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Dating Asian Orange · Jul 27, 2026 TV & Film

Jimmy Tatro is playing the nemesis-son to Will Ferrell's washed-up golfer in The Hawk, his fifth project with Ferrell and Ferrell's first lead TV series. The real highlight: Molly Shannon, playing his on-screen mother, drove off set on the last day with Chief Keef blasting from her subwoofers.

Alan Ritchson · Jul 27, 2026 TV & Film

Alan Ritchson walked into a Thor audition with his sides still in his hand, half-assed it on a spotlight-lit stage before two silhouettes in a dark theater, and bombed so completely that the casting director broke protocol to call his team. The feedback? He had no craft. That one sentence sent him to acting school — and changed the trajectory of everything.

Alan Ritchson · Jul 27, 2026 TV & Film

Alan Ritchson walked out of his Titans audition so sure he'd booked the lead that he called his wife and told her he was going to buy a Tesla. She said he hadn't booked it. He went and bought the car anyway. His instincts were right — he was offered the role — just not the one he wanted.

Alan Ritchson · Jul 27, 2026 TV & Film

Reacher drew 56 million global viewers in a single week of Season 2. Alan Ritchson points out what makes it unusual: unlike ensemble shows, almost all of that visibility lands on one person. It's an anthology with a rotating cast built around a single titular character — and the scale of it is something even he calls unprecedented.

Alan Ritchson · Jul 27, 2026 TV & Film

Motor City has no spoken dialogue. Every major leading man in Hollywood — Jake Gyllenhaal, Hugh Jackman, Gerard Butler, Adrian Brody — was attached at some point. It was greenlit nine times. The concept was simple: Greg Silverman wanted a film everyone in the world could watch with the exact same experience, regardless of language. Alan Ritchson read the script and called it a masterpiece.

Alan Ritchson · Jul 27, 2026 TV & Film

Working with Arnold Schwarzenegger showed Alan Ritchson what 100% recognition looks like. People feel Schwarzenegger before they see him — like a meteor approaching. Alan's wife wants a strict no-photos policy around family. Arnold stops for everyone. The contrast was a master class in how gratitude should manifest when fame is inescapable.

TWiT 1094: Rest in Peace, Buzzkill - How John C. Dvorak Cha… · Jul 27, 2026 TV & Film

The Odyssey grossed $265 million in its first week — Nolan's biggest opening. Devindra saw it three times, including in 70mm IMAX. The panel cheers it as proof that human storytelling, a 3,000-year-old story told on 70mm film, is still the most powerful medium in the world.

NETWORKING IS MY IDEA OF A NIGHTMARE | Jacqui Losco · Jul 21, 2026 TV & Film

Jacqui's route to television was anything but linear. She discovered her love for presenting gradually, inspired by a programme she saw and the opportunity to stand in front of a camera with a script — the one social context where her introversion disappears.

Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | Applied Intuition · Jul 21, 2026 TV & Film

The 2009 Sam Rockwell film Moon depicts a fully autonomous energy harvesting base on the moon run by a single human operator, grounded by an AI companion. That setup — autonomous systems that just need occasional human grounding — is exactly the state of the art today. And the massive autonomous energy farm it depicts is the optimistic future.