Month: January 2025

The nominations for the 97th Academy Awards were announced, honoring artistic and technical achievements in filmmaking. Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott revealed the nominees for the 2025 Oscars live from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater on Thursday, January 23.  Due to the Los Angeles wildfires, the announcement was postponed from its originally scheduled Jan. 17 date

Emilia Pérez led the nominees with 13 Academy Award nominations, making the musical the most-nominated non–English language film in Oscars history.  Wicked and The Brutalist followed with 10 nods each, and Conclave and A Complete Unknown each earned eight nominations.

First-time nominees include Ariana Grande (Best Supporting Actress for Wicked), Timothée Chalamet (Best Actor for his portrayal of Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown), and Sebastian Stan (Best Actor for The Apprentice). Other notable nominees include Cynthia Erivo (Best Actress for Wicked), Demi Moore (Best Actress for The Substance), and Zoe Saldaña (Best Supporting Actress for Emilia Pérez), and Karla Sofía Gascón, whose nominatation for Best Actress for Emilia Pérez making her the first openly transgender acting nominee.

Among the notable snubs were Selena Gomez (Emilia Pérez), with other top contenders shutout of the nominations including Angelina Jolie (Maria), Pamela Anderson (The Last Showgirl), Nicole Kidman (Babygirl) and Denzel Washington (Gladiator II).

Conan O’Brien will host the 2025 Oscars ceremony, airing Sunday, March 2 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on ABC and Hulu. The official red carpet presentation begins at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT.

See the full list of 2025 Oscars nominations – HERE.

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After exiting the fashion competition series Project Runway in 2018, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that supermodel Heidi Klum is returning as co-host for Season 21.

The news comes after the announcement that the series had been renewed for a 21st season while moving to Disney’s Freeform, after most recently airing on Bravo. Season 21 will debut later this year and run for 10 episodes, which will stream on Disney+ and Hulu after their Freeform airings.

Project Runway started its run on Bravo in 2004; the series then moved from Bravo to Lifetime, where it ran for 11 additional seasons. Klum co-hosted “Project Runway” for 16 seasons, before Klum and former co-host Tim Gunn in September 2018 announced they were leaving the series. Klum said in a statement at the time: “After 16 incredible seasons, I am saying ‘Auf Wiedersehen’ to Project Runway, a show that I was honored to host and help create.”

Karlie Kloss and Christian Siriano stepped in as “Project Runway” host and mentor, respectively, for the next two seasons, with Siriano filling both roles for Seasons 19 and 20. Meanwhile, Klum and Gunn created a new fashion competition series called “Making the Cut” for Amazon Prime Video, which debuted in 2020 and ran for three seasons.

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Sources told Deadline that Tom Holland has signed on to star in Christopher Nolan next project for Universal Pictures, with the film set for an Imax release. Plot details are being kept secret, though sources say the film is expected to shoot in early 2025; with the cast also including Matt Damon of Bourne Identity fame.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Nolan wrote the script and is directing the project, which Universal Pictures will distribute. The studio has set a release date of July 17, 2026.

Nolan won an Oscar earlier this year for directing Oppenheimer for Universal; his other credits include the ‘Dark Knight’ trilogy, Inception and Dunkirk.

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Modern Family alum Julie Bowen has signed on to star in a new NBC comedy titled Taste, from writer-executive producers Justin Shanes and Nedaa Sweiss. Bowen, 54, will also executive produce the series through her ‘Bowen and Sons’ production banner.

Per Deadline, Taste follows the employees at a legacy food magazine in California’s Bay Area. When the publication is bought by a Silicon Valley tech mogul, its traditionalist editor (Bowen) is suddenly forced to work with a young, buzzy TikTok chef.

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Jennifer Love Hewitt is set to reprise her role as Julie James in an upcoming iteration of the I Know What You Did Last Summer film franchise, directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson.

The actress posted a photo of herself staring into a mirror that has notes taped all over it, writing in the caption: “It’s never too late to go back. Julie James is returning. I know what you will be doing next summer!@IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummerMovie”

In the original 1997 film, Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Philippe portrayed a friend group with a dangerous stalker. Prinze and Hewitt reprised their roles in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, which premiered in 1998.

Hewitt later expressed her excitement about the forthcoming sequel, saying, “I will say it is truly such an honor, at 45, to even be invited back. To be thought of in that way, to not just move on to the newer, better, younger versions, but [to be offered] to come back and play that part is really cool .. A big part of the reason we’ve taken a minute is I don’t want to just be like, “Oh, there’s the ghost of ’90s past for five seconds in the movie”. I want to have her come back, be there for a reason, play a real part, and show the audience who she’s become 27 years later  I think the scariest thing about the movie will probably be people seeing me as 45, since they saw me last time at 21.”

Hewitt joins previously announced cast including Prinze Jr. and newcomers Chase Sui Wonders, Madelyn Cline, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers, Jonah Haur-King, Lola Tung, Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Austin Nichols and Gabbriette.

The film will premiere in theaters on July 18.

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Vince Vaughn’s “Bad Monkey” has been renewed for Season 2 at Apple TV+ (per Variety.). The Bill Lawrence series, based on Carl Hiaasen’s novel of the same name, originally debuted on Apple’s streaming service back in August with the season finale airing in October.

Showrunner and executive producer Lawrence said in a statement: “I hope that people know that Carl Hiaasen is an idol of mine and an inspiration for me as a writer. To get to go on telling his story with Vince Vaughn and this great cast, at least the characters who are still alive, is very exciting. I’m very thankful to our partners at Apple TV+ and Warner Bros, as well as the entire team that helps bring this show to life.”

The series follows Vaughn’s Andrew Yancy, “who has been bounced from the Miami Police Department and is now a health inspector in the Keys. When he stumbles on a case that begins when a human arm is fished up by tourists, he realizes if he can prove murder, he’ll be a cop again.”

The first season of Bad Monkey was based on the novel of the same name by Hiaasen; but while there is a sequel novel to “Bad Monkey” (titled “Razor Girl”) inside sources revealed that Season 2 will not be based on that book. Per Deadline, Season 2 of Bad Monkey will be moving from Miami and the Florida Keys to the Los Angeles area. The ensemble cast includes: L. Scott Caldwell, Rob Delaney, Meredith Hagner, Natalie Martinez, Alex Moffat, Michelle Monaghan, Ronald Peet and Jodie Turner-Smith. John Ortiz, Zach Braff, Ashley Nicole Black, Scott Glenn and Charlotte Lawrence will guest star.

Season 1 of Bad Monkey is streaming on Apple TV+ now.

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