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‘Saturday Night Live,’ ‘Munsters’ Producer Was 82

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Craig Kellem, a onetime agent for comic legends George Carlin and Lily Tomlin who served as a producer on the chaotic first season of Saturday Night Live and on syndicated reboots of The Munsters, Dragnet and Adam-12, has died. He was 82.

Kellem died Nov. 24 at an assisted living facility in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, his daughter Judy Hammett told The Hollywood Reporter. She and her father were partners in Hollywoodscript.com, a boutique script-consultation company he founded in 1998.

After serving alongside Lorne Michaels as a producer and talent coordinator on SNL’s inaugural 1975-76 season, he and Michaels produced The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, a 1978 NBC mockumentary about a Beatles-like band that was written by, co-directed and starred Eric Idle.

As a senior vp with the MCA-backed The Arthur Co., Kellem worked as a co-executive producer for two seasons (1989-91) on The Munsters Today, which ran for three years and starred John Schuck as Herman Munster and Lee Meriwether as his wife, Lily.

He also helped shepherd The New Dragnet, starring Jeff Osterhage and Bernard White, and The New Adam-12, starring Peter Parros and Ethan Wayne. Both shows aired for two seasons, 1989-91 and 1990-91, respectively.

Craig Charles Kellem was born in Philadelphia on Jan. 24, 1943. His father was Milton Kellem, a popular bandleader, songwriter (“Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now”), restaurateur and orchestra conductor for network radio programs, and his mother, Judy Shinn, was a model and a weather girl for local TV stations.

Kellem started out as an assistant at a talent agency, then became an agent with Creative Management Associates — where he was known as the “Road Runner of Madison Avenue” — and General Amusement Corp., where as a junior agent in the late 1960s he took on Carlin when others at the firm weren’t paying much attention to him.

He and Carlin reunited when the comic hosted the first episode of SNL.

“We almost didn’t get on the air because dress rehearsal went so poorly,” Kellem said in James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales’ 2002 book, Live From New York: The Complete Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live. “I remember Lorne seriously asking the network people — or having me ask them — to have a movie ready to go, just in case. And I don’t think he was kidding.”

Kellem had worked on the Sammy Davis Jr. syndicated talk show Sammy and Company and on NBC’s The Gladys Knight & the Pips Show earlier in 1975 before landing on SNL.

He later served as vp comedy development at Universal Television on such shows as Charles in Charge and Domestic Life and as a director of development for late night, syndication and daytime at 20th Century Fox Television.

His producing credits included the 1976 NBC special The Beach Boys: It’s OK, which featured concert footage from Brian Wilson’s return to the stage, and two more shows from The Arthur Co: the 1990-91 syndicated sitcom What a Dummy and the 1991-93 ABC reality series FBI: The Untold Stories, narrated by Pernell Roberts.

He and his daughter wrote the 2018 book Get It on the Page: Top Script Consultants Show You How.

Survivors also include his wife, Vivienne; son Sean; another daughter, Joelle; a brother; four grandchildren; and a niece and nephews. Donations in his memory can be made to the Alzheimer’s Association.

“Though Craig had many amazing traits, he was perhaps most known for his incredible sense of humor,” his family noted. “His ability to bring deep laughter into any room was a gift to all who knew him.”

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Avatar: Fire and Ash first reactions are in as critics single out "unimaginable" and "bold" sequel filmmaking
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Avatar: Fire and Ash first reactions are in as critics single out “unimaginable” and “bold” sequel filmmaking

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The first wave of reactions have arrived for Avatar: Fire and Ash ahead of the release of the third entry in James Cameron’s epic sci-fi franchise later this month – and early signs suggest the new film could be another winner.

Although full reviews for the film are still under embargo for the time being, critics have begun posting their takes on social media, and the vast majority have been very positive so far.

“Three films in and I still can’t get over how magical the [Avatar] movies are,” wrote Perri Nemiroff of Collider, adding that Fire and Ash “truly feels like a ride.”

She continued: “I couldn’t believe how quickly I was pulled back into the world of Pandora and swept up in the situation. And once that happens, there’s a noticeable increase in complexity in quite a few aspects of the production.”

Critic Courtney Howard called the film “a glorious saga” and added: “Bold, brilliant & awesome in every way, this is what movie theatres were built for,” while writer Michael Lee claimed that it “pushes technical boundaries in unimaginable ways”.

