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Wicked is one of the biggest and best movies of 2024. It's made over half a billion dollars at the box office, surpassing Mamma Mia! to become the most successful movie ever adapted from a stage musical. Fans have been waiting for a movie version of Wicked ever since the musical hit the stage way back in 2003, so it's no surprise that people turned out to see the film.

Before that, Wicked was a book by author Gregory Maguire: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, published in 1995. The book, which reimagines the story of The Wizard of Oz from the Wicked Witch of the West's point of view, was a hit right from the start, and there were attempts to turn it into a more straightforward movie before composer Stephen Schwartz got ahold of it and made it a musical smash.

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Emma Stone was named the #2 greatest actor of the millennium by The Independent, ahead of big names like Denzel Washington (#4), Nicole Kidman (#5), and Daniel Day-Lewis (#3). The top spot went to the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.

While many people praise Emma’s talent and two Academy Awards, some fans, especially Denzel’s supporters, are upset about the ranking and have shared memes and complaints online. Despite the criticism, others feel Emma’s success proves she deserves the spot, making the debate a hot topic.

Classic stars like Tom Cruise (#60), Hugh Grant (#57), and Leonardo DiCaprio (#17) were ranked lower than younger actors like Florence Pugh (#10), Jennifer Lawrence (#15), and Kristen Stewart (#16).

i love emma stone but she doesnt deserve the second place…it is absurd

— the second wife of mel medarda (@unburdenedjello) December 29, 2024

The moment they put Emma Stone above Ddl I knew this list was just made as a joke.

— Nando (@nandointhewild) December...

Emma Stone was ranked as the #2 greatest actor of the millennium by ‘The Independent,’ beating out iconic stars like Denzel Washington (#4), Nicole Kidman (#5), and Daniel Day-Lewis (#3). The top spot went to the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.

While many admire Emma’s talent and her two Academy Awards, some fans are upset about the ranking, especially Denzel’s supporters, who voiced their frustration online with memes and criticism. Despite the backlash, others believe Emma’s achievements speak for themselves, making the heated debate a trending topic.

Hollywood Legends like Tom Cruise (#60), Hugh Grant (#57), Matthew McConaughey (#55), Kate Winslet (#45) Leonardo DiCaprio (#17) are seemingly overshadowed by their younger colleagues as names like Florence Pugh (#10), Jennifer Lawrence (#15) Kristen Stewart (#16) outrank them.

Fans voiced their opinions online and they were quite convinced that the list was fake:

Emma Stone over Nicole Kidman???

— Kc Cooper (@KrisciaCooper) December 28, 2024

Emma Stone won an Oscar for a musical in which...

Next year promises to be a hot one for European productions, with everything from Netflix’s Italian period drama The Leopard to Max Turkey’s The First Göktürk drawing audiences to non-English-language fare. Throw in the second season of young adult crowd pleaser Maxton Hall: The World Between Us and Prime Video Italy’s Jesse Williams vehicle Costiera and it promises to be a bumper 2025. Read on for our selection, and add your own in the comments.

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We’re starting our tour with Disney+’s first Nordic original series, given that it premieres in select countries and on Hulu in the U.S. on January 22. It began airing on SVT1 in Sweden over Christmas, but we’ll give it a pass given the worldwide launch is etched in for 2025. The political satire — from Patrick Nebout, Henrik Jansson-Schweizer and Magnus Bimberg’s Humanoids — revolves...

Happy Holidays from The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.

Today we discuss the incomparable Al Pacino with the returning Mitchell Beaupre! Our B-Sides today include Bobby Deerfield, Revolution, Frankie & Johnny, and Danny Collins. We discuss Pacino’s legacy (is he our greatest living actor?), his Oscar win for Scent of a Woman (what a silly plot that movie has!), and his deeply earnest autobiography Sonny Boy.

We dish on what doesn’t work about Bobby Deerfield, what does work about Revolution (hint: it’s the production design), how Michelle Pfeiffer was unfairly criticized for Frankie & Johnny, and why Danny Collins is much better than you think.

Conor asks: Is Adam Sandler the new Pacino? Mitchell asks: Was Pacino’s smallness in Bobby Deerfield and its failure a primary reason...

Danielle Vasinova stars in the Yellowstone spinoff series 1923 and the upcoming The Madison. She played Ata Waipa in 1923 and stars as Kestrel Harris in The Madison. This should help her expand on her already successful acting career, as she won a Daytime Emmy Award for her work on The Bay.

However, she almost didn’t make it this far. Danielle, 42, almost died and has shared the story as she prepares for the bigger role in the Yellowstone universe.

