EXCLUSIVE: Awkwafina (The Farewell), Corey Hawkins (Straight Outta Compton), Simon Rex (Red Rocket) and Cliff "Method Man" Smith (Power Book II: Ghost) will guest star in Season 2 of Peacock's Emmy Award-winning original series Poker Face. Details regarding who they will play are under wraps. They…

"I forgot to remember to forget," sang Elvis Presley in 1955, and similar mental gymnastics are required to figure out what's actually happening — or has been happening — in this upscale twisty-turny horror thriller. But although it raises serious and intriguing questions about hot-button issues and…

Well into the new dark crime comedy Greedy People, I had to check IMDb to make sure this wasn’t some movie one or both of the Coen brothers had actually made and somehow I didn’t realize before diving in. Nope, it was Potsy Ponciroli who directed, and Mike…

After a journeyman career that included stints as an MTV VJ, a rapper named Dirt Nasty, a model and the goofball star of three Scary Movie installments, Simon Rex is having a moment. He stars alongside Channing Tatum in the Zoe Kravitz-directed drama Blink Twice, and opposite Lily James and Joseph…

EXCLUSIVE: Simon Rex (Red Rocket), Inanna Sarkis (After series), and Wayne Brady (The Good Fight) are among cast joining J.K. Simmons, Nicolas Cage, Andy Garcia, Giancarlo Esposito and Scott Haze in David Mamet-scripted addiction drama The Prince. As we previously reported, director Cameron Van Hoy's…

EXCLUSIVE: Simon Rex (Red Rocket) is joining Rose Byrne, Octavia Spencer, Ariana DeBose, Dominic Sessa and Demi Lovato in Stephanie Laing's Tow, which is currently in production. Tow will tell the true story of Amanda Ogle, an unhoused Seattle woman who fought her way out of tow-company hell to…

EXCLUSIVE: Simon Rex is set to star and executive produce Operation Taco Gary’s with Michael Kvamme writing and directing. Matthew Vaughan & Rotten Science will produce the pic. “We are excited to be stepping into the feature space with a true gut-punching comedy, and couldn’t be more excited to be a…

EXCLUSIVE: Simon Rex (Red Rocket) and Chris Cooper (Little Women) will star alongside Bryan Cranston, Allison Janney, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth and Jack Champion in Everything’s Going To Be Great, the new film that Jon S. Baird is directing for eOne and Astute Films. No character details have been…

EXCLUSIVE: True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto has found his first feature film directing gig in the indie drama Easy’s Waltz. Vince Vaughn, Michelle Monaghan, Al Pacino and Simon Rex are set to star, with Pizzolatto also penning the script. Margot Hand is producing. Related…

Peacock’s Pete Davidson comedy series Bupkis has added six guest stars for its premiere season: Charlie Day (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia), Ray Romano (Get Shorty), Kenan Thompson (Saturday Night Live), Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond), Chase Sui Wonders (Bodies, Bodies, Bodies) and Simon Rex (R…

EXCLUSIVE: Fabio Frey's feature directorial debut My Dead Dad has been acquired by OneFifty for HBO Max where it will premiere on June 1st. The film stars Pedro Correa—who wrote the project alongside Frey— as young burnout Lucas who, after hearing his estranged father has passed away, undertakes the responsibility of…

EXCLUSIVE: Simon Rex (Red Rocket) will join Channing Tatum and Naomi Ackie in The Batman star Zoë Kravitz’s feature directorial debut, Pussy Island, for MGM. The film written by Kravitz and E.T. Feigenbaum centers on Frida (Ackie), a young and clever Los Angeles cocktail waitress who has her eyes set on the prize…