Succession star Jeremy Strong may have found his next role. Variety reports that the Emmy winner is in talks to join the cast of the Bruce Springsteen movie Deliver Me From Nowhere, where he’ll play The Boss’ manager, Jon Landau.

Deliver Me From Nowhere follows Springsteen's efforts to make the 1982 solo album Nebraska. It is based on Warren Zanes' book Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska.

In early April, it was confirmed that The Bear star Jeremy Allen White was in talks to play Springsteen in the picture, which will be written and directed by Scott Cooper, with Springsteen and Landau both involved in the project. The film is being produced by 20th Century Studios and Disney.

Nebraska, released on September 30, 1982, featured 10 acoustic songs that Springsteen originally recorded as demos on a four-track recorder. Springsteen had planned to rerecord the songs with the E Street Band but instead opted to release it as a solo acoustic record. It featured such songs as "Atlantic City," "Johnny 99" and "State Trooper." 

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NBC's sister streamer announced Wednesday that the as-yet-untitled but eagerly anticipated follow-up comedy from The Office adapter Greg Daniels will be a Peacock series.

We also officially know now it's not a reboot of the beloved U.K. import.

Daniels, also of King of the Hill fame, collaborated with Nathan for You co-creator Michael Koman for the project, described as "a new mockumentary series set in the same universe as NBC's Emmy Award-winning hit series The Office."

The network teases, "The documentary crew that immortalized Dunder Mifflin's Scranton branch is in search of a new subject when they discover a dying historic Midwestern newspaper and the publisher trying to revive it with volunteer reporters."

As previously reported, Star Wars sequel star Domhnall Gleeson and The White Lotus alumna Sabrina Impacciatore will lead an ensemble of as-yet-unnamed co-stars.

The series, produced by Universal Television, gets underway in July.

"It’s been more than ten years since the final episode of The Office aired on NBC, and the acclaimed comedy series continues to gain popularity and build new generations of fans on Peacock," touted Lisa Katz, president of NBCUniversal Entertainment.

She adds in part, "This new series ... introduces a new cast of characters in a fresh setting ripe for comedic storytelling."

Daniels and Koman co-produce along with the creators and stars of the original The Office, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.

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Hulu announced on Wednesday, May 8, that the second season of the Kerry Washington/Delroy Lindo family dramedy, UnPrisoned, will return on July 17. 

In the series produced by and starring the Emmy-winning former Scandal star, Kerry plays a busy single mom and relationship therapist whose life is turned upside down when her formerly incarcerated dad (Lindo) moves in with her and her teen son.

In a "first look" teased by the streamer, Kerry's Paige, Lindo's Edwin and Paige's son Finn (Faly Rakotohavana) are shown seated together in a family therapy session.

Hulu's season synopsis states in part, "The Alexander family is still a mess," so they "turn to a 'family radical healing coach,' who throws out all the rules to free them of the issues, old wounds and family secrets holding them back."

The show's first season scored a stellar 93% and 94% respectively with critics and audience members, according to the aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, and its premiere in March of 2023 scored the best-ever numbers for Hulu's Onyx Collective brand.

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Emma Heming Willis is opening up about how sharing her husband Bruce Willis' Frontotemporal dementia or FTD diagnosis in 2023 impacted her.

"I could breathe, you know, I could really exhale and sort of just feel this weight sort of lift from my shoulders but everything changed for the better once we were able to disclose his diagnosis," Heming Willis said in a video shared Tuesday by The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration at their 2024 Education Conference.

"I was able to see the support that I so desperately needed for my husband, for our whole family," the 45-year-old added.

Willis was diagnosed first with aphasia in 2022 and then about six months later, he received an additional diagnosis of FTD, according to his family.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, FTD is a common type of dementia marked by personality and behavior changes as well as problems with language skills, such as speaking or understanding words. 

Heming Willis, who shares two daughters with Willis and is a stepmother to Willis' three older children with actress Demi Moore, has been vocal on social media since then about sharing their family's experience and her own experience as a caregiver.

"There were so many reasons to go public but first and foremost, it had been so isolating and you know, I was trying to keep it quiet and really, it was about our daughters and … I never wanted them to think that this was some kind of family secret that we had to keep," Heming Willis told the audience at the conference. "I felt like it was very important for us to come out and say what it was."

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In a new interview in Empire magazine's Deadpool & Wolverine feature issue, it looks like director Shawn Levy is putting some distance between his upcoming movie and recent failures in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 

Marvel Studios' last theatrical outing was 2023's The Marvels, its lowest-grossing movie to date; that year also saw the release of the drubbed Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. 

