The “Sopranos” alum revealed that she filmed her cameo for the “Avatar” sequel four years ago and lost track of the film’s release, assuming it hit theaters already. “The second ‘Avatar,’ the one that’s coming out, I think I shot four years ago,” Falco said on “The View” panel. “And then I’ve been busy, and doing stuff, and somebody mentioned ‘Avatar,’ and I thought, ‘Oh, I guess it came out and didn’t do very well,’ because I didn’t hear anything....

The story, which broke during the middle of the week when there is often a lull in the football news that’s the cabler’s greatest source of interest this time of year, dominated ESPN’s Thursday morning news coverage. Still, many felt like the coverage of Udoka’s personal life has been excessive, especially considering the other, arguably larger stories of ethical lapses currently being discussed in the sports world. Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre is currently engulfed in a scandal after it was alleged that he helped misdirect $5 million in welfare funding in the state of Mississippi to build a new women’s volleyball facility at the University of Southern Mississippi....

Of course, by the time the Primetime Emmy Awards rolled around, both projects were proven to be in fine form, with “Succession” earning 18 nominations and seven wins and “Watchmen” scoring 11 wins from 26 nominations. The story percolating after this year’s batch of nominees, announced this morning, could not be more different. On Thursday, the actors branch revealed the nominations for the 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, where Netflix again far outscored competitors, nabbing 17 mentions, compared to seven for HBO, five for Pop TV, and four for Hulu....

Set in the Yorkshire town of Sheffield, England, “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie” revolves around aspiring teen drag queen Jamie (Max Harwood). Though he’s comfortably out at his stuffy high school, he still incurs the wrath of the occasional bully or a conservative teacher (a brilliantly bitter Sharon Horgan). It mostly rolls off his back, thanks to his wonderfully supportive mother Margaret (Sarah Lancashire), and bookish best friend Pritti (Lauren Patel). On Jamie’s sixteenth birthday, his mum surprises him with a pair of glittering red heels, the ones he’s been saving up for....

“The thing about buddy two-handers, if you’ve seen any of them, is there’s really not a mystery to them,” Spellman told Inverse. “They’re all character-first. They’re all about the emotion and connection, or lack of connection, between characters, and that’s something I do as a writer and it’s something that the genre wants. As amazing as ‘WandaVision’ was, this is an antithesis in every single way.” “It’s not about figuring something out, it is about characters,” Spellma continued....

Prior to Villeneuve’s anticipated take on Herbert’s novel, other attempts to adapt “Dune” for the screen mostly failed. Alejandro Jodorowsky famously tried to get a “Dune” movie off the ground in the 1970s but the project never made it past the development stage. David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation was a critical failure, one that remains a tragic experience for the director after his creative control was taken away by the studio....

“The Midnight Sky” (December 23, Netflix) could return Clooney to Oscar contention for the first time since 2013 Best Picture-winner “Argo” (produced with his partner and frequent co-writer Grant Heslov and director Ben Affleck). That came one year after Clooney scored not only an acting nomination for “The Descendants” but also an Adapted Screenplay nomination for “The Ides of March” (with Heslov and Beau Willimon). Clooney can do whatever he wants....