover interview, BMTH’s Oli Sykes and Jordan Fish took us on a chronological journey through all of their Reading & Leeds visits to date.Recalling the ’08 edition of the festival, Sykes told NME: “First time we played Reading, it was probably the worst gig ever. Slipknot had pulled out for some reason, and we got asked if we wanted to go on the main stage… not to replace them but just to fill the gap.“We kind of knew it was a death sentence but we were like, “Well, we’ve gotta do it’.

star Vanessa Morgan takes her teen drama skills to feature-film lengths this month with the release of, a sci-fi thriller about a dystopian AI system. ET has an exclusive first look at the Paramount Pictures film.Morgan stars alongside Madison Pettis, Richard Harmon, Jedidiah Goodacre, Phoebe Miu, Jordan Buhat and Louis Lay as part of a group of seniors celebrating their final college days at a smart house with an AI system nicknamed Margaux.Though the innovation seems irresistibly attractive at first, Margaux soon «begins to take on a deadly presence of her own,» the film's synopsis reads.