Robert Eggers Feels He Needs to ‘Restrategize’ After ‘The Northman’

Annie Wersching, an actor known for her work on television shows like 24 and Marvel’s Runaways, as well as for her voice and motion-capture work in the video game The Last of Us, has died, her publicist confirmed to Deadline on Sunday. She was 45.Wersching’s death comes after a cancer diagnosis in 2020, according to a GoFundMe page set up to support her family. “She's a private person by nature, and the diagnosis made her even more so,” read the page, created by fellow Runaways actor Ever Carradine. “She wanted to protect her boys. She wanted to get better so...

Lisa Loring, the original Wednesday Addams who played the spooky scion in the 1960s sitcom The Addams Family, has died at the age of 64.The news of Lisa Loring’s death was announced by friends on social media, who said she had slipped into a coma and died Jan. 28. Close friend Laurie Jacobson announced the news Sunday night via Facebook, and described how Loring “suffered a massive stroke brought on by smoking and high blood pressure” four days ago. She was on life support for three days until her family “made the difficult decision to remove it and she passed...

Although DC Studios is all in on the embattled Ezra Miller, Henry Cavill is out of luck. The superhero franchise made the shock decision to hang up Cavill’s Superman in December—despite him stepping away from Netflix’s The Witcher to make time for DC—as the superhero franchise undergoes restructuring with James Gunn at the helm. Gunn told The Hollywood Reporter they didn’t fire Cavill since “Henry was never cast.” “For me, it’s about who do I want to cast as Superman and who do the filmmakers we have want to cast,” he said. “And for me, for this story, it isn’t Henry.” Although Gunn admitted Cavill was “dicked around” by the former DC regime, he stood firm in his decision. “This Superman is not Henry, for a number of reasons,” he said.Read it at The Hollywood Reporter

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The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has completed its unusual “review” of campaigning procedures following last week’s Oscar nominations and concluded that there is insufficient evidence to rescind the Best Actress nod for Andrea Riseborough.“Based on concerns that surfaced last week around the To Leslie awards campaign, the Academy began a review into the film’s campaigning tactics,” Academy CEO Bill Kramer wrote in his letter to members. “The Academy has determined the activity in question does not rise to the level that the film’s nomination should be rescinded. However, we did discover social media and outreach campaigning tactics...

King of the Hill is officially returning with a Hulu reboot. The animated comedy, which ran for 13 seasons on Fox from 1997 to 2009, is gearing up for a fresh start with creators Mike Judge and Greg Daniels returning alongside Saladin Petterson as showrunner and original voice cast members Kathy Najimy, Stephen Root, Pamela Adlon, Johnny Hardwick, and Lauren Tom. The series has been in talks for a reboot since 2017, with Judge and Daniels teasing the potential revival further in recent years. “We are all so excited to welcome back Hank, Peggy and Bobby, and to see what they have to say about the world we live in and continue the conversations we began years ago,” Craig Erwich, president of ABC Entertainment, Hulu, and Disney Branded Television streaming originals, said.Read it at The Hollywood Reporter

Dean Devlin has made a career out of larger-than-life sci-fi spectacles, producing frequent partner Roland Emmerich’s Stargate, Independence Day, and Godzilla, and helming the more recent Geostorm. Thus, even though it’s debuting on Syfy rather than in theaters, The Ark fits comfortably into his body of work, insofar as it’s another tale of apocalyptic planetary threats and humanity’s desperate mission to stave off extinction.Unfortunately, it’s also a calamity-oriented show that itself is a disaster.The Ark is set in an unspecified future in which Earth is on the verge of becoming uninhabitable. In response, mankind has built a collection of enormous...