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Peacock’s Pete Davidson comedy series Bupkis has added six guest stars for its premiere season: Charlie Day (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), Ray Romano (Get Shorty), Kenan Thompson (Saturday Night Live), Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond), Chase Sui Wonders (Bodies, Bodies, Bodies) and Simon Rex (R…

EXCLUSIVE: Fabio Frey's feature directorial debut My Dead Dad has been acquired by OneFifty for HBO Max where it will premiere on June 1st. The film stars Pedro Correa—who wrote the project alongside Frey— as young burnout Lucas who, after hearing his estranged father has passed away, undertakes the responsibility of…

EXCLUSIVE: Simon Rex (Red Rocket) will join Channing Tatum and Naomi Ackie in The Batman star Zoë Kravitz’s feature directorial debut, Pussy Island, for MGM. The film written by Kravitz and E.T. Feigenbaum centers on Frida (Ackie), a young and clever Los Angeles cocktail waitress who has her eyes set on the prize…

Tim Blake Nelson, Uzo Aduba, Simon Rex, Nina Arianda, Jim Gaffigan, José María Yazpik and Joey Lauren Adams have rounded out the cast of, Providence, a comedy from Dylan Sellers and Chris Parker's Limelight and David Boies and Zack Schiller's Boies Schiller Entertainment. Lily James, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Himesh…

Pete Davidson was back on Saturday Night Live tonight after taking a break to shoot his latest movie. His first bit upon return was a music video, in which he rapped about movies getting too long. The topic has been back in the pop culture conversation courtesy of the new Batman movie, whose running time is 2h56m. In…

EXCLUSIVE: Sydney Sweeney, Halsey, Paul Walter Hauser, Simon Rex, Toby Huss, Gavin Maddox Bergman, Harriet Sansom Harris and newcomer Derek Hinkey are set to star in Tony Tost’s directorial debut National Anthem from Bron Studios. The film is a Page Fifty-Four Pictures and Bron Studios production in association with…

Simon Rex arrived at the Cannes film festival this year as an outsider: it's pretty unlikely that any other actors in this year's heavyweight competition line-up could boast a recurring role in the Scary Movie franchise, a hip-hop career as Dirt Nasty, and a successful transition from adult film. But after the…

Red Rocket director and co-screenwriter Sean Baker revealed that Mikey Saber, the always-hustling washed-up porn actor who returns to the Texas hometown that wasn't exactly sorry to see him go, was inspired by real-life adult-film actors he encountered and that he always envisioned as a role for Simon Rex. "My…

EXCLUSIVE: Range Media Partners has signed Simon Rex, who has a promising awards season ahead of him after his star-making role in Sean Baker's acclaimed feature Red Rocket for A24 and FilmNation. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year to a rapturous response, followed by the Telluride Film…

EXCLUSIVE: We have learned that Zachary Quinto, Lukas Gage, Simon Rex, Judith Light and Audra McDonald are set for FilmNation Entertainment’s Rightor Doyle feature directorial debut Down Low.  The news comes in the wake of Rex receiving a Gotham Award nomination in the Lead Performance category for A24 and…

“I’m on top of my game right now on like every single possible level,” Simon Rex says in the first official trailer for Red Rocket, released today by A24. “Dude, with my skill and ability, there's no denying what I could do. The universe is on my side.” In the dark comedy from acclaimed writer-director Sean Baker (The…

Red Rocket director Sean Baker is prepared to receive hate mail, he said at a press conference in Cannes on Thursday. Baker said he’s been the recipient of plenty of angry comments before, so he is philosophical about the impending reaction to Red Rocket‘s open-ended tale of a washed-up porn star in pursuit of a…