Yellowstone Star Talks Death Experience

The Yellowstone spinoff star didn’t almost die. According to the actress, she did die. She said that in December 2019, months before the world learned about Covid-19. she fell ill with what she thought was the flu. It was much worse and she said that she actually died during this time.

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Danielle said she was misdiagnosed with strep throat at an urgent care center in Los Angeles.

The long-awaited finale of Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone aired last week and broke a major ratings record. According to a press release, the final episode was watched by 13.1 million total viewers, making it the biggest episode in the series’ history. The second half of the fifth season was also the most-watched Yellowstone season on social media, with 619 million engagements—a 55% increase compared to the first half of the season.

The Yellowstone finale has concluded the tale of the Dutton family—but wait, not really. There are plenty of Yellowstone projects in development, including a potential spinoff series featuring Cole Hauser and Kelly Reilly returning as Rip and Beth. There’s also The Madison, which has some serious star power behind it. Michelle Pfeiffer is set to star in and executive produce the new show, which follows a New York City family in the Madison River valley of central Montana. Per Paramount,...

After five buzzy, immensely popular seasons of television, Taylor Sheridan's "Yellowstone" has finally galloped off into the sunset. Fans know this is far from the end of the franchise, though; the prequel series "1923," starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, will return for its second and final season in February 2025, while the spinoffs "1944," "The Madison" (with Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Fox), an untitled continuation of the Beth (Kelly Reilly) and Rip (Cole Hauser) storyline, and probably "6666" are en route. "Yellowstone," for better or worse, is going nowhere.

One person who's unlikely to ever set foot on the ranch again is Kevin Costner, the star whose John Dutton III was the driving force of the original series. Costner and Sheridan's happy creative marriage hit the rocks hard when the duo couldn't work out how the former would be able to shoot his Western movie epic "Horizon: An American Saga...

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The “Yellowstone” finale has further cemented its status as the most-watched episode in the history of the Paramount Network original. The last episode in Season 5 has now seen a total of 13.1 million viewers, an increase from the 11.4 million viewers the episode saw on its premiere night.

This data came from VideoAmp instead of Nielsen as Paramount Global and Nielsen are in the midst of a contract dispute. It includes the episode’s premieres on Paramount Network and CMT.

Overall, the second half of Season 5 was the most-watched season in the history of “Yellowstone,” securing 13.6 million viewers, including all cable premiere broadcasts as well as the first episode’s CBS broadcast. The back half of Season 5 marked a 3% increase in viewership compared to the first half of Season 5.

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top actresses who were about to star in Wicked (Photo Credit – Instagram)

The success of Wicked has opened up a lot of unique conversations when it comes to films and their production. Whether it’s the equal pay received by Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande or the casting process of the musical fantasy. The blockbuster film, co-starring Jonathan Bailey, has dominated the box office worldwide and its collections are increasing with each day.

But the film which was adapted from the stage musical of the same name wasn’t always supposed to be led by this set of actors. Marc Platt, one of the two producers of the movie, recently opened up about how years back several A-list actors were in talks to star in Wicked. Here’s what we know.

Producer Reveals A-Listers Who Were In Talks To Star In Wicked

During his conversation with Vanity Fair, Platt opened...

10 best Christmas movies that you must watch in 2024 (Photo Credit – Facebook)

Few days on the calendar induce audiences like Christmas, making everyone from families to individuals and casual viewers to movie fanatics, to embrace the season through films. With Santa Claus’s arrival just around the corner, here, we present a varied range of those significant holiday movies—from heartwarming fan-favorite holiday classics and superhero flicks to uncomfortable horrors and thrillers that disguise the cozy holiday into a shivering, darker, more twisted experience, proving Christmas isn’t always merry.

10. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Photo Credit – Facebook)

Dr. Seuss’ titular bad guy character is brought to life by Jim Carrey in this 2000 iteration directed by Ron Howard. One of two iconic Christmas fantasies starring Carrey, alongside A Christmas Carol, this adaptation reimagines the Grinch as a bitter, misanthropic humanoid plotting to ruin Christmas for the Whos in Whoville.

Two decades ago, the Wicked movie could’ve looked very different.

In a joint conversation with Vanity Fair, Marc Platt, who produced the 2024 film, Wicked author Gregory Maguire and composer Stephen Schwartz recalled the first efforts in the late 1990s to turn the story into a feature film.

He detailed a world in which stars like Demi Moore, Nicole Kidman and more were interested in playing the beloved roles of Elphaba and Glinda, which eventually went to Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande in this year’s adaptation of the musical.

