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It's common Hollywood practice for a comedic actor to break out of their comfort zone and take on the gauntlet of a dramatic performance. Over the years, many hilarious actors have demonstrated their proficiency in this endeavor. Legendary comedian Steve Carell is a prime example of someone who excels at shifting between genres — after leaving the hit NBC sitcom The Office, which is now getting a reboot, he went on to deliver several stellar dramatic performances.

The opposite is a far less likely scenario. For the most part, actors who built their careers upon dramatic roles stay in their lane. Unless they've had previous experience with the comedy genre, their presence is generally unexpected. However, when a serious movie star gives comedy a try, it's always hysterical, as the no-nonsense image that their prior roles have created is immediately and hilariously broken down.

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Justin Baldoni's lawyer claims that one Deadpool & Wolverine character was created to mock the star as It Ends With Us legal battles between lead stars Blake Lively and Baldoni continue. In late December, Lively formally launched a lawsuit against Baldoni and others for sexual harassment and orchestrating a smear campaign aimed at destroying her reputation. Meanwhile, Baldoni and his legal team are suing The New York Times for defamation. Lively starred as Ladypool in her husband, Ryan Reynold's Marvel feature.

Baldoni's attorney Bryan Freeman appeared on Megyn Kelly's show to discuss the legal battle, in which he addressed the rumor about Reynold's Nicepool being used to mock the star, as reported by Comic Book Movie. Freeman pointed out the "hair bun" and "the comment about the pregnancy" being an obvious reference to Baldoni. Check out what he said below:

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By now, you've probably heard about the It Ends With Us lawsuit revolving around Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. Lively has accused her co-star and director of sexual harassment, creating a hostile work environment, and orchestrating a smear campaign against her.

She's also claimed that Baldoni engaged in unscripted physical intimacy, discussed his sex life inappropriately, and tried to add a graphic sex scene without consent. Baldoni countersued, alleging Lively attempted to seize control of the film's editing process and damaged his reputation to fix hers.

Both parties have denied the other's accusations and each has shared evidence backing up at least some of their allegations. Now, though, Deadpool & Wolverine has been dragged into the heated back-and-forth.

Baldoni's attorney Bryan Freeman recently appeared on Megyn Kelly's show to discuss the legal battle and was asked about speculation that Ryan Reynolds' Nicepool was used to mock the actor following his on-set clashes with Reynolds' wife.

Blake Lively's complaint against It Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni, filed on Dec. 20, let the public know that the issues between the two on set were more serious than they seemed. However, while the lawsuit was supposed to start her journey to justice, Baldoni filed his own lawsuit at the end of the year.

During an interview with Megyn Kelly on The Megyn Kelly Show, Justin Baldoni's attorney, Bryan Freedman, confirmed that they are planning to sue Blake Lively "into oblivion." The lawyer promised the lawsuit would be "full of evidence, admissions, documents", doubling down on his recent promise to release proof for their allegations. At the same time, Freedman revealed they also intend to sue Ryan Reynolds and addressed the viral claim that the Deadpool & Wolverine variant, Nicepool, is a dig at Justin Baldoni.

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The attorney for Justin Baldoni said on Tuesday that the on-set tensions and allegations of sexual harassment from Blake Lively against his client — “It Ends With Us” director and co-star Justin Baldoni — stemmed from the “unfortunate fact” that Lively did not read the book the film was based on.

Bryan Freedman told Megyn Kelly that Lively, who filed a sexual harassment complaint against Baldoni on Dec. 20, “didn’t understand” some of the content of the film, which is based on the novel of the same name by Colleen Hoover. He did not provide evidence for his assertion that Lively did not read the “It Ends With Us” source material.

Freedman argued if Lively was “sexually harassed to such a degree,”as detailed in her New Year’s Eve lawsuit, “she wouldn’t [have] return[ed] to the film.”

Watch the full “Megyn Kelly Show” segment, which also featured a previously unaired voice note from Baldoni,...

