Comedy legend Carol Burnett reflects on her illustrious career before the 76th Emmys

Titanic heavy Billy Zane is totally transformed into Marlon Brando in the new trailer for the based-on-real-life comedy film Waltzing with Brando. 

The snippet shows Zane as Brando as the public knew him, both on set on The Godfather and in a legendary Dick Cavett interview. But it also shows the eccentric actor’s private life and his dream of building a home — and a resort — on an uninhabited Tahitian atoll. 

“It’s more beautiful than words can describe, and cinematography can capture, and I want to move there,” he tells Jon Heder‘s character, a Los Angeles architect tapped by Brando to make the impossible dream happen. 

The film is an adaptation of the 2011 memoir of the same name from the architect who lived the experience, Bernard Judge.

The trailer shows that Judge was unconvinced. “To live out there with even a moderate amount of convenience would be a monumental undertaking,” Heder’s Judge protests, seeing as the atoll was cut off from potable water and electricity.

Zane’s Brando was undeterred, however, in the trailer showing off his experiments with using electric eels to provide current and devising a system to manufacture drinking water “from my own urine.” 

The latter was revealed mid-sip to Heder’s character, who unknowingly tried a sample.

The film that also stars Richard Dreyfuss, Rob Corddry and Tia Carrere will have its world premiere at the Torino Film Festival in late November.

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Tom Holland is in talks to star in Christopher Nolan’s latest yet-to-be-titled feature, alongside Matt Damon, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Plot details are being kept under wraps. While Damon will mark his third appearance in one of Nolan’s films, following Oppenheimer and 2014’s Interstellar, this would be Holland’s first go-round with the filmmaker. The film is slated for a July 2026 release …

A TV series adaptation of Stephen King‘s 1974 horror novel Carrie is in development at Amazon MGM Studios with Mike Flanagan, who directed Netflix’s The Haunting anthology, set as showrunner and executive producer, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The adaptation is being described as a “bold and timely reimagining” of the story, which centers on high schooler Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom. Should it come to fruition, it will air on Prime Video …

The Big Bang Theory alums Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch will reunite for an upcoming season 3 episode of Rauch’s NBC comedy Night Court, according to Entertainment Weekly. Bialik will play a version of herself and turn up in court as a defendant who befriends Rauch’s Judge Abby Stone, per the outlet. Things get weird, however, after Abby learns that Mayim is stalking her. Season 3 of Night Court premieres Nov. 19 on NBC …

Lily Gladstone and Sharon Stone have been tapped for roles in the upcoming indie film In Memoriam, joining comedian Marc Maron, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Maron plays a veteran Hollywood actor obsessed with securing a spot in the Oscars’ in memoriam montage following a terminal cancer diagnosis, per the outlet. His campaigning leads to a heartfelt journey of self-exploration. Gladstone will play the actor’s therapist and Stone one of the actor’s ex-wives, who was once a major movie star. Judy Greer will play another of the actor’s ex-wives …

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The Wild Robot topped the domestic box office, earning an estimated $35 million in its opening weekend. The animated adventure — with a voice cast including Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Catherine O’Hara, Bill Nighy, Kit Connor and Stephanie Hsu — added an estimated $18.1 million internationally, for a global total of $53.1 million.

After a three-week run at No. 1, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice slipped to second place, grabbing an estimated $16 million at the North American box office, bringing its four-week tally to $250 million. The film has grossed $373 million worldwide to date.

Transformers One took third place, delivering an estimated $9.3 million in its second week of release, for a total of $39.2 million. Its global tally now stands at $72 million.

Fourth place went to India’s Devara Part 1. The action drama collected an estimated $5.6 million at the North American box office and $32.9 million worldwide. Rounding out the top five was Speak No Evil with an estimated $4.3 million domestically, bringing its tally to $57.7 million worldwide.

Opening in sixth place was Francis Ford Coppola‘s much-hyped Roman epic Megalopolis. The film — starring Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Chloe Fineman and Dustin Hoffman — earned just $4 million at the domestic box office and $6.1 million worldwide against a $120 million budget in its opening weekend.

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