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FX drops the trailer to season 3 of Emmy-winning ‘Welcome to Wrexham’

FX On Friday, FX dropped the season 3 trailer to its Emmy-winning docuseries Welcome to Wrexham, starring celebs-turned-soccer team owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. It’s set to Survivor‘s “Eye of the Tiger,” for good reason. “In Rocky one, he loses. In season one, we lost,” McElhenney explains. “In Rocky II, he won. In season two, we won,” the Always …

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In Brief: CBS renews ‘Elsbeth’ for season 2, and more

Netflix has dropped the trailer for Hit Man, the new rom-com co-written by and starring Anyone but You‘s Glen Powell. The film, based on a 2001 Texas Monthly article by Skip Hollandsworth, itself based on a true story, follows Powell as “a strait-laced professor [who] uncovers his hidden talent as a fake hit man in undercover police stings.” He meets …

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Seth MacFarlane teams up with Scorsese to save cartoons

Photos: Kenji Fitzgerald/Brigette Lacombe Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has teamed up with a seemingly unlikely collaborator — Oscar-winning movie legend Martin Scorsese — to save some cartoons.  The Seth MacFarlane Foundation and Scorsese’s The Film Foundation are funding The Film Foundation’s first-ever restoration of a “curated selection of historically significant animated shorts” from the 1920s through the 1940s. Included will …

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Netflix reveals ‘The Witcher’ will end after a just-announced fifth season

Hemsworth (center) and cast at a Season 4 table read — Courtesy Netflix Netflix announced Thursday that the fourth season of The Witcher is now underway, and the streamer has renewed the sword and sorcery series for a fifth — but that will be it.  The new seasons of the show will feature Liam Hemsworth succeeding original star and fan …

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Trailer using AI to cast Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie in new James Bond movie goes viral

Good Morning America Henry Cavill is James Bond and Margot Robbie the femme fatale in a new trailer that has attracted more than 2.6 million viewers on YouTube since it dropped Saturday. The problem is, it’s fake.  Its creator, KH Studio, says it was made “solely for artistic and entertainment purposes”; a cinephile can see from which movies certain scenes …

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After another Trump diss, Jimmy Kimmel says he’s thinking about hosting the Oscars again

Disney/Frank Micelotta On Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday night, Jimmy revealed he may host the Oscars for a fifth time. If he does, he has former President Donald Trump to thank. The former president became a punchline during Kimmel’s last stint as Academy Awards host, thanks to Kimmel reading Trump’s mid-show pan of Jimmy’s job as host. On Wednesday, for …

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After the success of ‘Anyone but You’, is Hollywood back in love with romantic comedies?

Sony Pictures After audiences fell in love with the Sydney Sweeney/Glen Powell romantic comedy Anyone but You and the success of the Lindsay Lohan film Irish Wish, The Hollywood Reporter says studios are swiping right on the genre once again. Anyone But You writer-director Will Gluck tells the trade, “There’s been no dearth of rom-coms in the last 10 years. …

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Mariska Hargitay halts ‘SVU’ filming to help lost child who confused her for police officer

Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images Mariska Hargitay isn’t a cop, but she plays one on TV. Her Law & Order: Special Victims Unit character Olivia Benson recently came to the aid of a lost, little girl who thought she was the real deal. People reports that on April 10, while shooting SVU at New York City’s Anne Loftus Playground in Fort Tryon …

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‘Transformers One’ trailer debuts in space

Paramount Pictures Our first look at Transformers One is here, and it’s out of this world — literally. The film, the first-ever fully CG-animated Transformers movie, debuted in space Thursday morning before dropping online. “Before he was Optimus Prime, he was Orion Pax. Before he was Megatron, he was D-16,” onscreen text reads. “Every transformer has an origin.” Transformers One is billed …

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Quentin Tarantino reportedly not making ‘The Movie Critic’ his final film

ABC/Randy Holmes Although he’s repeatedly said he was calling it a career with his tenth film, The Movie Critic, Deadline reveals Quentin Tarantino has dropped the project, which was set to start shooting in 2025. Tarantino’s 1970s-set project was to feature Brad Pitt reprising the role that won him his first Oscar: stuntman Cliff Booth from the writer-director’s Once Upon …

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