New month, new selections from Netflix! This May, the streamer is setting the stage for tons of laughs with its annual Netflix is a Joke Fest, which kicks off in Los Angeles on Thursday, May 2. But if you're too far from the City of Angels, follow John Mulaney as he heads out onto the street to welcome his funniest friends to the city in "John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s In LA," a six-night live comedy event. Plus, Netflix will host the Mark Twain Prize Award for Kevin Hart, the Roast of Tom Brady, new specials from Rachel Feinstein, Franco Escamilla, and more.
On the scripted side, the wait is over, “Bridgerton” fans: the first part of Season 3 will drop in a batch during the middle of the month. And all month long, catch new series, film, documentary, anime, and family premieres.
Ready to watch? Find out The Streamable’s top picks for the month,...
On the scripted side, the wait is over, “Bridgerton” fans: the first part of Season 3 will drop in a batch during the middle of the month. And all month long, catch new series, film, documentary, anime, and family premieres.
Ready to watch? Find out The Streamable’s top picks for the month,...
- 5/1/2024
- by Ashley Steves
- The Streamable
Reformed supervillain Felonius Gru (Steve Carell) has come a long way since "Despicable Me" released back in 2010 -- the billion-dollar box office hit that put brand new animation studio Illumination on the map. In the first film, Gru adopted three orphan girls as part of a plot to steal the Moon, intending to discard them when they were no long of any use to him. But Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier), and Agnes (Elsie Fisher) melted Gru's villainous heart and he ended up keeping them.
In "Despicable Me 2," Gru turned away from his former life of crime and began working as an agent for the Anti-Villain League. Gru's family grew a little bigger when Felonius married fellow Avl agent Lucy Wilde (Kristen Wiig) at the end of the sequel. Now, the trailer for "Despicable Me 4" has introduced Gru and Lucy's baby son, Gru Jr., who seems unimpressed by his infamous father.
In "Despicable Me 2," Gru turned away from his former life of crime and began working as an agent for the Anti-Villain League. Gru's family grew a little bigger when Felonius married fellow Avl agent Lucy Wilde (Kristen Wiig) at the end of the sequel. Now, the trailer for "Despicable Me 4" has introduced Gru and Lucy's baby son, Gru Jr., who seems unimpressed by his infamous father.
- 1/29/2024
- by Hannah Shaw-Williams
- Slash Film
There’s some big Despicable Me 4 news!
The fourth entry in the popular animated film franchise is the first one released since 2017.
Per Universal and Illumination, the movie’s logline reads: “In the first Despicable Me movie in seven years, Gru, the world’s favorite supervillain-turned-Anti-Villain League-agent, returns for an exciting, bold new era of Minions mayhem in Illumination’s Despicable Me 4.”
On Sunday (January 28), the first trailer for Despicable Me 4 was released.
Additionally, some new names were added to the cast!
Keep reading to find out more…
Steve Carrell returns as the voice of Gru in Despicable Me 4. Kristen Wiig will again feature as the voice of Lucy.
Miranda Cosgrove and Dana Gaier are set to return to their roles as Gru and Lucy’s children Margo and Edith.
Madison Polan will replace Nev Scharrel as the voice of their daughter Agnes.
Will Ferrell is...
The fourth entry in the popular animated film franchise is the first one released since 2017.
Per Universal and Illumination, the movie’s logline reads: “In the first Despicable Me movie in seven years, Gru, the world’s favorite supervillain-turned-Anti-Villain League-agent, returns for an exciting, bold new era of Minions mayhem in Illumination’s Despicable Me 4.”
On Sunday (January 28), the first trailer for Despicable Me 4 was released.
Additionally, some new names were added to the cast!
Keep reading to find out more…
Steve Carrell returns as the voice of Gru in Despicable Me 4. Kristen Wiig will again feature as the voice of Lucy.
Miranda Cosgrove and Dana Gaier are set to return to their roles as Gru and Lucy’s children Margo and Edith.
Madison Polan will replace Nev Scharrel as the voice of their daughter Agnes.
Will Ferrell is...
- 1/28/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Gru and the Minions are back, as Universal and Illumination’s “Despicable Me 4” has released its first trailer.
The film, which hits theaters on July 3, 2024, continues the popular animated franchise, which follows the reformed supervillain Gru (Steve Carell) trying to do good and finding family while he’s at it. Kristen Wiig, Miranda Cosgrove, Steve Coogan, Chris Renaud, Dana Gaier and Pierre Coffin also return for the fourth installment.
“Despicable Me 4” introduces new characters voiced by Will Ferrell, Joey King, Sofia Vergara, Stephen Colbert, Chloe Fineman and Madison Polan. Ferrell voices Gru’s new nemesis Maxime Le Mal, while Vergara plays Maxime’s femme fatale girlfriend Valentina.
