In brief: Saoirse Ronan, Austin Butler to star in A24 love story and more
Saoirse Ronan is joining forces with Austin Butler. Deadline reports that the actors will star in director Sean Durkin‘s latest film for A24. Titled Deep Cuts, the film will be based on Holly Brickley‘s debut novel of the same name. It’s a love story about two music-obsessed twenty-somethings who navigate their own ambitions and adulthood over the course of a decade. In addition to starring in the film, Ronan will produce …
The Hunger Games stage production finally has a debut date set. The stage play adaptation of Suzanne Collins‘ novel, called The Hunger Games: On Stage, will premiere in a new in-the-round venue in London on Oct. 20. The production was adapted by Tony nominee Conor McPherson and is being directed by Matthew Dunster …
Jamie Campbell Bower is leaving the town of Hawkins, Indiana, for Middle-earth. The Stranger Things actor has joined the cast of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power as a series regular for the upcoming season 3. The news was confirmed after the show’s official X account reposted a Variety article about the news. Eddie Marsan also joins the show in a recurring role for season 3 …
On Thursday, the cast of the upcoming film shared a fun video announcing that the movie is coming to theaters on Dec. 25, 2025.
The video, which mimics a popular TikTok trend, begins with onscreen text over holiday decorations that reads, “Streets are saying the housemaid would be a perfect christmas movie.”
Cast members of the film — Amanda Seyfried, Sydney Sweeney and Brandon Sklenar — then suddenly appear onscreen, acting as if they flipped the phone’s camera around by accident before panicking and trying to flip it back.
The upcoming movie is based on author Freida McFadden‘s bestselling novel of the same name.
The logline for the film reads, “Sweeney will play Millie, a struggling young woman who is relieved to get a fresh start as a housemaid to Nina (Seyfried) and Andrew (Sklenar), an upscale, wealthy couple… but soon learns that the family’s secrets are far more dangerous than her own.”
Also starring in the film, which is directed by Paul Feig, is Subservience actor Michele Morrone.
News about the film adaptation of McFadden’s novel was first announced in October. At the time, Seyfried and Sweeney each shared the announcement on Instagram.
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The 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards streamed live on Netflix on Sunday, February 23, in Los Angeles. Among the big winners were Timothée Chalamet and Demi Moore, who won outstanding performance by a male actor and a female actor in a leading role for, respectively, A Complete Unknown and The Substance. Conclave won outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture.
On the TV side, Shōgun swept the dramatic categories, including outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series, while Only Murders in the Building took the same award in the comedy category. Colin Farrell and Jessica Gunning won outstanding performance by a male actor and a female actor in a limited series for, respectively, The Penguin and Baby Reindeer.
Kristen Bell hosted the 31st annual awards ceremony, which saw Jane Fonda receive the SAG Life Achievement Award, the Guild’s highest honor, from Julia Louis-Dreyfus. In her acceptance speech, she commented on the current political environment, saying, “We mustn’t, for a moment, kid ourselves about what is happening. This is big time serious, folks. Let’s be brave. We must not isolate. We must stay in community. We must help the vulnerable. We must find ways to project an inspiriting vision of the future.”
Here are all the winners:
Outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role Timothée Chalamet, A Complete Unknown
Outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role Demi Moore, The Substance
Outstanding performance by a male actor in a supporting role Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Outstanding performance by a female actor in a supporting role Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez
Outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture Conclave
Outstanding performance by a male actor in a television movie or limited series Colin Farrell, The Penguin
Outstanding performance by a female actor in a television movie or limited series Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer
Outstanding performance by a male actor in a drama series Hiroyuki Sanada, Shōgun
Outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series Anna Sawai, Shōgun
Outstanding performance by a male actor in a comedy series Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building
Outstanding performance by a female actor in a comedy series Jean Smart, Hacks
Outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series Shōgun
Outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series Only Murders in the Building
Outstanding action performance by a stunt ensemble in a motion picture The Fall Guy
Outstanding action performance by a stunt ensemble in a television series Shōgun
A star-studded cast has been gathered for the new comedy Old Pals. Henry Winkler, Brian Cox, Emma Roberts and Evan Rachel Wood will star in the film, Deadline reports. The movie comes from director Wendey Stanzler and writer Rick Cisario, and follows two recent widowers, played by Winkler and Cox, who are forced to become friends when their daughters, played by Roberts and Wood, conspire to bring them together …
Ke Huy Quan and Lili Reinhart are set to star in Bad Boy, a horror film about a woman’s fight to escape a serial killer told through the eyes of the killer’s faithful pet dog. Deadline first reported the news of the project being underway from Dave Caplan, the producer of Longlegs. Jacob Chase will direct the movie from a script by Travis Braun. Casting is still underway for the dog, which will likely be a terrier. The film begins production in August …
Robert De Niro will star in an adaptation of the Alex North novel The Whisper Man, Deadline reports. The film, which will be made for Netflix and AGBO, will come from director James Ashcroft and producers Joe and Anthony Russo. The Whisper Man follows a widowed crime writer who looks to his estranged father, a retired police detective, for help after his young son is abducted …
