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It stars Melissa McCarthy, Paapu Essiedu, Marc Maron (GLOW), Luis Guzmán (Hightown), Tate Ellington (The Brave), and LaChanze (Broadway's The Color Purple) It is directed by Sam Boyd from a script by Love Actually writer Richard Curtis This will be one of their big holiday releases on Peacock, with McCarthy playing a genie released to help[...]

What makes it paltry, you ask? It includes only a digital copy of Ghostbusters: Answer the Call to add to the existing set containing a physical and digital copy of the Ivan Reitman-directed 1984 original, 1989 sequel Ghostbusters II, and Jason Reitman's Ghostbusters: Afterlife currently in theaters. Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Kristen Wiig in[...]

It was a reboot that starred Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, and Chris Hemsworth. Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Kristen Wiig in Ghostbusters (2016) Image courtesy of Sony How Both Recent Ghostbusters Films Were Endorsed by Original Cast Feig took to Twitter to (rightfully) lodge his protest to Sony for the exclusion adding the[...]

Kelley, John Henry Butterworth, and Samantha Strauss, and co-showrun by Kelley and Butterworth, the project is based on author Liane Moriarty's (Big Little Lies) recent novel and stems from Kelley, Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories, star Nicole Kidman's Blossom Films, and Endeavor Content. The streaming limited series boasts an impressive cast that includes Kidman as Masha, Melissa[...]

Thunder Force is a new film hitting Netflix next Friday, starring Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer The soundtrack to the film features a new single, "Thunder Force," which was written by composer Fil Eisler for the film alongside Scott Ian (Anthrax) and Corey Taylor (Slipknot & Stone Sour) and features a star-studded lineup of metal[...]

Paul Feig is laying the blame for the failure of Ghostbusters 2016 on the presidential election from that year.

There is apparently a three hour+ cut of the 2016 Ghostbusters film. Would you want to see it if it was released?

Netflix has acquired the rights to a new Melissa McCarthy film titled The Starling The film is finished filming and is in the post production stage The news was first reported by Deadline.The film stars McCarthy, Kevin Kline, Chris O'Dowd, Timothy Olyphant In it, "McCarthy and O'Dowd play a married couple trying to rebuild their[...]

Melissa McCarthy is one of the most versatile and talented actors working today Comedy, drama, action, sweet, spicy, salty, dirty, or squeaky clean, she can play anything So with her anchoring the crime drama The Kitchen coming out this weekend, it seems like the proper time to highlight some of her best work. Let's start from[...]

Murray and Ramis didn't speak for 20 years and made up in Ramis' final days prior to his passing in 2014. Murray did accept a role in Paul Feig's female-centric Ghostbusters in 2016, citing his friendship with co-stars Kate McKinnon and Melissa McCarthy. "I was in that movie just because they asked me, and I knew if[...]

Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer are in talks to star in the Netflix film, Thunder Force, where they could play two women who gain superpowers with presumably hilarious results. credit: s_bukley / Shutterstock.com Thunder Force will be written, produced and directed by McCarthy's husband, Ben Falcone Joining him on producing are Marc Platt and McCarthy[...]

Oscar nominee Melissa McCarthy has finally commented on the upcoming reboot Ghostbusters 3 film from Sony and writer/director Jason Reitman This reboot will reportedly NOT include any of the ladies from the 2016 female-fronted Ghostbusters film which McCarthy starred in along with Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, and Kate McKinnon. Melissa McCarthyPhoto by JStone / Shutterstock.com McCarthy, who was nominated in the leading actress category[...]

No biggie…right? But did you also know he apparently has an extremely colorful past helping scam veterans out of millions of dollars investing in fake inventions like time travel devices, or toilets designed for men with extremely large penises? Stephen Colbert breaks it down…and someone will get SQUATCHED! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5VpXBKxt_UVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled:[...]

The live-action cast also is pretty great, even though yes, this reviewer isn't the biggest fan of Melissa McCarthy She's actually pretty damn enjoyable here as detective Connie Edwards, former partner to puppet Phil Philips, played by Bill Burretta Maya Rudolph, while brilliant, is almost underused here. Joel McHale seems to excel at playing this type of dude, and you[...]

For full disclosure, I have never liked Melissa McCarthy's performances In nearly every instance writers and directors have her doing lower-tier comedy and using her as the klutz with two left feet or as less than the very intelligent woman that she is Even before the screening of Life of the Party had begin I[...]

