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Katcy Stephan “I Can Only Imagine 2,” the sequel to the 2018 breakout hit “I Can Only Imagine,” will open theatrically on March 20, 2026, in a wide release from Lionsgate. John Michael Finley will again star as Millard, while Dennis Quaid and Trace Adkins will reprise their roles as Arthur and MercyMe manager Scott Brickell, respectively.

Chrissy Metz, best known for playing Kate Pearson on the NBC drama “This Is Us,” recently ditched Hollywood after 21 years.“I moved to Nashville,” the actress, 44, revealed to People in an interview published Friday.“I was in LA for 21 years, but my family is in Florida, where I’m from, and during the pandemic, I could drive to them from here. It’s just a better quality of life here,” Metz explained. “Everything is 15 minutes away, and it’s just so much less stress.”“There’s a lot going on,” she continued.

EXCLUSIVE: Tony-nominated Lily Rabe has signed with Gersh for representation in all areas.

Matt Minton mminton@variety.com With a Steven Spielberg film currently filming in the area, the Made in Huntington Film & TV Festival is officially launching with the goal of supporting emerging filmmakers. Starting Thursday and running through April 6, the festival is hosting 14 public screenings, with a total of 35 titles chosen from 100 submissions. For festival executive producer and Huntington’s director of film and television Joe Schramm, the festival is a unique opportunity to highlight production opportunities in Long Island.

Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin revealed in a podcast that he hasn’t spoken to his father in over three decades.At the age of 15, Macaulay petitioned a court to remove his father Kit Culkin and mother Patricia Brentrup as his legal guardians, blocking them from his $40million trust fund. The trust was then managed by his family’s accountant until he was 18.Having remained out of the spotlight for much of his teens and early adulthood, Culkin has emerged recently as podcaster and online presence, reprising his role as Kevin Macallister in an advert for Google.He has also embraced his past with various viral videos nodding to his child fame, as well as returning to acting with a role in 2019 film Changeland, TV show American Horror Story: Double Feature, and the forthcoming second season of Fallout. He grew up with six siblings, including newly-crowned Oscar winner Kieran Culkin.In past interviews, he has described his father as abusive, which led to his separation as a teen.A post shared by Sibling Revelry (@siblingrevelry) Appearing on the Sibling Revelry podcast with Oliver and Kate Hudson, the actor said of his father: “I haven’t spoken to him in about 30-something years.

four-part Beatles movies set to come out in 2028 is not enough to satiate your Beatlemania, worry not: a new book about John Lennon and Paul McCartney releases this April. Aptly titled, “John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs,” the newest Beatles book delves into the music industry’s most iconic songwriting duo, whose tumultuous relationship has long been defined by an intensity and complexity that inevitably seeped into their music.

EXCLUSIVE: Actor and singer-songwriter Cheyenne Jackson has signed with Buchwald across the board.

Kim Kardashian is ready to testify.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Fusion Entertainment has signed actor and producer Sophie von Haselberg for management. Von Haselberg is the daughter of Bette Midler and has performed in television, film, and theater.

EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Morrison has come aboard to direct Love of Your Life for Amazon MGM Studios. Julia Cox wrote the script. Ryan Gosling and Jessie Henderson are producing.

EXCLUSIVE: Buffalo 8 has acquired North American distribution rights to Alex Kugelman’s thriller-dark comedy Don’t Trip.

Naman Ramachandran China’s box office for the weekend of March 21–23 saw “Ne Zha 2” maintaining its dominant position, while new releases made modest debuts.​ “Ne Zha 2” earned RMB85.7 million ($11.9 million) over the weekend, bringing its cumulative total to $2.081 billion, according to Artisan Gateway. In its eighth week, the animated blockbuster continues to captivate audiences. In Imax, “Ne Zha 2” added $1.8 million globally, a 41% drop from the previous weekend, increasing its global cume in the format to $158.2 million, with $154 million from China alone.​ Hanna Pictures’ “The River of Fury” debuted in second place with $2 million.

Matt Minton mminton@variety.com In the years since Bong Joon Ho made Oscar history with “Parasite”s best picture victory in 2020, the Korean director’s fanbase continued to grow and evolve around the world. And with the recent release of his capitalistic satire “Mickey 17” starring Robert Pattinson, the time feels right to celebrate his genre-defying work over the years.

American Love Story has found its female lead. The first installment of the FX anthology series, which chronicles the whirlwind courtship and marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, has tapped Sarah Pidgeon (The Wilds, Tiny Beautiful Things) as Bessette.

American Love Story has found its Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy!

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Emmy-nominee Lizzy Caplan (Fleishman is in Trouble, Zero Day) and BAFTA award winner Tom Riley (The Nevers, The Woman in the House Across The Street From The Girl in the Window), have launched Westborn Pictures production company. Under the banner, the husband-wife duo will develop, produce, write and direct content for film and television.

EXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe and Emmy nominated actor Edgar Ramirez is joining Place To Be, the drama from Kornél Mundruczó, the filmmaker of the Oscar-nominated Pieces of a Woman. The film also stars Ellen Burstyn, Taika Waititi and Pamela Anderson. Cameras are rolling in Sydney.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Director Carl Erik Rinsch has been indicted on charges of fraud and money laundering for allegedly taking $11 million from Netflix and spending it on luxury cars, antique furniture and mattresses. Rinsch demanded the funds in order to finish “White Horse,” a science fiction TV series that was never completed, according to the indictment. Instead, he allegedly used the money to make “extremely risky investments,” to pay for stays at the Four Seasons and for other lavish purchases, and to hire lawyers to sue Netflix.

feud that turned legal.Mia Schachter, who has worked on the shows “Lessons in Chemistry,” “Perry Mason” and “American Crime Story: Impeachment” but didn’t work on “It Ends With Us,” shared her take in the new documentary “He Said, She Said: Blake Lively vs Justin Baldoni” that aired Monday on Channel 5 in the UK.“From reading their text messages, I do get the sense that, at one point, there was genuine affection between them and what felt like a friendship,” she said about the “It Ends With Us” co-stars.Schachter also brought up that Lively, 37, allegedly refused to meet the film’s intimacy coordinator before production (a claim made by Baldoni in his $400 million January countersuit), which she claimed indicated that the star trusted Baldoni, 41, at the time.“And those texts made me think that at one point, she did feel a lot of trust with him,” she said.Lively sued Baldoni in December for sexual harassment. Baldoni later countersued and released text messages between the pair that he claims proves his innocence.In Lively’s lawsuit, she alleged Baldoni improvised kissing scenes and wanted to add sex scenes to the film.

Selome Hailu “House of David” has been renewed for a second season at Amazon Prime Video. The news comes after the series premiered with 22 million viewers in its first 17 days of streaming, and ahead of the Season 1 finale on April 3. The biblical drama tells the story of David (Michael Iskander), an outcast teenager who is anointed as the new king by the prophet Samuel (Stephen Lang) as the once-mighty King Saul (Ali Suliman) falls victim to his own pride and begins to lose power.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Drake Bell told People magazine that a weight has been lifted, one year after the airing of ID Discovery’s “Quiet on Set.” The documentary series featured Bell going public for the first time about being sexually assaulted as a teenager by his Nickelodeon dialogue coach Brian Peck. It was perhaps the biggest bombshell to emerge from “Quiet on Set,” which also detailed claims of misconduct behind the scenes at Nickelodeon during the 1990s and early 2000s.