Month: January 2026

‘Stranger Things’ star Finn Wolfhard is set to guest host the first episode of Saturday Night Live in 2026, with A$AP Rocky serving as musical guest for the episode, set to resume on Saturday, January 17, 2026.

The fifth and final season of Wolfhard’s sci-fi thriller ‘Stranger Things’ just wrapped up on Dec. 31. The last episode of SNL for 2025 featured Ariana Grande as guest host, and Cher as the musical guest. It also was the final episode for longtime cast member Bowen Yang, who exited the show in the middle of his seventh season on the Dec. 20, 2025 episode.

After the first round of upcoming episodes on the late-night comedy show, ‘SNL’ will go on another hiatus as NBC serves as the broadcast home of the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, which kicks-off on Friday, Feb. 6 through Sunday, Feb. 22.

Saturday Night Live airs Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT on NBC and Peacock.

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Director Tom Ford will helm an adaptation of Anne Rice’s 1982 novel Cry to Heaven, starring Adele in her debut film role (per Deadline.). The film is currently in pre-production in London and Rome with principal photography set to commence this month, and is expected to arrive in late 2026.

The novel Cry to Heaven, set in 18th century Italy, follows two men – a Venetian noble and a castrated Opera singer – whose lives become unexpectedly intertwined. Rice’s novels have often been adapted as movies and TV series, including Interview With the Vampire, Mayfair Witches and Talamasca: The Secret Order.

Adele’s role has not yet been announced; the star-studded cast also includes: Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ciarán Hinds, George MacKay, Mark Strong, Colin Firth, Paul Bettany and Owen Cooper. Also on board the drama are Daniel Quinn-Toye, Hunter Schafer, Josephine Thiesen, Thandiwe Newton, Theodore Pellerin, Daryl McCormack, Cassian Bilton, Hauk Hannenmann and Lux Pascal.

Ford, who previously served as the creative director for Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent before creating his eponymous fashion brand, made his directorial debut with 2009’s Oscar-nominated “A Single Man.” His second film was 2016’s “Nocturnal Animals,” which won the grand jury price at Venice and earned a supporting actor Oscar nomination for Michael Shannon. “Cry to Heaven” reunites Ford with Taylor-Johnson (who appeared in “Nocturnal Animals”) and Firth (who starred in “A Single Man”).

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SAG-AFTRA has revealed the 2026 nominations for The Actor Awards — formerly known as the Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG Awards) — for the best film and television performances in 2025. SAG-AFTRA previously announced that Harrison Ford will receive this year’s SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award.

The 2026 Actor Awards nominees, announced by Heated Rivalry breakout star Connor Storrie and Abbott Elementary’s Janelle James on Wednesday, include multiple nods for films including One Battle After Another and Sinners, and top honors in television including The Pitt, The Studio and Adolescence.

The 15 Actor Award categories are comprised of six in film, and nine in TV.  Categories such as ‘Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role’ (FILM) feature last year’s winner Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme), who will face-off against nominees One Battle‘s Leonardo DiCaprio, Blue Moon‘s Ethan Hawke, Sinners‘ Michael B. Jordan and Bugonia‘s Jesse Plemons.

The ‘Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role’ (FILM) category include nominees Jessie Buckley (Hamnet), Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You), Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue), Chase Infinity (One Battle After Another) and Emma Stone (Bugonia).

Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another and Sinners are all nominated for the top prize of ‘Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture’.

In the television categories, The Studio led the nominations with five nods, followed by Adolescence and The White Lotus with four each.  Best comedy series ensemble nominees are Abbott Elementary, The Bear, Hacks, Only Murders in the Building and The Studio; and the best drama series ensemble nominees are The Diplomat, Landman, The Pitt, Severance and The White Lotus.

As to the reason for the name change to ‘The Actor Awards,’ SAG-AFTRA’s official website notes that “we wanted to provide clearer recognition in terms of what the show is about for our domestic and global audiences — we honor actors in film and television. Laser-focusing the name on those two things became the clearest and most straightforward path for this new chapter of the show.”

The 32rd annual  ceremony for the rebranded Actor Awards will  stream live on Sunday, March 1, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on Netflix.

For the full list of nominees, head HERE.

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Hulu announced that Selena Gomez, Martin Short and Steve Martin will be returning for the 10-episode Season 6 of Only Murders in the Building, set to film in London.

The streaming service posted on social media: “Do we deliver or do we deliver? Season 6 is coming soon to @hulu and with #HuluOnDisneyPlus, and we’re headed across the pond! #OMITB”

Only Murders in the Building follows Charles-Haden Savage (Martin), Oliver Putnam (Short) and Mabel Mora (Gomez), three residents of an Upper West Side building called the Arconia who run a podcast together as they investigate the deaths that keep happening in their home.

Season 5’s finale aired on October 28, with the episode titled “The House Always”. The trio closed out the latest mystery involving the murder of the Arconia’s doorman, Lester Coluca (Teddy Coluca). Additional cast members on Season 5 include Meryl Streep, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Richard Kind, Nathan Lane, Bobby Cannavale, Renée Zellweger, Logan Lerman, Christoph Waltz, Téa Leoni, Keegan-Michael Key, Beanie Feldstein, Dianne Wiest, Jermaine Fowler and Michael Cyril Creighton.

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Amazon MGM Studios has released the trailer for Mercy, starring Chris Pratt as Detective Raven – an LAPD detective accused by an AI court of slaying his wife.

Directed by Timur Bekmambetov from Marco van Belle’s script, Mercy sees Detective Raven as the architect of the Mercy Capital Court — a system whereby accused felons have 90 minutes to prove their innocence. As he faces AI Judge Maddox (Rebecca Ferguson), Raven has to prove he is innocent in the murder of his wife– or he will be executed. With only 90 minutes to prove his case, Raven accesses all of the information on the cloud, getting help from his partner (Kali Reis) to help him retraces his steps.

Mercy will be released in IMAX 3D, with the film opening Jan. 23, 2026 in theaters.
See the trailer: HERE.

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