James Marsden Talks Playing Himself in 'Jury Duty' & How He Used the Role to Make Fun of Certain Stars

Broadway showed signs of a spring blossoming last week, with box office receipts and ticket prices taking their traditional climb during the tourist-bumped week leading up to Easter. In all, the 33 productions grossed $38,594,054, a 12% increase over the previous week.

The Office knew what they were doing, but alas, Jury Duty has unexpectedly become our favourite show of the year! Watch Below: Jury Duty Season 1 Trailer | PrimeThe concept is wild yet extremely simple. The show follows the workings of an American jury trial - yet it's all completely staged.

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terrific little movie, clearly indebted to the Amblin movies of the 1980s and early 1990s, with some fun performances and an absolutely adorable creature in Chupa.TheWrap spoke to director Jonás Cuarón, who talked about those reference points, figuring out how to film the creature and what drew him to his next directorial project – the “Spider-Man”-adjacent Sony movie “El Muerto,” starring Bad Bunny.What movies were you looking at when putting “Chupa” together?Well, look, this is a movie I did for my kids. And it was inspired by them.

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Amazon Freevee prank-comedy series that combines “The Office” and “The Truman Show” with a dash of “The Rehearsal” thrown in for good measure.“Jury Duty” follows a fake court case, complete with bumbling lawyers and oddball members of the jury, with one catch: only one of the jurors — Ronald Gladden, a solar panel contractor from San Diego — is not in on the ruse. His fellow “jurors” include self-important actor James Marsden (as himself), who’s trying to get the judge to recognize him so he can be excused from the trial; Jeannie (Edy Modica) a retail associate and self-proclaimed “anarchist”; and Todd (David Brown), so obsessed with hydrating that he straps a water bottle to his body.“I thought that would be a lot of fun to have the ability to send up Hollywood [and] entitled actors,” Marsden, 49, told The Post.

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EXCLUSIVE: It’s been nearly three decades since Michael Mann’s crime classic hit theaters and it now feels like Mann and Warner Bros. are finally feeling more heat around the corner for a sequel to Heat. While rumors have been swirling for weeks, Deadline is hearing Warner Bros. is now in negotiations to come on to develop Heat 2, the sequel to the 1995 classic that Mann recently turned into a novel that became a New York Time #1 best-seller when it was published last August. On top of Warner Bros. in talks to return, insiders add that Adam Driver, who recently starred in Mann’s Ferrari pic, is in discussions with Mann to play young Neil McCauley in the movie.

Guardians filmmaker and DC boss James Gunn has opened up in a new Rolling Stone interview about his plans for Superman: Legacy, superhero fatigue and more.

A relationship milestone! Christine Brown was all smiles as she spent time with boyfriend David Woolley‘s family amid their budding romance.

Elvis Presley’s ex, Linda Thompson, is taking a walk down memory lane. The songwriter, who dated Presley from 1972 to 1976, recently stumbled upon childhood photos of Lisa Marie Presley. Thompson took to Instagram on Wednesday to share the Polaroids she discovered. «Like many of you, I am doing a little bit of spring cleaning and ran across this photo album from back in the day. These are all Polaroids.

Over the years, the Coronation Street cobbles have gifted loyal viewers with more memorable characters than you can shake a stick at. From loveable rogues to dastardly villains, lovelorn singles to serial daters - in its 60 year history, the streets of Weatherfield have had it all.

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed rising Australian actor Luke Bracey for representation in all areas.

Twice-impeached former president Donald Trump hasn’t been arrested yet, but Jimmy Fallon is pretty sure he’s starting to feel the heat. During Monday night’s episode of “The Tonight Show,” Fallon joked that the location of Trump’s first official 2024 campaign rally was the clearest sign of that.On Saturday, Trump stopped in Waco, Texas to make his first official campaign bid to the people and, as always, his speech was full of lies and gripes about how he’s being treated unfairly.

In today’s episode of Bingeworthy, our TV and streaming podcast, host Mike DeAngelo laughs and cries all over again for Apple TV+’s new dramedy, “Shrinking.” Created by Bill Lawrence (“Scrubs,” “Ted Lasso”), Brett Goldstein (“Ted Lasso,” “Thor: Love and Thunder”), and Jason Segel (“Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” “How I Met Your Mother”), the show follows Jimmy (Segel), a therapist who has gone off the deep end after the death of his wife.

James Gunn is now running things at DC alongside Peter Safran but he has one final film at Marvel with the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Word is out that the runtime for the third installment will be the longest of the trilogy clocking in at about two and a half hours.

EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Dockery is set to star in Destry Allyn Spielberg’s directorial debut, Please Don’t Feed the Children. The elevated genre feature film will begin production late April in New Mexico. Scripted by Paul Bertino, the psychological thriller is produced by Jason Dubin and his Perry Street Films, Josh Kesselman and Michael Hagerty.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent LILLE, France — Paramount+ will be bowing “Drag Race Italia” Season 3 on the streaming service in Italy, followed by the U.S. and Latin America later this year.  The Italian Season 3 follows on the recent announcement of three new “Drag Race” editions in Brazil, Germany and Mexico and a “Global Drag Race All Stars,” which will air on Paramount+ in their respective territories this year, Paramount+ announced Wednesday. “As we expand Paramount+’s global footprint, it was important to recapture ‘Drag Race’ in key international markets and also build an interconnected competition series with a new ‘Global Drag Race All Stars’ – it’s like a global Super Bowl for Drag,” said Chris McCarthy, president-CEO, Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios & Paramount Media Networks.

Lizzo may be one of the world’s biggest music stars, but that doesn’t prevent her from being called to jury duty.