When David Fincher directed “Se7en” in 1995, his reputation was strangely bifurcated. On the one hand, he was a supremely successful commercial and music video director at the top of his field, having helmed innovative and influential shorts for icons including Madonna, Sting, and Rick Springfield. On the other, his one attempt at feature filmmaking, “Alien 3,” had been a bust — a critical disappointment liked by virtually no one, including Fincher himself. Although it has since developed a bit of a cult following, Fincher disowned “Alien 3” and famously said that he’d rather die of colon cancer than direct another movie.

Luckily for him, and for us, Fincher changed his mind when he came across Andrew Kevin Walker’s script for “Se7en,” a perfectly calibrated blend of intellectual philosophizing and pulpy exploitation that ended up beautifully served by Fincher’s unerring ability to push the psychic trauma the story inflicted...

A judge held Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court today after he failed to turn over $11 million in personal assets in a defamation suit. Georgia poll workers sued the disgraced former New York mayor and personal attorney to Donald Trump after he falsely accused them of participating in rigging the 2020 presidential election against Trump. The poll workers won the approximately $150 million suit in 2022 and have since been fighting to recover Giuliani’s assets.

According to Judge Lewis J. Liman, Giuliani “willfully violated a clear and unambiguous order of this court...

Cool air in the evenings, pumpkins on doorsteps, and Spirit of Halloween stores everywhere you look. Yes, it is the most wonderful time of the year for a certain set of us who like our weather settings left at “autumnal” and our genre of choice to be on the spooky side of things.

With that in mind, one of the most pleasurable things to do each October is curl up with a good horror movie and feel the goosebumps gather on the back of your neck. But how do you know if something is a good horror movie, exactly? You watch it for yourself, or you trust the experts, of course! For instance, the most popular streaming service in the world, Netflix, offers a cornucopia of chillers, but which are the ones that might be worth your time? Our staff has put their heads together and come up with the below list.

Be nice to waiters. That’s the first lesson of new four-part BBC One drama Boiling Point. Be nice to waiters not only because it’s nice to be nice, but because however calm and smiling they emerge from behind those flapping kitchen doors, inside blows a hurricane. Personal dramas and business pressures, dodgy colleagues, nightmare customers, shifts that end at midnight and leave you buzzing with adrenaline that needs to go somewhere… it’s the perfect cocktail for dysfunction and conflict. Handily, that in turn is the perfect cocktail for TV drama, as we know from rightly critically acclaimed US series The Bear (watch that and watch this too; there’s plenty of room for both.)

Boiling Point’s second lesson is just to let this creative team get on with it. Give them a second series with the full six episodes immediately, please, because they clearly know what they’re doing.

"One ring to rule them all." No, this isn't J.R.R. Tolkien's universe; it's a sci-fi B-movie starring Josh Hutcherson and Morgan Freeman. 57 Seconds — not 56, not 58 — is their latest project, about an unlikely duo occupying a futuristic society where pharmaceutical CEOs rule the world and time-traveling jewelry might just save (or corrupt) civilization as we know it. Sound familiar? 57 Seconds has familiar themes that weave together a rather thin plot about exposing the dark truths behind the most powerful men on Earth.

Time Travel with an Investigative Twist

Many fans will remember Josh Hutcherson from the beloved Hunger Games films, The Kids Are All Right, and The Disaster Artist. These are all great movies, and to that end, it seems like 57 Seconds is a bit of step back for the actor. Here he plays Franklin, an investigative journalist and blogger who narrates the tale in your typical expositional fashion,...

Update: This giveaway is now closed, but keep an eye out next week, as we'll have more things to give away then!

We're giving away three iTunes codes for the upcoming Morgan Freeman and Josh Hutcherson sci-fi thriller, 57 Seconds. The film's a mysterious time travel story that explores the ethics and consequences of technology. Aside from Hutcherson and Freeman, the film stars Greg Germann (Grey's Anatomy), Lovie Simone (Greenleaf), Bevin Bru (Batwoman), and Sammi Rotibi (The Lost Symbol).

