‘Twister’ Sequel Lands ‘Minari’ Director Lee Issac Chung

With “Wakanda Forever” and “The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special” in the rearview mirror, Marvel has officially closed the books on their Phase 4 slate. And so, Phase 5, the new chapter that will lead into the next big Avengers film and what’s known as The Infinity Saga, kicks off with February’s “Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania.” READ MORE: The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2023 The film stars Paul Rudd as Scott Lang and Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne alongside Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathryn Newton (as Scott Lang’s daughter, who looks like she’ll be her own new hero in the movie), David Dastmalchian, and Randall Park (Bill Murray has a role too, it’s undisclosed, but the rumor is the Marvel villain M.O.D.O.K.

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate is also having its employees return to the office for four days a week, Monday-Thursday, with Friday being a work day from home. This is according to sources.

If you've made the New Year's resolution to get fit and lose weight, exercising alone isn't going to cut it.

A Mcdonald's spokesperson says that their customers now prefer other drinks they offer, including Coke No Sugar.

Drama off the island? Former Survivor winners Parvati Shallow and Sandra Diaz-Twine shaded one another on social media.

Wish we would have paid more attention in Father Mungia’s economics class!!!

Rising, undefeated MMA star Victoria Lee has tragically passed away at just 18.

Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder are expecting baby number two. The Twilight star took to Instagram on Monday to share a photo showing her hugging her and husband Ian's five-year-old daughter Bodhi while also cradling her growing bump. "Years of dreaming, manifesting and praying over this very moment.

Prince Harry is backtracking with his comment about Prince William‘s “alarming baldness”!

More Bravolebrities are giving their two cents.

If you thought the Prince Harry drama was over, think again! There are a lot more bombshells coming the royal family’s way — and this one right here is a biggie!

Princess Catherine AKA Kate Middleton is allegedly very upset with the contents of Prince Harry‘s explosive forthcoming memoir Spare. So much so, in fact, that she is to the point of being “outraged and hurt.” Yikes!

Jason Trawick was a guest on the KEVCO, the Company Podcast, and he talked about Britney Spears.

Martha Wash is an icon!

With the National Weather Service warning of (caps theirs) “DANGEROUS LIFE THREATENING FLASH FLOODING across southern Santa Barbara county,” Montecito homeowner Ellen DeGeneres put her own exclamation point of sorts on the situation, posting a video of herself with a raging torrent just over her shoulder and in it remarked, “This stream next to our house never flows, ever. It’s probably about nine feet up. It could go another two feet up. We have horses ready to evacuate.”

first-place votes. Under the Oscars preferential or ranked-choice system, a voter typically lists his or her top-five choices in order of preference.

FILM CATEGORIESBest Motion Picture – Drama: “The Fabelmans” over “Top Gun: Maverick”Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy: “Everything Everywhere All at Once” over “The Banshees of Inisherin”Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama: Austin Butler for “Elvis” over Brendan Fraser for “The Whale”Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama: Cate Blanchett for “Tar” over Viola Davis for “The Woman King”Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy: Colin Farrell for “The Banshees of inisherin” over Daniel Craig for “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy: Michelle Yeoh for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” over Margot Robbie for “Babylon”Best Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Quan for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” over Brendan Gleeson for “The Banshees of Inisherin”Best Supporting Actress: Kerry Condon for “The Banshees of Inisherin” over Jamie Lee Curtis for “Everything Everywhere All at Once”Best Director: Steven Spielberg for “The Fabelmans” over Martin McDonagh for “The Banshees of Inisherin”Best Screenplay: “The Banshees of Inisherin” over “Tar”Best Original Score: “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” over “The Fabelmans”Best Original Song: “Naatu Naatu” from “RRR” over “Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick”Best Animated Feature: “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” over “Turning Red”Best Non-English Language Film: “All Quiet on the Western Front” over “Decision to Leave”TELEVISION CATEGORIESBest Television Series – Drama: “The Crown”Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy: “Abbott Elementary”Best Limited or Anthology Series: “The White Lotus”Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama: Jeff Bridges for “The Old Man”Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama: Zendaya for

Andy Cohen reacted to the news that Jen Shah has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

EXCLUSIVE: RuPaul’s Drag Race rang in its move to MTV with a ratings win. The Season 15 premiere was the highest-rated in six years with a 0.63 rating among the advertiser-targeted 18-49 demographic.

Welcome to The O.C.! Adam Brody, Rachel Bilson, Ben McKenzie and more young actors got their starts on the teen drama — but there were even more faces that would soon become familiar in the background.

Getting candid. Anna Kendrick reflected on a past romance — and revealed the former couple took a serious step before their split.

A literal roll in the hay! Brad Pitt got real when discussing his first-ever on-screen sex scene — a moment that took place in a barn.

Trying to plan ahead? Both 60 Minutes and Good Morning America revealed that when asked for comment on Prince Harry’s interviews, Buckingham Palace requested the footage before the programs aired.

Diego Boneta is taking his career in a new direction following his successful turn in Luis Miguel: La Series with the Paramount+ romantic comedy, At Midnight, premiering February 10.

Paramount+ revealed the freshman series Fatal Attraction is set to premiere on April 30 with two episodes airing back to back.

DGA leaders said today that their upcoming contract negotiations with the Aliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers “promises to be an extremely challenging negotiating environment – one of the most difficult and complex we have faced in many years.”

James J. Murakami, an art director, production designer and set designer on numerous film and television projects, died Dec. 15 at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 91 and suffered complications from a fall, according to his wife.

Dwayne Johnson has taken to social to make it official that he’s heard from DC Studios co-head James Gunn and Black Adam won’t be a part of the first phase of DC’s new plans. “However, DC and Seven Bucks have agreed to continue exploring the most valuable ways Black Adam can be utilized in future DC multiverse chapters.”

Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment have announced that their recently unveiled film Twisters will open in theaters nationwide on Friday, July 19, 2024. It’s now poised to face off in theaters with the Paramount Pictures title Transformers: A New Generation.

Forever friends. Gwyneth Paltrow explained that most of her exes are still in her life, and she prefers it that way.

EXCLUSIVE: Following an extensive search that had a number of top directors chasing the job, sources tell Deadline that Oscar-nominated Minari director Lee Isaac Chung is in early talks to helm Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment’s Twisters, the sequel to the blockbuster Twister. Warner Bros., which released the 1996 pic, will co-finance. Mark L. Smith penned the script, with Frank Marshall producing through his Kennedy/Marshall banner.

A camera pans slowly around a modestly comfortable living room. Here is the kitchen corner, with its microwave, coffee machine and jars of newly preserved tomatoes. Here are the inherited cabinets, one full of the best china, one full of books. And now, here is a wall that doesn’t exist any more. Torn plaster and broken wood frames a vast portal to the rolling steppes. There is a single road across those grasslands. It leads to Russia.

Darren Aronofsky is getting a lot of buzz for his latest film The Whale and is now looking to create a musical based on Black Swan.

Young Plato comes last, alphabetically, on the list of documentaries qualified for Oscar consideration this year. But it may come in first in the hearts of many Documentary Branch voters as they cast their ballots determining the feature shortlist.

Patrick Somerville, showrunner of HBO Max’s limited series Station Eleven, has addressed the issue of shows disappearing from the Warner Bros. Discovery streamer.

Albert Brenner, a production designer and/or art director on such films as Bullitt, The Turning Point, Pretty Woman and Backdraft who racked up five career Oscar nominations, has died. He was 96. The Mirisch Agency told Deadline he died December 8 in his sleep.