On the small screen, Loki's second season was heralded by critics, but Secret Invasion was decidedly not. 

Louis D'Esposito, co-president of Marvel Studios, says in the issue, "We learned our lesson."

"You'd have to live under a rock not to know that the last few Marvel movies have failed to ignite the world in the way that so many did," Levy says.

He says of his film's July 26 release date, "We do come along at an interesting time."

Indeed, the trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine has Ryan Reynolds' red-suited hero tasked with doing nothing less than saving the Marvel Cinematic Universe, boasting, "I am Marvel Jesus."

Levy insists the movie is "decidedly something different" from the studio, snarking, "Whether it is of Messianic proportions, time will tell."

Some fans have griped about recent MCU outings feeling like there is required reading to fully enjoy them, but Levy recently told The Associated Press Deadpool & Wolverine will not. 

"I was a good student in school. ... But I am definitely not looking to do homework when I go to the movies," he said, adding that while he respects the MCU lore that came before, "This movie is built for entertainment, with no obligation to come prepared with prior research."

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Bette Midler's 2000 CBS sitcom Bette didn't live long on the air — though it lives forever in infamy, thanks to a loungey a cappella version of Kid Rock's "Bawitdaba" she performed on it. 

In short, the show was "a flop," one of the worst of her career, she told David Duchovny's Fail Better podcast. 

The Tony, Emmy and Grammy winner unpacked the "extremely chaotic" situation, and while she admitted she "didn't know what it meant to make [a sitcom]," she also threw some shade at her onscreen daughter Lindsay Lohan. 

"After the pilot, Lindsay Lohan decided she didn't want to do it. Or she had other fish to fry," Midler revealed.

"So, Lindsay Lohan left the building. And I said, 'Well, now what do you do?'"

Duchovny noted Lohan's contract should have prevented that exit, but Midler was afraid of standing up for herself as a producer for fear of being "labeled a grandstander."

"If I had been in my right mind, or if I had known that part of my duties were to stand up to say, 'This absolutely will not do, I'm gonna sue,' then I would have done that," Midler said.

The performer also revealed she was "glad" she was fired the day after she did an interview about the sitcom on The Late Show with David Letterman. When Dave asked her about the show, Midler said, "It's the worst thing I've ever done in my entire life," adding, "It's like being a dung beetle, rolling a pile of s*** up a hill." 

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While the second half of the sixth season of the Showtime original series The Chi doesn't start on the streaming service until Friday, May 10, Paramount+ and Showtime just announced they have re-upped the Lena Waithe-created show for a seventh season.

The show's on-air debut will be Sunday, May 12, at 9 p.m. ET on Showtime. 

The first half of season six was the most-watched season yet on Paramount+, with viewership jumping 25% over season 5, the networks said. 

Production on the seventh season kicks off later in May in Chicago.

Nina L. Diaz, president of content and the chief creative officer for Showtime/MTV Networks and Paramount Media Networks, said in the announcement, "Lena Waithe is a generational storyteller, whose authentic and unflinching narratives in The Chi resonate deeply, offering a powerful lens into both the complexities of life in Chicago as well as the Black experience in America."

Diaz added, "On the heels of a record-breaking season and ahead of this week's return, we’re excited to provide fans with the promise of more — ensuring that they can continue to enjoy the raw, emotional stories and unforgettable characters that have made this seminal series a resounding success for Showtime."

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North West, Heather Headley and Lebo M. will join the cast of The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl.

West, who is the daughter of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, will star in the upcoming concert event special, which will celebrate the 30-year evolution of The Lion King, according to a press release.

West's role in the special hasn't been revealed yet. The roles of Headley, who originated the role of Nala in The Lion King Broadway musical, and Lebo M., the voice and spirit of The Lion King, are also unconfirmed.

Disney Branded Television and Fulwell 73 Productions will capture the performances with the Disney+ special The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl, which will stream at a later date.

The concert special will include immersive live performances of the beloved songs from the 1994 film and a full orchestra, which will perform the Oscar-winning musical score by Hans Zimmer. 

Audiences can expect to see performances of fan-favorite songs including "Circle of Life," "Be Prepared" and "Hakuna Matata," which will be performed by the cast members of the original Disney movie, like Jeremy Irons, who voiced Scar, Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella, who voiced Timon and Pumba; Billy Eichner, who played Timon in the 2019 live-action film; and Jason Weaver, who voiced young Simba in the original movie. 

