‘Vacation Friends’ Lands Sequel, ‘Honeymoon Friends,’ From 20th Century Studios

Hannah Waddingham turns heads in a bold red dress while arriving at the Television Academy’s Reception to Honor 73rd Emmy Award Nominees held at Television Academy on Friday night (September 17) in Los Angeles.

Tom Hiddleston pack on this much PDA! A new romance appears to be in bloom between the 40-year-old actor and Zawe Ashton. On Wednesday, the two British actors were seen kissing in the waters of Ibiza, Spain, as they went for a swim.

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Dennis Harvey Film CriticAmong authors who didn’t live to witness their own success, Louis Hemon is a particularly unfortunate case — his novel “Maria Chapdelaine” was published in 1913, the same year as his train-struck death. Thus he didn’t see it become an early Quebec-lit classic taught to generations of schoolchildren, published in translation worldwide or adapted into many other media over the past century.

Sky Studios Hires Drama Chief

Naman Ramachandran Sky Studios has appointed Preethi Mavahalli to the newly created role of creative director, drama, reporting into chief content officer Jane Millichip. She will join in Jan.

Jon Hamm and girlfriend Anna Osceola were spotted sharing some PDA while on vacation in Italy Tuesday. Hamm, 50, showed off his body in red swim trunks while Osceola, 33, donned a green printed bandeau top with mismatched bikini bottom.  The two spent time swimming near Arco dell'Elefante in Pantelleria.

jailed today. David Allan, 31, phoned a council contact centre to complain about the "service" he thought he should have been getting from the West Lothian-based worker.He said he would be "getting a one-way ticket to the jail, and there will be no more" [of her].

John Cena and Lil Rel Howery are moving beyond just Vacation Friends, and becoming Honeymoon Friends.

previously boasted set an all-time record in its opening weekend on streaming and was Hulu’s most-discussed original film on Twitter. As for the sequel, director Clay Tarver is expected to return to write and direct the sequel that will be titled “Honeymoon Friends” and will reunite the main cast, including John Cena, Lil Rel Howery, Meredith Hagner and Yvonne Orji.

EXCLUSIVE: Following its premiere on Hulu this past weekend, 20th Century’s Vacation Friends has become the most the most watched original film in its opening weekend on the streamer to date. Deadline has also exclusively learned that writer-director Clay Tarver will return to write and direct Honeymoon Friends, a sequel that will reunite the main cast and producer Todd Garner.

Lionsgate is releasing a brand new comedy, “Lady of The Manor,” which stars Melanie Lynskey (“Heavenly Creatures,” “Castle Rock“), Judy Greer (“Halloween“), Justin Long (“Tusk,” “Drag Me To Hell“), Ryan Phillippe (“MacGruber,” “The Way of The Gun“), and Luis Guzmán (“Boogie Nights,” “Out of Sight“).

Lil Rel Howery and Yvonne Orji play Marcus and Emily, the strait-laced pair, who are on vacation at a luxury resort in Mexico. Marcus is about to pop the question in their suite, when he opens the door to find the room drenched in water from the overflowing hot tub of their upstairs neighbors.To make amends, Ron (John Cena) and Kyla (Meredith Hagner), the loony lovebirds, invite them over for cocktails.

The pandemic has been cruel to more than a few movie genres, but have any been so hampered by the current state of the world as the vacation comedy?Early on, it reminded us of what we couldn’t do, what we were postponing or canceling. It was an odd experience of wistfulness laced with bitterness watching people like Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon dine and drink their way through Greece.

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Joe Leydon Film CriticJust as it’s easy to imagine “The Hangover” being transformed, with relatively minor script tinkering, into a deadly serious film noir, one can envision an early draft of “Vacation Friends” serving as the blueprint for a paranoid thriller about vacationers who discover much too late that their new acquaintances are aggressively chummy for all the wrong reasons.Indeed, there is a teasing hint in an early scene of director Clay Tarver’s comedy that at least one of those