Saturday Night Live closed out its 44th season with a finale hosted by Paul Rudd with  musical guest DJ Khaled. The show, which featured appearances by Alec Baldwin and Robert De Niro, averaged a 4.0 rating Live+Same Day household rating in the metered markets, and a 1.6 adults 18-49 rating in the markets with local…

The cold open for the 44th season finale of Saturday Night Live ended on a high note, with Alec Baldwin returning as an exuberant President Trump who belted out a song about a second term. Before launching into a parody of Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now,” Baldwin’s Trump crowed: “I’m very excited about summer, getting in…

Saturday Night Live will close out its season with hosts Emma Thompson and Paul Rudd, the show announced today. Thompson will make her SNL hosting debut on May 11, with Jonas Brothers as the musical guest. Rudd, returning to SNL for the fourth time, will host the May 18 season finale, with musical guest DJ Khaled. As…

EXCLUSIVE: Irish actress, comedian and writer Aisling Bea has joined the cast of Netflix's Living With Yourself opposite Paul Rudd. The philosophical comedy asks the question: Do we really want to be better? Rudd stars in a dual role as a man struggling with his life who undergoes a novel treatment to become a better…

Netflix has ordered eight episodes of Living With Yourself, a scripted comedy series from Emmy and Peabody award winner Timothy Greenberg (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart), Likely Story and Jax Media, with Paul Rudd attached to star and executive produce. Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, directors of Oscar-nominated…

The new Ant-Man epic is a big hit, again raising the question what is the box office magic embedded in Marvel's superhero (or super-insect) movies? How long will it sustain? The “magic” is a relatively new phenomenon: Thirty years ago this summer, in fact, Peter Guber ran into a brick wall trying to persuade Warner…

Flying in a bit more than a month before it lands at theaters, Disney and Marvel today released the latest TV spot for Ant-Man and The Wasp, the sequel to its 2015 superhero tentpole. Paul Rudd returns as Scott Lang/Ant-Man along with director Peyton Reed, joined by Evangeline Lily as Hope van Dyne/The Wasp. In the…

Still buzzing from its box office record opening for Avengers: Infinity War, Disney and Marvel have taken the wraps off Ant-Man and the Wasp, the sequel to the 2015 MCU tentpole. Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas and Michael Pena are among those returning (along with director Peyton Reed), joined by The Wasp this time played…

IFC acquired U.S. rights to The Catcher Was a Spy, with Paul Rudd starring as Moe Berg. He was a pro ballplayer who was a spy against the Nazis. Pic premiered at Sundance. Ben Lewin directed the film, which also stars Sienna Miller, Jeff Daniels, Guy Pearce and Paul Giamatti. Robert Rodate wrote the script based on…

UK distributor Signature Entertainment has finalized deals for three movies, including Jon Hamm and Rosamund Pike thriller Beirut and Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd comedy Ideal Home, I can reveal. In Beirut, which Signature picked up from Trumbo and Captain Fantastic production outfit ShivHans Pictures, a U.S…

In case you were wondering what a five-minute iteration of a late-night show would look like, Jimmy Fallon demonstrated Monday with Tonight Show Fallon Five. “Please stop clapping we only have five minutes,” Fallon instructed the audience. NBC announced earlier this month it would debut the minutes-long versions of To…

It’s taken years for Duncan Jones’ Mute to percolate, and now ahead of its February 23 release on Netflix comes the first glimpse at the Moon and Source Code helmer’s passion project, a sci-fi thriller set in Berlin in the year 2052. Alexander Skarsgård stars as Leo, a bartender unable to speak from a childhood…