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Jenna Ortega is back with a bang with Wednesday Season 2 (Photo Credit – Twitter)

Jenna Ortega is back as the iconic Wednesday Addams in the much-anticipated second season of ‘Wednesday,’ following the massive success of its debut.

The Netflix series, which is a spin-off of ‘The Addams Family,’ captivated audiences in 2022, with Ortega’s performance earning rave reviews and landing the show multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.

The show also quickly became the second-most-watched English-language series on Netflix within just a few weeks of its release, setting the bar high for its follow-up.

You’re not ready for Wednesday Season 2. #NextOnNetflix pic.twitter.com/ZDx2501wIm

— Netflix (@netflix) January 30, 2025

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Wednesday Season 2 Expected To Be More...

Fans of Netflix’s Wednesday have been anticipating the release of its second season. Recently, Netflix gave fans a tease of what to expect during the series’ return. In the clip, viewers were also taken into the world of a few other Netflix series.

A Woman Found Herself Down The Rabbit Hole Into Nevermore Academy

Jenna Ortega stars at the title character in the Netflix series, which premiered in 2022. Based off the Charles Addams character, the series sees Wednesday Addams expelled from her school and enrolling at her parents’ alma mater Nevermore Academy.

While there, the stoic Wednesday encounters other students of otherworldly origins. However, darkness looms in the shadows as she gets involved with a local murder mystery that might be connected to her family.

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On January 30, as noted by People, Netflix gave a hint at the series’ second season as part of a promotional sizzle reel.

Today, Netflix released a sizzle reel for a bunch of the upcoming shows and movies it will be airing in 2025. The reel is pretty clever: it follows a woman who's trying to surreptitiously watch Netflix during a boring meeting at work. She's then transported into the worlds of her favorite shows; she encounters the guards from Squid Game, dons a gi to fight with the cast of Cobra Kai, gets a white wig and fights a monster like Geralt from The Witcher, and more. The actress was really put through her paces here:

For the most part, we don't actually see footage from any of these shows, just the dramatized reenactments. But there's one important exception: at around the 1:20 mark of the trailer, we actually see a clip from the upcoming second season of Wednesday, starring Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams. The Netflix X account excerpted that bit:

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Wednesday Season 2 is coming!

Netflix unveiled a quick teaser for the new season of the hit Jenna Ortega-led series during a reel that premiered during the Next on Netflix event for 2025 on Wednesday (January 30).

The short clip shows the gates of Willowhill, the psychiatric hospital where Francoise Galpin was taken after she unlocked her hyde, a deadly monster that is unleashed through trauma. If you don’t recall, she was the late mother of Wednesday’s friend-turned-enemy Tyler Galpin (Hunter Doohan). She was also friends with Wednesday’s mom, Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones).

The clip also shows Tyler chained to a wall as Wednesday stares him down.

Season 2 is expected to premiere in 2025, though we don’t have an exact release date just yet. Stay tuned!

Find out which TV show premiere dates were just announced by Netflix for 2025, as well as which movies are coming this year.

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It’s almost time to return to Nevermore Academy for Wednesday‘s second season as the Netflix series looks to the future. The streamer unveiled that the production has officially wrapped for Season 2. While it’s been nearly two years since fans were introduced to Jenna Ortega‘s spin on the titular Addams Family daughter, the fervor around the Tim Burton-produced project remains high. In anticipation of the show’s long-awaited return, we’re breaking down everything we know about Season 2 so far from casting to production details and everything in between. Who Stars in Wednesday Season 2? Helen Sloan/Netflix Ortega is set to reprise her titular role alongside other returning stars Luis Guzmán, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Isaac Ordonez, Fred Armisen, Emma Myers, Hunter Doohan, and Joy Sunday among others. New series regulars include Steve Buscemi, Billie Piper, Evie Templeton, Owen Painter, and Noah Taylor. Meanwhile, new guest stars include Christopher Lloyd,...

We finally have a clue about “Wednesday” Season 2, and it is all thanks to a promotional clip from Netflix. The streaming giant slipped in a teaser for the new installment into a reel that was shown during its Next on Netflix event for 2025.

The promo reel in question serves as a celebration of nearly every major Netflix original. The video opens on a young woman who is bored during a work meeting and tries to covertly watch “Stranger Things” on Netflix. The signature “Tudum” of the app does not just pique the interest of all of her co-workers; it literally sucks her into the world of Netflix originals.

