The release of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is upon us, and although the late Ivan Reitman sadly won’t get to see the movie, he did give his blessing before he died in 2022.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire director Gil Kenan told THR that Jason Reitman and himself did get to pitch the story for the sequel to Ivan Reitman. “We pitched an almost complete version of this film’s story outline to Ivan before his passing, and that was really meaningful,” Kenan said. “Obviously, we didn’t know that he wouldn’t be with us for the film, but his validation of the pitch and his joy at hearing it was something that kept us going through the writing.“

Kenan added, “I’m obviously very grateful to Jason for entrusting me with his family’s franchise. But I’m also really grateful that I was able to have a front row seat to the profound passing of the torch that took place on Afterlife between Ivan and Jason. The level of pride and love that Ivan showed, and the screenings that I was lucky enough to attend with him and audiences around the world, there was a depth to the satisfaction and the pride that I experienced in those moments that was so special. And those are core elements that we carry forward into the Ghostbusters stories going forward, starting with Frozen Empire.“

It remains to be seen if we’ll get another Ghostbusters sequel, but Kenan said that they would like to “continue the Phoebe Spengler saga” if they’re lucky enough to return.

Here’s the synopsis for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire: “The Spengler family returns to where it all started – the iconic New York City firehouse – to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level. But when the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age.” The film stars Queen of Physical Media Carrie Coon, as well as Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Kumail Nanjiani, Patton Oswalt, Celeste O’Connor, Logan Kim, and Annie Potts. The original Ghostbusters, consisting of Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Ernie Hudson, will also appear, and director Gil Kenan has said that they will be treated like “actual characters” this time around.

Our own Chris Bumbray recently caught the sequel, and while he had fun, he didn’t feel as though it was as good as Afterlife. “I was a big fan of Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Jason Reitman’s film skillfully blended nostalgia with a new take on the franchise that opened up the Ghostbusters universe in an inclusive way. It welcomed new fans without alienating old ones, something the 2016 reboot notoriously failed at,” Bumbray wrote. “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire seems to be aimed at building the franchise out more extensively. While it’s still a fun, nostalgia-driven return to the Ghostbusting universe, it’s not as good as the last film and spreads itself too thin to do the new characters justice.” You can check out the rest of Bumbray’s review right here.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire will hit theaters on March 22nd.

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Dune: Part Two has been a triumph, with many praising the sequel as one of the best sci-fi movies of all time; not only that, but it’s been kicking ass at the box office, grossing over $500 million worldwide and counting. That all but guarantees a third installment, but director Denis Villeneuve isn’t in any rush; in fact, he told Empire Magazine that he won’t make Dune: Messiah at all unless he’s sure it’s going to be better than Dune: Part Two.

“I did both movies back-to-back, which makes absolute sense for me,” Villeneuve said. “I felt that it was a good idea to move forward right after Part One. We were already designing, writing et cetera. But it also meant that for six years I was on Arrakis non-stop, and I think it will be healthy to step back a little bit. First, make sure that we have a strong screenplay. The thing I want to avoid is not having something ready. I never did it, and now I feel it could be dangerous because of the enthusiasm. We need to make sure all the ideas are on paper.“

Villeneuve added, “If we go back, it needs to be real, it needs to be relevant, if ever I do Dune Messiah, [it’s] because it’s going to be better than Part Two. Otherwise, I don’t do it.” As much as fans want to see Villeneuve complete the saga, I’d wager that most wouldn’t want him to rush it. Take your time, do it right, and we’ll be waiting.

Our own Chris Bumbray gave the Dune sequel a rave review. “In this day of assembly line blockbusters, it’s a miracle that director Denis Villeneuve has managed to get not one but two incredible, uncompromised epics like this through the studio system,” he wrote. “It works as a tentpole blockbuster, but Dune Part Two is also filmmaking at the highest level. It’s a real cinematic event everyone owes it to themselves to take in and hopefully won’t be forgotten come Oscar time. It’s a masterpiece.” You can check out the rest of Bumbray’s review right here.

