Weekend Watchlist: What’s new in theaters, on streaming
Ready, set, binge! Here’s a look at some of the new movies and TV shows coming to theaters and streaming services this weekend:
Netflix XO, Kitty: The third season of the romance series from Jenny Han makes its debut.
Apple TV Your Friends & Neighbors: Jon Hamm is back for season 2 of the dark comedy crime drama.
Hulu Pizza Movie: College students go on an unexpected journey one night after taking a hallucinogenic drug.
Movie theaters The Super Mario Galaxy Movie: Mario, Luigi and the gang must rescue Princess Rosalina from the villainous Bowser Jr. in this sequel to the hit animated movie.
The Drama: Zendaya and Robert Pattinson have an anxiety-filled wedding week in the new film.
A Great Awakening: See the unlikely friendship between George Whitefield and Benjamin Franklin in the new drama.
That’s all for this week’s Weekend Watchlist – happy streaming!
Mark Ruffalo as Lou and Chris Hemsworth as Davis in ‘Crime 101.’ (Dean Rogers)
Chris Hemsworth plays a game of cat and mouse with Mark Ruffalo in Crime 101.
The Bart Layton-directed film, which premieres exclusively in theaters globally on Friday, follows a jewel thief (Hemsworth) whose heists along the 101 freeway in Southern California capture the attention of a relentless detective (Ruffalo).
The actors have lost count of the number of times they’ve worked together, Hemsworth told ABC Audio, as both are OG members of The Avengers in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But this film was completely different than any of their other acting collaborations, Hemsworth said.
“It’s super refreshing. We’ve talked about doing other stuff together for a long time. And I sent him the script, and he immediately flipped for it and said, ‘This is brilliant,'” Hemsworth said. “And off we went.”
While the tone of Crime 101 is much different than that of an MCU joint, Hemsworth says their iconic superhero personas weren’t far away from this film’s set.
“We brought some of our Thor and Hulk energy initially of just the excitement,” Hemsworth said. “And then Bart [Layton] was like, ‘Whoa, different energy, different film.'”
Hemsworth said striking a different tone with Ruffalo this time around was wonderful, but it was also intimidating.
“It was quite lovely to step into completely different shoes, but quite uncomfortable, too, because it’s like acting in front of a family member, you know?” Hemsworth said. “They know your tricks, and now you’re doing something very different. And so it was quite unsettling, but as it should have been for the characters, too.”
The Thor actor said he and Ruffalo “just had a fantastic time” making this film together.
A star-studded group of actors has joined the cast of Molly Gordon’s upcoming comedy film Peaked. Deadline reports that Laura Dern, Simone Ashley, Levon Hawke and Gabby Windey are set to appear in the upcoming film, which Gordon will direct and star in. Heated Rivalry star Connor Storrie is also in talks to star. The movie follows two girls who traumatized others in high school as they try to relive their glory days at their 10-year reunion …
Damon Wayans Jr. is set to star in a new drama series pilot for NBC. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actor will star in Puzzled. It is based on Danielle Trussoni’s Puzzle Master novels. Wayans will play Mike, a former college athlete who suffered a traumatic brain injury that caused him to develop acquired savant syndrome …
Leo Woodall is joining forces with Sydney Sweeney. Deadline reports that the actor is set to star alongside Sweeney in the film adaptation of Edith Wharton’s classic novel Custom of the Country. Sweeney is set to play protagonist Undine Spragg in the film, while Josie Rourke will direct the movie from a script she adapted from Wharton’s book …
Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon in the Hal Ashby-directed 1971 film, ‘Harold and Maude.’ (FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty Images)
Bud Cort, the actor known for his co-starring role in the 1971 film Harold and Maude, has died. He was 77.
Dorian Hannaway, a television producer and friend of Cort, confirmed Cort’s death to ABC News on Wednesday. Cort died of what was described as a long illness.
Cort was born Walter Edward Cox on March 29, 1948, in Rye, New York. Director Robert Altman discovered the actor and cast him in two 1970 films, M*A*S*H and Brewster McCloud, which both went on to be hits.
He earned a Golden Globe nomination for his role as Harold Chasen, a young man who falls in love with a 79-year-old Holocaust survivor played by Ruth Gordon, in director Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude. The movie was selected to be preserved in the National Film Registry in 1997, as the Library of Congress deemed it to be “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.”
Other notable roles of his include parts in Michael Mann’s 1995 film Heat, the 1999 movie Dogma and Wes Anderson’s 2004 film The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. He also appeared in Coyote Ugly, Pollock, She Dances Alone and Electric Dreams.
Cort is survived by his brother, Joseph Cox, and his family; his sister Kerry Cox; his sister Tracy Cox Berkman and her family; and his sister Shelly Cox Dufour and her family.