After crawling over the heads of several “Squid Game” guards, our Netflix-loving hero finds herself in an elevator. Seconds after she enters it, the lights flicker and the mirror behind her breaks, morphing into the signature smiley face of “Black Mirror,” which...

Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) doesn’t have time in her schedule to make your eyes bleed — just yet. She’s way too busy visiting her nemesis, Tyler (Hunter Doohan), in the asylum where he’s being held. A brand-new snippet from Season 2 released as part of the Next on Netflix event proves as much: The haunting footage teases the thrilling upcoming episodes that will premiere in 2025.

“This season, Wednesday’s journey is darker and more complex as she navigates family, friends, new mysteries, and old adversaries, propelling her headlong into another year at Nevermore,” showrunners and executive producers Al Gough and Miles Millar tell Tudum.

Although Nevermore Academy’s No. 1 teen detective is the only cast member in the spine-tingling picture, we know she’ll be joined by familiar faces — and exciting new characters — when Wednesday returns. Cast members Emma Myers (Enid Sinclair), Joy Sunday (Bianca Barclay), Catherine Zeta-Jones (Morticia...

Fighting back tears and fresh from receiving the first of two standing ovations, Jennifer Lopez told a Sundance Film Festival audience on Sunday night that starring in Bill Condon’s movie musical Kiss of the Spider Woman made a lifelong dream come true. But it wasn’t for lack of trying.

Talking to The Hollywood Reporter on the red carpet ahead of the world premiere at Park City’s Eccles Center Theatre, the superstar entertainer revealed that she had auditioned for some of Hollywood’s best known modern movie musicals, only to get passed over.

“I remember auditioning for Evita, I remember auditioning for Chicago and for Nine — getting very close on Nine,” said Lopez, outfitted for the premiere in a very method ensemble, a glittering spiderweb gown by designer Valdrin Sahiti. “There was a lot of things that I had always hoped that I could do and just wasn’t the right time.

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Michael Douglas has the history of marriage and divorce that you might expect from an A-list actor with a lengthy career.

Whether fans know him for his classic work decades ago or for his role as the cantankerous Hank Pym in the MCU, Michael Douglas is a Hollywood legend.

But the topic of his marital status has come into question more than once — and with good reason.

Hollywood marriages are complex subjects. But here’s his history, and where things stand today.

Michael Douglas visits SiriusXM at SiriusXM Studios on April 16, 2024. (Photo Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) Who was Michael Douglas’ first marriage and divorce?

As we mentioned, Michael Douglas has been a prominent actor since before many of his fans were alive. As such, his relationship history goes back nearly as far.

In 1971, Michael Douglas began dating fellow actor Brenda Vaccaro, following the filming of Summertree.

If you're only familiar with director Steven Soderbergh's take on Danny Ocean's (George Clooney) story in his "Ocean's" trilogy — which kicked off in 2001 — you might not know that the actual first movie centering around a guy named Ocean and a big Las Vegas heist actually came out in 1960. So which ones in this series are the best, and which are the worst?

I feel pretty comfortable saying that I'm going to ruffle some feathers with this ranking, and I'm fine with that. I love picking hyper-specific hills and then dying upon them; it's one of my absolute favorite hobbies. Still, with just five "Ocean's" movies to choose from — putting aside the rumored prequel with Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie as Danny's parents — it's a fairly close ranking, but there's still a definitive answer. Here are the "Ocean's" movies ranked from worst to best, and I guarantee people...

Brat summer is long over, but Charli Xcx’s acting era has only just begun. The pop star has confirmed a movie with A24, based on an idea of her own, which she’ll be starring in and producing. The film’s plot details are still under wraps, but it’s confirmed to be titled The Moment.

The movie will mark the first endeavor for her recently formed production company, Studio365, and serve as the feature directorial debut for Scottish photographer and filmmaker Aidan Zamiri. The screenplay was co-written by Zamiri and Bertie Brandes, while Brat co-producer A.G. Cook will compose the score.

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Buzz around The Moment marks the latest in film news for Charli, who will also be appearing in a remake of the 1978 horror film Faces of Death, an adventure comedy titled Sacrifice, a Poland-based Pete Ohs film titled Erupcja, and Overcompensating, the...

Brat summer is long over, but Charli Xcx’s acting era has only just begun. The pop star has confirmed a movie with A24, based on an idea of her own, which she’ll be starring in and producing. The film’s plot details are still under wraps, but it’s confirmed to be titled The Moment.