Dune: Part Two will “explore the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.” The film is now playing in theaters, so be sure to let us know what you thought of it!

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Yesterday, we saw a couple first look images from Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, director Tim Burton’s long-awaited sequel to his 1988 classic Beetlejuice (watch it HERE) – and now the first teaser trailer for the film has arrived online! You can check it out in the embed above. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is set to reach theatres on September 6th, so we still have over five months left to wait for this one.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was in development hell for decades before it finally got made. In 1990, Jonathan Gems was hired to write a sequel that was going to be titled Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian. Burton considered having Daniel Waters rewrite that script, Pamela Norris did rewrite it, and Warner Bros. offered Kevin Smith the chance to do another rewrite. He turned it down. Seth Grahame-Smith was hired to write and produce a new version of a sequel in 2011. Mike Vukadinovich was brought on to rewrite his script in 2017.

Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, co-creators and co-showrunners of Wednesday, have written the screenplay for Beetlejuice 2 that was actually filmed. Brad Pitt’s Plan B is producing the sequel, which filmed in London before moving to Vermont and Massachusetts.

Here’s the official synopsis: Beetlejuice is back! After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia’s life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened. With trouble brewing in both realms, it’s only a matter of time until someone says Beetlejuice’s name three times and the mischievous demon returns to unleash his very own brand of mayhem.

Michael Keaton is back in the role of the titular “ghost with the most” and is joined in the cast by Winona Ryder, reprising the role of Lydia Deetz; Catherine O’Hara, back as Lydia’s stepmother Delia; Jenna Ortega as Lydia’s daughter Astrid, Justin Theroux as a fellow named Rory,  Monica Bellucci as Beetlejuice’s wife and Willem Dafoe as a law enforcement officer in the afterlife. Arthur Conti is also in there, in an unspecified role. 

Burton told Entertainment Weekly that, after putting off a Beetlejuice sequel for decades, he connected with the idea of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice because he was interested in catching up with the Lydia character and seeing where she is now. He said, “I so identified with the Lydia character, but then you get to all these years later, and you take your own journey, going from cool teenager to lame adult, back and forth again. That made it emotional, gave it a foundation. So that was the thing that really truly got me into it.“

He also explained the choice of the title, and why the poster (you can check it out below) has the odd 2024 A.D. addition on it, which made some of us think that was part of the title. “It’s been, what? Thirty-five years. So it didn’t feel like Beetlejuice 2 to me. It didn’t feel like that kind of a movie. The other one I thought of, because one of my favorite Dracula movies is Dracula A.D. 1972, was Beetlejuice 2024 A.D. But this (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice) was a nice simple one.“

Are you looking forward to Beetlejuice Beetlejuice? What did you think of the teaser trailer? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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Loosely based on the comic series by Mark Millar and J. G. Jones, Timur Bekmambetov’s Wanted was a stylized action movie starring James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, and Morgan Freeman. The film was a critical and commercial success upon its release in 2008, grossing over $342 million worldwide, so it came as no surprise when the studio got the ball rolling on Wanted 2; But here we are, sixteen years later, and there’s no sequel in sight.

Michael Brandt, one of the co-writers of the original movie, told MovieWeb that while a script for Wanted 2 exists, he fears that the momentum to get it made has been lost.

“We had an idea for a sequel. We pitched it, wrote it. And it seems like there was some real interest in the studio to make it,” Brandt said. “And then Timur, who directed the first one, absolutely was interested as well. But he had a kind of a different idea for what he wanted to do… And it’s just one of those moments where somebody says the wrong thing in terms of our movie going forward, and the script that we’d written going forward. And he suggested some changes. And it kind of took the wind out of the sails at the studio. And then, the studio’s turnover is ‘fast and furious,’ to borrow a phrase. And I think the sequel of Wanted just kind of got left behind as other things started going forward.“

“So there’s a script, I’d love to see it get made, and I really liked it,” Brandt said. “I thought it was a proper sequel to the first one. But so far, the momentum has been lost.“

While Bekmambetov’s “different idea” stalled the project years ago, he did come up with an out-of-the-box idea for a potential sequel in 2020 which would have utilized Screenlife technology. The method ditches traditional cameras and tells its story using computer screens, webcams, and smartphone cameras, and Screenlife movies such as Unfriended and Searching have been very successful “Maybe do the Wanted sequel in Screenlife. I cannot imagine an assassin in today’s world would run with a gun,” Bekmambetov said. “Why? He will use drones, he will use computer technology, probably. You don’t need to bend bullets anymore. You need to bend ideas.“

Would you still like to see Wanted 2, or has its moment passed?

