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The Looney Tunes have been entertaining us for nearly a century, yet in all that time, they’ve never had their own fully animated theatrical movie. Sure, they’ve appeared in hybrid movies like Space Jam and compilation films that cram old shorts together in new packaging, but a brand new, full-on cartoon movie has never been done — until now.

The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, which is set to be released today, tells the story of an alien invasion thwarted by Daffy Duck and Porky Pig (along with some help from Petunia Pig). Inspired by the classic Looney Tunes shorts of Bob Clampett, The Day the Earth Blew Up is a hilarious, gag-filled adventure that keeps the characters fresh, fun, and most of all, funny for its entire 91 minutes.

The film’s director, Pete Browngardt — best known for creating Cartoon Network’s Uncle Grandpa — first...

It's been just over 40 years since the rock-and-roll mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap altered the trajectory of comedy forever, and it's coming back in a big way. Bleecker Street has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the 1984 cult classic and is planning a nationwide U.S. theatrical release of a newly restored editionthis summer. It's a perfect compliment to the newly titled sequel, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, which has an actual release date — Sep. 12, 2025. There's a new video teaser for it, and it looks like director Rob Reiner is ready to turn it up to 11, and beyond.

Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer reprise their iconic roles as the legendary heavy metal band Spinal Tap. Reiner returns as documentarian Martin “Marty” Dibergi, with cameos from music legends Elton John, Paul McCartney, and Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood. Also appearing will be Paul Shaffer, Fran Drescher, Don Lake,...

Exclusive: Sacha Baron Cohen’s next film, an untitled scripted comedy, is being quietly shopped to distributors. The comedy was originally set at Universal, and none of the principals would comment. But is sounds like case of déjà vu. I’m referencing Baron Cohen’s Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Fox turned the first Borat into big hit, but Baron Cohen needed the Borat sequel released before the 2020 presidential elections. And so the film moved to Amazon Studios, got released in October 2020 at the height of election season, and the picture was nominated for two Oscars.

This time, after Baron Cohen’s next project was delayed by the year of double strikes by SAG-AFTRA and the WGA — his last project was to revive his Ali G character in a standup tour — he is anxious for the next film to be released next year after missing the 2024 election season.

Unfortunately, Universal Pictures’ Donna Langley...

Concept art allegedly from Ironheart first did the rounds on social media in late 2022. The supposed leak contained three different designs for Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen's take on Mephisto, all of which were very punk rock-inspired.

While Cohen's villain is expected to be the one pulling The Hood's strings in Ironheart, there have been rumblings about him also factoring into Thunderbolts* (perhaps as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine's ally), Spider-Man 4, and even Avengers: Doomsday.

The only thing is, Cohen may not be playing Mephisto after all.

Making him the source of The Hood's powers seemed an easy way to finally bring a character into the MCU that fans once hoped would be a huge part of WandaVision. From there, the door would be open to Ghost Rider's introduction and so forth, and the Mephisto ball is one we've all run away with over the past few years.

Kid Rock has been in the music industry for nearly three decades. But his political beliefs have kept him in the headlines in the last few years. Kid Rock recently sparked rumors after getting spotted with Lauren Boebert. Now his fiance reportedly ended their engagement. Keep reading for the details on the latest scandal.

Kid Rock & Lauren Boebert Caught On Camera

Kid Rock is an unabashed supporter of President Donald Trump. While some in the entertainment industry try to keep their political beliefs private, Kid Rock is open about his. He performed at the 2024 Republican National Convention. Kid Rock was also a guest at Trump’s inauguration celebration last month.

Kid Rock/Credit: CNN YouTube

Congresswoman Lauren Boebert was also in attendance at the party. The rapper and the government official were spotted chatting at the party. The video circulated on social media. Boebert can be seen dancing and clapping...

Amazon Freevee's Jury Duty was the surprise hit of 2023. The show plunged a single unsuspecting participant, Ronald Gladden, into an entirely fake courtroom with actors and secret cameras filming the bonkers case. The series managed to maintain the secret for all eight episodes and kept viewers engaged to the very end, desperate to see Ronald's reaction to the ruse. You might think a show like that can only work once. But, the series has just been greenlit for a second season. Just don't expect to return to the courtroom.

Per Deadline,Jury Duty is returning for a second season, with the show's return moving in a completely new direction. 'But, now that people know a second season is coming, how will they maintain the mystery?' we hear you ask. Well, not to worry, because according to the report, the new season has already been shot and is currently in post-production.

It was challenging for Maria Bakalova to morph into Ivana Trump in The Apprentice, but the Creature Commandos and Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm star is suddenly jazzed about her costars in the film. Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong both nabbed Academy Award nominations for playing Donald Trump and Roy Cohn, respectively, in The Apprentice, the hot topic film that tracks Trump’s rise to power. Speaking with MovieWeb in a recent interview to promote her new film, O Horizon, Bakalova stated:

“I couldn't be more excited that the movie is going to be released again, because we had only a very small theatrical run [...] At the end of the day, I feel it's a very important film. It’s a dive into the individuality of the system, and that's something we need to explore. It's educational in a lot of ways.”

