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In Brief: CBS renews 'Elsbeth' for season 2, and more

Netflix has dropped the trailer for Hit Man, the new rom-com co-written by and starring Anyone but You's Glen Powell. The film, based on a 2001 Texas Monthly article by Skip Hollandsworth, itself based on a true story, follows Powell as "a strait-laced professor [who]…


Seth MacFarlane teams up with Scorsese to save cartoons

Photos: Kenji Fitzgerald/Brigette Lacombe Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has teamed up with a seemingly unlikely collaborator — Oscar-winning movie legend Martin Scorsese — to save some cartoons.  The Seth MacFarlane Foundation and Scorsese's The Film Foundation are…


Netflix reveals 'The Witcher' will end after a just-announced fifth season

Hemsworth (center) and cast at a Season 4 table read -- Courtesy Netflix Netflix announced Thursday that the fourth season of The Witcher is now underway, and the streamer has renewed the sword and sorcery series for a fifth — but that will be it.  The new seasons of the show…


Trailer using AI to cast Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie in new James Bond movie goes viral

Good Morning America Henry Cavill is James Bond and Margot Robbie the femme fatale in a new trailer that has attracted more than 2.6 million viewers on YouTube since it dropped Saturday. The problem is, it's fake.  Its creator, KH Studio, says it was made "solely for artistic and…


After the success of 'Anyone but You', is Hollywood back in love with romantic comedies?

Sony Pictures After audiences fell in love with the Sydney Sweeney/Glen Powell romantic comedy Anyone but You and the success of the Lindsay Lohan film Irish Wish, The Hollywood Reporter says studios are swiping right on the genre once again. Anyone But You writer-director Will…


After another Trump diss, Jimmy Kimmel says he's thinking about hosting the Oscars again

Disney/Frank Micelotta On Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday night, Jimmy revealed he may host the Oscars for a fifth time. If he does, he has former President Donald Trump to thank. The former president became a punchline during Kimmel's last stint as Academy Awards host, thanks…


Mariska Hargitay halts 'SVU' filming to help lost child who confused her for police officer

Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images Mariska Hargitay isn't a cop, but she plays one on TV. Her Law & Order: Special Victims Unit character Olivia Benson recently came to the aid of a lost, little girl who thought she was the real deal. People reports that on April 10, while…


Quentin Tarantino reportedly not making 'The Movie Critic' his final film

ABC/Randy Holmes Although he's repeatedly said he was calling it a career with his tenth film, The Movie Critic, Deadline reveals Quentin Tarantino has dropped the project, which was set to start shooting in 2025. Tarantino's 1970s-set project was to feature Brad Pitt reprising…


'Transformers One' trailer debuts in space

Paramount Pictures Our first look at Transformers One is here, and it's out of this world — literally. The film, the first-ever fully CG-animated Transformers movie, debuted in space Thursday morning before dropping online. "Before he was Optimus Prime, he was Orion Pax. Before…


Michael Douglas wanted to have a "serious death scene" in 'Ant-man and the Wasp: Quantumania'

Marvel Studios Michael Douglas, who played Dr. Hank Pym in Marvel's Ant-Man movies, asked to have his character killed off in the third installment, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. The 79-year-old actor had told The Hollywood Reporter in February of 2023 that he would return…