A new Madonna has been crowned! Well, on film at least. Sources close to the Queen of Pop’s upcoming biopic tell Variety that Julia Garner has been offered the lead role, which will follow the popstar from her early days in New York City through her 1990 smash hit “Vogue.”

Apple is adding native support for the Nintendo Switch Pro and Joy-Con controllers in iOS 16. Riley Testut, one of the iOS developers behind AltStore, discovered the new controller support in a developer beta of iOS 16 that was released yesterday.

Andrew Garfield is having a very good year. In the past 12 months, the actor has portrayed disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker in The Eyes of Tammy Faye, landed an Oscar nom for playing Jonathan Larson in Tick, Tick … Boom! and dusted off his web-shooters to return as everyone’s favourite wall crawler in Spider-Man: No Way Home.

Deadpool 3‘s writers has given an update on the new sequel, and have assured fans not to “worry” about the character under the ownership of Disney. While the first two films were made under 20th Century Fox before its purchase by Disney, allowing more R-Rated humour, there have been fears that the character may be reined in somewhat under the more family-friendly brand.

Johnny Depp has finally won his defamation case against Amber Heard. The jury decided that he proved Amber Heard intentionally defamed him with malice on every count and awarded him $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages.

In its second weekend of release, Tom Cruise’s all-American action film collected a sensational $86 million from 4,751 North American theaters. Those returns rank among the top 10 highest-grossing second weekends in domestic box office history. They also push “Top Gun: Maverick” to $291 million in North America, enough to overtake 2005’s “War of the Worlds” ($243 million) as Cruise’s highest-grossing film ever at the domestic box office.

In May, the AMC in Times Square played 70 different screenings of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness in one day. Doctor Strange was meant to be a unique Marvel movie by virtue of it being helmed by one of those dark sorcerers of the cinematic arts – an auteur – in this case, Evil Dead genre legend Sam Raimi.

Buckle up, fantasy fans: the world of magic rings, massive furry feet, and mountain-dwelling mead-drinkers is about to return. Middle-earth is making a comeback in The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power, Prime Video’s long-awaited streaming series set to bring a whole new age of J.R.R. Tolkien’s saga on screen. Set thousands of years before the events of Peter Jackson’s trilogy, this will be a whole new story in a whole new part of the timeline, dealing with the forging of the rings, the rise of Sauron, and all kinds of interweaving tales of Elves, Dwarves, Harfoots and more.

Longtime friends and filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary will launch their first podcast next month on which they’ll revisit some of their favorite old B-movies and discover new ones.

James Marsden, who starred in the first season of HBO’s “Westworld” and recurred in its second season, is coming back. The network announced the news on Saturday at the ATX Television Festival in Austin, where Marsden made a surprise appearance during a panel promoting the show’s Season 4.

Michael J. Fox says living with Parkinson’s disease has influenced the projects he selects in his acting career. In a conversation with Mike Birbiglia’s for his “Working It Out” podcast, the actor and research advocate said that remembering lines has become more difficult in the decades since he was first diagnosed.

Over 200 remastered episodes of Beavis and Butt-Head are heading to Paramount+, and unlike the titular heroes, the audience is set to score. Paramount has confirmed to Consequence that these updated old episodes will include the original music videos.

Before he hooked up with Tom Cruise to make "Oblivion" and "Top Gun: Maverick," director Joseph Kosinski made a little movie called "Tron: Legacy." Best remembered, perhaps, for its Daft Punk soundtrack (which still rocks), "Tron: Legacy" hit theaters in late 2010 and functioned as the belated sequel to the original 1982 "Tron."

He blames Johnny Depp’s downfall on the Heard mentality. Following Wednesday’s explosive verdict in the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp trial, the “Aquaman” actress’ former private investigator, Paul Barresi, weighed in on the ex-flames’ relationship, suggesting that Heard used Depp to get ahead in Hollywood, among other claims.

Nat Geo hires Jeff Goldblum to walk around, being professionally fascinated by things.

The sequel to Doctor Strange will be streaming at the end of the month. Marvel announced today that Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will be available on Disney Plus starting on June 22nd. The film, which once again stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular sorcerer and is directed by Sam Raimi, first hit theaters on May 6th.

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With “Top Gun: Maverick,” Tom Cruise pulled off a seemingly impossible mission: Getting moviegoers to leave their house and pay money to watch a sequel to a 36-year-old film. The follow-up to 1986’s “Top Gun” jetted past box office expectations, collecting $154 million over the long Memorial Day weekend in North America and $248 million worldwide. COVID times or not, those are impressive ticket sales, as well as a career-best start for Cruise.

Tom Cruise is looking at the biggest hit of his career in the U.K. and Ireland with “Top Gun: Maverick.” The film scored a £15.9 million ($20 million) opening weekend (including Wednesday and Thursday previews), according to numbers released by Comscore.

In a TikTok that started going viral last week, a man pantomimes telling his boss that he can't come into work the next day because he has jury duty. The video then cuts to the man with his face almost pressed against his laptop screen, watching intently to footage from the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard defamation trial. The TikTok exemplifies the intense public fascination with the defamation trial featuring a Hollywood legend and his once rising-star ex-wife, who have spent weeks trading shocking accusations of domestic abuse.