She went on to say that she’s “extremely happy and excited” for Stan.

Exclusive: Veteran film producer and former 20th Century Fox Vice-Chairman Hutch Parker has signed a producing deal with Sony Pictures under his eponymous production banner Hutch Parker Entertainment with President/Partner Dan Wilson.

Exclaimed Sanford Panitch, President of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group to Deadline, “Hutch Parker is a 360-degree producer. He has great instincts in finding substantive commercially interesting stories, possesses excellent talent relationships, and when it comes to actually making a movie there is no better Special Forces-level manager than Hutch to oversee the most challenging productions. Tom, Josh, and I are thrilled to continue our association with Hutch and Dan with this new deal.”

The new deal follows the October release of Venom: The Last Dance, which was produced by Hutch Parker Entertainment and minted north of $478 million at the global box office, shooting Sony’s franchise to more than $1.8 billion worldwide.

The deal is also...

Fans might know him as Cyclops and the Donut Lord — they may have even heard about him recently playing the President of the United States — but one man didn’t know he was part of the cast of the prank show Jury Duty.

The Freevee show was a work of genius, an entire show designed around a fake trial case with only a single person unaware of the production. The series was an immediate hit, and whilst the praise it received was certainly earned, star James Marsden wasn’t sure if he’d be able to go through with the trickery of the operation.

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RelatedRonald Gladden's Fate Following Jury Duty

Ronald Gladden became a TV celebrity thanks to Jury Duty. But how did things work for him once he wasn't on the show?

Understanding The Thought Process Behind Jury Duty’s Creation

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James Marsden has been the heartthrob and even the president (in Hulu’s currently airing Dan Fogelman political thriller Paradise), but Jury Duty marked the first time the Emmy nominee played an exaggerated, asshole version of himself — something he said he felt bad about, especially given unsuspecting leading man (and victim) Ronald Gladden’s lack of awareness about it.

Appearing on a new episode of Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast today, Marsden unpacked the behind-the-scenes stakes of the “risky high-wire act” Freevee show that captivated comedy fans based on its prank-adjacent premise: One man is duped into believing he is a member of a jury in a real court case, when, in actuality, he is surrounded by increasingly bizarre characters and scenarios.

Over the course of filming for three weeks, Marsden said he and his fellow actors became “actual friends [with Gladden] during it because he was such a good guy and fun to be around.

Concept art allegedly from Ironheart first did the rounds on social media in late 2022. The supposed leak contained three different designs for Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen's take on Mephisto, all of which were very punk rock. 

We'd later get an artist's impression with something of a Lobo feel to it, though Gene Simmons and Kiss were clearly the main sources of inspiration for the McU's devil. 

That Satanic Panic era of rock musicians often took their inspiration from devilish imagery, and it was fun to think Cohen's demon could be the basis for them in the MCU...or is perhaps just a fan of their music. Ultimately, real or fake, it did look like the sort of transformation the British actor would want to undergo rather than just portraying a stereotypical devil. 

While Cohen's Mephisto is expected to be the one pulling The Hood's strings in Ironheart,...

“We should have gone to Bora Bora like the Pattersons,” says Delores (Sarah Goldberg) in Bubble & Squeak, writer-director Evan Twohy’s feature debut. A quirky, prescriptively surreal comedy in the vein of the late Jeff Baena, with a hefty debt to the two Sacha Baron Cohen Borat movies, it’s a very Sundance kind of funny that goes all in on a very bizarre premise. If you go with it, it will take you all the way, but for those with a low tolerance for cheerfully madcap bonkersness, its lean 97 minutes may well seem like an eternity.

The pre-credit sequence very quickly sets the scene. Delores and her husband Declan (Himesh Patel) are sitting in a nondescript, steely-gray office room, where they have been waiting for well over an hour. The two Americans are on honeymoon, preferring to go “off the beaten track,” and their wanderlust has taken them to a strange,...

The Iron Curtain had already collapsed when Maria Bakalova was growing up in Bulgaria, but old sensibilities still lingered: as a girl she was discouraged from playing the “aggressive and muscular” electric guitar (she learned the flute instead) and life there was still largely circumscribed by national borders.

But Bakalova, who portrays the Czech-born Ivana Trump in “The Apprentice,” found avenues for expansion, in part, as a way of rebelling. “It didn’t feel right to be put in a box because of your gender,” says Bakalova, who burst on the scene with her Oscar-nominated performance in “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.” “Knowing I didn’t get a chance to pursue something had some impact on my development and maybe made me stronger and a bit more daring.”