Jennifer Hudson will also star in the upcoming special.

The Lion King at the Hollywood Bowl will take place May 24 and May 25. Tickets are on sale now at hollywoodbowl.com.

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While it's still in the theaters, the new movie Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is now available to own or rent in HD Digital on platforms like Apple TV+ and Prime Video. 

The follow-up to the 2021 hit Ghostbusters: Afterlife sees that movie's stars, including Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard and Mckenna Grace, joining original 'Busters Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson — and even Annie Potts — to take on Garraka, an apocalyptic demon who freezes New York City solid in the middle of the summer. 

Helping the gang are series newcomers Kumail Nanjiani as Nadeem, a scammer who finds he might literally hold the ability to save the city in the palms of his hands, and Patton Oswalt's Dr. Wartzki, an eccentric academic who schools them on the Garraka lore. 

When asked by ABC Audio what being in the movie was like for a dyed-in-the-wool geek like him, the veteran of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Oscar-winning animated film Ratatouille, and dozens of other projects on the big and small screen, was still at a loss for words. 

"I mean, I got to be in a Ghostbusters movie for crying out loud," he gushed. 

"I don't know ... I'm not dodging your question, but I'm being honest and going, I don't have the words yet to articulate it," Oswalt says.

He continued, "I hung out with Dan Aykroyd for weeks in London. It was the best."  

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire comes packed with supplemental material, including deleted scenes and a gag reel — all of which are teased in a new video posted by Sony Pictures.

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While the couple made their red carpet debut together at a Grammys watch party back in February, Bob Saget's widow Kelly Rizzo and her new man, Road Trip and Robot Chicken veteran Breckin Meyer, have made their relationship Instagram official.

To celebrate Meyer turning the big 5-0 on Tuesday, May 7, Rizzo posted a photo of them together, taken over the previous weekend at the F1 Grand Prix in Miami.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! To the man who is kind, sweet, silly, thoughtful, completely hilarious, handsome, understanding, charming, forever curious, compassionate, witty, warm & wonderful," the 44-year-old wrote about her new beau to her more than 436,000 Insta followers.

Some of those followers included celebs like 90210's Brian Austin Green, Taylor Lautner, and Melissa Coulier, the wife of Saget's former Full House co-star Dave Coulier. All of whom threw many heart emojis the couple's way, and well-wishes to Meyer for his big day.

At the February event at which the couple first stepped out together, Rizzo told E! that Saget's adult
daughters Aubrey and Lara supported her new romance with the actor. "It's wonderful, it just meant so much to have their blessing," Rizzo said at the time. Calling them "angels," she added, "to have them support is so meaningful."

Further, Rizzo, 44, said of her relationship with the actor, "[It] took a while to get to the point where I'm like, 'OK, I think [Saget would] be happy with it.'"

Saget died in his Florida hotel room January 9, 2022. The cause of death for the 65-year-old actor and comedian was determined to be head trauma.

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ABC has greenlit a new iteration of the reality show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, the network announced on Tuesday. The Home Edit's Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin will host the show, which, like the original series, will feature, "heartwarming stories inspired volunteers, and mind-blowing builds for deserving families who give back to their communities," per ABC ...

Billy Porter will receive the 2024 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award in recognition of his outstanding dedication and contributions as an activist and spokesperson for the LGBTQ+ communities, the Tony Awards Administration Committee announced on May 7. The award is presented annually to a member of the theater community who has made a substantial contribution of volunteered time and effort on behalf of one or more humanitarian, social service or charitable organizations, per the Tony Awards. Porter's work includes The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation and the Entertainment Community Fund. The 77th annual Tony Awards, hosted by Ariana DeBose, will air live June 16 on CBS and stream on Paramount+ ...

NBC has shored up its comedy roster for the 2024-2025 season, renewing Lopez vs. Lopez for a third season and ordering the new series Happy's Place, starring Reba McEntire. Lopez vs. Lopez, starring George Lopez and his daughter Mayan, along with Selenis Leyva, Matt Shively, Brice Gonzalez and Al Madrigal, reached nearly 10 million total viewers across all platforms and he highest-indexing broadcast program among English-dominant Hispanic households, per the network. Happy's Place stars McEntire as Bobbie, who "inherits her father’s restaurant and is less than thrilled to discover that she has a new business partner in the half-sister she never knew she had. The series reunites McEntire with her Reba costar, Melissa Peterman. Meanwhile, Deadline reports the Jon Cryer series Extended Family has been canceled after one season ...

