Amazon Video(LOS ANGELES) — Michael B. Jordan is flexing his action hero chops in the official trailer for Amazon’s Without Remorse.
The film, which is based on Tom Clancy’s 1993 book of the same name, follows Jordan as John Kelly, a U.S. Navy SEAL who uncovers an international conspiracy while he sets out for revenge after his pregnant wife is murdered.
“I’m going to make it right,” says Jordan’s Kelly in the heart-pounding promo.
Jodie Turner-Smith, Jamie Bell, Lauren London, Brett Gelman, Jacob Scipio, Jack Kesy, Colman Domingo, Todd Lasance, Cam Gigandet, Luke Mitchell, and Guy Pearce also star.
Without Remorse launches globally on Amazon Prime Video on April 30.
ABC News/Steve Iervolino(NEW YORK) — Last night’s mid-season finale of Fox’s hit serial thriller series Prodigal Son debuted a new cast member, Oscar winner, and admitted fan, Catherine Zeta Jones.
Episode director and Prodigal co-star Lou Diamond Phillips tells ABC Audio he didn’t know she was joining as Dr. Vivian Capshaw until his prep for the show was well underway. “It’s a good thing I didn’t know everything at once because I might have like p***ed myself and become just emotionally constipated,” he admits with a laugh.
“I didn’t know it was going to be the mid-season finale, which has its own pressure in and of itself…I knew we were going to get cool people. I had no idea how high they were setting that bar. And when we got Catherine Zeta-Jones, I was gobsmacked! I went ‘You’ve got to be kidding me!’ How did that happen?!”
He added, “that in and of itself, like, ‘Oh, my God, I’m going to direct Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Sheen together in scenes that are loaded!’ And then we get [guest] Alan Cumming [too] I was like: ‘Wow!’ It literally felt like I was doing Prodigal Son the independent film.”
The Fox show returns in April, but Phillips can be seen On Demand playing a supporting role as a “parole officer with a heart of gold” in the thriller Adverse. He says the job came from “happenstance.”
Phillips says, “I was doing a lot of conventions before the pandemic, which was wonderful, meeting a lot of fans, but I was running into Thomas Ian Nicholas a lot. He goes, “Hey, I’m doing this little independent film and …there’s a role that you’d be great for, man! would you take a look at it? I read it, thought it was fantastic.”
That would bring the series to 757 episodes in 2023.
“We’re planning a lot of big surprises,” quipped show creator Matt Groening in a statement. “Homer will lose a hair, Milhouse will get contact lenses, and Bart will celebrate his tenth birthday for the thirty-third time.”
For his part, Homer Simpson himself was quoted as saying, “Woo Hoo! With any luck the show will soon be older than I am.” Canonically, Homer is and always was, 39 — though technically, his birthdate as glimpsed in an early episode, 05-12-56, would have him approaching 65 by now.
Dana Walden, chairman of entertainment at Walt Disney Television, which acquired 20th Century Fox, celebrated the news by saying, “Original, brilliant, outrageously funny, prophetic … there aren’t enough positive adjectives to describe this genius comedy which continues to entertain viewers of all ages…On behalf of everyone at our studio and the millions of fans of The Simpsons around the world, I want to thank our wonderful partners at Fox for making this a truly great day.”
On Sunday, March 21, the series will turn 700 episodes old, with the episode “Manger Things.”
ABC/Nicole Wilder(LOS ANGELES) — Kristen Bell is so happy she was able to go back to work, she shared a hilarious video of her banging out some not-so-professional dance moves.
“An actor prepares,” Bell captioned the celebratory video before declaring, “Can you tell I’m happy to be back at work??”
The video shows the 40-year-old actress grooving to Andy Mineo’s “Coming in Hot.” Bell, dressed in cozy-looking pajamas and slippers, appears to be dancing inside a trailer.
As for her dancing skills, they appear to be on par with her husband Dax Shepard’s, who busted some moves of his own to embarrass one of their young daughters.
Bell’s dancing is a little more wild, as she shakes her leg and spins — and even grabs a coffee mug and starts drinking while flailing away to the music.
The Frozen 2 star also revealed what she has been brought on set to film, revealing with a hashtag that her Netflix series Woman in the House has finally started production.
As previously reported, the incoming limited series also stars Tom Riley, Mary Holland, Shelley Hennig, Christina Anthony and Samsara Yett. It has been green-lit for eight episodes and will follow Bell’s character who is grappling with a heartbreak and spends her days drinking wine while staring out a window — that is, until she believes she witnesses a murder, reports Deadline.
It is currently unknown when the series will hit the streamer.
Oldman on the set of “Mank” – Nikolai Loveikis/NETFLIX(LOS ANGELES) — In a candid interview with The Los Angeles Times, Gary Oldman looked back on his struggle with alcoholism and revealed he is nearly 24-years sober.
Oldman, who stars in the Golden Globe-nominated Mank, said his struggle with sobriety helped him better understand his character in the film. The actor plays screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, famous for penning Citizen Kane.
“How do you make this guy likable and not this grump, snarky drunk? That was the challenge,” he noted. “You can’t just load a character up with all the best quips. You have to understand why people are frustrated with him.”
“Herman, with that self-effacing humor, he was at lunch, drinking with a friend, who said, ‘Why don’t you go home sober for once?’ And he answered, ‘What? And have [my wife] throw me out as an impostor?’ I did the same thing,” the 62-year-old British actor admitted.
Reflecting on being a “functioning alcoholic,” Oldman confessed that “beneath the denial” he felt he was “getting away with” his drinking because of his career.
“I would sit down and tell the waiter, ‘I’ll have a large vodka tonic. And can you bring it now because I’m an alcoholic. I need it quicker,'” Oldman furthered.
“People romanticize it, and even I romanticized it. All my heroes were drinkers or opium addicts,” the Oscar winner confessed, before detailing the downside of being a heavy drinker.
“I used to sweat vodka,” said Oldman. “It becomes such a part of you. My tongue would be black in the morning. I blamed it on the shampoo.”
Looking back at his addiction and his two stints in rehab, the actor expressed he “wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy, to be in the grip of it. It’s hell.”
Amazon Video(LOS ANGELES) — Michael B. Jordan is flexing his action hero chops in the official trailer for Amazon’s Without Remorse.
