Drew Afualo does not mess around when it comes to calling out misogynist men on TikTok and is now putting people on notice after she failed to receive an invite to audition for the live-action adaptation of Moana.
Drew Afualo does not mess around when it comes to calling out misogynist men on TikTok and is now putting people on notice after she failed to receive an invite to audition for the live-action adaptation of Moana.
Rita Ora has shown off her washboard abs in a stunning bikini picture on Instagram.The singer and actress looks sensational in newly shared images from her recent trip to New Zealand.The 33-year-old posed in front of a mirror in a bikini and also shared a steamy picture in a hot tub, alongside stunning scenic pictures while enjoying her travels.Two videos she shared shows her flying in a helicopter over waterfalls and now covered mountains in Queenstown. It seems Rita is exploring what the country has to offer, after marrying Kiwi husband Taika Waititi.The New Zealand filmmaker is said to have splashed out millions on a home for the couple in Point Chevalier.
Brent Lang Executive Editor It’s going to take a live action version of “Moana” a little longer to swim to shore than Disney first expected. The film, originally slated to open in 2025, has been pushed back to July 10, 2026. That news came as part of a deluge of Disney release date announcements and shifting debuts.
EXCLUSIVE: Carter Cohn, an alum of the agencies CAA and ICM, has joined Anonymous Content as a manager, Deadline has learned. He starts in his new role effective immediately and will be based out of the company’s Los Angeles office.
Sad news for “Our Flag Means Death” fans: it looks like the ex-Max series won’t find a new home after being canceled by the streamer in January. Deadline reports that series creator David Jenkins confirmed the show’s fate on Instagram, stating that despite many meetings with other outlets, its future is now dead in the water.
News arrived just yesterday that the 11-time Oscar-nominated Yorgos Lanthimos film Poor Things is set to arrive on Disney+ this coming...We’ve just heard that Searchlight Pictures are set to release their critically acclaimed All Of Us Strangers on digital from 12th...Illumination Entertainment, hot off the success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, spread its wings to bring a new original feature...We’ve just heard that Icon Film Distribution is set to release director Bernardo Bertolucci’s modern classic The Dreamers, fully restored in 4K.
Who mistreated Rebecca Ferguson? (Besides the screenwriter of Mission: Impossible 7, are we right?)
K.J. Yossman The MTV Europe Music Awards will take place in Manchester, U.K. this November, the network has confirmed.
It's 2024 and that means... it's a leap year - so, according to tradition, today - February 29th - is the one day, which only comes around every four years, that women across the world can propose to their partners.
Chelsea Winstanley is opening up about the end of her marriage to Taika Waititi.
Taika Waititi’s ex-wife did not hold back when talking about the messy end of their marriage! Buckle up for some piping hot tea, Perezcious readers!
EXCLUSIVE: As production is about to begin on 3000 pictures adaptation of Klara and the Sun directed by Oscar winner Taika Waititi, Natasha Lyonne and Simon Baker have rounded out the cast, led by Jenna Ortega playing the titular character. Academy Award nominated actress Amy Adams, Mia Tharia and Aran Murphy also star in the film.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter Sterlin Harjo has landed a drama pilot order at FX with Ethan Hawke attached to star, Variety has learned. The pilot is titled “The Sensitive Kind.” Exact plot details are being kept under wraps aside from the fact it is described as a “Tulsa noir about a guy (Hawke) who knows too much.” Harjo created the project and will also serve as director and executive producer. Hawke will executive produce in addition to starring, with Garret Basch also executive producing.
Quinta Brunson is starring in a new commercial!
Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Bill Nighy and “Jojo Rabbit” breakout Roman Griffin Davis are lined up to star in “500 Miles,” directed by BAFTA winner Morgan Matthews. Beta Cinema has acquired international sales rights to the film, and will launch sales at next week’s European Film Market.
Academy Award nominee Bill Nighy and rising teen actor Roman Griffin Davis are set to co-star in road movie 500 Miles from BAFTA Award-winning director Morgan Matthews.
Cillian Murphy’s son is set to make his film acting debut this year.16-year old Aran has been acting from a young age. At 11, he starred as the titular character in Hamnet in a production that toured Dublin, London, New York, Boston, Brisbane and Hong Kong.In 2022, he also starred in the 2022 film Lola alongside Emma Appleton from The Witcher.
Once Marvel came calling, Taika Waititi was shot out of his comedy environment and was given the keys to a lot of blockbuster material. While “Akira” never surfaced, and neither has his “Star Wars” project yet, the filmmaker has spent the second half of his career vacillating between big-budget movies (two “Thor” movies for Marvel) and smaller-scale comedic indies.
Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender are set to co-star in a spy thriller!
Following the unexpected axe of fan favourite series Our Flag Meets Death earlier this month, fans of the hit BBC show have banded together to campaign for it’s renewal, with a petition shared online now exceeding 50,000 signatures at the time of writing.The iconic series which was the brain child of Taika Waititi - who is married to singer Rita Ora - ran for two series in total and is set during the golden age of piracy.The show itself follows the misadventures of gentleman-turned-pirate Stede Bonnet and his crew aboard the Revenge and has widely been praised by critics for it’s inclusive LGBTQ+ representation - in fact, it even boasts a score of 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, clearly showing a firm fanbase. Following the announcement that the show would not be renewed for a third series, lead star Rhys Darby, who plays Stede, lamented it’s ending on social media as he shared a poignant photo of the entire case alongside the caption: "Us for you, forever...
