Netflix's The Hunting Wives is back with a second season, and its cast gathered at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles on Thursday to celebrate the premiere. The show, based on May Cobb's book, arrives on the streaming platform on November 26.
Brittany Snow plays Sophie O'Neil, a newcomer to a small Texas town who ends up in a close-knit circle of local women led by Malin Akerman's Margo Banks. That bond is tested when a teenage girl is found dead and a murder investigation begins to unsettle the group.
Disney's latest animated feature, Hexed, premiered in Los Angeles on Thursday night, and much of its cast turned out for the event.
Hailee Steinfeld voices Billie Doe, a teenager who learns she has magical powers and sets off into another world. Rashida Jones plays her mother, Jodie Foster voices Queen Celeste, a sinister mother and grandmother, and Yvette Nicole Brown joins the cast as Scared Tea Cup.
The film is rated PG and hits theaters the day before Thanksgiving.
Connie is out of The Great British Baking Show after this caramel-themed episode.
Most millionaire's shortbreads in the technical came out underbaked, with chocolate that never set. The showstopper called for nougatine structures around praline cakes.
Connie's box fell apart when the judges opened it, though they loved her hazelnut cake inside. Moyin won the showstopper, and Paul Hollywood had Connie step away for five minutes to settle down.
How to Rob a Bank opens nationwide on November 13.
The story follows a group of social media personalities who rob banks, saying they want to help people who are struggling. Nicholas Hoult plays the gang's leader, who blames a banking executive, played by Christian Slater, for his child's death and holds a gun to the executive's head.
David Leitch directed the film. He also made the 2022 action comedy Bullet Train, which starred Brad Pitt.
Gal Gadot grew tearful on stage at a Simon Wiesenthal Center dinner on Wednesday while warning that hatred of Jews is spreading fast and being openly accepted.
Skydance co-CEO Ynon Kreiz, the night's honoree, fully backed the company's response to a Mark Ruffalo Instagram post that it said used antisemitic tropes. When asked if he'd work with Ruffalo, whose HBO show Task now falls under him, he sidestepped the question.
Kreiz's mother hid in a closet in Vienna as a nine-month-old during a Nazi raid before her family escaped to Scotland.
Irma P. Hall, the actress known for her matriarch roles, has died at 91 in Dallas. Her relatives shared the news on Wednesday.
She picked up an NAACP Image Award for Soul Food and a Cannes prize for The Lady Killers. She was 60 when she was cast in her first major movie, A Family Thing, alongside James Earl Jones and Robert Duvall.
She taught in Dallas public schools for more than 20 years before acting full time in 1980. She also founded the Dallas Minority Repertory Theatre to help develop young talent.
Disney and AI studio Promise showed off a new filming method in Burbank: actors perform inside gray boxes with neutral walls, and AI-assisted backgrounds and lighting are added later.
Promise co-founder Dave Clark says changing a green screen setup can take two to three hours, while gray boxes allow quicker setups and more takes. Human artists still build most environments, using AI as one tool.
Disney executives stress that directors, writers and actors will always be needed, and Disney's Rob Bredow called the idea of an AI button that makes a movie a misconception.
Jack Sabàto, 32, son of actor Antonio Sabàto Jr. and Oscar nominee Virginia Madsen, was arrested in Anchorage, Alaska, after a fatal hit-and-run. Court papers allege he was driving a white Chevy Tahoe that struck and killed Carl Simmonds, 42, early Monday.
Police located the Tahoe hours later with fresh damage to its right front corner that matched a pedestrian strike. Sabàto now faces charges of leaving the scene without helping an injured person and of leaving a collision that caused injury or death.
A new Next Gen list highlights 35 Hollywood executives and agents, all 35 or younger, who are rising through the ranks despite layoffs.
Marvel's Berger is among them, co-producing Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars with Kevin Feige. Netflix's Brooksbank oversees a scripted slate that includes The Altruists and Ransom Canyon.
Claudia Shin and Louie Hayes are behind Apple TV's Widow's Bay and Prime Video's Sterling Point, while Christian Vazquez brought younger audiences back to theaters with Primetime and You Can See Everything.
Actor Stacy Keach, known for playing private eye Mike Hammer on television, has passed away at 85. His wife, Malgosia Tomassi Keach, said he died at their home in Magdalenka, Poland, on Tuesday after a long struggle with a heart condition and heart failure.
Keach moved between TV, film, and stage work, including many Shakespearean roles. He won a Golden Globe in 1988 for playing writer Ernest Hemingway in a TV movie, and he narrated CNBC's crime documentary series American Greed for a long run.