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Chris Killian of ComicBook.com wrote that the film was a “damn good James Cameron movie!” and continued: “What else do you need to know? Go see it in 3-D in the best theatre you can find because it’ll blow your mind. That’s what JC does. Every bit as gorgeous as you’d expect, Fire and Ash is also easily the most INTENSE Avatar movie yet.”

Some viewers noted that the film would work best as a double bill with previous entry The Way of the Water, suggesting that it might be best to rewatch that one before going to see the new film.

“It feels like a Part 2 of that story,” wrote YouTuber Adam Hlaváč. “I was blown away by the visuals, the score, and many performances. But goddammit, you gotta see this thing in Dolby 3D! It’s unreal how immersive it is.”

Jesse Hassenger added that it was: “The first James Cameron sequel that feels kinda like a regular follow-up rather than an innovative re-envisioning of its predecessor’s world,” but added that “it also just casually drops ~3-4 of the best/coolest action sequences of the year and I was rapt the whole time.”

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While most of the reactions skewed very positive, a couple of them did also come with one or two reservations. For example, Eric Goldman wrote that while it was “another visually fantastic epic” and that “Cameron delivers spectacle like no one else”, he had “some issues with the third act and Way of Water remains the peak”.

Meanwhile, Matt Neglia of Next Best Picture wrote that while it “delivers the most emotional moments of the franchise” and is “the most epic in both scope and runtime”, the film contained “a few questionable choices” and was at times “frustrating”.

The reactions were pretty much unanimous in their praise for the visuals, but there were some critics who seemed otherwise unimpressed, with Variety’s Clayton Davis calling it the “most bloated entry yet”.

He added: “The dialogue often makes you cringe, and the story essentially devolves into an episode of My Two Dads meets James Cameron’s take on A Pyromaniac’s Love Story.”

Kaitlyn Booth also wrote that “story-wise, it’s the same ‘capture/rescue’ plot over and over again with some laughable dialogue thrown in the middle” adding that “the runtime is criminal, and if you have eye issues, avoid the 3D”.

The film arrives in UK cinemas on Friday 19th December, with Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver and Kate Winslet among the stars to reprise their roles from previous instalments and, Oona Chaplin, Edie Falco, and David Thewlis joining the cast.

The official synopsis teased: “A year after settling in with the Metkayina clan, Jake and Neytiri’s family grapples with grief after Neteyam’s death.

“They encounter a new, aggressive Na’vi tribe, the Mangkwan clan, also called the Ash People, led by the fiery tribe leader, Varang, who has allied with Jake’s enemy, Quaritch, as the conflict on Pandora escalates to devastating consequences.”

Avatar: Fire and Ash will debut in cinemas on Friday 19th December 2025 in the UK.

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Is Michelle Dead on ‘Brilliant Minds’? Brian Altemus Talks Cliffhanger and Charlie Reveal

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What To Know

  • The fall finale of Brilliant Minds Season 2 reveals Charlie’s true motivation for joining Wolf’s team: His new boss was his mother’s doctor when she died.
  • Brian Altemus discusses Charlie’s confrontation of Wolf, including what he meant to do with that address where his dad, Noah, supposedly is.
  • The episode ends with a dramatic cliffhanger involving Michelle, setting up an all hands on deck situation for the show’s return in 2026.

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Brilliant Minds Season 2 Episode 10 “The Resident.”]

The truth about Charlie (Brian Altemus) and just why he wanted to work for Wolf (Zachary Quinto) is revealed in the Brilliant Minds Season 2 fall finale. What a way to end the 2025 run of episodes!

Charlie lets Wolf in on that fact in the middle of a gala. As he explains, he got into medicine because his mother’s doctor sold his family a fantasy about her getting better when she was dying, and he wanted to make sure to tell his patients the truth. After, Charlie reveals to Wolf that his father drank himself to death after his mom’s death, and so he’s been alone since he was 14. Wolf tries apologizing, but Charlie refuses to forgive him. Instead, he gives him the address where his father is — Noah (Mandy Patinkin) left Wolf at the beginning of the season — and, since not processing trauma can break a person, wants to see who breaks first.

