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Season 2 of Apple TV+’s “Truth Be Told” is almost here.

Octavia Spencer is at the level where we are going to watch just about anything she appears in. And while the first season of “Truth Be Told” on Apple TV+ didn’t necessarily get the same buzz as other shows debuting on the streamer, Season 2 begins a new story and serves as a pretty good jumping-on point for those wanting to see what Spencer is up to.

Octavia Spencer celebrated her 51st birthday on Wednesday, and the Truth Be Told star was left "overwhelmed" by the number of gifts she received.MORE: Octavia Spencer's home is almost identical to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry'sPosting a snap of her front porch, the actress revealed that she'd been sent six beautiful bouquets of flowers – each more stunning than the last.The star could almost have started her own gardening centre with the amount she received, which included pink and orange

Mom is coming to an end tonight on CBS and we’re looking back over the biggest guest stars that have appeared on the series over the course of its eight seasons.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla In a rare week where no single program exceeded the 1 billion minute threshold, the Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer-led film “Thunder Force” opened with thunderous viewership on Netflix. The movie towered over all other programs on subscription-based streaming platforms in Nielsen’s Weekly Top 10 list, with 0.95 million viewing minutes for the week of April 5-11.

Netflix’s original movie Thunder Force, the comedy starring Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer, debuted at No. 1 on Nielsen’s U.S. streaming ratings chart for the week of April 5. Almost 1 billion minutes were streamed of the pic, pacing it well ahead of No. 2-ranked The Falcon and the Winter Soldier from Disney+, which dropped Episode 4 and grew by 100 million minutes week over week.

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.

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.

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

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.

Move over Michael Strahan, as Taraji P. Henson pulled off a hilarious April Fools Day prank on Octavia Spencer!

Taraji P. Henson played quite the April Fools’ Day prank on Octavia Spencer! Spencer took to Instagram on Thursday to share a screenshot of a text she received from Henson that left her feeling like her “heart dropped.”

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Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer love goofing on each other.

Octavia Spencer is showing fans the text message that she received from longtime friend Taraji P. Henson on April Fools’ Day!

The cast of “Thunder Force” is opening up about a quarantine tradition.

Also Read: Queen Latifah to Star in Netflix Action Thriller 'End of the Road' From 'Black-ish' Director“Insecure” won for best comedy series, and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” won for best motion picture. Chadwick Boseman, a posthumous Oscar nominee for his work in “Ma Rainey’s,” won for outstanding supporting actor for his work in Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods.”Some other notable winners, “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey” picked up acting prizes for both Phylicia Rashad and Madalen Mills.

History in the making! Nominations for the 93rd annual Oscars were announced on Monday, March 15, and the impressive list is full of groundbreaking achievements.

We haven’t had a good superhero lampooning in quite some time, and that’s exactly what we’re hoping to get in “Thunder Force,” an upcoming action-comedy movie featuring Melissa McCarthy.

Melissa McCarthy face is filled with boils after accidentally getting injected with super powers in the first trailer for Thunder Force.

saturated–by superhero flicks for the past decade, so it makes sense that comedians are trying to put their own spin on the genre. Enter Thunder Force, a new Netflix movie starring and as their own kind of suited super.From the opening moments of the trailer, you can tell this isn't your typical caped crusader joint.

Antonio Ferme editorNetflix released the official trailer for “Thunder Force,” which stars Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer as two best friends with newly acquired superpowers.

We haven’t had a good superhero lampooning in quite some time, and that’s exactly what we’re hoping to get in “Thunder Force,” an upcoming action-comedy movie featuring Melissa McCarthy.

Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer are #BestFriendGoals.

EXCLUSIVE: Truth be told, Thursday proved a tense day on the set of Truth Be Told.

Octavia Spencer‘s 2019 horror movie Ma has become a cult classic and now the film’s director, Tate Taylor, is talking about sequel ideas!

Fans of Sophie Ratner's jewelry include Selena Gomez, Elizabeth Banks and Octavia Spencer, butwhen the New York-based designer met The Flight Attendant’s Zosia Mamet, both women felt a kinship. “It’s kind of a funny story that I don’t think Sophie would mind me telling – her mom is my manager’s gynecologist, and I’ve heard all these hilarious stories about her,” Mamet says.

a lot of movies. And star-studded ones, at that. This year, we'll see Netflix movies starring Gal Gadot, The Rock, Ryan Reynolds, Amy Adams, Octavia Spencer, Melissa McCarthy, Jennifer Hudson, , and more of your faves.

it felt that way — Netflix is hoping to make up for it this year with a new movie every week.The streamer dropped a preview for their 2021 film slate on Tuesday morning, including first looks at upcoming movies starring Amy Adams, Halle Berry, Gal Gadot, Jennifer Garner, Chris Hemsworth, Dwayne Johnson, Regina King, Jonathan Majors, Melissa McCarthy, Jason Momoa, Ryan Reynolds and Octavia Spencer.The films include would-be blockbusters like and, prestige fair including and and threequels and,

OH dear, what on Earth happened here.With the man who treated us to the Back to the Future trilogy and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis) behind the camera and Oscar winners Anne Hathaway and Octavia Spencer leading its stars, The Witches remake could have cast a spell on modern audiences.Instead, with its overreliance on stunningly poor CGI and a stodgy script, it leaves a very bad taste in the mouth.If you are going to remake a beloved original – which the devilishly dark 1990 The

Kate Hudson is hard at work on the set of the Apple TV+ series Truth Be Told!

EXCLUSIVE: Avraham Aviv Alush, the Israeli star of HBO Max’s Valley of Tears, has inked with 3 Arts.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerEXCLUSIVE: Young actor Lucian-River Chauhan is set to play opposite Riz Ahmed and Octavia Spencer in Amazon Studios’ sci-fi thriller Invasion,  which is being directed by Michael Pearce.The film, written by Pearce and Joe Barton, follows two young brothers who go on the run with their father, a decorated Marine (Ahmed), who is trying to protect them from an unhuman threat.

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorVariety has selected its 10 Actors to Watch for 2020, an honor the publication has bestowed since 1998.Past honorees include over 35 now Oscar winners and nominees, such as Mahershala Ali, Timothée Chalamet, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Brie Larson, Lupita Nyong’o and Melissa Leo.