Vol. 32
No. 13
Pick Hits
At The Movies
A Minecraft Movie
Four misfits find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are
suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld, a bizarre, cubic
wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they'll have to master
this world while embarking on a magical quest with an unexpected, expert
craftier. Together, their adventure will challenge all five to be bold and to
reconnect with the qualities that make each of them uniquely creative-the very
skills they need to thrive back in the real world
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The Luckiest Man In
America
1984, Michael Larson, an unemployed ice
cream truck driver from Ohio, steps onto the game show
Press Your Luck harboring a secret:
the key to endless amounts of money. But his winning
streak gets threatened when the executives in the
control room start to uncover his real motivations. If
you grew up watching game shows, you will enjoy watching
this familiar story play out in nail biting fashion,
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The Studio (AppleTV+)
Matt Remick is the newly appointed head of Continental
Studios; desperate for celebrity approval, he and his
executive team at the movie studio must juggle corporate
demands with creative ambitions as they try to keep
movies alive and relevant. This show is brilliant. we're
blessed to have a guy like Seth Rogan
making stuff of substance, real life humor, great acting
and fresh writing. The cast fit together perfectly, the
story is wonderfully presented. and the direction is
sweet & very technical.
The Buzz...
Fox has given a major commitment to adult
animated series The Simpsons, Family
Guy and Bob’s Burgers. The network has
renewed all three series for four additional seasons.
The network also announced that American Dad!
would be returning to Fox, and granted the series a four
season pickup as well.
According to The Playlist, who first
reported the news, and Variety, Brad
Pitt is set to reprise his role as stuntman Cliff
Booth in a follow-up to the 2019 Oscar winning
hit Once Upon A Time In Hollywood with
David Fincher planning to direct.
Michael the upcoming biopic based on the late
musician Michael Jackson could possibly be
split into two movies, as distributor
Lionsgate and Universal Pictures might push
up the current Oct. 3 release date, according to a
report in Deadline. The film from director Antione
Fuqua was a big part of 2024’s Lionsgate
CinemaCon presentation, however no footage from the
biopic was shown during these year’s convention.
Like a seed dropped by a skybird, Wicked stars
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo
and director Jon M. Chu returned to Las Vegas for
CinemaCon, the annual convention for movie
theater owners. The Oscar nominated duo, each donning
striking all-black outfits, introduced the first-ever
look at Wicked: For Good, which chronicles the
second act of the long-running Broadway sensation.
Val Kilmer, the charisma oozing leading
man who lost himself portraying such tormented, self
loathing characters as Jim Morrison,
gunslinger Doc Holliday and Batman
during his all too brief career, died Tuesday. He was
65.
Neil Young is worried he won’t be allowed
into the U.S. if he keeps publicly bashing President
Donald Trump. The Canadian born rocker is
about to embark on a European tour, and in a post on his
website the two-time Grammy winner wondered if
his frequent criticism of Trump might stop him from
being allowed to re-enter America, where he lives.
RuPaul will be presenting Liza Minnelli
with the show’s Giving Us Lifetime Achievement Award
on April 18 during the Season 17 finale, and she will be
on the show’s main stage to accept.
American actor, director and producer Robin
Wright is to receive the Crystal Nymph
Award during the closing ceremony of the 64th
edition of the Monte-Carlo Television
Festival.
Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal
are hitting the stage. The two actors attended
Cinemacon 2025 to promote their new movie The
Accountant 2 held at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
in Las Vegas.
Ryan Gosling, looking very nerdy and quite
un-Ken-like, plays a science teacher turned grudging
astronaut in Project Hail Mary, a
sci-fi adventure that Amazon MGM
Studios teased during its presentation to theater
owners at CinemaCon.
Hiccup and Toothless will return to the big screen in
2027. A live action adaptation of How to Train Your
Dragon 2 is currently in the works, Universal
Pictures announced during its presentation at
CinemaCon, the annual convention of movie theater
owners.
Ice Cube has reached a deal to write and
star in a new Friday movie for Warner
Bros. and New Line Cinema. The
new feature, which is titled Last Friday,
will mark the fourth entry in the comedy series.
Adolescence was being talked about as this year’s
Baby Reindeer when it first debuted, being
another surprise hit Netflix limited series from
the U.K. making huge ratings wins without a massive
marketing campaign, but it’s now in a class of its own.
Deborah Norville is saying goodbye to
Inside Edition after 30 years as anchor of
the syndicated newsmagazine.