Bakalova’s first path out was singing, and by age 11, she was traveling throughout Western Europe to competitions, much as Ivana Trump had gotten out via national ski teams.

A certain section of the audience loves to claim that the world is becoming too woke, yet the decline in the number of political satires and the growing toothlessness of this subgenre of comedy say otherwise. Charles Chaplin did The Great Dictator in 1940, literally one year after World War 2 began. Stanley Kubrick made Dr. Strangelove in 1964 to comment on the Cold War, which officially ended in 1991. Sacha Baron Cohen did The Dictator and Borat to berate America for its relentless war on Iraq, and so did Abhishek Sharma with Tere Bin Laden. Then there was Quentin Tarantino, who did Inglourious Basterds, where he imagined Hitler being killed at a movie theater in Paris. Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen did something similar in The Interview, except the subject of the explosive death was Kim Jong Un instead of Hitler. Soon after that, Armando Iannucci released The Death of Stalin, which is pretty self-explanatory,...

Pamela Anderson, the actor mostly famous for giving life to C.J. Parker on the TV drama Baywatch whose career is going through a renaissance of sorts lately, has a bone to pick with the Hulu miniseries Pam & Tommy. The show, which portrays Anderson and Tommy Lee's whirlwind romance and the theft and release of their sex tape, doesn't have Pamela's approval. In fact, she calls it "hurtful."

Per the report by CinemaBlend, the actor of films like Scary Movie 3, Barb Wire, and Borat, appeared on the radio show Andy Cohen Live, where she spoke about her leading part in The Last Showgirl and answered questions about the Hulu miniseries Pam & Tommy as well. While many would have thought that showrunners and writers would involved Anderson, the actor actually wasn't involved at all, and she isn't quite happy with the miniseries' depiction of the event that...

Deadpool & Wolverine is the second highest-grossing movie of 2024, with $1.3 billion at the worldwide box office, but does that mean it should have a chance at an Academy Award? Franchise star, producer, and co-writer Ryan Reynolds thinks so and is making a case for it. As with every movie released in 2024, Deadpool & Wolverine is beginning its "For Your Consideration" campaign ahead of the upcoming 97th Academy Awards, whose nominees will be announced on Jan. 17, 2025.

While speaking with IndieWire, Reynolds explained why he believes Deadpool & Wolverine is worth consideration for an Academy Award, particularly Best Adapted Screenplay. Reynolds believes there is a genre bias against the film, not because it is a superhero movie but as a comedy, which many people dismiss as not being as important as dramatic fiction or that most of the movie was improvised. Yet Reynolds believes the movie's ability to balance both comedy and...

Where there's smoke, there's usually fire ... and, folks, it is scorching hot right now. While Kevin Feige has attempted to define the next overarching storyline in the aftermath of "Avengers: Endgame" and the conclusion of the Infinity Saga, the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Sony Pictures have had to make similarly big decisions regarding the franchise's flagship character. Tom Holland's Spidey hasn't been seen on the big screen since the crossover-happy threequel "Spider-Man: No Way Home" back in 2021, leaving fans to wonder exactly how his next adventure would take shape. Last we heard, "Spider-Man 4" was set to do battle with Christopher Nolan's next blockbuster in July of 2026. But after saving the world in "Endgame" and taking on the multiverse in "No Way Home," perhaps the better question is which supervillain will he come up against next?

We might finally have an answer to that. In scooper Jeff Sneider's latest newsletter,...

Pamela Anderson’s widely acclaimed new drama movie, The Last Showgirl, is the first movie of her entire 33-year acting career to earn a “fresh” score on Rotten Tomatoes. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola’s granddaughter Gia Coppola, The Last Showgirl stars Anderson as a veteran showgirl who has to plan for her future when her long-running Las Vegas show is abruptly canceled after 30 years. The Last Showgirl has earned Anderson her first ever Golden Globe nomination (and first nomination for a major acting award) for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.

The Last Showgirl has been hailed as a comeback for Anderson. She’s a screen legend going back to her days as C.J. Parker on Baywatch, but it’s been years since she had a significant film role. She had a cameo in the 2017 Baywatch movie, but outside of that, she hasn’t been in a big...

“I’d like them to remember me [as I am] now instead of [as I was] then,” Pamela Anderson says upon being asked, during a recording of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast in Los Angeles, what she’d like her legacy to be.

The Playboy model and Baywatch alum — an icon of the 1990s — spent much of the past three decades feeling personally depressed and professionally derailed after the widespread dissemination of intimate home videos that were stolen in 1995 from the home she shared with her then-husband, Tommy Lee. But, as of Monday, she is a Golden Globe-nominated actress, thanks to her portrayal, in Gia Coppola’s new film The Last Showgirl, of a veteran Vegas dancer whose show is suddenly set to close after a 30-year-run. And she is thrilled to be entering a new chapter of her life. “I always knew I had more to give,” she quietly insists. “I always felt...

