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Road House, coming to Amazon Prime Video. As reported by Variety, the film's announcement doesn't just come with the casting of the Spider-Man: Far From Home and Nightcrawler actor, but a bunch of other names too. We've got No Time to Die and Game Night's Billy Magnussen, The Suicide Squad's Daniela Melchior, Famalam's Gbemisola Ikumelo, Euphoria and The White Lotus' Lukas Gage, and Super 8's Beau Knapp.

EXCLUSIVE: In what would mark his first acting job in a major studio movie, two-time UFC champion Conor McGregor is set to join Jake Gyllenhaal in Prime Video’s new reimagining of the classic ’80s action pic Road House. He joins a cast that already includes Billy Magnussen, Daniela Melchior, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Lukas Gage, Hannah Love Lanier, Travis Van Winkle, B.K. Cannon, Arturo Castro, Dominique Columbus, Beau Knapp and Bob Menery.

Jake Gyllenhaal is stepping into Patrick Swayze‘s shoes for Prime Video’s upcoming Road House remake.

last year at MGM and will now move to Prime Video, and Amazon has also now set the full cast for the film. Billy Magnussen (“No Time to Die”), Daniela Melchior (“The Suicide Squad”), Gbemisola Ikumelo (“A League of Their Own”), Lukas Gage (“The White Lotus”), Hannah Love Lanier (“A Black Lady Sketch Show”), Travis Van Winkle (“You”), B.K.

Prime Video’s new reimagining of the 1989 classic Road House starring Jake Gyllenhaal is gearing up as it has set Billy Magnussen, Daniela Melchior, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Lukas Gage, Hannah Love Lanier, Travis Van Winkle, B.K. Cannon, Arturo Castro, Dominique Columbus, Beau Knapp and Bob Menery to join the cast. Doug Liman is directing from a script written by Anthony Bagarozzi & Charles Mondry. Joel Silver is producing for his company, Silver Pictures. JJ Hook, Alison Winter, and Aaron Auch will serve as executive producers.

Bernard Cribbins, the veteran British actor who narrated The Wombles and starred in the popular film adaptation of The Railway Children, has died. He was 93.

Luke Combs pulled out all the stops for one very special fan.

A TikTok user is facing backlash after whitewashing a popular cultural drink in the Latin community.

“The Graveyard Book,” based on Neil Gaiman’s bestselling book of the same name (which was a spooky reworking of Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book”), is back from the great beyond. The Disney project, which has been developed by various filmmakers since 2009, has a new director in Marc Forster (“Quantum of Solace,” “World War Z”), TheWrap has confirmed.Forster’s producing partner Renée Wolfe will produce through their 2Dux2 banner along with Gil Netter.

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editorial acknowledging the accuracy of the recent viral story about a 10-year-old rape victim who traveled to Indiana to get an abortion. In an editorial earlier this week, the outlet had questioned the legitimacy of the story, writing “there’s no evidence the girl exists.”On Wednesday, the Columbus police arrested 27-year-old Gerson Fuentes for the sexual assault and he has since been charged with rape in the first degree.

Duncan Henderson, the Oscar-nominated producer of Peter Weir’s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, a longtime DGA national board member and recipient of the guild’s Frank Capra Achievement Award, has died of pancreatic cancer. He was 72.

Michael Nordine author“You’re not gonna like the way this story ends,” announces the teenage narrator of “Don’t Make Me Go” as the film opens, “but I think you’re gonna like the story.” The first half of that sentence is so accurate it complicates the second. The movie’s ending is misguided to the point of being perplexing rather than upsetting, recasting everything that came before it in a less favorable light.

Happy that she’s happy! Columbus Short shared his best wishes for ex-girlfriend Britney Spears after hearing that she wed Sam Asghari.

EXCLUSIVE: AllBlk has greenlit the supernatural drama Wicket City from executive producers Tressa “Azarel” Smallwood and Donte Lee set to debut this winter.

Chloe Okuno’s feature debut Watcher recorded the biggest opening weekend grosses ever for IFC Films and its IFC Midnight/Shudder label on 764 U.S. screens — also one of the distributor’s widest ever releases.

Fans are reacting online after John Mulaney surprised fans in Ohio by hosting Dave Chappelle on stage for a set at his stand-up comedy show there on Friday night.