The movie will mark the first endeavor for her recently formed production company, Studio365, and serve as the feature directorial debut for Scottish photographer and filmmaker Aidan Zamiri. The screenplay was co-written by Zamiri and Bertie Brandes, while Brat co-producer A.G. Cook will compose the score.

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Buzz around The Moment marks the latest in film news for Charli, who will also be appearing in a remake of the 1978 horror film Faces of Death, an adventure comedy titled Sacrifice, a Poland-based Pete Ohs film titled Erupcja, and Overcompensating, the...

Few is the number of singers who've successfully made the leap from the studio to the screen. Frank Sinatra, Cher, Lady Gaga, David Bowie, Elvis, Madonna, *ahem* Justin Timberlake perhaps. But having conquered the music world and given everyone a Brat summer in 2024, pop star Charli Xcx is changing lanes in a big way this year. After booking a whole bunch of buzzy film projects in recent months (more on those below), Variety is reporting that the 'Sympathy is a knife' singer is gearing up to produce and star in The Moment, an A24 movie based on her own original idea.

Set to be the first project released under Charli Xcx's Studio365 production banner, The Moment — whose plot details are being kept schtum for now — will mark the feature directorial debut of photographer turned filmmaker Aidan Zamiri. Elsewhere, Zamiri is also set to serve as co-writer on the film alongside Bertie Brandes,...

Charli xcx is teaming up with A24 to produce and star in a new movie called “The Moment,” based on her own original idea.

The “Brat” pop star will produce the film as the first project under her new production company, Studio365. Plot details are kept under wraps.

“The Moment” is the feature directorial debut of Scottish photographer and filmmaker Aidan Zamiri, who wrote the screenplay with Bertie Brandes. Charli’s longtime collaborator A. G. Cook, a producer whose fingerprints are all over “Brat,” will compose the score.

David Hinojosa is also producing “The Moment” via his production banner 2Am. Brandon Creed, Mikey Schwartz-Wright and Zach Nutman will serve as executive producers. A24 is handling the global release of the film.

The announcement comes just hours after Charli led the Brit Awards nominations with five nods, for artist of the year, album of the year, song of the year and dance and pop act.

Brat summer is giving way to celluloid winter. Maybe it's because she already conquered the music scene or because her Letterboxd was exposed and she decided to lean in; either way, Charli xcx is fully committing to her Hollywood career. Variety reports that the pop star has added yet another film to her roster,...

Ken Jennings wants viewers to know that the Celebrity Jeopardy! he hosts isn’t the same as what viewers see on Saturday Night Live.

SNL has famously parodied the special installment of the gameshow with some of their famous contestants, including Sean Connery, Katie Lee Gifford, Robin Williams, and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Various SNL stars make their impressions of famous people, typically in a hilarious fashion.

They’ve even parodied one of their beloved cast members, as they had Jimmy Fallon appear as a fake Adam Sandler during the 1998 episode’s sketch.

While the parody often portrays celebrities as dumb, Ken praised the recent group of celebrities competing on the real-life Celebrity Jeopardy! he hosts.

“This is like legit. These folks are smart. A lot of them were broadcasters, stand-up comics. We had Neil deGrasse Tyson,” he said Tuesday on Good Morning America.

“These might be our smartest celebrities ever, and...

Steven Soderbergh has never made a horror movie, and certainly not of the ghostly, haunted variety. His movies tend to be exacting, precise, so even when they’re frightening, as with the stalker nightmare Unsane or the chilling disease thriller Contagion, that fear comes from witnessing a process failing with...

Kathy Bates recounted an iconic Oscars moment she shared with Meryl Streep after the two lost the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2003.

The “Matlock” star told Jesse Tyler Ferguson on his “Dinner’s On Me” podcast on Tuesday that Streep “sailed by” during a commercial break and dragged her to the bar. The two Academy Award winners lost to “Chicago” star Catherine Zeta-Jones that year.

“It was a very Joan Crawford-Bette Davis moment,” Bates said. “She slammed her evening bag down on the bar and said, ‘I’m having a vodka, straight, neat,’ and I slammed my evening bag down, I said, ‘I’m having what she’s having,’ and we tossed it. It was a moment.”

The actress ultimately remembers the night fondly, but admitted that she really wanted to win for her performance in “About Schmidt.”

“It really was a moment. We turned and toasted each other,...

