It’s hideous. It’s horrible. It’s home, Addams Family-style. MGM’s new teaser trailer for the upcoming Conrad Vernon-Greg Tiernan reimagining of the macabre clan – amazingly, the first-ever animated feature version of The Addams Family – seems to breathe fresh life into the old graveyard gang.

The first significant loo…

“I didn’t want to talk I’m too drunk,” said director Jonathan Levine after the screening of the world premiere of his film Long Shot on Saturday at SXSW. Levine, who was joined on the stage by stars Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, O’Shea Jackson, June Diane Raphael and Ravi Patel, admitted that he was nervous that no one…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has secured the rights to Gina Prince-Bythewood’s female-fronted action film The Old Guard, which is based on the comic book series by Greg Rucka and illustrator Leandro Fernández.

As previously announced, the feature stars Charlize Theron and If Beale Street Could Talk breakout KiKi Layne. Rucka is…

“It’s Pretty Woman, except she’s Richard Gere and you’re Julia Roberts,” O’Shea Jackson Jr.’s best friend character tells Seth Rogen’s Fred Flarsky on his romance prospects with Charlize Theron’s presidential candidate in Lionsgate/Summit’s Long Shot. 

The screwball comedy, directed by Jonathan Levine and written by Li…

Oscar producer Donna Gigliotti and co-producer/director Glenn Weiss have revealed the first group of presenters for the 91st Academy Awards. Set to hand out hardware in three weeks are Awkwafina, Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Tina Fey, Whoopi Goldberg, Brie Larson, Jennifer Lopez, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Amandla…

After landing a world premiere at SXSW, Lionsgate’s Charlize Theron-Seth Rogen comedy formerly known as Flarsky is moving up its release from June 7 to May 3.

This shows that Lionsgate has plenty of confidence in the film, and is playing it not only closer to SXSW, but also putting it on the weekend following Disney/Ma…

South by Southwest Conference and Festivals has announced the first 102 film and episodic titles which will be screened at the upcoming 9-day Austin-based fest. Among those titles are the Jonathan Levine-directed Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron comedy, The Beach Bum, starring Matthew McConaughey, The Highwaymen, with…

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Welcome to a special Monday edition of Notes on the Season.

Hey, Academy members, you have just moments left to make your mark on this year’s increasingly heated Oscar race. Ballots for nominations for the 91st annual Academy Awards are due today at 5…

Nicole Kidman is barefoot in a floor-length gown, ice-blue like her eyes. When she curls into a corner of the sofa, she looks relaxed and regal, a woman whose earned the right to stretch after a frantically busy fall. At this moment, her blockbuster Aquaman is topping the box office. You might not expect to see Kidman…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Allison Janney will play trailblazing feminist lawyer Susan Estrich in Annapurna’s untitled Charles Randolph project about the women who took on Fox News kingpin Roger Ailes and the toxic male culture at the network.

Author and liberal commentator Estrich, who was the first female President of t…

MGM has set the voice cast for its Oct. 11, 2019 animated take on The Addams Family including Oscar winners Charlize Theron (Morticia),  Allison Janney (arch nemesis Margaux Needler), two-time Oscar nominee Bette Midler (Grandmama), Chloë Grace Moretz (Wednesday), Finn Wolfhard (Pugsley), and Nick Kroll (Uncle…

Charlize Theron has been set to play Megyn Kelly in Annapurna Pictures’ untitled movie that will focus on the women of Fox News Channel who worked there during the tenure of Roger Ailes, the chairman and network architect who resigned in 2016 amid a sexual and workplace harassment scandal. Jay Roach is directing the…