His Mike Hammer show, also called The New Mike Hammer, ran for three seasons starting in 1984.
The American Film Market's opening day centered on a proposed federal tax incentive meant to bring film and TV production back to the US.
The MPA's Josh Rogin said big movies starring names like Tom Cruise now shoot overseas, taking jobs and taxes along with them. Stephen Paul of SP Media Group is planning a Richard Nixon film to shoot in England because he can't afford to make it in America.
Backers want the bill passed by year's end so projects can start shooting by January 1, 2027.
Wicker, a fantasy romance with Alexander Skarsgård and Olivia Colman in the leads, is gaining ground at the box office. It opened in fifth place on October 23 with $5.7 million domestically, but it has held on well and now sits at $29 million worldwide.
Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson made the film, which reportedly cost $10 million. No weekend drop has topped 24 percent, so it is on course to make a profit from theaters alone, before home video and streaming are counted.
Robert De Niro mocked Elon Musk at a New York screening of Alex Gibney's documentary Musk on Sunday. He noted Musk spent about $300 million on Trump's 2024 win and nearly half a billion on Republicans in the midterms.
De Niro, who co-founded the Tribeca Festival, introduced the film to a roomful of Academy members and said democracy came out on top this round. He also flagged that Tesla will end Cybertruck production next summer.
Gibney thanked De Niro for his support of the resistance.
Emergency crews were called to Jamie Foxx's Thousand Oaks home on Nov. 7 after a caller said a guest had been stabbed in the neck during Skvlk Fest. The guest's wounds were surface-level and were handled by paramedics on the spot.
Authorities detained a male suspect over an alleged assault with a deadly weapon, and what sparked the altercation remains unclear.
The party had first been planned for Oct. 31 but was pushed back because of weather in California. Foxx also shared party highlights from the night on Instagram.
Early reactions to Ebenezer are mostly positive. Ti West's gothic take on A Christmas Carol stars Johnny Depp as Scrooge, and several critics said he is excellent in the role and praised the film's look.
It's Depp's first studio movie since his 2022 trial against Amber Heard. The cast also includes Rupert Grint, Andrea Riseborough, Daisy Ridley and Ian McKellen. Not everyone was impressed, though. One critic called it unremarkable, and another saw little fresh in the story.
Paramount releases Ebenezer in theaters on November 13.
Skydance posted its first quarterly results since finishing its $81 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount Skydance by itself recorded $73 million in net income on about $7 billion in revenue.
Studios revenue rose 23% and Paramount+ grew 21%, while TV media revenue fell 7% to $3 billion.
The company is targeting at least $6 billion in synergies within three years. Its co-CEOs also expect the Warner Bros. film slate in the fourth quarter to fall short.
Druski hosted Saturday Night Live this past weekend, billed as the first host from online content, though Issa Rae and Quinta Brunson, who also began online, hosted earlier.
The standout was a four-minute short called 'Dru Can See Everything,' a spoof of the Elizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything. Druski plays a stand-in for Nathan Fielder in it, and the sketch has since gone viral online.
He also plays Holmes herself, in whiteface, prosthetics and a blond wig. Druski has more than 13 million Instagram followers.
Joel Kinnaman's R-rated thriller The Beast arrives on digital Tuesday, November 17, at midnight ET. It opened in theaters on October 9.
Kinnaman plays Taft, a Secret Service agent protecting the U.S. President from threats inside an armored vehicle called The Beast. Samuel L. Jackson plays the President, and Renny Harlin directed.
It sits at 50% on Rotten Tomatoes from 22 critic reviews, and the audience score is also 50%. One critic gave it 4 out of 10, saying Jackson's performance is the only reason to watch.
Brandon Hall, who played Alfalfa in The Little Rascals, has faced repeated legal trouble since leaving acting in 2020 to live off the grid with very little money in Arkansas.
He was arrested in Texas for allegedly inhaling fumes from compressed air cans, and in Ohio in April 2026 over a missed court date. He also received a traffic ticket for lacking liability insurance.
Now he and his wife, who are expecting their sixth child, have started a GoFundMe seeking $2,000 after falling behind on some bills. It has raised nearly $21,000 so far.
Justin Guarini, the first runner-up on American Idol, has opened up about a difficult stretch after his career stalled. When RCA dropped him in 2003, he says he spent months withdrawn and losing weight.
He later went back to performing for smaller crowds, and those shows paved the way for a new chapter. His Broadway debut came in 2010, and he later appeared in Wicked and American Idiot.
He now shares that story in his new book, Center Stage Confidence.
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