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The Oscars have hosted a lavish ceremony celebrating the best of the best in cinema every year, but some people were banned and asked not to return. The first Academy Awards happened in 1929, and since then, hundreds of performers, directors, producers, art directors, and even musicians have been honored for their work in the film industry. The year's most anticipated event has boosted the popularity of many notable titles worldwide and made them some of the best movies of all time.

Throughout the year, audiences started to form theories about which movies would be big winners at the Academy Awards, and predictions for the 2025 Oscars began within weeks after the 2024 event ended. However, it has only been in recent years that the Academy has banned public figures from attending their events and casting their votes. The Academy of...

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Keeping your streaming subscriptions in order is one of the kinks of the cord-cutting era — it can be all too easy to forget what you subscribed to, and when. That’s why Prime Video’s streaming add-ons are so convenient. Instead of having a dozen different streaming subscriptions, replete with individual apps and log-ins, Prime Video features some of the top streaming services available as an add-on to your Prime membership.

Ideas of what constitutes the ideal vacation range from tracking gorillas to collapsing on the beach with a Negroni, but one thing is clear: whatever the preference, festive week is an excuse for nearly everyone to escape work and put projects on hold while they regroup and reenergize.

THR spoke to the most in-demand Hollywood concierges to ask where the jet-setters and yacht-machers are heading this week. Some destinations, like St. Barts and Aspen, are perennials, drawing the entertainment industry each Christmas week, while others, like Spert Island off Antarctica, where Liev Schreiber ventured last year, or Mahabalipuram in Southern India, where Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones journeyed for the holiday, trend for a moment.

“Tons of people are going St. Barts again,’’ says Jaclyn Sienna India, founder of the membership based luxury lifestyle company Sienna Charles, whose excursions range from $75,000 to $250,0000.

We can, of course, expect regulars like David Geffen,...

Hulu has handed a Season 3 renewal to Tell Me Lies, its popular drama series starring Grace Van Patten and Jackson White and produced by 20th Television. Additionally, Tell Me Lies creator, executive producer and showrunner Meaghan Oppenheimer has signed an overall deal with 20th TV, a part of Disney Television Studios.

The pickup comes a little over two months after the release of the Season 2 finale, which, just like the Season 1 closer, ended with a cliffhanger twist that threatens to tear the friend group apart.

The renewal was expected. Tell Me Lies stayed in the Hulu Top 15 for over 50 straight days throughout its Season 2 run. Popular with the younger crowd, the series’ social engagement increased 8X vs Season 1 over the same period, with total followers growing 4.3X.

Under her multi-year overall deal, Oppenheimer will continue to helm Tell Me Lies as showrunner while also developing, writing and executive produce original...

In Death of a Unicorn, Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega star as a father and daughter duo who strike a mystery creature while heading to a weekend getaway at the the home of the father’s wealthy boss, played by Richard E. Grant. After hearing some rumbling from outside, the group attempt to sleuth out the “rare” animal.

“I think we know exactly what it is,” Ortega says in the trailer, released Wednesday. “It’s a fucking unicorn.”

After lugging the injured creature to the billionaire boss’ home, Rudd’s...

Charli Xcx is slated to appear alongside an all-star cast that includes Jenna Ortega and Natalie Portman in Cathy Yan’s upcoming film titled The Gallerist, according to a report from Deadline.

The movie’s cast is particularly stacked as Catherine Zeta-Jones, Zach Galifianakis, Sterling K. Browne, Daniel Brühl, and Da’Vine Joy Randolph have all signed on as well. Per Deadline, the film is about a gallerist trying to sell a dead body at the famed Art Basel in Miami. Written by Yan and James Pedersen, the project is set...

Tunisian director Lotfi Achour’s Red Path won the Yusr Award for best competition film and the best director honor at the fourth edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival (Rsiff) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia during its Thursday evening awards ceremony that also saw Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Viola Davis being honored.

The Silver Yusr Feature Film Award went to Mahdi Fleifel’s To A Land Unknown, a drama about young Palestinians caught in an eternal state of exile. Little Jaffna, starring and directed by Lawrence Valin, was honored with the AlUla Audience Award International Film, with Hobal from director Abdulaziz Alshlahei getting the Saudi film audience award.

“Ashraf, a shepherd boy working with his teenage cousin in impoverished northern Tunisia faces the unimaginable when Islamic State terrorists set on them and behead his cousin Nizar in front of him,” says a synopsis for Red Path. “Ashraf has no...

