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Exclusive: Terry Gilliam’s biblical comedy Carnival: At The End Of Days has been boarded by prolific Italian producer and entrepreneur Andrea Iervolino, whose credits include Ferrari, Maserati: The Brothers and To The Bone.

Iervolino is due to produce and help finance the film and is heading to the European Film Market in Berlin this month to discuss the project with potential buyers and will look to add a sales agent while there. The aim is to shoot in Italy as soon as April.

According to Iervolino, the project will reflect Gilliam’s customary ambition, scope and creative vision. He describes it to us as “an epic and visionary work” and a “live-action film that makes unprecedented use of CGI”: “Carnival is an extraordinarily complex film for an independent production. It is a project that blends live-action aesthetics with an unprecedented amount of CGI. It is, without a doubt,...

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Seventeen years ago, Heath Ledger’s sudden death in January 2008 shook the world. At just 28 years old, the actor was soon seen in an unforgettable performance as the maniacal criminal Joker in The Dark Knight. However, Christopher Nolan’s Batman flick wasn’t his final project.

While his outlandish turn as Joker deservingly earned him a posthumous Academy Award, Ledger was also in the middle of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, a fantasy drama co-starring Andrew Garfield. To complete the shooting after Ledger’s passing, not one but three actors — Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell — came on board to actualize the Australian actor’s last work.

In a powerful gesture of generosity, the trio of English, Irish, and American actors donated their entire earnings from the film to Ledger’s and Michelle Williams’ 2-year-old daughter, Matilda, ensuring she would...

Chief of Engineering Montgomery Scott is one of the Star Trek characters with the most staying power; after his introduction in Star Trek: The Original Series, he has now reappeared in both Star Trek (2009) and most recently in the finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. From the very beginning, the Scotty of The Original Series (James Doohan) was something of a miracle worker: He solves seemingly unsolvable engineering problems impossibly quickly. It is hardly surprising, then, that Scotty keeps coming back to Star Trek.

Like many characters in Tos, Scotty's backstory is left unspecified. It wasn't even confirmed that he was born in Scotland until the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Relics." For Tos, it was less important to specify how Scotty came to be than it was to show what adventures he faced with the crew of the Enterprise. This meant that when Scotty was re-introduced in...

It has been nearly 17 years since Oscar winner Heath Ledger’s death, and now his one-time co-star, Julia Stiles, is remembering the actor. Stiles starred with Ledger in 1999’s classic teen romantic comedy 10 Things I Hate About You. Per People, Stiles, while promoting the film Wish You Were Here on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, touched on working with Ledger on the movie.

“He was such a force,” said Stiles, who co-wrote and makes her directorial debut with Wish You Were Here, which hits theaters Jan. 17. “He walked into a room and just lit it up and had so much energy and passion, and it’s really sad that he’s gone,” Stiles said.

Ledger died on Jan. 22, 2008, at the age of 28, of an accidental overdose of prescription medications including OxyContin, Vicodin, Xanax, Valium, Restoril, and Unisom, per the Los Angeles Times. He was posthumously awarded an...

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On June 9, 2017, Batman star Adam West died at the age of 88 following a short battle with leukemia. Four months later, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment released his post-humous animated film Batman vs. Two-Face, in which he voiced Bruce Wayne/Batman's character.

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Alan Rickman marked his final performance in the 2016 film Alice Through the Looking Glass. The famed Harry Potter actor, who portrayed Professor Severus Snape in the film franchise, died on January 14, 2016, after suffering from cancer. He was 69.

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Anton Yelchin died on June 19, 2016. The then-27-year-old actor, who starred in Star Trek Beyond, was killed in a freak car accident in Studio City while he was on his way to meet his friends, his publicist, Jennifer Allen, confirmed at the time.

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When you're making a movie, you can only control so much. You can meticulously plan your shots; you can account for every dollar of your budget in advance; you can hire all the best people to make sure each department completes its mission at the highest caliber. The world is random and full of tragedy, however, and sometimes, film productions have to deal with shocking, unexpected loss. When an actor dies while still in production on a movie, that can send a production reeling.

It's happened many times in the past. For example, James Dean had just finished shooting "Giant" when he died in a car crash, only 24 years old. Because his part still required a significant amount of Adr, his "Rebel Without a Cause" co-star Nick Adams dubbed over many of his lines.

Sometimes, movies don't recover. However, these days — especially thanks to the advent of CGI and other...