A young film student contacts an artist to design a poster for his new documentary about a musician. The film student was named Todd Phillips, the musician was named Gg Allin and the artist was named John Wayne Gacy… who happens to be an infamous serial killer known for dressing like a clown. This artistic contribution earned Gacy an “executive producer” credit and gave the documentary some dark twisted notoriety – not that Gg Allin needed any. That’s right: the director of Joker got his start thanks to a real-life serial killing clown. Director Todd Phillips went on to bring us some of the most interesting and hilarious films of the past few decades. He was pumping out groundbreaking blockbusters left and right for years, surprising us all with classics like The Hangover and Joker and instantly disappointing us all with their sequels. But has Todd Phillips sung his last great cinematic song?...

Idris Elba might be making the jump from the MCU to Eternia, leaving Heimdall behind to play another highly-skilled warrior in service of a sprawling mythical kingdom.

The Wrap is reporting that Elba is in talks to play Prince Adam's loyal master of weapons, Duncan, aka Man-At-Arms in MGM and Mattel's live-action Masters of the Universe movie.

If he signs on, Elba will join Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Adam/He-Man, Riverdale alum Camila Mendes as his right-hand woman and (possible) love-interest, Teela, and Alison Brie as Skeletor's second-in-command, Evil-Lyn.

As for Skeletor himself, Jared Leto is said to be on the studio's radar to play He-Man's nemesis, but this has yet to be confirmed. Previous rumors have claimed that Sacha Baron Cohen was in contention to play the iconic baddie.

After numerous false starts, Netflix was all set to develop a feature take on the...

Following a rather quiet 2024 thanks to last year's Hollywood strikes, 2025 is shaping up to be a much bigger - and busier - year for movies.

Pixar Animation Studios and DreamWorks Animation are among those bring exciting titles into theaters. For now, we'll start with the latter and our first look at the highly anticipated sequel to The Bad Guys, The Bad Guys 2.

In the movie, everyone's favourite felons are back, and this time, they've got company.

In this action-packed chapter from DreamWorks Animation's acclaimed comedy smash about a crackerjack crew of animal outlaws, our now-reformed Bad Guys are trying to be good, but instead find themselves hijacked into a high-stakes, globe-trotting heist, masterminded by a new team of criminals they never saw coming: The Bad Girls.

The Bad Guys 2 stars the stellar original cast, led by Sam Rockwell as Mr. Wolf, Marc Maron as safe-cracker Mr. Snake, Craig Robinson as master-of disguise Mr.

Pamela Anderson returns to the screen in The Last Showgirl, and the trailer for the film has landed. Right here.

Pamela Anderson will always be indelibly intertwined with Baywatch, the campy drama in which she starred for five series between between 1992 and 1997, returning for a cameo in the 2017 feature film.

But she also ventured into other films too. She starred in cult superhero film Barb Wire in 1996, and she also had a memorable cameo in Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat. In fact, she was one of the few actors in on the gag where the titular character attempts to marry her by ensconcing her in a sack and carrying her out of her book signing.

She has made only sporadic appearances onscreen in recent years though, but now Pamela Anderson is getting awards buzz for her leading performance in The Last Showgirl.

In the film, Anderson stars alongside Jamie Lee Curtis,...

Netflix romantic-comedy feature Ladies First is lining up its talent.

Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?), Emily Mortimer (Paddington in Peru), Charles Dance (Game of Thrones), Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve), Tom Davis (Wonka) and Weruche Opia (Genius: MLK/X) are joining the cast of the feature from director Thea Sharrock (The Beautiful Game). Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike were previously announced to star in the project that adapts director Eleonore Pourriat’s French-language movie Je Ne Suis Pas Un Homme Facile.

Katie Silberman (Booksmart), Natalie Krinsky (The Broken Hearts Gallery) and Cinco Paul (Despicable Me) penned the script for the new film. A release date has not yet been announced.

Ladies First follows a womanizer who gets a shock when he is suddenly living in a world dominated by women, with an opinionated female counterpart adding to the complications.

Producers include Liza Chasin for 3dot Productions,...

Bridget Jones is back.

On Tuesday, Peacock released the first trailer for “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,” the fourth film in the long-running romantic comedy series and the first since “Bridget Jones’s Baby” in 2016.

Things are different this time for Jones, and not just because this is the first film in the franchise that will bypass theaters entirely. As revealed in the “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” trailer, Jones’s husband, Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), has died, leaving Jones a widowed mother of two young children. Things move apace from there, with several of her friends – including former flame Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) – suggesting Jones get back out there to reconnect with other potential mates, including a young man played by Leo Woodall (“The White Lotus”) and a more age-appropriate match in the form of a science teacher played by Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Here’s the official plot synopsis,...