In much the same way that Elphaba soars through the sky while singing “Defying Gravity,” “Wicked” has taken off in the Oscar Best Picture race. According to Gold Derby’s combined odds, the musical sensation ranks in the top five behind “Anora,” “The Brutalist,” “Conclave,” and “Emilia Pérez,” with nowhere to go but up after receiving four Golden Globe nominations. Should “Wicked” prevail on Oscar night, it would join a short list of winners that feature two female main characters, which has happened less frequently than you’d think.

Adapted from Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s Tony-winning Broadway smash, “Wicked” centers on the friendship between green-skinned misfit Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and popular girl Glinda (Ariana Grande), who later become the Wicked Witch and the Good Witch, respectively. Funnily enough, the last Best Picture winner centered on two women was another musical adaptation, 2002’s “Chicago.”

Although Catherine Zeta-Jones won the...

Jeremy Renner has revealed he is doing the final edit on his book about lessons learned through his near fatal snowplow accident, in a conversation at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival.

“It will be two years in January, and I am very proud to overcome a great adversity in my life,” Renner said of the accident in which he was crushed by his own snow-removal tractor on New Year’s Day 2023 at his home in Nevada.

“I’m forever grateful for all the love and support I’ve gotten from the people all around the world, that I never knew existed that propel me to get better. It’s the only thing that really defines me in my life at this point,” he continued.

“I don’t look at it as a limitation even though I am 25% titanium, so f**k Iron Man, I’m Titanium Man… I...

Spike Lee spoke warmly of his long-time working relationship and friendship with Denzel Washington in a conversation at the Red Sea Film Festival on Tuesday.

Lee is currently in post-production on Highest 2 Lowest, his latest collaboration with Washington, and their fifth film together after Mo’ Better Blues, Malcolm X, He Got Game and Inside Man.

“Someone pointed out to me that the last time we worked together was 18 years ago. I was surprised because it didn’t feel that way. I’m very blessed to have done five films together, he is arguably the best actor on the planet,” he said.

Lee, who also cast Washington’s son John David Washington’s son in BlacKkKlansman, suggested he shared a special bond with the actor.

“We’re brothers,” he said. “We just do our thing. We’re familiar with one another… our families are very tight.”

Talking about their collaboration in Malcolm X,...

Michael Mann has confirmed he is getting close to completing his screenplay for Heat 2 and that it will be his next movie, in a conversation at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival on Monday.

“We have to have it finished very soon,” he said, suggesting jokingly he would be doing that on “The plane ride back to Los Angeles.”

The director said after Heat 2, he wanted to make his previously mooted movie about the 1968 Battle of Hué, one of the bloodiest chapters of the Vietnam War in which the forces of South Vietnam and U.S troops recaptured the city of Hué over one month of brutal urban fighting.

Questioned on the continuing cult status of the original Heat movie as the 30th anniversary of its release approaches, Mann said he was not surprised by its success and longevity.

“It’s all in the writing. It’s a very,...

Brendan Fraser have given an update on his upcoming post The Whale films, including Searchlight’s Tokyo-Shot Rental Family, and also revealed he would like to get into producing next, in an onstage conversation at the Red Sea Film Festival.

“I finished a film earlier this year in Japan called Rental Family, the director, Hikari… is a Japanese American who has written a story about what it means to have a family as not being the one necessarily that we were born into, but whom we encounter and collect in our lives,” said Fraser.

“Rental Family is an absurd sounding, funny title in itself but you can rent just about anything in Tokyo: a hat, a go-kart and a family,” he continued.

The actor plays a long-time Tokyo expat resident, who takes a job at a rental family agency, when he falls on hard times.

“It’s in the can now,...

As one of a handful of actresses in Hollywood who have successfully crossed over into directing, Olivia Wilde claims one of the reasons for this small number was the messaging given to children when they express an interest in cinema.

“I think for many young women, when we love movies as little girls, we’re told, ‘Oh, you should be an actress,” she said, speaking at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Saudi Arabia. “I think when little boys say they love movies, people say ‘You should be a director.'”

On the subject of female directors and the ongoing domination of men behind the camera, Wilde lay the solution with the those holding the purse strings. “Movies directed by women don’t make less money. It’s not the audience’s problem. It’s the financiers, it’s the studios. They need to take what they perceive as a risk,...

Did Jenna Ortega perform autopsies on animals? (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Yep, real-life Wednesday Addams vibes right there. In a recent Wired interview, Jenna Ortega opened up about her strange childhood hobby—dissecting dead lizards she found in her backyard. It’s safe to say this places her squarely in the “weirdo” category. And she’s all about embracing it.