The movie was directed by Rusty Cundieff (Tales From The Hood franchise) and produced by Morgan Freeman’s production company, Revelations Entertainment. Cundieff co-wrote the film with Macon Blair (The Toxic Avenger) based on the short story entitled “Lucifer” by E.C. Tubb. The synopsis reads as follows:

When a tech blogger discovers a time-altering device, he unleashes its power to rewrite the past and seek revenge against the ruthless corporate empire that destroyed his family.

There are multiple canonical questions framed by Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4 Episode 5, but the most pressing by far is how the Caitians and the Betazoids are both Federation members now when one species used to hunt and eat the other.

Seriously, how did that membership application go? As Betazoids don't appear until Tng and Caitians have served in Starfleet since Tas, how did the Caitians feel about their favorite main course protein suddenly becoming political peers?

Putting that aside, Boimler's training and T'Lyn's trauma are the other -- less morally confusing -- narrative pillars in a triumvirate of lessons in growth and acceptance.

Since her introduction on Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 2 Episode 9, T'Lyn's been a misfit of the highest order.

I've always maintained that the main takeaway from "Wej Duj" is that Boimler makes a better Klingon than Mariner makes a Vulcan (meaning T'Lyn).

And while we glimpse...

Netflix is set to release a new documentary series that will take viewers on a breathtaking journey through the history and diversity of life on Earth. Life on Our Planet, narrated by Morgan Freeman and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, will explore how life has conquered, adapted and survived on our planet across billions of years.

The series, which will premiere on October 25, 2023, will consist of eight episodes, each focusing on a different aspect of life’s evolution and challenges. From the origins of life in the oceans to the rise of the dinosaurs, from the emergence of mammals to the dawn of humanity, from the ice ages to the present day, the series will showcase the amazing variety and beauty of life on our planet, as well as the threats and opportunities it faces in the future.

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The series will also feature stunning visuals and soundtracks,...

Lt. Boimler's first away mission in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, episode 3, "In the Cradle of Vexilon," sends him to a strange room resembling Twin Peaks' Red Room. The appearance of the Red Room is likely just a shoutout to Twin Peaks and doesn't have significant meaning in the Star Trek universe. Twin Peaks and Star Trek have several connections, including shared actors and the involvement of Catherine E. Coulson, who worked on both franchises. The mysterious koalas in Lower Decks are also a recurring gag.

Warning: Contains Spoilers for Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, episode 3, "In the Cradle of Vexilon."

At first glance, Star Trek and Twin Peaks may not appear to have a lot in common, but the most recent episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks sent Lt. Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid) to Laura Palmer's old stomping ground. In Lower Decks season 4, episode 3, "In the Cradle of Vexilon,...

It's hard to imagine "Seven" without its intense climax. As modern crime thrillers go, they don't get much better than David Fincher's 1995 effort, which truly established the arrival of the director as a subversive talent within Hollywood. "Seven" was a hit, becoming the 12th biggest film of the year domestically despite lackluster expectations and being what Brad Pitt called in an LA Times interview, "The feel-bad movie of '95."

The movie's shocking finale had a lot to do with that success, but it wasn't just a "twist ending" that propelled it. Fincher crafted a visceral world of grime and decay which, draped in cinematographer Darius Khondji's minimal lighting, became oddly alluring. Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt as detective duo William Somerset and David Mills delivered compelling performances, with Freeman in particular arguably at the apex of his career. But there's no escaping that ending, which delivers a gut...

While the main cast of Star Trek: Lower Decks may have been promoted to lieutenants at the start of Season 4, the officers still find themselves getting their hands dirty in the season's third episode. Titled "In the Cradle of Vexilon," the episode shows the main ensemble still acclimating to the responsibilities and changes in their roles on the USS Cerritos in the face of the latest crisis. Chaotic and unevenly paced, the episode is one of the weaker for Lower Decks in recent memory and struggles to become greater than the sum of its parts.