I attended my first Toronto International Film Festival in 2006. At a midnight screening on the city’s then-Ryerson University campus, Sacha Baron Cohen showed up — on a horse — for the premiere of Borat. Twenty minutes in, the projector broke. Michael Moore climbed over seats to try to fix it. “What on earth is happening here?” I remember thinking. Cohen then got up and did 45 minutes of stand-up — in character. The projector was never fixed. No one cared.

That was my introduction to awards season. The tuxedos? The champagne glasses? The stilted debate over which British actor best inhabits the royals drama and other supposed trappings of the season? Well, Ok, they were a part of it, too. But nearly two decades later, this Borat moment is the film-festival memory that sticks with me. A moviemaking wacko with a vision, adjusting on the fly when the winds weren’t blowing his way.

James Shani bet big on Ali Abbasi’s buzzy Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice. After a stint as a talent manager at Issa Rae’s Hoorae Media, the 36-year-old producer launched his own indie production and distribution company, Rich Spirit, earlier this year, raising a pool of capital for an initial three-film slate of edgy international titles with positive social messages. But instead of spreading his bets, Shani opted to spend the bulk of his capital by stepping up from the role of minority investor to full co-distributor of The Apprentice alongside Briarcliff Entertainment when he fully acquired the movie after it became mired in a lengthy dispute over final cut with its original backer, Kinematics.

In North America, The Apprentice opened below expectations in October with $1.6 million in its first weekend, but Shani says he still very much believes his bet was the best choice for his company’s strategic future.

Borat star Maria Bakalova will board a bus with Peter Mullan for the single-location thriller, No Way Off.

Veteran Scottish actor Peter Mullan is set to lead single location thriller No Way Off for Altitude, starring opposite Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm’s standout performer, Maria Bakalova.

Downton Abbey director Brian Kelly will make the film, based on a screenplay by Gaby Hill, who recently wrote crime thriller series We Hunt Together. Matthew James Wilkinson will produce for his Stigma Films banner.

The premise sounds, quite frankly, amazing: a single mother and her baby son find themselves trapped on a moving bus drvien by a mask-wearing maniac. Also, it’s set at Christmas.

The synopsis reads as follows:

Inspired by single-location thrillers such as The Shallows, Buried and Crawl, No Way Off is set on Christmas Eve and revolves around Laura, a young mother who waits at a bus stop with her infant son.

Of all the comedy subgenres, the political comedy is probably the hardest to nail down. What, exactly, constitutes a political comedy? Is it a movie set in the world of politics? It is just a movie that has political commentary? And what’s the difference between a political comedy and a political satire? Is one meaner in its humor than the other?

In order to make a list of the 20 best political comedies, I had to figure out answers to these questions. And that meant making some tough choices, like any good elected official. And what I decided was to be pretty strict in my definition of what counts. There are so many good films that are often called political comedies — Four Lions, Borat, numerous war movies — but for my purposes, a film had to feature politicians, world leaders or at the very least some folks who were running for something,...

So, you’ve watched The Dictator and discovered—or maybe rediscovered—your love for the absurdity and outlandishness of Sacha Baron Cohen. The British actor and comedian has a savvy set of satirical skills up his sleeve that he often sets loose in the real world. These encounters with unsuspecting people, however, reveal far more than just laughs. Cohen, when his methods work, is able to expose hidden biases, prejudices, and sometimes the bizarre underbelly of society.

Sacha Baron Cohen (L) and Ben Kingsley (R) in The Dictator | Credits: Paramount Pictures

If The Dictator’s lampooning on the absurdity of authoritarianism left you chuckling at its brazen wit, here’s a list of Sacha Baron Cohen’s other films that will keep you entertained, surprised, and sometimes even moved.

1. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

No point in pushing this one down the list.

When "Seinfeld" got controversial, it didn't do so in a socially conscious way á la Norman Lear's "All in the Family," nor did it go in for barbed political satire (which may be one reason why its infamous "The Puerto Rican Day" episode landed with such a thud in 1998). Generally, the series crossed lines alongside its hilariously self-absorbed and frequently petty characters, who might get caught up in a competition over who can abstain from pleasuring themselves the longest or worked into a panic over being erroneously outed as gay in a major publication. (Some of these episodes really haven't aged well.)

For the most part, the cast and crew knew what show they'd signed up to appear in or work on, so everyone had a sense as to what subjects might be taboo. There was one time, however, when everyone wasn't on the same page, which resulted in...

