Nick Offerman
Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’ Lands China Release Date
Alex Garland’s hit dystopian thriller Civil War has landed a potentially lucrative theatrical release in China. Chinese company Huahua Media acquired the local rights to the film and will distribute it in partnership with Alibaba Pictures on June 7. The plans mark a significant milestone for the tastemaking mini-major A24. It’s the influential studio’s very first […]
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Nick Offerman Brings Laughs, Songs and Famous Friends For Climate Change Comedy Show
Comedian and actor Nick Offerman kicked off his Thursday night show at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre with a cheeky song about he was going to “keep it PG-13” for the night. While the sentiment didn’t last too long, the songs sure did. The show, titled Nick Offerman and Friends vs Climate Crisis, was part of […]
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Nick Offerman and Amy Poehler on Making Out for ‘Parks and Rec’ Blooper Reel: “Everybody Hated It”
Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman are no strangers to committing to the bit. Poehler shared that she and Offerman used to make out while filming Parks and Recreation in an attempt to get the moment into the show’s blooper reel. “Nick and I used to do a thing every year for the blooper reel where […]
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Why California and Texas Are Allies in ‘Civil War’
Civil War, the buzzy A24 film that follows a team of journalists as they race to Washington, D.C., to document American citizens fighting each other across the country and rebel forces descending on the White House, throws in one surprise right off the bat: California and Texas, typically political opposites, are allies in the war. […]
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Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’ Tracking for Terrific $20M-Plus Opening
Can writer-director Alex Garland’s Civil War make box office history for A24 in its opening weekend? The dystopian action movie came on tracking Thursday morning, three weeks ahead of its debut in theaters across the U.S. One leading service shows the much buzzed-about movie starting off with a strong $21 million thanks to interest among […]
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‘Civil War’ Review: Alex Garland’s Dystopian Thriller Starring Kirsten Dunst Stimulates the Intellect, if Not the Emotions
The actress stars alongside Cailee Spaeny in the 'Ex Machina' and 'Annhilation' director's latest feature about a group of journalists chronicling a violent conflict in the United States.
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Nick Offerman, Betty Gilpin Join ‘Death by Lightning’ Series From ‘Game of Thrones’ Creators
Nick Offerman and Betty Gilpin are joining the cast of Death by Lightning, the Netflix historical drama from Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Ordered straight to series earlier this month and based on the novel Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard, the series explores the “stranger-than-fiction true story” of James Garfield, the […]
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Creative Arts Emmys: Nick Offerman and Storm Reid Win for Guest Acting in a Drama Series
Nick Offerman and Storm Reid were big winners at the 2023 Creative Arts Emmys on Saturday, winning guest actor and actress in a drama series, respectively. Nick Offerman, winning for The Last of Us, was nominated against Murray Bartlett (The Last of Us), James Cromwell (Succession), Lamar Johnson (The Last of Us), Arian Moayed (Succession) […]
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‘Candy Cane Lane’ Review: Eddie Murphy and Tracee Ellis Ross Can’t Redeem Reginald Hudlin’s Bizarre Holiday Comedy
The stars play a married couple whose determination to win a neighborhood house-decorating contest puts them in the path of a vengeful elf.
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Paul Dano Gets Rich Fighting Wall Street in ‘Dumb Money’ Trailer
Paul Dano has Wall Street melting down in the first trailer for Dumb Money, the upcoming Sony dramedy about a real-life YouTuber who took on billionaire hedge fund managers with a short squeeze, or countering bearish trades, of GameStop’s stock. “You got rich dudes pissing in their pants right now,” Dano’s character, Keith Gill, is […]
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From ‘The Last of Us’ to ‘Succession’: The Stacked Race for Drama Guest Actor
James Cromwell, Succession (HBO/Max) The 83-year-old, playing Ewan Roy, steals the show’s penultimate episode with his no-holds-barred eulogy for his younger brother, Logan. Of his six previous noms (he won in 2013 for American Horror Story: Asylum), two came for earlier seasons of Succession. Lamar Johnson, The Last of Us (HBO/Max) The Canadian up-and-comer wowed […]
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Megan Mullally on Convincing Nick Offerman to do ‘The Last of Us’: “Where’s My 10 Percent?”
Nick Offerman has a new nickname around the house after his breakout role on HBO’s The Last of Us. Offerman’s performance opposite Murray Bartlett in the third episode of the series, as a couple finding love amid the apocalypse, left the audience in tears when it aired in early February. As a result of the […]
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