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It's not uncommon for aspiring actors to start young, but there wasn't any time wasted when it came to queer icon Jodie Foster. She started in commercials as young as three and made her television debut as early as six in an episode of "Mayberry R.F.D." Long before she played the vulnerable defendant in "The Accused" or faced off against Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence of the Lambs," the child prodigy slowly made her way into film with roles in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" and "Freaky Friday." By the time she was 12, Foster was not only working on her second Martin Scorsese picture with "Taxi Driver," but it was also the role that led her first of five Oscar nominations — and two wins.

In the interim before her big breaks, however, Foster was kept super busy when it came to guest appearances on a plethora of television shows. She...

“What lives outside of the frames of this camera and your own eyes?” is the question the poet/comedian/actor/public speaker Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the viewer to ponder at the very start of Alex Hedison’s Sundance-premiering short Alok. Currently on the Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour, and premiering at IFC Center on June 14th, the doc is based on footage Hedison shot during the performer’s recent international tour and is supplemented with highly stylized interviews with the spiritually enlightened artist and […]

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“What lives outside of the frames of this camera and your own eyes?” is the question the poet/comedian/actor/public speaker Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the viewer to ponder at the very start of Alex Hedison’s Sundance-premiering short Alok. Currently on the Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour, and premiering at IFC Center on June 14th, the doc is based on footage Hedison shot during the performer’s recent international tour and is supplemented with highly stylized interviews with the spiritually enlightened artist and […]

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After a five-year hiatus, “True Detective” returned for a fourth season, a season that turned out to be one of its most critically acclaimed and most watched ever. With Emmy Award voting right around the corner, “True Detective: Night Country” stars Jodie Foster, Kali Reis, John Hawkes, Isabella Star Lablanc, executive producer Mari Jo Winkler-Ioffreda, and series creator Issa Lopez reunited for a screening and Q&a at the Television Academy to revisit the latest installment of the HBO anthology series.

Continue reading Jodie Foster: It Was “Fun” Stepping Into ‘True Detective’ 30 Years After ‘Silence Of The Lambs’ at The Playlist.

File this under: Heh, heh, cool.

Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head has been renewed for Season 3, MTV Entertainment Studios announced Wednesday.

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The animated series is the latest iteration of the 1990s MTV classic, which follows teen heavy metal enthusiasts Beavis and Butt-Head as they engage in lowbrow comedic antics.

In addition, Season 2 of the series — which...

Here’s the latest episode of The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro-budget indie films to bigger-budget studio films and everything in between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dom Lenoir, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk about how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their filmmaking experiences from directors, writers, producers and screenwriters, to actors, cinematographers and distributors.

The Filmmaker’s Podcast #386: From struggling filmmaker to Showrunner on True Detective: Night Country...

Viewers will not be returning to the world of Daria after all. Plans for a spin-off and film featuring Daria's best friend, Jodie, have been cancelled.

Daria, an animated MTV series that is a spin-off of Beavis and Butt-Head, ran for five seasons on MTV between 1997 and 2002. in the show, Daria Morgendorffer (Tracy Grandstaff) is an intelligent and cynical high school student. One of her friends is Jodie Landon (Jessica Cydnee Jackson), one of the few competent students at the school.

Created by Grace Edwards, Jodie was first conceived as a Daria & Jodie spin-off series. Comedy Central ordered the Jodie series in 2020, but the project was changed to a movie in 2022.

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Jodie Landon’s solo adventure has hit a snag.

MTV is not moving forward with the animated film Jodie, a spinoff of the beloved Daria series which would have starred Tracee Ellis Ross (black-ish, Girlfriends), our sister site Deadline reports.

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What’s more, an Mtve Studios spokesperson says they are “fully supportive” of Ross, who also executive-produced, and creator Grace Edwards (Insecure, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) shopping the movie elsewhere.

Exclusive: So long for now to Jodie, an animated film-cum-Daria spinoff that was set to feature Tracee Ellis Ross voicing the main character.

The long-gestating project first began as a series that would feature Daria and Jodie, and then was narrowed to just focus on the latter character. In 2020, Comedy Central picked up the adult animated show from creator and head writer Grace Edwards and Mtve Studios with hopes to pair it with South Park.

Two years later, it morphed into a movie.

