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By mutual agreement, Conan O’Brien’s longtime bandleader, Max Weinberg will not be returning to lead the late night band he created in 1993 as Conan moves to his new home at TBS on November 8th.
Beginning on September 13th of 1993 “The Max Weinberg 7” and later " The Max Weinberg 7 and The Tonight Band" were favorites among both fans and critics. With an uncanny ability to combine high quality music and unmatched comedic timing Max played a pivotal role in Conan O’Brien’s nightly shows....

True crime is in now more than ever with the continued rise in viewership of Netflix’s Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. Starring Evan Peters as the cannibalistic serial killer, the series originally premiered on Netflix on Sept. 21, and it wasn’t long before people started tuning in en masse. Nielsen has revealed that Dahmer was streamed for 3.66 billion minutes for the week of Sept. 19-25. This now puts Dahmer as having the tenth-biggest streaming week for a series on a streaming service since 2020 when Nielsen first began keeping track of these viewership numbers....

In a story from Variety, Dimension Films has picked Dan Milano to write the remake of the 1986 film Short Circuit. In the original, an armed robot became “human” after being struck by lightning. It then enlisted the help of human beings when the military tried to “disassemble” it. Dan Milano is known for writing and providing voice talent for the Adult Swim cartoon Robot Chicken. The original film was written by S....

Comedian Dave Chappelle was attacked by an audience member while performing on stage at the Hollywood Bowl on Tuesday night. Chappelle appeared as part of the Netflix Is A Joke Festival, when during his set a man from the crowd leaped up on stage and attempted to tackle the comedian to the ground. Following the assault, the man was then dragged away by security. Those who witnessed the event took to social media to share footage of the incident....

Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz and Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe are warring gunslingers in the newly released trailer for the upcoming Western, Dead for a Dollar. A bounty hunter, an outlaw, and one woman’s journey collide in Dead for a Dollar, which comes courtesy of Quiver Distribution. You can check out silver screen legends Christoph Waltz and Willem Dafoe trade verbal barbs and bullets in the trailer for Dead for a Dollar below....

Co-directors Byron Howard and Nathan Greno discuss their new CGI animated 3D Disney film, which is based on the classic Rapunzel fairy tale The new 3D movie Tangled is the 50th animated feature film from Walt Disney Pictures. It is also the last of their planned princess themed movies and is based on the classic “Rapunzel” fairy tale. Mandy Moore stars in the movie as Rapunzel, a girl with magic hair who has been kidnapped and kept in a tower by the evil Mother Gothel since birth....

A lot has changed in the MCU since Benedict Cumberbatch made his first appearance as Doctor Strange in 2016. It has taken six years for the sorcerer’s second solo movie to arrive thanks to Covid delays, but the wait is about to pay off big time with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness predicted to open with up to a $200 million opening weekend. Coming off the back of Spider-Man: No Way Home, it was always expected that Marvel Studios would have another massive hit on their hands....

Doctor Who season 11 finally has a premiere date. The long-running sci-fi series will make its debut on Sunday, October 7. The Thirteenth Doctor will have a permanent home on Sunday nights for season 11, which marks the first time in the history of the show that an entire season will air on Sundays. It’s going to be anything but business as usual when the Doctor returns this fall, that much is clear....

HBO Max’s Dune: The Sisterhood series has added two new cast members to the show. According to Variety, Josh Heuston and Edward Davis are both joining the prequel series, which is currently in production. The prequel is a highly anticipated addition to the Dune franchise and is based on the novel Sisterhood of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Heuston is best known for his role as popular high school kid Dusty Reid in Netflix’s Heartbreak High reboot....

The latest poster for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves puts the spotlight on the main players in the upcoming adaptation of the iconic tabletop role-playing game. Putting Star Trek star Chris Pine front-and-center, the poster offers another look at the ensemble cast, with a newly released behind-the-scenes featurette (via Twitter) providing some insight into how directing duo Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley plan to bring the fantasy to life on the big screen....