Like the cult member being primed for the afterlife in his new comedy, the fabulously funny Lets Start a Cult, comedian Stavros Halkias is ready to transcend. In real life, that is. From his successful 2023 Netflix special Fat Rascal and role in Tires to his hilarious old Cumtown and new Stavvys World podcasts, Halkias is on the precipice of newfound stardom. This is a huge talent to keep your eyes on (if you havent been tracking him already) and Halkias absurdly funny, in-your-face humor propels Lets Start a Cult, which he co-wrote with director Ben Kitnick and costar Wes Haney. This is one of the best comedies of the 2020s.

The films premise is the perfect kind of dangling carrot, keeping audiences thoroughly engaged in the offbeat tale. When bro-gross and obnoxious Chip Harper (Halkias) misses out on his cults long-planned ritual suicide, the insufferable soul stumbles upon his shady ex-messiah,...

Known for his satirical characters and sharp humor, comedian-actor Sacha Baron Cohen recently appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Reviving his iconic characters like Ali G and Borat on the talk show, Cohen gave a performance filled with his signature humor.

Sacha Baron Cohen | Credit: Joella Marano/Cca By-sa 2.0/Wikimedia Commons

However, in what seemed like a lighthearted attempt to poke fun at the political landscape and show support for the Democratic presidential nominee, Cohen made a few questionable and false claims about laws surrounding interfaith marriages in his character’s home country.

Sacha Baron Cohen’s Satirical Debate and False Claims on The Tonight Show

In his recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the talk show host suggested Sacha Baron Cohen to moderate a mock presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris as his iconic characters such as rapper Ali G and Kazakhstani journalist,...

Jimmy Fallon broke out the fake mustaches last night, convincing Sacha Baron Cohen to lampoon election debates by pretending to moderate as two of his iconic characters — Ali G. and Borat. Very nice!

While that seems like an entirely predictable bit for Cohen to perform on The Tonight Show, the comic actor had vowed in recent years never to perform as Borat again. In 2021, he revealed that appearing as the character in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm had proved “too dangerous” and he was hanging up the lime-green mankini for good.

“There were a couple of times I had to put on a bulletproof vest to go and shoot a scene, and you don’t want to do that too many times in your life,” he told Entertainment Tonight three years ago. “I was pretty lucky to get out this time, so no, I’m not doing it again. I’m going...

Zach Cherry found worldwide fame and critical acclaim when he portrayed the role of Dylan in the iconic show Severance. The show which has been running since 2022 has shot Cherry’s status to stardom.

Zach Cherry in a still from Severance | Credits: Red Hour Productions

However, before fame found its way to Zach Cherry’s doorstep, the improv comedian had been trying for quite a long time. Cherry has also been a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which many fans might have missed.

Zach Cherry is a Part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Finding fame is a tough thing. It might take a random interview on a street or it may take years to build, fame is a tricky thing. Zach Cherry, who has 53 credits as an actor found fame back in 2022.

Cherry had a cameo in Spider-Man: Homecoming | Credits: Marvel Studios

Starring in the role of Dylan in the Apple TV+ series Severance,...

Not many people can claim that they were kicked out of the state of New York twice, but Sacha Baron Cohen isn’t most people. During a visit to “The Tonight Show” (in New York) to promote his Apple TV+ series “Disclaimer,” Cohen told Jimmy Fallon exactly what led to him being booted both times.

“I thought it was a little bit over the top,” Cohen told Fallon on “The Tonight Show” Thursday night.

Not surprisingly, the evacuations happened while he was filming “Borat” and “Borat 2.” The first time Cohen was encouraged to leave the state, he was filming a scene at the Wellington Hotel.

“Borat thought that when he bought the room for 200 bucks, he bought everything in the room. So I started carrying out the bed and the furniture,” Cohen explained as Fallon and the studio audience laughed. “They called the police, and they arrested the line producer and the first Ad.

Sacha Baron Cohen made multiple headlines with his two Borat films for all the wrong reasons. Despite being critically acclaimed, both the mockumentary films have their fair share of controversies. For its unscripted and unconventional humor, the English comedian had to face many hurdles while filming the Borat series.

Sacha Baron Cohen in and as Borat | Credits: 20th Century Fox

After Borat‘s controversial success, Sacha Baron Cohen thought to level up the fun in its sequel. But it also brought more trouble as a controversial scene from Borat 2 (2020) featuring the former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani even forced Baron Cohen to flee the city for safety.

Filming Borat 2 with Rudy Giuliani was a scary experience for Sacha Baron Cohen Rudy Giuliani in Borat 2 | Credits: Amazon Studios

In his recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Sacha Baron Cohen recalled two instances which led him...

Sacha Baron Cohen resurrected his infamous characters Borat and Ali G during a visit to “The Tonight Show,” in which he imagined what they might say to Donald Trump and Kamala Harris amid the race for president. Ali G is predictably a big admirer of Trump, which allowed Baron Cohen to call out the Republican nominee’s worst behavior.