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Andrew Garfield has turned himself into quite the actor over the last decade or so. Not only does he star in acclaimed films such as "Tick, Tick...Boom!" or the recently released "We Live in Time" for A24, but he's also capable of delivering the goods in blockbusters as well. He was a major reason why 2021's "Spider-Man: No Way Home" became one of the biggest movies ever. But before he became an A-list actor capable of walking comfortably in both of these worlds, he starred in an oft-forgotten drama alongside Tom Cruise. 

The movie was 2007's "Lions for Lambs," directed by cinematic legend Robert Redford, who also stars in the film. Not only that, but Meryl Streep, one of the greatest actors of all time, was in the film as well, as was future big star Michael Peña. In hindsight,...

Heath Ledger was a perfect example of cinematic brilliance, that truly shined in the work he did in the industry. Born and raised in Australia, the actor shifted to the United States to pursue his acting dreams. While he was able to do just that, his portrayal of Joker in The Dark Knight received a lot of acclaim, including an Academy Award. This would have been the biggest day of his life, sadly the actor passed away just six months before the release of the movie.

Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain | Credits: Focus Features

But before this movie, he was also a part of another Oscar-nominated movie. However, it was because of this project, that he straightaway rejected presenting an award at the 2007 Oscars.

Jake Gyllenhaal Details Why Heath Ledger Rejected to Present an Oscar

Before his untimely death in 2008, Heath Ledger was part of eighteen movies, ranging across diverse genres.

A fan-favorite movie starring the late great Heath Ledger has found a new streaming home. A Knight's Tale will arrive on Prime Video on November 1.

Ledger, who won an Academy Award for portraying the Joker in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, stars in 2001's A Knight's Tale as the main protagonist William Thatcher, a peasant squire posing as a knight to compete in tournaments. He earns victories and the friendships of notable historical figures like Edward the Black Prince and Geoffrey Chaucer. The film drew inspiration from Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale," part of The Canterbury Tales. The movie's ensemble cast includes Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany, James Purefoy, Alan Tudyk, Shannyn Sossamon, Laura Fraser, and Mark Addy. A Knight's Tale opened to mixed reviews and grossed just over $117 million worldwide against a $65 million budget.

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Joaquin Phoenix won an Oscar for his portrayal of Joker in Todd Phillips’ 2019 film. But a little over a decade before it was released, he says he was approached about taking on the Clown Prince of Crime in Christopher Nolan’s iconic The Dark Knight.

Phoenix sat down for Rick Rubin’s Tetragrammaton podcast (below), for a more than two-hour conversation, where the actor explained that he spoke to Nolan about taking on the role of Joker years before he actually did.

“That didn’t… wasn’t going to happen for a number of reasons. I wasn’t ready then,” Phoenix said on the podcast. “That’s one of those things sometimes where you go: Why am I not doing this project? What is stopping me from doing this? Well it’s not about me, there’s something else. There’s another person that’s going to do something that’s like,...

Since getting to hang out with Elmo wasn’t enough, “We Live in Time” star Andrew Garfield took a few minutes out of his busy schedule to relax in the Criterion Closet. In his video, which you can watch below, he explained how he initially felt threatened by the idea of coming to such a magical place, but that actually being there was a different experience entirely.

“Every time I watch these videos, I’m quite intimidated and I’m like, ‘God, if I ever do that, I’m probably going to be so overwhelmed.’ But it’s like being in one of those sensory deprivation pods where you’re only surrounded by the most incredible cinema ever made,” said Garfield. “And I feel very genuinely humbled to have been invited here.”

Diving right in, Garfield honored Terry Gilliam, who he worked with on “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” by...

Heath Ledger’s turn as The Joker in 2008’s The Dark Knight remains one of the most chilling performances of this century, the actor eventually winning a posthumous Oscar for the defining portrayal of The Clown Prince of Crime. Based on peeks and teases, we knew we would be in for something special when the film came out. And so did Ledger himself, fully aware just how powerful the performance and The Dark Knight would be.

Recounting working with Heath Ledger on The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Andrew Garfield (Anton) remembered the star telling him about his go as The Joker. “He had just done the Joker, he had just finished doing The Dark Knight, and he was so smug about it. I was like, ‘How did that go?’ and he was like, ‘Yeah, it’s really good.’”

However, Heath Ledger wouldn’t find everything to be funny surrounding the promotion of The Dark Knight,...

English-American actor Andrew Garfield first turned heads with his breakout role in The Social Network, followed quickly by a 4-year stint as The Amazing Spider-Man in Marc Webb's Spider-Man reboot that successfully solidified Garfield's status as a household name. But a recent podcast interview revealed Garfield's fondness for a much earlier and far less popular project: Terry Gilliam's 2009 fantastical film The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, which put Garfield face-to-face with the unforgettable Heath Ledger shortly after Ledger's iconic stint as the Joker in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight.