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Road House is currently streaming on Prime Video, but the film’s director, Doug Liman, wishes audiences were watching it in theaters. According to the acclaimed filmmaker, Amazon is “giving audiences the shaft” by not hosting the film on the silver screen, and he feels as if he’s lost a public battle for the project’s worth. In a video posted by Casey Neistat, the notable YouTube sensation gets Liman’s uncensored version of the story and chronicles the director’s trip to the Road House premiere, which, adding insult to injury, takes place in a packed theater.

When Neistat and Liman meet in the room where the sound for Road House was mixed, it becomes apparent that Liman designed the film for theaters. Different studio spaces represent different mixing environments. If a movie will stream in living rooms, sound engineers mix the audio in a smaller space to replicate living room environments. Liman’s sound team mixed the audio for Road House in a theater-style space, lending weight to his argument that he designed the feature for cinemas.

“I was in a shop in Aspen, and Jeff Bezos, who I don’t know, came riding in on a horse into the store with a cowboy hat,” Doug Liman, who also wears a cowboy hat in the video, tells Niastat. “I’m kind of at war with Amazon. It wasn’t lost on me the scale difference of Jeff Bezos on his huge friggin’ horse in the middle of this store with his cowboy hat.”

Liman discusses the difference between independent filmmaking and answering to higher powers for big-budget projects as their chin-wag continues. Liman says Hollywood plays by a different rule book than indie filmmakers shooting a project without limits. “In Swingers, we couldn’t afford the people that told you what you couldn’t do. So, we just did everything,” Liman says about his early days of filming. He also points out that The Bourne Identity includes “shaky cam” footage because he lacked the permits to shoot in specific spaces. He was stealing shots, and audiences assumed the janky camera movements were a creative choice.

After biking through New York City streets, past Amazon’s gigantic Road House billboards, Liman and Neistat arrive at a sound studio. Speaking about the film, Liman says he used IMAX cameras to capture some of the action, with big stars like Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor chewing the scenery. “It’s a party,” Liman says about the vibes of Road House. “Some movies you watch alone, whatever. Then some movies are a party. Road House is a party! It’s like great music and great bar fights. There’s obviously more to it, but at the heart of it, it’s a party.”

Liman then notes a Bloomberg article saying Amazon plans to invest $1 billion a year in movies for theaters. “It turns out Amazon had no intention of putting it [Road House] out in theaters. They wanted to put it on their streaming service and sell toilet paper and toothbrushes.” 

“I’m not the only filmmaker Amazon is doing this to,” Liman continues. “There’s a string of filmmakers who are promised a theatrical release and then their films are dumped onto streaming. They’re giving me the shaft. They’re giving the public the shaft.”

After boycotting the event, Doug Liman attends Amazon’s Road House premiere in Texas. Niastat, confused about the decision, asks why Liman decided to show up. “It’s tough to do, but sometimes you just have to acknowledge that you lost. You took on Amazon, you fought for your movie. I literally did everything in my power to get this movie into theaters, and I lost,” Liman shrugs. “If this is literally going to be the only screening where people can buy tickets, and go see the movie, I want to be there.”

Per the official logline: “In this adrenaline-fueled reimagining of the ’80s cult classic, ex-UFC fighter Dalton (Gyllenhaal) takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems.” In addition to Gyllenhaal, Road House stars Daniela Melchior, Billy Magnussen, Jessica Williams, Joaquim De Almeida, and Conor McGregor. The film aims to pay homage to the original while providing its own unique and exhilarating spin to introduce Dalton, the roadhouse, and all its chaos to a new generation.

