Month: December 2022

HBO has shared that the fourth season of ‘True Detective’, titled ‘True Detective: Night Country’, will star Jodie Foster and Kali Reis, with Issa Lopez serving as showrunner.

HBO released a teaser of what’s to come in 2023 that showed new footage of their upcoming series like The Last of Us, and gave viewers a first look at Foster in True Detective: Night Country.  HBO tweeted: “So much to look forward to. New originals, returning series, and more coming soon to @hbomax”

HBO also shared a synopsis for Season 4 of True Detective: “When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the six men that operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, Detectives Liz Danvers (Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Reis) will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves, and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.”

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Jeff Garlin has joined the cast of Netflix’s Never Have I Ever for its fourth and final season. It marks the first series Garlin has joined since he was let go from ABC’s The Goldbergs a year ago following an HR investigation. Garlin has remained part of the ensemble at HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, where he’s also an executive producer.

Netflix and co-creators Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher announced in March that the fourth season of Never Have I Ever, which follows an Indian American teenager (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) through her high school years, would be its last. Garlin will play a man named Len, who sparks the interest of Devi’s (Ramakrishnan) grandmother, Nirmala (Ranjita Chakravarty). The final season is slated to air in 2023.

Garlin starred on The Goldbergs for most of its first nine seasons, leaving the sitcom in December 2021 for alleged behavior on set that made members of the show’s staff uncomfortable. The Goldbergs wrote around Garlin’s absence and occasionally used old footage of him in the final episodes of the ninth season. He was written off at the start of season 10 when his character, patriarch Murray Goldberg, died offscreen.

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Even with severe winter weather affecting most of the country over the holiday weekend, Avatar: The Way of Water remained at the top of the box office for the second weekend in a row. Despite the release of three new movies this weekend, the film – starring Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana – took in an extra $56 million for a two-week total of $253.7 million.

The animated film Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, starring the voice of Antonio Banderas in the title role, debuted in second place. The film opened on Wednesday, earning a total of $18.3 million.

In third place was the new movie Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody starring Naomi Ackie as the late Whitney Houston. It earned $5.3 million. Babylon, starring Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, opened in fourth place, taking in $3.5 million; and rounding out the top five was Violent Night, which dropped two spots from last weekend to earn an additional $3.1 million, giving it a four-week total of $41.6 million.

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Grammy-winning musicians Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Taylor Swift are all nominated for songs from movies that have are expected to also earn them Oscar nominations.

Lady Gaga’s “Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick, Rihanna’s “Lift Me Up” from Wakanda Forever, and Swift’s “Carolina” from Where the Crawdads Sing are up for the Outstanding Song from a Drama/Documentary award from the Society of Composers & Lyricists. Actor Darren Criss will host the awards which take place at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 15.

The women will be competing against songwriter Diane Warren for her song “Applause” from Tell It Like a Woman and Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for “You Made It Feel Like (Home)” from the movie Bones and All.

For the full list of nominees, head here.

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