Appearing on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Garfield recalled the brief yet memorable time he spent working alongside Ledger. His most prominent memory: Ledger's smug insistence that The Dark Knight would be an instant hit, months before the film premiered in July 2008. Fresh from portraying one of the most memorable movie villains of all time, Ledger told Garfield...

Heath Ledger died months before The Dark Knight arrived in theaters. As a result, the actor never got to see the response to his performance as The Joker or receive the "Best Supporting Actor" Oscar, which he was posthumously awarded the following year.

According to The Amazing Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield, Ledger was understandably confident about The Dark Knight being a hit after teaming with Christopher Nolan on the Batman Begins sequel. 

Garfield, who shared the screen with Ledger in 2009's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, remembers the actor as a "very generous, beautiful, creative spirit." He'd call him "a kind of beacon, it was like a wild animal" on set, adding, "He was so free and so wild and so, kind of dangerous on set in a way that was the kind of thing that is inspiring and spontaneous."

"He would say before every take, or one take every scene,...

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Andrew Garfield didn't work with the late Heath Ledger for long, but their collaboration came at a crucial time in his career. The "Spider-Man: No Way Home" star worked with the beloved actor shortly after Ledger played Joker in Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight." That performance would eventually net Ledger a posthumous Oscar for his now-legendary work as Batman's greatest foe in what is widely considered to be one of the greatest comic book movies ever made. And according to Garfield, it seems as though Ledger was pretty confident about the film, even though he never got to see the world react to it.

During a recent episode of the "Happy Sad Confused" podcast, host Josh Horowitz broached the topic of Ledger, who tragically died at the age of 28 several months before "The Dark Knight" came out. Before that,...

Heath Ledger predicted the success of The Dark Knight before his death, Andrew Garfield shared this week.

Garfield said during an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that he and the late actor crossed paths shortly after Ledger finished filming Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight.

“He was so smug about it,” Garfield said of Ledger talking about his time on Nolan’s set. “I was like, ‘How did that go?’ and he was like, ‘Yeah, it’s really good.’”

Ledger died at age 28 of an accidental drug overdose about six months before the release of The Dark Knight, but his predictive powers turned out to be true: The film broke several box office records, and the Joker star earned a posthumous Oscar for best supporting actor.

Though Garfield’s time interacting with Ledger was brief — the two worked together on 2009’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus — the Social...

Andrew Garfield remembers Heath Ledger as a "very generous, beautiful, creative spirit." The Spider-Man star also recalled Ledger knew early on that The Dark Knight would be a hit.

Heath Ledger and Andrew Garfield crossed paths only once throughout their careers. As co-stars in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Garfield described Ledger as "a kind of beacon, it was like a wild animal" on set. "He was so free and so wild and so, kind of dangerous on set in a way that was the kind of thing that is inspiring and spontaneous," he told Entertainment Weekly. "He would say before every take, or one take every scene, 'Let's have some fun with this one.'" The Spider-Man star also remembered Ledger was confident about his performance in The Dark Knight, which had just wrapped filming at that time.

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Andrew Garfield recalls his time with Heath Ledger on the set of 2009’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

Garfield said that he worked with Ledger after he had finished filming The Dark Knight and before the Christopher Nolan movie premiered, the Australian actor already knew it would be a hit.

“He had just done the Joker, he had just finished doing The Dark Knight, and he was so smug about it,” Garfield said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “I was like, ‘How did that go?’ and he was like, ‘Yeah, it’s really good.’”

The Amazing Spider-Man alum worked with Ledger early on in his career, who was critical of a magazine cover he graced in the lead-up to his take on the DC Comics villain The Joker.

“I remember his like, Empire magazine cover came out and he was like, ‘Oh, they used a f***ing sh** photo,...

Just like any other parent, Andrew Garfield’s father had certain expectations from his son. Expectations that didn’t necessarily resonate with what the actor wanted to do with his life. When he confided in his father that he wanted to try his luck in Hollywood, Richard Garfield was not eagerly supportive, to say the least.

Andrew Garfield in Tick, Tick… Boom! (2021) | Credits: Netflix

Despite his reservations, he allowed his son to go make a name for himself on one condition – he would have to do a course in business studies as well. You know, just to be on the safe side. Luckily, the path Andrew Garfield took led to remarkable things but his relationship with his father reached a point where he would have to take therapy to deal with it all.