What do you think about Doug Liman’s comments? Are you upset about not seeing Road House in theaters? Let us know in the comments section below.

Road House is currently streaming on Prime Video.

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Season 12 of the anthology series American Horror Story, which is also known as American Horror Story: Delicate, started airing back in September… but due to the writers and actors strikes, the season had to be split in half. (Just like Chucky season 3.) The second half of the season is set to start airing on FX on Wednesday, April 3 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The return episode will then be available to watch on the Hulu streaming service the next day. The second half of this season consists of four episodes, which will air on a weekly basis. With the season resuming in just under two weeks, a trailer for the second half has been released and can be seen in the embed above.

Deadline notes, “The series will be available on Star+ in Latin America and Disney+ in all other territories at a later date.”

American Horror Story is an anthology series where each season is conceived as a self-contained miniseries, following a different set of characters and settings in the same fictional universe, and a storyline with its own “beginning, middle, and end.”

American Horror Story season 12 is based on source material, which is a first for the show. The material in question is the novel Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine – which is why season 12 is subtitled Delicate. Valentine’s novel Delicate Condition was just published last year, courtesy of Sourcebooks Landmark. (You can pick up a copy at THIS LINK.) It’s said to be a “gripping thriller about a woman who becomes convinced that a sinister figure is going to great lengths to make sure her pregnancy never happens.“ Here’s the full description: Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life as an indie actress with a grueling IVF journey, she starts to suspect that someone is going to great lengths to make sure that never happens. Crucial medicines are lost. Appointments get swapped without her knowledge. Cryptic warnings have her jumping at shadows. And despite everything she’s gone through to make this pregnancy a reality, not even her husband is willing to believe that someone is playing twisted games with her. Then her doctor tells her she’s had a miscarriage―except Anna’s convinced she’s still pregnant despite everything the grave-faced men around her claim. She can feel the baby moving inside her, can see the strain it’s taking on her weakening body. Vague warnings become direct threats as someone stalks her through the bleak ghost town of the snowy Hamptons. As her symptoms and sense of danger grow ever more horrifying, Anna can’t help but wonder what exactly she’s carrying inside of her…and why no one will listen when she says something is horribly, painfully wrong. The TV adaptation is described as “a feminist update of Rosemary’s Baby“.

The cast of this season includes American Horror Story regular Emma Roberts, Cara Delevingne (Carnival Row), “reality star, entrepreneur, podcaster and pop culture icon” Kim Kardashian and Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, who earned an Emmy nomination for her performance in the FX television series Pose, a series that American Horror Story creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk created with Steven Canals.

Kardashian is taking on a role that was written with her specifically in mind. This season of American Horror Story is being written and showrun by a single writer, Halley Feiffer. Murphy, Falchuk, and Feiffer are executive producing American Horror Story: Delicate with Alexis Martin Woodall and Scott Robertson.

Did you watch the first half of American Horror Story: Delicate, and will you be tuning in for the second half? What did you think of the trailer? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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The live-action TV series based on the Goosebumps books written by R.L. Stine that was released through the Disney+ and Hulu streaming services last October (read our review HERE) drew inspiration from five of Stine’s Goosebumps stories (Say Cheese and Die!, The Haunted Mask, The Cuckoo Clock of Doom, Go Eat Worms!, and Night of the Living Dummy). More Stine stories will be brought to the screen in Goosebumps season 2 – and just last night, it was revealed that Friends‘ David Schwimmer has joined the cast and is set to play a character named Anthony (described as “a former botany professor and divorced parent of teenage girls who is juggling the responsibilities of overseeing an aging parent while having his kids for the summer“). Now Deadline has learned that the new season’s cast of young series regulars consists of  Sam McCarthy (Dead to Me) and Jayden Bartels (Side Hustle) as fraternal twins Devin and Cece, respectively; Elijah Cooper (That Girl Lay Lay) as CJ; Galilea La Salvia (Party Down) as Frankie; and Francesca Noel (R#J) as Alex.

