Three more guests are ready to check into the White Lotus. Helena Bonham Carter, Marissa Long and Chris Messina are set to join the fourth season of HBOs Emmy-winning series, The White Lotus. Created by Mike White, the series will film in France and follows a new group of White Lotus hotel guests and employees over the span of a...

Prime Videos God of War adaptation has found its All-Father. Mandy Patinkin has been cast to play Odin in the streamers take on PlayStations hugely popular ancient mythology-themed video game. The Princess Bride and Homeland actors character is described as not physically imposing or particularly god-like: but looks can be deceiving. He is the most powerful Aesir god, a patriarch...

Penn Badgley is opening up about the physical transformation he underwent for his role in You Deserve Each Other. During a recent conversation with his costarMeghann Fahy on the latest episode of his Podcrushed podcast, the You star admitted he was consumed with losing weight for his role as dentist Nicholas Rose. It did happen very fast,Badgley said of joining...

Tim Mulkerin is a freelance writer, editor, and social media manager who has been working in digital media and the tech world since 2016. He has a bachelor's degree in art history and is currently pursuing a master's degree in communicative sciences and disorders from New York University. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of Atlantic Media Company, in Washington, D.C. She has nearly a decade of experience as a freelancer covering tech (including issues related to security, privacy, and streaming) as well as...

Nancy Seltzer, the Hollywood publicist who represented Garth Brooks and Sean Connery, has died. She was 79. Seltzer died Thursday in Los Angeles. A cause of death was not given, though an announcement on Brooks website noted that she died following a brief hospital stay. Public relations is the hardest job in show business, Brooks shared in a statement. She...

Prime Videos latest series order is for a show called Sex Criminals but its not venturing into Law Order: SVU territory. The Amazon-owned streamer has picked up an eight-episode show based on the acclaimed Image Comics title Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky. Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon (The Big Sick) and Tze Chun (Gremlins: Secrets of the...

Stranger Things ended its five-season odyssey on Netflix on top of not just the weekly streaming charts, but also Nielsens all-time weekly numbers. The series had 8.65 billion minutes of viewing for the week of Dec. 29-Jan. 4; the series finale debuted on Dec. 31. Thats the largest single-week total since Nielsen began tracking streaming viewing in 2020, beating the...

Damon Lindelof is returning with a buzzy new HBO project. The Emmy-winning showrunner behind Lost and The Leftovers and Watchmen has struck a deal for a new project, The Chain. The show is based on Adrian McKintys dark, twisty 2019 novel of the same name. The book is about a kidnapping scheme where the victims parents must kidnap another child...

For 20 years on Greys Anatomy, ambulances have been pulling up to the hospital to unload patients to the starring doctors on the long-running ABC medical drama. That means that, for 20 years, as the real ambulances would idle on set, the crew and actors would be inhaling the diesel fumes that being emitted from the loud, life-saving vehicles. In...

Danny McBride has charted a career by writing and starring in TV shows that played with tropes of masculinity such as Righteous Gemstones, Eastbound Down and Vice Principals. Now, hes turning his attention to the world of prose, with the upcoming release of Thrilling Tales of Modern Men, a short story collection that further expands on these themes. The book...

On Jan. 13, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that Amy Homma, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures director and president, will henceforth also oversee the Academy Collection, which includes some 52 million film-related items held within the Margaret Herrick Library and the Academy Film Archive, ranging from an original script of Citizen Kane to a pair...

Adult Swim has promoted Cameron Tang to lead development and current series at the cable and digital channel. Tang has been with Adult Swim since 2012, and his promotion to senior vp and head of development and current series helps reset the executive structure at Adult Swim. Suzanna Makkos was previously head of original comedy and animation at Adult Swim...