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Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne on Switching Up Their ‘Neighbors’ Dynamic in New ‘Platonic’ Series: “We Were a Lot Meaner to One Another”
After playing a married couple in 2014’s Neighbors and 2016’s Neighbors 2, Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne have once again reunited for Apple TV+ series Platonic — but this time, as friends. The two star as platonic best friends who reconnect after a long period as they both teeter on mid-life crises, with the friendship […]
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Tom Holland Struggles With Mysterious Past in Apple’s ‘The Crowded Room’ Trailer
Apple TV+ has dropped a first trailer for The Crowded Room, a paranoid mystery thriller that has Tom Holland struggling with reality and a mysterious past as he undergoes a series of interviews with a curious interrogator played by Amanda Seyfried. “I have these blank spots,” Danny Sullivan, played by Holland, tells his police investigator […]
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Apple Services, Including TV+ and Music, Hit Record $20.9B In Quarterly Revenue
After teeing up Wall Street for a difficult fiscal second quarter, the tech giant Apple beat analyst expectations for the quarter, delivering revenue of $94.8 billion (expectations were for $92.9 billion), down 3 percent year over year, and earnings per share of $1.52, flat compared to last year (expectations were for an EPS of $1.43). […]
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‘Ted Lasso’ Star Breaks Down That “Awful and Devastating” Fight
[This story contains spoilers for Ted Lasso season three, episode eight: “We’ll Never Have Paris.”] The eighth episode of Ted Lasso’s third season (and potentially its final season, depending on who you ask) sees several characters stuck inside of sad songs. And while it gets better for most of them, it doesn’t end so happily […]
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‘The Big Door Prize’ Earns Speedy Renewal at Apple
The Big Door Prize is the latest streaming series to score a rapid renewal. Apple has handed out a second-season pickup to the comedy series starring Chris O’Dowd. The series, based on the book of the same name, launched its first three episodes on the streaming platform March 29. The 10-episode series debuts new installments […]
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‘Joy Luck Club’ Star Kieu Chinh Joins Apple Crime Drama ‘Sinking Spring’
The Joy Luck Club star Kieu Chinh has joined the ensemble cast of Apple TV+’s upcoming crime drama series Sinking Spring. Chinh will play a crime family matriarch in the series, which “follows long-time Philly friends and delinquents who pose as DEA agents to rob an unknown house in the countryside, only to have their […]
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Apple Sets Fall Theatrical Release for Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
Apple Original Films has set a fall theatrical release date for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, the Western crime drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone, which the studio is distributing in partnership with Paramount Pictures. The film, which Scorsese and screenwriter Eric Roth adapted from David Grann’s best-selling 2017 non-fiction book, will […]
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Cinema Stocks Jump Amid Report Apple Plans $1B Theatrical Movie Push
Cinemas stocks got a boost Thursday after a report that Apple plans to splash $1 billion a year on producing movies that will be sent to theaters. Bloomberg, citing unnamed sources, reported that the tech giant plans to release a few movies in theaters this year, while ramping up its theatrical slate for a greater number of […]
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The Making of Star-Studded Climate Drama ‘Extrapolations’: “I Hope People Are Moved, Entertained and Perhaps a Little Bit Scared”
This story is part of The Hollywood Reporter’s 2023 Sustainability Issue (click here to read more). When Sienna Miller arrived on the set of Extrapolations for the first day of filming in October 2021, a Native American shaman came to bless the grounds. There were no printed signs directing her where to go, or stacks of paper scripts […]
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Apple Sets Plans for Expanded Major League Baseball Coverage in 2023
Apple is taking another swing at live baseball, announcing an expanded version of its Friday Night Baseball program for Apple TV+. And while last season (the company’s first foray into live sports) saw some of the games available for free, this year only subscribers to the streaming service will be able to access the games. […]
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Michael Mando Fired From Apple Series Following Clash With Co-Star
Michael Mando has been let go from the Apple TV series Sinking Spring. Sources say the Better Call Saul alum, who was set to star in the eight-episode series from Ridley Scott, was dismissed from the show following a clash with a co-star. Mando’s role has been recast, with Narcos alum Wagner Moura set to […]
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‘Hello Tomorrow’ Boss on Creating a World Between ‘Mad Men’ and ‘The Jetsons’
Welcome to the 202nd episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast. Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as […]
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