“I am going to try and get the timeline right if I can remember, but I believe when I became the president of production at Universal, the project was already here,” Platt said. “It had been optioned initially by Demi Moore’s company.”

Platt knew that Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of...

Long before Wicked made the jump from stage to screen, the 1995 Gregory Maguire novel had Hollywood in a frenzy.

Jon M. Chu‘s recent movie musical adaptation marks a long journey to the big screen for the Wizard of Oz prequel, with Whoopi Goldberg vying for the rights to Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West shortly after the bestseller’s debut.

“This is true,” Goldberg’s rep told Vanity Fair. “Whoopi loved the book and tried hard to get the rights.”

According to Maguire, Goldberg wasn’t the only actress to throw her hat in the ring. “People who had expressed an interest in the first six months included Whoopi Goldberg and Claire Danes. Salma Hayek had had some interest, and Laurie Metcalf,” he recalled.

The author was hoping to work with Demi Moore, who optioned the rights through her production company Moving Pictures,...

The “Wicked” movie is a box office powerhouse with $530 million and counting at the global box office. It’s also a critical darling, earning rave reviews and Oscar buzz for its leading ladies Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. But what if “Wicked” had originally been made decades ago with Demi Moore as the green-skinned Elphaba? A new report from Vanity Fair dives into the first attempts to bring “Wicked” to the big screen in the late 1990s.

“I am going to try and get the timeline right if I can remember, but I believe when I became the president of production at Universal, the project was already here,” producer Marc Platt told the publication. “It had been optioned initially by Demi Moore’s company.”

Platt was convinced that Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West” would make for a great film adaptation.

Pretty Woman’s lead role went to various actresses before Julia Roberts ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

After this, Julia Roberts snagged the role to launch her to global fame. It was a classic mix of talent, timing, and, let’s be honest, some seriously quirky Hollywood decisions.

Let’s start with Molly Ringwald. The teen queen of the 1980s turned down Vivian because she felt “something icky about it.” She candidly told The Guardian that even back then, she sensed a story vibe that just didn’t sit right. Ringwald’s hesitation paved the way for others to test their luck—and face similar hurdles.

So who else tried to snag the role of Vivian? Let’s just say Disney and Garry Marshall, the director behind Pretty Woman, had some ambitious picks. Karen Allen was first in the mix. Then came Winona Ryder, Jennifer Connelly, and even Diane Lane. But each time,...

A new piece from Vanity Fair tracks the journey of Wicked from page to screen, and there were some surprising twists and turns on that yellow brick road. If you've read Gregory Maguire's Wicked, you know it's a lot denser and darker than what ended up on Broadway. Nevertheless,...

Fresh off the conclusion (maybe?) of “Yellowstone,” another Taylor Sheridan show just got renewed. “Mayor of Kingstown” will return for Season 4, Paramount+ announced on Wednesday, ensuring that Jeremy Renner’s Mike McLusky will be back.

Sheridan co-created the drama series with Hugh Dillon, and the third season ranked as the No. 1 series on Paramount+ throughout its run.

In Season 3, a series of explosions rocked Kingstown and its citizens, as a new face of the Russian mob set up shop in the city, and a drug war raged inside and outside prison walls. The pressure was on Mike McLusky to end the war but things got complicated when a familiar face from his incarcerated past threatened to undermine the Mayor’s attempts to keep the peace among all factions.

Renner returned to “Mayor of Kingstown” for Season 3 following his near-fatal snowplow accident in 2023.

The series is one of several shows that...

Were Tom Holland and Mark Ruffalo confused about Tony Stark’s funeral? ( Photo Credit – Instagram; Facebook )

In a wild twist, the climactic scene where Tony Stark’s cabin-side memorial takes place was actually filmed as a wedding scene instead of a funeral. Yes, a wedding. Talk about commitment to secrecy.

You read that right. In one of the most somber moments of Endgame, where emotions ran high as Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) set Tony’s “Proof That Tony Stark Has a Heart” wreath adrift, no one spoke. The camera glided across cast members, each one trying not to give away a single hint. Per Tom Holland and Mark Ruffalo—two of Marvel’s most notorious spoiler risks—the scene was initially presented to them as a wedding, not a funeral. They were kept in the dark, like the rest of us, until the cameras started rolling.

This peculiar setup highlights...

Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone universe has lassoed another offshoot — The Madison — into development.

The show won’t follow the Dutton family as Season 5B of the flagship series awaits its premiere and farewell of sorts to John Dutton (Kevin Costner) and other characters, though Costner will not return. Deadline exclusively confirmed an offshoot of Yellowstone with Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser.

For everything we know about The Madison, read on.

What is The Madison about?

The Madison will follow the McIntosh family, a New York City family living in the Madison River valley of central Montana.

