Mikey Madison, who won this year’s best actress Oscar for her performance in Anora, and Jeremy Allen White, who is elbowing for his third acting Emmy for The Bear come September, are circling the lead roles in Sony’s high-profile sequel to The Social Network.
Aaron Sorkin, who won an Academy Award for penning the 2010 movie, wrote the script and will direct the drama that is inspired by a series of articles Jeff Horwitz wrote for The Wall Street Journal known as The Facebook Files.
Insiders stress that no offers have been made and that the film is still in the development process, although the project is a top priority for the studio and moving fast. Sorkin has been meeting with actors and is packaging a cast and budget, which he will then show to the studio for final approval. Meetings with Madison and White have taken place and the chess pieces are slowly coming together.
While the acclaimed 2010 drama focused on the making of the Facebook, now known as Meta, the story of the new feature will focus on how the company’s own reporting pointed to the negative effects its social media was having on teens and kids, how it knew misinformation was proliferating and causing violence, and how it contributed to the coup attempt of Jan. 6, 2021.
If offers and, indeed, dealmaking closes, Madison would play Frances Haugen, the data engineer-turned-whistleblower who went to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Wall Street Journal with her information. White would play the former WSJ tech reporter who leads the breaking of the Facebook files.
One source said the project would have shades of The Insider, the 1999 movie from Michael Mann that told of a whistleblower blowing the lid off the tobacco industry by talking to 60 Minutes. Another source said the project has shades of Spotlight, the 2015 movie that centered on reporters from the Boston Globe investigating child sex abuse by the city’s Roman Catholic clergy.
Sony had no comment.
Mikey Madison and Frances Haugen
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Sorkin, Todd Black, Peter Rice and Stuart Besser are producing the sequel.
David Fincher directed the original Social Network, which starred Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and earned eight Oscar nominations, winning three.
Madison received numerous accolades for her work in Anora, earning multiple nominations and ultimately wins courtesy of the BAFTA Awards and the Academy Awards. Anora won five Oscars, best picture among them. Madison also memorably appeared in Scream (2022) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).
She is due to shoot The Masque of the Red Death, a reimagining of the creepy Edgar Allan Poe story from filmmaker Charlie Polinger, in early 2026. The horror project hails from A24, which will distribute worldwide, and Picturestart, which is producing. Earlier this year, she was in talks to star in Star Wars feature Starfighter, but those talks crumbled over financial reasons.
White has earned two Emmy wins for his work on FX’s The Bear and this fall will portray Bruce Springsteen in 20th Century’s true-life Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, which chronicles the making of his album Nebraska. The drama is due to hit theaters Oct. 24.
Madison is repped by UTA, Authentic Talent and Sloane Offer. White is repped by WME and Entertainment 360.
The latter half of the 2025 TV schedule was confirmed as an exciting time for fans of the Outlander world as soon as Starz confirmed the premiere date for the prequel spinoff, Outlander: Blood of My Blood. Even with the original series’ final season pushed back to 2026, time travel romance aplenty is on the way. That of course doesn’t mean I wasn’t on the edge of my seat at the recent Outlander panel at San Diego Comic-Con when none other than Raya Yarbrough came out on stage for a live performance of the iconic “Skye Boat Song” theme that has played over the opening credits of every Outlander episode.
As enough of a fan of the song that more than one variation has popped up in my most-listened to Spotify playlist at the end of the year, I was all-in from my place in the audience at SDCC when the singer took the stage. Now, though, I’m wondering if it has affected my thoughts on the theme for Blood of My Blood, released ahead of the August 8 premiere.
Raya Yarbrough’s “Skye Boat Song” Performance
Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan’s time on Starz as Claire and Jamie Fraser.