The twins Devin and Cece are the children of Schwimmer’s Anthony. Variety reports that Ana Ortiz is also in the cast and will be playing Jen, “a dedicated police detective who remains rooted in her Brooklyn neighborhood after experiencing a tragic event that involved her friends in adolescence.”

The first season of Goosebumps centered on a group of five high schoolers as they embark on a shadowy and twisted journey to investigate the tragic passing three decades earlier of a teen named Harold Biddle — while also unearthing dark secrets from their parents’ past. The show is taking the anthology route, so we can expect a second season that has “an entirely new cast and setting based on Stine’s iconic Scholastic book series.” Season 2 will also consist of eight episodes, two shorter than the first season.

Season 2 will pick up when teenage siblings discover a threat within their home, setting off a chain of events that unravel a profound mystery. As they delve into the unknown, the duo find themselves entangled in the story of five teenagers who mysteriously vanished in 1994.

Rob Letterman, who directed the first Goosebumps movie, created this series with Nick Stoller, and Hilary Winston serves as showrunner on the new season. Stoller is executive producing the show through his company Stoller Global Solutions. Letterman and Winston are also executive producing Goosebumps alongside Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty of Original Film, Conor Welch of Stoller Global Solutions, and Erin O’Malley. The show comes to us from Sony Pictures Television Studios.

Are you a Goosebumps fan? What do you think of the cast that has been assembled for season 2? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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After years of rumors and speculation, Liam Neeson’s Naked Gun reboot looks like it is finally heading into production. Set to be directed by The Lonely Island’s Akiva Schaffer, and written by Dan Gregor and Doug Man, fans expect a lot from this reboot. While many have tried (and failed) to update the franchise, and it’s hard to imagine anyone stepping into Leslie Nielsen’s iconic shoes at Lt. Frank Drebin, it’s pretty interesting that the team pairing on this is the same one that teamed on Disney’s much better than expected reboot of Chip n’ Dale’s Rescue Rangers. All involved are really funny, so if anyone could make this work, it’s them. With a release date tentatively set for July 18th, 2025, here’s everything we know about the Naked Gun reboot.

Liam Neeson will be the star.

While some may wonder why Liam Neeson, a man not especially known for comedy is being cast as Frank Drebin, fans of film history will immediately understand why it’s a brilliant idea. While Leslie Nielsen is remembered now as one of the greatest comedy stars of all time, before he signed on to Airplane, he was best known as a deadpan character actor, without a single funny bone in his body. For proof, watch his sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet, or The Poseidon Adventure. His casting was against type, and even when he headlined the TV show that spawned The Naked Gun, Police Squad, he was still showing up in serious roles, such as in Creepshow. It was the first Naked Gun that changed his career. This could theoretically do the same for Neeson, especially he adopts the same deadpan manner he did in this classic clip from Ted 2. That movie’s director, Seth McFarlane, who also worked with Neeson on A Million Ways to Die in the West, will be one of the producers here.

Who else will be in it?

No one knows (yet) who will join Neeson in the cast, but a hot rumour that went around recently was that Anatomy of a Fall star Sandra Huller would co-star. While that would have been a delightfully off-kilter piece of casting, the rumour turned out to be bogus, which is a shame. There’s also a rumor Mads Mikkelsen will be playing the bad guy, which sounds almost too good to be true.

The original creators aren’t happy.

Sadly, two members of the original team behind The Naked Gun, David Zucker and Pat Proft aren’t happy about the reboot, with them telling THR that they actually came up with a draft for Naked Gun 4, which was rejected, and that if another movie in the series was going to be made, they should be the ones doing it (even if they hold no ill feelings towards Schaffer, who they praised).

When we get more info about the Naked Gun reboot, we’ll drop it here. Do you think Liam Neeson’s Naked Gun reboot sounds like it’ll be good? Let us know in the comments!