Related: ‘Yellowstone’ Finale: How Taylor Sheridan Wrapped Up (For Now) His Hit Drama On Paramount

Who will be in The Madison?

Kevin Zegers is the latest addition to the next installment in the Yellowstone universe. He will play Cade, new neighbor of Michelle Pfeiffer’s Stacy Clyburn. Cade is responsible for looking after their property until they arrive.

Yellowstone spinoff The Madison is rounding out its ensemble.

Kevin Zegers (The Rookie: Feds), Rebecca Spence (61st Street), Danielle Vasinova (The Bay) and Alaina Pollack have been cast in the Taylor Sheridan offshoot, Variety reports. They join previously announced series regulars Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Fox (Lost), Patrick J. Adams (Suits), Beau Garrett (The Good Doctor), Amiah Miller (My Best Friend’s Exorcism) and Elle Chapman.

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“The Madison,” the new upcoming series in the “Yellowstone” universe, has added four new cast members.

Variety has learned that Kevin Zegers, Rebecca Spence, Alaina Pollack and Danielle Vasinova have all joined the new Taylor Sheridan series. They will appear alongside previously announced cast members Michelle Pfeiffer, Patrick J. Adams, Elle Chapman, Matthew Fox, Beau Garrett, Ben Schnetzer and Amiah Miller.

The official logline for “The Madison” describes it as a “heartfelt study of grief and human connection following a New York City family in the Madison River valley of central Montana.”

Zegers will play Cade, described as “Stacy’s (Pfeiffer) new neighbor, asked to look out for the place until the family showed up.” Pollack will play Macy, said to be “Abigail’s (Garrett) youngest daughter, who also grew up in a wealthy New York City family.” Spence will play Liliana Weeks, “Stacy’s friend and a fellow member...

Kevin Zegers is the newest addition to the cast of The Madison, the next installment in Taylor Sheridan’s growing Yellowstone universe.

Produced by MTV Entertainment Studios, 101 Studios and Bosque Ranch Productions, The Madison is billed as a heartfelt study of grief and human connection, following a New York City family in the Madison River valley of central Montana.

Zegers plays Cade, the new neighbor of Stacy Clyburn (Michelle Pfeiffer), who’s asked to look out for the place until the family shows up. In addition to Pfeiffer, the cast includes Patrick J. Adams, Elle Chapman, Matthew Fox, Beau Garrett, Ben Schnetzer and Amiah Miller, as previously announced.

Exec producers on The Madison include Sheridan, David C. Glasser, John Linson, Art Linson, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, David Hutkin, Christina Voros, Michael Friedman, Pfeiffer and Keith Cox.

Acting since age six, Zegers most recently took on the male lead opposite...

Yellowstone, the perpetually snubbed by the Emmys frontier drama, aired its likely final episode on Monday night, to 11.4 million same-day viewers. The fifth and final season was split in two, and the big conclusion was a 4% increase over the last episode in season “5A.”

While these numbers are nothing compared to finale records of past generations—the 1983 conclusion of M*A*S*H had 106 million viewers in the United States alone—take a moment to consider that this means, in the age of streaming and apps and TikTok and whatnot, that 11.4 million television sets were tuned, at the same time, to Paramount Network or CMT.

The season 5B premiere in November, the first episode following the departure of Oscar and Emmy-winner Kevin Costner, carried a whopping 16.4 million viewers. That special event episode and its same-day encores aired on 8 cable networks plus CBS.

Paramount Global also boasted that the Costner-free Season...

Was Annette Bening supposed to play Catwoman? ( Photo Credit – YouTube )

Yes, the role of Catwoman in Batman Returns. Annette Bening had already accepted the job back in the early ‘90s—but then, motherhood showed up uninvited, like an unplanned plot twist in a Batman script.

Annette Bening was all in for Selina Kyle. She got cast, fitted for a catsuit, and even went through the process of body casting—like, a full-body mold of her shape. But life, as it often does, threw a curveball. She got pregnant. Surprise pregnancy. Like an unexpected villain making a grand entrance. During an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Bening shared how it all went down:

“You know what happened was I got pregnant – Yeah I did [laughter] – and I mean it was so surprising because I was trying to get pregnant, and I had never been pregnant, so I didn’t know...

After years of entertaining, baffling, and shocking us, the tales of the Dutton family have come to an end, and Yellowstone is finally over. But given the talent that is Taylor Sheridan, he is once again working on another spinoff set in the Yellowstone universe, starting from where the series ended.