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will have the story of his younger years told in NBC’s upcoming biographical series Young Rock. The news was announced by the network at NBC’s Television Critics Association presentation, confirming Johnson will star in the series in addition to executive producing alongside Fresh Off the Boat creators Nanatchka Khan and Jeff Chiang. NBC has already given the project a straight-to-series order, noting the show will “follow the school years of Dwayne Johnson and even his early wrestling career....

As well as being privy to exclusive footage from the series, they were also given the opportunity to meet the showrunners behind The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, with the audience, which included around 30 of the biggest Lord of the Rings fans you will ever find, then encouraged to share their thoughts and feelings online. One such attendee, Tolkien Professor, who also happens to be the President of Signum University and scholar of J....

When it comes to super speedy superheroes, there have been quite a few in the history of both Marvel and DC, from Flash to Quicksilver and if you want to get technical even Superman has the ability to go from zero to sixty in the blink of an eye. When it comes to putting this across on screen, visual effects used to portray the use of this power have come in a few different forms, but always seems to involve a blurry version of the character surrounded by light or power lines....

It’s official: Euphoria will be back for season 3. While this is undoubtedly great news for fans of the show, it isn’t exactly the surprise of the century. Euphoria has become one of HBO’s most popular shows, a trend that has increased with its acclaimed second season. It was just recently reported how season 2 managed to increase viewership from the first season by almost 100%. Now, the news has been made official, as announced by HBO on Friday....

We are fast approaching summer which is always a good time for fans to watch new shark horror movies. Days ahead of the release of the new film Shark Bait in theaters and on digital on May 13, 2022, we have an exclusive clip to debut, showcasing the moment a large, hungry shark attacks a group of friends. In our clip alone, which you can watch below, the film certainly lives up to its title....

Get a sneak peek of John Travolta in Paradise City just ahead of the new action movie’s release. Set to arrive on Nov. 11, the film stars Travolta alongside Bruce Willis in the latter’s final role. Our exclusive clip features Travolta in a tense meeting with Stephen Dorff, and while Travolta’s character, a power broker, begins feeling he has the upper hand, things take a turn when his supposed secrets get called out....

We’ve got your first look at the Double Dare trailer which is one of the many special features packed onto tomorrow’s release of Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof on DVD! Click below for some Grindhouse action! A creepy stunt driver whose taste for stalking lovely young ladies gets him into big trouble when he tangles with the wrong gang of badass babes. Their confrontation escalates to an extended mano-a-mano car chase with one of the girls strapped to the hood of a thundering Dodge Challenger....

We have an exclusive clip from the marital drama Married Life, which hits the shelves on DVD and Blu-Ray on September 2. Click below for this exclusive clip featuring Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson and the narration of Pierce Brosnan. A strong blend of suspense, star-crossed romance and wry comedy of manners, Married Life is an unconventional human drama about the irresistible power and utter madness of love. Harry (Chris Cooper) decides he must kill his wife Pat (Patricia Clarkson) because he loves her too much to let her suffer when he leaves her....

Sunshine makes its way to DVD and Blu-Ray on January 8, but we know how our readers love some exclusives, and we have another one here for you. MovieWeb has been provided with an exclusive video with one of the deleted scenes from the DVD. Click below to check out this exclusive video. As the sun begins to dim along with mankind’s hope for the future, it’s up to a desperate crew of eight astronauts to reach the dying star and re-ignite the fire that will bring life back to planet Earth in a tense, psychological sci-fi thriller that re-teams 28 Days Later director Danny Boyle with writer Alex Garland and producer Andrew Macdonald....

More body cam footage has been released of one of Ezra Miller’s arrests in Hawaii, and the actor gets a bit heated in the clip. Back in March, Miller was apprehended by police in Hawaii following an incident at a local bar where they’d been allegedly harassing other patrons. They were charged with disorderly conduct and harassment. Previously, parts of the arrest had been unveiled in video footage shared to the internet....