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Jeep’s revisiting of Groundhog Day with Bill Murray was among the most popular ads on Fox’s broadcast of Super Bowl LIV, according to several measurements of commercial time on the big game. The mini-reboot of the 1993 film, shot in Illinois barely a week before the Super Bowl, topped USA Today‘s Ad Meter and also…

There’s a sense of deja vu in at least one Super Bowl commercial whose pre-game release is lighting up the internet. Bill Murray returns in a Jeep commerical that reprises his role in the 1993 comedy classic Groundhog Day, in which he plays Phil Connors, a TV weatherman on assignment to cover the annual Punxsutawney…

Bill Murray is set to recur in The Now, the Quibi comedy series to be directed by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly. His character details are under wraps. Written by Green Book Oscar winner Peter Farrelly, Steve Leff (The Ranch) and Pete Jones (Hall Pass), The Now examines what exactly makes life worth living. For Ed…

The Rome Film Festival has revealed a sneak peak of its 2019 edition, which will include a lifetime achievement award for Bill Murray, presented by director Wes Anderson. Murray will take part in an “in conversation” session hosted by his regular collaborator Anderson. Also giving talks at the Italian festival will be…

The Walking Dead has sucked all the life out of the zombie conversation in recent years, but that hasn’t stopped director Jim Jarmusch from diving right in. The only problem is, other than a couple of political jabs, there is nothing much new to say about The Dead Don’t Die, a largely lifeless comic take that is saved…

When Ghostbusters 3 arrives in theaters next summer, Sigourney Weaver will be along for the ride. The actress confirmed she’ll join co-stars Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd in the sequel, as she reprises her role as cellist Dana Barrett. "It's going to be crazy working with the guys again!" Weaver told Parade magazine in…

In Focus Features’ Jim Jarmusch Cannes Film Festival opener, The Dead Don’t Die, SNL alum Bill Murray and BlackKklansman actor Adam Driver both play two dead-panned, befuddled, nerdy cops who face the zombie apocalypse with a serene attitude. For example, Driver’s Ronnie Peterson softly says at various points in the…

The 72nd Cannes International Film Festival opening night went to the zombies, at least our walking dead friends as filtered through the droll style of Jim Jarmusch in The Dead Don’t Die. The director is a favorite of the fest, having been invited here for various films and competitions 13 times since his first…

In the peaceful town of Centerville, “something terrifying, something horrifying is coming.” When some people are violently killed at the local greasy spoon, the first responders and others ponder, “What the hell was it?” The go-to theory: wild animals. The new theory? “I’m thinkin’ zombies. You know, the undead…

Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloe Sevigny, Tilda Swinton, Steve Buscemi and Selena Gomez have been set to star in The Dead Don’t Die, a zombie comedy film from Jim Jarmusch. Production is now underway. It is the third team-up of Jarmusch and Focus, which distributed the writer-director’s Broken Flowers (2015) and The Lim…

No matter the subject matter, you can always count on Wes Anderson to come up with something unlike anything else out there. From his most recent Oscar-winning The Grand Budapest Hotel and past gems like Moonrise Kingdom, The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic, Anderson’s movies may be an acquired taste for some…

Wes Anderson first dipped a paw into the stop-motion canine world with 2009’s fantastic Fantastic Mr. Fox, which was based on the Roald Dahl book. Coming off nine Oscar noms for 2014’s The Grand Budapest Hotel — including one for his original screenplay — and four wins, the filmmaker is back with his second animated…