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Acclaimed actor Johnny Depp has landed the role of Satan in director Terry Gilliam’s new movie “The Carnival at the End of Days.” Depp will star alongside Adam Driver and Jason Momoa in the fantasy drama. This is a dramatic role change for Depp, whose recent films have mostly featured animated voice work. It could also mark a career resurgence for the star amid past legal issues.

Depp is well known for inhabiting diverse characters through transformation. He previously collaborated with Gilliam in 2009’s “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.” Details about the new film’s plot and Depp’s take on Satan remain undisclosed. However, those in the industry say the challenging part could reenergize Depp’s career after some setbacks in recent years.

Since 2020, Depp’s on-screen appearances have been limited mostly to voicing the character Johnny Puff in animated films and TV projects for children. While steady work,...

One of Heath Ledger's most beloved movies will hit Paramount+ next month. The late actor is perhaps most well-known for giving an iconic, Academy-award-winning performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight.

Ledger's A Knight's Tale will arrive on Paramount+ on September 1. Co-produced and directed by Brian Helgeland and released by Columbia Pictures, the 2001 medieval action comedy stars Ledger as William Thatcher, a peasant squire posing as a knight to compete in tournaments. He earns victories and the friendships of notable historical figures like Edward the Black Prince and Geoffrey Chaucer. The film drew inspiration from Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale," part of The Canterbury Tales. The movie's ensemble cast includes Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany, James Purefoy, Alan Tudyk, Shannyn Sossamon, Laura Fraser, and Mark Addy. A Knight's Tale opened to mixed reviews and grossed just over $117 million worldwide against a $65 million budget.

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In a scene worthy of one of his animated works, Terry Gillam took to a stage covered in crashed paper planes at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on Sunday to receive its honorary Cristal award and give a masterclass about his animated works.

Gilliam was last in Annecy, where its audience has a tradition of bombarding the stage with paper planes, in 1975 with Miracle of Flight. The anarchic comedy about mankind’s different attempts to fly debuted in the shorts competition but did not win a prize.

“Do you know how long it’s taken me to get this f**king award… They’ve finally let me in… I think they know I might not be around next year,” joked the director as he received the trophy.

The French lakeside animation festival, running from June 9 to 15, is set to welcome close to 16,000 animation professionals this year, many of them...

Johnny Depp, Jeff Bridges, Adam Driver, and Jason Momoa are set to star in a new movie directed by Terry Gilliam, titled The Carnival at the End of Days.

The news was confirmed by Gilliam himself in a recent interview with the French publication Premiere, in which he explained the premise of the film. “God decides to destroy humanity, and the only one trying to save us is Satan because he needs people in hell, otherwise he won’t have a job for eternity,” he said. Depp and Bridges are set to play Satan and God, respectively.

“It will be very funny for those who like to be offended,” Gilliam said. Elsewhere, he expanded on what he has in mind for Bridge’s God character. “He will not be the God we are used to,” he said. “In the film, God is nature, but a nature that can talk to you.

With a filmography spanning from critically acclaimed projects like The Social Network to donning the superhero suit for Marvel’s The Amazing Spider-Man films, Andrew Garfield has worked with several renowned Hollywood stars throughout his decorated career. But one collaboration that changed his life was with the late actor Heath Ledger.

Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man in Marvel’s The Amazing Spider-Man

Ahead of The Dark Knight actor’s untimely demise, Andrew Garfield had the opportunity to share the screen with him in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. During their brief time of collaboration, Garfield learned lessons from Heath Ledger that not only etched a place in his heart but also inspired his role as Spider-Man.

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Ahead of Heath Ledger’s unfortunate demise, Andrew Garfield had the opportunity to work with the star on Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus...

You never want to see an actor get replaced, really for any reason. Those reasons could range anywhere from bad behavior off-screen to salary disputes, to the classic "scheduling conflicts" excuse, but the worst possible reason for having to recast someone is a tragic death. There haven't been many instances of this throughout Hollywood history, but one of the most notable examples was when Heath Ledger passed away in 2008 while shooting what would become his final film role, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. This could have completely tanked the project and caused it to shut down, since Ledger was playing an important character whose actions helped drive the plot. However, writer/director Terry Gilliam came up with an idea that worked within the confines of his magical fantasy world: he recast Ledger's character with three different actors, all friends of Ledger, and all playing the same character.

Johnny Depp was all smiles as he reunited with his old pals at the UK premiere of his French-language movie ‘Jeanne Du Barry.’

