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Miles Teller‘s turn as Rooster in “Top Gun: Maverick” won’t be his last as a Navy officer. Deadline reports that the actor will star in Paramount‘s remake of the 1980s hit “An Officer And A Gentleman.” No word on who else will star in the film with Teller, but he’ll have big shoes to fill.

“Yellowstone” is back on set for the final episodes of the hit Paramount+ series.While Kevin Costner won’t return to Dutton Ranch, Instagram updates from Ryan Bingham, Jen Landon, Cole Hauser, Ian Bohen and Forrie J. Smith confirm production is in full swing. Hauser, 49, has played ranch hand Rip Wheeler since the show’s debut in 2018.

his official “Yellowstone” departure in a sit-down interview — and he wasn’t happy.Speculation has swirled of friction between Costner and the show’s creator, Taylor Sheridan, since rumors of the actor’s exit surfaced in May 2023. A year later, Costner officially confirmed on June 21 that he wasn’t returning to the Paramount+ series.

potential sale of Redstone’s controlling stake in Paramount Global to the independent studio have failed, according to sources.The Paramount+ with Showtime plan will cost $12.99 a month, with a hike of $1, effective Aug. 20 for new users and Sept.

on Instagram on Thursday to break the news to fans after much speculation ahead of the second half of the show’s 5th season.Costner revealed he’s shifting his focus on making his western movie “Horizon: An American Saga” in a video shared with his 1.5 million followers on the platform.“I just want to reach out and let you know that after this long year and a half of working on Horizon and doing all the things that that’s required,” he said in the clip. “Thinking about Yellowstone, that beloved series that I love, that I know you love.

Following his much-discussed villain turn in “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” and earning him some of the best reviews of his career, Aussie actor Chris Hemsworth has his eye on yet another new franchise. According to Deadline, Hemsworth, known for the “Thor” and “Extraction” franchises, is in talks to join Paramount’s upcoming “Transformers”/”G.I.

South Park is back with a new extended special, The End Of Obesity.Since 2021, the animated show has released several specials a year outside of the traditional season format – with the last being Not Suitable For Children which parodied OnlyFans and social media influencers like Logan Paul.The first special in 2024 tackles weight loss drugs like Ozempic, along with the US healthcare system.A synopsis for the episode reads: “The advent of new weight loss drugs has a huge impact on everyone in South Park. When Cartman is denied access to the life-changing medicine, the kids jump into action.”The special will be released on Saturday May 25 on Paramount+.

a rating of 27% on Rotten Tomatoes. Variety slammed Costner’s film as “meandering” and says it “seldom seems to aim in a clear direction,” while IndieWire writes, “These aren’t characters so much as the spokes of a plot in human form, each of their storylines moving as if being pulled by horses across the entire span of the American West.” Costner left “Yellowstone” to work on this passion project of a film, with rumors flying in his wake. “Horizon” debuted at Cannes Film Festival over the weekend and hits theaters June 28.

told Deadline in an interview published on Monday.Costner was referring to the behind-the-scenes strife on the hit Paramount ranch drama, which follows his character John Dutton, and his adult children, including Kayce (Luke Grimes), Jamie (Wes Bentley), Beth (Kelly Reilly) and his son-in-law, Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser). In May 2023, news broke that Costner would not return to “Yellowstone” after Season 5. (This was before Paramount said that Season 5 would be the show’s last.) That same month, it was announced that the show would end with Season 5, leading to speculation that the show was ending in part because Costner was leaving.

Country Living, Cole Hauser, 49, who stars as Rip Wheeler on the hit ranch drama, said, “I’m so focused on finishing ‘Yellowstone’ the way it needs to be finished right now—well, just the show itself. We’ll see where that leads, but I know that there’s some stuff on the horizon when it comes to Taylor’s ideas for Kelly Reilly and myself and some of the other cast.”The Paramount show, helmed by showrunner Taylor Sheridan, will end with the second part of Season 5, ending at an unannounced date in the fall.