Susan Buckner, best known for playing cheerleader Patty Simcox alongside Olivia Newton-John in the movie Grease, "died peacefully" and "surrounded by loved ones" on May 2, family publicist Melissa Berthier tells Entertainment Weekly. She was 72. A cause of death was not revealed. Buckner was a member of the female song and dance troupe The Golddiggers, who appeared on The Dean Martin Show. She also made appearances on a number of 1980s TV shows, including The Love Boat, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries and B.J. and the Bear. Her film roles included Wes Craven's Deadly Blessing with Sharon Stone and Police Academy 6: City Under Siege ...

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1994's Speed turned Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock into an unlikely action duo, and according to the John Wick series star, they need to get back on the bus.

The pair, who haven't shared the big screen since their 2006 romantic hit The Lake House, caught up on the Speed podcast 50 MPH, where Keanu said of a potential threequel, "We'd freakin' knock it out of the park."

Bullock vowed, "Before I die, before I leave this planet, I do think that Keanu and I need to do something in front of the camera. Are we, you know, in wheelchairs or with walkers? Maybe. Are we on little scooters at Disneyland?" she joked.

She added of their chemistry, "There's no formula. It just is."

Reeves agreed with his former co-star, adding, "It does feel like there is a siren call to it, like there's something that wasn’t done. I would love to work with you again before our eyes close."

Of course, Reeves backed out of 1997's Speed 2: Cruise Control, which shifted the action from a speeding bus to a slow-moving cruise ship. It became a bomb so big that Bullock told TooFab in 2022, "I’m still embarrassed I was in it."

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Barbie became the biggest movie of 2023 and, as reported, Mattel is opening its toy chest to find more box office gold by revving up a Matchbox movie.

ABC Audio has confirmed that Mattel Films has landed someone with serious action movie chops to bring it to the big screen: stunt coordinator-turned-Extraction franchise director Sam Hargrave.

The filmmaker is teaming up with bestselling author and The Adam Project screenwriter Jonathan Tropper and co-writer David Coggeshall (The Family Plan) to turn the beloved toy line created in 1953 into a movie for Skydance, which backs the Mission: Impossible films.

Incidentally, Mattel points out two Matchbox cars are sold every second somewhere around the world, and no doubt they're hoping that turns into ticket sales, too.

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Hilary Duff is now a mom of four.

The Lizzie McGuire and How I Met Your Father alum announced the arrival of her fourth child, a girl named Townes Meadow Bair, in an Instagram post Tuesday, May 7.

Townes was born May 3, according to the post.

"Now we know why she made us wait so long," Duff wrote in the caption of her post, which included sweet photos of the newest addition to her family. "She was perfecting those Cheeks!"

"I Have been dreaming of holding you in my arms for months and the past 5 days of getting to know you, stare at you and smell you has been pure moments of magic," she continued. "We all love you like you've been here all along beauty. 5/3/24."

Duff and husband Matthew Koma announced they were expecting again back in December.

"Surprise Surprise!" Duff captioned an Instagram post at the time, which included a photo of a family holiday card that read, "Buckle up Buttercups, we're adding one more to this crazy bunch!"

Koma also shared a family photo at that time, captioning it, "baby #4 is loading...."

This is Duff's third child with Koma. The couple, who married in 2019, welcomed daughter Banks Violet, 5, in 2018 and daughter Mae James, 3, in 2021.

Duff shares her eldest child, a 12-year-old son named Luca Cruz, with ex-husband Mike Comrie.

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On his Instagram on Tuesday afternoon, Jeremy Renner posted a smiling photo taken behind the scenes of the third season of his acclaimed Paramount+ drama Mayor of Kingstown. 

"We’ve been here in Pittsburgh, Pa for the entire year so far," Renner said. "Our end is near bestowing a new beginning for the fans."

The actor, who suffered a near-fatal snowplow accident in 2023, added, "I'm tired , but coming out of this stronger than I came in . Thank you all for the love and support. See you June 2."

Recently, Renner's Kingstown co-star Michael Beach told ABC Audio that the twice-Oscar-nominated actor "needs a little more breaks" on set post-accident. 

"He's always got to exercise. He's got to stretch. He's got special chairs to sit in and stuff like that," Beach explained. However, considering how recently his accident was, Beach added, "To see the things that he can do is incredible."

As Renner's post mentioned, Mayor of Kingstown returns to Paramount+ on June 2.

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