As the fall finale ends, Wolf goes to the address and, when no one answers, breaks in. Plus, Van (Alex MacNicoll) thinks his girlfriend Michelle (Stacey Farber), who had been hesitant to attend the gala, just didn’t show up, but she’s really unconscious in a car after a crash. Uh-oh!

Below, Brian Altemus breaks down the fall finale and teases what’s ahead after that cliffhanger.

This fall finale has major moments for Charlie. How much of his backstory had you known from the beginning? Had you known about his mom and everything from the beginning of the season?

Brian Altemus: Not from the beginning of the season. By the time we were filming Episode 4 or 5, I was starting to piece a little bit more and more together. Michael Grassi does an incredible job of giving information, teasing information, even for us, so we’re kind of jumping in the deep end of what we imagine and just going 110% in that direction, just trusting that the writers have something really good lined up for us, and they continue to do so.

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Why do you think he wanted Wolf to know that now, at this point, who he really is?

Charlie’s conscious of not leading patients to the same painful experience that my mom went through, and the family that goes along with those patients. He’s seeing it live happen in action. Jorge Torres, he’s seeing the pain that can come from a mother watching her son go through treatment that Charlie doesn’t think is necessary. So it’s really about making sure that the patients that he’s seeing aren’t going through the same pain.

So, he feels like, “If not now, when?”

Yeah. And, “Why is someone else going to have to live through this pain that I’ve already lived through?” and “I want to stop.” I mean, I feel like everyone in some little type of way, unless you’re the Joker, you want to alleviate some kind of pain and suffering in the world, and this is Charlie’s way of doing that.

Charlie doesn’t accept Wolf’s apology when he tells him he’s sorry. He says, “Let’s see who breaks first.” That’s chilling. What does he want to see in Wolf? Is it what we’re seeing in the flashforwards? Is it something else? Is he kind of not sure? Did he set out with a specific goal in mind?

It’s a loose goal. It’s definitely a takedown stance. He does not want to see him practicing medicine the way that he has been, and if that means his medical license is revoked, his medical license is revoked. If that means he changes his ways, he changes his ways. I don’t think Charlie has a good idea of what it exactly means. He just knows he’s coming in to change things.

Charlie gives Wolf what he says is his dad’s address, leading to Wolf breaking into that place, wherever it is. What does Charlie want to accomplish there? Just making Wolf think his dad was close and didn’t want to see him? Also, it’s like, what would be more cruel: that it’s actually Noah’s address or for him to make Wolf think it is?

Yeah, right. I mean, the mental game there is tough, I mean — I can’t ask the question back to you. I think it’s incredibly demonic to give an address that’s not actually his address and to say that it is. I mean, going on a wild goose chase for something not there is sadistic, to say the least. So I’d like to say that that is his address because if not, we take a whole different direction with Charlie. We take the direction of a literal psychopath and not in the, “He’s crazy. Oh my God, he’s crazy.” I mean in the literal sense of the word. So I would like to keep him as much as he is going for revenge, and he has a vendetta. He’s not psychopathic. So I like to think that is actually his dad’s address.

But then you also never know if it’s still the address, if it was once his address, if he’s there…

If he’s there, if he’s not, and who knows.

Talk about filming that scene with Zachary, going head-to-head. It was so good.

I mean, not only that scene, but the scene in the end of [Episode] 8. When I imagined this role doing the auditions and going through the callbacks and whatnot, I mean, this is what you’re preparing for. So just like any good game or any good match, you know what you’re headed for, and you’re kind of preparing all along the way for that. So when the day comes, you’re nervous, you’re excited, you’re just above all prepared so that you can do whatever it is that they’re asking you to do in the moment. And also, I mean, the way that showrunners run the show is fantastic. I mean, I got to actually speak with the writers, with Michael, with DeMane [Davis, director] about the direction we wanted to take the scene and the physicality of it, the movement, all of it. And so by the time we got there, everyone was just kind of buzzing, and then you just throw everything against the wind and into the wind and let it go. So it was one of my more fun days on set, for sure.

That’s not the only mystery at the end of this episode. There’s the matter of Michelle in that car accident on the way to the gala, and that kind of feels like it’s going to be an all-hands-on-deck situation where everyone has to put any conflicts aside when the show returns. What can you preview about that? Is that what we’re going to see?