Kevin Costner’s ‘Old King is Dead’ | Credit: Yellowstone / Paramount

While ‘The Old King is Dead, Long Live the King’ resonates louder than ever with Kevin Costner’s John Dutton being dead, Sheridan has found a new ‘King’ to lead this next spin-off: Lost’s Matthew Fox.

Matthew Fox to lead the next Yellowstone spin-off Matthew Fox in a still from Lost | Credit: ABC

Yellowstone might be over but Taylor Sheridan is far from done with his critically acclaimed and world-famous Montana settings. After whipping up successful spin-offs like 1883 and 1923, the brilliant writer and director is working on yet another spin-off,...

Yellowstone, the long-running drama about the Dutton ranching family, came to an end the other night with its season 5 finale, "Life Is A Promise." The series has been a huge hit for the Paramount Network, spawning multiple spinoffs. But the final season hasn't been received as warmly as past seasons by fans, whether because they think the writing has degraded or because star Kevin Costner stepped away from the series, necessitating several story pivots. Maybe both.

But how are fans receiving the series finale? At the moment, the narrative is that they aren't taking it too well. "Dumb ending #Yellowstone #YellowstoneTV," one fan wrote, per The Express. "That was probably the worst final season in television history," wrote another. You get the idea.

One person compared the ending of Yellowstone to the ending of Game of Thrones, which had a famously huge backlash among fans: “It is official. Game of Thrones...

An untitled new Guy Ritchie series starring Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren; espionage thriller The Agency featuring Michael Fassbender and Richard Gere; The Madison, a new spinoff in Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone universe with Michelle Pfeiffer; Ella Purnell-starring Sweetpea; and the return of America’s favorite serial killer in prequel series Dexter: Original Sin as well as Dexter: Resurrection are just some examples of the high-profile content coming to SkyShowtime in 2025.

The streaming joint venture between Comcast and Paramount Global unveiled its slate for the new year, including new and exclusive series, local originals, and first-run Hollywood films, on Monday.

By the end of 2024, the streamer will have delivered 20 originals across its more than 20 markets, with a further 10 SkyShowtime originals set to hit the platform in 2025. Among them are the Feb. 9-debuting docuseries Schmeichel, chronicling the highs and lows of iconic Danish soccer goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel, and...

Dutton Ranch closed its doors for the last time on Sunday, Dec. 15 with the Yellowstone season 5 finale... or did it? With all of the drama going behind the scenes with the hit Paramount Network series, it's understandable if you're a bit confused on where the show stands moving forward. Is it canceled? Is it over for good? Is Yellowstone season 6 happening?

It's complicated, and unnecessarily so. There have been conflicting reports over the past year about the future of Yellowstone following the departure of series star Kevin Costner. But its uncertain fate seems to have been resolved just in time for the original flagship series, which launched an entire universe of hit shows, to sign off with its season 5 finale — and (unofficial?) series finale.

Even though the Paramount Network has continued to market the season 5 finale as just that, a season finale, a new era seems to already be taking shape for the Western phenomenon.

“Yellowstone” is due to conclude just as soon as it came back, but will the beloved show be gone for good? Fans waited years for Season 5 to continue after it was cut in half, only for series star Kevin Costner to depart the show before filming resumed on the back half of the season. During that time, Paramount announced that the show would be ending with the final episodes of “Yellowstone” Season 5B, and now the very last episode will air on Sunday. Or will it?

Everything you need to know about the “Yellowstone” season finale below.

What time is the “Yellowstone” season finale?

The “Yellowstone” Season 5B finale, which is the 14th episode of Season 5 overall, airs on Paramount Network at 8 p.m. Et/Pt. But stay tuned — the “Yellowstone” finale is a super-sized episode that will run one hour and 26 minutes. That’s basically a “Yellowstone” movie!

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Yellowstone is in its fifth and final season, with only one episode left to air. While behind-the-scenes drama between showrunner Taylor Sheridan and Kevin Costner led to the latter’s departure, the series remains a ratings juggernaut and continues to spawn spin-offs. The latest is an upcoming spin-off starring Kelly Reilly & Cole Hauser, who will reprise their Yellowstone roles.

While spin-offs like 6666 and The Madison have been announced or are in production,...

Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler may not be riding off into the sunset just yet.

The fan-favorite Yellowstone couple played by Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser, respectively, have been in talks to continue to expand Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone-verse since this summer. Then on Wednesday, just days ahead of the season 5B finale, multiple reports surfaced that the pair have finalized deals — not for a sixth season, but for their own spinoff series.

The news, if true, was essentially a spoiler — and explains why nothing has been publicly confirmed. (Paramount Network has not commented.)

