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Bowing to pressure from Donald Trump, Paramount has committed to distributing Rush Hour 4 with Brett Ratner directing, Matthew Belloni of Puck reports. Jackie Chan, 71, and Chris Tucker, 54, would return to star. Paramount is considering purchasing Warner Bros. Discovery, which would require FCC approval. And Paramount is no stranger to that process, kowtowing to the White House ahead of a merger with Skydance.

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning will be available to stream on Paramount+ beginning December 4th in the United States and Canada. Billed as the final installment in the long-running franchise, the Christopher McQuarrie-directed film centers around Tom Cruise's IMF agent Ethan Hunt as his team faces off against an AI threat, referred to as The Entity, that aims to end the world. Cruise is joined by returning stars Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Hayley Atwell, and Angela Bassett.

I can understand why people would have that reaction because CBS or the parent corporation - I'm not going to say who made that decision, because I don't know; no one's ever going to tell us - decided to cut a check for $16 million to the president of the United States over a lawsuit that their own lawyers, Paramount's own lawyers, said is completely without merit.

Like trees shedding tree bark or the ocean giving up on water, MTV will cancel Ridiculousness, a show that across 46 seasons and more than 1,700 episodes came to dominate MTV's programming. Launched in 2011 and hosted by Rob Dyrdek, Ridiculousness featured panel discussions about viral videos. As the show took over more and more of MTV's schedule, it became the poster child for how social media was eating the rest of culture,

"final negotiations"

The news adds a new wrinkle to an already-planned shakeup at the media giant. In June, WBD announced plans to cleave the company into two separate publicly traded companies. The company's streaming and studio brands-which include HBO, HBO Max, Warner Bros. Pictures, and New Line Cinema-would be part of Warner Bros., while Discovery Global would oversee its cable networks that include CNN, TNT Sports, and Discovery.

How could the Free Press-the total editorial output of which on a given day amounts to one or two reheated versions of "The Kids These Days Are Crazy," something like "Liberal Mayors Keep Lying About The 'Black Issue,'" and "How This IDF Wife Is Balancing Motherhood And Killing Child Terrorists"-be worth a reported $150 million, and why is its oafish founder about to oversee a huge press operation? Respectively: It isn't, and she shouldn't.

Stars are beginning to walk the red carpet at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards. Comedian Nate Bargatze will host television's biggest awards Sunday night from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. Will the acclaim for Adolescence carry it to limited series dominance, or will The Penguin complete a run that began with big nomination numbers and continued with a big performance at the Creative Arts Emmys? Will top overall nominee Severance reign like Succession and Shogun did before it? And can any comedy stop The Studio?

For his remake of Ang Lee's 1993 romantic comedy, director Andrew Ahn put an even queerer spin on The Wedding Banquet. Kelly Marie Tran, Lily Gladstone, Han Gi-chan, and Bowen Yang star as a two couples living together. Tran and Gladstone's Angela and Lee are trying to have a child while Gi-chan's Min is being asked by his grandmother (Youn Yuh-jung) to return home to Korea, which would mean leaving his boyfriend (Yang) behind.

Canceling a TV show after already renewing it may not be the original sin, but surely Dante would have something to say about it. Paramount canceled prequel series Dexter: Original Sin on August 22, after previously renewing the show in April, per . The show follows the titular serial killer in his youth, starring Patrick Gibson, with the original Dexter, Michael C. Hall, voicing the narrator.

Dwight the General Manfredi, kidnapped in season 2's finale, seeks to expand his legitimate business with Montague Distillery while battling new enemies and old foes.

In a recent episode, Parker and Stone skewered Donald Trump, highlighting his use of lawsuits and the right-wing obsession with cancel culture, while critiquing corporate capitulation.