“Yo, Mr. Trump. You is being convicted of 32 crimes, you stole classified documents, you boned enough porn stars and you ain’t never paid no taxes. Respect! You my hero,” Baron Cohen as Ali G said as “The Tonight Show” studio audience laughed.

Reviving Borat also gave Baron Cohen the chance to mock Trump’s infamous claim during the presidential debate that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are eating dogs and other pets.

“Mr. Trump. You say in Ohio that people no eat the cats and the dogs. Which restaurant do they serve them at?...

Sacha Baron Cohen is an actor whose best roles often involve controversial characters. One of the comedian's most famous roles is Borat, but Cohen has revealed that he will likely never play the character again. Why? It appears the actor felt threatened during the production of the 2020 sequel, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.

Cohen shared a harrowing story with the SmartLess podcast (first reported by The Daily Mail), detailing how he was forced to hide from a pro-gun mob. He suggests the group was looking to punish him for Borat's antics in the latest film, where he essentially mocks the crowd for his meta-commentary. Cohen explained on the podcast why he's likely hanging up the Borat Sagdiyev suit forever: "The last one became so extreme. After that gun rally, I was essentially on the run."

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Sacha Baron Cohen has admitted that Borat may never return after he was hunted by a pro-gun mob.The 53-year-old actor starred as the Kazakhstani journalist in the 2006 satirical comedy and its sequel 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm' though he has now said the character may be rested for good after he was forced to flee an enraged pro-gun "militia" in Washington State during filming for the 2020 follow-up flick.Appearing on the 'SmartLess' podcast, 'The Dictator' star explained: "The last one became so extreme. After that gun rally, I was essentially on the run."I had a militia kind of following me. I was going from safe house to safe house for about four days. It became so crazy that you realise there's a certain amount of skill and preparation, but also you're going to be lucky. And at some point, your luck runs out."Baron...

Her breakout role in the Borat sequel grabbed attention after a scene with Rudy Giuliani on a bed. Now she’s playing Trump’s ex-wife in a controversial biopic – but insists it’s not a political film

The week Maria Bakalova was asked to consider playing Ivana Trump for the new film The Apprentice, she was in New York filming something else. With the meeting scheduled for her one day off, she spent the evening before trying to channel Donald Trump’s first wife. The film is set in the 70s and 80s, so she spent hours wading through photos of Ivana in that era. “A lot of makeup, a lot of hair,” she says. Bakalova laughs as she remembers spending the evening experimenting with a mushroom-like hairstyle and “heavy eyeliner with a lot of powder, like inches”, although she didn’t have an Ivana-esque wardrobe – “Am I gen Z or a millennial?...

Few actors working today have an entire queue of future projects, much less a list of majorly anticipated projects, starring and directed by the biggest names in Hollywood. To her immense skill and credit, Maria Bakalova is one of those rare gems. After making her unforgettable American debut in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Bakalova has since worked with Judd Apatow, Sofia Coppola, and Jerry Seinfeld. Next, she shows off her chops in her first performance as a real-life figure in director Ali Abbasi's controversial new drama, The Apprentice.

If someone had said 15 years ago that Pamela Anderson would generate potential Academy Award buzz, people would have thought it was a joke. Yet in 2024, that very thing is happening following the world premiere of her latest film, The Last Showgirl, at the Toronto International Film Festival. That buzzy awards title and a leading role in The Naked Gun sequel starring Liam Neeson, set to open in the summer of 2025, seem to be the start of a new chapter in Anderson's career. Anderson has been a global icon for over three decades but has often been looked down upon as a sex icon, and many critics and audiences have never taken her seriously.

Yet that all might start to change. Starting in 2022 with her Broadway debut in Chicago, she entered a new era of her career. In 2023, she released a Netflix documentary and published a memoir that allowed fans...

Rosamund Pike and Sacha Baron Cohen are to lead Netflix’s rom-com ‘Ladies First’.The 45-year-old actress and the ‘Borat’ star, 52, will play central roles in the upcoming movie which is set to adapt the Eleonore Pourriat-directed French film ‘Je Ne Suit Un Homme Facile’. The original 2018 picture - which translates to ‘I Am Not An Easy Man’ - follows an unrelenting womaniser who finds himself in an alternate reality which is ruled by a matriarchy, where he ends up finding love with a fiery woman.The upcoming flick will be helmed by ‘Wicked Little Letters’ filmmaker Thea Sharrock, and is due to be produced by 3dot Productions and Four By Two Films.As well as ‘Ladies First’, Pike was recently added to the cast of ‘Now You See Me 3’.While the ‘Saltburn’ star’s role in the magical heist series is being kept under wraps, Lionsgate bosses teased...

Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike are set to star in Netflix romantic comedy “Ladies First,” the streamer announced on Wednesday.

