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Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“Vengeance,” a darkly comedic thriller starring Issa Rae and Ashton Kutcher, is coming to theaters this summer.Focus Features has scheduled the film to open on July 29. It will hit the big screen on the same day as Dwayne Johnson’s superhero adventure “Black Adam” from Warner Bros.“The Office” alum B.J. Novak wrote and directed “Vengeance” in his feature debut.

Claudia Eller Co-Editor-in-ChiefHow could Jeff Zucker let himself self-destruct like that?It’s now been reported extensively just how many of his loyalists at CNN are outraged that WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar abruptly forced the charismatic leader out of his post last week for failing to disclose a romantic relationship with his “closest colleague,” chief marketing officer Allison Gollust. After all, his supporters argue, this was a consensual relationship between two single adults, so therefore what was the actual harm? True enough, but unfortunately the harm done was done by Zucker himself, and it ultimately led to his undoing at CNN when an enemy seized an opportunity to bring him down over it.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“The White Lotus” Season 2 at HBO is rounding out its main cast with the addition of Theo James, Meghann Fahy, Will Sharpe, and Leo Woodall.The four actors join previously announced cast members F. Murray Abraham, Adam DiMarco, Tom Hollander, Michael Imperioli, Aubrey Plaza, and Haley Lu Richardson. It was also previously reported that Season 1 star Jennifer Coolidge will return for Season 2, but HBO has yet to officially confirm that.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorOn Sunday, actor Ty Burrell will fulfill a goal that has long been on his bucket list: taking part in a Super Bowl commercial.He put a lot of work into it. In a 30-second spot slated to air in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl, Burrell will be spotted making frivolous purchases like a jetpack, a giant yacht called the “TyTanic” and a life-size robot. He even agrees to buy a live Pegasus — all to the detriment of the character he portrays.

Wilson Chapman editorRyan Reynolds is ready to go back to the past.Netflix has released the first trailer for “The Adam Project,” a new sci-fi action movie starring Reynolds and directed by Shawn Levy (“Stranger Things,” “Free Guy”).The film stars Reynolds as Adam Reed, a fighter jet pilot from the future. After an accident sends him traveling through time, he winds up in the year 2022, when he was a 12-year old boy (played by Walker Scobell) struggling in school after the apparent disappearance of his father (played by Mark Ruffalo). Jennifer Garner portrays Adam’s mom, and the cast is rounded out by Catherine Keener, Zoe Saldana and Alex Mallari Jr.In the trailer, the two versions of Adam meet after his older self crashes his futuristic jet in the woods near his childhood home.

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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorJoey King tries not to take her work home, especially when she has to shoot tearful and intense emotional scenes like she had to often do for “The In Between.”In the new Paramount Plus drama, King plays a high school senior who is visited by the ghost of her boyfriend (Kyle Allen) after he’s killed in a tragic accident.“It takes a lot of building up and it takes a lot of emotional drainage, and by the end of a day, where I have a big crying scene or more than one, I am wiped out and I just need a plate of nachos or something gross,” King tells me on this week’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “Something that’s very bad for me.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterA series adaptation of the 2012 film “End of Watch” has gotten a script to series commitment at Fox, Variety has learned.The one-hour drama project hails from writers and executive producers David Ayer and David Matthews, with Ayer having written and directed the film. Like the film, the show would follow the daily grind of two young police officers in Los Angeles who are partners and friends, and what happens when they meet criminal forces greater than themselves.Ayer will executive produce via Cedar Park Studios, with the company’s Chris Long and Darryll C. Scott also executive producing.

Jessica Kiang How do you make something real out of something that was artificial to begin with? Should you even try? François Ozon has, with “Peter von Kant”: a deconstructed, gender-swapped and then fastidiously reconstructed overhaul of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.” 50 years on, Fassbinder’s film remains as close to un-remake-able as any ever made, mainly because it remakes itself every second as it goes along. If this makes Ozon’s version, which opens this year’s Berlin Film Festival, an oddly self-invalidating proposition from the get-go, that impression only deepens as the minutes tick amusingly but inconsequentially by.For the uninitiated (who are very obviously not the audience for this inside-baseball bauble), Fassbinder’s film is the story of a sadomasochistic lesbian love triangle between a successful fashion designer, her model protégée and her mute assistant.

