In brief: Michael B. Jordan in talks for new ‘Miami Vice’ film adaptation and more
Michael B. Jordan may have found his next project. Deadline reports the actor is in talks to star in Universal’s upcoming Miami Vice film adaptation as Detective Ricardo Tubbs. Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski is directing the movie from a script by Eric Warren Singer and Dan Gilroy. It is set to debut in theaters on Aug. 6, 2027 …
Noah Baumbach will receive the director tribute at the 2025 Gotham Awards. The filmmaker is being honored for his overall contributions to film, including his latest feature, Jay Kelly, which stars George Clooney and Adam Sandler. Jay Kelly will play in theaters on Nov. 14 before streaming on Netflix on Dec. 5 …
Callum Turner is joining forces with Adria Arjona. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actors have signed on to star in the new film Alone Together. The story follows a British filmmaker whose life turns upside down when he travels to the Arabian desert for work …
Rian Johnson isn’t quite finished with detective Benoit Blanc. The director says he would like to continue making Knives Out films despite his two-picture deal with Netflix coming to an end with the upcoming third installment in the series, Wake Up Dead Man. “I’d be thrilled to keep making these for the rest of my life,” Variety reports Johnson said at the BFI London Film Festival …
The official trailer for Hamnet has arrived. Focus Features released the new trailer for Chloé Zhao‘s upcoming adaptation of the fictional story of the love and loss that inspired William Shakespeare‘s Hamlet. JessieBuckley and Paul Mescal star in the film, which comes to theaters Nov. 27 …
Bradley Cooper is in talks to star in an upcoming Ocean’s Eleven prequel with Margot Robbie. Variety reports the new film is expected to be set ahead of the events of the 2001 Steven Soderbergh heist film starring George Clooney, Matt Damon and Brad Pitt …
Diane Keaton and Steve Martin attend ‘Rodeo Drive Walk Of Style’ awards ceremony in Beverly Hills, 2003 (Photo by SGranitz/WireImage)
Diane Keaton is being remembered by some of her co-stars, friends and admirers. The Oscar-winning star of movies like Annie Hall and Something’s Gotta Give died Saturday at age 79.
Keaton’s First Wives Club co-star Goldie Hawn wrote a lengthy tribute on Instagram that read, in part, “Diane, we aren’t ready to lose you. You’ve left us with a trail of fairy dust, filled with particles of light and memories beyond imagination. How do we say goodbye? … There was, and will be, no one like you … I’m going to miss the hell out of you.”
Bette Midler, who also starred in The First Wives Club, wrote of Keaton, “She was hilarious, a complete original, and completely without guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have expected from such a star. What you saw was who she was…oh, la, lala!”
Steve Martin, who co-starred with Keaton in the Father of the Bride movies and in 2013’s The Big Wedding, posted a photo on X of Keaton in the ’70s and wrote, “Loved!” adding her line from Annie Hall: “La dee da, la dee da.” On Instagram, he posted an exchange between Keaton and Father of the Bride co-star Martin Short in Interview magazine, in which he asked her, “Who’s sexier, me or Steve Martin?” She replied, “Well, you’re both idiots.” Martin wrote that the exchange “sums up our delightful relationship with Diane.”
Kimberly Williams-Paisley, who played Keaton’s daughter in the Father of the Bride movies, wrote, “Diane, working with you will always be one of the highlights of my life. You are one of a kind, and it was thrilling to be in your orbit for a time. Thank you for your kindness, your generosity, your talent, and above all, your laughter.”
Mary Steenburgen, who starred with Keaton in Book Club and its sequel, told ABC News, “Diane was magic. There was no one, nor will there ever be, anyone like her. I loved her and felt blessed to be her friend. My love to her family. What a wonder she was!!!”
Mandy Moore, who co-starred with Keaton in the 2007 movie Because I Said So, wrote on Instagram, “They say don’t meet your heroes but I got to work with one of mine and even call her ‘mom’ for a few months. An honor of a lifetime. What an incandescent human Di is and was … One of the very best to ever do it.”
On Instagram, Viola Daviswrote, “No!! No!!! No!! God, not yet, NO!!! Man… you defined womanhood. The pathos, humor, levity, your ever-present youthfulness and vulnerability — you tattooed your SOUL into every role, making it impossible to imagine anyone else inhabiting them.”
And a source tells People that Woody Allen, who made eight films with Keaton and was involved romantically with her for a time, is “extremely distraught and surprised and upset” about her death.
Jennifer Aniston as Alex Levy in ‘The Morning Show.’ (Apple TV)
Apple’s streaming service is leaving the plus behind.
Apple TV+ is rebranding to Apple TV, the company announced on Monday. The name change was revealed in a press release announcing the streaming release date for F1: The Movie.
Toward the end of the press release, Apple announced that Apple TV+ will now be known as Apple TV. The company referred to the rebrand as “a vibrant new identity.”
This marks the first name change in the platform’s history. The streaming service launched on Nov. 1, 2019, with eight original series and one documentary. Among the original slate of programming was Dickinson, The Morning Show, For All Mankind, See and Servant.
The service formerly known as Apple TV+ made history when it became the first streaming platform to win the Academy Award for best picture. It won for its 2021 drama film CODA. Several of its shows, including Ted Lasso and Severance, have received awards attention at the Emmys.