Paramount+ has revealed the trailer for an upcoming documentary focused on Cyndi Lauper, titled Let The Canary Sing – watch the trailer below.Let The Canary Sing seeks to offer fans a deep dive into the pop icon’s storied career and legacy through archival footage and interviews with Lauper herself, as well as other prominent names in music including Boy George and Patti LaBelle among others.The upcoming documentary will also chronicle Lauper’s impact as an activist for queer rights and allyship, as well as womens’ rights.Watch the trailer for Let The Canary Sing below.Let The Canary Sing is due for release on the Paramount+ streaming platform exclusively on June 4 in the United States and Canada, followed by release in the UK, Australia, Latin America, Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria on June 5.The documentary will be accompanied by a soundtrack featuring Cyndi Lauper’s biggest hits, including ‘Girls Just Want To Have Fun’, ‘Time After Time’, ‘True Colours’ and more.Directed by Alison Ellwood, Lauper said of the documentary via a press statement: “Over the years I’ve been asked to do a documentary about my life and work, but it never felt like the right time. Until now.

told People that he’s “excited to go back to work” after the Paramount Network series was on a long hiatus. “It’s been a year and a half,” Hauser told the outlet.

2024 may end up a banner year in horror thanks to “Nosferatu,” “MaXXXine,” “Cuckoo,” “I Saw The TV Glow,” and “In A Violent Nature.”  But Paramount is banking one of its premier genre entries will find an audience on its streamer, Paramount+.  That’s right, the “Rosemary’s Baby” prequel “Apartment 7A” will premiere on the streamer instead of a theatrical release.   Continue reading ‘Apartment 7A’: ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ Prequel Starring Julia Garner To Premiere On Paramount+ This Fall at The Playlist.

drama that has surrounded his “Yellowstone” co-star Kevin Costner amid ongoing confusion if the vet actor will actually return for Season 5.“Whatever happened there is unfortunate if it’s changed anything about how the show was going to unfold,” Grimes, 40, said in a recent interview with The Independent.The musician went on to note that he knew Costner, 69, became “busy” with his “passion projects,” which includes his upcoming film “Horizon: An American Saga.”“At a certain point, you gotta do what you gotta do, man,” he added. “You gotta do what you love.”Grimes plays Costner’s son, Kayce Dutton, on the show.“If I could have figured out my dream role at the age that I got that job, it would have been Kayce,” he told the outlet.

Scary Movie franchise is due to make a comeback, according to reports that it is being rebooted.Per a report from Variety, the spoof comedy franchise – which has been dormant since the release of 2013’s Scary Movie 5 – is being revived and rebooted by Paramount Pictures, which made the announcement at CinemaCon.Like all previous installments in the franchise, Miramax will be involved in the reboot. Paramount Pictures and Miramax will also be teaming up with Fast & Furious franchise producer to Neal H.

After “Babylon” bombed in theaters in late 2022, many wondered what the future would hold for director Damien Chazelle, if he had any future in Hollywood left. Well, sorry to disappoint, Chazelle haters: his “poison pen letter” to Tinsel Town didn’t oust him from the industry after all, and he’s ready to make his sixth feature over at Paramount.   READ MORE: Damien Chazelle Says After ‘Babylon’ Flop, He Won’t Get That “Kind Of Budget Anytime Soon” News of Chazelle’s next project comes out of CinemaCon courtesy of The Playlist’s Gregory Ellwood.

Both based on toys and animated series, Paramount’s “G.I. Joe” series has never been the blockbuster that “Transformers” were in their heyday.

Glen Powell, action star? The actor arguably already made a foray into the genre in 2013’s “The Expendables 3” and 2022’s “Top Gun: Maverick,” but this time, he’ll be the leading man and not in a supporting role. The news came out of CinemaCon today that Powell will star in Edgar Wright’s upcoming remake of “The Running Man” at Paramount.

Paramount+ series 1923, a spin-off prequel to Yellowstone, was last seen on March 31. After he failed to attend an audition, concerns over his whereabouts were raised, and he was reported missing on April 2.His body was found in a woodland area about 43 miles southwest of Kansas City on April 5, and his death was confirmed in a statement written by his father Joe Brings Plenty, which Cole’s uncle, Mo Brings Plenty, shared on his behalf.The statement, posted by Cole’s uncle, who was also an actor known for acting in Yellowstone, read: “I am deeply saddened to confirm that my son, Cole, has been found and is no longer with us.