Daria ran for five seasons on MTV from 1997 to 2002 and began as a spin-off of the Beavis and Butthead franchise.

“Jodie will not be moving forward at Mtve Studios,” said an Mtve Studios spokesperson. “We have loved working with Tracee, Grace and the whole team on creating a film that is full of joy and genre-bending fun with an inclusive, diverse, and incredible cast. We are...

True Detective: Night Country remixes the mentor-student dynamic to create an unpredictable and layered narrative. The focus shifts from the older detective to the more intriguing figure of Pete, who has a relatable story and personal struggles. Danvers takes a backseat and allows others to do the heavy-lifting, showing humility and a willingness to learn from her team.

The following article contains spoilers for True Detective: Night Country Episode 3, "Part 3," which aired Jan. 28 on HBO. It also includes a mention of domestic violence.

True Detective: Night Country does a lot to differentiate itself from the past seasons. Those were more grounded in street-level crime, though Season 1 did tease an ambiguous and very metaphysical hook. This came via the Tuttle Cult, Carcosa and the Yellow King. However, that series ended up being a typical procedural in the end, which saw its detectives take down a pedophile ring.

What was quite...

Emma Stone won the Best Actress Oscar in 2017 for her role as an actress trying to make it big in Damien Chazelle‘s “La La Land.” Stone has also earned two Best Supporting Actress bids, the first in 2015 for “Birdman” and the second for “The Favourite” in 2019. She reteams with the latter’s director, Yorgos Lanthimos, for Searchlight Pictures’ “Poor Things.” The film, which is out in US theaters on Dec. 8, follows Stone as Bella Baxter — a woman brought back to life by a scientist (Willem Dafoe) and subsequently goes on a journey of self-discovery, meeting a variety of people along the way including a lawyer (Mark Ruffalo) and a potential suitor (Ramy Youssef).

Stone’s performance is remarkable here, as many critics have noted.

Nick Schager (The Daily Beast) declared that Stone will “blow your mind” in the movie, writing: “Nothing overshadows Stone’s odd, amusing and affecting performance as Bella,...

Earlier this month, Great American Family kicked off its “Great American Autumn” slate of programming and that schedule of cozy films continues on Saturday, Sept. 16 at 8 p.m. Et as the network has another exciting and wholesome love story for fans to enjoy this weekend. “Craft Me a Romance” stars “Full House” star Jodie Sweetin as a small arts and crafts store owner is confronted with big changes both personally and professionally.You can watch Great American Family with a 7-Day Free Trial of Philo. You can also watch with Directv Stream, Sling TV, or Hulu Live TV.

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Getting her start on the small screen in shows like Monk, Medium, and The Bill Engvall Show, Jennifer Lawrence quickly proved herself as a force to be reckoned with from day one, and has since become one of Hollywood's top A-listers. She had her film debut in 2008’s Garden Party, but her career really took off with her performance in Winter’s Bone in 2010, which earned Lawrence her first Academy Award nomination. While Lawrence was quickly picking up steam and starring in films like X-Men: First Class and Jodie Foster’s The Beaver, the young actress’s fame skyrocketed when she was cast as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games franchise.

The Oscar front-runner for Best Picture, “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” got a massive boost on nominations morning when it reaped a leading 11 bids. Among those many citations was one for lead actress contender Michelle Yeoh, her first ever after working in the business for decades. Should “Everything Everywhere” go on to win Best Picture and Best Actress, it would become the 13th film in Oscar history to achieve such a feat.

Yeoh takes on the role of laundromat owner Evelyn Quan Wang in the multi-dimensional adventure flick directed by The Daniels (aka Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert). Her competitors in the Best Actress category are Cate Blanchett (“Tár”), Ana de Armas (“Blonde”), Andrea Riseborough (“To Leslie”) and Michelle Williams (“The Fabelmans”). So far this awards season, Yeoh has claimed the Comedy Golden Globe while Blanchett has taken home the Drama Golden Globe and the Critics Choice Award. Next up...

Tracee Ellis Ross is busier than ever despite closing the chapter on “Black-ish.” The actor, producer, entrepreneur and CEO’s focus has turned toward a list of projects including the Hulu/ OWN/ Onyx Collective docuseries “Hair Tales” (which she’s producing through her production company Joy Mill Entertainment), voicing the lead character in MTV’s animated Daria-spinoff movie “Jodie” and launching the podcast “I Am America.” In addition, she’s celebrating the three-year anniversary of her hair care company Pattern Beauty.