The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ star even cracked a few jokes along the way and expressed his gratitude to get to star as the “King of France” in Maïwenn’s ‘Jeanne Du Barry.’

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On Monday, Johnny Depp reunited with director Terry Gilliam on the red carpet of his costume movie by French filmmaker Maïwenn. The film will be distributed in the UK starting April 19 via Depp’s London-based film company In.2.

During the premiere event, which took place at the Curzon theater in Mayfair, Gilliam apparently ticked Depp off by grilling him for being ten minutes late.

“Sorry, it’s too late — the film has started 10 minutes ago,” Gilliam, who directed Depp in 1998’s...

Exclusive: Johnny Depp’s London-based film company In.2 is adding a new string to its bow with the release this Friday of French historical drama Jeanne du Barry.

Starring Depp as Louis Xv opposite French actress and director Maïwenn in the titular role, the picture opened the Cannes Film Festival last year.

As per Cannes’ stipulation for opening films, it released theatrically in France the same day, enjoying a successful run for distributor Le Pacte with the highest French gross for a Cannes opener since The Great Gatsby in 2013.

In.2 will release the movie on 70 screens on April 19 across the UK in a campaign spearheaded by Head of Production Stephen Malit.

The UK release will be followed by the U.S. launch by Vertical Entertainment on May 2, which has confirmed 600 theatres so far.

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Johnny Depp reunited with director Terry Gilliam on the red carpet of the UK premiere of French filmmaker MaÏwenn’s costume drama Jeanne du Barry on Monday evening.

Depp’s London-based film company In.2 is gearing up to release the Court of Versailles-set tale across the UK from this Friday, April 19.

Gilliam, who directed Depp in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), jokingly ticked Depp off for his late arrival.

“Sorry, it’s too late — the film has started 10 minutes ago,” quipped Gilliam as Depp arrived at the Curzon Mayfair cinema.

He then referred to Depp as the “new Jackie Chan” as the actor enveloped him in a bear hug, seemingly in reference to the fact the star has been working out.

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With Colin Farrell taking over the role as the Penguin and no doubt on his way to becoming the “definitive” version for a younger generation, he reflected on some of the other quintessential performances throughout the Batman franchise. And like so many of us, he put Heath Ledger’s Joker at number one.

When asked which performance in any Batman movie was his favorite, Colin Farrell replied, “I mean, Heath. Heath takes it, you know.” That’s about as good of a pick as you can have, as Ledger’s Joker is widely considered one of the best performances in any comic book movie, even earning him one of the few posthumous acting Oscars ever given. Colin Farrell has a pretty special professional connection to Heath Ledger, too, stepping in (alongside Johnny Depp and Jude Law) to fill in for Ledger on The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus following his tragic 2008 death,...

If you were to just look at the beginning of their careers, Terry Gilliam and Johnny Depp seemingly had completely opposite trajectories. Gilliam started out crafting wacky animations for the British comedy troupe Monty Python in the late '60s, while Depp got his big break as an '80s heartthrob thanks to 21 Jump Street. However, a study of their later work clearly shows how the two creative minds were ultimately destined to intersect.

Gilliam went on to become a director of feature films, and made a name for himself in Hollywood by creating surreal, visually captivating sci-fi and fantasy films like Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and 12 Monkeys. When Johnny Depp completely transformed for Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands in 1990, it showed his willingness to challenge himself creatively and foreshadowed the oddball roles that he would take on later in his career. While they...

Warning: Spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Finale - "Hegemony"

Captain Pike disobeys Starfleet's orders in "Hegemony," risking his own crew to save stranded survivors on Parnassus Beta. The season 2 finale of Strange New Worlds ends with a cliffhanger, leaving Captain Pike in an impossible situation against the Gorn. To overcome his Kobayashi Maru, Pike will rely on his crew's help and trust his instincts, finding a solution without leaving anyone behind or directly fighting the Gorn.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds finally gave Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) his Kobayashi Maru, as he faces an impossible choice in the season 2 finale. In "Hegemony," Captain Pike answers a distress call from Captain Marie Batel (Melanie Scrofano) and the USS Cayuga. When Pike arrives with the USS Enterprise, they find that the Gorn destroyed the Cayuga and invaded the colony planet, Parnassus Beta. Pike and a landing party then...

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USS Enterprise crew members are kidnapped by the Gorn, but their experiences in the Klingon War could help them survive. Klingon War veterans LA'an, M'Benga, and Ortegas are well-equipped to face the Gorn due to their firsthand experience with violence and killing. Lt. Sam Kirk is unlikely to die in the Gorn encounter because he is fated to survive until Star Trek: The Original Series, but he may still suffer lasting physical or emotional scars.

