John Oliver Reacts to HBOs Possible New Business Daddy Paramount: How the F*** Do I Get Out of This?

Every so often, in the decade following The Comeback’s second-season finale in December 2014, co-creators Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King would huddle to brainstorm ways to resuscitate Valerie Cherish. They weren’t ready to let a fame-obsessed, red-headed fan favorite flatline to has-been status. HBO executives had left the door open for a third, but…

Almost immediately after ChatGPT was first released in late 2022, alarm bells sounded in the education world about how it would negatively impact learning. That year,The Atlanticran stories with headlines like “The College Essay Is Dead” and “The End of High School English.” The predictions were that unleashing AI to the world at large would…

Spanish actress, screenwriterand director Aina Clotet (This is Not Sweden) is clearly alive with creative energy. And Alive is also the English title of her feature directorial debut Viva, which will world premiere in the competition lineup of the 65th edition ofCannesCritics’ Week, the sidebar that runs alongside the main Cannes Film Festival. The Catalan…

Washington appears ready to rubber-stamp David Ellison’s proposed $110 billion merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery. But while the deal may (despite a brewing challenge from California) sail through the U.S., it could encounter a slower, more complicated review across the Atlantic — one that is more likely to delay the transaction than derail…

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Mel Brooks had a galactic announcement at CinemaCon: the title for the forthcoming Spaceballs sequel. No, it’s not Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money. It’s simply Spaceballs: The New One, as he revealed via a video at CinemaCon on Wednesday night. The feature is the sequel to Brooks’ seminal 1987 Star Wars parody, which…