Dame Cressida Dick has dramatically quit as Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police just hours after saying she had no intention of resigning

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorAltered Innocence has picked up all U.S. rights to Isabelle Stever’s sixth feature film “Grand Jeté” prior to its premiere on Friday in the Panorama section of Berlinale. The film stars Sarah Nevada Grether as Nadja, a woman who has estranged herself from her young son in order to be able to concentrate on her ballet career.

Drivers in Renfrewshire are being urged to wear a seatbelt as new research reveals almost one in ten in Scotland drive without one.

The grown-up approach to beauty includes knowing where to splurge and where to save. So while it is good to nose around the beauty regimes of the older women who are plastered across billboards and front covers – Jennifer Aniston, J-Lo, Yasmin Le Bon, and the gleesome threesome that now constitute Sex and the City, for example – I take the tips that often accompany these pictures with a good dollop of Himalayan salts.What I do surmise is that there is something for everyone.

Hollyoaks has announced a major change to how its future shows will be aired.

Tim Burgess has announced that he’ll be hosting a special 25th anniversary listening party tonight (February 10) for Blur‘s self-titled 1997 album.The Charlatans’ frontman has been hosting listening parties for a multitude of albums on Twitter since the UK went into its first coronavirus lockdown back in early 2020.This afternoon he announced that Blur members Alex James and Dave Rowntree, as well as producer Stephen Street will be joining him and his followers tonight for a listening party to celebrate the band’s fifth album turning 25.‘Blur’ was originally released on February 10, 1997, and featured the singles ‘Beetlebum’, ‘On Your Own’, ‘M.O.R.’, and the iconic anthem ‘Song 2’.

Police searching for the whereabouts of an Oldham man have asked the public not to approach him.

Bingeworthy has returned—the relaunch of a fairly-long dormant Playlist TV podcast that will no longer stay asleep! We’ve been in a new, supercharged and advanced age of streaming for about two years now— the uber years beyond Netflix. Everyone has their “+” subscription service, and, hell, Disney+ only launched at the very end of 2019, with Apple, Paramount, Peacock quickly following in their footsteps in the subsequent year (with more to come to be sure).

Mike Myers brought back his iconic Austin Powers villain Dr Evil in a cheeky new Super Bowl ad for General Motors.The 58-year-old played multiple characters in the Austin Powers movies, including the title role and his bald nemesis.In a preview of the new ad he reunites with his franchise co-stars Seth Green, Mindy Sterling and Rob Lowe who played his acolytes. Brilliant plans:Mike Myers brought back his iconic Austin Powers villain Dr.

Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo reunite in a trailer for the action-packed Netflix film, The Adam Project.The movie follows a young boy named Adam (Walker Scobell) who joins forces with his time-traveling self (Ryan Reynolds) to save the future.Jennifer, 49, is seen sharing a tender moment with her former 13 Going On 30 co-star in a flashback of happier times with her on-screen husband, 54. Jenna and Matt forever! 13 Going On 30 stars Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo reunite in a trailer for the action-packed sci-fi film, The Adam ProjectThe trailer begins with Jennifer picking up her son Adam from school after he gets into another fight.'That's the third time you've been suspended for fighting!' she scolds him.

A month after Betty White's death at 99, Golden Girls casting director Joel Thurm has revealed that her main co-starsBea Arthur and Rue McClanahan did not like her and called her profane names.Thurm appeared on The Originals podcast - hosted by entertainment journalist Andrew Goldman and produced by Los Angeles Magazine - as he recalled White's tumultuous relationship with Arthur and McClanahan.He explained: 'Literally Bea Arthur, who I cast in something else later on, just said, "Oh, she's a f***ing c***," using that word."' Tumultuous:A month after Betty White's (center) death at 99, Golden Girls casting director Joel Thurm has revealed that her main co-stars Bea Arthur (right) and Rue McClanahan (left) did not like her and called her profane namesGoldman - who previously referred to White as 'America's Sweetheart' - seemed shocked by the revelation as he asked: 'Bea Arthur called Betty White a C-word?'Thurm replied: 'Yeah, she called her the C-word. I mean, I heard that with my own ears.'And by the way, so did Rue McClanahan.

She has never looked better and is not afraid to show off her shape.Khloe Kardashian shared two new images to Instagram on Thursday in support of her Good American clothing collection Good Body. The 37-year-old siren had on a black leotard over a white one as she wore her hair stick straight and in a long bob.The reality TV star has lost weight with the help of her French-born personal trainerJoël Bouraïma ever since she split from her beau of six years Tristan Thompson in January.