Heading into Sunday’s epic conclusion to the currently airing season, anything could have happened. A confirmed spinoff series with two of the show’s main stars would spoil for the audience that they survive whatever is ahead in the nail-biting finale for the main Dutton family, which also includes Luke Grimes and Wes Bentley.

The future of the “Yellowstone” universe is coming together. Deadline reports that series stars Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser have closed deals to lead a spinoff series. The news comes ahead of the “Yellowstone” finale on Sunday, Dec. 15. Paramount Network declined to comment.

The new series is being developed by franchise creator Taylor Sheridan and will likely feature other “Yellowstone” characters alongside Reilly, who plays Beth Dutton, the hard-charging daughter of the late John Dutton, and Hauser, who plays Beth’s tough husband, ranch foreman Rip Wheeler. It will feature “Yellowstone” in the title.

Reports for plans of a continuation of TV’s most popular show have been swirling since “Yellowstone” star Kevin Costner left the series early last year. In August, Deadline reported that “Yellowstone” would actually return for Season 6. But now, plans are reportedly coalescing around a spinoff, which will allow Paramount to retain streaming rights for the...

It looks like “Yellowstone” is continuing past Season 5 after all. Series stars Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser have closed deals to lead a spinoff series, according to multiple media reports.

The two actors portray Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler on “Yellowstone” and will reprise their characters in the spinoff. Taylor Sheridan, the creator of “Yellowstone” and the mastermind behind its many sequels, will be involved in the upcoming project. It’s been reported that this will be the first spinoff in this universe that will include “Yellowstone” in its title.

This will be far from the first spinoff in this universe. The series’ first came three years after its 2018 premiere. “1883” starred Sam Elliot, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill and told the story of a generation of the Dutton family that experienced the Old West. That was followed in 2022 by another Paramount+ original, “1923.” That installment starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren...

An ambitious project, Yellowstone is set to end in just a few days with the highly-anticipated Season 5 finale, which is also going to serve as the series finale. The series started off great, but you probably know that the production of the recent seasons was burdened by several controversies.

While you might have thought that this would kill the franchise as a whole, it has officially been confirmed that the Yellowstone franchise won’t be ending on December 15, 2024, when the fifth season’s final episode is going to air. This means that more Yellowstone content will be released in the future.

While you might have thought that a sixth season is on the way, we can confirm that it is not a continuation of the main series but rather a spin-off series that will be focused on two of the series’ best and most popular characters. Who? Keep reading to find out!

Exclusive: The upcoming Season 5 finale of Yellowstone will not be the end of the Dutton clan’s story. Series standouts Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser have closed deals to lead a spinoff series, reprising their roles as Beth Dutton and Rip Wheeler, respectively, sources tell Deadline.

Taylor Sheridan, the mastermind behind Yellowstone and its ever-expanding universe, is working on the creative for the new show, which will likely feature other cast members from the mothership series alongside Reilly and Hauser, I hear. Led by Yellowstone characters played by the same actors in the same present-day time frame, the new offshoot shares the most DNA with the mothership of any shows in the Yellowstone universe to date, which explains why it will be the first spinoff to carry Yellowstone in the title, sources said.

Ahead of the Sunday Season 5 finale of Yellowstone, there had been growing confusion over what happens next...

Taylor Sheridan stepped behind the camera for what may be the final episode of Yellowstone.

The co-creator and writer of the hit Paramount Network series directed the final episode of season 5B that airs on Sunday, The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively reveal. The sixth and final installment in the season is being described as a special season finale event and airs at 8 p.m. on Paramount Network.

The Dec. 15 episode will also be supersized, running one hour and 26 minutes. Titled, “Life Is A Promise,” the logline for the Sheridan-penned ending reads, “The fate of the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch is revealed.”

Sheridan, who writes all episodes in the series, directed the entire first season of Yellowstone, which launched in 2018. Since then, he has directed many episodes within his stable of Sheridan-verse series for Paramount+, including Mayor of Kingstown, Yellowstone prequel 1883, Lioness and Landman, the latter which is currently airing its debut season.

1992's "Batman Returns" was initially met with a reaction somewhere between confused and concerned, mostly due to it being a much darker affair than audiences and critics had expected. But it has since firmly established its standing as one of the great Batman interpretations. Even as Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy mostly dominates conversations about the greatest Batman movies, "Batman Returns" remains an inspired and beautiful expressionist nightmare that represents a full realization of director Tim Burton's artistic vision.

But it wasn't just Burton's direction and production designer Bo Welch's Art Deco-meets-Fascism set design that made "Returns" such an immersive and unforgettable experience. Danny DeVito's performance as Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin stole the show — which, considering this was a movie that also starred Michael Keaton, Christopher Walken, and Michelle Pfeiffer, is a pretty impressive accomplishment. While Colin Farrell hated his costume for 2024's "The Penguin" series,...

