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Jimmy Hunt, the freckle-faced youngster who appeared in Pitfall, Sorry, Wrong Number, Cheaper by the Dozen, Invaders From Mars and 31 other features before he retired from acting at age 14, has died. He was 85. Hunt suffered a heart attack six weeks ago and died Friday in a hospital in Simi Valley, his daughter-in-law Alisa Hunt told The Hollywood Reporter. Hunt played William Gilbreth, one of the 12 offspring of an efficiency expert (Clifton Webb) and a psychologist (Myrna Loy), in Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), then returned to play another son in the family, Fred, in the sequel, Belles on the Toes (1952). As an orphan,…

Adam Sandler said he had to rewrite Happy Gilmore 2 following Carl Weathers‘ death. The actor and comedian who is reprising his role as Happy Gilmore in the sequel to his beloved 1996 sports comedy recently told Collider that Weathers’ Derick “Chubbs” Peterson was planned to return for the new movie before he died last year at age 76. “We had a painful change. Carl Weathers had a massive part,” Sandler shared. “I would talk to Carl, and we were excited, and then Carl passed away. We had to rewrite a lot of the stuff, and even what the story…

James Gunn‘s Superman crossed the $200 million mark at the North American box office on Saturday after finishing Friday with a domestic haul of $194.4 million. And globally, its tally stands at $337.2 million as it prepares to leap past $400 million in worldwide ticket sales to become the top-grossing superhero pic of the year to date. The DC Studios and Warner Bros. $225 million tentpole will have no trouble staying atop the chart in its sophomore outing and is trouncing new offerings, I Know What You Did Last Summer and Smurfs. The latter two films are reboots and are…

Janel Parrish is set to star in a new indie drama, Bound For Glory.   Parrish, known for playing villain Mona Vanderwaal in Pretty Little Liars and the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before films, is reuniting with actor-filmmaker Michael Naizu (Hacks, My Secret Agent Husband) for the feature, who stars alongside the actress. He also co-directs the film with his brother, John Wilcox. Parrish and Naizu previously worked together on the 2021 rom-com, Christmas Is Canceled. The film, which is inspired by Naizu’s background as a Japanese-Filipino American navigating Hollywood, follows “a mixed-race, working-class couple in crisis, interweaving themes…

Joe Eszterhas, who wrote the script for the 1992 erotic thriller Basic Instinct, is back to pen the screenplay for Amazon MGM Studios‘ planned reboot. United Artists and Scott Stuber have acquired the rights to the franchise relaunch that is currently untitled. The deal marks the largest spec sale of 2025, with Amazon paying $2 million against a possible $4 million if the film gets made. Producers include Stuber and Nick Nesbit for UA and Craig Baumgarten for Vault Entertainment. Adam Griffin serves as executive producer.  Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone starred in director Paul Verhoeven‘s original Basic Instinct. It centers…

Lily James’ upcoming slate of films are throwbacks in uniquely different ways. Beginning with Saverio Costanzo’s 1950s-set Italian drama Finally Dawn, James plays Josephine Esperanto, an Elizabeth Taylor-type movie star who ropes a rejected background artist (Rebecca Antonaci’s Mimosa) into a pivotal scene of her sword-and-sandals epic. From there, Josephine, her co-star Sean Lockwood (Joe Keery) and her jack-of-all trades, Rufo Priori (Willem Dafoe), pressure Mimosa into exploring Rome’s nightlife with them. While en route to one of their two destinations, Sean Lockwood’s acting insecurities get the better of him, and Josephine makes a half-hearted attempt to compliment their scene…

Twenty-eight years after the original, I Know What You Did Last Summer is back — and so are stars Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt. The new film follows five friends who inadvertently cause a deadly car accident and cover it up, when a year later a stalker sends them taunting messages about their crime. Realizing that the stalker is imitating a famous serial killer, the group seeks help from the two survivors of the Southport massacre of 1997, in Prinze Jr. and Hewitt’s characters. At the Los Angeles premiere on Monday, Prinze Jr. told The Hollywood Reporter that he would…

The wait for Jennifer Love Hewitt’s return to the I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise is finally over. This Friday, for the first time in nearly three decades, Hewitt reprises her final-girl role of Julie James in Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025). The legacy sequel reintroduces Julie as a psychology professor, one who fittingly specializes in trauma. Now single, Julie is living a happily quiet life after narrowly surviving two rounds of attacks by murderous fisherman, Ben Willis (Muse Watson), in the late ‘90s. However, Julie’s past soon catches up to her…

James Gunn is feeling “incredibly grateful” for the initial box office success of Superman and the positive reception from audiences. The filmmaker and co-head of DC Studios took to Threads on Sunday to express his appreciation after the superhero blockbuster saw an estimated global debut of $217 million. “I’m incredibly grateful for your enthusiasm and kind words over the past few days,” Gunn wrote. “We’ve had a lot of ‘Super’ in Superman over the years, and I’m happy to have made a movie that focuses on the ‘man’ part of the equation – a kind person always looking out for…

When filmmaker James Gunn called his new Superman film an immigrant story, critics accused him of politicizing Superman. But you can’t politicize the truth. Superman has been an “illegal alien” for 87 years—a fact we helped America remember when we launched our 2013 campaign, Superman Is an Immigrant. Of course, we couldn’t have predicted Donald Trump—the man DC Comics literally used as their model to reboot Lex Luthor in 1986—waging war on the very immigrants Superman represents. In 2000, Luthor became president in the comics, complete with an anti-alien agenda. No one imagined the real President Trump would follow the same…