Some of the USS Enterprise's crew were kidnapped in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2's finale, but they can survive the dreaded Gorn thanks to their experiences in Star Trek: Discovery's Klingon War. The Enterprise responded to a distress call from Captain Marie Batel (Melanie Scrofano) on Parnassus Beta only to find the USS Cayuga destroyed and the planet's human colony decimated by the Gorn.

The season two finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds features Captain Pike and the crew of the Enterprise facing off against the Gorn, a battle that was 80 years in the making. The Gorn were based on an author's short story from 1944, which Star Trek screenwriter Gene L. Coon accidentally plagiarized in a Tos episode titled "Arena." Gene L. Coon, responsible for creating iconic villains like the Klingons and Khan Noonien Singh, also created the Gorn, who continue to terrorize the crew of the Enterprise in Snw's cliffhanger season finale.

Warning! The following contains Spoilers for the season two finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

The Gorn couldn’t be stopped. In the season two finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Snw), Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise must use their ingenuity to save the lives of surviving members of the starship Cayuga’s crew.

Warning: Contains Spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' season 2 finale.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' season 2 finale features a colony planet, Parnassus Beta, that pays homage to the themed worlds seen in the original series, adding a familiar element to the new show. The choice of Parnassus Beta's design as a 21st-century American Midwest town reflects the founders' desire to break away from the advanced technology of the 23rd century. The presence of themed planets in the Star Trek universe can be attributed to budget constraints and the availability of props and costumes, but it also allows for recognizable and relatable settings for future episodes of Strange New Worlds.

The stricken colony planet Parnassus Beta in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' season 2 finale is a callback to the themed worlds from Star Trek: The Original Series, making both shows more alike. The colony planet is just outside Federation space.

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Lt. Erica Ortegas finally joins a landing party and it turns into a disaster as the Gorn invade Parnassus Beta, consuming colonists and infecting Captain Marie Batel. Ortegas, along with LA'an, M'Benga, and Sam, get beamed onto a Gorn ship, facing imprisonment and the threat of being consumed by the reptilian race. Ortegas, LA'an, and M'Benga's experience in the Klingon War may give them the toughness and perseverance needed to survive the Gorn's capture until they can be rescued by Captain Pike's Enterprise.

Lt. Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia) got her wish in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2's finale, and she may live to regret it. Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 10, "Hegemony," saw the return of the Gorn, the murderous reptilian race that plagued Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and the USS Enterprise since Strange New...

Warning: Contains Spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season 2 finale, "Hegemony."

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' season 2 finale, "Hegemony," maintains the established Star Trek canon surrounding the Gorn, avoiding any major disruptions to the storyline. The introduction of the Gorn Protocol Box reveals that knowledge of Gorn combat is reserved for officers with high-level clearance, such as Captain Pike, which explains why Lt. Kirk would not be aware of these protocols. The attack on Parnassus Beta is presented as a border dispute rather than an all-out invasion, aligning with previous information about the Gorn Hegemony and allowing for a potential temporary resolution that respects Gorn borders.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' season 2 finale, "Hegemony" pits the USS Enterprise against the Gorn, but keeps the established Star Trek: The Original Series canon largely intact in several ways. The Gorn first appeared in the classic Tos episode "Arena", which apparently depicted...

Warning: Contains Spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season 2 Finale, "Hegemony."

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2 finale ends on a cliffhanger as Captain Pike faces a difficult decision and the crew is taken hostage by the Gorn. Due to strikes and production delays, fans may have to wait until 2025 for the release of season 3 to find out the fates of Captain Batel and the captured crew members. The cliffhanger in Strange New Worlds is compared to the iconic cliffhanger of Star Trek: The Next Generation, but the wait for the resolution will be much longer this time.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2 ended on a major cliffhanger, and it could, unfortunately, be a while before fans get to see the conclusion. In Strange New Worlds' season 2 finale, "Hegemony," Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and the USS Enterprise respond to a distress call from Captain Marie Batel (Melanie Scrofano) and the USS Cayuga.

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Warning: Spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Finale - "Hegemony"

Captain Pike faces an impossible decision as he must choose between following orders and leaving his crew as prisoners of the Gorn or ignoring orders and risking their lives. Captain Batel has been infected by the Gorn, and there are baby reptiles growing inside her. Nurse Chapel is working to find a cure and save Batel's life. The Enterprise landing party, except for Lt. Sam Kirk, has been captured by the Gorn. Lt. Scotty and Commander Pelia work to duplicate a Gorn transponder to save their friends.

Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) faces an impossible decision in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2's finale about which members of the USS Enterprise crew to save from the Gorn. Directed by Maja Vrvilo and written by executive producer and co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers, Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 10, "Hegemony,...

April on Prime Video is stacked with returning favorites, the launch of one of Amazon’s biggest shows ever and a bevy of great movies to watch. The fifth and final season of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” launches on April 14, while Amazon will premiere the globe-trotting action-thriller series “Citadel” – starring Priyanka Chopra-Jonas and Richard Madden – on April 28. The show hails from “Avengers: Endgame” filmmaker Joe and Anthony Russo.

Noteworthy movies arriving on April 1 include the “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” movies, “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “The Big Lebowski,” “Looper,” “Vanilla Sky” and “Top Gun.”

You can also stream the Billy Eichner rom-com “Bros” starting April 4 and the George Clooney/Julia Roberts rom-com “Ticket to Paradise” on April 11.

Check out the full list of what’s new on Amazon Prime Video in April 2023 below.

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The jury system can by trying, but “Jury Duty” — a doc-style comedy series coming to Freevee on April 7 — examines it through the eyes of one juror. The catch: The actual juror, Ronald Gladden, doesn’t realize the case is fake and everyone else is an actor. All the crazy machinations inside the courtroom are planned, and everyone is in on it, except for Gladden. Will this lone juror be able to find his way to justice despite all of the chaos surrounding the case?

Watch the trailer for ‘Jury Duty’:

Also coming to Amazon’s free streaming service next month will be the five seasons of Rod Serling’s groundbreaking show “The Twilight Zone.” The original 1950s series took psychological insights into new TV territory. The 2019 reboot of the series from Jordan Peele will stream on the service alongside the original. Either coincidentally, or perhaps suspiciously, both versions of...

In 2023, many of Terry Gilliam's old fans have been forced to face some of the director's questionable behavior, dark opinions, and irresponsible filming style. Briefly: in 2020, Gilliam said in public that the #MeToo movement was a witch hunt, downplaying the widespread sexual abuse the movement sought to highlight. Gilliam followed those statements with a defense of Harvey Weinstein, a defense that fell in line with a notorious petition he signed a decade previous seeking to exonerate Roman Polanski. Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann, Pedro Almodóvar, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Wong Kar-Wai, and David Lynch also signed the petition. So did Harvey Weinstein, who asked many for support.

Famously, Gilliam's films have almost all had troubled shoots, and each one comes prepackaged with a chaotic story about its making. "Brazil" was infamously recut several times, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" briefly didn't know which script it was supposed to use,...

Mention Colin Farrell 20 years ago and a few things would probably come to mind. Drugs. Booze. Sex tapes. Farrell was one of Hollywood’s bad boys, an Irish actor who always seemed to be getting in trouble with the press and whose early promise seemed to stall amid a run of dud movies. How that has all changed...

Last week, Farrell picked up his second Best Actor Golden Globe for his outstanding performance as Padraic, the dim-witted farmer left devastated when his neighbour and best friend (Brendan Gleeson) turns on him in Martin McDonagh’s tragicomedy, The Banshees of Inisherin. Farrell brings pathos, fatalism and humour to the role. His Padraic is a gentle soul, bewildered by his friend’s hostility and upset that he now has no one to sup a pint with of an evening.

Farrell is being strongly tipped for an Oscar, too. Almost all reviews have mentioned his charm in Banshees,...

Ryan Grantham, a Canadian actor whose credits include “Riverdale,” “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” and “Supernatural,” has been sentenced to life in prison with parole ineligibility of 14 years for the second-degree murder of his mother, CBC reports.

In March 2020, the actor shot his mom, Barbara Waite, in the back of the head with a .22 rifle as she played piano in their home in Squamish, British Columbia. As shown in court, Grantham then took a GoPro video shortly after the murder, in which he confesses to killing his mother and shows her body. The following day, he covered the body with a sheet, surrounded it with lit candles and hung a rosary from the piano, before driving east to Ottawa in a car packed with guns, ammunition and Molotov cocktails. His intention was to kill Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Instead, he drove to Hope, B.C., with thoughts of committing a...

Former Riverdale and Diary of a Wimpy Kid actor Ryan Grantham has been sentenced to life behind bars without the possibility of parole for 14 years for the 2020 killing of his mother.