But the weirdness doesn’t stop with lizards. Jenna also bonded with fellow oddball Maddie Ziegler, the Dance Moms alum, over their shared quirks. The two instantly clicked while filming The Fallout, and Jenna summed it up perfectly: “We’re the same person in different fonts.” Maddie’s quirk? Spontaneously breaking into characters or pulling weird faces. Jenna’s? Well, performing mini autopsies on backyard critters. Talk about a match made in weirdo heaven.

In the interview, Jenna explained she wasn’t hunting down these animals—she just found them already dead.

Just when fans thought they earned one of the most entertaining adaptations of the Addams family through 2019’s The Addams Family, Jenna Ortega decided to make her splash in the franchise through her own masterpiece live-action series surrounding the life and chaos of Wednesday Addams: Netflix’s Wednesday.

Not only was this series welcomed with open arms, but it was even received with spectacular critical and general reviews. If anything, the storyline and the respective cast members’ acting were so commendable that the show even got a second season greenlit for itself, much to fans’ satisfaction. This season in the talk is, of course, currently in the works.

Wednesday. | Credits: Netflix.

But while that’s that, it’s worth noting how much salaries the cast members took home from their respective acting gigs in this Gothic coming-of-age supernatural mystery comedy thriller television series. That reminds us: The lead actor of the show,...

Michael Douglas is discussing changes in Hollywood over an Oscar-winning acting career that has culminated with the rise of digital technology and streaming platforms.

“The biggest change in my lifetime and career has been digital,” especially in sound production, Douglas said during an informal conversation at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Friday. He recalled in the 1970s filmmakers having more control over the production process, while the studios focused on the distribution business.

“It’s gone the other way in terms of both studios or in this case streaming services and now this latest chapter is the advent of Silicon Valley dumbing down and just taking over what we thought was this big industry,” Douglas argued.

“Between Apple, Amazon and Netflix, the designs of their companies, they’re so huge, they can afford so much,” he added.

During the wide-ranging conversation that focused in large part on his early achievements,...

Michael Douglas has revealed he has been enjoying a career break over the past two years but is still open to taking on projects that introduce him to a new genre or type of role, such as a horror movie.

The Wall Street and Fatal Attraction actor who turned 80 in September told an an onstage conversation at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival that he had been taking time off for the first time in nearly 60 years, apart from when he was being treated for cancer in 2013.

“I’ve just had my 80th birthday,” said the actor, who explained he had decided to take a break after playing Benjamin Franklin in Franklin.

“I took 2023 off and I’ve now nearly finished 2024… I’m having a very nice time enjoying my life,” he said.

Prior to stopping, the actor said he had taken on roles that stretched his repertoire including The Kominsky Method,...

Catherine Zeta-Jones talked about the welcome impact of winning an Oscar for best supporting actress in 2003 for Chicago on Friday while during an informal conversation at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

“It’s actually the beginning, because there’s the precedent, with your name being preceded with the Academy Award winning Catherine Zeta-Jones,” she told the festival. Zeta Jones was also pulled in two directions in having to choose between winning an Oscar and a best actress Tony, and which was more satisfying.

“To be acknowledged by the Broadway lights, that was wonderful. But the Academy Award was something that was totally unexpected. It blew my mind,” she insisted. But now aged 55, Zeta-Jones talked about stepping back and into an indie film world, well away from the commercial demands of a Hollywood she mastered as a film and TV star.

“I can’t talk about it right now,...

Cynthia Erivo warned of “dangerous” social media, in response to a question about online abuse of her Wicked co-star Ariana Grande.

“It’s easy to be behind a computer typing words about a person you don’t know, and not getting to know a person and learning about them in their being,” said Erivo, speaking in an in-conversation session at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival. The way to counter that, the actress said, “is really to try and be the counterpoint to whatever is coming back at a person.

”If it is something to with looks, if...

Cynthia Erivo has spoken out against cyber-bullying in relation to online bullying of her Wicked co-star Ariana Grande.

“I think cyber bullying is quite dangerous to be honest because it’s easy to be behind the computer and type words about a person you don’t know anything about,” she said.

“I think that the more we can protect ourselves from that the better… the best way to support someone who is going through that is really to be a counterpoint to whatever is coming at that person – be the voice that is positive.”

The actress, who is riding high on her acclaimed performance as Elphaba opposite Ariana Grande in hit musical Wicked, was replying to a question Ariane Grande’s complaints in the past that she has been bullied online, in a conversation at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival.