The first movie featured Gru adopting three daughters, while the second installment saw Gru finding love with Lucy Wilde (voiced by Wiig). “Despicable Me 3” had a shocking reveal with the appearance of Gru’s long-lost twin brother, Dru (also voiced...
The film, which hits theaters on July 3, 2024, continues the popular animated franchise, which follows the reformed supervillain Gru (Steve Carell) trying to do good and finding family while he’s at it. Kristen Wiig, Miranda Cosgrove, Steve Coogan, Chris Renaud, Dana Gaier and Pierre Coffin also return for the fourth installment.
“Despicable Me 4” introduces new characters voiced by Will Ferrell, Joey King, Sofia Vergara, Stephen Colbert, Chloe Fineman and Madison Polan. Ferrell voices Gru’s new nemesis Maxime Le Mal, while Vergara plays Maxime’s femme fatale girlfriend Valentina.
The first movie featured Gru adopting three daughters, while the second installment saw Gru finding love with Lucy Wilde (voiced by Wiig). “Despicable Me 3” had a shocking reveal with the appearance of Gru’s long-lost twin brother, Dru (also voiced...
- 1/28/2024
- by Valerie Wu
- Variety Film + TV
Kenneth Branagh is back for this third — and by TheWrap’s account, best — appearance as Agatha Christie’s detective Hercule Poirot in “A Haunting in Venice.” He also directs the spooky mystery, which boasts a terrific lineup of murder suspects (and potential victims), including Michelle Yeoh, Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan and Kelly Reilly.
Here’s who plays which character in the film based on Christie’s 1969 novel “Hallowe’en Party” — and where you might have seen the less familiar names before.
“A Haunting in Venice” is now streaming on Disney+.
20th Century Studios.
Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot
British actor Kenneth Branagh reprises his role as the fussy Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, whom he previously played in the recent remakes “Murder on the Orient Express” and “Death on the Nile.” The film begins in 1947 with Poirot retired from sleuthing and leading a quiet life in Venice — until he’s dragged into a new case.
Here’s who plays which character in the film based on Christie’s 1969 novel “Hallowe’en Party” — and where you might have seen the less familiar names before.
“A Haunting in Venice” is now streaming on Disney+.
20th Century Studios.
Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot
British actor Kenneth Branagh reprises his role as the fussy Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, whom he previously played in the recent remakes “Murder on the Orient Express” and “Death on the Nile.” The film begins in 1947 with Poirot retired from sleuthing and leading a quiet life in Venice — until he’s dragged into a new case.
- 10/31/2023
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
LA-based executive joined in 2017; reports to CEO Nick Spicer.
XYZ Films has promoted Maxime Cottray from executive vice president to COO in the run-up to the American Film Market.
Cottray has played a key role in turning XYZ Films into a rounded studio and has worked closely with the principals to raise production and P&a financing for the company, including a facility with Bank of America.
As COO he will oversee financing, business affairs, and day-to-day operations, reporting to XYZ Films CEO Nick Spicer.
Since 2021 Cottray has closed the acquisition and financing of a slate of films including Berlinale...
XYZ Films has promoted Maxime Cottray from executive vice president to COO in the run-up to the American Film Market.
Cottray has played a key role in turning XYZ Films into a rounded studio and has worked closely with the principals to raise production and P&a financing for the company, including a facility with Bank of America.
As COO he will oversee financing, business affairs, and day-to-day operations, reporting to XYZ Films CEO Nick Spicer.
Since 2021 Cottray has closed the acquisition and financing of a slate of films including Berlinale...
- 10/24/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Indie studio XYZ Films has promoted Maxime Cottray to the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO).
Cottray previously served as XYZ’s Executive Vice President. In the role, he worked closely with the studio founders to raise significant production and P&a financing for the company, including a facility with Bank of America. As COO, he will oversee financing, business affairs, and day-to-day operations and report to XYZ CEO Nick Spicer.
Since 2021, Cottray has closed the acquisition and financing of several titles such as Matthew Johnson’s Berlin competition title Blackberry and the Sundance breakout Run Rabbit Run, which was picked up by Netflix. He established a partnership with AI virtual dubbing company Flawless to acquire and release foreign language films to be “vubbed” into English. This year, he has facilitated the closing of XYZ’s first two scripted TV series, New Zealand-set Madam, starring Rachel Griffiths, and Conflict, which is shooting in Finland.
Cottray previously served as XYZ’s Executive Vice President. In the role, he worked closely with the studio founders to raise significant production and P&a financing for the company, including a facility with Bank of America. As COO, he will oversee financing, business affairs, and day-to-day operations and report to XYZ CEO Nick Spicer.