John Waters‘s lovable 1988 indie film about a big girl with big dreams in ’60s-era Baltimore danced its way to wild success on Broadway, courtesy of the savvy, perfectly realized musical adaptation by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.The life and creative partners won the 2003 Tony Award for Best Original Score, just one of eight total trophies racked up by the heart-warming Hairspray, including the top trophy as Best Musical and wins for the show’s director Jack O’Brien, book writers Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan, and three members of the original cast, led by Harvey Fierstein, who donned drag to play the show’s leading matriarch Edna Turnblad.“There was no gay agenda behind Edna being played by a man,” Shaiman told Metro Weekly in 2005. “First of all, it’s just there because that’s the way it was in the movie.

Jennie Punter Documentary trailblazer Christine Choy kicked off Hot Docs’ Industry LIVE conference with a captivating fast-forward through the plot points and ideologies of her experimental, activist filmmaking, including her recent turn in front of the camera in Violet Columbus and Ben Klein’s doc-feature debut “The Exiles,” winner of this year’s U.S. Grand Jury Prize in documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.The film has its international premiere at Hot Docs on Thursday, with a followup cinema screening on Sunday.A beloved, outspoken film professor for many years, Choy has also worked steadily behind the camera since the early 1970s, and was a founding director with New York-based Third World Newsreel, one of the oldest alternative media arts organizations in the U.S., and through which she made the seminal “From Spikes to Spindles” (1976).

Janet Jackson is looking to part ways with her Central Park-facing New York City home for $8.99 million, according to a report and the listing brokerage.Jackson, the younger sister of the late pop titan Michael Jackson, has owned the aerie at 1 Central Park West since 1998, when she purchased it for $2.8 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. It measures 2,094 square feet — and comes with three bedrooms, three full bathrooms and a half bathroom.Representatives for Jackson didn’t return The Post’s request for comment on her listing, but a spokesperson told the Journal that she hasn’t been at the apartment since 2019.“Whenever entering my apartment of 25 years, I always treasured my home’s wonderful location and the breathtaking views that capture the magic and excitement of New York,” Jackson told the Journal in a statement.

QAnon-Linked Judge Rules in Unhinged War Over Philly’s Columbus Statue.“Patrick’s “false light” claim is similar to defamation, and she is seeking unspecified damages. The Daily Beast did not immediately return messages seeking comment.The Beast apparently took its cue from a Philadelphia Inquirer story that ran around the time of Patrick’s primary bid for a seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (she lost) months before.

DaBaby (aka Jonathan Kirk) has been involved in another violent altercation, this time between himself and Charlotte rapper Wisdom, a recent signee to Kirk’s Billion Dollar Baby Entertainment roster.The fight reportedly occurred backstage at one of Kirk’s recent shows; it’s unclear exactly where or when it happened, though as XXL pointed out, the rapper’s most recent performance was at the South Jam festival in Columbus last Friday (April 22).Footage from the alleged incident shows Kirk throw the first punch, with Wisdom retaliating immediately before the pair are broken up by a security guard.A post shared by ☀️Sun God ♍️ (@prince_mazani)Neither artist have released a statement on the incident, though the person that shared the video – Instagram user @prince_mazani, who claimed to have filmed the fight himself – alleged in a follow-up post that “somebody in the baby camp did something that could have costed him his show, money and a possibly a lawsuit”.He continued: “da baby didn’t like it and swong on them [sic]. Was it the best response? Probably not but he did have a legit reason for swinging.

HGTV, including “Flip or Flop” and “House Hunters,” has scored a $1.85 million modern condo in Manhattan. Located in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood at the full-service building, Lumiere, the two-bedroom, two-bathroom unit spans over 1,250 square feet with no detail left out. Ruch closed on the home on April 3, records show.

Washington D.C. went into high alert for a short time this afternoon as the U.S. Capitol Police ordered Senators, Representatives, staff, media  and everyone else out of the Congress complex because of a “probable threat” from a nearby aircraft.

too extreme.” That blew over quickly, but in 2020, the Black Student Union and the Student Inclusion Coalition supported the removal.Yeah, Lincoln “said some racist thing,” Maher said, adding that “every white person in 1860 Columbus had slaves. So did everyone in 1492, who could afford it, including people of color in other parts of the world. … You know who else had slaves? Everyone in the Bible.

