Talk about wild casting news. Nicolas Cage has been tapped to play Joe Exotic, the subject of the popular Netflix docuseries "Tiger King," in a limited series that is currently in development.
Taika Waititi, the New Zealand filmmaker of “Jojo Rabbit” and “Thor: Ragnarok,” will direct a new “Star Wars” film. Waititi had for months been expected to take the reins of the galaxy far, far away, having already directed the season finale of the “Star Wars” streaming spinoff “The Mandalorian.”
Hope, friendship, banding together to fight a deadly threat, an invisible force connecting everyone together. The themes of Star Wars are the same as our lives right now.
Get ready to return to Pawnee. NBC has announced "A Parks and Recreation Special," a scripted 30-minute episode of the comedy that will reunite the entire original cast to benefit Feeding America.
Disney+ now has 50 million paid subscribers globally, putting it within striking range of its initial subscriber projections just five months after it launched.
Disney CEO Bob Iger is stepping down immediately. The surprise announcement Tuesday makes Iger executive chairman, a role he'll keep through the end of his contract at the end of 2021. Iger says it was an "optimal time" to step down following Disney's acquisition of Fox's entertainment assets and the launch of Disney Plus streaming service.
Amid fears stoked by the coronavirus, "Contagion" -- a 2011 movie about a pandemic with potentially eerie similarities to recent events -- has been climbing up the iTunes rental charts, reflecting how people often use fiction as a means to process reality.
The normally private Taylor Swift has premiered a revealingly intimate documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. In it, the pop star discloses a past eating disorder, chronicles her inner battle over speaking out about politics and says her 2017 sexual assault court case was a dramatic turning point in her life.
Terry Jones, a member of the Monty Python troupe that revolutionized British comedy, has died at 77. Jones family says he died Tuesday evening at his home in London after “after a long, extremely brave but always good-humored battle with a rare form of dementia.”
Women directed more of the most popular movies in 2019 than in any year before. The USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative reports that 12 of 2019's top 100-grossing films were directed by women.