Kevin Costner said he would “like to be able” to return for the final season of “Yellowstone” — but a lot would have to go right in order to make that a reality.“I’d like to be able to do it but we haven’t been able to,” Costner told “Entertainment Tonight” in an interview to discuss his new movie, “Horizon: An American Saga,” while at CinemaCon 2024 in Las Vegas.“I thought I was going to make seven [seasons of ‘Yellowstone’] but right now we’re at five. So how it works out — and I hope it does — but they’ve got a lot of different shows going on,” he said.

Sylvester Stallone’s series “Tulsa King” has left the production amid allegations that Stallone and a series director disparaged some of the actors.Rose Locke Casting of Atlanta, which was hired to find actors over 18 for the Paramount+ series — now shooting its second season — quit the production after working conditions on the set were discussed on a private Facebook page for Atlanta background actors, according to Deadline.Among the allegations on the Facebook page were that Stallone, 77, and one of the show’s unnamed directors called some of the extras “ugly,” “tub of lard” and “fat guy with cane.”It was also alleged that Stallone suggested the production bring in “pretty young girls to be around me,” according to Deadline.Rose Locke Casting quit “Tulsa King” on Sunday, April 7, according to its Facebook page.“We wanted to send you an update on the happenings here in our casting world. We have chosen to part ways with ‘Tulsa King,'” the company said.

he suited up as its red-winged school mascot, Charlie Cardinal, before landing a gig as Mac Tonight, a singing, piano-playing “moon man” in numerous McDonald’s commercials.But even after decades of transforming into zombies, aliens, demons, sea creatures and vampires in movies like “Hocus Pocus” and “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer” — not to mention a string of freaky films by writer/director Guillermo del Toro including “Hellboy,” “Pan’s Labyrinth” and 2018 Best Picture Oscar winner “The Shape of Water” — Jones seems especially connected to his “Trek” creation.“I’ve gotten to know this character better than anyone else I’ve ever played over my entire 38-year career,” he said of fan-beloved Saru. “I’ve spent the most time with him, the most time peeling back his layers … It’s been quite a journey.” Not that it’s always been an easy galaxy-hopping trip.He would spend two hours daily squeezing into an extensive costume that included a four-piece, all-encompassing rubber alien head — plus large, aquamarine contact lenses that required revitalizing eye drops every 20 minutes.And then would marinate in his sweat for hours more.

David Ayer may never get to release his director’s cut of “Suicide Squad,” but he’s maintaining relevancy thanks to the success of “The Beekeeper.” Ayer’s latest made $152.6 million at the global box office off a $40 million budget: a big enough success to guarantee that he’ll at least make mid-budget movies for the foreseeable future. READ MORE: ‘The Beekeeper’ Red Band Trailer: Jason Statham Is Out For Revenge In David Ayer’s New Action Film And that’s precisely what Ayer has up next.

Halo wrapping up this week, what do we know about the possibility of Season Three? Read on for all the info. The television adaptation of the gaming franchise has been created by Kyle Killen (Lone Star) and Steven Kane (Alias, Jack Ryan), and is streaming on Paramount+, with the eighth and final episode premiering on March 21.

SpongeBob SquarePants special edition of the Xbox Series X.The console has been created in conjunction with Best Buy, Paramount Game Studios and GameMill, and is only available to purchase in the United States through set drops on the Best Buy Mobile App, and won’t be available when stocks run out.The bundle comes with an Xbox Wireless Controller featuring characters from the Spongebob SquarePants franchise, while the Xbox Series X itself features Spongebob smiling at the user.A digital download of Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 is also included in the bundle. This Super Smash Bros-like game featuring classic Nickelodeon cartoons allows players to pit characters such as Invader Zim, SpongeBob SquarePants, Jimmy Neutron and Aang against each other, among many others.The bundle retails for £550 ($699) and is only available in the United States through the Best Buy Mobile App.