Harvey Guillén, who portrays Guillermo in What We Do In The Shadows, has given us a hint of what’s coming up in the sixth and final season for the show and his character.
EXCLUSIVE: Seth Brodie, Chief Financial Officer at Anonymous Content, is leaving the company.
Auli’i Cravalho found breakout success as the voice of Moana in Disney’s hit movie back in 2016. However, she has opted out of playing the titular character again in a forthcoming live-action remake.
Rita Ora is on a roll. After a decade of dishing up chart-topping hits – and some iconic fashion looks – she is now ready to put her acting career centre stage, following her marriage to Academy Award-winning film director Taika Waititi.The star is known for her bubbly, larger-than-life personality, but when it comes to her private life – and in particular her relationship with Taika, 48 – she typically remains tight-lipped. Until now, that is.
Max‘s romantic pirate comedy Our Flag Means Death has been cancelled after two seasons.Series creator David Jenkins took to social media to announce the cancellation, writing: “The bad news is clear. OUR FLAG won’t be returning for a third season.
Max is not moving forward with a third season of its period comedy series Our Flag Means Death. Deadline understands that the first two seasons will not be removed from the streaming service.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Our Flag Means Death” has been canceled at Max. The pirate comedy aired two seasons at the streamer. The series originally debuted in March 2022, with the second season launching in October 2023.
New Zealander Rhys Darby made a splash in the United States in 2007 for his portrayal of band manager Murray Hewitt in HBO’s Flight of the Conchords, a series that ended after only two short seasons. And while he and his co-stars Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie have all moved on to other projects, the trio might surprise fans one day with a reunion.
Rita Ora, 33, has been criticised for undergoing an expensive scan which is meant to provide early detection for over 500 cancers and diseases. Sharing snaps of herself having the ground-breaking, radiation-free Prenuvo scan done, the 33 year old Don’t Think Twice singer - whose mum previously fought breast cancer - said as a result of her mother’s illness she believes in 'doing anything she can' to stay healthy. “'With my mum's history of breast cancer, being proactive and not reactive with physical health has alway been so important to me," she wrote.
th year, Variety’s annual 10 Directors to Watch highlights some of the most promising and creative young filmmakers in the entertainment industry. Presented this year (as we have for the last several) at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, our list is as full of promising up-and-comers as ever, with at least three directors whose work has already staked a claim during the 2023-2024 awards season, and several with films that are set to premiere at Sundance, Berlin and other spring festivals.
As always, shows have been canceled this year and shows have been renewed. One critically acclaimed program that still seems to be in limbo is “Our Flag Means Death.” A comedic re-imagining of the not-so-notorious “Gentleman Pirate” Stede Bonet, the series finds the 18th Century amateur swashbuckler, portrayed by Rhys Darby, finding himself as he battles other pirates and tries to command a very queer crew in the Caribbean.
Rita Ora had some time away at a luxurious retreat with her husband Taika Waititi earlier this month.The Hot Right Now singer, 33, stayed at the exclusive Piwakawaka Point Estate on Lake Wanaka in New Zealand with Taika, 48. Taking to Instagram, Rita shared some sweet snaps of their quality time at the accommodation.
Quentin Tarantino’s scrapped Star Trek film has been compared to an unexpected Marvel movie.Earlier this week, news emerged that the Oscar-winning director had reportedly abandoned the project because he didn’t want it to be the final film of his career.The director has long spoken of his intention to retire after his tenth and final film, the title of which, The Movie Critic, was revealed earlier this year.Screenwriter Mark L. Smith, who worked on the script for Tarantino’s Star Trek film, explained in a new interview with Collider that after some “back and forth”, the director “started worrying about the number, his kind of unofficial number of films”.He went on to shed some light on what the scrapped project might have been like, comparing it to the script for Taika Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok, in that that it would have been very different to the rest of the franchise.“I liked it because I think it’s different, but the way that [Thor] Ragnarok changed things.
What We Do In The Shadows is set to end with its upcoming sixth season, it has been revealed.Per a report from Vulture, the show’s sixth season – which has yet to receive a release date – will mark the show’s final hurrah, as confirmed by additional reports from Deadline Hollywood and Variety.Last year, after the show was renewed for a fifth and sixth season, showrunners Stefani Robinson and Paul Simms addressed that the show’s end – which at the time had not been confirmed to conclude with season six – would deliver a resolution to Guillermo’s fate.“I think that it hinges on that,” Robinson said, about the vampires’ “bodyguard,” played by Harvey Guillen, who desperately wants to be a vampire — but also happens to be a vampire hunter.Based on the 2014 film of the same name from creators Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, What We Do In The Shadows follows the adventures of vampires Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) and Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) as they navigate the modern world with the help of their human familiar, Guillermo (Harvey Guillén).The gang were later joined by their vampire bureaucrat acquaintance, the Guide (Kristen Schaal). The show’s fifth season premiered earlier this year and concluded in late August.In related news, Taika Waititi suggested late last month that the second season of his pirate comedy drama, Our Flag Means Death, might be its last.
The beloved series What We Do in the Shadows is ending after the upcoming sixth season.
Selome Hailu The sixth season of FX‘s “What We Do in the Shadows” will be its last. The series, created by Jemaine Clement based on his and Taika Waititi’s 2014 film of the same name, premiered in 2019. In mockumentary format, it follows the nightly exploits of vampire roommates Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou) and Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) as they navigate the modern world of Staten Island with the help of their human familiar, Guillermo (Harvey Guillén), and their vampire bureaucrat acquaintance, the Guide (Kristen Schaal).
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