Exactly that. The show does a great job of handling conflict and showing compassion through conflict, and there’s an incredible amount of compassion saying, “Hey, I know things aren’t good between us right now, but we really have to be there for something bigger than what’s going on between us.” And as much as they have their personal vendettas, they are in the field of care, and they’re going to care for the people, for anyone, but especially people they care about to begin with, they’re going to put aside their differences.

There are all these mysteries about these flashforwards. We’ve seen Charlie in a couple of them. Should we be wondering if there’s any sort of connection between Charlie and Amelia?

I’m going to leave that one up for time. We will see, I don’t even know if they’re on the same wavelength, if they have the same goal. I know that they definitely have some shared interests. We’ll see if they collaborate or corroborate.

When you were filming the flashforwards we’ve seen so far with Charlie, how much did you know about what’s going on there? Was it just what you needed to know for that scene?

Just what I needed to know for the scene and guessing all the ways in which it could go, and then saying, “OK, we did a take in this direction. Let’s go 150% in that direction. Let’s do a take in this direction.” Because that’s the beauty of writing as we’re going, and I don’t know where we’re headed, so you give them options.

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2025 Gotham Film Awards: Full Winners List
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2025 Gotham Film Awards: Full Winners List

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Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film was the most-nominated film of the evening, but it only walked away with one (quite big) award.

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Tomb Raider Series Adds Martin Bobb-Semple
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Tomb Raider Series Adds Martin Bobb-Semple

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With Sophie Turner already confirmed to play Lara Croft, the other castmembers of Amazon Prime Video‘s upcoming “Tomb Raider” live-action series are slowly being assembled as production gears up to start in January.

Variety has learned that Martin Bobb-Semple, the rising British star most recently seen in a recurring role on The CW’s “All American: Homecoming,” has joined the series, based on the iconic video game series. While details are under wraps, it’s understood to be as a series regular and a major role for the Londoner.

As previously reported, Phoebe Waller–Bridge will serve as creator, writer, and executive producer on the series, which has been in development at Prime Video since early 2023 and was officially greenlit in May 2024. Chad Hodge has also boarded the show as executive producer and co-showrunner alongside Waller-Bridge. Jonathan van Tulleken will serve as director and executive producer. Shooting is due to begin Jan. 19.

Bobb-Semple was most recently seen as the series regular, Orlando “Lando” Johnson, in “All American: Homecoming.” Starting as a recurring character, he was upped to a series lead in season 3. Before that, he starred in two seasons of Peacock’s “One of Us is Lying,” and was a series lead in “Free Reign” for Netflix. Starting from a young age, his first role was in London’s West End, before he trained at the famed Identity School of Acting. From there, he shortly booked his first TV role for the BBC.

The “Tomb Raider” series is executive produced by Crystal Dynamics; Waller-Bridge and Jenny Robins via Wells Street Productions; Dmitri M. Johnson, Mike Goldberg and Timothy I. Stevenson of Story Kitchen; Michael Scheel; Hodge; van Tulleken; and Legendary Television. The series is produced by Story Kitchen, Crystal Dynamics and Amazon MGM Studios. Waller-Bridge is currently under an overall deal at Amazon MGM Studios.

The show was developed under a pact between Crystal Dynamics and Amazon MGM Studios which comes via Story Kitchen’s first-look deal with the studio to develop additional “Tomb Raider” stories into series and films.

Bobb-Semple is repped by Identity Agency Group.

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Brandi Carlile, Charlie Puth & Coco Jones Join Super Bowl LX Lineup
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Brandi Carlile, Charlie Puth & Coco Jones Join Super Bowl LX Lineup

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As Bad Bunny prepares to headline the halftime show, Super Bowl LX is beefing up its star-studded musical lineup with help from Roc Nation and Apple Music.

On Sunday, the NFL announced that Brandi Carlile, Charlie Puth and Coco Jones have joined the pregame lineup for the championship game set for Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California on Feb. 8, 2026, broadcasting live on NBC.

Puth will perform the national anthem, with Carlile singing ‘America the Beautiful’ and Jones delivering a rendition of ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’, performing from venues around the San Francisco Bay Area.

The latest addition to the 2026 Super Bowl lineup comes after Bad Bunny was tapped to headline the halftime show in September, sparking threats from Trump’s Department of Homeland Security, despite the 3x Grammy winner being a U.S. citizen from Puerto Rico.