Outlander: Blood Of My Blood’s Theme
Starz released the opening titles for Outlander: Blood of My Blood early, and I checked them out after speaking with the cast about what was nearly spoiled by paparazzi and the perks of wearing a kilt. The show isn’t reusing “Skye Boat Song” for the prequel, but rather a new song with lyrics performed by Julie Fowlis and a score written by Bear McCreary, who has also scored all seven seasons of Outlander so far.
It’s a lovely song, offset by images from the show for a finished product that’s quite reminiscent of Outlander even though the song is different. I was on board right away, and I doubt anybody could blame me after watching. Take a look:
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The combination of English and Gaelic is a lovely touch, not least because there’s likely a greater emphasis on English characters mingling with 18th-century Scots in Blood of My Blood than OG Outlander, with both Julia (Hermione Corfield) and Henry (Jeremy Irvine) going back in time unbeknownst to their young daughter Claire.
But dang it, seeing Raya Yarbrough’s performance of “Skye Boat Song” live in person has me back on board and loving the original theme song. I can’t help but wonder if I would have been more dazzled by the Blood of My Blood song if I hadn’t had the lovely experience at SDCC between panels.
That’s not to say that I’m not a fan of the direction for Blood of My Blood, and the prequel is kicking off with two back-to-back episodes on Friday, August 8. The series has already been renewed for Season 2 as well, so prepare for a long journey with the future parents of Jamie and Claire with episodes on Fridays at 8 p.m. ET on Starz.
Spoilers ahead for the July 30 episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire on ABC, available streaming next day with a Hulu subscription.
Shenanigans were bound to ensue on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire as soon as Matt Damon showed up to partner with Jeopardy legend Ken Jennings in the 2025 TV schedule, since Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t going to let a little thing like hosting a primetime game show stop him from reigniting their feud. That said, celebrities playing WWTBAM is all about charity, and even Kimmel seemed to be rooting for the duo as they approached the $1 million. They ultimately became just the third team of celebrities to ever win the top prize, and Damon was honest about how they got there.
Jennings calling out a lifeline trap and Damon going along for the ride while trading some gentle barbs with Jimmy Kimmel.
water.org was in reach after they used their lifeline option to ask the host who fit the bill for the $500,00 question of “With another career path already established, who got his first taste of the entertainment world when he entered a Steve Martin look-alike contest?” Miraculously, Kimmel easily answered that Bill Nye was the lookalike guy, leading to the $1 million question:
“Which of these words is often used to describe one of the most beautiful auditory effects on Earth: the sound made by the leaves of trees when wind blows through them?”
A. Apricity
B. Petrichor
C. Susurrus
D. Eudaemonia
Never have I felt more in sync with Matt Damon than in the moment during WWTBAM when he honestly told Ken Jennings that “I got nothing” after Jennings explained why he was pretty sure the answer was C. Sussurus. I didn’t even know there was a word for that beautiful auditory effect, and I think Damon was on the same page based on his reaction.
All it took was the 50/50 lifeline, and Ken Jennings was confident enough in Sussurus that Matt Damon was confident as well. Jimmy Kimmel described the outcome as “the least dramatic million dollar moment in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire history” when the duo won the $1 million, while Damon had a seriously relatable reaction:
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It is so awesome having Ken Jennings as your partner in a trivia game! I can’t even tell you.
Considering that Ken Jennings held the record for highest-earning American game show contestant for more than two decades, still ranks #2 among the ten biggest winners in Jeopardy history, and is the current host of Jeopardy, I doubt anybody could argue against Matt Damon saying it was “awesome” to be his Who Wants to Be a Millionaire partner!
All in all, I was prepared to watch twenty or so mediocre minutes of Jimmy Kimmel and Matt Damon feuding while Ken Jennings did the heavy lifting, but I had fun with their half of the episode. The old spark was back between Kimmel and Damon, and Jennings and Damon turned out to be a great duo. Yes, Jennings did indeed do the heavy lifting of trivia, but I wouldn’t call their segment mediocre! Besides, when the $1 million is for charity, even a long-running famous feud has to take a backseat.