The film is directed by Thea Sharrock and is an adaptation based on the Eléonore Pourriat-directed French film, “Je Ne Suis Pas Un Homme Facile.” The movie will be written by Katie Silberman, Natalie Krinsky and Cinco Paul.

The official logline for “Ladies First” reads: “A womanizer gets a real wakeup call when he finds himself in a world dominated by women – a fiery female counterpart makes things far more complicated.”

The film’s producers are Liza Chasin for 3dot Productions, Eleonore Dailly, Edouard de Lachomette and Four By Two Films. The project falls under Chasin’s creative partnership with Netflix, which sees her produce feature films via 3dot Productions. Coming up next from the partnership is “Lonely Planet” starring Laura Dern and “The Life List” starring Sofia Carson.

Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike are set to inhabit an alternate society in the Netflix romantic-comedy feature Ladies First.

Filmmaker Thea Sharrock (The Beautiful Game) is helming the project that adapts director Eleonore Pourriat’s French-language movie Je Ne Suis Pas Un Homme Facile. Katie Silberman (Booksmart), Natalie Krinsky (The Broken Hearts Gallery) and Cinco Paul (Despicable Me) penned the script for the new film.

Ladies First follows a womanizer who gets a shock when he is suddenly living in a world dominated by women, with an opinionated female counterpart adding to the complications.

A release date has not yet been announced.

Producers include Liza Chasin for 3dot Productions, along with Eleonore Dailly, Edouard de Lachomette and Four By Two Films.

Translated as I Am Not an Easy Man, the original film Je Ne Suis Pas Un Homme Facile stars Vincent Elbaz and Marie-Sophie Ferdane. It debuted on Netflix...

Agatha All Along Showrunner Claims Mephisto Easter Egg Was Unintentional - Main Image

MCU fans have been theorizing Mephisto's arrival to the billion-dollar franchise since WandaVision and Agatha All Along finally put closure on the villain's existence in episode 3 of the hit series.

Now, it seems like showrunner Jac Schaeffer is playing coy on a major Mephisto easter egg featured in the previous episode, claiming it wasn't done on purpose.

Agatha All Along Showrunner Claims Mephisto Easter Egg was Unintentional

"So, with WandaVision — again, this is me embarrassing myself in print — I didn't really know who Mephisto was when WandaVision dropped," Schaeffer explained in a recent interview with The Wrap, before mentioning the wine bottle prop labeled Maison du Mepris which translates to House of Mepris in English.

The wine bottle was something prop master Russell Bobbitt put in the episode that Schaeffer "was unaware of."

Schaeffer later added, "And obviously,...

WandaVision featured a few nods to the devil but fan theories about Mephisto being the mastermind behind what was happening in Westview were ultimately proven incorrect. In fact, the villain's name was never even mentioned.

That changed during last Wednesday's episode of Agatha All Along when Jennifer Kale told Teen there were rumblings Agatha Harkness exchanged her baby for the Darkhold and that Nicholas Scratch may now be a demon or "Agent of Mephisto."

Talking to The Wrap, Agatha All Along showrunner Jac Schaeffer elaborated on the Easter Egg that's got everyone talking.

"So, with 'WandaVision' - again, this is me embarrassing myself in print - I didn’t really know who Mephisto was when 'WandaVision' dropped," the writer and director admitted. "There was the wine bottle that was a prop that had something on the wine label, that prop master Russell Bobbitt had put on, that I was,...

Earlier this month, a new satirical comedy launched in theaters, and despite its box office success and high audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it has not been receiving many critical reviews. The film, directed by Justin Folk, and starring the right-wing political commentator, Matt Walsh, has been described by many, including Walsh himself, as a documentary. However, some aspects of the film, as well as recent revelations from those involved, suggest otherwise.

Am I Racist? was created by the conservative media company, The Daily Wire, notorious for producing The Ben Shapiro Show, and Mr. Birchum. To some, it was a piece of political media put out to highlight perceived criticisms of Dei, and others simply saw it as a funny film. This is where some of the confusion arises since its comedic elements seem to represent Am I Racist? as a mockumentary, similar to films such as Borat or Drop Dead Gorgeous.

For whatever reason, there are films that we in the entertainment media fail to notice. In the case of the documentary Am I Racist?, that whatever reason is that we’re liberals. Not one mainstream media company reviewed the film — the first theatrical release from Ben Shapiro’s conservative media company The Daily Wire — which has been in the top 10 for two weeks. So The Hollywood Reporter enlisted someone who doesn’t care if he loses all his friends. That person was me.

Even more surprising than the fact that Am I Racist? has grossed more than $9 million, making it one of the 40 highest-grossing docs ever, is the fact that the 14th-highest-grossing theater for the film was the AMC 16 in Burbank. So on Thursday, I went to see who in Burbank, a town where 70 percent of the voters chose Joe Biden in 2020, would show up to see the film. I chose the latest showing possible,...