She is among a raft of stars attending...

Saudi Arabia’s fourth Red Sea International Film Festival (Rsiff) kicked off with a star-studded opening ceremony, including awards for Vin Diesel, Emily Blunt and Indian icon Aamir Khan.

Taking place at the new Cultural Square venue in the historic Al-Balad district, the opening ceremony got underway around 90 minutes late, with weekend traffic in Jeddah causing delays.

Once it began, there were performances of local music and dancing, plus comic banter between hosts, Lebanese-Australian presenter Danielle Rahme and local doctor-turned-filmmaker Hakeem Jomah.

A succession of high-profile international names took the stage to introduce, and receive honorary prizes. Michelle Rodriguez – a...

Hollywood stars traveled all the way to Saudi Arabia for the opening ceremony of the 2024 Red Sea International Film Festival!

Cynthia Erivo, Will Smith, Emily Blunt, and Catherine Zeta-Jones were among the stars on the red carpet at the opening night event on Thursday (December 5) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Spike Lee is serving as the president of the jury while Vin Diesel was honored with a career award.

“There might be more familiar faces than some of the awards shows back in America. Am I crazy to say that? There are just so many great people here,” Vin joked while accepting the award.

The festival will run through December 14.

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Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas

Fyi: Catherine is wearing a custom Marmar Halim gown.

Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival kicked off its fourth edition with a starry opening ceremony on Thursday evening as it returned to the historic Al-Balad neighborhood of its home port city of Jeddah.

Among the stars hitting the red carpet were Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones as well as Spike Lee, who is the jury president this year, Eva Longoria, Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Erivo, Will Smith, Michelle Rodriguez and career honorees Vin Diesel, Emily Blunt and Aamir Khan.

Michelle Rodriguez, Mohammed Al Turki and Eva Longoria (Ernesto S. Ruscio/Getty Images for The Red Sea International Film Festival)

As he received his career award, Diesel commented on the star wattage in the room: “There might be more familiar faces than some of the awards shows back in America. Am I crazy to say that? There are just so many great people here.”

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The Red Sea International Film Festival has officially kicked off its fourth edition as A-listers and international auteurs converged in Jeddah’s old town of Al-Balad in Saudi Arabia’s second-largest city for a decidedly glamorous opening ceremony.

Emily Blunt, Cynthia Erivo, Eva Longoria, Michelle Yeo, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones in a flowing blue sky gown and cape, Squid Game breakout Hoyeon, Michelle Rodriguez, Bollywood star Aamir Khan, competition jury president Spike Lee, action stars Will Smith and Vin Diesel, Kareena Kapoor, Saudi actor Khaled Yeslam and Daniel Dae Kim were among the global stars in lavish outfits at the opening gala on Thursday night.

The glamorous event saw the stars converge on the main building of the city’s new Culture Square that mixes traditional architecture and modern technology. The site is being touted as “the new home of film” in Jeddah and Saudi Arabia.

Most A-listers took...

Emily Blunt shared thoughts on creativity and diversity during the opening ceremony of the fourth edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival (Rsiff) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Thursday.

Other Hollywood A-listers coming out in Jeddah’s old town Al-Balad in Saudi Arabia’s second-largest city included Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Erivo, Eva Longoria, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michelle Rodriguez, competition jury president Spike Lee, Will Smith, Vin Diesel, Saudi actor Khaled Yeslam and Daniel Dae Kim. The opening movie was Karim Shenawi’s The Tale of Daye’s Family, the story of an 11-year-old albino who gets a chance to audition for The Voice.

For the decidedly glamorous opening ceremony on Thursday night, the stars made their way this year up a wide, well-lit red carpet set among the Ottoman-style main building of the city’s new Culture Square, with backlit coral stone facades and intricate wood latticework,...

Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival kicked off its fourth edition on Thursday with the world premiere of Karim Shenawi’s Egyptian drama “The Tale of Daye’s Family” and a glitzy red carpet featuring Will Smith, Emily Blunt, Cynthia Erivo, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Eva Longoria, Michelle Yeoh, Minnie Driver, Michael Douglas and Vin Diesel, the latter of whom received the festival’s Iconic Characters Award.

Diesel took to the stage after a warm introduction by his long-time collaborator Michelle Rodríguez, who said the two have “been creatively in rooms defending storytelling, people with our colored skin and the beauty of the streets and the people who don’t necessarily live by the rules of others.”