After Longlegs (one of the best movies of 2024) and his gory Stephen King adaptation, The Monkey, Osgood Perkins already has another upcoming horror movie that’s set to hit theaters this fall. It’s called Keeper and, so far, there have been a lot more questions and theories in regard to what the movie is actually about. So, when I caught up with Perkins and the movie’s star, Tatiana Maslany, at San Diego Comic-Con on behalf of CinemaBlend last week, they helped clear up some of the most common misconceptions about the production.
Osgood Perkins Shares His Intentions Behind Keeper’s Teaser Trailer
Last week, the first teaser for Keeper hit YouTube, and it got fans speculating about what exactly is being planned by the filmmaker who showcased Nicolas Cage’s creepy performance in Longlegs. Since the first look dropped, fans have been theorizing that the movie occurs across different time periods and will perhaps be similar to the first-person POV of the critically-acclaimed early 2025 movie Presence. When I brought these ideas to Perkins, here’s what he had to say:
It couldn’t be more far off. It has nothing to do with that. It has nothing to do with Presence. It has nothing to do with somebody watching people. Really what that teaser shows is women through time, in different time periods. 1800s women, there’s a 1950s woman, there’s an eighties woman and seventies woman, and then there’s Tatiana from the present.
Together, which features body horror moments.
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Tatiana Maslany Shares Her Reaction To Seeing Keeper For The First Time
During the interview, Tatiana Maslany also teased Keeper for us by sharing her reaction to seeing the movie for herself. As she explained:
My experience watching Keeper too was that I found it very entertaining, but then also left going, ‘Oh my God, I need to like, study this movie.’ Like, I’m curious what people are gonna read into this film. I feel like a really smart audience that gets off on those things. On watching a film multiple times. And sort of like collecting hints and getting obsessed with some through-line or whatever. There’s a lot of stuff to feast on in this movie.
Maslany also brought up how the movie “couldn’t be more different” from both The Monkey (which we give four stars in our review), which she actually shot after this latest film and even Longlegs. The actress also called it a “way adult movie,” particularly due to how it approaches romantic relationships.
After speaking with Osgood Perkins and Tatiana Maslany, I’m definitely even more intrigued and curious about what horrors are to come in Keeper. The film is set to hit theaters amid the 2025 movie schedule on November 14 and, in the meantime, try not to get too wrapped up in those theories.
Warning! The following contains spoilers from the Big Brother live feeds as of Wednesday, July 30th. Stream the feeds with a Paramount+ subscription and read at your own risk!
It’s another week in Big Brother Season 27, and as has been the case thus far, not the best week to be the Head of Household. Lauren Domingue is struggling in Week 3 to get a target out, to the point she’s wished she never won at all. Keanu Soto is safe after the Week 3 veto, so who is going home this week?
Adrian Rocha was put up as a nominee after Keanu used the veto on himself, and now he’s up for eviction alongside Kelley Jorgensen and Will Williams. As for who will go home in Week 3, it all comes down to the BB Blockbuster, and who is left to vote for when the dust settles. Let’s talk about the scenarios below.
doesn’t care if she wins Big Brother, because the odds of her leaving this week are very good. If she doesn’t win the BB Blockbuster, I think it’s more or less set in stone that she’s going out as the only person in this game’s history to think they could win by volunteering to go on the block for three consecutive weeks.
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Adrian Might Be Out If He Goes Up Against Will
Adrian was the replacement nominee this week after Keanu won the veto, but he’s the second most likely to leave, just like he was in Week 2. This is mainly because he’s shown several times over how good he is at competitions, stopping just short of winning a few times now. The bigger players in the house want him gone before he notches a win and starts to make some real moves. Even so, I think he’d be safe if he were up against Kelley, just because there are some people in this game who want to keep him.
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Will’s Lack Of Campaigning Could Come Back to Bite Him
2025 TV schedule, which has been a bit lacking for this kind of drama.