Since 2021, Cottray has closed the acquisition and financing of several titles such as Matthew Johnson’s Berlin competition title Blackberry and the Sundance breakout Run Rabbit Run, which was picked up by Netflix. He established a partnership with AI virtual dubbing company Flawless to acquire and release foreign language films to be “vubbed” into English. This year, he has facilitated the closing of XYZ’s first two scripted TV series, New Zealand-set Madam, starring Rachel Griffiths, and Conflict, which is shooting in Finland.
- 10/24/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Massive spoilers for "A Haunting in Venice" follow.
The adventures of Hercule Poirot — "probably the greatest detective in the world," as he once so humbly referred to himself — have been well documented by this point. Beginning with Agatha Christie's literary accounts of the detective's cases, the character continued to thrive beyond his creator's passing in 1976, with other authors concocting new mysteries for Poirot to solve.
Of course, Christie's Poirot output, stretching as it did from 1920-1975, was ripe for adaptation to other mediums, and indeed Poirot has turned up numerous times in everything from stage plays to radio dramas to television shows to, of course, the movies. By the time director/star Kenneth Branagh made his way to bringing Poirot back to the big screen on both sides of the camera, most of the best Poirot stories had already been adapted in one form or another.
Cleverly, Branagh and...
The adventures of Hercule Poirot — "probably the greatest detective in the world," as he once so humbly referred to himself — have been well documented by this point. Beginning with Agatha Christie's literary accounts of the detective's cases, the character continued to thrive beyond his creator's passing in 1976, with other authors concocting new mysteries for Poirot to solve.
Of course, Christie's Poirot output, stretching as it did from 1920-1975, was ripe for adaptation to other mediums, and indeed Poirot has turned up numerous times in everything from stage plays to radio dramas to television shows to, of course, the movies. By the time director/star Kenneth Branagh made his way to bringing Poirot back to the big screen on both sides of the camera, most of the best Poirot stories had already been adapted in one form or another.
Cleverly, Branagh and...
- 9/14/2023
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
Production is underway on the new Prime Video series “The Sticky,” with Margo Martindale, Chris Diamantopoulos and Guillaume Cyr leading the cast of the true-story heist comedy. Inspired by the “Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist,” the story follows the 2011 theft of 70% of the global maple syrup supply – about $13 million U.S. worth of the sticky stuff.
Recent Oscar-winner Jamie Lee Curtis will also executive produce and guest star in the series, which is produced by Blumhouse Television, Megamix, Comet Pictures and Canadian producers Sphere Media.
The show revolves around Ruth Landry (Martindale), a tough, supremely competent maple syrup farmer who’s had it with being hemmed in by the polite, bureaucratic conventions native to her country’s identity. Especially now that that very bureaucracy is threatening to take away everything she loves: Her farm, her comatose husband, and her right to freedom. With the help of Remy Bouchard (Cyr), a mild-mannered security guard,...
Recent Oscar-winner Jamie Lee Curtis will also executive produce and guest star in the series, which is produced by Blumhouse Television, Megamix, Comet Pictures and Canadian producers Sphere Media.
The show revolves around Ruth Landry (Martindale), a tough, supremely competent maple syrup farmer who’s had it with being hemmed in by the polite, bureaucratic conventions native to her country’s identity. Especially now that that very bureaucracy is threatening to take away everything she loves: Her farm, her comatose husband, and her right to freedom. With the help of Remy Bouchard (Cyr), a mild-mannered security guard,...
- 3/22/2023
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
Three-time Emmy winner Margo Martindale, Chris Diamantopoulos and Guillaume Cyr are set to star in The Sticky, Prime Video’s Canadian comedy series from Blumhouse Television, Jamie Lee Curtis’ Comet Pictures, Jonathan Levine’s Megamix and Sphere Media. Newly minted Oscar winner Curtis will guest star in the series, inspired by the true story dubbed the “Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist,” which made headlines around the world in 2011 when 70% of the global maple syrup supply — about Can$18 million worth — was stolen.
The English-language series is starting production in Quebec for a 2024 premiere and will film in and around Montreal with Canadian directors Michael Dowse and Joyce Wong.
The Sticky revolves around Ruth Landry (Martindale), a tough, supremely competent maple syrup farmer who’s had it with being hemmed in by the polite, bureaucratic conventions native to her country’s identity. Especially now that that...
The English-language series is starting production in Quebec for a 2024 premiere and will film in and around Montreal with Canadian directors Michael Dowse and Joyce Wong.
The Sticky revolves around Ruth Landry (Martindale), a tough, supremely competent maple syrup farmer who’s had it with being hemmed in by the polite, bureaucratic conventions native to her country’s identity. Especially now that that...
- 3/22/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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