Now, schedule-obsessed Hollywood gossip rag Deadline reports that Melissa McCarthy has joined the cast. Here's the synopsis of the comic book: New York City, late 1970s Times Square is a haven for sex and drugs The city teeters on the verge of bankruptcy, while blackouts can strike at any moment This is the world of THE KITCHEN. The Irish[...]

SNL walked away from this year's Emmy awards with nine awards (the most for any program that night), including: Outstanding Variety Sketch Series; Outstanding Supporting Actor and Actress in a Comedy Series (Alec Baldwin, Kate McKinnon); and Outstanding Guest Actor and Actress in a Comedy Series (Dave Chappelle, Melissa McCarthy). For SNL creator Lorne Michaels, the[...]

In addition, the show scooped up two guest Emmys for Melissa McCarthy and Dave Chappelle from last weekend's Creative Arts Emmys ceremony. Though the awards and recognition for their work is always appreciated, Michaels is more interested in knowing that he's doing right by those watching at home Speaking to the press after last night's awards[...]

Simpson (possibly), and Melissa McCarthy's impression of him on Saturday Night Live helped rocket the the skit comedy show back into importance. But the former spokeman for the RNC's days seemed to be numbered when he stopped doing on-air briefings, Sarah Huckabee Sanders stepped in more often — and then there was the day he was[...]

It doesn't get much more niche than a murder mystery with a bunch of Jim Henson puppets. STX must have liked the concept as they saved it from oblivion and brought Melissa McCarthy on to star The story is by Todd Berger & Dee Robertson; while the screenplay is written by Berger with revisions by Erich[...]

Now studios know that with the right name a r-rated comedy can sell and it seems they have found one in Melissa McCarthy A summary provided by Collider more or less gives us the short of pitch we're looking at The comedy is set in the Los Angeles underbelly where puppets and humans coexist Two[...]

It's sometimes tempting to wonder if Melissa McCarthy has the world's easiest job, or the world's hardest  On the one hand, if the cliche "the jokes write themselves" was ever true about anything in the history of history, then Sean Spicer is a walking, talking embodiment of that notion  On the other hand, Spicer is[...]

We've got two clips for the upcoming Ghostbuster movie that stars Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon and Chris Hemsworth The first clip is called "Let's Go" and features the team getting their first call and rolling out Ecto-1 for the first time The second is called "Super Battle" but I think I[...]

When I was a kid, I wanted a Proton-Pack from Ghostbusters. They looked awesome and were a huge part of the movie. With the release of the new

Murray gave the film a very positive review that was agreed upon by the others including another original film alum, Annie Potts. The new Ghostbusters are Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones. [youtube]https://youtu.be/CZ0YexsRCPc[/youtube] The new Ghostbusters film is in theaters now and the cast, including original Ghostbusters Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Bill Murray,[...]

Here we have the first pick of Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Kristen Wiig in their Ghostbusters gear in front of Ecto-1 The image was posted to twitter by director Paul Feig.   #whoyougonnacall pic.twitter.com/hnrSjhCqSl — Paul Feig (@paulfeig) July 10, 2015 Here we have the first pick of Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and[...]

It seems MTV is trying to get Melissa McCarthy into the Fast and Furious movies as they pose the question to her and Jason Statham about the actress playing a Shaw sibling Then they asked Dwayne Johnson if McCarthy could take Vin Diesel which he totally thinks she could. Seems like MTV is trying to start something[...]

Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) is joining Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) in a new comedy called Michelle Darnell The film is based on an original character created by McCarthy, a powerful business woman who is sent to jail for insider trading and upon her release tries to rebrand herself as America's Sweetheart The film is being[...]

The four main characters are going to be Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon. McCarthy and Wiig both worked with Feig in Bridesmaids while Jones and McKinnon are from Saturday Night Live.   [Source: THR] Sony has announced that its all-female Ghostbusters remake directed by Paul Feig has been cast The four main characters are[...]

Spy is the latest Melissa McCarthy film about a CIA analyst that gets put into the field Directed by Paul Feig, the movie also stars Jude Law, Jason Statham, Rose Byrne and Allison Janney. Susan Cooper is an unassuming, deskbound CIA analyst, and the unsung hero behind the Agency's most dangerous missions But when her partner[...]