Jon Orsini, Ruby Modine Join 'The Survivalist' Pandemic Thriller (Exclusive)

Squarespace has had success in booking celebrities for their buzzy Super Bowl commercials in recent years. (Keanu Reeves, John Malkovich and Jeff Bridges, to name a few.) But when the website building company came up with the idea to do a modern-day take on Dolly Parton's classic "9 to 5" workplace anthem, booking the country music icon felt like a long shot.

Emiliano De Pablos Spain’s Bendita Film Sales has picked up worldwide sales rights to coming-of-age drama “The Saint of the Impossible,” the feature debut of Swiss director Marc Wilkins.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Particular Crowd, the fledgling U.S.-based film division from WarnerMedia’s Turner Latin America, has nabbed all Latin American rights to Argentine filmmaker Marcos Carnevale’s latest film, the dramedy “El Cuartito.”Shot and produced entirely in Puerto Rico, “El Cuartito” refers to the security screening room that five Latinos are confined in when they run afoul of U.S. immigration authorities at Puerto Rico’s San Juan airport.

John Malkovich, Thomas Mann and Rosa Salazar are toplining The Chariot, director Adam Sigal's dark comedy now shooting in Little Rock, Arkansas. Sigal's third feature film also stars Shane West, Scout Taylor Compton, Vernon Davis, Chris Mullinax and Joseph Baena-Schwarzenegger.

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Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo are back as Star (short for Starbara) and Barb (just Barb) in, a comedy about two Midwest BFFs who embark on the trip of a lifetime to the glamorous Florida coast.«We never get to go on vacation, we're working, so this movie is inspired by the trip Kristen and I want to take together,» Mumolo tells ET.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorJohn Magaro doesn’t have a lot to say in Kelly Reichardt’s “First Cow.”He stars as Otis “Cookie” Figowitz, the cook to a group of fur catchers in 1820s Oregon, who is befriended by King-Lu, a Chinese immigrant (Orion Lee) on the run for killing a Russian man.His performance, which earned the 37-year-old actor a Gotham Award nomination, is made even quieter because he’s covered by unruly facial hair, a hat and layers of dirt-covered

Scandal fans had to do a double take when they watched President Joe Biden‘s White House press secretary Jen Psaki, 42, give her first daily briefings at the White House this week. The redhead’s resemblance to the television show‘s red-headed character, Abby Whelan, who was played by Darby Stanchfield, 49, was quickly brought up in tweets and other social media posts when she stood behind the podium.

Joe Biden’s new Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, is getting a lot of attention from “Scandal” viewers.

Emmy-nominated for his work on ) as Daniel, a young man struggling to find his place in the world after witnessing his sister's unsolved murder years prior. Until, that is, he falls for high school senior Cassie (Grace Van Patten, who will next star in ).Alas, as with Shakespeare's lovers before them, clashing families (Mary J.

Anne Hathaway gets a much needed release from the stress of quarantine in HBO Max’s Locked Down. On Thursday’s episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers, Hathaway talked with the host about her unique experience filming the heist movie in the midst of a pandemic.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“Tyger Tyger,” a thriller starring Dylan Sprouse that’s set during a deadly pandemic, has secured a distributor. Gravitas Ventures nabbed worldwide rights to the film and plans to release it in select theaters and drive-ins, as well as on digital platforms, on Feb.

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired rights to Safer at Home, a pandemic thriller directed by Will Wernick that Voltage Pictures had introduced to buyers at last November at the virtual American Film Market. The pic, which went into production during the Covid pandemic, will now get a day-and-date release in February.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSony Music’s RCA Records has promoted co-president John Fleckenstein to COO and Mark Pitts to president, while co-president Joe Riccitelli will leave the company, reps confirmed to Variety.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAtlantic Records has promoted company veterans John McMann and Jon Lewis to executive vice presidents: McMann of pop and rhythmic promotion, and Lewis of pop promotion.

Netflix's new drama series,, Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke play best friends whose powerful bond stands the test of time — 30 years, to be specific — and only ET has the exclusive first look at the official decades-spanning trailer. Adapted from Kristin Hannah's novel, unlikely duo Tully (Heigl) and Kate (Chalke) meet when they're both 14 years old and they can’t be any more different. While Tully is brash and bold, Kate is the shy girl you never notice.

Sigourney Weaver and her husband Jim Simpson are showing off some super cute PDA!

An armed man who was released on bail after allegedly attempting to breach Oregon’s state Capitol during a pro-Trump rally last week was arrested a second time after he was allegedly caught on camera firing several rounds into the side of a federal courthouse in Portland. Cody Levi Melby, 39, from Beavercreek, Ore., was arrested and charged with the destruction of property for allegedly discharging a firearm into the Hatfield Federal Courthouse on Friday, U.S.

One of the vast numbers of major projects Disney is working on for its streaming service, Disney+, is the long-awaited sequel series to the fantasy film, “Willow.” And fans of the film were especially excited by the announcement that filmmaker Jon M. Chu would helm a portion of the new series.