During her keynote conversation at Variety’s Entertainment and Technology Summit presented by City National Bank, Ross explained how she keeps all these different pursuits in “harmony.”

“I don’t strive for balance because it’s impossible, but a sense of harmony,” Ellis Ross told Variety senior entertainment reporter Angelique Jackson. “One of the biggest things that I do is do my best to walk consciously from A to B.

“Saturday Night Live” is now sans a few more stars.

After longtime cast members Pete Davidson, Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, and Kyle Mooney parted ways with the sketch comedy series earlier this year, “SNL” has now confirmed that Alex Moffat, Melissa Villaseñor, and Aristotle Athari will not be returning for the upcoming season.

Moffat, who frequently plays Eric Trump on the series, joined the cast for Season 42 as a featured player from 2016 through 2018. He was brought on as a full-time cast member in 2018. He has since starred in “Holidate” and “Clifford the Big Red Dog,” with upcoming films “Susie Searches,” “Christmas with the Campbells,” “Jodie,” and series “Bad Monkey” in the works.

Villaseñor also became part of the “SNL” cast in Season 42, similarly starting as a featured player and along with Moffat, becoming a full time repertory player in 2018. Villaseñor started as a contestant on “America’s Got Talent” before booking “SNL.

Exclusive: Everybody Still Hates Chris, a reimagined animated version of Chris Rock’s beloved autobiographical family comedy Everybody Hates Chris, has received a straight-to-series order by MTV Entertainment. It will be windowed globally across streamer Paramount+ and sibling linear network Comedy Central. Rock is back as narrator and executive producer of the new series, which, like the original, is inspired by the comedian’s teenage years. CBS Studios and 3 Arts Entertainment, which produced Everybody Hates Chris and originally developed the animated reboot, will produce with MTV Entertainment Studios, which has been ramping up its adult animation portfolio with the recently announced Andy Samberg-produced series Digman! joining the Daria spinoff movie Jodie, both the film and series reboots of Beavis and Butt-Head as well as stalwart South Park.

Sanjay Shah serves as showrunner and wrote the pilot script for Everybody Still Hates Chris, inspired by...

Daria, the pinnacle of ’90s animated irony, is entering the modern age with a new animated spin-off series titled Jodie. Comedy Central has given a series order to Jodie, which will star Golden Globe winner Tracee Ellis Ross as the voice of the titular lead. Created and written by Grace Edwards, Jodie follows one of Daria’s friends […]

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At long last, MTV’s ’90s cult hit “Daria” is coming back to the small screen. The previously announced spinoff “Jodie,” with Emmy-winning actor and icon Tracee Ellis Ross voicing the title role of Daria’s Lawndale High classmate Jodie Landon, has landed at Comedy Central. The series comes from creator and head writer Grace Edwards, who’s served as writer/co-producer on HBO’s “Insecure,” with additional credits on multiple seasons on the Emmy-nominated comedy “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” and “Inside Amy Schumer.”

Ellis Ross will executive produce the series as well as voicing the main character, Jodie, the academic star of Lawndale High who often struggled to make her voice heard amid a very white suburban school — but always found in Daria Morgendorffer a wise confidante. “Jodie” will pick up with the title character graduating from college and entering a complicated world as an adult. The last we heard...

At long last, MTV’s ’90s cult hit “Daria” is coming back to the small screen. The previously announced spinoff “Jodie,” with Emmy-winning actor and icon Tracee Ellis Ross voicing the title role of Daria’s Lawndale High classmate Jodie Landon, has landed at Comedy Central. The series comes from creator and head writer Grace Edwards, who’s served as writer/co-producer on HBO’s “Insecure,” with additional credits on multiple seasons on the Emmy-nominated comedy “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” and “Inside Amy Schumer.”

Ellis Ross will executive produce the series as well as voicing the main character, Jodie, the academic star of Lawndale High who often struggled to make her voice heard amid a very white suburban school — but always found in Daria Morgendorffer a wise confidante. “Jodie” will pick up with the title character graduating from college and entering a complicated world as an adult. The last we heard...