Rene Zellweger is now a permanent fixture in Londons Leicester Square as a statue of her beloved character, Bridget Jones, was unveiled Monday. Zellweger, who first played the unlucky-in-love Londoner in Bridget Joness Diary in 2001, was in attendance at the unveiling. Stars of the latest instalment, Mad About the Boy, also joined her: Leo Woodall, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Sally...

Catherine Lagaaia and Dwayne Johnson are set to make a splash with the first trailer for Disneys live-action feature adaptation of Moana. Director Thomas Kails remake of the original 2016 animated film hits theaters July 10, 2026. The trailer includes Lagaaias title character performing the song How Far Ill Go, which was feature in the initial movie. Rounding out the...

CBS will give a sizable portion of its February schedule over to the 50th season of Survivor. The milestone season is a centerpiece of the networks midseason slate, which also includes the Yellowstone spinoff Y: Marshals, FBI offshoot CIA and a pair of unscripted shows in Harlan Cobens Final Twist and Americas Culinary Cup. In addition to a three-hour premiere...

Today is an especially joyful one for JoySauce, a lifestyle company targeting American Asians and the fans of broader Asian pop culture. The JoySauce Network, a partnership with genre-distributor Cineverse, launched Monday on Amazon Prime Videos live channels lineup. The creators say the JoySauce Network is the first-ever FAST (free, ad-supporting streaming television) channel dedicated to AAPI audiences (and again,...

The Hunting Wives are ready to stir up more trouble. The Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman-starring series that became a breakout hit for Netflix this summer has started production on season two. Filming in the U.S., the eight-episode season will release exclusively as a Netflix branded series in nearly all countries Netflix is available. The streamer also confirmed three more...

The Critics Choice Awards has added four new categories to this years celebration of critics picks for the best in film and TV: best variety series, stunt design, casting/ensemble and sound. The additional categories were announced Monday along with news that Chelsea Handler would return to host the annual awards show for the fourth year in a row. Also, the...

Adam Sandler is dredging up some cringeworthy memories while visiting David Lettermans Emmy-winning Netflix series. My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman returns for a special episode featuring a conversation with Adam Sandler that begins streaming Dec. 1. The series has been picked up through season seven and is set to launch its sixth season later in December....

A shortform, AI-led series is on the way from the creator of synthetic character Tilly Norwood. Eline van der Velden of the AI-powered production company Particle6 said on Monday that Straten van Toen (Streets of the Past) is coming to The History Channel in the Netherlands. Made in partnership with Hearst Networks, the 10-part show will see a Dutch historical...

Boxer-turned priest Josh OConnor offers Daniel Craig some spiritual guidance to help solve an impossible crime hes been accused of in the latest Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery trailer that dropped on Monday. You were the only one on stage with the Monsignor at the time, local police chief Geraldine Scott, played by Mila Kunis, tells OConnor...

Are you ready to be changed for good? Wicked: For Good filmmaker Jon M. Chu and Peacock surprise dropped a preview clip from the highly anticipated sequel film on Monday ahead of the films New York premiere. The two-minute first look begins with Chu announcing the sneak peek. The clip which can now be watched exclusively on Peacock is of...

Following the success of his 2009 groundbreakingAvatar action fantasy film, and the 2023 follow-up Avatar: The Way of Water, James Cameron insists his third 20th Century Studios blockbuster, Avatar: Fire and Ash, called for the most complex visual effects and motion capture technology ever for the franchise. Its a culmination in a way of the whole adventure across the previous...

Josh Williams has a story that anyone building the future of artificial intelligence might want to pay attention to. A visual-effects student at Bournemouth University in the U.K., Williams always wanted to make movies but kept slamming into the same walls: time, money and the sheer scale of what he imagined. Then he discovered AI and suddenly those walls fell...

Egyptian-Austrian filmmaker Abu Bakr Shawky (Yomeddine, Hajjan) is back. After debuting movies at Cannes and Toronto, he world premiered his latest, The Stories, at the29th editionof the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival(PFF) in Estonia on Sunday. Given the reputation he has developed with his past works, including 2018s Yomeddine being Egypts international Oscar submission, the writer-directors new movie drew a...