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A note from the twilight zone: Awards season is now underway, except this year there are essentially no screenings or cocktail parties and no celebrities answering questions. Movie stars used to complain about the demands of awards season; today some are missing the attention, and so are their movies. Given this…

Matthew McConaughey and the cast of Dazed and Confused will reunite on October 11 for a live script reading of the 1993 film to benefit Dallas-based March for Science's #VoteForScience campaign in support of Texas voting initiatives. The reading also benefits the Voto Latino Foundation, a voter outreach and education…

5TH UPDATE, 7:30 PM: The celebrity table read raised $51,884 from 1,322 people during its online session, per totals posted to Facebook, one of the online partners. 4TH UPDATE, 7:55 AM: The A-list table read for Dane Cook Presents Feelin' A-Live, a virtual table read of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, will now stream…

Matthew McConaughey has been set to voice the podcast adaptation of John R. Erickson’s Hank The Cowdog children’s books. From Tri-State Pictures, HTC Productions and QCode, the series is written, directed and executive produced by Jeff Nichols (Loving) and stars McConaughey – who is also an exec – as Hank. Nichols and…

Matthew McConaughey, Creative Artists Agency and Ali Larter are among those who have stepped up to help the LAUSD keep kids fed and in touch with their teachers during the coronavirus shutdown. Schools Superintendent Austin Beutner issued an update today on activities since the LA public school system closed on…

True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto and one of the hit HBO anthology series’ original stars Matthew McConaughey are reuniting for Redeemer, a drama series headlined by the Oscar winner, which has landed a script-to-series commitment at FX. In conjunction to the sale, Pizzolatto has signed an overall production deal…

Director Guy Ritchie certainly has one of the more uneven movie careers. Starting with his gritty and funny indie British crime movies from the late 90s like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, he then kind of lost his way with some bloated major studio efforts: Sherlock Holmes and its sequel, both…

Filmmaker Guy Ritchie has a flair for assembling a truly memorable rogue’s gallery and bringing it to the screen in vivid hues of eccentricity, menace, humor, and gutter eloquence. The British writer-director did it with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), he did it with Snatch (2000) and with Rocknrolla…

BREAKING: WME just signed Matthew McConaughey, the Oscar-winning actor. McConaughey had been at CAA, and his move follows the exit of his longtime agent Jim Toth, who left for a big job at Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi in March. McConaughey won his Oscar for 2013’s Dallas Buyers Club, and his credits include Dazed and Con…

Call it coincidence or just Oscar’s great luck. The same year that Matthew McConaughey took home a Lead Actor Oscar win for Dallas Buyers Club in 2014, he found himself with an Emmy nomination in the Lead Actor Drama Series category for HBO’s True Detective series. This year, history repeats itself for Mahershala Ali…

The description for the R rating given Matthew McConaughey’s new film probably says all you need to know: “drugs, alcohol, nudity, sex.” That not only sums up how The Beach Bum got the R, it pretty much also sums up the plot of this movie. Actually, check that: There really isn’t a plot. The Beach Bum is exactly what…

EXCLUSIVE: Miramax has inked significant deals on Guy Ritchie crime-comedy Bush for Germany, France and the UK. The star-studded pic, whose cast includes Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Colin Farrell, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding and Michelle Dockery, has sold to Tele Munchen Group for Germany, SND for France and Ent…