“Within every man there are two men. One who learns to be civilized by day. One who longs to be savage by night.”

So begins the theatrical teaser for Mike Nichols’ Wolf (1994). I remember seeing it for the first time on the “Coming Soon” section of a freshly bought VHS tape brought home by my mom (it might have been Bram Stoker’s Dracula or maybe Jurassic Park) and at the time it scared the hell out of me. The sight of a beastly Jack Nicholson, heaving with barely repressed lust and violence over the prone body of Michelle Pfeiffer, was spooky to me in a way movies can only be when you’re eight years old and the possibility of monsters being around every corner is still very viable to you.

That trailer now feels like a fading snapshot of a Hollywood that used to be able to get...

Producer Paul Maslansky, who came up with the premise for the first Police Academy movie and got help from three world-class directors to push the troubled cult classic Return to Oz past the finish line, has died. He was 91.

Maslansky died Monday of natural causes at a hospital in Los Robles, California, his partner of 16 years, Sally Emr, told The Hollywood Reporter.

The New Yorker made his producing debut in Italy on The Castle of the Living Dead (1964), starring Christopher Lee, and he filmed George Cukor’s penultimate feature, the Elizabeth Taylor-starring The Blue Bird (1976), and Fred Schepisi’s The Russia House (1990), starring Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer, in the Soviet Union.

Maslansky, who collaborated often with Oscar winner Alan Ladd Jr., also produced Larry Peerce’s Love Child (1982), starring Amy Madigan in the true story of a woman who is impregnated by a guard in prison and has...

When an actor stars in a film, their promotional responsibilities are often written into their contracts. They have to appear on talk shows or post about the film on their social media accounts ... or even just not say anything bad about the production, no matter how the film turns out.

With the benefit of time, though, many actors look back on their work and want to let fans know that they were just as disappointed as we were. An actor trashing their own movie lets us know that they're human just like the rest of us, and that they too can tell when something just didn't work. It can also make for a great press anecdote. Take Dennis Hopper, for example, who told The A.V. Club that his son once asked him why he bothered to star in "Super Mario Bros." The "Easy Rider" star recalled telling his son, 'Well,...

Exclusive: Here’s your first look at Diane Kruger and Anamaria Vartolomei in Merteuil, Max’s anticipated reimagining of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’s classic novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liasions).

We can reveal today that the series will be titled The Seduction in all territories outside of France and will launch in the second half of 2025. Filming continues in France until the end of this month.

Also starring are Vincent Lacoste, Lucas Bravo, Julien De Saint Jean, Noée Abita, Fantine Harduin, and Patrick d’Assumçao.

The synopsis reads: “To be the hero of your own story, you sometimes have to be the villain in others. Marquise de Merteuil, betrayed by Valmont, embarks on a daring journey to become Paris’ leading courtesan.”

Max has described its first French Original drama as a free adaptation of Laclos’s steamy novel and “an exploration of the price of emotional and sexual freedom — in...

As a special holiday gift to The Film Stage podcast feed, listen to a new Box Office Bonanza! Here we talk about random box office weekends and where they fit into our lives. The movies, the memories! This episode features Dan Mecca, Conor O’Donnell, Mitchell Beaupre, Jordan Raup, and Cory Everett.

The box office weekend in question is July 21, 2000. The number one movie in the country was the Robert Zemeckis-directed, Clark Gregg-scripted, Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer-starring supernatural thriller What Lies Beneath. The number three movie was the second Pokémon feature film, Pokémon 2000. Gladiator was still in theaters, so was U-571.

But at the start, we mount a passionate defense of the new Zemeckis epic Here, which has now arrived digitally. After that, we talk about Martin Lawrence movies. We talk about how horrible Greg Kinnear’s character is in Amy Heckerling’s Loser. We talk...

When it comes to Hollywood’s handsome hunks, no one can beat George Clooney. Think of charm, sophistication, and that dazzling smile that graced red carpets and screens for decades. But behind that aura lies a career that’s been a bit of a rollercoaster, especially when it comes to the box office.

Sure, Clooney’s Hollywood royalty, but his journey in the film industry has had its fair share of big wins and surprising stumbles. Take Gravity for instance, a cinematic masterpiece that grossed a hefty box office success and cemented Clooney’s place as a bankable star. But besides floating in space with Sandra Bullock, Clooney went through challenges before hitting another jackpot.