Trump loyalists have voiced their opinion against Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl, and Turning Point USA took the opportunity to present an alternative Halftime show on the same day.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has since defended the league’s decision to select Bad Bunny. “He’s one of the leading and most popular entertainers in the world. That’s what we try to achieve. It’s an important stage for us. It’s an important element to the entertainment value. It’s carefully thought through,” he said.

“I’m not sure we’ve ever selected an artist where we didn’t have some blowback or criticism. That’s hard to do when you have literally hundreds of millions of people that are watching. But I feel confident that it’s going to be a great show,” added Goodell. “He understands the platform that he’s on, and I think it’s going to be an exciting and uniting moment.”

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'Parks and Recreation'
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Best Christmas TV Show Episodes From Hollywood

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From ‘The O.C.’ to ‘The Simpsons,’ ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ and ‘Ted Lasso,’ THR highlights the small screen’s best holiday moments.

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It’s the holiday season, which means it’s also time to sit by the fireside and turn on some memorable Christmas episodes.

While there is a world of possibilities for shows and episodes, The Hollywood Reporter has rounded up some fan favorites, new and old. And while there are always classic Christmas flicks that people love to watch, sometimes people may only have an hour to spare during the busy holiday season, which is perfect for a television episode.

So whether someone is sitting in front of a TV, computer or cellphone, shows such as The O.C., The Simpsons, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Ted Lasso, Mad Men, Abbott Elementary, The Office and Gossip Girl have at least one festival installment.

Below, THR takes a look at 35 memorable episodes dedicated to the Christmas holiday.

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Neighbours icon will be missing from final ever episodes, boss confirms
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Neighbours icon will be missing from final ever episodes, boss confirms

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For the second time in just a few years, Neighbours is preparing for what looks set to be the beloved Australian soap’s final ever episode – but one of the show’s most iconic characters sadly won’t be involved.

According to boss Jason Herbison, Toadie Rebecchi star Ryan Moloney – who departed the soap after 30 years earlier this year – was unavailable to reprise his role in the finale, which was filmed back in July.

“We asked Ryan [Moloney] to return as Toadie,” he explained in an interview with TV Week. “He was unavailable sadly, but he does of course get a mention.”

Although Toadie will be absent, a number of familiar faces from the show’s past are expected to appear as soap draws to a close.

Some of the characters confirmed to return to Ramsay Street for one last hurrah include Shane Ramsay (Peter O’Brien), Melanie Pearson (Lucinda Cowden), Jimmy Williams (Darcy Tadich), Ned Willis (Ben Hall) and Roxy Canning (Zima Anderson) – and there could be an extra surprise or two in store, too.

Herbison also teased that the episode will include “a few Easter eggs for the fans” and explained why he felt the need to end the show in a very different way from the previous finale in 2022, before the show had been rescued by Amazon.

“I couldn’t end it the same way as I did last time,” he said. “I knew we were losing the Nunawading Studios and backlot imminently, which was different to the last time.

“With so much love for the show I felt I should craft an ending that would give the show a chance to come back in different ways that didn’t rely on the studios. This is what the finale sets out to do.”

Toadie (Ryan Moloney) Fremantle

It was confirmed back in February that the soap was to be axed again after Amazon opted against renewing it beyond their original 460-episode commission, with the final episode set to air on Thursday 11th December.

When filming concluded in July, Herbison said: “Neighbours is a special show and it’s been a privilege to make the recent seasons for our loyal viewers around the world. We have added 460 episodes to our legacy of over 9,000 episodes, something we all feel proud of.

“Once again, we will be resting the residents of Ramsay Street on a hopeful note, with some tantalising possibilities for a future chapter.”

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Neighbours is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.

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HOME ALONE, clockwise from bottom left: Hillary Wolf, Michael Maronna, Devin Ratray, Macaulay Culkin, Angela Goethals, Catherine O
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Whatever Happened to the Kids From ‘Home Alone’?

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When Home Alone premiered on November 16, 1990, it was popular — but few knew it would become one of the most popular holiday films of all time. We all remember the movie’s stars, Macaulay Culkin, Catherine O’Hara and Joe Pesci, but a big part of the movie’s charm came from the supporting kids who made the McCallister house feel like a real family. Over 30 years later, many of those young cast members stepped away from Hollywood, while others kept working. Here’s a look at what happened to the McCallister siblings and cousins.