Cedric McMillan, a bodybuilder who reached the greatest heights of the sport, reportedly died on Tuesday.

The Columbus Dispatch.The bill also bans teachers from broaching other “divisive concepts” such as the 1619 Project, so-called “critical race theory,” intersectional theory, inherited racial guilt, diversity, equity, and inclusion learning outcomes, or “any other concept that the state board of education defines as divisive or inherently racist,” such as lessons or materials that portray America as an inherently racist nation or that are critical of the country’s past. ‘”The classroom is a place that seeks answers for our children without political activism,” Schmidt said in a statement. “Parents deserve and should be provided a say in what is taught to their children in schools.”But Ohio State Board of Education Member Christina Collins said some of the bill’s provisions are highly ambiguous, and ignore the fact that school districts already have policies in place around the teaching of controversial issues. While Schmidt and Loychik have avoided interviews with the press, Collins believes that Ohio’s decision to target “instructional materials” as well as classroom discussions, is likely to result in removing books with LGBTQ characters or content from elementary school libraries.The Ohio Education Association and the Ohio Federation of Teachers both oppose the legislation. “It’s rally going to put both teachers and parents in a really tough spot,” OEA President Scott DiMauro said of the bill.

“Don’t Say Gay” bill refused to talk to reporters Tuesday as she ran away from them insisting she was in a big hurry to go to the Senate.“I’ve got to go to the Senate, please don’t harass me,” Rep. Schmidt begged reporters.When asked why she introduced the possibly unconstitutional legislation Rep.

EXCLUSIVE: Vivian Bang, the co-writer and star of the Sundance Film Festival debut White Rabbit, has boarded the New Line ensemble comedy The Parenting for HBO Max.

Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers for “After Yang.”One evening in a not-too-distant future, a humanoid robot named Yang (Justin H. Min) suddenly shuts down. Mika (Emma Malea Tjandrawidjaja), the young girl he has practically raised, is devastated.

in an Instagram post as “just a great dude.”“A first class storyteller and raconteur and one hell of an actor … Paulie lived around the corner from me the last few years and i am glad we got to spend some time together before he left us,” Imperioli, who played Christopher Moltisanti in the hit HBO series, wrote in the touching tribute.“I’ll miss him. Lots of love to his family, friends and community of actors and filmmakers.”Herman was well-known for his portrayal of heroin dealer turned pizza shop and club owner Peter “Beansie” Gaeta in “The Sopranos.”Lorraine Bracco, who played Tony Soprano’s psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi in the iconic series, also paid tribute to her costar on Twitter.  “The one & only.

Latto (fka Mulatto) turned has been turning heads since her teens with her no-nonsense yet consistently fun flow. Now 23, the Columbus-born, Atlanta-based rapper dropped her second studio album, 777, this past Friday on RCA Records.

black midi, the spiky and uncompromising British post-punk band, kick off their North American tour tonight (March 22) and have dropped a new covers EP to celebrate. Cavalcovers includes the group's take on "Love Story" by Taylor Swift plus “Moonlight On Vermont” by Captain Beefheart and King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man." The latter features all three members of the band, bassist Cameron Picton, guitarist Geordie Greep, and drummer Morgan Simpson, on vocals for the first time. Check out the EP below.

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, declined. “This isn’t the answer that anybody’s going to want, but I think I was so able to go back and enjoy it because it’s not a part of my day-to-day life anymore,” he said. “I’m getting to a point where I feel like I made it out of 'Potter' OK and I’m really happy with where I am now, and to go back would be such a massive change to my life.”In Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, which picks up nineteen years after the events of Deathly Hallows, the Golden Trio (Harry, Ron, and Hermione) have become parents to their own brood of Hogwarts trouble-makers.

New York Times when asked how the reunion impacted his interest in coming back for a “Cursed Child” movie.“I’m getting to a point where I feel like I made it out of ‘Potter’ OK and I’m really happy with where I am now, and to go back would be such a massive change to my life. I’m never going to say never, but the ‘Star Wars’ guys had like 30, 40 years before they went back.

No, thank you! Daniel Radcliffe does not plan to return to his Harry Potter role for a Cursed Child film adaptation in the future.