The Cerritos visits Vexilon, a world that's normally a sweeping paradise thanks to an ancient and benevolent artificial intelligence that maintains idyllic planetary conditions. However, when the program begins to break down, repairs instituted by Captain Carol Freeman cause conditions to quickly go haywire and leave the crew scrambling to restore the utopia. This comes...

Following the success of last year’s inaugural event, Silver Scream Con returned to the Doubletree Boston North Shore in Danvers, Massachusetts on September 8-10 — ’cause let’s face it, baby, these days you gotta have a sequel!

Created by horror-inspired metalcore band Ice Nine Kills, Silver Scream Con has quickly established itself as a top-tier horror convention among celebrity guests and attendees alike. “Everybody’s been really nice, and I’m enjoying myself immensely,” said Tommy Lee Wallace, who created Michael Myers’ iconic mask for the original Halloween before going on to direct Halloween III: Season of the Witch. “I hope everyone gets the shit scared out of them!”

Not even severe thunderstorm alerts could stop the rabid fans, who traveled not just from all over North America but as far as Finland, Scotland, and England to attend. Ticket sales reportedly doubled from the previous year’s already-commendable showing,...

Captain James T. Kirk would prioritize the lives of his friends over ethical concerns, just like Janeway did with Tuvix. Captain Jean-Luc Picard would likely hold a trial to determine the individual rights of the "Tuvixed" crew member. Captain Benjamin Sisko would be pragmatic and would likely choose to let the new life form live, considering the potential benefits and the bigger picture.

Warning: Contains Spoilers for Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4, episode 1, "Twovix".Star Trek: Lower Decks' surprise sequel to Star Trek: Voyager's infamous "Tuvix" episode raises the question of how Captains Kirk, Picard, and Sisko would deal with Janeway's dilemma. In "Twovix", the crew of the USS Cerritos are tasked with escorting the USS Voyager to a new exhibition on Earth. The mission veers wildly out of control when multiple members of the Cerritos crew, including Captain Carol Freeman (Dawnn Lewis) are "Tuvixed". This refers to the...

This post contains spoilers for the premiere of "Star Trek: Lower Decks" season 4.

At the beginning of the fourth season of "Star Trek: Lower Decks," the four main characters Boimler (Jack Quaid), Mariner (Tawny Newsome), Tendi (Noël Wells), and Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) are each promoted from the lowly rank of ensign to the only slightly-less-lowly rank of lieutenant junior grade. They still don't have much clout on the U.S.S. Cerritos, but at least now they no longer have to sleep in a hallway. One can see their promotions right away as, on their collars, they wear one solid pip and one empty pip. That, any Trekkie will instantly tell you, is the configuration for a lieutenant junior grade.

It should be noted that "Star Trek" has, since its inception, used extant naval ranks to designate Starfleet officers. Just like in the real United States Navy, officers start at the rank of ensign,...

In "Twovix," the season 4 premiere of Star Trek: Lower Decks, Ensigns Boimler, Mariner, and Rutherford assist in piloting the USS Voyager, but encounter various obstacles along the way. Captain Freeman deals with a Tuvix problem on the USS Cerritos after the transportation of Tuvix orchids, leading to a chaotic situation that requires a solution from Ensign Tendi and Provisional Ensign T'Lyn. The Clown, Doctor Chaotica, and Michael Sullivan, three holographic villains from Star Trek: Voyager, return in the episode to cause trouble on the USS Voyager before being defeated by the Lower Deckers.

Warning: Contains Spoilers for Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, episode 1, "Twovix".Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4 premiered with "Twovix", an affectionate and hilarious tribute to Star Trek: Voyager that featured the return of some memorable holodeck villains. On a mission that could bag them a promotion to Lieutenant Junior Grade, Ensigns Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid), Beckett Mariner...

