Peacock has debuted the first trailer for the upcoming movie Genie, starring the 53-year-old Oscar-nominated actress and Paapa Essiedu.
From Oscar-nominated screenwriter Richard Curtis and director Sam Boyd comes Genie, “a holiday fairytale comedy about a genie, a man, and landing one last chance to fix the mess you’ve made of your life. With his job, life and family unraveling around him, a despondent Bernard (Essiedu) dusts off a jewelry box and unintentionally releases genie Flora (McCarthy), who just might be able to help him. Maybe. It’s a longshot, frankly. In the process, Flora and Bernard will discover that love, and an unexpected friendship, can unleash a special holiday magic all its own.”
Marc Maron is speaking out to defend Andrea Riseborough‘s Oscar nomination and to slam the Academy for investigating it.
The two actors starred in the movie To Leslie and Andrea received a Best Actress nomination for her work in the film, which only got a small theatrical release last year.
A grassroots campaign was launched to secure Andrea an Oscar nomination and when the nominations were announced, her Oscar dreams came true. The Academy later revealed that they would be “conducting a review of the campaign procedures around this year’s nominees” to make sure that campaigns were “conducted in a fair and ethical manner.”
On the latest episode of Marc‘s “WTF” podcast, he reacted to the investigation.
Dwayne Johnson stars as the voice of Krypto the Super-Dog in the upcoming animated action adventure feature film from director Jared Stern, and the trailer’s arrived on Tuesday (November 23).
While on the press line, Jennifer shared a few cute moments with director Liesl Tommy.
Respect will chronicle Aretha Franklin’s rise to fame from singing in her father’s church choir as a child to becoming an international musical superstar and legend.
Here’s a synopsis of the highly anticipated movie: “Following the rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom, Respect is the remarkable true story of the music icon’s journey to find her voice.”
During their discussion, an effort created in partnership with HeadCount and #GoodToVote, the stars also encouraged viewers to vote.
“Our show is among many other things about people who sometimes feel powerless [that] do powerful things. Right now, I think the most powerful thing you can do is vote,” said Betty Gilpin.
The cast previously teased that if 250 of their fans registered to vote or made a voting plan, they would have the live Q&A — and if 1,000 joined in, Marc Maron would join.
Marc revealed that he based Sam off his own experience with coke.
“I had made some decisions about how Sam did cocaine from my own experience from doing cocaine. I walked up to Liz and Carly who were the dorkiest two women in the world, real nerds, and I just said to them, look this guy – he doesn’t carry a vile, there’s no bindle, he just does it out of a folded corner of a magazine that he loaded up with probably a pen top or a key, that’s what this guy does. They just looked at me for a second and Liz goes, ‘we’re so glad you’re here.’”
Alison Brie talked about Ruth and Sam’s first kiss.
“In the script, it was sort of like, ‘Sam turns to kiss her – she breaks away immediately’ and as we were doing it they kept having us do it [more and said], ‘Alison, don’t turn away so quickly’ and I was like, ‘oh, ok’ and finally they came out and were like ‘what if you just fully kiss,’ this was season two, and I was like ‘what, I’m gonna need to speak to Liz and Carly…’ I was more just not prepared for Ruth and Sam to go there yet but Marc took it a little personally.”
Betty discussed scheduling the reunion before the cancellation.
“We scheduled this Zoom when we thought we still had a season 4 so it feels like we invited you to our wedding and then the groom had sex with a cross-eyed cocktail waitress and now we’re all just drunk at the venue together and we’re like ‘enjoy the quiches because it’s over!’ If this wedding is now a funeral, let’s make it one of those fun great ones,” Betty also said.
