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It’s been 25 years since President Thomas Whitmore gave his stirring speech before Earthlings took on the invading aliens in Independence Day. Today, Bill Pullman reprised the role for a new address to celebrate the looming Fourth of July holiday. OK, it’s really an ad for Budweiser beer — but a pretty fun one. Have a…

In the 1996 film Independence Day, President Thomas J. Whitmore, aka actor Bill Pullman, tried to rally his ragtag troops against an alien invasion. On Independence Day 2020, he’s at it again. But this time, he’s hoping to inspire a battle against an invisible enemy by using masks instead of fighter planes. Pullman…

USA Network has set mid-winter premiere dates for Season 3 of The Sinner, starring Bill Pullman, Matt Bomer and Chris Messina, and Sam Esmail’s new anthology drama Briarpatch, led by Rosario Dawson. Both will bow on Thursday, February 6. Watch the new trailers for Briarpatch above and The Sinner below. Briarpatch…

USA Network’s crime anthology The Sinner has launched its first trailer for Season 3. Once again, Detective Harry Ambrose (Bill Pullman) is on the job, investigating a routine car accident in the outskirts of Dorchester in upstate New York that soon develops into much more. Ambrose soon uncovers a hidden crime that…

Bill Pullman, Eddie Izzard and music producer/DJ Diplo have joined the cast of Covers, the Focus Features and Working Title comedy being directed by Late Night‘s Nisha Ganatra that already stars Dakota Johnson, Tracee Ellis Ross and Ice Cube. The film, penned by Flora Greeson, is set amid the talent, fame and…

It’s official — USA Network has ordered an eight-episode second season of its praised drama series The Sinner, from Universal Cable Productions. Talks about ways of bringing back the Jessica Biel-starring and executive produced limited series started right after its strong ratings start. The Sinner ranked as the top…

EXCLUSIVE: Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park International has acquired foreign on Cold War thriller The Coldest Game, starring Bill Pullman and Locaro Silver Leopard Winner Lotte Verbeek. With the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolding as Soviet troops head toward Cuba and President Khrushchev making nuclear threats, Josh Mansky…

EXCLUSIVE: Melissa Leo and Bill Pullman are coming back for the Equalizer sequel to co-star alongside Denzel Washington for Sony Pictures and director Antoine Fuqua. Leo and Pullman are set to reprise their roles as Susan and Brian Plummer, the great friends of Robert McCall (Washington) when he worked in…

EXCLUSIVE: He's played the President who saved the world twice in the Independence Day movies and now Bill Pullman will play a Vice President in Adam McKay's film about Dick Cheney. With Christian Bale set as the controversial and Darth Vader-nicknamed 46th VP in what is now being called Backseat, Pullman will play…

Premiering tomorrow on USA Network and adapted from Petra Hammesfahr's 2007 novel of the same name, The Sinner unfortunately lacks a certain virtue in today's crowded television environment. It stars Jessica Biel as a young mother who suddenly stabs a man to death while at the beach with her family and Bill Pullman as…

After competitive bidding, A24 and DirecTV have acquired The Ballad of Lefty Brown, a Western starring Bill Pullman that had its world premiere at SXSW to critical acclaim. The film will be released in an 30-day exclusive window on DirecTV before it goes to its theatrical run via A24. This comes at a time when the…

Veteran actor Bill Pullman is having a big weekend at the annual South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. Not only is he winning rave notices for his starring turn in the western  The Ballad Of Lefty Brown which had its World Premiere last night (“Bill Pullman is riding tall, ranks with career best,” said…