New this Week: 'Kung Fu,' 'Rebel' and 'Thunder Force'

To paraphrase what Carrie Bradshaw once wisely said on Sex and the City: Guys are nice, but your best friends can be soulmates. Selma Blair and Jaime King have been each other’s number one for the past 20 years, and that’s not changing anytime soon. Jaime and Selma sealed their friendship with a kiss in a throwback photo that Jaime posted to Instagram, complete with a cute caption.

James Corden returns as the troublesome Peter Rabbit in a new trailer for “Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway”.

EXCLUSIVE: Thunder Force, Netflix’s superhero action comedy starring Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer, is on pace to draw 52 million global views in its first 28 days.

Gayle King was finally able to sleep at night after the Derek Chauvin trial verdict came out on Tuesday.The  co-host tells ET's Kevin Frazier that she was so anxious before they announced the verdict that she couldn't sleep or eat because «there was so much at stake.»The former Minneapolis police officer, who was seen in videos kneeling on the late George Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes, was charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. He was

Ethan Shanfeld “We need to get extremely brave,” said Jane Fonda, the legendary actor who has spent her 80s fighting for climate change reform.At the EMILY’s List fourth annual pre-Oscars event on Tuesday, “The First but Not the Last,” Fonda gathered virtually with Regina King, Lucy Liu, Samantha Bee and New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham on a panel moderated by Zerlina Maxwell.

Katie Holmes was feeling incredibly proud on Sunday as she marked her only daughter's 15th birthday.The Dawson's Creek star is a doting mum to Suri Cruise and made sure that the teenager's big day was extra special.MORE: Katie Holmes looks identical to daughter Suri in ageless throwback photo Katie shares Suri with ex-husband Tom Cruise, and the teen lives in New York with her mum. VIDEO: Katie Holmes shares sweet video of daughter Suri in New YorkWhile the actress has worked hard to keep Suri

Also Read: 'Thunder Force': How Exactly Did Tracy Get Her Powers?Now obviously, McCarthy and Bateman couldn’t eat actual raw chicken on set — that would be super gross and unsafe — so what they actually used were pears.

Thunder Force, a starring and , is currently the number-one movie on But that doesn’t mean everyone who streamed it loved it. In fact, it has viewers divided.

Melissa McCarthy‘s new movie Thunder Force is streaming now on Netflix and the film’s writer and director is someone very special to her… husband Ben Falcone!

Pom Klementieff is one of the stars of the new Netflix movie Thunder Force and you probably won’t recognize her from her best-known role!

If Thunder Force will be remembered for anything, it might be this bizarro footnote: The movie marks the second time, after The Shape of Water, that a character played by Octavia Spencer learns her best friend has had life-changing sex with a fish-man. Which makes it sound a lot more interesting than it is.

The word “Miscreants” is uttered nearly a dozen times within the first fifteen minutes of “Thunder Force,” Netflix’s new superhero comedy starring Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer. It’s an absurd word to say repeatedly and an even more absurd way for writer-director Ben Falcone to drive home the point that his superhero world is filled with only super-powered “bad guys” (yes, known as Miscreants) and they’re terrible.

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Melissa McCarthy and her husband, filmmaker Ben Falcone, have managed to put out not one but two movies during this global pandemic.

(Spoilers ahead for Netflix’s “Thunder Force.” Read on at your own risk.)“Thunder Force” has all the staples of a typical superhero movie — except when it comes to our heroes’ origin stories. There are no radioactive spiders or gamma radiation; just good old-fashioned science.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticThe “Airplane!” school of chock-full-of-jokes conceptual parody, with its fourth-wall-smashing stupido-smart goofiness, had a pretty impressive run.

Ben Falcone called me to say, 'Hey, do you wanna be in a superhero movie and play a supervillain,' what's the first question you ask?" Bobby Cannavale posits, then answers his own question: «What's my power? You gotta know what your power is.»Falcone has directed wife Melissa McCarthy as a reformed white-collar criminal, a middle-aged co-ed and the savior of all humanity from an apocalyptic A.I. Now, they're adding superhero to that list.

NEW YORK -- James McBride's latest honor for the novel “Deacon King Kong” is a real New York story.McBride's fictional snapshot of a Brooklyn neighborhood in late 1969 has won the inaugural Gotham Book Prize, given for outstanding writing about New York City.