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La La Land ending explained: what that final sequence means, in Damien Chazelle's own words
La La Land ends with an eight-minute sequence that rewrites everything the audience has just watched, then snaps back. Damien Chazelle has explained repeatedly what that epilogue is for, which film he was copying, and why the ending was locked before the rest of the script existed.
September 20, 2026 2:41 pm
What happens at the end of Inside Out 2? Riley's last hockey scene, and the secret hidden after the credits
Riley's three days at hockey camp finish with a sequence Pixar's crew built using a thriller as their reference, and the film then keeps going twice more after the credits start. Here is how the last act resolves, what the final stinger reveals, and where the numbers ended up.
September 19, 2026 8:07 pm
NCIS: why did Jimmy's wife die? The off-screen death, and the writers' reason for it
Breena Palmer was already gone by the time NCIS came back to her, and the show delivered the news in a single line of dialogue. Here is when it happened, what the episode said out loud and what it left to inference, and the reason the writers put the loss on Jimmy rather than anyone else on the team.
September 19, 2026 6:41 pm
What does NCIS use for dead bodies? The autopsy-room method, straight from producer Mark Horowitz
Executive producer Mark Horowitz casts every corpse on NCIS himself, and the job is far stranger than it looks from the sofa. Here is how the show fills its autopsy table week after week, and why living actors usually beat the very expensive dummies.
September 19, 2026 2:37 pm
Charlize Theron is behind the first live-action Webtoon series in English — a mafia nanny romance with 338 million views
Hulu’s adaptation of Violet Matter’s Webtoon, with 338 million views, follows an elite nanny guarding a Venetian mafia underboss’s son. Max Gill is writing.
September 19, 2026 10:18 am
How did Festus leave Gunsmoke? Ken Curtis played him for close to 300 episodes — and then never once appeared in the TV movies
Ken Curtis played Festus Haggen for 11 years and 304 episodes of Gunsmoke, then sat out every one of the five reunion films CBS made between 1987 and 1994. Here's how the series actually ended for him, and what kept him out of the movies.
September 18, 2026 6:11 pm
Sam Raimi makes movie from horror survival video game, yep, with Toy Story 4 director
Sam Raimi is plotting a big-screen take on a smash horror survival game, with the Toy Story 4 director aboard, as 20th Century Studios snaps up the rights.
September 18, 2026 4:37 pm
The White Lotus’ Meghann Fahy trades resorts for spycraft in a new thriller series
After Sirens, The White Lotus’ Meghann Fahy has been cast in a new thriller — but it’s what her character gets up to that’ll raise your eyebrows.
September 18, 2026 2:09 pm
After Avatar, Edie Falco has her next TV lead — a former public defender dragged back into court
Edie Falco’s trading mobsters and meds for the courtroom as she takes the lead in a new Fox legal drama, per The Wrap.
September 18, 2026 1:52 pm
Charlize Theron is turning a hit mafia webcomic into a series — a nanny who babysits for the mob and fights like a spy
Hulu is adapting The Mafia Nanny, the Webtoon about a nanny-academy graduate hired to look after a mafia underboss’s son. Theron is on board as a producer.
September 18, 2026 1:05 pm
Gregg Araki began shooting The Decline of F*cking Western Civilization on 16 September with Ashton Kutcher and Alison Brie — the plot is still under wraps
Gregg Araki has lined up Ashton Kutcher, Alison Brie and another star for his next wild comedy after I Want Your Sex — and the title’s a corker.
September 18, 2026 1:50 am
Brad Pitt on racing Tom Cruise in an F1 and Days of Thunder crossover: 'The problem is we both want to win'
Brad Pitt’s cast doubt on an F1 and Days of Thunder crossover, teasing a single, glaring hitch that could scupper the whole idea.
September 17, 2026 8:55 pm
Why did Gabriela leave Fire Country? Stephanie Arcila learned of it while filming the season 3 finale
Stephanie Arcila's Gabriela Perez left Fire Country after three seasons. Here's when Arcila found out, what she and the producers said about how the decision was made, and whether the character is gone for good.
September 17, 2026 6:29 pm
Lance Armstrong has sold his life rights for the first time - Edward Berger and Austin Butler start shooting the biopic in January 2027
Austin Butler’s Lance Armstrong sports biopic has kicked up a gear, as Oscar-winning director Edward Berger pushes production toward a target start date.
September 17, 2026 7:42 am
Dwayne Johnson hit 282lb for Benny Safdie's last film - for the next one he cut to 235lb to play a 70-year-old
Dwayne Johnson says he’s shed serious weight for Benny Safdie’s Lizard Music, and the figure he gives in a recent Instagram video is properly eye-watering.
September 16, 2026 10:59 pm
Slow Horses has an eighth season before the sixth has aired a single episode
Good news if you’ve been riding with Slow Horses: Apple TV has renewed the Gary Oldman spy thriller just as its sixth is about to premiere.
September 16, 2026 7:07 pm
John Lasseter has not directed since Cars 2 in 2011. Netflix has just let his comeback film, Cosmic Motors, go to cinemas
Former Pixar creative chief John Lasseter’s first film in 15 years is already being likened to a certain four-wheeled Pixar favourite.
September 16, 2026 4:56 am
Slow Horses is back on 16 September and done by 21 October — six episodes to answer what last year's finale left hanging
Jack Lowden and Gary Oldman lead Slow Horses back for Season 6 on Apple TV — and you won’t be waiting long.
September 16, 2026 4:38 am
Angelina Jolie is producing Arena, Salma Hayek's first film as a director — a year after directing Hayek herself
Salma Hayek and Angelina Jolie are reuniting for an ambitious independent film — and the title may raise an eyebrow.
September 16, 2026 4:11 am
What happens at the end of I Will Find You? Harlan Coben rewrote his own book's reveal for the series
Netflix's I Will Find You rewrites two of the novel's biggest reveals before it gets anywhere near the finale. Here's how the eight-episode series ends, and what Harlan Coben changed on purpose.
September 15, 2026 2:37 pm
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