The by-the-book second-degree murder punishment was handed down by British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Kathleen Ker on September 21 in Vancouver. With the sentence already a forgone conclusion over the laws of the Canadian province, the only real wild card was how long the guilty pleading Grantham would have to wait before the currently 24-year-old could apply for parole.

The Leo Awards nominated Grantham turned himself into police soon after shooting his 64-year-old mother Barbara Waite in the back of the head on March 31, 2020, in the family’s Squamish home, just north of Vancouver.

A second-degree murder charge in B.C. comes with no parole eligibility of between 10 and 25 years. In that context, prosecutors had recommended in a sentencing hearing...

Ryan Grantham, the former “Riverdale” actor who pleaded guilty to killing his mother, was sentenced to life in prison with the ability to apply for parole after 14 years on Thursday.

The sentence, handed down by a Canadian judge, was automatic with his second-degree murder conviction, with only the length of parole ineligibility in question.

CBC reported the news.

The 24-year-old’s sentencing was levied by Justice Kathleen Kerr of the British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver. Court proceedings were held in June to determine when Grantham should be eligible for parole.

The previous hearing made headlines after prosecutors said that Grantham — whose credits include the 2010 film “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” and a 2019 episode of “Riverdale” — allegedly plotted an attempted assassination of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in which he packed his vehicle with guns, ammunition, a dozen Molotov cocktails and a map to Trudeau’s family residence in Ottawa. He...

Canadian actor Ryan Grantham, who pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of his mother, allegedly plotted an attempted assassination against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, CBC has reported.

The 24-year-old’s sentencing hearing by the British Columbia Supreme Court began on Monday. While the charge carries an automatic life sentence, the court proceedings were held to determine when Grantham should be eligible for parole.

During the hearing, prosecutors said that Grantham — whose credits include the 2010 film “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” and a 2019 episode of “Riverdale” — allegedly packed his vehicle with guns, ammunition, a dozen Molotov cocktails and a map to Trudeau’s family residence in Ottawa. He then allegedly stopped en route and decided to turn himself into the police.

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More than a decade later, Heath Ledger's death still brings up the same futile thoughts about what might've been.  About what sort of father he would have been, about whether he and Michelle Williams might have one day reconciled and, perhaps most predominantly, about what sort of work he would've done, passing away five months before The Dark Knight hit theaters. Back in January 2020, amid his award season tour for his Joker role, Joaquin Phoenix paid tribute to his late friend, the man who had played the Batman's archenemy 11 years...

Exclusive: Deadline has the first exclusive track from Jeff Danna’s score for Julia, which is set for release tomorrow via Watertower Music.

HBO Max’s eight episode comedy series is inspired by Julia Child’s (Sarah Lancashire) extraordinary life and her long-running television series, The French Chef, which pioneered the modern cooking show. Through Julia’s life and her singular joie de vivre, the series explores a pivotal time in American history—the emergence of public television as a new social institution, feminism and the women’s movement, the nature of celebrity and America’s cultural evolution. At its heart, the show is a portrait of a loving marriage with a shifting power dynamic.

One of Danna’s main challenges in his work here was to develop a theme that could speak to both the culinary icon’s spirit, and the series’ “brilliant and warm showcase” of her early years on television.

Puppets

BritBox U.K.’s “Spitting Image” will return to the airwaves on Sept. 11, with a lineup featuring several new puppets of prominent national figures. Last year, the program was a massive hit for BritBox, the streaming platform co-developed by the BBC and ITV, reaching an audience of more than 4.4 million viewers for the series’ U.S. Election Special and over 200 million global online viewers for the year. In 2020 series creator Roger Law returned to “Spitting Image” as head of the series’ creative team, with Jeff Westbrook joining as showrunner. Avalon produces. Earlier this year it was also announced that a new local version of “Spitting Image” will be made for Sky Germany, featuring the most internationally relevant bits of the English-language original with original German-language skits added for the local audience.

Theater

Composer and theater impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber’s £6 million ($8.2 million) West End production of “Cinderella” will resume Aug.

The Zurich Film Festival will honor Oscar-winning composer Mychael Danna (Life of Pi) with its 2021 Career Achievement Award.

The Canada-born Danna has worked with such directors as Terry Gilliam (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus), Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter), Joel Schumacher (8Mm), James Mangold (Girl, Interrupted), and Denzel Washington (Antwone Fisher), but is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Ang Lee, for whom he composed scores for The Ice Storm (1997), Ride With the Devil (1999), Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2016) and Life of Pi. The latter won him the Oscar for best original score in 2013.

Other notable works from the ...