Michelle Rodriguez, Mohammed Al Turki and Eva Longoria attend the opening ceremony at the Red Sea Film Festival.

Accepting the award, the actor quipped about the star-filled room: “There might be more familiar faces...

Emily Blunt has hinted that a sequel to 2006 hit The Devil Wears Prada, reuniting her with key cast Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci, could be in the cards.

“There’s rumblings, there’s stuff churning around, but I don’t know if I can confirm anything completely… but we would be all delighted to work together again,” said Blunt, in response to question on a potential sequel in a conversation event at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival.

Looking back at that early period in her career, Blunt said the success of the film and the impact it had on her trajectory as an actor had been unexpected.

“I just didn’t know anything back then. I remember my agent calling me on the opening weekend and saying, “It made this’. I was like, ‘Is that good?’ When we were filming it, we were weeping with laughter every day.

Updated with the latest: Wednesday’s sophomore season has officially wrapped production. Before this, the latest update on the sophomore season set at Nevermore Academy involved the guest appearance of a certain Mother Monster.

After the runaway success of Netflix and Tim Burton’s Addams Family stand-alone series Wednesday starring Jenna Ortega, the streamer renewed it for a second season in January 2023. That decision came less than three months after the eight-episode Season 1 premiered. It eventually became the most-watched original series ever on the streamer, with more than 252 million views to date, far surpassing Stranger Things Season 4, Dahmer, and Season 1 of Bridgerton on the all-time list.

Season 1 received 12 Emmy nominations, including for Ortega in Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She became just the third Latina ever to be nominated in a leading actress category. The series won four Emmys, though Ortega lost out to Abbott Elementary‘s Quinta Brunson on Emmy night.

It'd been a while since we had any official updates on Wednesday season 2, but that all changed at the beginning of December. Rumors started swirling about Wednesday season 2, and now, Netflix has confirmed what we'd all been hearing over the last few days.

Netflix just announced via press release that the cast and crew have officially wrapped production on season 2. Production started in April 2024 and continued filming through the end of November.

That's not all the good news about Wednesday season 2, either!

Wednesday season 2 premieres in 2025

In addition to the good news about filming finishing up this fall/winter, Netflix confirmed (again!) that Wednesday season 2 release will be in 2025. Obviously, Netflix hasn't shared a date yet, but we're hopeful we'll find out the release date within the next few months.

Thanks to our friends at Netflix Life, it looks like there's some reason to believe that we might not have...

Horror fans, rejoice! We have some good news to share about the hit horror series Wednesday. Production on the highly anticipated second season is officially in the can, meaning we're even closer to the show returning to our screens. On top of that, Netflix decided to release a first-look image of the new season featuring Jenna Ortega back as the iconic Wednesday Addams. You can check out the photo above.

In the new image from Wednesday season 2, Wednesday seems to be standing in some sort of cemetery, and as usual, she doesn't seem the happiest if her arms crossed and slight frown means anything. While plot details surrounding the second season are being kept secret, it's obvious that Wednesday is going to find herself in another tricky situation like last season.

In season 1, Wednesday became entangled in a series of supernatural mysteries while attending her parents' old school, Nevermore Academy.

Another school year has concluded at Nevermore Academy as Wednesday wraps production on its awaited second season. Jenna Ortega, who plays the titular role, launched the Netflix series into phenomenon-level popularity when its brooding first season premiered in 2022.

Showrunners and executive producers Al Gough and Miles Millar detailed the upcoming season in an interview with Netflix’s Tudum, saying: “This season, Wednesday’s journey is darker and more complex as she navigates family, friends, new mysteries, and old adversaries, propelling her headlong into another year at Nevermore.”

Wednesday is expected to return in 2025. In September,...

As we first reported on FearHQ.com, Netflix has just shared a never-before-seen photo of Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams in season 2 of Wednesday to mark the wrap of production on the second season. The series has been confirmed for release in 2025.

Showrunners and executive producers Al Gough and Miles Millar said in a press release today that season 2 will be "exploring more Addams Family Lore and [they] are excited to introduce an eclectic lineup of incredible new characters!"

"This season, Wednesday’s journey is darker and more complex as she navigates family, friends, new mysteries, and old adversaries, propelling her headlong into another year at Nevermore," they continued.

The series is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams' years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Ortega will return to lead Wednesday Season 2 as the part-time detective, part-time mystery author, and full-time outcast; she’s also set to produce.

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