Ben Affleck nearly cast ex Jennifer Garner as his wife in Animals — Kerry Washington got the role after a one-line veto
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Ben Affleck nearly cast ex Jennifer Garner as his wife in Animals — Kerry Washington got the role after a one-line veto
File this one under "movies that almost broke the internet before a single frame screened." Ben Affleck's kidnapping thriller Animals hits Netflix October 9, and it very nearly arrived with his actual ex-wife playing his fictional wife.
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Avengers: Endgame Encore has two runtimes, and the cheaper ticket gets three minutes less
Daniel Okafor
Daniel Okafor
Avengers: Endgame Encore has two runtimes, and the cheaper ticket gets three minutes less
Disney puts Avengers: Endgame back in cinemas on Thursday with new footage the Russo brothers say builds a bridge to Doomsday. How much of that bridge you actually get to see depends on which ticket you buy, and the gap between the two versions has now been measured to the second.
Far Cry FX series adds Brendan Gleeson and Jennifer Jason Leigh to its cast — and the Fargo creator won't follow the games
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Far Cry FX series adds Brendan Gleeson and Jennifer Jason Leigh to its cast — and the Fargo creator won't follow the games
Every prestige-TV cycle has its bat-signal, and this week's is Noah Hawley quietly assembling a cast list that reads like an awards-season seating chart. His Far Cry series at FX just added five names, and at least two of them made me put down my coffee.
Wonka's The Golden Ticket controversy explained: Netflix revived Gene Wilder's voice with AI
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Wonka's The Golden Ticket controversy explained: Netflix revived Gene Wilder's voice with AI
Netflix looked at the wreckage of that 2024 Glasgow "Willy's Chocolate Experience" — the one with the meth-lab bouncy castle and the crying children — and thought: what if we did that, but prestige, and with a dead man's voice? Thus, Wonka's The Golden Ticket, premiering September 23.
Brothers on Apple TV: what to know about the McConaughey–Harrelson series premiere
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Brothers on Apple TV: what to know about the McConaughey–Harrelson series premiere
Somewhere between True Detective season 1 and now, Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson stopped being "actors who play best friends" and became "men who might legally be siblings." Apple TV, sensing money, made it a show.
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opening: what's inside the $1 billion building — Star Wars props, Frida Kahlo and 30,000 comics
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opening: what's inside the $1 billion building — Star Wars props, Frida Kahlo and 30,000 comics
Sixteen years, three cities, one very public breakup with San Francisco and Chicago, and roughly a billion dollars later, George Lucas's museum is finally, actually open. The man himself sounds like he barely survived it.
Taylor Tomlinson's first book is a list of opinions she has reversed, and she names the one she never will
Daniel Okafor
Daniel Okafor
Taylor Tomlinson's first book is a list of opinions she has reversed, and she names the one she never will
Taylor Tomlinson has spent fifteen years telling audiences exactly what she thinks about God, therapy, dating and her own family, with the certainty of someone who has worked the bit out on stage. Her first book is a list of the times she got it wrong, and one position she says she will defend to the grave.
Lanterns episode 6 put Carol Ferris at Hal Jordan's funeral, 15 years after Blake Lively played her
Daniel Okafor
Daniel Okafor
Lanterns episode 6 put Carol Ferris at Hal Jordan's funeral, 15 years after Blake Lively played her
Three people came to Hal Jordan's funeral in Lanterns episode 6: two old girlfriends and a colleague who could not stand him. One of those girlfriends has been part of Green Lantern comics since 1959, and what she becomes there would make her the most powerful person at the graveside.
Lanterns episode 6 ending explained: yes, Hal Jordan is dead — and Nathan Fillion's Guy Gardner delivers even worse news
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Lanterns episode 6 ending explained: yes, Hal Jordan is dead — and Nathan Fillion's Guy Gardner delivers even worse news
HBO's Lanterns has been dangling the "is Hal actually dead" question like a cat toy for weeks, and episode 6, "Bad Optics," finally stops playing. He's dead. Extremely dead. Autopsy-confirmed dead.
Lioness season 3 finale ending explained: Aaliyah Amrohi is back as the villain nobody clocked
Tatiana Santos
Tatiana Santos
Lioness season 3 finale ending explained: Aaliyah Amrohi is back as the villain nobody clocked
Raise your hand if you spent eight episodes of Lioness season 3 confidently yelling "it's Russia" at your TV. Now keep it raised if you pivoted to "okay, fine, it's Ukraine" somewhere around episode five. Congratulations, you played yourself, and so did the CIA.