Captain Freeman's decision to follow Janeway's controversial "Tuvix" solution highlights the ethical dilemma and difficult choices faced by captains in the Star Trek universe. T'Lyn's belief in Janeway's solution and her willingness to take extreme measures to save the ship emphasizes the importance of logic and the greater good in decision-making. Despite the controversy surrounding Janeway's decision to kill Tuvix, her determination to prioritize the safety and well-being of her crew is why she is beloved by fans.

Warning: Contains Spoilers for Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 4, Episode 1, "Twovixed".A mission to escort the USS Voyager to an exhibition on Earth leads to a major "Tuvix" situation in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 4, episode 1, which improves upon the controversial decision made by Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew). In Star Trek: Voyager, Tuvix (Tom Wright) was created by a transporter malfunction that combined Neelix (Ethan Phillips) with Lt. Tuvok (Tim Russ) and some alien orchids.

The following contains spoilers from Star Trek: Lower Decks, Season 4, Episode 1 "Twovix," now streaming on Paramount+.

Fans of Star Trek: Voyager likely recognize the reference to perhaps the most infamous episode in the title of Lower Decks' Season 4 premiere. The 24th episode of Voyager Season 2 was called "Tuvix," a portmanteau of "Tuvok" and "Neelix." Even 28 years after the episode debuted, fans still debate the moral dilemma posed by the episode, but Lower Decks just simplified it. The show may be an animated comedy, but it is still Star Trek, after all.

As is mentioned in the Lower Decks season premiere, Captain Janeway "straight-up murdered" Tuvix. The starship Voyager ended up stranded in the Delta Quadrant 75,000 light years from Earth. Their main mission was to get home, but they still sought out new life and strange new worlds. On a mission to collect, of all things, orchid samples, Tuvok and Neelix brought back a symbiogenetic orchid.

It’s been a minute since the last Marvel Cinematic Universe series hit Disney+, but as we cruise into summer 2023, we know that the streamer has three MCU shows lined up before the year’s out, including Loki season 2 and Echo. But first we have Secret Invasion, an event series that may change everything we know about some of our favorite MCU characters, set to kick off Phase 5.

In the big budget Marvel show, Nick Fury uncovers a conspiracy that a group of shapeshifting Skrulls are planning to infiltrate Earth in positions of power, and he has to get back to business and help save the day. Nick isn’t the only recognizable face in this story; Everett K. Ross, Maria Hill, Rhodey, and Talos will all make appearances here, but things may not quite be as they seem, as some major MCU characters are set to be unmasked as imposters.

On Monday night, Donald Trump insisted to Fox News host Brett Baier that the 2020 election had been fraudulently rigged against him. “I won in 2020 by a lot, let’s get that straight,” Trump said. “They were counting ballots, not the authenticity of the ballot. The ballots were fake ballots, this was a very rigged election,”

Trump: First of all, I won in 2020 by a lot

Baier: You lost the 2020 election

Trump: They were counting ballots, not the authenticity of the ballot. The ballots were fake ballots. pic.twitter.com/yrM...

Run Forest run… towards another Emmy. That was a terrible joke but Forest Whitaker again delivered another definitely-not-terrible performance in his guest actor role in “Andor.”

“Andor,” one of the best-reviewed shows of this year, is the Disney+ spin-off TV series of the spin-off “Star Wars” movie “Rogue One.” The series follows Diego Luna in the titular role of Cassian Andor as we find out how this scoundrel eventually joins the Rebel Alliance and becomes a crucial part of the fight against the Empire. Along the way, Cassian meets some key figures in “Star Wars” lore including Stellan Skarsgård‘s Luthen Rael and Whitaker’s Saw Gerrera.

This is just the latest appearance as Saw by Whitaker (more on that later) and the performer shines once again in a role he seems born for. Saw is part of one branch of those fighting against the Empire. He fights against the...

Exclusive: Mvd Entertainment Group has claimed North American rights to the darkly comedic thriller Wrong Reasons, marking the feature debut of writer-director Josh Roush. The film, executive produced by and featuring Kevin Smith, is slated for release on digital, VOD, Blu-ray and DVD on August 15.

