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Ray Fisher, known for his portrayal of superhero Cyborg in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, is putting new DC co-head James Gunn on blast.

Sarah Michelle Gellar is finally opening up about her negative experiences on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer set.

Reflecting on the past. Sarah Michelle Gellar opened up about a “toxic” set she worked on earlier in her career, leading observers to think she was referencing her work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

EXCLUSIVE: Two other original scripted series, Westworld and The Nevers, are coming off HBO Max. Unlike others that we have reported on, Lionsgate TV’s Minx and Love Life and Sony TV’s Gordita Chronicles, Westworld and The Nevers are high-end Warner Bros. Discovery productions for HBO proper, and I hear they are likely to resurface on other company platforms. WBD CEO David Zaslav has spoken about entering the thriving FAST channel space, so Westworld and The Nevers would likely be offered in that form, I hear.

Kate Aurthur editor Elizabeth Olsen is one of creative leaders honored for Variety’s 2022 Power of Women presented by Lifetime. For more, click here. Elizabeth Olsen’s film career began — explosively — with the 2011 Sundance sensation “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” after which she went to co-star in a number of independent films. But she soon noticed, Olsen tells Variety in an interview for her Power of Women cover story, that she was perhaps being pigeonholed. “I wasn’t being considered for studio films,” Olsen says. “I asked my agent and manager why, and they said, ‘Well, you don’t do them.’”

Bad news for fans of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” as the reboot halts production.

Zack Snyder’s Justice League was boosted by bots, according to a report.Released in 2017, Justice League was originally directed by Snyder before he stepped down in the middle of post-production following the death of his daughter, Autumn. After he left the project, Joss Whedon was hired by Warner Bros.

Zack Sharf Zack Snyder mobilized the #SnyderCut fandom with a single tweet that reads: “#SnyderCutOnDigital.” Tuesday, July 19 marked the film’s official digital release date. Snyder’s tweet about the film’s digital debut was accompanied by a black-and-white image of film reels, the same image he posted to social media years ago to signify to fans that the #SnyderCut was real.Snyder’s tweet and the digital release of the #SnyderCut comes less than a day after of an exclusive report from Rolling Stone claimed that bots were used on social media to fuel the #SnyderCut army.

Nathan Fillion has had many positive experiences with Joss Whedon.

several toxic workplace and harassment allegations against him.On an episode of Michael Rosenbaum’s “Inside of You” podcast, Fillion noted that Whedon is a “funny, self-deprecating, incredibly talented” filmmaker who is “maybe a little haunted.”He also touched upon a January 2022 article from New York Magazine where Whedon addressed some of the accusations.“I read that article, and nowhere in there at any point in time did he mention ‘Firefly,’” Fillion told the “Smallville” alum. “I had an entirely … that was not my experience with that man,” he continued.“I mean, listen by his own admission, that guy’s a work-in-progress, and I appreciate that,” the “Waitress” actor went on.

Zack Sharf Nathan Fillion is sticking up for his frequent collaborator Joss Whedon, revealing on the “Inside of You” podcast that he would “would work with Joss again in a second.” Fillion had main roles in Whedon’s “Firefly,” “Much Ado About Nothing” and “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog,” plus appeared in several episodes of Whedon’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Whedon has been accused of misconduct and toxic workplace behavior by several actors, including “Buffy” star Charisma Carpenter and “Justice League” actor Ray Fisher.

“Firestarter,” based on the 1980 novel by Stephen King, starred Drew Barrymore as Charlie, an 8-year-old girl who can set things on fire with her mind. Barrymore was fresh from stealing the show in 1982’s “E.T.”, but this 1984 thriller was a critical flop, with Roger Ebert observing that for a film about lethal telekinesis, “the most astonishing thing in the movie … is how boring it is.” Since then, pop culture has fully embraced the trope of the young girl with psychic powers, with many characters inspiring devoted cult followings.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer.In a new book titled Every Generation A Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Heart by Evan Ross Katz, the actor discusses the rumoured feuds between the cast.“I think that unfortunately, the set we were on and the world we were in was pitting us against each other,” Gellar said in the book (via Entertainment Tonight). “I think it would have been different if it was today. It would have been a totally different relationship.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot.The actor, who played the titular vampire character in the original franchise, told author Evan Ross Katz that she was rooting for the Euphoria star.Katz recently interviewed Gellar for his new book Into Every Generation A Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts.The official synopsis obtained by Bloody Disgusting reads: “Evan Ross Katz explores the show’s cultural relevance through a book that is part oral history, part celebration, and part memoir of a personal fandom that has universal resonance still, decades later.”Meanwhile, Buffy star Charisma Carpenter has responded to Joss Whedon after he discussed allegations of misconduct against him in a recent interview.Speaking about Carpenter in an interview with Vulture, Whedon said: “Most of my experiences with Charisma were delightful and charming. She struggled sometimes with her lines, but nobody could hit a punch line harder than her.

Who would YOU cast in a Buffy The Vampire Slayer reboot? While quite a few of us have strong opinions, there’s no one we’d rather hear from on the subject than Sarah Michelle Gellar.

 cast had their own real-life issues to work through. In the new book Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts, several members of the cast are interviewed by Evan Ross Katz about their time on the cult classic series, which ran for seven seasons from 1997 to 2003. Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played the titular role, is extremely candid in the book about the on-set tension and the rumored feuds between her and other castmates.“I think that unfortunately, the set we were on and the world we were in was pitting us against each other,” Gellar says of the Joss Whedon-run show. “I think it would have been different if it was today.

Getting real. Sarah Michelle Gellar opened up about the tensions between her and her costars on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, on which she starred from 1997 to 2003.

Sarah Michelle Gellar is looking back at her time on the Buffy the Vampire Slayerset.

multiple workplace misconduct allegations from several stars across his productions in recent years.Evan Ross Katz’s new book about the iconic ’90s fantasy series, “Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How ‘Buffy’ Staked Our Hearts,” is full of cast and crew interviews about Whedon’s behavior.In the show retrospective, actor Danny Strong, who played the role of Jonathan Levinson, discussed that the accusations against the “Justice League” writer were “far beyond” what he noticed at the time, IndieWire reported.The vampire romantic drama aired from 1997 to 2003 on The WB and UPN for seven seasons.Strong, 47, noted in the book, “Look, my experience on the set was a very positive experience, including my interactions with Joss. And so I wasn’t aware of how toxic the set was for some.”Charisma Carpenter, who played Cordelia Chase in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and its spinoff series, “Angel,” accused Whedon of “toxic” and “hostile” behavior towards her in a bombshell social media post last year.The “Empire” creator continued in the novel, “And it seems like who it was toxic for was the really attractive women.

Less than a week after the — brace yourselves!!! — 25th anniversary of the premiere of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, we’re getting an unprecedented look behind the curtain courtesy of a new book.

A new book about “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” is marking the 25th anniversary of the beloved series’ premiere, and includes star Sarah Michelle Gellar confronting longstanding rumours that she used to feud with her co-stars.