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After years of rumors and speculation, Liam Neeson’s Naked Gun reboot looks like it is finally heading into production. Set to be directed by The Lonely Island’s Akiva Schaffer, and written by Dan Gregor and Doug Man, fans expect a lot from this reboot. While many have tried (and failed) to update the franchise, and it’s hard to imagine anyone stepping into Leslie Nielsen’s iconic shoes at Lt. Frank Drebin, it’s pretty interesting that the team pairing on this is the same one that teamed on Disney’s much better than expected reboot of Chip n’ Dale’s Rescue Rangers. All involved are really funny, so if anyone could make this work, it’s them. With a release date tentatively set for July 18th, 2025, here’s everything we know about the Naked Gun reboot.

Liam Neeson will be the star.

While some may wonder why Liam Neeson, a man not especially known for comedy is being cast as Frank Drebin, fans of film history will immediately understand why it’s a brilliant idea. While Leslie Nielsen is remembered now as one of the greatest comedy stars of all time, before he signed on to Airplane, he was best known as a deadpan character actor, without a single funny bone in his body. For proof, watch his sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet, or The Poseidon Adventure. His casting was against type, and even when he headlined the TV show that spawned The Naked Gun, Police Squad, he was still showing up in serious roles, such as in Creepshow. It was the first Naked Gun that changed his career. This could theoretically do the same for Neeson, especially he adopts the same deadpan manner he did in this classic clip from Ted 2. That movie’s director, Seth McFarlane, who also worked with Neeson on A Million Ways to Die in the West, will be one of the producers here.

Who else will be in it?

No one knows (yet) who will join Neeson in the cast, but a hot rumour that went around recently was that Anatomy of a Fall star Sandra Huller would co-star. While that would have been a delightfully off-kilter piece of casting, the rumour turned out to be bogus, which is a shame. There’s also a rumor Mads Mikkelsen will be playing the bad guy, which sounds almost too good to be true.

The original creators aren’t happy.

Sadly, two members of the original team behind The Naked Gun, David Zucker and Pat Proft aren’t happy about the reboot, with them telling THR that they actually came up with a draft for Naked Gun 4, which was rejected, and that if another movie in the series was going to be made, they should be the ones doing it (even if they hold no ill feelings towards Schaffer, who they praised).

When we get more info about the Naked Gun reboot, we’ll drop it here. Do you think Liam Neeson’s Naked Gun reboot sounds like it’ll be good? Let us know in the comments!

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Pete Davidson is laying his comedy series Bupkis to rest ahead of its planned second season. Davidson says while the semi-autobiographical comedy has been a great experience, it’s also an emotionally taxing show to bring to life on screens.

Davidson said about the sunsetting of Bupkis, “I’ve always seen Bupkis as a window into my life, since it is so personal and about my struggles and family. After nearly a decade of my personal life being in the media I wanted a chance to tell my story my way,” Davidson told The Hollywood Reporter. “Of all the work I’ve ever done, Bupkis is by far what I’m most proud of. I am so grateful to Lorne Michaels and Broadway Video, Peacock, Universal Television and the amazing cast and writers for helping me create something honest, funny and heartfelt. I do also feel that this part of my life is finished. I’m very excited for this next chapter and for you guys to see the work. Thank you to all who support me for I am forever grateful.”

There’s much to say about ending a project before it can sour. If the passion is gone, is it not better to end things on a high note? Pete Davidson is perpetually in the news and tabloids, with paparazzi shadowing his every move. I’m not surprised he wants to step away from something so personal when the media bleeds him dry of privacy daily.

Filming for Bupkis Season 2 was supposed to start in the summer. Still, sources say Pete Davidson emailed Peacock earlier this week about his intentions but failed to tell Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video. While many shows have been canceled because of industry-wide budget cuts, Bupkis differs. Davidson is ending the show on his terms, even if it’s a surprise to specific parties associated with the project.

Created by Pete Davidson, Judah Miller, and Dave Sirus, Bupkis follows Pete Davidson’s life, combining grounded storytelling with some absurd elements from the worldview for which Davidson is well known. Edie Falco, Joe Pesci, Philip Ettinger, James A. DeSimone, Brad Garrett, Oona Roche, and Derek Gaines star alongside Davidson in Bupkis.

What do you think about Peter Davidson walking away from Bupkis? Were you hoping to catch another season of the show? Let us know in the comments section below.

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