George Clooney in Tomorrowland (Credits- Walt Disney Studios)

Undoubtedly, Hollywood loves a good underdog and Clooney’s acting career features a thrilling gamble. From the fame of the Ocean’s Eleven franchise to Tomorrowland, his career...

Nicole Kidman kicked off another dreaded round of Martin Scorsese discourse when she said she'd like to make a movie with the director "if he does a film with women." Lots of cinema fans had lots to say about this, but in Lorraine Bracco's opinion, she has a bit of a point.

No two actors shaped the role of James Bond as profoundly as Sean Connery and Daniel Craig. Connery was the first to bring him to life, and Craig saw him die. Both were physically imposing—Connery the ex-bodybuilder, and Craig with “that beautiful boxer’s face.” Both were in their...

Odds are you’ve heard of “Yellowstone,” which has become a massive hit on television over its past five seasons. It’s so popular it’s already spurred multiple splashy prequel shows, with creator Taylor Sheridan involved in all the shows. But actually finding where to watch “Yellowstone” – which stars Kevin Costner as the patriarch of a powerful ranch family in Montana — is a bit tricky. That’s where we come in.

Below, we run down everything you need to know about how to watch “Yellowstone” – where it’s streaming, how many seasons are on the horizon, and where to watch it on TV.

Where does “Yellowstone” air?

“Yellowstone” is a Paramount Network original, and new seasons of the show air on TV on the Paramount Network. Season 5 premiered in November 2022, and the second half of Season 5 started airing in November 2024. New episodes are rolling out weekly on Paramount Network.

Suits star Patrick J. Adams is opening up about his difficulties during the series’ seventh season when he left the long-running USA Network legal drama.

In an interview with Jesse Tyler Ferguson on the Nov. 26 episode of Ferguson’s “Dinner’s on Me” podcast, Adams acknowledged “I wasn’t taking good care of my mental health, and I was drinking too much come the end of seventh season. I was in a zone of living a pretty unexamined life. was pretty miserable … was, I would say, pretty depressed.”

“I didn’t have the tools to deal with that depression beyond just spending money and drinking too much, you know, and not really knowing how to talk about it or in therapy sort of, but not really doing it,” Adams continued. “You know what I mean? Like, there are all these things that I knew I needed to probably be doing and I wasn’t doing.

In 1994, David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Steven Spielberg -- three of Hollywood's biggest power players -- united to form a brand-new major motion picture studio called DreamWorks, something that hadn't been attempted in decades. The trio of execs had three stipulations: they wouldn't make any more than nine films a year, they would be allowed to make movies for other studios, and they would be able to go home in time for dinner.

For three years, the trio would wrangle contracts and make deals with various music, film, and television entities to make sure it was standing on solid ground and could handle being the outsize business entity they wanted it to be. In 1997, DreamWorks finally released its first three movies: "The Peacemaker," "Amistad," and "Mouse Hunt." The year after, the studio broke into feature animation with the bad-but-popular CGI insect film "Antz" and the highly acclaimed and very good "The Prince of Egypt,...

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Netflix has the biggest content library of any streaming service, and for that reason, many movies from the past are available on it. So, we thought about all the fans of old brilliant movies that are now characterized as classics and decided to compile a list of the best classic movies on Netflix that you should check out right now.

Scarface Credit – Universal Pictures

Scarface is a crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma from a screenplay by Oliver Stone. Based on the 1930 novel of the same name by Armitage Trail and its 1932 film adaptation, the 1983 film follows Tony Montana and his close friend Manny, who build a ruthless and successful drug empire in Miami. However as Tony’s power grows so do his enemies, but the biggest threat to his empire is his own paranoia. Scarface stars Al Pacino,...

Writer and director Taylor Sheridan’s empire has expanded ever since his films and then multitude of television shows that began with Yellowstone. The western drama series starring Kevin Costner, Kelly Reilly, Cole Hauser and more debuted in 2018 and has made it to five seasons. Prequel shows have spun off the show as well.

Sheridan has also shaped projects like Tulsa King starring Sylvester Stallone, Special Ops: Lioness starring Zoe Saldaña and Nicole Kidman and Mayor of Kingstown with Jeremy Renner. He has The Madison starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Beau Garrett, Elle Chapman and Patrick J. Adams in the works as well. He executive produced Chad Feehan’s Lawmen: Bass Reeves starring David Oyelowo, Lauren E. banks, Demi Singleton, and he also executive produced Willie Nelson & Family, Finestkind (2023), Pure Grit (2021), Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021) and The Last Cowboy (2019).

As an actor, he appeared in 12 Strong (2018), Sons of Anarchy (2011), Veronic Mars (2005-2007) and more.