Hailing from AntiCurrent Productions, Wrong Reasons watches as an ambiguously intentioned masked man (James Parks) kidnaps a drug addicted punk rock singer (Liv Roush) and triggers a police investigation headed by Detective Charles Dobson (Ralph Garman) as well as a media circus. The film also starring Teresa Ruiz, David Koechner, Daniel Roebuck, Smith and Keith Coogan boasts a punk rock soundtrack with music by Tim Armstrong, L7, Black Flag, The Wipers, Channel 3, William Elliott Whitmore, The Unseen, Bi-Product and more.

After world premiering at Smith’s first annual Smodcastle Film Festival in the fall of 2022, the Liv Roush-produced film...

The Red cast contains both legendary action heroes satirizing their own on-screen image, like Bruce Willis, and traditional dramatic actors letting loose in an action hero role, like Helen Mirren. Based on the Homage Comics limited series of the same name, Red revolves around a retired CIA agent who reassembles his old team to exact revenge when a black-ops assassin is sent to kill him. With its juxtaposition of mundane problems like pension payments and action movie tropes like death squads, Red is an action comedy that delivers both action and comedy in spades.

Red was a big commercial hit when it arrived in theaters in 2010, grossing just under $200 million worldwide (via Box Office Mojo), and it received mostly positive reviews from critics. A sequel, Red 2, was released to similar box office success and a warm response from fans in 2013. Red 2 brought back a lot of the iconic actors from the original film,...

Marques Houston is being criticised for saying that women his age often come with “baggage or kids”.

The 41-year-old singer and actor, who is married to 22-year-old Miya Dickey, was attempting to explain why he preferred to date women who were younger than him.

“A red flag to me [was] always with a woman that had a kid,” he told Page Six. “Nothing against single women, but single mothers with children are a red flag for me.

“I tip my hat and respect women that are raising children on their own,” he added. “But when I grew up, I never really wanted to have kids.

“I would talk to my dad a lot, and he would always tell me to have your own kids because you never know what the baby daddy’s are about. So if you’re gonna have kids, make sure it is with a woman that never had kids.

The actor objected in a UK interview to both, saying ‘You’re going to relegate my history to a month?’ and that the latter phrase is inaccurate

Morgan Freeman has said commonly used terms relating to race should be taken out of the lexicon. In an interview with the Sunday Times, the actor said he was keen to “say publicly” that he objected to the terms “Black History Month” and “African American”.

Calling both an “insult”, Freeman said of the first: “You’re going to relegate my history to a month?”...

Morgan Freeman has explained why he views the term African-American as “an insult” and aired out his issues with Black History Month in a rare interview with The Sunday Times.

“Two things I can say publicly that I do not like,” Freeman said. “Black History Month is an insult. You’re going to relegate my history to a month? Also ‘African-American’ is an insult. I don’t subscribe to that title.”

He continued, “Black people have had different titles all the way back to the N-word and I do not know how these things get such a grip, but everyone uses ‘African-American.’ What does it really mean? Most Black people in this part of the world are mongrels. And you say Africa as if it’s a country when it’s a continent, like Europe.”

Sunday Times Senior Writer Jonathan Dean cited a relevant quote from Denzel Washington, who once said,...

In a rare new interview while promoting his performance in Zach Braff’s “A Good Person,” Morgan Freeman told The Sunday Times that he’s insulted by Black History Month and the term “African American.”

“Two things I can say publicly that I do not like,” Freeman said. “Black History Month is an insult. You’re going to relegate my history to a month?”

“Also, ‘African American’ is an insult,” he added. “I don’t subscribe to that title. Black people have had different titles all the way back to the n-word and I do not know how these things get such a grip, but everyone uses ‘African American’. What does it really mean? Most Black people in this part of the world are mongrels. And you say Africa as if it’s a country when it’s a continent, like Europe.”

When The Sunday Times reporter evoked Denzel Washington,...