Warning: This post contains spoilers about Never Have I Ever season 2. When Never Have I Ever first premiered, fans quickly fell in love with Devi (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) and all that her teenage world had to offer. But they also fell in love with her extremely strict mother, Nalini (Poorna Jagannathan), the queen of setting boundaries and delivering hilarious one-liners. "The character is completely different from who I am," Poorna Jagannathan says, instead pointing to family members as inspiration for Nalini.
The Lonely Island’s upcoming film now has an official title. Andy Samberg dropped by Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday to reveal the name of the Judd Apatow-produced comedy: Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. Samberg will play Connor4Real, a singer/rapper who faces a crisis of popularity after his sophomore album flops. The actor also debuted the film’s poster, which shows his character striking what Kimmel called a “very Bieber-y” pose. Written and headlined by the members of The Lonely Island — Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone — Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping also costars Sarah Silverman and Tim Meadows and will feature cameos from other music and comedy stars, Universal Pictures said Tuesday.
What’s curvaceous and a bit naughty, with a greenish palor? This exclusive poster, below, for the upcoming mega celebrity-filled ensemble comedy Movie 43! Touted as “The biggest cast every assembled, for the most outrageous comedy ever made,” the poster boasts a bada-boom outline of a greenish woman’s body with the movie’s title as the, er, crotch clincher. Helmed by several directors, including Peter Farrelly (There’s Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber), the film stars a serious litany of A-list names, including — take a long breath — Halle Berry, Naomi Watts, Kate Winslet, Elizabeth Banks, Kate Bosworth, Gerard Butler, Kieran Culkin, Josh Duhamel, Anna Faris, Chris Pratt, Richard Gere, Terrence Howard, Hugh Jackman, Johnny Knoxville, Chloe Moretz, Justin Long, Leslie Bibb, Liev Schreiber, Seann William Scott, Emma Stone, Jason Sudeikis, and Uma Thurman.
The hills are alive once again, as The Sound of Music's soundtrack is set to be re-released with a wealth of previously unreleased songs — including actor Christopher Plummer's original recordings that weren't used in the beloved 1965 film. A new compilation album will feature remastered versions of iconic tunes from the Julie Andrews-starring film adaptation of the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic, including "The Sound of Music," "Edelweiss," "My Favorite Things,"
The New Yorker decided to take the high-brow road: Conde Nast chief S.I. Newhouse Jr. announced at 11 a.m. this morning that David Remnick, a well-regarded staff writer and author of such acclaimed books as Pulitzer prize winner “Lenin’s Tomb” and “The Devil Problem and Other True Stories,” will take over as editor from Tina Brown. Brown, 44, resigned last week after nearly six years on the job; she’ll now head a multimedia entertainment company for Disney’s Miramax Films.
Anupam Kher wants to show some gratitude. The 66-year-old actor who played Dr. Kapoor on New Amsterdam posted a thank you note to fans Tuesday after leaving the show to care for his wife. His final episode was April 13. Kher's actress-wife Kirron has been battling cancer, a diagnosis he confirmed earlier this month in the Hindustan Times. "This past year has been difficult for so many people around the world, not least for Dr.
He may or may not have shot and missed Han Solo at point blank range in Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope, but controversial bounty hunter Greedo will now have a species of catfish named after him. The Peckoltia greedoi, a species of suckermouth armored catfish, was discovered along the Gurupi River in Brazil in 1998. Jonathan Armbruster, curator of fishes at Auburn University Museum of Natural History, was attempting to name the fish when arachnologist Chris Hamilton said it looked familiar.
Remember meeting your college roommate for the first time? You hope to become best friends, but fear he or she may be a walking nightmare. At Monsters University, hey, why not both? This new clip from Pixar’s upcoming prequel to Monsters, Inc. shows college rivals Mike (Billy Crystal) and Sulley (John Goodman) as they meet some of their new brothers at the Oozma Kappa fraternity. He doesn’t have any lines, but that’s “mature student” Don Carlton sitting there in the opening shot.
Thanks to films like Ben Wheatley’s Kill List, Corin Hardy’s The Hallow, Robert Eggers’ The Witch, and Ari Aster’s just-released Midsommar, folk-horror tales have definitely enjoyed a revival in recent years. Now a new documentary will look at the history of this genre, in which the pastoral is routinely entwined with the painful. It was announced today that horror expert and author Kier-La Janisse (House of Psychotic Women) is currently in the midst of shooting her directorial debut, the documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror.
Well, Newbies, we’re back after nearly a month of baseball and X Factor. Did you miss everyone’s favorite quirky huh-roine? Have you been counting down the minutes to the return of Jess? Did your life feel entirely too whimsical and unjudged without Nick’s side eyes? Did you find yourself saying and/or douche-y things just to contribute to your own Douchebag Jar? If so, I won’t carry on any longer. The Jess has been suppressed for long enough.