‘SNL’s Lost Hans & Franz Movie Turned Into Podcast By Conan O’Brien, Dana Carvey & Kevin Nealon

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Rachel Bilson revealed on a recent episode of her “Broad Ideas” podcast that a job was taken away from her recently due to public remarks she made about sex (via Entertainment Weekly). The “Accused” actor went viral earlier this month because of an interview she gave on the “Women on Top” podcast in which she frankly discussed orgasms and her sex life, including her preference for being “manhandled” in the bedroom. “A job got taken away from me because I was speaking candidly and openly about sex in a humorous way on our friend’s podcast,” Bilson told her guest, “Fast X” star Jordana Brewster. “I basically got a job that I already had pulled from me because I was speaking openly about sex. In this day and age. I am baffled.”

EXCLUSIVE: American Honey director Andrea Arnold next film is gearing up as Deadline has confirmed that Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski are in talks to star in Bird with Arnold directing. Not much is known about the film other then it begins filming next month which is why Keoghan had to part ways with Ridley Scott’s Gladiator sequel which shoots at the same time.

Conan O’Brien has been teasing his first Max (fka HBO Max) project for the last three years and it’s finally here.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Conan O’Brien’s long-awaited move to HBO Max — well, make that now just “Max” — is finally happening. Max has officially ordered “Conan O’Brien Must Go,” a four-episode international travel series currently in production. Scroll down to watch a first look. The series was set to be announced Wednesday at Warner Bros. Discovery’s upfront presentation. According to Max, the new show will follow O’Brien as he travels the globe visiting people he has met through his podcast “Conan O’Brien Needs a Fan” (in which he chats with listeners from around the globe). In a press release, O’Brien quipped, “My fans around the globe never asked me to visit them, so I did.”

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent The last love of Franz Kafka, the celebrated Czech author of “Metamorphosis,” will be portrayed in romantic drama “The Glory of Life.” TrustNordisk has boarded international sales ahead of Cannes, while Majestic is handling the domestic rights. Currently shooting, “The Glory of Life” is directed by Georg Maas (“Two Lives”) and is inspired by the love story between Kafka and Dora Diamant. The period drama was penned by Michael Gutmann and Maas. Producers are Helge Sasse and Solveig Fina for Tempest Film and Tommy Pridnig for Lotus Film. Kafka and Diamant met in 1923 on the Baltic Sea coast, a year before the author died from tuberculosis. The worldly wise Diamant, who was working in a Jewish community, took him to Berlin, and as Kafka’s health deteriorates rapidly, they traveled together to a sanatorium in Austria. The memory of their time together will shape Diamant for the rest of her life.

Tom Sandoval is officially meme material.

Of all the buzzy films that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, like “Past Lives,” “Eileen,” and the Grand Jury Prize winner “A Thousand And One,” Ira Sachs‘ “Passages” is undoubtedly the sexiest. And by year’s end, it may rank higher than those other three on critics’ top 10 lists for 2023.

drew wide criticisms, including from CNN employees, Alyssa Farah Griffin wasn’t among the voices thrashing the event. In fact, the host of “The View” defended the broadcast on Thursday morning, arguing that Trump lost votes because of it.Naturally, the town hall was the first of the day’s Hot Topics, with most of the hosts torching it.

EXCLUSIVE: As all of the Cannes packages start to trickle through ahead of the big event on the Croisette next week, an early frontrunner in the hot package game is Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson and Ruth Negga starrer Night Boat to Tangier. Oscar-winning director James Marsh is directing the project, based on the novel of the same name from Kevin Barry’s New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year.

Scarlett Johansson is revealing a ton of details about her personal and professional life.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter A new buddy comedy from Please Don’t Destroy, the writing trio of “Saturday Night Live” fame, will no longer play in theaters. Instead, the untitled movie will premiere exclusively on Peacock, the streaming service owned by NBCUniversal, on Nov. 17. Ben Marshall, John Higgins and Martin Herlihy, better known as Please Don’t Destroy, wrote the film, which was produced by Judd Apatow and Jimmy Miller. The story centers on three childhood friends who live and work together. When the threesome decides they don’t like their life trajectory, they set off to find a gold treasure that is rumored to be buried in the nearby mountain. They discover that finding the treasure is actually the easiest part of the adventure.

Focus Features has the right idea in releasing the new sequel, Book Club: The Next Chapter just in time for Mother’s Day. Reuniting four genuine movie icons – Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen – whose first film in this senior franchise, 2017’s Book Club, was a surprise hit making over $100 million worldwide, there was proof positive that older female audience was eager for a night or matinee out at the multiplex if the idea and cast were right. Since then the pandemic hit and changed moviegoing habits for the older crowd, a group that is hard to get back into theatres (although not impossible – witness The Lost City and Ticket To Paradise). My guess is that with this quartet back in fine form, and now all over 70 (!), this could again play with the usual Hollywood conceit that women of a certain age are not boxoffice. Throw in Italy as their destination and you have an early summer confection that could prove to be irresistible for a too-often ignored demographic.

A flight from Edinburgh to Tenerife quickly turned into a "riot" due to a stag party drinking their own booze, shouting, swearing and even vaping onboard.

“The Summer I Turned Pretty.” The good news is Season 2 of the Prime Video series premieres on July 14. The bad news: this second season is rolling out new episodes weekly instead of all at once.The first three episodes of “The Summer I Turned Pretty” Season 2 will be released on Amazon Prime Video on July 14, with new episodes rolling out weekly after that until the season finale on Aug.

exceptions like “Ellen,” the talk shows that continued airing new episodes avoided crossing picket lines by not using scripts of any kind. So long as there was no content created by a writer, the show could honor the strike and still make new episodes.This resulted in a lot of improvisation — riffing, really — by these shows’ hosts and performers.

Conan O’Brien is getting into free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) as he launches a partnership that will bring clips of his Emmy Award-winning show “Conan” to Samsung TV Plus.The channel, dubbed Conan O’Brien TV, will offer free 30-minute compilations of clips featuring highlights of the TBS late night program, including sketch comedy and celebrity guest appearances. For the initial launch, Conan O’Brien TV will have about 100 hours of programming, with more content to follow in the coming months.The clips will include interviews with celebrities including John Hamm, Ryan Reynolds, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Kevin Hart, Will Ferrell, Lisa Kudrow, Gal Godot, Kate McKinnon, Martin Short, Martha Stewart, Jack McBrayer, Mindy Kaling, Jack Black and Justin Bieber and sketches like Triumph the Insult Dog and Clueless Gamer.

The Tribeca Festival today announced its Storytellers Series, which includes Paul McCartney in conversation with Conan O’Brien for a podcast recording of Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer John Mellencamp in conversation with David Letterman.

Conan O’Brien is getting into the FAST lane, setting an exclusive launch on Samsung TV Plus of a channel comprised of 30-minute compilations and other clips from his late-night career.

Conan O’Brien is launching his own free streaming channel after striking a deal with Samsung TV Plus.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor It’s all Conan — all the time. Samsung Electronics America and Conan O’Brien announced a partnership that will bring highlights of his original Emmy Award-winning show “Conan” exclusively to Samsung TV Plus, the consumer electronics giant’s free, ad-supported TV service, starting next month. Conan O’Brien TV — the comedian and host’s first FAST channel — is a free, 24-hour linear streaming channel delivering programming curated as 30-minute compilations of clips featuring the best of his late-night archives, including sketch comedy and celebrity guest appearances.