Jai Courtney Says ‘Suicide Squad 2’ Is ‘Very Violent’ but Has ‘Immense Core and Heart to It’

any treatment for his prostate cancer in months — while sitting in prison for his involvement in a murder-for-hire plot — but the 58-year-old revealed that his cancer may have spread to his pelvis and stomach.Exotic told the Sun that he will refuse medical help if the disease progresses to stage three or four, claiming that he’s “ready to die.” Exotic revealed in May that he was suffering from prostate cancer but had not received treatment while doing his time in a Fort Worth, Texas, prison.“I

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor“Val,” the new Amazon doc about the life of actor Val Kilmer, premiered on Wednesday night at the DGA in West Hollywood.Co-directors Leo Scott and Ting Poo assembled the film from footage that Kilmer shot over several decades. “This is over 50 years in the making,” Val’s son Jack told Variety.

Lionsgate’s Hunger Games prequel film based on Susan Collins’ novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is aiming to start production in the first half of 2022.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorHello, gorgeous.Guess who’s my guest on this week’s “Just for Variety” podcast? Barbra Streisand! We talked about her new album “Release Me 2,” why we haven’t seen a Babs biopic à la “Rocketman” and the movie she still may direct. Check out our chat Aug.

President Joe Biden said that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo should resign as governor after a state Attorney General investigation concluded that he had sexually harassed multiple women in violation of state and federal law.

Joe Swash is currently counting down the days until he and fiancée Stacey Solomon welcome their baby daughter. But as they await their new arrival, Joe has opened up about how their blended family continually keeps him on his toes and the other ways he’s changed since becoming a dad.

The usually private Joe Swash has opened up about pregnant fiancee Stacey Solomon’s “weird” eating habits. When asked what unusual food he and Stacey eat, Joe admitted: “It’s not so much me, it is more Stacey! She loves a bit of piccalilli.

Suicide Squad, has said that the Warner Bros. version released in cinemas is “not my movie.”In a lengthy, personal post on Twitter, the filmmaker claimed that the studio behind Suicide Squad “ripped to pieces” the film that he had originally made.“I put my life into Suicide Squad,” he wrote in the post.

It has been a tumultuous day in the superhero and sci-fi space: We’ve seen a Black Widow lawsuit from Scarlett Johansson, a Doctor Who shake-up and the UK premiere last night of Warner Bros.’ The Suicide Squad, all of which we talk about on this week’s podcast. We also have producer Peter Safran on how he worked with James Gunn to bring his zany Dirty Dozen-inspired vision for The Suicide Squad to life.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“The Suicide Squad” is cunningly scuzzy, disreputable fun. It’s being advertised as a movie “from the horrifyingly beautiful mind of James Gunn,” and as much as I love “Guardians of the Galaxy” and enjoyed most of its sequel, I can’t say that I ever thought of James Gunn as having a horrifyingly beautiful mind.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWilmer Valderrama has a very personal reason for launching “Essential Voices,” his podcast featuring interviews with essential and frontline workers. His dad battled COVID-19 and suffered two minor heart attacks in the past year.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorReese Witherspoon and Jim Toth have signed on as co-executive producers for this year’s Stand Up to Cancer special taking place Aug. 21.Anthony Anderson, Ken Jeong, Tran Ho and Sofia Vergara have been announced as co-hosts.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJai Courtney has been cast in the Amazon series “The Terminal List” opposite Chris Pratt, Variety has learned.The series follows James Reece (Pratt) after his entire platoon of Navy SEALs is ambushed during a high-stakes covert mission. Reece returns home to his family with conflicting memories of the event and questions about his culpability.

Jai Courtney (Jolt) is set for a key recurring role opposite Chris Pratt on Amazon’s conspiracy-thriller series The Terminal List, based on Jack Carr’s bestselling novel. Riley Keough, Constance Wu, Taylor Kitsch and Jeanne Tripplehorn also star in the series, which Pratt executive produces along with Antoine Fuqua, who directs, and writer David DiGilio. The Terminal List is a co-production from Amazon Studios and Civic Center Media in association with MRC Television.

"Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough said Monday amid rising COVID-19 cases and the threat of the Delta variant that it's time for teachers, nurses and police officers to get vaccinated or "look for another job." And Scarborough told his co-host Mika Brzezinski he thinks it falls to President Joe Biden to begin this mandate with public school teachers."He does need to make the tough choice right now.