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Conan O’Brien to Host the 2027 Oscars, Marking Third Consecutive Year

If Conan O’Brien needs a friend, he’s certainly found one in the Academy. For the third year in a row, O’Brien has been tapped to host next year’s Oscars. Also back are live TV event producers Raj Kapoor and Katy Mullan as the show’s executive producers for the fourth consecutive year.

O’Brien’s producers Jeff Ross and Mike Sweeney will also return as producers as a third time, with Sweeney as weiter. Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy president Lynette Howell Taylor announced the news Tuesday afternoon, tied to the Disney upfrontsin New York. The penultimate Academy Awards for Disney, the 99th Oscars are set to air live on ABC and Hulu from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 14, 2027, at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT.

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Netflix is moving the release date of its anticipated Narnia movie from director Greta Gerwig.

Gerwig’s adaptation of the sixth book in the C.S. Lewis fantasy series, The Magician’s Nephew, was set to be released in Imax theaters this Thanksgiving before heading to the streamer on Christmas Day. The movie will now be getting a release on Feb. 12, 2027 and then will hit on Netflix April 2, 2027

While The Magician’s Nephew is the sixth book in Lewis’ series, it is the first chronologically, and focuses on the creation of Narnia.

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He may be at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival to preside over the jury, but Park Chan-Wook will also be heating up the market with a movie package that has serious firepower behind it.

Park is assembling an A-list cast for his passion project Western The Brigands of Rattlecreek, with Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey (Interstellar), Oscar nominee Austin Butler (Dune: Part Two), four-time Emmy nominee Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us) and Chinese star Tang Wei (Decision to Leave) all aboard for the ride.

S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk)’s original screenplay is moving forward as Oldboy and The Handmaiden director Park’s next film, which will be on sale in Cannes with Patrick Wachsberger’s Legendary label 193.

The movie is understood to follow a sheriff and a doctor who seek revenge against a group of bandits who use the cover of a torrential thunderstorm to rob and terrorize the occupants of a small town. The story will alight on themes central to Park’s oeuvre of vengeance, retribution, the consequences of violence and the power of memory and family, but this time in the American West.

Producing are Bradley Fischer (Zodiac), and Park for Moho Film (No Other Choice). Jisun Back for Moho Film, Mike Medavoy and Georgia Kacandes are executive producers.

Park has been keen to make the Black List script for close to a decade and there were reports that Amazon was attached years ago. The project now has more impetus than ever with a killer cast: it’s a rare package in the indie market for its combination of genuine A-list talent, a beloved filmmaker and genre. Despite being available (for now) in the indie space, the project’s scope remains impressive and we hear the budget is being pegged north of $60M.

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