A critically reviled box-office bomb or an ambitious and misunderstood marvel that deserves reappraisal? It may take more than a couple of years to assess the legacy of Damien Chazelle‘s “Babylon.” But wherever you stand on the 2022 movie, everyone agrees it was a lot of movie: excessive, derivative, audacious, debauched. A film that polarizing isn’t easy to evaluate, and it remains to be seen if time will be kinder to Chazelle’s latest than initial critics and audiences were.

Paramount+, and will be available to stream on the platform later this year. “With the most powerful clients in Europe, ‘The Donovans’ will see family fortunes and reputations at risk, odd alliances unfold, and betrayal around every corner,” the official plot synopsis reads.

“Bull” actor, 55, initially appeared on “NCIS” when it premiered in 2003.As for the “Jury” actress, 44, she joined the crime drama in Season 3 in 2005 — and her character was presumably killed off in Season 13.The official synopsis reads: “Tony left the ‘NCIS’ team to go raise their daughter. Years later, Ziva was discovered alive, leading her to complete one final mission with NCIS before she was reunited with Tony and their daughter in Paris.”“Since then — and where we find them in the new Paramount+ original series — Tony and Ziva have been raising their daughter, Tali, together,” the summary noted.

Paranormal Activity has a video game on the way, it has been announced.While the game is currently slated for a 2026 release and information on the game is fairly scarce, it has been confirmed that it will feature a advanced “haunt system” that dynamically changes how scary the game is based on what they do. Other than that, it’s unclear exactly what form the game will take, though a reveal teaser simply titled “Paranormal Activity: Found Footage” seems to indicate that the game will take a found footage approach.The title will be published by DreadXP, and is being developed by Darkstone Digital.“We are thrilled to work with Paramount Game Studios and to have the opportunity to bring the world of Paranormal Activity to gamers everywhere.

Having just completed a TV spin-off of his own movie, Netflix’s “The Gentlemen” series based on the 2019 film of the same name (read our review here), filmmaker Guy Ritchie is going back to a similar well. This time, it’s TV to TV: Paramount+, Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios & 101 Studios announced that Ritchie will direct and executive produce “The Donovans,” a new series that will be loosely based on Showtime’s popular “Ray Donovan” show starring Liev Schreiber, and Irish award-winning screenwriter, producer, and novelist Ronan Bennett will pen all ten episodes of this new series.

ahead of the Season 9 premiere of “Bar Rescue,” which airs Sunday on Paramount Network. “He climbed into the kitchen one night, and he obviously fell asleep or died there.”Taffer just finished filming his 250th episode of the reality series, where he rescues failing bars around the nation with his signature no-nonsense attitude.He’s been in so many foul-smelling bar kitchens that he’s devised a method to withstand the stench often brought on by uncleaned grease traps.“There are some kitchens that I go into that smell so bad, I have to pour garlic on the tip of my tongue and breathe through my nose. And I can still only stay in there for a minute or so,” he revealed.

Pope Francis is a fan of their dad, they told The Post. During a trip to Italy with their parents, Sophia, Sistine and Scarlet Stallone met the pontiff, who told Sly in Italian, with the help of a translator, “We grew up with your films.”“He brought it up to him that he was watching the films and we all looked at each other like, ‘Oh my gosh,'” said Sophia, 27.

Sylvester Stallone was so nervous about his daughters Sophia and Sistine living in NYC that he hired Navy SEALs to train them in self-defense — and even had them chase chickens Rocky-style.“It was the hardest. It was about six hours we were in those woods,” Sistine, 25, told The Post ahead of Season 2 of “The Family Stallone,” which premieres on Feb. 21.“Sophia and I got our asses whooped by these guys.

Sistine, 25, told The Post ahead of the Season 2 premiere of “The Family Stallone,” on Feb. 21.“If they’re casual then, okay, it’s not going to be an issue.

As the world awaits “Gladiator 2” to hit theaters on November 22, Ridley Scott already has another project he’s in talks to direct. And it’s not exactly what audiences expect from the director either.

Halo, the television adaptation of the gaming franchise of the same name, is under way now, but how many episodes will there be? The show, created by Kyle Killen (Lone Star) and Steven Kane (Alias, Jack Ryan), is going out in weekly instalments on Paramount+, with the first two episodes having premiered on February 8. Read on for the full season two schedule.