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Quentin Tarantino Films Cut 'Kill Bill' Scene in Fortnite
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Quentin Tarantino Films Cut ‘Kill Bill’ Scene in Fortnite

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If you thought Quentin Tarantino didn’t have even more to add to “Kill Bill” and make the film any longer, think again.

Tarantino is set to release possibly his greatest movie, “Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair,” which is a four-plus-hour cut of “Kill Bill” combined as one film, in theaters next month. It includes an un-seen anime sequence that wasn’t even in the original Cannes cut of “Kill Bill,” but that wasn’t the only thing he had previously left on the cutting room floor.

There was yet another chapter of the film that Tarantino wrote for the very first draft of his film, but he trimmed it and the sequence was never filmed. Now, more than 20 years after the release of both “Kill Bill” movies, Tarantino has turned to an unusual means to bring his vision of this lost “Kill Bill” scene to life: the massively popular video game “Fortnite.”

ZOOTOPIA 2, from left: Nick Wilde (voice: Jason Bateman), Judy Hopps (voice: Ginnifer Goodwin), 2025. © Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection

Tarantino using “Fortnite’s” game engine Unreal Engine directed a motion-captured short film that reunites him with Uma Thurman, reprising her role as The Bride. The sequence effectively fills in a gap in the lore of “Kill Bill” that had not previously been seen on screen. So yes, even though the short features Fortnite’s banana character Peely, this new short can be considered canon in Tarantino’s cinematic universe.

The short is called “The Lost Chapter: Yuki’s Revenge,” and is set after the Bride takes down the ball-and-chain wielding killer Gogo Yubari. Now, we see the Bride battle Yubari’s twin sister Yuki. After a split-screen sequence of Yuki arriving in Hollywood “Battlewood” and even surveilling The Bride outside Vernita Green’s home, Yuki confronts The Bride, still driving the Pussy Wagon truck, and aims to gun her down.

Battlewood in ‘Fortnite: After Dark’

What ensues is an elaborate shoot-em-up and car chase in which Yuki, in this version, ultimately dies not a bloody death but a blue, pixel-y one before she’s beamed up and set to be respawned, “Fortnite” style.

Unlike an animated sequence that just features Thurman’s voice, Tarantino is actually directing Thurman as dressed and photographed with a motion-capture helmet cam, and her performance and the whole sequence was rendered in Unreal Engine as though it were an in-game cinematic.

“Fortnite” intends to premiere “Yuki’s Revenge” as part of its latest season of gameplay, Chapter 7. “Fortnite” for this new season has a Hollywood theme, and rather than stage a virtual concert in the digital “Fortnite” lobbies as they’ve done before, the “Yuki’s Revenge” scene acts as a brand-new Quentin Tarantino film making its world premiere in the game. Players who log on can watch the film on November 30 at 2 p.m. ET.

Speaking at a special “Fortnite” event from Tarantino’s own Vista Theater in Los Angeles on November 19, Tarantino explained that the reason the Yuki fight scene was cut from his draft was because the movie was already shaping up to be over four hours long, and it was too much to have both the Gogo Yubari battle and the Yuki battle in the same film.

‘Fortnite: After Dark’

He clarified that, even though the fight was cut from the film, in his mind, we’re to assume the fight still happened as part of The Bride’s journey, even though we never saw it. In fact, an actual take used in “Kill Bill” outside Vernita’s home has the sound of an ice cream truck jingle in the background, and Tarantino used that take to suggest that someone, in this case Yuki, was secretly watching The Bride all along.

Tarantino was asked at the event if he would ever consider making another film in “Fortnite” or utilizing some other animation techniques in order to create some of the spinoff ideas he’s been teasing over the years, and he suggested there could be some future where it helps him craft an origin story for Bill or a side project about the Vega brothers as seen in “Reservoir Dogs” and “Pulp Fiction.”

While it means that we’ll soon see players running around “Fortnite” Battle Royales in skins as The Bride or Gogo Yubari, Tarantino praised the “Fortnite” team for wanting to help him create something he had lingering, rather than have him come up with something entirely new that featured some of his iconic characters.

“I always wanted it to see the light of day, and now it has,” Tarantino said at the event.

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